Old

Having children meant one thing - yes, you weren't exactly a young teenager anymore but you weren't by any means old: you were actually pretty young still, considering how long a life span lasts.

The word 'grandchildren', however, told a completely different story.

"Mavy, I'm not old enough to be a grandpa!" Johnny whined, pouting slightly. "I mean, I'm only...how old am I now?"

"Well, do I look like a grandma to you?" Mavis retorted, staring into the depths of the vanity mirror deeply - all for nought considering she didn't even have a reflection. "I mean, sure, I've had a grey hair or two but...but I'm not that old!"

These reactions were, of course, brought on by the news that their eldest, Lucy (now grown up herself and married) was having a baby of her own; the news had surprised many of those in the family - but none more so than their youngest child, Lily.

Oh Lily. She couldn't be blamed for reacting so badly: after all, she was a human and aging quicker than the rest of them - a side effect of the difficult pregnancy that Mavis had endured twenty-nine years prior to the current time. Another unfortunate side effect had been that Lily had been left completely and utterly infertile, forever shattering her dreams of becoming a mother and living a somewhat normal life while she could.

The thought of how unhappy she'd been that afternoon made Mavis sigh and sit back onto the bed beside her husband. "I hope Lily will be okay."

Johnny frowned at the change in subject but gave a tiny, guilty nod. "Huh. Well...yeah, she probably will be, right? I mean, she's gonna be an aunt - that's pretty cool! At least she'll get to be around kids..."

"Being an aunt and being a mother are completely different things," His wife pointed out, shaking her head. "Sure, she'll love this baby...but it won't be hers. It's her sister's."

She had a point - Johnny had been an uncle to his older brother's sons before becoming a father, and he had to admit that it was very different; don't get him wrong, he had loved his nephews and adored playing with them...but then having a daughter of his own to play with, knowing that she was his daughter - half of him and half of Mavis in one tiny person - was by far the greatest feeling he'd ever experienced.

Silently his heart went out for their youngest daughter, and he wished that there was something he could do to help her out.

"Great, now I feel sad about Lils and old because I'm gonna be a grandpa!" Johnny groaned, letting his head fall backwards to his pillow - except he'd seriously misjudged where his pillow was and ended up hitting the back of his head off of the headboard. "OW!"

Mavis ignored this last part and continued to dwell on her thoughts for the time being. "I can't believe it; I don't feel like I'm ready to be a grandma. I mean, I still can't believe that I'm so old that we have kids, let alone grandchildren."

Ignoring the throbbing in the back of his skull, Johnny sat up and sighed. "Yeah...although, you gotta admit, it's something to look forward to. Heh, apart from the whole being old thing, I think being a grandpa might be pretty cool!"

However, she didn't look too sure and instead turned to face him seriously. "Johnny? Do you still think...well...that I'm attractive?"

Johnny blinked at her, as if unable to believe his ears. "What?"

"Are you still...you know..." If she could blush, this would have been one of the times that she probably would have. "Attracted to me? Like, do you...desire me?"

That sounded so wrong coming out of her mouth that she had to try very hard to resist the urge to face-palm herself.

Her husband grabbed her hands in his and sent her a look that implied he thought she was slightly crazy for asking. "Yeah!" He agreed enthusiastically, nodding to prove his point. "What are you, nuts?! Just 'cause we're not in our one-hundreds anymore it doesn't mean that you're not beautiful!" Here he moved closer and looked at her seriously. "Do I need to show you how much I love you? 'Cause I'm totally up for that..."

"Maybe later," Mavis gave in, looking somewhat brighter than she had moments ago. "We're still talking about grandchildren right now."

Johnny nodded and pressed a kiss to her shoulder. "Later," He agreed, voice slightly lower and eyes dilated. "So...grandchildren... Yeah, I'm looking forward to that; grandchildren are awesome, you know? You can play with them and do all the fun stuff - and at the end of the day, you don't have to do all of the parenting stuff, like diaper-changes."

"You said the same thing about being an uncle," She reminded him, smirking just a little to herself. "And look how many diapers you had to change then."

"Still, it's gonna be great!" He repeated, grabbing his wife's shoulders and grinning widely. "C'mon, Mavy: you've gotta be excited!"

"Well, yes," Mavis agreed half-heartedly, giving a slight nod of the head. "I'm really happy for Lu and Freddie, I really am. I just...can't believe it! Seems like only yesterday we were teaching her to fly, and now she's having kids of her own."

"Yeah...although," The red-head's smile slipped slightly. "I still have my doubts about that Freddie kid..."

The vampiress lightly slapped his shoulder and rolled her eyes in annoyance. "You are just like my Dad, I swear! Freddie's a great vampire - you just don't like him because he's married to our daughter! And don't start going on about how old they were when they met," She added when he opened his mouth to object. "Lucy has always been very smart; a night-dreamer, perhaps, but smart."

Being compared to Count Dracula - who really was starting to get on quite a bit as both a grandfather and future great-grandfather - made Johnny feel old again, and he let out a grumble. "Alright, you've got a point I guess...Hey!" He brightened up suddenly. "What do you think?"

Mavis gave him a look, eyebrow raised curiously. "What do I think about what?"

"If the baby is gonna be a girl or a boy, duh!"

"You are not going to start betting on the genders again!" Mavis said, looking quite outraged. "It was bad enough to do it with our kids, let alone their kids!"

It didn't matter what she said though - once his heart was set on it, there was no changing his mind.

Valentine's Day was, in short, miserable that year.

"I love Lucy, I really do," Johnny muttered, looking rather exhausted as he and Mavis prepared to go to bed for the day. "But she's not all that great when she's pregnant."

Mavis gave a small nod, looking equally tired out. "Poor Lucy; she looks about ready to burst. It can't be easy for her, being that large; it means she's stuck at home, unable to fly, and always getting back aches. I remember that, and it's not fun."

"I'm actually feeling kind of sorry for that Freddie kid," The red-head announced, giving a large yawn and flopping into bed. "He's not doing much better than she is; he's getting glared at, and he keeps breaking stuff every five minutes."

"Poor Freddie," Mavis agreed sympathetically. "He just doesn't want Lu to stress herself out, so he's trying to do everything for her...although he's just stressing her out more by breaking everything in sight."

Johnny rolled over to look at Mavis and put an arm around her. "Mavy? Valentine's Day is officially my least favourite day of the year right now."

"It hasn't been very romantic," She sighed, relaxing in his embrace. "Everything we planned went to waste, didn't it?"

"Tried to have a nice calm evening by the pool; Freddie slips and falls in trying to help our daughter get out properly with her bump, and the life-guard ends up having to drain the pool to get him out," Johnny recounted miserably. "Our romantic dinner was ruined by all of our kids; Mina coming to tell us that Jack had pulled her braids, and then Jack turning up and stealing her doll... What did he do with it anyway?"

Mavis gave a small smile, despite the situation. "He chopped off it's head because Mina stole a picture he had of some siren girl he saw - someone he had a crush on."

Her husband sighed. "Yeah, that's right. Then Lily and Damien started arguing right across the hall, which disturbed, like, everyone...and then Lucy walked in and completely killed the mood with that look on her face..."

"In all fairness, she's pregnant," Mavis pointed out. "She's got to be really tired, Johnny; it's only natural."

"Well, it's her own fault for getting pregnant," He muttered. At the look his wife gave him, he back-tracked quickly. "Aw, come on! It is!"

Mavis was too shattered to even send him that look for very long and instead shut her eyes in the hopes of getting some sleep. "This is our hotel trip for the month ruined," She mumbled.

"Worst Valentine's Day ever," Johnny agreed, also closing his eyes as he snuggled into her.

It seemed like only five minutes later that there was an urgent knocking on the door of Room 174, waking the two vampires from their slumbers.

Mavis gave a small groan and shoved Johnny off of her. "You go get it. It's probably Mina."

Right on cue, there was another series of knock on the door. "Mom! Dad!"

"Why do I have to go?" Johnny complained, pulling the covers over himself tightly. "You're the one that had the kids."

Even with his eyes shut, he could feel the intensity of the glare she was giving him at that moment. "You're the one that got me pregnant in the first place; go and do it."

It didn't seem fair to Johnny, but he didn't want to have a fight with Mavis, not at this time in the day when he was meant to be sleeping, so he stood up to answer the knocks on the door just for the sake of being able to sleep afterwards.

"Alright, Mina," He mumbled as he opened the door, blinking down at his daughter blearily. "What's the big deal? It's late, and you should be asleep-"

"Lucy went into labour!" Mina interrupted breathlessly.

Mavis was by the door in a second, and both of the adult vampires seemed to have woken up completely by those four words. "What? How do you know?" She asked hurriedly.

"I couldn't sleep," Mina started quickly, bouncing on her feet. "So I went to Lucy's room to see if she could braid by hair me - Lily and Damien must have been asleep already, 'cause when I went to their room they didn't answer - and she couldn't sleep either so she said she'd help me...oh, and Freddie held my doll for me..." She held up her still-headless doll for her parents to see. "Anyway, we were talking and Lucy suddenly started to get pains in her stomach...she's having contractions! The baby's coming!"

"Holy crap!" Johnny exclaimed, looking quite freaked out all of a sudden as he turned to look at Mavis. "What do we do?"

She rolled her eyes and moved to push past him to the door. "What else are we going to do? We're going to go and help her!"

"We can't go in there while she's having the baby," Johnny said, looking appalled at the suggestion. "Besides, no offence to her, but I don't...really...want...to go in there...and see it."

"Me neither," Mina agreed, pulling a face. "Can't we just sit outside and wait like normal monsters?"

A hundred and thirty-two years prior, Dracula and his friends had waited outside while Johnny and Mavis had their first baby - and now it was their turn to wait while their daughter had her baby. They, along with Mina, were shortly joined as the afternoon went on by Jack, Damien, Freddie's Uncle Al, who worked down in the kitchens of the hotel, and Dracula - Lily was, as predicted, absent from the gathering.

Since waiting for a baby to arrive took up to hours of patience, Jack and Mina began to continue the argument they'd been having for the past nine months.

"It's a boy," Jack stated.

Mina shot him a glare. "It's a girl."

He narrowed his eyes at her. "Mina, I know what I'm talking about - it's gonna be a boy."

"Well, you're wrong," Mina muttered coldly, grip tightening on her doll. "It's going to be a girl."

Damien hesitantly leaned over to the two of them. "Err...can I say some-?"

"Boy."

"Girl."

The blonde flopped back in his seat. "Never mind."

Mavis just shook her head at them. "To think; Jack is nearly a hundred and nineteen, and Mina is eighty-nine...and they're actually arguing over this."

Uncle Al just shrugged. "Kids will be kids - plus, I suppose it passes the time."

"Do you want me to chop off any more heads of your dolls?" Jack threatened.

Mina just smirked unblinkingly at her older brother. "Joke's on you, Jack: I actually kinda like their heads being cut off. It's like having my own little set of Henry the Eighth's wives as dolls." She lifted the one she had with her up. "She used to be called Marie, but now I might call her Anne Boleyn."

Johnny looked between the two of them, his expression somewhat disturbed as he leaned over to talk to Mavis beside him. "Mavis? We have the weirdest kids ever..."

"Well, it makes them happy," She reminded him.

The red-head gave an understanding nod. "Huh. Guess so."

Luckily the wait only lasted another couple of hours or so until eight o'clock that evening - and then it was all over.

Freddie came bursting out through the bedroom door, tripping on a rug in the corridor; Mina, knowing what to expect, stood up and managed to steady him before he could fall to the floor easily.

"Heh...thanks, lil' bat!" He thanked, straightening up and looking around at everyone with a grin.

Uncle Al leaned forwards in his seat. "Freddo, what news?"

"Yeah, Freddie," Mina added in. "What is it?"

There was a long pregnant pause where everyone stared at Freddie in anticipation, waiting for him to break the tension in the corridor.

"It's a baby!" Freddie announced stupidly.

Dracula slapped a hand over his face while Johnny tried unsuccessfully to hide his laughter, only for Mavis to nudge him (although, judging by the smirk on her face, she was also highly amused). Damien let out a snort and covered his mouth with his hands to hide his own chuckles, and Mina gave a heavy sigh at her friend's obliviousness.

Jack meanwhile just rolled his eyes. "No, you idiot: is the baby a boy or a girl?"

"Oh!" Freddie paused. "Err...Let me check."

As he hurried back into the room, Johnny grinned at everyone. "Well...I gotta give it to this kid: he doesn't even care what the baby is, so long as it's a baby."

"As opposed to what?" Dracula retorted tiredly, raising an eyebrow at his son-in-law. "A dinosaur? A hearse perhaps?"

Jack gave a large grin. "Well, in Lucy's case it really could have been judging by the size of that bump."

"And you wonder why you don't have a girlfriend yet," Mina said bluntly, sitting back down in her chair and folding her hands together on top of the doll in her lap. "Always so charming, Jack."

Since everyone else was distracted Johnny looked at Mavis and took her hand, starting to slowly smile at her. "Mavis? I'm a grandpa now."

"And I'm a grandma," Mavis realized, pretending to be horrified to try and make the situation slightly less sad - after all, this was good news. "Rabies...I feel old...we're getting old."

"Nah," Johnny disagreed, resting his head against hers. "We're not old just yet - not inside, anyway."

So...fluffy fluff fluff. :p I feel in a good mood right now, so this is the result.

I got my GCSE results back on Thursday, and here they are for anyone interested (if not, just skip the following list):

Media Studies (Double Award): BB
French: B
Drama: C
English Literature: A
English Language: A*
Mathematics: A
History: A
Media Studies (Single Award): B
Core Science: A
Additional Science: B

I'm so proud of myself (apart from the Drama, which kinda sucks considering I love it)! So now I'm officially off to college since I got a minimum of 5 C-A* grades, and I'm so thrilled! XD No more school and uniforms!

Like I said, I was in a good mood (it's been a great week) so I decided to write something happy (and overly fluffy). I'm also on a bit of a sugar rush, and since my sister's birthday was recently and I ended up with some money (don't ask) I've been watching The Addams Family TV Shows and movies. I'm not sure how many Addams Family Values references I've put in, but I know that it's in there somewhere.

Anyway, please leave reviews - I live off of them! Plus, if you have any ideas about what you might like to see, prompt them to me and I'll see what I can do!