"Okay Lucy, are you ready?" Caleb asked. He was currently standing across the room with a string in his hand. The other end of that string was tied around his younger sister's very wiggly front tooth.
"It's gonna hurt!" Lucy cried.
"Luce, it's gonna feel so much better when out." Charlie told her. "Then you're going to be able to eat whatever you want again and do you know who's gonna come?" she asked.
"Who?" Lucy said, tears in her eyes.
"The tooth fairy." Charlie said. "And she brings you money when she comes."
"Really?" the six year old said her eyes wide.
"Of course. The tooth fairy gives you a dollar for every tooth that you leave her." Charlie told her younger sister. "So the sooner we get your tooth out, the sooner the tooth fairy can come."
"Okay, I want to do it." Lucy said. Charlie gave Caleb a thumbs up and Caleb went to work. They had come up with a plan to pull Lucy's tooth out when she wouldn't stop wiggling it all week. Andrew wanted to be involved with his older siblings so he came up with the idea of attaching the string to one of his toy electric cars and driving it out of her mouth. With the all clear from his sister, Caleb tied the other end of the string to the car.
"Okay Andrew. Start up the car." Caleb told his younger brother. Andrew turned on his car and before Lucy knew what hit her the car took off, pulling the string and Lucy's tooth along with it.
"Oww!" Lucy screamed as her tooth flew from her mouth. Kurt and Blaine who were in the living room measuring the width of a space for a bookshelf went running in the direction of their daughter's cries.
"What is going on?" Kurt asked. He was met with look from four of his children. Lucy was crying in Charlie's arms while her big sister held a tissue to her younger sister's mouth. Kurt instantly ran to his youngest.
"We-ummm- pulled Lucy's tooth out… with Andrew's toy truck." Caleb confessed.
"You what!" Kurt demanded. Blaine however was pretty amused as he laughed in the background. "Where would you get an idea to even do this?"
"It's not like this is the first time we've pulled out someone's tooth like this." Charlie told her father. "Dad used to help us do it all the time when we were little." Blaine gave his daughter a glare to tell her to stop talking but Charlie didn't get the message. "One time, he tied a string to one of the Nerf arrows for that bow and arrow that Uncle Cooper got us for Christmas and shot it across the living room."
"Oh yeah!" Caleb laughed. "We couldn't find your tooth and we spent the next hour looking for it. My favorite was when Dad pulled out my tooth by tying it to the car and then driving away." Kurt shot a look at his husband who was looking very guilty.
"Papa, can we go wash my mouth out? It tastes yucky." She asked sweetly.
"Of course baby. We'll have you rinse with salt water and that'll help with the bleeding." Kurt said before taking Lucy into the kitchen. Blaine let out of sigh of relief and then looked at his older children.
"Those times were supposed to be a secret kept between us." Blaine scolded. "You sold me out!"
"Sorry Dad." Both Caleb and Charlie replied. Later that night when everyone was getting ready for bed, Lucy was still up. She was making a card for the tooth fairy. She figured Santa got all kinds of cards and he only worked one day out of the year. The tooth fairy worked every day all year long and she deserved some love too. She drew a picture of the tooth fairy on the front and inside wrote her a message.
It said: "Dear Tooth Fairy, thank you for the money in exchange for my tooth. You are a very hard working lady and I thought you deserved this card. I'm sure we'll meet again because this is only my first baby tooth, so goodbye until we meet again. - Lucy Anderson-Hummel."
She smiled at her completed card and tucked it under her pillow along with her tooth. It wasn't long before everyone in the Anderson- Hummel was fast asleep… including Kurt and Blaine who were forgetting about their tooth fairy dutie. Kurt woke up first early that morning and looked at the clock. It was five o'clock. They had an hour before they would need to get the kids up for school. He burrowed further under the covers and tried to go back to sleep. And then it hit him.
"Blaine wake up!" Kurt shouted. Blaine's eyes shot open and he bolted up in bed.
"What? What's wrong? What's going on?" Blaine asked in a panic.
"We were supposed to be the tooth fairy last night. We need to get a dollar under Lucy's pillow before she wakes up and her childhood is ruined." Kurt replied.
"Okay, go for it." Blaine said with a yawn.
"Oh no you don't" Kurt replied. "You like pulling teeth out so much, get in there and be the tooth fairy." Blaine grumbled and he got out bed. He realized his wallet was in the kitchen so sleepily he got out of bed lumbered into the kitchen. Because he was half asleep and it was dark, Blaine didn't see the corner of the kitchen counter and promptly smashed his toe into the corner of it. Pain shot through his foot and it took everything in him not to scream out in pain. He grabbed a towel and bit down hard. He stood, braced against the kitchen counter and breathed heavily for a few minutes. He was still in so much pain, but he knew Kurt wouldn't let him back into bed if he didn't manage to get the dollar under Lucy's pillow. He limped over to where his wallet was and grabbed it. Then he turned around and started down the hallway. Every step sent a pang of pain up his leg, but he somehow made it into Lucy's room. His daughter was a heavy sleeper so Blaine knew he'd probably wouldn't wake Lucy up. Struggling through his pain and seeing in the dark, Blaine grabbed a bill from his wallet and tucked it under Lucy's pillow and took her tooth and card with him.
By the time he got back to his and Kurt's room, he was breathing so heavily through the pain. "Did you do it?" Kurt asked.
"Yes." Blaine gritted out through his clenched teeth.
"What is wrong with you? Are you that mad that I made you get out of bed to put money under our daughter's pillow?" Kurt retorted.
"I-I hit my toe on the kitchen counter. I think I broke it." Blaine confessed.
"You're such a drama queen. It's probably just bruised." Kurt told him. "Just go to sleep for another hour and I bet it'll feel better." And that was all he said before flipping over and going back to sleep. Blaine however was not able to get to sleep that easily. His toe was still killing him. When morning finally came, the Anderson-Hummel family started to get up and get ready for school. Caleb, Charlie and Andrew were already in the kitchen when Blaine finally mustered up enough strength to go and get some breakfast.
"Dad, are you limping?" Caleb asked.
"I don't want to talk about it." He said gruffly. He started to prepare his cereal when Lucy came running into the kitchen.
"The tooth fairy gave me twenty dollars!" She exclaimed happily. Blaine felt his face get bright red.
"What?!" All three of the older kid said.
"Yes, the tooth fairy was very generous." Kurt said as he gave his husband a glare.
"She must have really liked my card. Next time I lose a tooth, I'm going to make her another so I get twenty dollars again!" Lucy said. "Before I know it, I'll be able to buy that new doll house I wanted. I have another loose tooth. Can you guys help me pull it out?" she asked her older siblings.
"Later okay Luce, we need to go to school." Caleb replied. Lucy nodded before heading back to her room to get ready for school.
"Geez, the tooth fairy sure has gotten much more generous since I was losing baby teeth." Charlie shot towards her fathers.
"Don't look at me." Kurt replied. "Blame the tooth fairy over there." he added pointing to Blaine. "Nice job, now she thinks that she's gonna get twenty dollars every time she loses a tooth."
"You know what!" Blaine whispered. "It was dark and I freakin broke my toe to make that kid believe there was a little fairy who snuck into her room to steal her tooth. I made a mistake. Sue me!" he retorted before taking his cereal and limping back into the bedroom and slamming the door. From that point on, both Kurt and Blaine made sure that Kurt was the one playing the tooth fairy. They both knew that they would go broke before Lucy lost all of her teeth if Blaine kept playing the tooth fairy.