Chapter 7: big bros big responsibility
After a huge meal lovingly provided by ria loden looks at phil and alfred "ok so me and your mother thought you two should spend some more quality time with your baby brother" loden says swallowing another whole slice of pizza "me and your father are going out on another hunt" zenith adds, saying that he was the baby brother made alex blush and realise that he was going to be doing a lot of blushing "i am sure mary and alice will be thrilled" alfred says literally licking his plate clean "yea mary would like to meet alex" phil laying back in his seat.
Just as phil gets comfy the two women in question walk into the dining room a female grovyle and a female blaziken walk into the room holding handbags that seemed excessively large in alex's opinion, "philip dear don't lean your seat back you might fall" the blaziken says forcing phil to sit upright "mary darling don't do that" philip moans rolling his eyes causing alex to hold in a chuckle, "oh and this must be alex gosh you are much cuter in person" mary says going over to alex and pinching alex's cheek "please stop" alex whines wanting to slap himself for sounding childish, "oh i see what you mean mary" alice says flicking the massive green leaf she has for hair out of her eyes "he is a real cutie", "i am not CUTE i am DANGEROUS i am a DANGEROUS hunter" alex says folding his arms and at that moment both of the women he was talking to lifted him out of his seat and envelopes him in a hug "yea so dangerously cute" mary says nuzzling alex's face.
"Ok ok don't choke him" alfred says prying alex out from between the two women and letting alex rest against his chest "but yea you are right he is so cute he is a lethal weapon" phil adds as alex looks extremely uncomfortable, "well look at the time 9 o'clock guess it's baby bros bed time" alfred says looking at a clock on the wall "what?" alex says as mary and alice look disappointed "and that's why you are the responsible one" loden comments as alfred walks out of the room phil looking shocked.
"Yea our wives they can get a little crazy" alfred says rubbing the back of alex's head as he carries him towards alex's room "little crazy? Bitch almost ripped my damn cheek off" alex says and alfred slaps alex's rear "don't swear" alfred scolds alex glad the diaper provided some level of protection, "right here we are" alfred says walking into alex's room and laying alex on the changing table "right let's get you some pyjamas" alfred says going to a wardrobe, "um alfred why is there a changing table in my room by the way?" alex asks "well just in case you need to be changed duh" alfred says walking out and back to alex with a red onesie, "and in comes with the baby shit" alex thinks to himself as alfred stands in front of him "if you need to go now do it i ain't having baby pee on my hands" alfred says, "WHAT!" alex says in alarm "mother told me about your problem your injuries left you i am surprised you haven't been yet, maybe it has something to do with the painkillers" alfred says scratching his chin then putting a hand on alex's stomach where his bladder would be "hey don't do that" alex whines realising his bladder was more full than he realised, "ah that explains it the painkillers are blocking your ability to pee" alfred says wanting to punch the doctors for letting a patient go before knowing if they could go to the bathroom yet, "sorry bro this really has to happen" alfred says putting pressure on alex's stomach, "DON'T YOU DARE YOU MOTHERFUCKER!" alex yells kicking uselessly as the pressure gets too much and causing him to wet himself.
"Please don't cry" alfred says quickly changing alex and getting him in his pyjamas a simple onesie that made alex look like a charmander "DON'T CRY!?" alex cries out actually crying "YOU JUST FORCED ME TO USE A DIAPER YOU PILE OF SHED SKIN!", "did you seriously make him cry?" phil says walking into the room and picks up alex and holds the crying man to his fluffy chest "needed to be done phil the painkillers were blocking his bladder" alfred says looking a little guilty, alex just continues to cry nuzzling into phil's fur "aw did the big mean juggernaut make baby bro go potty without asking?" phil coos at alex whilst rubbing the back of alex's head which alex would have to admit was soothing, phil notices this working and walks over to alex's bed which now looked like a crib due to the bars being attached. "It's ok baby bro" phil said soothingly getting alex to let go and lay down in his crib "i am sorry alex" alfred says kneeling by alex and gives alex a little hug and hands alex his mareep toy smiling when alex takes it, "i-it's ok bro y-you d-did what you had to do" alex stutters and gets comfy in his bed because he was not going to call it a crib "well you had a long day sleep it off the painkillers should wear off by morning" alfred says tucking alex in and phil goes to a draw and brings something back in his hand, "baby bro could you close your eyes?" phil asks "why?" alex asks closing his eyes then feeling something small and rubbery in his mouth then opening his eyes to see a pacifier in his mouth.
Sighing alex gives up and falls asleep sucking on a pacifier and hugging his toy as phil and alfred back out of the room closing the door.
"Wow he looks like he really needed to sleep" phil says after closing the door "yea sync your phone with the monitor and let's go" alfred says quickly syncing up his phone to the baby monitor in alex's room and walking off keeping his phone on, phil sighs as he syncs his phone and goes to join his brother "remember when we first met him brother?" phil asks alfred "of course i felt so sorry for him" alfred says both brothers remembering.
14 years ago just after alex wakes up in the cave:
Alfred and phil look at the stranger that just woke up in their cave "mummy who is this boy?" alfred asks looking curious alex not knowing what was being said, "i found him in the forest i don't know where his mother or father is but i think there is a good reason" zenith says pondering, "what are you saying hun?" loden asks "i am saying maybe he was abused" zenith says as alex attempts to crawl away, "hey where are you going?" phil asks bouncing in front of alex making alex scream in fright and curl up "philip do not scare him" loden scold pulling phil away as zenith takes a closer look at alex's pocket, "hey i think there is something in here" zenith says pulling a piece of paper out of alex's pocket "what it say?" loden asks getting phil and alfred to sit on his lap, "it's a cypher i think" zenith says sitting down and reading the paper alex too scared to move "it's something called sign language" zenith says saying hello in sign and noticing alex looking curious at her, "hey i think it's working do more" loden says zenith looking at the sheet and moving her hands "what is your name" zenith signed "A-alex hikari j-just tell me what you want" alex says whimpering.
"We just want to help" zenith signs "if you want to help me just kill me" alex says looking down and starting to cry again and zenith turns to loden looking shocked, climbing out of their father's lap phil and alfred look at the cypher and simply sign 2 words "have hope" alex sees this and whimpers and hugs alfred and phil, "well i guess he is staying with us" loden says to zenith.
Present day:
Alex wakes up the next day and sits up in his crib and looks through the bars of his crib blushing when he realised he was in a crib and had a pacifier in his mouth alex spat it out onto his mattress and looked about, to alex's dismay alice was walking into his room rubbing the sleep out of her eyes "don't worry little guy aunty alice is here" alice says picking alex up "don't treat me like a baby" alex says wanting to look like he was hating it but he was secretly liking it, "oh shush" alice said yawning and putting alex's pacifier back into his mouth and laying him on the changing table "best we check if you need a change" alice says alex trying to kick alice away "nope nu uh not gonna happen"alex says whining as alfred walks in "how did i know this was going to happen?" alfred says and gets between alice and alex, "right so what is going on?" alfred asks alex "don't want to say" alex replies "so she was checking your diaper then" alfred says rolling his eyes "don't worry he is clean" alfred says picking up alex, "how would you know? He has only stayed 1 night" alice says putting her hands on her hips "i oh trust me i know" alfred says lightly bouncing alex and alex wanting to smash his face into a wall.
"Well i think alex is going to like what is going to happen today" alfred says as they make their way to the dining room "oh am i now?" alex says sarcastically "yes you will me and phil are taking you out and about for some fun" alfred says, with alex being confused he automatically thought his brother meant he was going to publicly baby him so he just sighs and buries his face in alfreds chest "and before you despair we are going to a pub and will be playing pool and do all the reckless stuff we did before" alfred says with a grin, at the mentioning of the reckless activity they did before alex began to be more hopeful "like mum and dad said we want you to enjoy yourself" alfred says as they make it to the dining room a massive breakfast being put on by ria, "ah master alfred, master alex and mistress alice a pleasure to see you oh and where is master philip" ria asks "asleep probably" alfred says "oooo can i wake him up" alex asks "yea lets go wake him up" alfred says standing alex on the ground, "you got it bro" alfred asks "yea i got it" alex says standing "come on phils room is this way" alfred says leading alex towards phil's room.
Timeskip to when alex finally manages to waddle to phil's room.
"Ok ok shhh his room is in here" alfred says handing alex a pillow "oh i am going to like this" alex says "shh ok ready?" alfred asks "ready" alex replies, "ok on 3" alfred says counting down "1 2 3"alfred says shoving the door open and charging like a bull to phil's bed and hitting phil with the pillow alex slowly waddling in behind him and smacking phil with his pillow both making phil wake up with a start, "WHAT WHAT OK OK I AM UP!" phil says in alarm blocking the pillows and sitting up mary also sitting up like this is normal "ug what time is it?" mary says looking at the alarm clock then sitting up "well i need to get to work" mary says before getting up, "well breakfast is downstairs if you need it" alex says sarcastically before waddling back towards the dinning room "is it me or is him walking more cute than imagined?" phil says before getting up himself and following with alfred.
"Well a start to a very weird day but i think i am going to like this, baby stuff or not" alex thought ready to begin a day with his brothers.
authors note: at some point yes a 2 parter i am evil