Disclaimer: Don't own. See chapter one for full disclaimer.

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"Okay, Jade, care to explain?" Tori asked, smirking at the goth.

"Sorry, what?" Jade asked back.

"This." The singer demanded, gesturing around. "This, this, this flagrant breaking of the rules." She exhaled, letting her frustration flow out for that moment. "How is it I go away for just a few minutes, to check on whats going on with school, and you go and forget the rules. Worse, you're corrupting my child….."

"Our child." Jade said, hugging the precocious four year old to her body. "You may have been the one to give birth, but she's half me, which means I have just as much right to mess her up as you do."

"Mommy, whats wrong?" Raquel asked. The girl had been named after one of Tori's favorite relatives, one of Holly's aunts, and Jade didn't really have much in the way of objections. At four, the girl now seemed to have been developing her own personality, somewhere between her parents. "Mama just gave me a cookie."

"Yes she did, baby." Tori comforted the baby. "Yes she did, and I don't blame you. You had no idea she wasn't supposed to give cookies this late, that it might interfere with your dinner. Mama just, she was supposed to know, be the adult…." Another sigh escaped her lips.

"And what if I did?" The pale woman challenged. They'd settled down after THE INCIDENT, the event that left most of their class from Hollywood Arts on the blacklist. Jade had found a job, using her personality to snag a job with a tech company, as a manager, and with her heading her group, got their product ready enough that the startup was bought out by a multinational. Jade was now a junior vice president, where she'd stay until she finished her MBA, at which time they'd move her to the position they were now grooming her for. However, that take no prisoners attitude, which the company hoped to use to make bucket loads of cash, didn't always translate well into child rearing.

"Jade, Raquel's a child, she can't know whats best for her." The singer turned teacher aid groaned. Tori was spending a great deal of her time at home, being a housewife. However, her daughter was in TK now, and that left her with time to kill. Time she'd been using to both help out in class, and plot how to get her busty wife to agree to another child, or three. Tori decided that, if she was going to be a mother and housewife, then she'd be a mother. 'Besides, the making of the kids can be fun, except we have to go the science way.' She had to will herself not to snort, only to almost gasp a moment later.

"Which is why I only get high protein, nutrient enhanced treats." Jade crowed. "And yea, I get how we have to be careful about Soy, cause she's still so young, so I made sure these use a mixed protein, as well as healthy everything. See, mama's on top of things. Hell, this could be dinner, if we served her enough…"

"NO!" Tori screeched. "I don't care of they're healthy. Hell, they can be the most healthy thing in this house, we still teach out children good eating habits."

"But we were getting away with this." Jade tried. "I made sure we were healthy so we could get away with the snacking before dinner. It's not like we're expecting that great a dinner, cause Inside-Out, right?"

Tori sighed. "I'm cooking dinner." The Latina groaned. "I'm cooking dinner, and now it's ruined, cause my wife couldn't be bothered to teach out child to wait."

"Wait, you're cooking?" Jade wondered. "I thought you were too busy. Raising our kid, plus helping Dre and Cat and Beck and Robbie…. Who works for me, and doesn't need any chizzing help, so I guess you don't have to help him."

"I was trying to set him up with this young auntie I met in class." Tori shook her head. "Rob's needed someone ever since Cat hooked up with that musician…"

"YOUR Best friend." Jade corrected. "And Dre has another job, so…"

"Dre works for Maestro's, playing piano, as well as playing at a few other venues." Tori groaned. "And yea, he's my best friend, but I try not to hold that against him when I talk about Cat choosing him instead of Robbie. I mean, I thought she liked nerds..."

"Yea, but Andre can be a nerd too." Jade argued, trying to hide her smirk. "He's just a musical nerd."

"Mommy, what does distract mean?" Raquel asked, her eyes full of innocence and curiosity.

"Trick." Tori said. "Why do you ask?"

"Mama said if you got angry, she'd distract you." The little girl explained.

Jade was quick. "In my defense, you distracted yourself." The blue eyed girl smiled an innocent smile, one Tori knew too well.

"Still, we have to respect the sanctity of dinner." Tori pushed. "Mama didn't have that, cause her mother taught her to graze, eat when and what she could, while my family taught us that eating together is a bonding experience, helping us remember that we love one another." She caught her wife's eyes. "It's how I came to tolerate Trina."

"I KNEW IT!" Jade exclaimed. "I KNEW THERE WAS A TRICK! YOU! YOU KNEW THIS WOULD…." Her rant ended with a pause, as she realized this wasn't going the way she wanted. "Sorry, I forgot, that's one of the things I love about your family…"

"So no more cookies before dinner?" Tori asked.

"Yea, we'll save 'em to see if we need them for after dinner." Jade didn't mean it to be insulting, so imagine her surprise when her wife didn't flinch.

"I've also been studding cooking." Tori told her bride. "Wait until you taste what I've created."

Jade sighed, herding their child into the kitchen. As she helped the girl into her seat, she whispered "Let Mama taste it first, just to make sure…."

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Thought you could use some cute.