December
13, 2003
“Bliss Sweetheart,
you get out of that!” I scolded as I watched the toddler opening one of my cabinets.
Then went back to working with the children that were working on their school
work. Seeing that they were almost finished I told them they could go ahead and
go play. Elliot was the first one up, he flew past me as fast as he could, he
came back in fifteen minutes later, dressed in his bathing suite, telling me
that he was going to go swimming.
“Son, its to cold and there’s snow on the ground,” He nodded as I
headed back to tending to his younger siblings, about ten or fifteen minute
later I heard someone shutting the door heading outside. Putting Rei down, I
headed out to see who it was. My eyes about popped out of my head!, As I opened the door,
“ELLIOT IXAVIOR! YOU
GET IN HERE NOW!” I called as I headed out to get him.
“Are you crazy!?” I
asked scolding him at the same time, “Did you not hear what I told you a little
while ago!” He nodded.
“Then why are you
doing it?”
“I want to swim!
They do in the story that Tanni was telling me.”
“Well that my son is
just a story, you do NOT swim in the middle of the winter.” He nodded as his
head went down, and his eyes went up.
“Don’t think that
those eyes are going to save you this time. You could have gotten hurt, or
could have gotten sick.” I scolded a little more taking him to his room.
His eyes went wide
as I turned him over my knee; I wanted this one lesson to sink in. Quickly his
hands went behind him, holding onto the legs of his swimming suite as he
protested.
“Elliot Ixavior, move them.” He shook his head, knowing what was
happening. He held on tight so that I couldn’t pry his hands off without
hurting him, having enough of it, I gave each leg a good smack. That made him
let go. As he yelped.
“The next time I
tell you to move your hands you better.” I told him as I started the real
punishment.
“Mamma, Miss Ursa’s
here!” I wondered what she was doing here, already.
“What can I do for
you?” I asked as I lead her to the kitchen where I was still feeding infants,
she took a bowl and spoon and started herself.
“I better warn you, Chace likes to get everything wear what your trying to feed
him.” She nodded not taking the warning. She seemed so natural at tending to
him.
“I know that the
infants can’t be the only reason that you came by” She shook her head,
“I see wanting to
get away from the males for a bit?”
“Something like that.” Ursa answered,
“I can understand
that, being the only girl in the entire place, has to be hard.” I told her as I
was giving Scarlet her meal.
“It can be.” was her answer as she pulled Bliss into her lap. I
could see she was loving the presence of the little
ones. She looked up and told me that
someone was coming down the hall, sure enough Elliot
poked his head around the corner.
“I sorry Mamma, I be
good now.” I smiled as I headed over to him.
“You promise you
won’t pull such a stunt again?” He nodded as I picked him up.
“Alright then you
can stay out here.” He beamed as I set him on my lap, he sat there for a little
while, we all did for a few. Before I told her that I
could bring some tea to the living room if she would like to go in there, that
we didn’t need to stay in here, as I set the last of the babies on the floor,
and told Elliot to go play.
“You leave little
ones alone like that?”
“In this place it’s
safe. It’s made to hold even the strongest Barbic.”
“Would you like to
see the place, Buddi found it be when he was here.”
“I heard.” I showed
her the entire place.
“I know its one big
playhouse, that’s what I had in mind when I built it,
I wanted the children to have the biggest playhouse they could.” She nodded. As
we went and sat down in the living room as we relaxed, I noticed seeing a
little head poking out I sat up a little more to see if I could see who it was.
I couldn’t until she walked over to me.
“It’s alright Cy,” I
called out to her as she showed herself more.
“Ursa you remember I
have a set of triplets now right?”
“How could I not, I
helped fight the humans that put them through that nightmare.” I nodded in
agreement, as I pulled the child into my lap holding her for a moment before
she looked at me, and climbed down. I watched as she walked over to Ursa and
climb into her lap and lay her head on her. Cyanne
whispered something to the Barbic Leader in Barbic. I didn’t even ask as I
watched the two.
Once she had taken
off running Ursa and I started talking again.
Ursa looked down to
see who was tugging on her.
“What do you want?”
She asked my almost one year old son. In response he raised his arms asking her to hold him. She complied putting the child
in her lap. I excused myself to go checking on the rest of my children. When I
came back Ursa told me that she wanted to take Chace
with her for a few days.
“How
longs a few days?”
“The
week.” I looked at Chace content in the Barbic’s arms. I knew he would be in
good hands anyways.
“Alright, a week it
is.” I told her then went to get him a bag together.