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Hero jumped, woken up by the tiny hand on her shoulder. The kid was sitting next to her on the big bed.
"Mommy, mommy, Lenny stole my teddy!" Thea signed.
"Thea, honey, you don't have a teddy, you have a bunny," the Greek rubbed her eyes after saying it.
"I have now."
"Did your daddy gift it to you?"
"No."
"Your baba?"
"No."
"...is it Lenny's teddy?"
"Maybe."
She sighed:
"Honey, that's his teddy, you can't have it."
The little kid frowned.
"Thea, honey, come to bed, let's sleep."
The Greek reached for her daughter, hugged her, and covered the two with a blanket. Thea grabbed her hair, signed "soft", and closed her eyes.
Hero was almost asleep when someone jumped near her on the bed.
"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" Lennox yelled.
The woman sat up, rubbing her eyes:
"What is it, Lenny?"
"Asleep, mommy?"
"No. What do you want, honey?"
"Am vewy bowed."
"I'm sleepy, Lenny, we can't play."
"Aw... Can Thea play?"
The woman looked at the asleep girl:
"No, honey, she is sleeping."
"But... Am bowed."
"Where are your dads?"
"Don't know." He started jumping up and down on the bed.
The Greek sighed and took him in his arms:
"Let's find your dads."
She put him on his hip and kissed his cheek. With her free arm she wrapped the other kid properly and put some pillows near her so she doesn't accidentally fall. Then the Greek took a green veil from her nightstand, put it on her head, and wrapped it over one of her shoulders.
In the garden, Cassaras was digging a hole, while Hagen was sitting near him and giving him ideas.
"If you know so much, do it yourself fu—!"
"There are your dads!" Hero exclaimed loud enough to silence the curse word.
The boy started jumping, so she let him down. The kid ran up to Cassaras and, when he dad was about to pick him up, Lennox jumped into the muddy hole. His pyjamas needed a desperate wash now. The prince sighed, pulled him out, and picked him up, against his own muddy work clothes.
"No! Hole!" Lennox complained.
"Those are sleeping clothes. Absolutely no." His daddy told him.
The boy looked at the other man who shook his head too. Hero finally reached them. She kissed the teacher first and then the prince.
"Ew!" The boy cried.
His baba pinched his cheek:
"Cutie."
"What are you two doing?" The Greek turned to the men.
"We were planning to plant a tree."
"We?" Cassaras shook his head. "He has been sitting and telling me what to do, he hasn't touched anything."
"This might be the case too." The teacher shrugged. "But I believe my tips to have been useful."
"They were annoying."
"But were they useful? They were."
Cassaras sighed:
"Sure."
The prince put down his tools:
"How did you sleep, Hero?"
"Good."
"Have pwetty bwaids." Lennox announced as loud as he could. His tiny hand wrapped one braid to show it off. "Have beads and puffy ends."
"Yes, they are very beautiful, son." Hagen agreed and caressed his head.
"Daddy, have pwetty bwaids."
"I know, Lennox, they suit you a lot." Cassaras replied.
"Mommy, have pwetty bwaids."
"I know, honey, you are very handsome. Do you have to tell everyone?"
"Yes."
She sighed and kissed the kid's forhead.
"Okay, boys, I'll go, Thea is alone. Make sure to make Lennox take a bath."
The woman went back in the house. The teacher picked the tree from nearby, put in the hole and buried it's root with the soil.
"You two get a bath, I'm gonna see what I can make for breakfast." He said.
Making Lennox take a bath was a quest on its own. The man filled the kids' bath (a huge metal one that they hung on the wall, when it was out of use) with a warm water. He looked for his son, only to find him hiding near the bathroom closet. When he reached for the kid, it started running around the bathroom. After five very long minutes, Cassaras finally gave up and, of course, Lennox decided with his own will to get into the bath. He took a rubber duck and started playing with it. The prince sighed and started washing the boy's hair.
"Want pwetty smelling thing." His son said.
"The good smelling." Cassaras corrected him, while washing his hair with a kids shampoo.
Lennox started explaining something about the duck kingdom from which his rubber duck was. The prince took this opportunity to wash his ears without getting complaints. Then he applied coconut oil on the boy's braids.
"Smells yummy. Have a bite?" The kid asked.
"No, it is for hair. I'm going to wash your hair for the final time and you have to say bye to the duck."
"Why?"
"Because papa is making a yummy breakfast."
"Can have a yummy bweakfast now."
"No."
"Okay. Bye, duck." Lennox threw the toy outside of the bath.
The prince washed off the braids, took the kid out of the bath, wrapped it in a towel, and picked up the toy. Lennox tried to get in the bath again. Cassaras picked him up and put him away. Then, as fast as he could, he poured out the water, washed the bath, and took Lennox in the kids room to dress him up.
"Want a tuwtle t-shiwt." The son demanded.
"Fine."
His father put on the blue t-shirt, green pants, and a pair of socks.
Hero went back into her bedroom only to see Thea spread out on the giant bed taking it only for herself. The woman put her veil down on a chair and sat next to the kid. She shook her daughter's shoulder lightly.
"What?" The kid signed, opening her deep blue eyes.
"Honey, it's time to get up."
"No. Like big bed."
"Don't you want to have breakfast?"
"Bweakfast!" The kid sat up and raised her hands. "Up!"
"Please?"
"Up, please!"
The Greek picked up her daughter and kissed her forehead. The kid tried to kiss her on the cheek but, since she still hadn't figured how exactly this is done yet, it was more like her hitting her teeth against her mom's face.
"Go take teddy?" Thea asked.
"No, it is Lenny's. You can have your bunny."
The kid frowned but didn't complain. Instead she leaned against her mother and waited to be carried.
Hero sat down in the kitchen chair. Thea tried to sleep against her mother's chest when she sat her down in her lap to have her eat. Hagen put in the girl's plate a french toast and placed a jam near them:
"Do you want me to feed her, Hero?"
The woman shook her head. Thea pulled her head away from her mother for a second. She noticed the food and happily signed:
"Bwead!"
Then she took the slice and started happily munching on it. Hero hurried to tie as much as she could her short hair. The teacher gave his partner a toast with jam on it.
"Thank you, love." She replied.
Cassaras brought Lennox and sat him in one of the kid's feeding chairs. Hagen gave him a slice too.
"Noo! Has a peel." His son cried out.
"It has no peel, it's just fried."
"Oh..." The boy took a bite. "Tastes like bwead. Don't like it."
The teacher sighed, opened the fridge, and looked around. Then he pulled out two apples, washed them, peeled them, cut them and gave them to Lennox. The boy ate them all up:
"Wanna play."
Cassaras lifted him, washed his hands, and put him down. The boy ran out of the room.
"Wanna play too!" Thea decided.
"But you have some more bread." Her mom told her.
The kid looked at the bread. Then at the door. And then made a tough decision:
"Play."
Hero stood up and washed her daughter's hands and let her find Lennox. When the kids were away, Hagen made himself some cereal and sat next to his partners.
"And then you complain Lennox doesn't eat bread." Hero shook her head.
"I find bread disgusting, okay? If I wanted to eat something like this.... thing, I would just eat a sponge."
"At least you can be sure Lennox wasn't swapped in the hospital for someone else's baby."
Hagen hummed. The three continued eating their breakfast.
"I'm glad at least we're done with the kids." Cassaras noted.
"Absolutely. Two years of searching for a clinic that offers IVF for us to have twins with different biological fathers and so many unsuccessful trials, only for the kids to cry for half an hour, cause they share a birthday."
"At least it is over."
The two nodded. They turned to their girlfriend who hadn't said anything so far.
"Right, Hero?" Cassaras asked.
She swallowed her bite and, to their horror, replied:
"I want a third."