How Green Becomes Wood

"You could be doing competitive paint drying and I'd be interested," Daizi promised him, and meant it. She may not have understood any of it, but she did nonetheless research judo to try to understand what she'd be hearing.

"I am incredibly interested," Dark said, "and I am sure Ivy-Qadira will be delighted to watch."
 
"You are hardcore, Mama," Xander said seriously. "More hardcore than Ba, even. He's only incredibly interested. Not paint-drying competition level."

"Ivy likes anything to do with movement, but I bet she's going to be annoyed that she can't join in," Alec grinned.
 
"That is not fair, Daizi would not have to sit and watch the paint," Dark pointed out, "She could sit there and face the paint but let her mind wander and nobody would be aware of it."

"Wow," Daizi replied, feigning offense, "Goose Mongoose Dark, you're going there?"
 
"That is a low blow," Daizi clicked her tongue.

"All I am saying, is if my lovely, intelligent, compassionate wife were asked what colour dried first, and she did not know, nobody would think anything of it, but if I were to not know, people would recognize I had stopped paying attention," Dark replied, holding up his hands in mock surrender.
 
"Wow. You can't bluff you're way out of that?" Xander asked blandly.

Alec tutted disappointedly. "It's so easy! Pull a long face and discuss the different colors and then say how it was very close between this one or that one."

"So easy," Xander said, shaking his head.
 
"I think it would be much easier for her to than for me to," Dark told them.

Daizi turned towards her husband, and finding his tie, grabbed it and used it to pull his face towards her, "Goose-topher Mongoose-tav Dark, how dare you," She said playfully scolded him, really just trying to admonish him.

Dark, now folded over and forced to look at his wife like that, blushed. And not a single word came into his head.
 
The twins stared at their parents for a moment.

"Goose-topher?" Alec said.

"Mongoose-tave," Xander continued.

"Dark," Alec said.

"Tie," Xander finished.

Alec looked at Xander. "Where do we go from here after having received forbidden knowledge?"

"I am going to go get my bag and get ready to go," Xander said firmly, standing up.
 
Hearing the way Dark's breath had hitched and his quiet stammering, a devilish smirk crossed Daizi's face and she didn't loosen her grip, "You should really be ashamed of yourself."

Swallowing hard, he allowed himself to be pulled closer to her, not really sure what he was thinking, but then she cruelly let him go and stood up, "Pull yourself together, babe, we only have to survive until Saturday." Then she stood up, scooped up Ivy, and said, "I'm going to get her dressed."

Dark groaned and rested his head against the tabletop, "I am just a man!"
 
"So am I, but you don't see me going all ridiculous about girls and things," Xander grumbled, heading off.

Alec made certain Xander couldn't see him and then looked at Dark and made the shape of a heart with his fingers. "Soon, you will be free!" he whispered to his father. "Goose-topher." Then he cackled and chased after Xander to get dressed.
 
Dark grumbled, not looking up and hiding his still-blushing face against his arms. He didn't even try to argue or fight back to either teenager.

Laughing softly, Daizi carried Ivy upstairs, "This is the price we pay for love."

"I am just a man," He repeated pitifully, knowing he had to be careful about how he teased Cooger later that day so it wasn't revealed how powerless he was to his own wife.
 
Xander was ready to go in no time and waited patiently by the door for the others to join him. He spent his extra time petting Enkidu and telling him what he was about to do.

Alec took a bit longer as he wanted to look good for his brother's Debut, then he came thundering down the stairs in what he felt was his best and most colorfully coordinated outfit. He was ready to go!

"Do you want to stay for the whole thing or just watch my bit?" Xander asked his parents. "We can take both cars so you're not stuck there."
 
"Do you want us there the whole time?" Dark asked, picking up Ivy's diaper bag, "I do not know how easy it will be to keep her entertained, but I would like to be there for as long as you would like us there, and surely we should go out to eat afterwards."

"We need to stay long enough to support Peter, too," Daizi added.
 
"I don't want you guys to get board. Or the mini," Xander said, shouldering his bag. "It's okay if you've got to leave."

"I plan on staying the entire time no matter what color the paint is," Alec said stoutly.
 
"If Ivy starts getting fussy, we will let you know, but otherwise we will stay while we can," Daizi promised as they went to the car, "I am really excited about it. I'm sure it'll be more interesting than paint."
 
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