Birds and the Bees 2
Puck watched his daughter leaning against the door frame to her bedroom, it truly had been fifth time the charm for the Puckerman family, and 9 months later the family had been completed by the birth of Abigail Norah Puckerman.
Now 3 years old she controlled the family more than her mother if that was possible, her four older brothers worshipped the ground she walked on, and had her father was wrapped around her little finger, very much the daddy's girl as the boys were mommy's boys.
"What's wrong? It's 3am" Rachel whispered sliding her arms around her husband and pressing her cheek against her back, before he tugged her around to rest against his chest, both of them now forty they were still as lithe and toned as they had been twenty years ago, a few more wrinkles and laughter lines the only sign of their age.
"Bad dream" Puck whispered back as he held her close, twenty years not diminishing how much he loved his wife at all, in fact increasing the amount more than anything.
"About?"
"Our little girl" Puck said reluctantly "we have a little girl"
"Uh yes, we have had had a little girl for three years now" Rachel said slowly
"Yeah but girls, she could meet someone like me, and she's going to date and dress in short skirts, and what if she is like Quinn? Anyone who touches my little girl is dead, and how do I look after her..."
"Noah, darling stop" Rachel said placing both her hands on her cheeks and pulling his gaze down to hers "she had you, she has Nate and Seth and Aaron and Caleb she has more male testosterone than she will ever want, she has all five of you to protect her and look after her"
"Right my boys will protect their little sister" Puck said
"Probably to her great annoyance, now come back to bed" Rachel said grabbing his hand and towing him away back to bed, hoping that she had put his mind at ease.
"Male meeting" Puck declared at the head of the breakfast table the next morning as Seth cut his sister eggs for her.
"Male meeting?" Rachel asked from the other end of the table.
"Boys only sorry mom" the twelve year old Caleb smiled at his mom, who rolled her eyes and nodded in resignation.
"Fine" she agreed "someone needs some things for college anyway" throwing her napkin on the table she passed Nate who looked up at her and grinned, loving that his parents had bought him his own place to attend Columbia even though it was only on the other side of the island.
"Thanks mom" he said as she paused to press a kiss to all of their heads.
"Well no one wants to live with their parents in college" she shrugged "just know that you will be coming home at least once a week to have a proper meal with at least some vitamin content"
"Cool, I can bring my laundry as well, you know you'll miss doing that as well" he smiled cheekily as she laughed with the rest of his family.
"Come on Abs" Rachel said helping her daughter off the chair "we have shopping to do while the boys talk"
The little girl made the rounds quickly, unable to walk away from her family without at least hugging all of the once, finishing with her dad she launched herself into his arms and hugged him tightly "love you daddy" she said brightly before pressing her lips against his check in a smacking kiss.
"Love you to princess; go make sure mommy doesn't spend too much money on your doofus brother"
"Ok daddy" Abigail smiled as she got down and her mother pressed a kiss to her husband's lips before taking her daughters hand and leading her out shopping.
"So why the meet dad?" asked Aaron the quiet one of the family
"I need you all to promise something for me, for me and your mom" Puck started getting to his feet and circling the table looking at each of his sons "Cal I don't really think you going to understand this yet but boys I need you to think of a very frightening situation, Abs meeting someone like us"
Seth, Aaron and Nate all blanched in worry, no way were they going to let their little sister meet someone like them, ok they weren't as bad as their father had been , something to do with the influence of their mom probably, but they were still all heartbreakers credit to their parents good looks they had inherited.
"Ok that would be bad" Seth agreed "but she's three"
"And one day she'll be fifteen, just think of the fifteen year olds you go to school with right now" Puck said warningly, making his twins sons look at each other and have one of their silent conversations.
"What can we do?" they said simultaneously
"We make a promise to ourselves and each other to protect her by any means necessary" Puck said seriously "until she's as smart as your mom is about boys"
"Ok" Nate agreed looking around at his brothers who all nodded and agreed "we promise Abs gets nowhere near guys like us, and guys like us get nowhere near our baby sister"
Outside the kitchen door Rachel leant against the wall and laughed as silently as she could, almost hysterical, her men solemnly promising themselves that they wouldn't let her daughter meet people like themselves was too funny. None of them realised that they were just the type of boys that Abby would be lucky to meet, caring, loving and protective, shaking her head in disbelief she walked back to Abby who was waiting for her at the door.
"Princess you are going to have very difficult teenage years" she said smoothing back her daughters brown hair back as she picked up her bag and took her hand.
"What do you mean mommy?"
"You'll find out when your older"