How Green Becomes Wood

Ivy stuck her tongue back out at him and laughed, crawling up onto and over him, having the absolute time of her life.

Exhaling softly, Daizi shook her hair out. Really, she just needed to let some of that initial fear out. It was the first time something Alec did innocently actually upset her to that degree and he didn't seem to understand why she felt it was serious.

Just then, Dark came inside and he stopped in his tracks, "What happened here?"

"Argh! Baby attack!" Alec laughed, lightly tickling Ivy as she crawled over him but letting her go. "No! Get back here, you!"

"I dunno. Stuff," Xander said bluntly, walking away. "A lot of annoying stuff."

Ivy laughed as she crawled over him. She was little, but she was getting heavy and had not quite yet learned to be gentle. As a result, as she crawled over Alec, she was a 24 pound ball of uncareful knees and elbows.

Dark first looked at the stressed look on Daizi's face, then at the annoyance on Xander's as he walked away, and finally at Alec being smothered by Ivy. Crossing the room in a few large steps, he made it to his wife and said, "Be careful, Alec, she is very small but she leaves bruises." The tattoos on his thighs had taken on new colours from her tiny feet when he bounced her in his lap.

Alec started to respond and then grunted as Ivy pressed on his lungs. When he could breathe again, he wheeled, "How right you are! How are you so soft and pointy at the same time, Ivy? Eh? How?"

Dark gently touched Daizi's wife and murmured something private to her and she murmured something back. He nodded to her and then carefully and slowly guided her into the the maze Alec had constructed and then helped her to sit. Sitting near her, he checked the state of her bruise while she said, "You can imagine what it was like when I was getting all those pointy knees and elbows but coming from the inside. She felt about as big as she is now, I was shocked when she was so tiny."