"That all sir?" a man asked with a look of disinterest.
"This stuff is good for tooth pain and chewing needs, right?"
He shrugged, "Well yeah for teething babies. If you're talking about a pit bull than you might want to get a bone."
The man nodded some. Hopefully this would save forks and, by extension, him some money since Xavier charged him for the destruction of his utensils.
As he pulled his wallet out he noticed a huge item behind the man, "How much is that fat thing?" Logan pointed.
The clerk looked to a chair, "That's been here forever man. It's like 60 bucks."
Logan cringed some but nodded, "I'll take it."
"Congrats on giving this poor thing a home. It also comes with a book," He bagged the items he could.
X
The younger mutant smiled and got home, "Victor are you home?" he checked around. No sign of his brother. Just as well, he could put the items away and give him a surprise .
X
A quiet singing was heard as Victor opened the door to his home.
"Hey Victor, went to the store?" Logan called from the kitchen.
"Yep. I got cookie dough ice cream," he smiled proudly.
"You and your ice cream. Did you get food?"
"Yeah, went to the farmers market and stuff," he set the food stuff on the counter for sorting them out for dinner and to be put away.
"Got you something," he smirked.
"That's a naughty look if I've seen one." Vic glanced to his brother's ever widening smile, "Ok, what did you do?"
"Hurry up and put the stuff away and I'll show you."
Being curious the elder mutant quickly got things settled and went to see what his brother had to offer, "Ok, what do you have?"
He handed him a to giraffe, "This is for when you come to the school and your teeth start bothering you."
The cat turned the toy in his hand, "So it's a teething ring?"
"Teething toy," he corrected, "You like baby things, right? And that's only the first part of your surprise. Here's the second part," he opened the door to Victor's room. He got Vic a bed his own and on the bed was a giant, fat stuffed kodiak bear. At least 7 feet. The thing didn't have eyes, just lids sloped next to its muzzle.
Victor's eyes widened and his jaw lay slack as he looked at the creature.
"Now he can be your bed buddy," Jimmy smirked in amusement at what he thought was a funny little prank, "Even came with a book," He displayed the book on a sleeping big bear. Jimmy was startled when he was lifted off the ground in a hug.
"Aww Jimmy, this is the best gift you've ever given me," he crushed him before dropping him and hurried over to his new friend.
Logan just stared in disbelief as his brother snuggled the giant bear. He shook his head and just walked away, unsure why he expected any different from that weirdo.
X
That night Victor hugged to the bear as he slept on his new mattresses. Jimmy had a bed to himself again, a queen size like he got his brother. It was nice. For the first couple weeks, he guessed. More arm room.
He sighed and stood up to get some water and check his brother. Victor was cuddling the bear happily. Logan glared, regretting the decision. This was ridiculous, was he actually jealous of an obese plush toy? He shook his head and climbed in bed with his brother, slapping the toy's foot.
Victor cracked an eye open, feeling a nestling against his back. He smiled at his Jimmy hugging his back. He pulled the blanket higher on his little brother and wrapped an arm around him.
X
"Hey Logan," Hank waved to him, "How are you this morning?"
"I'm ok, slept better last night."
"That's good. Seems your brother is staying out of trouble. How are his teeth?"
"Got him a chew thing, seems to help."
"Good." he smiled, "Happy things are going well."
X
"Want anything in particular for dinner?" Logan asked around the pins in his mouth.
"Chicken and shrimp Alfredo," he raised his hips.
"How about beer battered onion rings?" he pinned the right side.
"If you knew what you wanted to cook why ask?"
"Do you still work? You've been home a lot lately."
"If put myself on seasonal at one job and the other I cut my hours," he sighed.
"Just asking," he shrugged, snapping the cover up, "Well I'm going to fix dinner, you do something productive." he pat his brother's shoulder.
Victor watched him go and looked to his bear.
Logan sipped at his beer as the food fried, "You want fries or potato chips?" no answer, "Vic?"
He peeked out from the kitchen and saw his brother around the corner. On the floor in front of the couch, leaning on the fat bear and apparently reading to it because of course he was. Logan merely took another long sip of his beer before going back into the kitchen. Chips it was.