forum Monsters? These are my children -Ben (o/o with lisapickle)

Started November 05, 2019 by @chickenfrogman group

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Silver sighed. "Yes, of course we're invisible. That's why no one saw us come out of the basement. I can even put us in a silent box so no one can hear us if you want." She gave Gabriel a squeeze, feeling his emotions change.

Ben tightly closes his eyes, exasperated.
"Just- Just come home, Silver. I'm done with this, and it's not safe to be out right now."
He opens his eyes and looks over the trees.
What do I even do with them??

Cage slips his and Robin's bowls into the dishwasher and returns to the cough, sitting back down by Robby and resting his arm behind her. She smiles and leans against him.
"Wanna play a game maybe?" Cage asks. "I can dish us all up some ice cream while you guys pick one."

"Okay." She said. "But Ben… don't be mad. Don't get us in trouble. Please."

"Yes! Good idea. OH WAIT MY CAKE." Miki yelled, leaping off the couch and racing into the kitchen.

Don't be mad??
He rubs his forehead, "Just come home. I need to talk to Violet and I want everyone safe and home when I do. I don't want you sneaking out like this again. It's dangerous." He pauses for a second, leaving the last word like he wasn't finished, wanted to say something more. But he didn't. He hung up and started to pace.

Cage watches as Miki races into the kitchen. "Good thing you remembered cause I'm pretty sure the rest of us didn't!" He calls.

"Ben, what's–" she began but he hung up. "I think something is really wrong. We should get home, Gabe." She turned to look at him.

"It's fine!" She called and grabbed a pair of potholders, carefully removing the cake from the oven.

Loosening his arms, Gabriel leans back, leaving his fingertips on her waist as the back of his head meets the bark of the tree. He sighs, stretching his wings out behind him. “Let's go.” He whispers.

Ben walks out past the swimming pool and squints at the black sky for a few seconds. Violet opens the back door quietly and joins him. “Ben? We should talk.”
He nods. “I know, I know. I’m going to tell you everything. And I’ll make another meeting with Diablo.”
She slips her arm around his and looks up at sky, though she’s looking at the stars and not searching for Silver.

Cage stands. “Ah, I’ll get some Ice cream for us!” And he heads into the kitchen, pulling out quite a few bowls.

Silver sat up, stretching her back, but paused to look at him. She reached up and touched his jaw to bring his attention to her. "We should do this more often."

Ben's phone dinged with a text from Dio, Hey, how did your trip go? Sounded like it was exciting.

Miki found a knife and cut the cake. "It's gonna melt all our ice cream and then we'll have soggy cake that tastes like nasty sushi."

He lingers for a moment, but as soon as he goes to consider kissing her again, he stands, raising his wings being him and launching into the night sky.

—-

Ben squints at the light of his phone, then text back,
It was fine. I’m home now. Did they suspect anything of you? Or do his men all just have my face recognized.
He huffs, sending the message and shoving the phone into his pocket.

—-

Cage gags, “uh, ew, no. Don’t put the ice cream on top of the cake.”
Robin joins them in the kitchen, leaning on the island. “Sushi ice cream?”

Silver followed him, rising above the trees. As they came away from the woods and the deep night sky opened around her, she gasped silently, the light and beauty of the stars consuming her.

Miki glanced at Cage, confused. "What, you don't put your ice cream on your cake? How do you eat your cake and ice cream? In separate bowls???"

–

"HE REPLIED." Dio yelled to Lackey from the couch where he sat, bundled under an unknown amount of blankets. "He's alive. He got home safe." To Ben he texted Yeah, I think they were just focused on you. You're the one he's after right now.

He hovers above the trees for a moment, slipping his fingers between hers.
Are you sure you want to go back?
Do you want to stay?
He slowly looked from the stars to her, then let go of her hand to begin the fly home.

—

Cage rolls his eyes, “yesss.” He hands Robin a bowl with one scoop of ice cream in it. “This is the sushi ice cream. We made it ourselves.”

—

Ben pulls the phone from his pocket and scowls at the message before shoving it into his pocket again.

Silver smiled at him and followed, settling into the air just behind his left wing, subconsciously trying to fly in normal bird-formation. "We'll come back sometime. I promise." she whispered into the wind, pushing her words through the air until they reached his ears.

Miki rolled her eyes. "You are SO strange, Cage." She plopped a giant square of cake into a bowl and scooped two generous spoonfuls of donut ice cream on top of it. "THIS is how you eat cake and ice cream. Robby, please tell me you don't eat it in two different bowls too."

Sil, I’m going to be murdered when we get back. I’m never going anywhere ever again.
After a few minutes they’re in view of the house. Ben glares up at them from the ground, and vi is no longer by him.

—

Robby gives a soft smile. “Umh, I actually don’t mind either way.”

Silver sighed, knowing he was still tearing himself up and afraid Ben would eat him alive. "I'll deal with Ben." she said. "I won't let him hurt you. He's gonna have to learn to be okay with us."

Miki grabbed a spoon and ate a bite of half-cake, half-ice cream. "I's okay–" With horror she stopped, gulped down her bite, and stared at Cage. "Soooorrryyyyy…" she whispered.

“Hey,” He looks over to her, “you’ll deal with him? I’m pretty sure I’m the one who took us out.” He retorts, actually speaking at a normal volume for once.

-

Cage leans over to ruffle Miki’s hair roughly. “AUGH MIK.”
Robby blinks, having no idea what’s going on, and takes a bite of her sushi ice cream. She suddenly thankful they’re both distracted, and spits the ice cream right back out into a napkin and hides it on her lap.

Silver stared at him, shocked to hear such a normal sentence and tone from him. In her shock she forgot to pay attention to her flight and a fresh gust of wind hit them from the side. She lost her grip and streamlined, wings folded behind her, and let out a shriek as she dropped toward Ben's house below.

Miki carefully put the ice cream away and brought her bowl to the couch, vowing to eat in complete silence and not speak until her food was gone.

Gabriel lets out a soft gasp and plunges towards her, wrapping his arms around her and trying to hoist them up with his wings so their fall wouldn’t be as hard. They tumble to the ground near the tree line in the backyard and he wraps his wings tightly around them while they crash, though it’s not too rough of a landing.
GEEZ.
Ben looks around the yard.
hmm? What was that noise??

Cage turns to Robby. “So, do you like it?”
She stares into his blue, beaming eyes and can’t bear to say no.
“Absolutely. You did a wonderful job.”
Robin, you’re a dirty liar.

"Gabe!" Silver screamed. "Gabriel, no!" she scrambled out from under him, pushing his wings aside. "Are you okay?? Don't do that, you can't handle it!"

"No, we didn't!" Miki called. "The sushi one is disgusting, don't eat it."

She pushed his heavy wings to the side to see him laying there laughing, not specifically loudly or quietly. He hugs himself, bruised as he is, and bites his lip in an effort to stop.

Ben stares in their direction.
Ah??! Are they invisible???

“Miki, she’s eating the sushi one now! The likes it!” Cage exclaims, pointing to Robbys bowl.

Silver frowned, watching him… laugh? Gabriel was laughing??? "Gabri…" her voice trailed away and she blinked. "Gabriel, you could have died, why are you… what's so funny?" The only thing she could think to ask was why he was laughing, when her brain kept screaming Gabriel knows how to laugh???

"No! She can't like it! Cage, what sort of person would she be if she liked that one? YOU don't even like it." Miki got up and came back into the kitchen, taking Robby's bowl away and dumping her sushi ice cream in the sink. "I'll get you the donut one inste– CAGE, did you make her try the bacon one??"

As Gabriel continues laughing, they ripple back into visibility and Ben stares from by the house.
… is he dying?

Robby gratefully watches as Miki throws out the sushi ice cream.
Thank you so much.
Cage bounces to the freezer. “DO THE WORST FIRST.”

Silver slowly sat down beside Gabriel, crossing her legs and propping her chin in her hands. She scanned his body with her mind, taking note of the bruises already forming, but she couldn't do anything while he lay in the grass and laughed about falling out of the sky. After a moment a grin snuck across her face as she watched him.

"I honestly don't known of the sushi or the bacon one was the worst because I didn't want to try either of them a second time." Miki said. "They were both nasty so." She shrugged and set the bowl down for Cage to fill.

Gabriel slowly sits up, one hand on the ground behind him and one across his bare, bruised and cut chest. He huffs a little, his laughing dying out but a pure smile still across his face. He gives her a very, very small shove to her shoulder. “Don’t do that, Silver.” He chuckles softly.

Cage plops some bacon ice cream into the bowl and happily hands it to Robby.
A little disappointed that he won’t look away for her to spit this bite out too, she takes and downs a full spoonful with a smile.

Silver's eyes went wide and she threw up her hands in confusion. "What, fall out of the air? How is that funny? And I only fell because SOMEONE finally found their words and I'm not used to it." But the grin never left her face. She reached up and picked bits of grass out of his hair.

"Isn't it gross?" Miki asked, promptly taking the bowl and dumping that ice cream in the sink too.

“You fell because I talked??” He laughs and shoves her again. He bats her hands away from his hair and sits up straighter, still smiling despite a good bit of pain.
Ben stares, not really daring to approach them.

Bless you Miki.
Robby gives a soft, nervous laugh. “No no, you guys did really well!”

Silver's face contorted in more confusion. "Yes?? Gabriel, I've never heard you put more than three words together before except when you're yelling at Kissa. I didn't know Gabriels had 'talk' settings." She wrapped her arms around her stomach, her turn to laugh now.

Miki shook her head. "Nope. Don't lie. It's terrible. The donut one was good though! Cage, get her some of that one."