Room 502/4/6, Monday evening

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia and Bailey were dancing around the room like crazy to the CD they'd gotten at Empire. Bailey was dancing because she had a boyfriend now and was going to be an empress-spy-vampire hunter when she grew up. Nadia was dancing because if she kept dancing, Bailey would keep dancing, and maybe the girl would get tired out and go to sleep already.

And then? Stealth bath time.

Being a parent was hard.

[ooc: Music is loud, and door is open!]

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter stood in the doorway to watch his girls dancing, not bothering to hide his grin.

Somewhere, somewhen, he was a lucky guy, wasn't he?

[daddysmessygirl.livejournal.com]

Bailey spotted him, and the next thing anyone might know, she was wrapped around his leg. "Daddy! Guess what?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter was coming to the conclusion he was just going to have to write off his clothes while his little girl was around.

He tried to untangle her from his leg to pick her up. "What?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia didn't even try to hide her wicked smile as she waited to see Walter's reaction to Bailey's news.

[daddysmessygirl.livejournal.com]

"I have a boyfriend, Daddy!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"You what?"

Walter looked to Nadia for confirmation and groaned when he saw her smile.

[daddysmessygirl.livejournal.com]

"His name is Orden and he's Mr. Chad's son an' he helped me pick a CD for Mama, and then he kissed me and said that I could be an empress and we're going to fight vampires!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Right. Walter was going to be one of those fathers.

Or maybe it was just that she'd said it was Chad's son, and Chad really wasn't Walter's favorite person when it came to the females in his life.

"You know what you're supposed to do to boys who kiss you?" Walter said in a confidential tone. He then went on to describe something that neither Chad nor Orden would likely thank him for teaching Bailey.

"And that's until you're at least... thirty."

Double-standard? Hell yes.

[daddysmessygirl.livejournal.com]

Bailey listened very carefully to Walter's instructions. "But . . . Daddy, that's mean."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia laughed quietly. "I'll have you know, Orden was very sweet to Bailey, today."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Daddy's a mean guy, you must know that by now," Walter said, finding a clean spot on Bailey's cheek to give her a kiss.

He looked up to Nadia and gave her a look that was mostly amused. "He'd better. I'm not sure which of us would be more of a problem if he wasn't."

Come to think of it, Bailey would probably be it. Nadia and Walter couldn't very well beat up a kid, could they?

[blanking-kids.livejournal.com]

A small blonde girl ran into the room and started bouncing off the walls. "Auntie Nadia! Auntie Nadia! I heard you on the radio last night!"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia made an attempt to catch the blonde girl. "Hi! . . . Let's play a game where I pretend to have no idea who you are, okay?"

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Marcie," said a tired voice from the door. "Please remember that Aunt Nadia's memory is a little fuzzy from all the times she had a concussion."

Marty gave Nadia smirk as he came in the door. "She and Graham wanted to say hello."

[nadiathesaint]

"You're funny, Marty," Nadia grumbled. "Hey, Bailey, come say hi to your uncle Marty!"

[daddysmessygirl.livejournal.com]

"Uncle Marty!" cried the muddy little girl. And she ran very quickly over to give Marty a very muddy hug.

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Hi Bailey," Marty said returning the hug with a glare at Nadia. "How are you doing today?"

Then again a day with his kids had already made his suit sticky so...

[daddysmessygirl.livejournal.com]

"I have a boyfriend an' I'm going to be the empress of a space empire!"

[blanking-kids.livejournal.com]

"Is it a space empire of mud planets?" Graham said rolling his eyes. "Geez B. Do you ever take a bath?"

[daddysmessygirl.livejournal.com]

"I take plenty of baths," Bailey said, assuming her carefully pronounced "adult" voice. "This is pro-tec-tive cov-ering. To keep stupid boys away."

[nadiathesaint]

"Well, that's a new explanation," Nadia muttered, before turning to Marty. "How are you holding up? And I'll have you know, I haven't had a concussion in months."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Yes but they don't know that," Marty replied. "They only know the future you and keep talking about a glass coffee table. I'm glad I have the day off from classes because I'm freaking exhausted!"

[nadiathesaint]

"I don't have any classes tomorrow. How much chance do you think I have of Bailey letting me sleep in?"