How Green Becomes Wood

[pandakatiefominz]

As they finished their food, Daizi sat back for a moment, listening to the sounds of the house, "Isn't it funny... We're about to enter a whole new decade."

 

[BookKnight]

"Are we?" Alec asked, surprised. He paused to think. "Oh, yes, you're right. We are!"

"What are we going to do with this new decade?" Xander asked.

 

[pandakatiefominz]

Dark nodded towards Ivy in her high chair, "Watch her turn twelve. And accidentally write twenty instead of thirty when I write the date for the next few years."


"You'll both be 27 by the time this decade is over," Daizi mused, "I think you'll do a lot with these next ten years."

 

[BookKnight]

"Twenty-seven." Alec's eyes went huge, and he stared off at nothing, suddenly intimidated by the thought. "Wow. That's so old! So fast."

"I say it's when our lives are really going to get started," Xander replied.

 

[pandakatiefominz]

"Twenty-seven isn't old," Daizi chuckled, taking a sip of her drink.

 

[BookKnight]

"It's a whole ten years away! And a couple of months! That is a very long time," Alec said.

"At least when you're seventeen, almost, it sounds like a long time," Xander said. "I bet it's going to go by way too fast."

 

[pandakatiefominz]

Daizi nodded sagely and replied, "You realize I'm 38?"

 

[BookKnight]

"I thought you were forty-two," Xander replied.

"I thought you were much younger than that," Alec said, stepping on Xander's foot.

 

[pandakatiefominz]

"If I was forty-two, that would only strengthen my point." Daizi replied.

"You do feel very adult at twenty-seven though," Dark pointed out, "It is not until later you realize you were not."

 

[BookKnight]

Alec sipped his cider. "Then you must feel adult at forty, right?"

"Or thirty-seven," Xander added.

 

[pandakatiefominz]

Dark stared at him for a few moments, his heavy eyebrows furrowed, "I have three children, a calendar keeping track of five people's various doctor and dentist appointments, and a spreadsheet of who likes which dinners to use when meal planning. I absolutely feel adult."

 

[BookKnight]

"Sounds busy," Alec said. And dull. Where was the fun calendar?

"Yeah, well, you are over the hill, so..." Xander said, trailing off with a significant smirk.

 

[pandakatiefominz]

"No he isn't," Daizi argued, immediately coming to the defense of her husband despite knowing Xander was joking, "He just works hard to take care of all of us."

 

[BookKnight]

"And himself!" Alec pointed out. "He works hard to take care of himself, too."

"So he can keep on moving and grooving," Xander agreed with a nod.

 

[pandakatiefominz]

"He tries to," Daizi agreed softly, squeezing Dark's hand, "That's why I also take care of him."

"I do not know if I have ever been able to describe myself as 'grooving.'" Dark said flatly.

 

[BookKnight]

"You groove with the darkness," Xander replied while Alec snickered. "Like a Monster Mash in a minor key."

"It was the mOnStEr MaSh!" Alec crooned as creepily as he could manage.

 

[pandakatiefominz]

"You know, we never actually hear what the monster mash sounds like," Daizi mused, moving so she could rest her cheek on Dark's shoulder, "The entire song is just singing about how they were performing it."

 

[BookKnight]

"Good point," Xander agreed and sipped his hot chocolate.

"I like to think that the monster mash is being sung to the tune of the monster mash and that the monster mash is instrumental," Alec said.

 

[pandakatiefominz]

"That's a clever thought," Daizi mused, considering it, "I have such a soft-spot for kitschy songs like that."

"I still do not know if I would call what I do grooving."

 

[BookKnight]

"What would you call it, then?" Alec asked.

"Lurking?" Xander suggested.

"Looming?"

"Mood-setting?"

"Setting the drama?"

"Gomezing?"

"Hmm, he is similar to Gomez, but I think he's most like Lurch. With a Gomez penchant for passion and love, but a Lurching quietness and stability."

"Good point. Lurmez. Lurmezing."