Chapter 10
As an omega, Louis is good with kids. He adores them and whenever his sister Lottie needs someone to babysit her triplets, he volunteers immediately. This worked well until he got mated to Harry and Edward. He really does love them but seeing them around kids is honestly tragic.
They don’t know how to deal with kids and kids don’t know how to deal with them. Disasters happen when Harry and Edward are alone with kids. Complete and utter disasters. However, in the situation he’s in now Louis would end up with a bigger disaster if he didn’t go to meet his sister Felicity’s mate. So he makes dinner and sits down with the triplets {Jake, Belle and Elijah}.
“Right you three, when Uncle Haz and Uncle Ed come home you’re going to spend time with them instead of Uncle Lou” He tells the three two year olds “is that ok?” he asks taking a bite of his food.
“No!” Elijah screams immediately “Lou is nicer than Haz and Ed” he says folding his arms as Louis sighs.
“I know but Haz and Ed can be fun too” He says biting his lip “Isn’t that right Belle?” he asks her, knowing she has a particular soft spot for the twins and if she agrees then it’ll be easier to get the boys to go along with it.
“They play games and let me eat cookies so yeah” she nods as Jake slowly and after about a ten minute battle Elijah agrees with his siblings.
By the time Harry and Edward are home, they’ve been given fair warning and have mentally prepared themselves as much as possible. Harry opens the door the house they share with Louis and smiles softly when he sees Louis playing with the triplets who are already in their pajamas.
“Hi love” Edward says so their presence is known although Louis probably smelt them as soon as they walked into the door. Louis looks up and smiles, standing up and pecking both of his mates on the lips before going to get ready to leave.
Harry sighs as he watches Louis leave but understands that Louis wants to go meet his sister’s mate so he sits down on the couch and watches then triplets. Edward does the same and an awkward silence descends.
“Well, how are you guys?” Harry asks moving so he’s sat on the floor.
“Did you play any fun games with Uncle Lou today?” Edward asks and they triplets nod slowly, unsure of the two men sat in front of them.
When Louis comes down and sees how awkward everything is he rolls his eyes and reminds Harry of the triplets before leaving and wincing slightly as the cries of the triplets can be heard from inside the house.
“Harry what do we do?” Edward asks as soon as they begin crying and Harry looks just as clueless as him so Edward picks all three of them up {Harry credits Edwards alpha strength, Edward just says it’s
because he’s better at lifting than Harry is.}
Once the triplets are being held they calm down surprisingly quickly and once they have they settle down with their toys again. Harry and Edward use this time to eat their dinner but soon Elijah comes in and announces that he’s bored so thinking on his feet, Harry grabs some colored pens and rolls up the sleeves of his shirt before telling the triplets they can color in his tattoos. This is deemed an acceptable activity and they do both of Harry’s arms and then move on to Edwards while Harry fixes them ice cream, remembering Louis’ guidelines on how much to give them so they don’t get hyper.
The evening goes pretty smoothly after that. Harry helps the boys build a fort while Edward gets a princess make over. Once that’s finished, they all manage to squeeze into the fort to watch Finding Nemo since its fairly unisex. After the movie Harry and Edward get the triplets into bed in their spare room.
When they return downstairs they clean up and smile to themselves.
“That was actually pretty fun” Edward hums running a hand through his hair “I don’t think we really had any issues”
“Me neither” Harry says sitting down on the couch and yawning “I’m tired now though”
“We should wait up for Lou” Edward reminds him, turning on the TV and watching the news until Louis comes in and smiles at them.
“How was it?” He asks looking around for any obvious signs of destruction.
“It was good, no damage done babe” Harry smiles pulling Louis onto his lap and kissing his forehead.
“I promise love, no mess or anything” Edward says when he sees Louis’ skeptical face, kissing between his eyebrows where frown lines are.
“Are you sure about that?” He asks standing up to look around the house. He screeches when he finds Harry and Edwards best dress shirts covered in markers put in the wash with his favorite white blanket.
“Harold, Edward!” He yells folding his arms and tapping his foot against the floor “you’ve created an interesting tie dye effect on all the white washing in the machine” Louis says raising an eyebrow “no sex for you two until every patch of Canary Yellow, Dolphin Blue and Vivid Violet are removed from my blanket” he says pursing his lips as Harry and Edward smile sheepishly.
“Sorry lovely” Edward says wrapping his arms around Louis “we didn’t know that would happen”
“And as much as I care about you and your rules we’re going to have to bed you now, Edward and I have decided we’re finally ready for kids of our own” Harry says and smiles when Louis does.
“I’ll let it slip this time, on the condition that you buy me another blanket and promise not to make me scream too loud, there are kids in the house” Louis says smiling and squealing softly as he’s whisked away to the bedroom by his horny alphas.