Froggysitting: Prompt submitted (via PM) by Kieran Wespell. In which Star and Marco (married, and with Penny) babysit Buff Frog's children.

Godzilla2915: Fate always chooses Marco lol

Unluckywrites: Obviously if they have top hats you have to buy them. All of them.

I don't own Star vs. the Forces of Evil.

GENERAL POV

"I can't believe you signed us up for this," Marco groaned, hoisting Penny's diaper bag over his shoulder and glaring at Star's back while she tied the toddler's shoes. "You know he has like, 45 kids, right?"

"47," Star corrected, bopping Penny on the nose and making the girl giggle. "And come on Marco, half of them haven't even hatched yet. They're just tadpoles."

Marco rolled his eyes and took Penny from his wife, settling the girl on his hip and watching as Star gathered up her bag, wand, and interdimensional scissors. "I still say you running the kingdom would probably be easier than this," he protested.

Star kissed him on the cheek and dragged her scissors down through the air, opening up a portal and pulling Marco through it.

They landed outside what used to be Ludo's old castle, rebuilt after the explosion with Toffee and now much shinier and friendly looking. Buff Frog had taken control after the chaos had died down and had worked with Ludo's former henchmen to rebuild the castle, and then several others for the rest of the men.

Buff Frog owned this one, and was constantly keeping a lookout if Toffee ever should return. Ludo had vanished after the explosion, but no one was too concerned about his whereabouts, least of all Buff Frog.

After working with Star, they had declared a truce and eventually become good friends, to the point where Buff Frog was invited to Star and Marco's wedding, and now they babysat back and forth for each other, though it was much easier for Star and Marco to travel to Buff Frog to take care of his kids than it was for him to come to them.

He opened the door with a flourish, a smile sitting on his face. "Ah, Diaz's!" he exclaimed, turning to the side and letting them in. "Thank you for coming. I should not be too long; I only need to run some errands. Should be back in an hour or two."

Star smiled at him as Marco set Penny down on the floor, watching as the girl squealed and ran straight for a group of Buff Frog's children, who croaked in excitement upon seeing their human playmate. "It's no problem, Buff Frog."

Despite knowing that Buff Frog wasn't his actual name, the amphibian had assured them that he didn't mind if they called him that; he knew Yvgeny was rather hard to pronounce. He gave the two a grin and saluted before ducking out of the castle, moving quickly so that the younger children wouldn't notice him leave.

Marco glanced over at the children and gave a small sigh, a smile twitching on his lips. "You know he's gonna stay out as long as possible," he informed his wife, wrapping an arm around her waist.

Star giggled and untangled herself from Marco. "I know," she said with a shrug as she walked away.

He shook his head and then joined her, venturing over to find the kids playing contently with building blocks, Penny helping the smaller ones reach higher to put their blocks on top. When he saw Star's hand move towards her wand, he quickly blocked her, raising an eyebrow. "They're having fun," he murmured. "Let's not plunge this into chaos in the first five minutes."

Star pouted but agreed, and the adults dropped to the ground to help with construction of the block tower, which grew rather massive after a time, Marco getting the job of putting everything at the tip top because he was the tallest.

When the last block had been set on top, they all took a step back to admire their work, only to have one of the youngest frogs squeal in delight and dive headfirst into the tower, making everything tumble to the ground.

Star just laughed, scooping up the toddler into her arms and nudging her under her chin. "Silly," she declared. "How do you guys feel about a snack?"

Excited cheers erupted in the room and Marco and Star led the way into the kitchen, two dozen frogs hopping around behind them and Penny clutching to her father's hand.

Star plopped the toddler in her hands down on a counter top and dug into the cabinets while Marco situated each of the children in their chairs or highchairs, distributing bowls and cups of what looked like moldy apple juice (he didn't question it).

He handed Penny her own snack of goldfish crackers and grape juice and then turned to help Star pull out the dried crickets and flies from the cupboard. "Okay, regular flavor," Star asked, "or Mac n' Cheese flavor?"

Cries for the Mac n' Cheese rang out and Star grinned, distributing them out quickly and efficiently. The first time Marco had heled babysit, before he and Star had gotten married, he had been a tad bit repulsed by everything the kids ate. Now, however, he just shrugged, grabbed a cricket, did a little magic trick with it, and popped it in his mouth, much to the delight of the children in front of him.

Star just grinned at him, shaking her head and putting away the excess crickets before moving over to Marco and settling her head on his shoulder. "You know," she commented, "I remember a time where you would sooner get stabbed than eat a bug."

Marco snorted and swallowed, leaning down to press a kid to Star's forehead. "Yeah, and I remember a time where you would die for a sandwich," he teased.

"I still would," the woman muttered, crossing her arms over her chest and watching as the kids munched.

"Want me to go check on the tadpoles?" Marco asked, glancing towards the stair case.

Star nodded. "Go on. I've got it down here."

He darted up the stairs and peeked into the nursery, careful not to make too much noise, and found the tadpoles snoring contently, their tiny tails wiggling in their sleep. He smiled fondly and shut the door again, tiptoeing down the hall and back to the kitchen.

Which was in utter chaos.

He ducked to avoid getting hit by a flying cricket and searched for Star, finding her in the middle of the mess with a distraught look on her face. "What happened?" Marco asked in disbelief, picking his way over several children to get to her. "I literally left for like thirty seconds!"

"They just…wanted seconds," Star mumbled. "But there weren't enough Mac n' Cheese ones."

Marco nearly face palmed then and there, looking around to find Penny still sitting calmly in her high chair, eating goldfish crackers one by one as crickets and larvae and other various types of bugs were flung around her.

It was going to be a long night.

I feel like Star is the type of babysitter to try and have fun, but it goes wrong, and Marco is firm but fair, and together they balance each other out and are the best babysitters.

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