JGoB, Sunday Morning

[stykera]

Stark had 4 children (that he knew of) this weekend. Three of them, along with one of their mothers, were accompanying him to the bakery this morning.

They were his, after all. They loved baked goods.

"You can all have one thing," he told them, setting them loose at the counter.

"I want a chocolate cupcake, please," Ziya said immediately, pointing to one that looked to be more frosting than cake.

"Got anything with flies?" Cass asked, smiling innocently.

"Or bees?" Bixby added, grinning at the person behind the counter.

"We could have gone to the park if you wanted bugs," Stark said with a soft sigh. It was followed by a smile though, and a glance over at Summer to see if she was amused as well.

[Open bakery is very open for Stark, Summer, half-glowy children, and baked good needs!]

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[somethingwithturquoise]

"Seriously," said Summer, with a shake of her head, "you guys have had so much sugar this weekend, we should just set you loose with your mouths open and see how many bugs you end up catching.

"Also," she added, helpfully, to Bixby specifically, "honey is just pretty much just bee puke, so...."

Summer, why were you encouraging this?

[glowyfacebabies]

"I don't want bugs," Ziya said quickly, glancing at Summer with an alarmed expression on her little blue face. "Just chocolate. And Mama says when I come to visit this Papa I can have all the treats I like because we don't have chocolate on Moya unless we bring some back when we visit here."

She wasn't touching that bee puke comment, Summer.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Good thing Summer'd kept quiet on what geletin was made out of, then! But she gave Ziya a bit of an apologetic smile--a bit; she'd spent enough time with her and her half-siblings by now that she should be just expecting comments like that, really!--and just said, "That's an excellent reason to load up on chocolate, then. I don't know if I could do it, going without chocolate, personally."

[designateddadfriend]

Sooooo Travis had discovered when putting Zach to bed last night that his son for the weekend had eyes that glowed in the dark. From there it was not hard to work out just who "Dad" was.

And he knew Stark well enough by now to work out where he was likely to be.

"This is a special occasion," he told Zach as they headed in. "I'm pretty sure your appa back home doesn't let you get cupcakes for breakfast very often either."

[glowyfacebabies]

"Dad says that if Appa doesn't know about the cupcakes they can't hurt him," Zach whispered. Loudly.

"Oh! It's Dad! HI DAD HI!"

Now there was a small child in an astronaut costume jumping and down and waving at Stark.

And there was a Stark giving Travis a very, very surprised look.

"Hello?"

[designateddadfriend]

Oh, it was nice when Stark looked more off-balance than Travis was in the moment at something Fandom did. Travis was a bad, bad man.

"Stark, this is Zach. Our son."

He wasn't even trying not to sound smug right now.

[hasaknightjob]

Steven waved. "Travis, hello! How are you?"

[designateddadfriend]

"Hey Steven," Travis said, waving back with a grin. "I, uh, feel a little like my head might explode? But in a good way. Does that make sense?"

[pocketpretzels]

"Montgomery," Watts greeted. "How are you?"

Look at that, he'd actually remembered to leave off the 'Mr.' Progress!

[designateddadfriend]

Travis was very proud of you, Watts!

"Watts," he greeted in return. "Any of these rugrats yours this year?"

[pocketpretzels]

A treat almost immediately after breakfast hadn't been the plan, but the kids' eyes had lit up when they walked past the bakery, and Watts and a lightly-modded Steven had noticed Stark and Summer and the gaggle of kids already in there, and so had decided sure, why not?

Settling at a table with vegan pastries for himself and Steven while Francis and Evie hummed and hawed over what to get (it was a very important decision) over at the counter, Watts gave Stark a nod hello.

[stykera]

"You have some too," Stark said.

Yes, he was silently hoping the redheaded little boy wasn't also one of his. He had 5 already this weekend!

"Good morning, Watts."

[pocketpretzels]

"I do," Watts said. "We do," he amended, looking at Steven. "That's Francis and Evelyn- Evie, currently trying to decide what to have for a post-breakfast snack."

[hasaknightjob]

"Hello, Stark," Steven said, just to further confuse the internal timeline that was being inside of the Perk on any given day. "How are you?"

[hasaknightjob]

Steven kept a close eye on the little ones in case they needed help. Francis said he could take care of it, but you never knew when things might go pear-shaped when you were small. "Last night went all right."

Given that they had to improvise sleeping arrangements in the guest/Marc's room. Luckily Marc had already put all of his dangerous items out of reach back when he thought Llewellyn might be sleeping there. (It wasn't that Marc didn't trust Llewellyn to understand danger, more that he knew Llewellyn had a habit of grabbing and fiddling with things without paying attention to what they were. Last thing anyone needed was Llewellyn losing a finger to Lana's gifted vibroknife.)

[pocketpretzels]

Case in point Watts already was turning a salt shaker over in one hand. Why did a bakery even have a salt shaker on the table? A good question.

"I thought so," he agreed. The children had woken up earlier than Watts and Steven had once again, but at least this morning they hadn't tried to feed themselves, just found a channel with cartoons on the television and had sat with Raphael between them.

[pocketknights]

Evie was on tiptoe trying to see all of the options available. Which were a lot. This required careful decision making.

"They have biscuits too," she said. "I like biscuits."

[pocketknights]

And biscuits could be tucked away for later if you didn't finish them all in one go!

"Dads said we get one thing each," Francis reminded her. "I think I want that," he pointed at some sort of strudel pastry with a fruit filling. "But maaaaybe also that?" he indicated a cupcake.

[pocketknights]

Evie's eyes went wide. "Cupcaaaaaaaaake! I want a cupcake!"

And a biscuit. And a donut.

[glowyfacebabies]

"I like the cupcakes best," Ziya offered. "And then anything with chocolate. Hi!"

This was a very little girl so Ziya offered her best very friendly wave.

[pocketknights]

"I like cupcakes and biscuits and donuts and ice cream!" Evie said, rattling off the list proudly. Then she waved at this new friend with the hand that wasn't holding her stuffed bunny. "Hi! I'm Evie. This is Tawa. You're blue! Dad likes blue."

So, you know, feel free to be reassured there, Ziya, in case you needed closure.

[lilphotobomber]

So, things hadn't really turned out the way Trevor had expected them to when he showed up here, because, silly him, he didn't take into account the fact that there could be other Argentums from a different version of his dad's homeworld where apparently nothing bad had ever happened, and it was throwing him way off. Not only that, but it was clearly making things tense between his mom and his dad, too, and that was no good. Thankfully, he knew that the bakery on the island had those mint chocolate cakes that his mom really liked, so, while she was busy with Noctra and his dad was busy with Cidney and the rest of the chocobro crew (was he a little disheartened by not getting to join them? Maybe. But they were all also, like, super intimidating, it was probably better this way), he was going to go and get some to bring back to her and make her feel a little better, hopefully.

But when he walked in, he sort of blinked a little bit, because, whoa, there were...a lotta little kids in here, huh? Like, he was used to little kids, he had three younger siblings (and probably a lot more) on the way, but Vette, Nina, and Lucian were known entities.

[stykera]

Stark was a little worried, at this point, that any new children he saw were going to somehow be his.

"Hello," he said, waving a little.

[usual_suspects]

Lana knew very little about raising children, but she knew they liked sweet things. So today she and Marshan were at the bakery.

"What would you like?" she asked.

Marshan grinned and pointed at something with as much chocolate as she could find. "That!"

Lana was rather wishing she had a whisky, but coffee would do. "Coffee and two of those, please."

[glowyfacebabies]

"You're blue too," Ziya said, delighted. "Are you a Delvian too?"