Subject: [OTL]: [Some X-People] Adventures in Parenting...
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:52:43 EDT
From: Trumpetlee@aol.com

Honestly, I don't know where this came from. It just.... popped into my
brain. I hope you all like this.
Disclaimer: Bobby, Pete, Domino, Rogue and Tyler are Marvel's. Darien,
Ebony, Nikki and Grace are mine. No money made.

Adventures in Parenting
Lee Tybird

        "Darien, it ain't poison, why won't ya just eat the bloody applesauce?"
        One-year-old Darien Wisdom sat in front of his father, Pete Wisdom,
with his mouth shut. He wasn't going to eat the yellow-brown gunk they called
food. He shook his head and said one of the only things he knew how to. "No."
        Pete sighed and slumped back in his chair.
        From next to him, Rogue Lebeau looked over from feeding her own
one-year-old, Grace. "Having problems, Shugah?"
        "Is it that bloody obvious?" Pete leaned forward to Darien. "If ya
don't eat, I ain't givin' you no piggy-back later."
        From the other side of Rogue, a snicker arose. "Piggy-back?" cackled
Bobby Drake, who was feeding his own twin girls, Nikki and Ebony.
        "Shut it, Ice Pop," Pete snapped. "Can'tcha see I'm tryin ta perform
an act o' blackmail?"
        From Pete's other side, Domino sat struggling to get the pacifier out
of her son Tyler's mouth. "Tyler, gimme the pacifier, now."
        "Uh-uh," Tyler replied through his pacifier with a shake of his head.
        "I'm not the only one with problems," Pete muttered to the other two.
He then noticed that his son was staring at Tyler with his mouth open. Pete
took this as an opportunity to feed Darien. He took it, sticking the small
spoon in Darien's mouth.
        Realizing this, Darien turned back to his father, and spit it out all
over Pete's face.
        Rogue, Bobby and Domino all began to laugh at him.
        "Think that's funny, eh?" said Pete. "I'll show you funny." He took
another spoonful of the applesauce and flung it. It hit Rogue right on her
forehead.
        Pete, Domino and Bobby laughed this time.
        Rogue turned bright red and took a spoonful of strained peas. She
meant for it to hit Pete, but it instead got Domino on the sleeve.
        Domino glared. "This means war," she growled. She took a spoonful of
the strained carrots sitting in front of her and catapulted it Rogue's way.
It instead hit Bobby in the forehead.
        This went on for some time. The parents had a babyfood fight, and
the children sat laughing and shrieking. Tyler still held on to his pacifier,
Darien clapped, and Nikki and Ebony smashed food that had gone their way in
each other's faces. Grace just giggled as the parents flung food, and shoved
it down each other's pants.
        At the end of the food fight, the parents all sat down in their
original places. Darien began to play with the food on Pete's face. When he
was done, he licked his fingers and said "piggy-back?"
        Nikki and Ebony both smiled triumphantly at their father.
        Bobby sighed. "My kids look like Picassos."
        Rogue looked at Grace, who was playing with the food on the miniature
table in front of her. "Play?" she asked.
        Tyler finally took his pacifier out of his mouth, and said to Domino,
"Bad Mommy." He took some carrots from in front of him and smashed them in
his mother's pale face.