(Alex's Pov)
I woke up to some movement in the bed and see Anne as she gets up from the bed. I get up as well and I looked around the room a bit to see that it was morning. I sit up a bit in the bed and I feel hands on my shoulder gently.
"Hmm?" I mutter and look up to Anne as she looked to me.
"Rest up a bit, I'll work on breakfast." She says.
"I'll help." I say.
"No, it's fine." She says and I lay back on the bed as she leaves the room. I take a deep breath and I close my eyes a bit before I hear someone come in and I open my good eye and see Marcy as she comes over to the bed and I chuckled as she gets in the bed with me. She then cuddles up to me and I hold her to me. We laid in bed for a good while before Marcy said something.
"You and Anne could have come back to bed." She mutters and I chuckled.
"I'm sorry, we just ended up falling asleep." I tell her.
"It's fine… I just demand more cuddles afterwards." She says and I kissed her head gently.
"Come on we should help Anne with breakfast." I say as I sit up.
"Already done." I hear and we look to see Anne with a tray and I get up to help her.
"Alex-."
"Nope, I'm here to help." I say and we head to the bed. We all lay back on the bed and eat the breakfast Anne had made us as we talked for a bit.
"So, I think we should have the wedding more near Newtopia." Anne suggests.
"Wait not near Wartwood?" I asked her.
"I mean I like the beaches wouldn't that be fun?" She asked.
"Yea it does sound fun actually but a bit hot." I think and then grabbed a piece of toast and chuckled a bit.
"Oh yea… well we can keep a pin in it." She says and I nod at this.
"Well, I do like the idea of a beach wedding." Marcy says as she grabbed some fruit and I smiled at them. It was a while before we finished breakfast and I helped grabbed the tray and dishes. I headed out the room and I cleaned the dishes for a bit and then made some fresh tea for all of us. Anne and Marcy then came down and I handed them each a cup.
"Thank you." Marcy says and kisses my cheek and Anne kisses my other one. I drank some of my tea and we then packed up a few essentials for our trip.
"UNCLE ALEX, AUNT MAR-MAR, AUNT ANNE!" We hear and the door bursts open as each of us is tackled by one of the triplets.
"Oh man are y'all getting big." I say and I get up a bit.
"OUR LEGS CAME IN!" They yelled and I cover my ears.
"And loud." I chuckled as I rubbed my ear.
"We grew legs." They say quieter and I chuckled again and patted their heads.
"Hey why are your bags packed up?" Leif asked and I look to her.
"We are going on a bit of a trip." Anne says as she helped grabbed the other two.
"Can we come?" The youngest one asked.
"No." I laughed a bit and then grabbed a bag.
"No fair you and our parents go on all these adventures but we can't come, we are Polly's age heck older than Polly and she got to go on adventures." Leif says getting a bit upset.
"Were is Pinkie and his wife?" I asked and in comes the two frogs.
"Sorry they got excited." Ivy says and I look at them.
"Very excited it seems, almost blew out my eardrums." I joke and Anne set the frogs down.
"They won't let us go on an adventure with them." The middle child says and I rubbed my head a bit.
"Well, they're kind of busy with everything, it could be very dangerous." Sprig explained and I helped Marcy with her bag.
"They get to go on all these cool adventures but we don't this blows." The youngest says and I rubbed my face a bit.
"Maybe we can do one adventure next time, just not right now." I suggest and they glare at me a bit then head on out. I rubbed my head a bit at this.
"Kids." Sprig says and he hops out to follow them. We got our bags all finished up and I grabbed a map and we sat down to figure out where we will head to first.
"We could head on to the desert area, he didn't seem to go in that area before but it could change." Marcy suggests and I mark it on the map.
"He mostly stayed in Newtopia though." I mutter.
"You ok there Alex?" Anne asked.
"Yea, I'm fine, just the fact that this giant ass of a newt thinks 'oh hey let me disappeared instead of actually help the people whose lives I ruined.' Fuck him." I mutter getting pissed off and I gripped my hair a bit.
"Hey none of that." Anne says as she moved my hands from my hair and I sighed.
"Sorry anyway where else?" I mutter and looked to the map some more. When we got about a weeks' worth of a trip planned out, we grabbed our bags and headed on out on this trip.
"Ok so did your mom give you anything you could do to work on yourself?" Marcy asked an, I think.
"Well, she did say I have some anger issues, but she said I could talk about my feelings…. Like a normal person." I joked and laughed a bit at this.
"I'm being serious though." Marcy says.
"I am too." I tell her.
"Well, anything you want to talk about?" Anne asked and I look to Marcy.
"If we each talk about ourselves that would make this a little better if I'm going to be honest." I tell them.
"Alright, well is there anything you want to talk about?" Anne asked.
"How are you two feeling about this?" I asked them.
"With trying to find Andreas?" Marcy asked and I nod at this.
"I just think that maybe we shouldn't look for him, he doesn't want to be found, he left years ago." Marcy says.
"Well of course he doesn't want to be found, he's done nothing really, he hasn't helped anyone in years, for fuck sake." I mutter as we walked more.
"I know but he hasn't bothered anyone in years that's a good thing, right?" Anne says.
"I guess but he should be fixing his problems not us, I mean don't get me wrong I don't mind helping everyone out but he needs to take responsibility for his own actions, and that was causing a hive mind to possess a thirteen-year-old girl for ten years, making many people suffer because he couldn't stand up to his dead dad." I say getting pissed.
"Woah where is this anger coming from?" Marcy asked.
"Aren't you mad at him for what he did to you?" I asked her.
"I mean yes but I'm not going to let it control me and my life." She explained to me and I sighed.
"I'm not letting it control me it just… makes me mad." I tell her.
"Well why?" Anne asked. I think of something but nothing came to mind.
"I don't know honestly." I tell them.
"Well, do you think it reminds you of your mother?" Marcy asked.
"Wh-What?" I chuckled and I look at her.
"Well think about it, your mom didn't try to fix herself or even try and fix all the damage she's caused you and your dad, she's done nothing at all and it makes you mad." Anne says as she lists a few things.
"And you seeing that happen to others just makes you upset about it." Marcy says.
"Yea but… Anne aren't you mad about that too?" I asked.
"Of course, I am but-."
"But nothing, Andrias hasn't done anything to help others, he just up and left and didn't do anything and… and… fuck him and he's just a worthless piece of shit." I mutter and clench my hands into fists.
"Woah Alex, I think you need keep a calm head before you find Andrias." Anne says and I look at her.
"Calm down? Look after what he did to Marcy, he deserves to have his head pounded in." I tell her.
"As much as I would like to hurt him, he hasn't done anything wrong for a few years." Marcy says and I look to her as well and I grip my hands into fists.
"But he-."
"I know, I know you're mad but please calm down." Anne says and I take a few breaths and sighed.
"I just… I hate him, the fact that he allowed what happened just… fuck him." I mutter.
"Are you really mad at what he did to Marcy?" Anne asked and I look to them.
"Of course, I'm mad at him for what he did to Marcy, you should be mad too, both of you should, why are you protecting him?" I asked getting pissed off.
"Did you ever wonder why he hasn't been around?" Marcy asked as she stopped and I look to her.
"He probably thought about how people hate him, maybe he just tried to not get in anyone's way?" Marcy asked and shake my head.
"No that's… he's a coward." I tell her.
"Did you ever think about how he felt? I mean he was trying to impress his father."
"Who is dead." I mutter.
"I know-."
"He hurt you for ten years, made a hive mind control you for ten years and did nothing." I tell her.
"LIKE YOU?!" She yelled and I glare at her.
"Woah hold on you two-."
"I TRIED TO HELP!" I yelled back.
"YOU FAILED TO HELP ME TOO, YOU WANT TO BELITTLE HIM BUT NOT YOURSELF!" She yelled.
"I FUCKING TRIED TO HELP YOU, I NEVER GAVE UP, I TRIED TO HELP EVERYONE HERE!" I yelled back at her.
"Oh, but you act as if you are the only one in pain, you're not, I've had nightmares too but I don't have a panic attack like you." She says and I glare at her.
"Wait you two need to calm down." Anne says.
"NO FUCK THIS!" I yelled at her and then looked back to Marcy.
"You have no idea what he's been through-."
"WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING HIM?!" I yelled.
"BECAUSE HE'S DEAD!" She yelled.
"Wait what?" Both Anne and I say and Marcy looks to me then to Anne.
"He's been dead for two years now." She says to us.
"And you couldn't tell us?" Anne asked and I look to Marcy as she looked down.
"Marcy?" I asked.
"I wanted to find out on my own on why it was happening, I just… he's been dead for two years I didn't say anything because I didn't want to remember him and all the bad that he's done." She explained and I shake my head a bit.
"How could you keep this from us? Especially from me?" I asked.
"I tried to figure out what was going on with you, I thought I could do it but." She stops and I rubbed my head a bit.
"You don't have to do things on your own but God damn it Marcy it would have been…. Informative." I say to her.
"I know, I know but you have to listen to me-."
"You should have said something at least, For frog sake it would have saved us some time at least." Anne says.
"I know, but how could I tell you? 'Oh, hey Andrias has been dead for a while now so maybe Alex might have finally snapped?' I just couldn't do it, and I just… I don't know." She says and I go up to her and hugged her gently.
"I just wanted to fix it." She tells me.
"I know but… look let's set up camp for right now, make it a little vacation." Anne suggests and I look to them and nod.
"Yeah, a small vacation." I say but Marcy doesn't look to happy and I pat her back a bit.
"Come on let's relax a bit." I say and we go take a seat by a lake and I help set up our tent. I finished up and Marcy had helped me a little bit and I smile at her just a little. When we finished up Anne had our lunch ready and we took a seat and ate the sandwiches.
"Look I'm really sorry-."
"Marcy it's fine, at least we got that over with." I tell her and she looked down a bit and I rubbed her back gently.
"Look I didn't know… I thought I could help fix it because if I could fix your problem maybe I could fix mine." She says and I look to her.
"What's going on with you?" I asked.
"I have had nightmares with the core, not as bad as yours but… they've talked to me too and I just didn't know if it was like when they talked to you." She says and I rubbed her back more.
"We need to find out what's going on but now knowing Andrias is dead… how are we going to fix this?" Anne asked.
"I would ask if you could talk to God Domino but that would be… a bad idea." I say.
"Well maybe I could… I'm not to sure." Anne says and I rubbed my head a bit.
"Look, let's check the other options before we think about that." Marcy says and I nod.
"Alright… did anyone else work on the core besides Andrias?" I asked and think about any books I've read.
"Maybe Oliva and Yunan know?" Marcy suggests.
"I didn't think about that." Anne says and I eat my sandwich.
"Yea but did they work on the core? Or did they only just know about the core after you were possessed?" I asked Marcy and she thinks.
"I don't think they'd have worked on the core if they felt bad for what had happened to me… but maybe they know where any of Andria's notes are." She suggests.
"Alright, well give them a call in a little bit." I say and she nods and we finished up our meals and I was helping Anne clean up.
"Hey Olivia, Yunan, how are you?" I hear and look to Marcy as she talked to the two newts and then I look Anne.
"Did you know about Marcy's nightmares being that bad?" I asked.
"No, she didn't say anything about this." Anne says and I sighed and I rubbed my head a bit and then put the plates away and I look to Marcy as she came over to us.
"Oliva is looking into Andrias's old study, she said we could come over in a few days." She tells us and I nod.
"Good now that gives us time to talk about what you said." I say and she looked to us.
"Wait, hold on-."
"Nope, you brought it up and now we are worried." Anne says and I nod.
"Wait I didn't-."
"Marcy if your nightmares are getting as bad as Alex's maybe you should talk about it." Anne says and we all take a seat.
"I did… ok I do have nightmares from time to time but I've learned to deal with them over time." She says and I look to her.
"It's not as bad as it was before." She says.
"Trust me bottling it up isn't going to make things better." I tell her and she looks at me. she then leans her head on Anne and sighed.
"My dreams aren't as bad anymore; they aren't like yours so I don't need to worry as much." She says and I look to her and I move to her and I give her a hug.
"Just because they aren't as bad as mine doesn't mean they shouldn't be talked about." I tell her and she sighed.
"Look I am sorry for yelling at you, I never should have done that, it was wrong of me, I should have talked to you in a calm manner." I tell her and she turned a bit to look at me and I smile at her. She then looked to Anne and I look at her as well and I let go of Marcy as she moved away and looked to the ground a bit.
"I just… it's my fault." She says and I look to her.
"I made us come here, just because I wanted to run away from my problems, and I dragged you two here." She says and I laughed at this. When I calmed down a bit, they were both looking at me and I sit up a bit and smiled.
"Marcy if you hadn't brought us here, I would have never met Grime." I tell her.
"And I would have never met the Planters." Anne says.
"I would have probably been way more depressed back home than here; I mean look at me." I say and point to myself.
"You think our world would be so accepting of me?" I asked.
"No but-."
"But nothing, I got a second dad that supports me, I have you and Anne, and maybe I have a small soft spot for the Planters." I say and Anne shoved me a bit and I look to her.
"You love your Nieces and nephew." She says and I nod.
"Very much so." I say and look to Marcy.
"And… maybe we can have a family of our own you know?" I asked and they both look at me.
"If you want, and no rush, I wouldn't mind adopting either." I tell them and we all laughed a bit.
"Can you imagine if we have a baby? I'm way to accident prone." Marcy says and I pull her to me.
"Don't worry, Anne and I are here to help, besides another little nerd isn't so bad, plus I think Olivia wouldn't mind being a grandma." I joke and they both shove me and I chuckled.
"Ok Alex seems to have baby fever." Anne says and I lay on my back and look at the stars.
"I think it would be nice to have a family though." Marcy says and I turn to look at them.
"We have time to think, I mean we are getting married." Anne says and I smiled and looked back to the stars.
"Speaking of which, we should plan the one back in our world, I know we're going to do something at the temple." I say to her.
"Oh, nothing really, just go I guess for a reception, I'll have to talk with the aunties." Anne says and I nod.
"You think they want a tape of the wedding?" Marcy asked.
"Oh definitely." She says and I chuckled and I look to both Anne and Marcy. They talked for a good while and I would look back to the stars here and there. I then close my eyes for a bit as I take a deep breath.
"Seems like someone is tired." I hear Anne say and I open my good eye and sit up.
"I'm not tired." I say and I look to them.
"Sure, sure." Marcy says.
"I'm not." I say and stand up.
"Hey we were just joking, sit down, relax." Anne says and I stretch a bit.
"It's so weird without the moon." Marcy says and we all look up.
"You'd think we would be in an eternal day light without it." Anne says.
"Though then again Hop-pop did question why we think our earth is round." Anne mutters and we laughed at this.
"Well, we were in space, and their planet is round, but yeah you would think it would always be day time without the moon." Marcy says and I look to the ground and then to them.
"Well, we can just enjoy the fact that we still have the stars and night, cause eternal day time seems like a nightmare at this point." I tell them.
"Oh yeah it would be hell if it was just day time." Marcy says and I place my hands on my hips as I look around a bit.
"Hey are you sure you're ok Alex?" Anne asked and I nod.
"Yeah just… I have no clue what to really do now." I tried to explain to them.
"The best we can do is wait for Olivia to find what she can for now." Marcy says and I nod and then sighed as I took a seat and look to the fire. We talked a bit on what we could do for our wedding and I place my hand to my face as I think and I look to them.
"You think we could incorporate like… Toad, Newt and Frog traditions? I mean they all aren't the same but we could find a way to include our amphibian families." I suggest.
"I didn't think about that fully, I remember sprig and Ivy's wedding." Anne says and I nod at this.
"I'll ask Grime, though in all my time here I never even saw Percy and Bradox's wedding, are they even married?" I asked out loud.
"Do toads even have weddings?" Anne asked.
"Oh they did, they use to be… how do I explain it." Marcy says and we look to her.
"They would wear their armor, or at least the guy toad would, if the girl toad wanted to wear her armor that was fine too, I think it's like a version of a courthouse wedding we have on earth." Marcy says and I chuckled.
"Geez that kind of sucks for my toad family." I joke and we laughed.
"Newts though, their weddings are like the royal weddings, so… many… things to remember, proper etiquette, speeches, can't wear certain colors, oh frog it's a lot." Marcy groaned and I pat her back.
"Heck the planters wedding is simple, it's like those weddings you see in the movies, simple." Anne says.
"Well, we can ask the others for their opinions?" I asked.
"You should talk to Grime, maybe he saw a wedding once." Anne jokes.
"Hey Hop-Pop is way older than him, ask him if he's seen a toad wedding." I joke and she gasps.
"He is not old." She says and we all laughed and I look back to the flames.
"Though I would like the Volcakeno, that stuff was good." I say.
"I don't think we could have the kids fighting giant hornets." Anne says.
"Yeah, you're right… I'll have it for my birthday than." I say and smiled then look to the others.
"Seems a lot harder to try and incorporate everything from our world and this world." Marcy says and I nod.
"Yeah, I mean, we want to try and have frog, newt, toad, and human traditions, it seems a bit much." Anne says and we sighed.
"We can just make it simple and have little things, maybe decorations and outfits, and the locations, I mean we suggested the beach in Newtopia, there's the place, the outfits I could wear my armor, Marcy could wear her ranger outfit." I joked to Marcy and she laughed and looked to me.
"Summer dress for the heat toad brute." She says and I chuckled.
"And I'd just wear my chest plate." Anne says.
"And one less shoe." Marcy jokes and I laughed as Anne turned red.
"I'm working on it; I just have to tie my shoes together whenever we get back." She says and I pat her back gently.
"It's ok Anne, we'll have something figured out." I say and she lays back on the ground.
"Careful Anne, the leaves are attracted to your hair." I joke and she groans.
"Don't remind me, you know how hard it was to get all the twigs out?" She asked and I pull said twig out of her hair.
"Oh, we know I remember a twig poking me in my bad eye a year ago." I say to her and she put her hands to her face.
"Frog if we do have a kid, I hope they don't get my curse of losing a shoe or getting leaves in their hair." She says and Marcy pats her leg.
"Or my clumsiness."
"Or my anger issues." I say quietly.
"Well, we know what to do and what not to do when taking care of a kid." Anne says and I chuckled.
"Yeah, it's still a scary thought though." Marcy says and I nod at this. A few days would pass us by as we just walked around Amphibia Marcy found some new plants to bring home though, Anne got to see Domino Two again who was currently following us.
"Such a cutie." She says.
"What about Mar-Mar?" I asked and pointed to said nerd as she was taking notes.
"Oh, Marcy is more than just cute." Anne says and I see Marcy turn really red as she still took her notes and I laughed and pet Domino Two who nuzzled the palm of my hand a bit.
"Still a dog person but hey Killer Moths are cool." I say and Anne laughed a bit. There was a ringing sound and we all look to see Marcy as she answers the video call.
"Hey Olivia, how's it going?" Marcy asked and Anne and I wave to said newt as she waved back.
"Hello Master Marcy, Master Alex, Lady Anne, everything is fine, how is your trip?" She asks us.
"We found Domino Two." Anne says as Marcy shows said moth on the screen.
"How fascinating, oh we found some notes on the core but sadly it seems like all the old information is just that, Andrias didn't write anything new down from what we could find." Lady Olivia says.
"It's fine, I think this trip has helped a bit, haven't had any nightmares." I say giving a thumbs up to her.
"That is good but it still bothers me that he didn't leave any notes from the new core design." She says and I wave it off.
"Oh Olivia, I have a question." Marcy says.
"And I may have an answer." She says and we chuckled.
"Well Anne, Alex and I were wondering about trying to bring the traditions of weddings from each amphibian we grew up with basically, what could we do with the Newt traditions?" She asked and we all took a seat and Domino Two lays with Anne who keeps petting her.
"Well, depends, it would be a royal wedding by our standards but if you want something simple, then maybe wear the proper Newtopian wedding dress, they are simple depending on the season, and maybe have a Newt officiate the wedding." She suggests.
"Seems like we could do that." Anne says.
"We still need to have Newtopian catering as well, same for the toads and frogs." Marcy says and I pet Domino Two a bit.
"Again, it's simple especially if you want it to be simple, we would never make you three do the whole wedding tradition, it takes hours." She says and we laughed a bit.
"I don't think Grime could handle all the mushy stuff." I joke.
"He played the harp for three hours though." Anne says.
"You know what, fair." I say and we look back to the screen.
"Is there anything else you three need?" She asked.
"Nope, but when we get back you and I will talk more about the wedding, we wanted to get everyone's opinion." Marcy says and we all nod.
"Alright, if I find anything new, I'll inform you." She says and we wave bye to her and she hangs up. We stayed out just a few more days but had to head back since Anne said she wasn't feeling so good so when we got back to Wartwood we took her to the Planters home where she laid on the couch and I rubbed her back gently.
"Well, we got a home remedy to help Anne." HopPop says and Anne nods and Marcy covers her with a blanket just in case.
"Think it was the food?" I asked.
"No, I'm fine and so are you." Marc says and I shrugged as Anne fell asleep.
"I should go find Grime; you ok with staying here?" I asked Marcy.
"Oh yeah, if anything happens, I can call you." She says and I nod as I kiss Anne on the head and she gently moves her hand to swat me away and I chuckled then kissed Marcy before I left. Grime was at his house and it looked like he was about to head out somewhere so I hurried up to him.
"Hey Grime." I say and he turns to wave at me.
"Good morning lieutenant, how are you?" He asked.
"I am doing well; I have a question to ask." I tell him.
"Sure, I'm about to head to toad tower so we can walk an talk." He says and I nod as we walked and chatted for a bit.
"Well, us toads haven't had a wedding for years." He says and I rubbed the back of my neck at this information.
"Percy and Bradox didn't even have a wedding, they just signed the papers and boom, they're married on paper." He says and I sighed a bit.
"Well, that's kind of sad for us." I say quietly and I look to the road ahead of us.
"I'm sorry Alex, toads haven't been as… emotional for a long time." He says and I look to him.
"Ever think you'll get with someone?" I asked as he took a seat on a log.
"And why would I do that?" He asked and I take a seat next to him.
"I mean… is it a bad thing?" I asked him.
"For a toad like me, yes." He says and I look at him a bit.
"I mean… I don't see it as a bad thing." I tell him.
"You humans." He says and I watch as he crosses his arms and looks away from me and I looked to the ground.
"Are you really ok with me being with Anne and Marcy?" I asked and he stayed silent for a bit and I look back to him as he looked to me.
"Of course, I am, they make you happy, correct?" He asked and I nodded.
"They help you; they support you; they worry for you and you do the same for them…" He says and stops talking and I look to the ground.
"I'm just going to miss all the adventures we have." He says and I look to him quickly.
"What are you talking about? I'd still go on adventures with you." I tell him.
"But you'll be starting a family soon, you'll have tadpoles of your own." He says and I chuckled at the fact he called human children tadpoles.
"Grime, I'll still be able to go on adventures with you, granted I'll be worried about my children while I'm gone but come on you big sap, don't tell me you wouldn't worry for your own kids…. You worried about me and I'm not even your kid." I say to him and he looks down then to me and I smile just a little.
"Granted you aren't mine but you are like a son to me… guess that's why I'm ok with what I have." He says and I look to the roads a bit as a few toads pass and we wave to them.
"Some days I might not be able to come on an adventure with you but just think about it… if I have kids you can help me train them like you trained with me, I think they'd love their toad grandpa." I say and shove him a bit. He laughed a lot and I chuckled at this.
"Speaking of which, I heard that people take their spouses last name, are you keeping Waybright?" He asked and I think a bit.
"Maybe, we haven' thought about it, if I want to be honest if I had to take any last name it would probably be Annes." I tell him.
"And that is?" He asked.
"Boonchuy, it means 'One who encourages or preforms good deeds' at least that's what her parents once told me." I tell him.
"What does your last name mean?" He asked and I think a bit and scratched the side of my head.
"Eh it roughly means battle, or war I think." I tell him.
"A fitting name for you lieutenant." He says and I chuckled and nodded.
"Yeah… but it would be nice for a change." I tell him and we look to each other.
"A change is good." He says and another group of toads pass us again.
"ALEX, GRIME!" We hear and I see Percy and Bradox running up to us and I smile and wave to them.
"Hey you two, been so long since we talked." I say and they nod.
"Oh, and Bradox and I were wondering Commander Grime if… you would… like to be our little tadpoles' grandfather? That is if you want of course." Percy asked and I cover my mouth a bit as Grime looked at them with shock.
"Duuuude." I say getting a little excited.
"I uh… what?" He asked.
"What are you deaf?" I asked and he looked to me.
"No, I heard them just fine." He says and crosses his arms and we laughed.
"Fine… but I will still treat them like any toad solider, no special treatment." He says and I chuckled.
"Oh, you might change your mind there grandpa." I say and shove him with my elbow.
"Lieutenant." He growls out and I lift my hands up a bit in surrender.
"Oh, looks like grandpa Grime is getting cranky." I joke.
"Just because you are busy planning your wedding, doesn't mean I won't make you do any extensive training." He says and I chuckle and so does he.
"So, when if your wedding Alex?" Bradox asked.
"We aren't too sure, we might be having the wedding on the beaches of Newtopia, we want try and bring some traditions from our respective found families weddings but it's kind of hard, I mean Anne and Marcy know how their family's weddings go but." I tried to say and sighed a bit.
"Well, whatever you have planned it'll go great, besides our weddings are just simple and quick thing because we were constantly going places." Percy says and I nod.
"But then we don't know what we're going to do in our world, we were thinking of just having a small little ceremony at the temple that Anne goes to… I mean the aunties are scary when they want to be and I don't think my mother-in-law would be too happy if we didn't at least have something small." I say and shiver then shake my head a bit.
"Small and Simple is all we can say, so if Grime is going to be a grandpa that would make you the tadpoles uncle." Percy says and I nod.
"I got experience being an uncle, Sprigs kids love me… for some reason… maybe it's cause I let them climb my head." I say and they all laugh. We talked for a bit and they had to leave and I look to Grime and I see a tear in his eyes.
"Aww is Grime showing emotions? It's ok big guy let it out." I joke and he looks to me.
"I'm a grandpa." He says and I look to him and I nod.
"Yep, you're a grandpa." I pat his shoulder. We talked a little longer and he gave me some ideas on what I could wear for the wedding to show some type of toad tradition and I nod at this information. I then head on back to the Planter home and saw Anne still sleeping on the couch and Marcy was doodling in her book so I take a seat next to her as she was rubbing Annes back.
"Hey." I whisper and Marcy looks to me.
"Hey, Anne is still a bit sick." She says and I nod and look to said woman.
"If she doesn't feel better soon, we might have to take her back to her parents… not saying that the Planters can't help her just um…" I stopped talking and just looked to the fireplace in front of me.
"I know, I get it, and I don't think the planters would be angry, they understand and want Anne healthy too." She tells me and I nod a bit at this.
"If Anne starts asking for pineapple on her pizza, we need to get her head checked." I joked and Marcy laughs a little.
"The world is ending by that point." She says and I chuckled and looked to Anne and I rubbed her back a bit and she shifts in her sleep. Marcy moved her hand away and I look to her then to her book.
"Whatcha drawing?" I asked.
"Some outfits for the wedding, Anne has an idea for her dress and I'm still trying to figure out what I would like." She explained and I nod.
"Did you find Grime?" She asked.
"Oh yeah, we talked for a bit, big old lug has emotions after all." I say.
"Oh, did something happen?" She asked.
"Well, toads don't really have traditions for weddings, but he gave me an idea how I can incorporate toad culture to ours, and then… Bradox and Percy asked him if he would be their little tadpoles grandpa." I tell her.
"Oooh that's so sweet." She says and I chuckled and nodded.
"And we… well he… Thinks I wouldn't spend any more time with him." I tell her.
"What? Why would he think that?" She asked as she looked to me.
"He thinks I would be spending more time with Anne and you, and if we had kids… I did tell him that there might be times where I have to put my family first but I'd still be wanting to go on adventures with him… plus our kids would be spending time with him too, I mean he is basically like my second dad." I tell her.
"Oh, poor guy, well he would have his hands full with all the grandkids he's going to have." She says and I chuckled and nod.
"Yeah… yeah." I sighed and I feel Anne shift again and I look to her as she looked to us a bit over her shoulder.
"Sorry did we wake you?" I asked and she shook her head.
"Stomach feeling, ok?" Marcy asked and Anne nods.
"Yeah, a little I think it was something I ate." She says and turns to look at us and I sighed.
"Good, didn't want you asking for pineapple on Pizza and having to rush you to your parents." I joke and she shoves me a bit and I chuckle.
"Ugh." She says and lays back down.
"Stomach?" I asked and she nods.
"Stupid mushroom probably." She mutters and we chuckled.
"Are you talking about the mushroom we told you not to eat but you said 'But for science' instead?" Marcy asked.
"…Maybe." She mutters.
"You actually ate it?" I asked.
"For science." She says and then groans again and I rubbed her stomach.
"Anne." Marcy says softly and I think.
"Hey made some soup, how you feeling Anne?" HopPop asked as he came in and set the bowl on the table.
"Stupid stomach." She mutters and I look to the old frog.
"She admitted to eating a strange mushroom." I tell him.
"Well lucky it wasn't a boomshroom." He says.
"That hurts thinking about it." Anne says and I smile at her.
"Well, you should have listened to Marcy and I." I say and she sighed.
"I'll be fine." She waves it off and I chuckled at this and kissed her head.
"Well have some soup, it'll help." HopPop says and Anne sits up and Marcy hands her the bowl and I look to HopPop.
"If you start to feel worse, I would say, go to Maggie or the Sundews." HopPop says and I nod.
"Actually, I can go and get some tea now, we are running a bit low at home anyway." Marcy says and I nod at this.
"Ok we will be here." Anne says as she eats some of the soup. Marcy gets up and kisses Anne on the head and then me on the cheek and she heads out and I look to Anne and she looked to the window a bit.
"Ugh, I hate being sick." She says and I chuckled.
"You'll be ok Anne." I say and she nods and finishes the food and I take the bowl from her as I get up and kissed her head then went to go and clean the bowl. Once I was done, I go back to the living room and see Anne had gone back to sleep and I take a seat on the floor next to her and I rubbed her back gently. It wasn't long till Marcy had come back and we decided to head home so I picked up Anne who was still sleeping and we tell the Planters we were heading back home and they say bye to us. We get to our house and I go lay Anne on the bed and I cover her up with the blanket. I head on down to the living room and I start up a fire and look to see Marcy heading up the stairs before she stops and then comes over to me and I watch as she takes a seat next to me.
"You good there Mar-Mar? you're not feeling sick too, are you?" I asked and she shakes her head and then leans her head on my shoulder and I look back to the flames as we just sit in silence.
"You know, we love you Alex…. And I am sorry that I didn't tell you or Anne about Andrias, I didn't think we would actually go looking for him." She says and I look to her as she kept looking at the flames.
"You don't need to apologize, I never really took the time to think he was gone, I mean how can you not see a big Newt walking around? I should have wondered." I tell her.
"He's in the woods, basically looks like a plant statue." She says and I look to the flames.
"He wasn't a bad guy, he just… had his problems." She tells me and I sighed.
"I know, I know he didn't help me when he could have, he had plenty of times where he could have stopped everything, but… he just wanted to do something good for his dad and the rest of the Core, to be… accepted by them." She tells me and I keep my eyes to the flames.
"I guess I kind of know how he feels, not to that extreme, I wanted my mom to accept me for me, but instead I just kept making myself unhappy to make her happy… even if she was a bitch, I thought my mom knew best… but then my dad would tell me I could be myself and I sometimes thought it was wrong, that he was wrong but… I was happy when me and him went out and he took me to play baseball, do guy things, it made me happy but… I felt like I was wrong." I tell her.
"He was really sorry." Marcy says and I look to her again.
"Before he passed, he told me he was so sorry for everything, if he could go back in time and fix everything he would." She tells me and I sigh a bit and looked to my hands in my lap as I clasped them together.
"Hmm, sorry for speaking ill of the dead." I tell her.
"It's ok… I should have spoke up sooner." She tells me.
"But it's fine Marcy, you were… dealing with his passing in your own way, I wish you had told Anne or me so we could be there for you, but I get it, you needed space." I tell her and then looked to the flames again and I twittled my calloused hands. I then feel Marcy grab my hand and we intertwined our fingers and I take a breath.
"If you want… maybe we could go… visit him and maybe… give him some flowers? I don't know." I mutter the last part and I sighed.
"I'd like that." She says and we look at the flames as the crackling sound of the flames were filling up the room. I look to Marcy a bit and see that she had fallen asleep and I roll my eyes a bit and I move a bit as I picked her up and took her to the bedroom and I lay her down on the bed and I get ready for bed as well. I laid down and looked to the ceiling and then closed my eyes for the night.