Vash and Knives Baby Book Ch.4

Being Babysat

“Ow, ow, ow! Knives…come on now…OUCH! Please stop pulling my hair…and give me back my glasses” Rowan was at the mercy of the oldest of Rem’s adopted sons. Rem and Joey needed to run through a few things with the next path the ships were going to take, so he and Mary were taking care of the boys. Mary had a way with children; she adored kids saying it reminded her of her baby sister who was currently in cold sleep with the others. When the two boys came along at first she was a little scared of the boys like everyone else on the ship not including Rem and Joey. But she warmed up to the boys quick and could almost be called there aunt by the way she fawned over them. Right now she was on the opposite end of Rem’s room playing with little Vash. Vash had started crying when he lost sight of Rem; but he got over it after a couple of minutes when Mary had started bouncing him on her knee. Knives on the other hand was a different story; Knives wasn’t as attached to Rem as Vash was so he didn’t cry when she left. However when he had gone to pick up Knives butterfly teething ring; the boy found it funny to jump on top of his back as if playing horsey, before Rowan knew it Knives had grabbed his glasses in one hand and a hand full of his black hair in the other.

Rowan liked the boys really; it gave him a chance at getting better at caring for children, when they got to the new world he was hoping he and Mary could Marry and start a family. Much as he loved the two twins; he hoped that weather he had sons or daughters with Mary, that none of them were rough housing troublemakers like Knives. “Who’s a good little boy?” Mary coed tickling the squealing boy “You are such a cutie!” she said rubbing her nose on Vash’s, Vash took this moment to snatch Mary’s glasses and put them over his own eyes. The younger twin had turned his head to look and Rowan and his brother; from here Rowan could see that the glasses made the boys green eyes even bigger then they already were, they also gave Vash a sort of smart look to him, what Steve would call a “Computer Geek” look which was what that man always called him. Rowan glared at the floor; if that man didn’t stop groping Mary he would have to take more drastic measures to make him stop. Rowan was torn out is his thoughts along with some of his hair; he looked over his shoulder to peek at Knives, the boy looked like he was having the time of his life, with a few strands of hair clutched in his tiny fist.

“Hey Mary…how about some help? Knives is an active one” Rowan said as the blue eyed boy began bouncing on his back.

“Oh Rowan he’s only playing” Mary said standing up and holding Vash close her chest “He wants you crawl around, don’t tell me your parents never let you ride on their backs” Mary said stroking Vash’s hair.

“Yeah…but what does that have to do with him stealing my glasses?” Rowan asked good naturedly as he looked at Vash who was still wearing Mary’s glasses.

“Babies grab anything that they are curious about; my baby sister use to love grabbing my glasses, that’s why I wear glasses that are harder to break” Mary said taking the glasses off of Vash, then demonstrated their strength best she could while holding Vash by trying to pop the lens out. A task that could be done easily by anyone with any pair of glasses, but her glasses stayed strong and the frames even bended with the pressure her hands were putting on them. “I’m going to go get the boys lunches ready, you can try and wear out Knives until then before we put them down for a nap okay?” she asked smiling, he just nodded and then brown haired woman went into the kitchen. They would have gone to the cafeteria or Recreation Room to feed them like Rem liked to do; however Rem said that the boys had recently been crawling all over the place as quick speeds, so she wanted them to stay in her and the boys room until she got back. Rowan winced when Knives started bouncing on him again.

“Alright! Alright you win Knives just stop doing that” Rowan begged the boy and began crawling around the room hoping this would make the boy stop. However this just railed Knives up more and the boy dug the heels of his chubby feet into Rowan’s sides, like a cowboy trying to get his horse to gallop. Rowan sucked in a breath and winced at the force that was delivered to his sides. Along with growing fast it seemed the boys had a lot of strength in them as well; that eased a worry he had had for a while concerning Steve. That man was so scared of the boys that Rowan was worried the guy might try to hurt them in the future. At this discovery he hoped the boys would be able to defend themselves if that ever came about. “Come on now Knives…haven’t you abused me enough for one day?” Rowan asked smiling at the boy. The boys blue eyes grew wide before he gave one last hard bounce that sent Rowan to the floor. Laughing Knives got off the poor man and crawled off into the kitchen; Sighing Rowan picked himself off the floor and walked into the kitchen. Mary was cooing at little Vash who was in his high chair as she was fixing lunch; then she saw Knives crawling in looking like the picture of innocence despite beating up on a man three his age.

“Aw! Hello Knives, did you miss your baby brother?” Mary cooed picking the baby up who again reached to steal her glasses “Not this time you little sneak” Mary said good naturally and took her glasses off so the boy couldn’t take them. Knives huffed and tried to reach the counter that had the glasses on it; Mary laughed and put Knives in his highchair next to Vash, the two began one of their baby babble conversations as Mary looked around before turning to Rowan. “Rowan I forgot to get the boys bibs, could you set their bowels and bottles on the trays while I go get them?”

“Sure Mary” the young woman exited the room leaving Rowan with the two twins. He picked up the trays of strained carrots and mashed potatoes and put them in front of the boys; Rem had asked them to give the boys mash potatoes since she was trying to get them to eat solid little by little, they were starting to grow in their baby teeth. When he turned to get the two bottles left on the counter he regretted it; the boys quickly flung their food at him, he turned to them “Now you boys, it’s not nice to throw things at people” he was beginning to lose his patience a little, when it came to stop people he had a very long rope when it came to patience, but these boys were pushing him to the last few inches, Knives unparticular. Both boys just tilted their heads to the side before licking the food off their hands; sighing Rowan wiped as much food off him as he could before handing the boys their bottles, Knives quickly took his and squirted milk at Rowan. Glaring at the boy he wiped the milk off his glasses just as Mary walked in carrying the bibs.

“Um…Rowan why do you have food and milk all over you?” she asked walking over to Vash and tying on the bib that had a red trim and had a picture of a little bird on it.

“The boys still wanted to play” Rowan said trying to maintain his patience; Mary finished tying on Knives bib which was all white with the picture of a tree on it.

“Well their going to have to wait; they have to go down for a nap a little after they finish eating” Mary said getting the baby spoons out and handing one to Rowan “Why don’t you feed Vash since Knives likes bulling you” Mary joked had sat down at the table and started to feed Knives who didn’t put up a fight and quietly ate his lunch. Rowan turned to the younger of the twins and spooned up some mashed potato and lifted it up to Vash’s mouth. The boy crinkled his nose at the food and turned his head away.

“Come on now you have to eat Vash” Rowan said trying again; Mary looked up from feeding Knives.

“Try pretending it’s an air plane and maybe he’ll eat it” Mary said demonstrating what she meant by making engine sounds and zooming the spoon around that was full of strained carrots. She brought it to Knives mouth which he ate once again without a fight “See just like that, now you try” Rowan was ready to try anything so he decided to give it a try.

“Here comes the plane Vash” Rowan said zooming the spoon around as he made engine sounds; Vash’s eyes widened and his green eyes followed the path of the spoon and his mouth opened “The planes coming in for landing” just as he went to put the spoon in Vash’s mouth the boy laughed and shoved the spoon right into Rowan mouth. Rowan blinked but was grateful that Rem had taken the boys off most of the nasty tasting baby food she use to feed them, and that the spoon wasn’t filled with strained carrots since he was allergic to carrots. The shock on Rowan’s face was enough to send both boys into fits of laughter and Mary into a fit of giggles. Rowan sighed and wondered when this was going to end.

An Hour and a Half Later

“Thank you again for watching the boys” Rem said who looked in the darkened room, in the large crib laid sleeping Vash and Knives.

“It was no trouble at all” Mary said turning to Rowan “Right?”

“Oh yes no trouble at all we were happy to help”

“Well, then maybe I’ll ask you two to watch the boys more often” Rem said.

“Yes, maybe you will” Rowan said hoping the feeling of worry didn’t sound through his voice.

“Well better go, don’t want all our talking to wake them…and I need to make something for myself to eat” Rem said, saying good bye for one last time Rowan and Mary began to walk to their own rooms.

“That was fun wasn’t it Rowan?”

“It was alright I guess” Rowan said fixing his glasses.

“You would make a good father you know that Rowan?” Mary said smiling.

“Really you think so?” Rowan asked hoping Mary wouldn’t notice he was blushing.

“I hope if I ever become a mother…my children will be just like Vash and Knives, perfect little angels” Mary said as she got to her door and pushing the button to open the door. “I’ll see you at dinner with Rem later?”

“What…oh yes of course!” Rowan said snapping out of his stupor; smiling Mary enter her room and the door slid shut, what Mary said went through his mind.

“I hope if I ever become a mother…my children will be just like Vash and Knives, perfect little angels”

Rowan looked at the ceiling with a pained look on his face before groaning.