Five and a Half Years Later

"Dad, dad, dad, daddy."

I feel myself groan at the sound of a chorus of calls coming from the end of our bed and I roll over to punch Johnny. "Your children are awake."

"They're not mine before noon," He growls, rolling over to look at me.

I blink a couple times at him before shoving him out of bed. "Get up."

He grunts before trudging into the closet and I turn back over and am greeted by a pair of wide violet eyes. "Hi mommy," The sweet tiny voice of our daughter fills my mind and I sit up, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes.

"Hi there, baby," I say, pulling her up onto the bed with me. She looks almost identical to me other than a line of soft purple fur trailing down her spine and her eyes are purple, not yellow. "What are you two doing up so early?" I glance at the clock and it's ten. They usually sleep till noon.

"Brother wanted pancakes," Little Allyssa says, her eyes wide with a huge smile on her face. "So do I."

"Of course you do," My gaze shifts over to little John who is just watching me at the foot of our bed with a big grin across his face. He just turned eleven and he is definitely his father's son. I arch an eyebrow at him and he looks down, pulling back on the wooden footboard.

"They just sounded good," He says, his voice has really matured, he doesn't sound eleven.

I sigh, looking back into the closet to find Johnny wearing a white short-sleeved polo with the Monsters Inc. logo embroidered on the left breast pocket. Of course he can't forget to pop that dumb collar. "The children desire pancakes."

"Chocolate chip or strawberry?" He asks without even thinking, but then glances up to meet my cold glare. Why did he have to say that?

"Chocolate!" Allyssa says, throwing her little five-year-old arms up.

"Me too!" John says, and I roll my eyes back to Johnny who just gives me that stupid smirk that he now gives me when he knows he messed up.

"Alright, fine," I say, looking between my children and back to my husband. "But Addison is not going to be thrilled when we hand them over to her and they're both bouncing off the walls."

We all run down to the kitchen and I feel Johnny's eyes on me. I turn back and see that he's giving me 'the look'. "What?" I ask.

"I just like looking at you," He says giving the underside of my tail a quick pinch.

I smack his hand, laughing quietly. "Stop it," I watch the kids race ahead of us. "No running in the house!" I yell before looking back to Johnny. "What's on your mind?"

"Oh nothing," He says while casually pushing me up against the wall next to the stairs. "Just you and me, and an empty house once Addison leaves with the kids." He wraps one hand around my waist, propping another against the wall, his eyes locked with mine.

"You remember what happened last time we had a house to ourselves?" I say, shifting my eyes to the little mini-me bouncing around in her seat. "Got a little surprise." I give him a kiss before pushing past him and down the stairs.

"Come on, Reed," Johnny whines as he follows me down the stairs. "It's been three weeks."

We walk into the kitchen and I reach for a bag of sugar-free chocolate chips. "Tell ya what," I say, looking to Johnny and keeping my voice low. "You get the kids to eat these then I'll let you melt down the real ones to use tonight."

Johnny's eyes go wide. "Ooh," He smirks before snatching the chocolate chips from my grasp.

Johnny makes the pancakes and manages to get the kids to eat them all, though little John knew that they were sugar free, but he was smart enough to not complain about it.

Johnny leans up against the counter beside me, throwing his arm around my shoulder, whispering in my ear. "We should probably make the kids go to sleep with earplugs because that chocolate isn't going to be the only thing that's melted."

I can't help but shiver and look up at him, his smirk full of mischief. "You still have the libido of a college student."

He shrugs, kissing my cheek. "Well you still look like you did in college." He pulls me closer to him. "I'm reminiscing."

I smile and hear a car pull up in the driveway. I glance out and see that it isn't Addison's. It's a tan Roars Royce coupe and my smile grows when I see who gets out of it.

I go to answer the door and am greeted by a familiar pair of amber eyes. "Heyyyy," I say, holding my arms out.

"Hi there, Reed!" My friend, and Johnny's sister, Ginger, comes at me, hugging me tightly. "How have you been?"

I shrug. "Can't complain, the kids are getting bigger by the second."

"Aunt Gingy!" My little Allyssa's voice calls from the kitchen.

"Come here you sweet little cookie," Ginger says, crouching down so that Allyssa can waddle into her arms. She glances up and sees John watching her with a smile. "Come here," She gestures for him and he saunters over, plopping onto her. "Oh, oh my goodness you guys are so big."

She gives them another squeeze before standing up, brushing off her tan cardigan, her slender tail swaying behind her. "Where's big John?" She asks, putting her slender hands on her hips, her cat ears perked.

"Johnny!" I call," Your sister is here!"

I see his head pop out of the kitchen and he gives Ginger a smirk. "Well look what the cat dragged in."

"Oh hah, hah," Ginger says, her tone mocking. "So funny as always," She holds out her arms. "Come on, give me a hug. I know you missed me."

He walks over to her, giving her a decent hug. "Not really, but it has been rather quiet since you've been gone."

Ginger rolls her eyes. "Always at it with the jokes. You haven't changed a bit, John."

"Good," Johnny says, wiping his hands off with a white towel. "Jav with you?"

"He's out in the car," Ginger points behind her. "We just got back and he's kind of anxious to get home."

"Well he's not leaving without saying hello," Johnny says, throwing the towel over his shoulder and walking outside to the car, holding his arms out when he sees his friend sitting behind the wheel on his phone. "Javier Rios, did you really think you could get away without seeing your favorite monster?"

"You mean behind Ginger?" Jav says, glancing to me and Ginger as Johnny walks up to his car. "I'm just tired, amigo."

"Hey I know," Johnny leans in the window, giving Jav a firm handshake. "That jetlag is a killer." Johnny glances back at me. "When we got back from our honeymoon over in Hissaly Reed slept for a day and a half nonstop."

"I'm getting ready to do that," Jav says, smiling at Ginger. "But she wanted to say hi before we headed home."

"Hey, man," Johnny says, patting the bug-monster on the back of his round shell covered by a white button-up. "You gotta tell us all about it once you're rested up."

I nod in agreement and look to Ginger. "Maybe sometime this week we could all get together, including Addison and have an adults night."

"That would be so fun," Ginger says, pulling something off of her golden horns.

"Babe," Javier calls from the car. "I need sleep, honey. We can catch up later."

Ginger sighs. "He's such a baby," She gives me another hug. "See you soon."

"See ya," I say, pulling back and watching her get in the car. Johnny walks up the front steps to me, putting his arm around my waist, waving as Jav pulls the car out of the driveway and they begin down our long private drive.

As they're leaving I spot Addison's car pulling in and I walk down to greet her, pulling on my white sweater. "Hey there, girlie." I say as she gets out of the car.

"Hey there," She says, taking off her sunglasses. "Was that Jav and Ginger I just saw?"

I nod. "It was, they just got back from the islands. I told Ginger we should all get together for dinner sometime soon."

"That would be great," She says, walking up to me, putting her sunglasses in her jacket pocket. "Now where are the little munchkins?"

"Johnny," I say, looking back to him as he picks a weed from one of our flower bushes. "Can you go get the kids ready to go?"

"Yep," He says, tossing the weed into the gravel drive before sauntering inside.

"Oh, they are going to have so much fun," Addison says, beaming at me. "We are going to an amusement park and then the water park next door. It's going to be a blast."

"You sure you can handle them by yourself?" I ask, giving her a concerned look.

"Oh honey," Addison says, waving her hand. "I deal with mothers worse than these children on a daily basis. I've got this under control."

"Alright," I say, and step out of the way as the kids come running towards Addison dressed in matching red and gold polos and little backpacks.

"Hey guys!" Addison says, crouching down to hug them. "You ready to have some fun?"

"Yeaah!" They both shout and I open the door on the passenger side to help Allyssa into her car seat.

"Mommy, are you staying home?" Allyssa asks as I buckle her in.

"I am little girl," I say, giving her forehead a kiss. "But you're going to have so much fun."

She gives me a huge grin and I walk over to the other side as John gets in. "Hey little man," I say, helping him buckle up. "You take care of your sister today."

"I know mom," He says, giving me a grin. He looks more and more like his father every day.

"Okay," I say, giving him a kiss on the cheek. "You behave yourselves." They both nod and I close the door and turn to Addison. "Keep them safe."

"I will, honey." She says, giving me a hug. "Just a day of fun for them, giving you two some much needed time to yourselves." She gives me a wink before getting in behind the wheel.

I walk back up the steps and watch as she drives off down the driveway before turning to Johnny. "I know today is your day off, but I need to run to MI."

"Ugh," Johnny huffs, rolling his eyes. "Why?"

"I forgot to do some paperwork and you know how Roz gets about her paperwork." I say, gently pushing past my childish husband.

"What if Waternoose wants me to stay?" Johnny says, following me to the kitchen as I grab the keys to my own baby blue Mercedes SUV.

"He won't make you stay," I say, grabbing Johnny's phone off the charger along with mine. "That would put you at overtime. You know how businesses try to avoid paying overtime."

"I guess," Johnny says, following me up to my office. "I just don't want to risk it."

"Fine," I say, shuffling through all my sheet music lying in front of my two desktop computers. "I'll just go by myself."

"Oh ho, don't you pull that shit," Johnny says, waving a finger at me. "You know I hate you going out by yourself."

I grab my folder full of the necessary paperwork and turn to face him, giving him a smirk. "I know." I hold out my car keys for him.

He glares at them, clenching his fists before snatching them from my hand, growling. "Fine."

We pull up to the huge factory building, finding a good spot near the front before hopping out and heading to the entrance. "In and out." I say, holding my paperwork for Johnny to see.

"In and out," He growls to himself as we approach the entrance. He pushes one of the doors open and we both freeze. The lobby is swarming with CDA agents, their scanners hovering over every physical object. I glance around and see Mr. Waternoose talking with a couple agents as they hold up a duffle bag with the Monsters Inc. logo on the side. The old crab monster looks completely stressed out as the agent says they need to talk with all the scarers at the factory and I glance up to see Johnny is already glaring at me. "Just in and out, huh?"

I look around and notice Mike and Sulley skulking down a hallway, a small purple monster in Sulley's claws, but when I look closer I can see the face of a human child under the mask. "Great."

Hey guys! Sorry about yet another big time jump, but Ironelf pointed out that the events at Monsters Inc. take place ten years after MU, so I wanted to try and be a bit more accurate, and of course along the way they have a little daughter who, if you didn't catch it, was named after Reed's passed mother. I hope you can forgive me for yet another major jump, but I promise it will be the last. Anyway, thank you guys for the amazing feedback already for this fic and I send all my love to you! See you next chapter! Bye-bye!