How Green Becomes Wood

"Don't!" Daizi replied, flinching out of the way, "That's not fair, you can't sneak up on me!"

Dark clicked his tongue, "Spider, it is okay, Xander is all the way across the yard."

Turning towards their voices in shock, Daizi asked, "You're lying to me? You're using the fact I can't see to your advantage and lying to me?"
 
"You're helping him to dunk me in snow!" Alec pointed out. "Every advantage!" He started wriggling and thrusting his body determinedly, trying to break Dark's hold. A chosen topple into the snow was better than a forced one!

"You look like a fish on a stick!" Xander called.
 
"My beloved wife," Dark cajoled, tightening his grip on Alec, "I would never use your disability against you."

"Every advantage!" Daizi repeated, indignant, now purposefully pushing snow into a mound, "How dare you? And might I add you wouldn't be in the situation had you not decided to assault your father with snow?"
 
"Oh, I know that, but he's the one pulling you - an innocent - into the line of fire," Alec reminded her, trying to wriggle harder. "It's like using hostages as shields, isn't it? And he absolutely does use it against you when he wants to hide things from you. Like secret stashes of goodies!"
 
"Somehow I sense a difference between my husband preparing surprises and my child making me think someone is at any moment preparing to make me suffer," Daizi replied, continuing to shape her mound. Watching her, Ivy did her best to help. She wasn't great at it, but she knew how to pick things up and drop it, and since that's what her Mama was doing, she joined in.

"Good girl, Hummingbird," Dark praised with a grin.
 
"He's currently standing really close to you so that Xander can't throw any snowballs at you," Alec told her. "He's totally using you as a shield."

"He's got a point, Mama," Xander called to her.
 
"No, I am standing here so when the mound is complete I can toss you into it," Dark replied, "It may have escaped your notice, but I am taller than your mother is when she is sitting. And when she is standing."

"Every advantage," Daizi said, finishing the mound, scooping up Ivy, and backing away from it. Then, Dark easily dropped Alec down into it, careful to still make sure he wouldn't get hurt.
 
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"But what if he missed?" Alec countered right before Dark dropped him.

Or tried to drop him. As soon as Daizi started to move, Alec shifted his tactic from trying to get free to wrapping every limb around Dark and holding tight, digging his fingers into Dark's clothing and refusing to drop.

Xander started throwing snowballs again, skimming his mother's shoulder once and missing Ivy entirely. He hit Alec a couple of times, too, in his endeavor to hit his father, but that might not have been entirely by accident.
 
When Alec clung to him, Dark set about trying to pry him off with a scowl, "Oh, so you grow up in cold climates but are not brave enough to handle the snow?" He asked, "It is very easy to torture others, yes, but much more difficult to take?"
 
Every time Dark got something free, Alec managed to reattach himself the moment Dark started prying on something else. "No, because I grew up here, I know exactly how cold it is! And we have a long winter ahead!" he giggled, getting and even better grip. "No way am I going down!"

With Alec mostly on one side, Xander took a running leap and managed to catxh onto Dark's other side. "Down with the giant!"
 
When Xander jumped onto him, Dark stumbled, having not expected have the weight of another person jump onto him. He was more than strong enough to carry them both but the force of it still threw him off balance.

"If I go down, you will too," He grumbled.
 
"Then we'll fall together!" Xander said stoutly. He tried to tug on Dark to pull him more off balance. He kept holding tight to Dark's clothes, not even considering Alec's idea of basically wrapping himself around his father, meaning he dangled awkwardly off his side.

Alec laughed and renewed his grip. "If one of us has to fall, better we all go together!"
 
"You will not be laughing if I land on you," Dark replied, swaying his body as he attempted to fling Xander off into the snow without risking tearing his clothes.

As he attempted to remove both boys from his person, Enkidu, who had still been leaping and rolling through the snow, saw them and bounded at them from behind. Although he was not typically a dog who jumped on people, his excitement from the snow had his energy a bit high, and as a result, he jumped up on them, tongue lolling out the side of his mouth. With already unstable ground due to the snow and the unequal weights weighing on him and trying to pull him over, being pushed by his dog was just too much and Dark, still carrying both boys, toppled into the snow. He still did his best to avoid landing on either of them, but with the way they were, it was impossible to fully avoid.
 
The twins had only enough time to squeal and shout in protest before they were buried in snow. Xander coughed and spluttered, shoving snow out of his face with one hand, the other hand and one leg trapped under Dark. Alec choked, half laughing as he tried not to breathe in snow, trapped under his father from the chest down. He patted Dark's back.

"Ba, are you still alive?" he questioned. "Do you feel avenged?"
 
Dark coughed, sitting up and climbing up off the twins, his beard white from the snow, "Are you satisfied? Is that what you wanted?" He asked, turning towards Enkidu, "And you, what was that you detestable canine."

Wiggling happily, Enkidu bounded over to Dark and plopped against his lap and Dark couldn't help but chuckle softly, give his dog a good hug and a deep pet.

"I'm not sure exactly how that played out," Daizi giggled over the sounds of Ivy's laughter, "but aren't you glad I built the mound of snow? It sounded like it must have cushioned your fall."
 
"I think I am permently embedded in the snow," Xander replied dryly.

Alec giggled and rolled over enough to launch a handful of snow at Xander. "Aw, you're fine!" More snow than he meant went flying with his arm and ended up landing all over Xander and covering his face.

Xander spluttered and wiped off his face. "You're right. I'm very fine!" THen he launched himself at Alec and tackled him awkwardly.

Alec yelled in mock terror and tried to get away, but the pair ended up wrestling in the snow and trying to make each other eat it.
 
When the twins started wrestling, Dark got up and moved out of the way, not wanting to get caught in the cross fire and he went over to his wife, "It was a very good snow mound, my darling."

"I'm only a little bit sorry you had to fall into it," Daizi replied, leaning in to kiss him on the cheek.

"No, do not!" Dark replied, jerking away a bit too slowly.

Recoiling and swearing in Arabic, Daizi yelped, "Why are you so cold!?"

"There is still snow in my beard!"

"Why didn't you warn me!?"

"You did not give me time!"

"How is it still there!?"

Dark gestured helplessly at his face, "I--It is insulated! I do not know!"
 
Xander eventually came walking toward Dark with Alec over both shoulders and trying unsuccessfully to get free. "Ba, you've really aged," he remarked. "I guess cold weather does not suit you."

"Put me down!" Alec protested.

Xander got a better hold on Alec's arm and leg, keeping him in place. "Have you heard from Cooger yet? What's the hold up on that sled?"

"Down! Come on!" Alec wiggled.
 
"He can put you down, but what will happen to you next may be less than pleasant," Daizi said with a laugh, handing Ivy to Dark.

"He should be here soon, but anytime it snows he has to make sure all the flock is okay and protected," Dark said, "and he has to be careful on those back mountain roads."
 
"Is that a threat?" Alec demanded, trying to angle so he could see his mother and failing.

"Makes sense," Xander said, trying to sound normal and not grunt as Alec thumped against his back. "I hope he gets here soon."
 
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