Fourth floor common room, Sunday morning

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Dean was up fairly bright and early -- or at least what he considered bright and early -- and out in the Common Room cooking mass amounts of breakfast. Both John William and Cas were helping and he suspected that even if no one else showed up, the three of them would be able to polish off a good portion of what they were cooking.

And then maybe later he'd take them out for pie.

The boys were Winchesters after all.

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Oh, how Angela did not want to be the one trying to explain that one.

"You should ask your daddy all about that," she said.

Passing that riiiiight on. Yes. He'd do it to her, and had already.

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"Daddy?" Hamilton asked, taking Angela's advice. "What's going on?"

Hannibal, for his part, wanted to just crawl into a hole and live out his life as a hermit.

"Daddy doesn't sleep with anyone," he tried. "Daddy sleeps alone."

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Oh, yes, because that was really going to work.

Angela snorted, but nodded along, "Right, and so do I."

She really hoped this wasn't going to get another wibbling outburst from Kendal. Really.

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Well, that was just asking for it.

"But but but but but," Kendal blubbered, sniffling. "But you said!"

She pointed at them both, accusing in that childlike way all children had. The kind that made you want to die.

"But!"

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Oh, god how to mediate between keeping all the different kids appeased.

"Crybaby," Nate announced. No matter that she was older and bigger than him.

"Nate," she warned, "Oh, Kendal, Sweetie, please no crying." She wasn't supposed to be making her own kids cry!

"Hannibal!" That was her plea for help, right there. All his fault. Really.

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"I don't know what to do," he flailed, kneeling down at least to try to get to the level of the children. Of course, that meant he immediately had a little girl clinging to his neck and sniffling against his against skin.

And two twins pretty close to wibbling themselves.

"Oh my god, I don't know what to do."

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"I've never had to do this either," Angela reminded him looking pained at the way this was heading. Damn it. "Just... hug, or something."

Nate evidently thought they were all being ridiculous and just watched this whole little show with something close to distain. Not that unusual for a kid with Bass genes.

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"Okay okay," he said, hugging Kendal as best he could. The sniffling kept up against his neck and, for a minute, he almost flailed and gave the kid back to Angela.

He was so so so out of his league.

Before he could do that, he motioned the twins closer and got them both in his other arm.

"Okay, so, here's the deal," he told them all quietly. "Daddy's a big giant idiot. We should always think of this when he says something that makes you sad. He's probably just being dumb again. If you want the intelligence, ask your mothers."

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Angela quirked a slight smile at that. See, he was catching on to this parenting thing in his way.

Even if that way involved telling his kids he was a moron...

It was kind of adorable, and she didn't really want to interrupt.

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At least that got the sniffling somewhat stifled and the lip wibbling stopped for the moment. He'd never given out so many hugs to children in his life.

"Okay, so, let's not cry," he said hopefully. "Crying just makes snot get in our noses and we have to blow them on our sleeves and that's just gross."

It was the truth though!

"Daddy's sorry for making you all upset."

It was his shining moment for the day. Or not.

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"Oh... okay, ignore the part about blowing noses on sleeves," Angela added to that little lot. Ew.

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"Are we all right now?" Hannibal asked, feeling three nods more than seeing them. "No more crying?" Head shakes.

"Okay, good."

He tried to stand back up and found that all three kids refused to let go of him.

Sigh.

"Angela?" He tried to look adorably up at her. "Can you take, uh, ours? Just so I can stand up."

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Ah, yes, that would be helpful.

"Okay, Kendal, come on," she said as she tried to pry the little girl from Hannibal's neck. "Hold on to me instead for a sec."

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You didn't have to tell her twice and she was switching necks and switching parents easily, burying her little face in Angela's neck and kicking one foot against her side.

Had to be a little vocal even if she wasn't going to talk right then.

That let Hannibal shift one twin to each arm so he could stand up.

"I'm tired," he said and made a face.

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Angela hoisted Kendal into her arms with a slight noise. God these kids were heavy. But she'd decided that was better than getting neck ache bending down. Just.

"And we've only just got up."

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"I'll give you fifty bucks to watch mine so I can go take a nap."

He didn't really mean that at all.

"Make him give you a hundred!" Hamilton encouraged.

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"Oh, he'd better be giving me more than that," she told Hamilton, hugging Kendal against her.

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"I gave you something good two nights ago." Look, he was sleep deprived, shell shocked and on the urge of flailing, it couldn't be helped if the censoring wasn't working.

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Kendal at least perked up slightly at the idea of her parents giving each other things. "Like what?"

"Yeah, well, that was before you tried to have me babysitting hundreds of your kids." Slight exaggeration.

She was ignoring that other question.

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"You're ignoring our kid, Angela," he snickered, bouncing Hamilton some just because. "And I don't have hundreds! I don't have one with Chuck."

Nyah!

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Angela opened her mouth-- and thought about it, and okay no, there was really no good comeback for that. Damn it.

"Hugs," she lied. Sort of. It was for her own good. "Lots of hugs."

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"And I hugged her back." God, they were so traumatizing these kids subtly. As soon as they learned what they were really talking about...

"I have one more kid than you do and only because I got two in a package set," Hannibal said. "And you could have another one or two running around that you haven't met yet."

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"I'm sure someone would've told me by now," she decided. "Apparently some people around here are just ridiculously fertile."

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"Well, you know, if you need some alone time, I can take Kendal..." Sigh. "...and Nate for you for awhile. We can go do something. You can relax."

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"I think Nate can hang out with his daddy for a while." It was about time Chuck did a little father-son bonding. "Cutting back down to one should be easy."

Ha. Easy. Suuure.