Undercover Family

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Chapter 25.

A few hours later, momma returns to the house with both boys. Derek has a knee stabilizer on, there was nothing broken, but the knee popped out and he will have to stay off of it for a day or two, Spencer was just happy that he was okay and was glad to be back. Both boys were starving and really wanted something to eat. When they entered the house, all they heard was someone screaming, No, I want mommy.

They enter the house and momma carries Derek upstairs with Spencer trailing behind her. Placing Derek into bed, she covers him up.

"Spencer, you stay here with Derek. I have to go downstairs and see what is happening with the baby. I will send some dinner up for you both and be back up later." Spencer sits on the floor to play with the toys that are in the room, while Derek takes a rest. Momma heads downstairs and goes into the living room; where she is confronted by the site of several people trying to get to Aaron who has climbed to the top of the book case and it seems to be higher than anybody can reach. They were setting up a ladder now to get to him. He kept screaming "NO, I want mommy, only mommy changes me."

"Aaron, what are you doing?" Everybody in the room turns around to look at her in the door, there seems to be a look of relief from every person in the room.

"Mommy!" He begins to look for a way to get down and doesn't seem to find a way that isn't scary looking. All of a sudden, hands grab him and pull him off of the shelf. He screams even louder as he is passed from one set of hands to another. Finally, he arrives on the floor and the moment he touches the floor, he runs to momma and grabs her legs. She allows him to grab on with all his might, but does not pick him up. Instead she looks up and sees Sean.

"Sean, would you go fix some food for the two boys upstairs, they haven't eaten anything since lunch and need something light and filling and fix a few bottles for Aaron, as well. Father, have the children been fed?"

"Yes, we did have dinner and then we decided to change Aaron's diaper and he went all commando on us?"

"I don't see the children, where are they? Penelope! David! JJ! Emily!" A thunder of footsteps came crashing into the living room from the sun room where they kids were.

David says, "Momma, they wouldn't let us stay and help get Aaron down and calmed. Is Derek okay?" David looks down at Aaron and attempts to pick him up, but Aaron didn't want to be picked up by anyone by momma, who doesn't seem to want to pick him up.

"Derek is fine, he is upstairs in bed and will have to stay there for a few days, let us try to keep from being too bored. Spencer is up there now and they are waiting for some dinner. Could you go and help Spencer with eating and then help him get ready for bed?"

"Sure, I am glad that you are back momma." The girls give momma hugs and go with David to check on their little brothers.

Momma now looks at the three adults in the room: grandpa, grandma and Bob.

Grandma says, "You know he was always spoiled, but it seems at this age, he is even worse."

Grandpa responds, "I wouldn't call him spoiled as much as willful."

"Spoiled! I am not sure that this assignment is such a good idea"

"Mother, please meet me upstairs in the boys room."

"Okay, I'll go check on my grandchildren." And she walks out the door.

Bob mentions that he had some business to attend to and leaves the room.

"Are you going to pick him up, he keeps looking at you like he will cry if you don't pick him up?" She pats Aarons head and looks down at him and smiles indulgently. He lifts his arms to her and she shakes her head no. He puts his arms down and starts to cry.

"Shhh and no more crying. Grandpa's going to pick you up." Aaron shakes his head no; momma nods her head yes with a very stern visage. Aaron bows his head and walks over to grandpa and lifts his arms to be picked up. Grandpa picks him up and the three people leave the room to go upstairs. They go into the boys' room and there is a cacophony of sounds like laughter and talking and giggling. Momma and grandpa go the changing table and grandpa places the baby on the table and proceeds to change his diaper. Aaron looks at momma while this is happening, not happy but also knowing he doesn't have a choice in the matter. He wants to cry and wail, but doesn't, he just stoically lies there and is changed by his boss, the director of the FBI. He doesn't think that he will ever be able to overcome the shame and humiliation that he feels at this moment.

After he is in a clean diaper and placed into a cool t-shirt, momma places him on the floor, where he runs to a corner to hide from everybody there. Penelope doesn't let that happen, she picks him up and brings him over to where the kids are playing. He doesn't want to play, so he just sits while everyone plays or tries to entice him into different things. But he just sits and sulks.

Finally, dinner arrives for the boys. Sean brings it up himself and places the trays on Derek's bed and on the floor for Spencer to easily eat. JJ cuts up Spencer's food and helps him to eat. Sean brings the bottles over to momma, who takes them from him.

"Sean, sit down in the rocking chair." In a confused state, he does sit; it is like no one can refuse this woman. She places the bottles on the table next to him and goes to pick up Aaron from the floor where he was sulking. She places Aaron in Sean's lap on the rocking chair, bends down and lifts a bottle to Aaron while looking at him in the eye. She is not smiling. The room is quiet as the battle of wills between momma and her baby became physically palpable. The man in Aaron fought the baby, he was angry that she would do this to him. He just wants to please her and yet he wants to make some choices for himself as to who does what to his body, but she is just trying to take it all away; all choices and all decisions from him. He subconsciously leaned back into Sean's arms and became comfortable. Sean began to rock and took the bottle in his right hand. He placed the nipple into Aaron's mouth, who looked at his big younger brother and started to drink the bottle. His eyes fill with tears as he has never felt more of a baby than at this moment.