Chapter 8
"Daddy, can we see the tigers?" Taissa asks, tugging on Chris's hand, as the Evan's Clan, plus Sebastian's mother walk through the entrance to the zoo.
Chris laughs, scooping her up in his arms. "You bet we can see the tigers!" He says. "I know how much you love them."
Taissa cheers in success. Tigers are one of her favorite animals, and the fact that they're going to see them today, has made the five year old super excited about this trip to the zoo.
While Taissa is excited to see the tigers, Emma on the other hand, is excited to see the zebras. All the way to the zoo, the two year old kept declaring that she wanted to see the zebras. Both Sebastian and Chris aren't too sure why it's the zebras that Emma is most excited about seeing, but they both sure do find it adorable.
In fact, Sebastian and Chris just simply find all three of their wonderful daughters adorable, and can't wait to expand their family more. After all, they're still hoping to have at least one boy. But even if they're going to be stuck with having girls, that's not going to bother them.
Sebastian pays the entry fee once they get to the reception, only having to pay for three adults as children under four enter free. He kind of lied and said that Taissa was four so they didn't need to pay for her entry fee. After all, the zoo isn't exactly that cheap. Anyway, Taissa could get away with looking four years old for now, so it's not that big of a deal. No body's going to know.
As soon as everything's paid for, they're off, walking round the zoo and looking at all the different animals around the place.
After awhile, Taissa gets tired of walking, and gets Chris to carry her around on his shoulders. Thankfully Chris obliges, and sets Taissa up on his shoulders, as they all continue walking round the place.
"I wanna see zebras!" Emma exclaims from where she sat buckled into her stroller that Georgeta was currently pushing.
"We'll see the zebras soon, sweetheart." Sebastian assures her, as he looks over his shoulder at her, before he quickly checks on Sabrina, who had fallen asleep in her own stroller that he's pushing along through the zoo.
Today is definitely such a nice day to walk around the zoo as a family and just have fun while enjoying each other's company. The girls sure seem to be enjoying themselves right now, and that's the main thing. And Sebastian is certainly happy to have his mother here with them also.
Sebastian has missed his mother a lot, and he's glad that she's finally here with them. The girls love having their grandmother here also, as they don't often get to see her.
They really should take a family vacation to Romania sometime, and stay at Georgeta's place. Maybe not till Sabrina is a bit older though. Maybe when she's a year old or something. Sebastian isn't too sure just yet, but they'll go eventually. He definitely wants the girls to see his home country, Chris too, as he's yet to see Sebastian's home country also.
"Daddy?" Taissa asks. "Why is that monkey throwing poo at the other monkey?"
Chris looks over at where Taissa is pointing, and laughs. "I don't know, sweetie." He says. "Monkeys get up to a lot of weird things. I think."
"It's yucky." Taissa says. "I wanna see the tigers now!" She declares. "Can we see the tigers now, please?!"
"We'll get there soon, sweetheart." Chris assures her. "Don't worry."
The family continues on walking around the zoo looking round at all the animals. Though, they have to admit, it can't be that comfortable for all the animals living in captivity, even if their enclosures are rather large.
As they enter the area with the penguin enclosure, Sebastian finds himself smiling widely. He's not sure why, but penguins are one of his favorite animals. Why that is, he has absolutely no idea. Penguins are cute though, so that most likely plays a part as to why he likes them.
Not too soon after that, they're nearing the zebra enclosure, and Sebastian, Chris, and Georgeta can't help but smile as Emma lets out an excited squeal as she sees the zebras.
"Mommy! Daddy! Granny!" Emma squeals excitedly. "Zebras!" She says, pointing towards the zebras running round their large field enclosure.
They stay looking at the zebras for awhile longer, before they're heading off towards more animals like elephants, giraffes, rhinos, hippopotamuses, and deers, before they get to all the big cats and other wild cats.
Much to Taissa's delight, they finally make it over to the tigers, and the five year old couldn't be anymore happier as she sees her favorite animal.
"Daddy?" Taissa asks. "Can we get a pet tiger?"
Chris laughs a little at that. "Sweetheart, tigers aren't meant to be kept as pets." He says. "Besides, your mother's cat is close enough to a tiger."
Sebastian looks over at Chris as he mentions his cat. "Chris, Muffy is more like a lion than a tiger." He says.
"Eh, what's the difference?" He shrugs. "Lions and tigers are both part of the cat family."
"Lions are more lazy than tigers and they really only do something when they really have to." Sebastian explains. "Whereas tigers are more active and agile than lions, and tend to be more aggressive."
Chris lets out a grunt at that. By that explanation, Muffy is definitely more tiger than lion. Then again, the cat isn't exactly that active or agile. The lazy part definitely fits with explaining him though. Maybe a mix of both would fit Muffy.
"Well, that makes it sound as though Muffy is a mix of both." Chris says.
Sebastian laughs, shaking his head at that. "He's more lion than tiger though, Chris." He says.
Chris shrugs, agreeing on that for the most part. Though, he definitely thinks that Muffy is more tiger when it comes to his aggression - especially the aggression towards him.
After that, they walk around more. Luckily Sabrina hasn't kicked up a fuss yet, but Sebastian feels as though it won't be long now till she starts crying because she needs a diaper change, or because she's hungry. It's just a good thing that Sebastian had packed enough diapers to last the day, and he had pumped a bottle of breastmilk for her, as he doesn't quite feel comfortable breastfeeding in public. He's just a little self conscious of strangers seeing him shirtless.
Eventually, they make their way to the zoo's café to get lunch. And expensive it is too. But you get that with any café in places like this, or any café for that matter. The food is just way too overpriced. Sebastian is regretting not packing any food from home. But they don't often eat out, and today is a good enough excuse to get overly priced café food.
Once they've finished their lunch, they have to stop over at the bathrooms so Sebastian can change Sabrina's dirty diaper into a new clean one. She had woken up not too long ago while they were all having lunch, which caused Sebastian to have to momentarily stop eating his lunch to feed the young alpha girl, and then change her diaper afterwards.
After that though, they're off to continue their walk around the zoo. Their next stop on their walk, the reptiles. And then after that, the birds.
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After a long day out at the zoo, the Evans Clan return back home with three tired and hungry girls. Luckily though, since Sebastian can not be bothered to cook anything now, they had opted to get McDonald's for dinner, much to Taissa and Emma's delight as they don't often get takeaways for dinner.
As soon as the girls had their dinner, and Sebastian had finished feeding Sabrina and put her into a fresh diaper, the girls were off to bed. But first, Taissa and Emma were given a bath before bed.
Once the girls are all in bed asleep, Sebastian, Chris, and Georgeta all stay downstairs in the living room for a bit watching TV before they eventually head off to bed also.
"Chris, can you go make me a coffee?" Sebastian asks, looking over at Chris, from where he lay stretched out on the couch with his legs on Chris's lap.
"Isn't it a bit late for coffee?" Chris asks.
Sebastian shrugs, grabbing his phone off the coffee table to check the time. "It's only eight thirty." He says.
Chris sighs, shaking his head a little. "Can't you make one yourself?" He asks, getting up off the couch anyway.
"Too tired." Sebastian sighs, moving round onto his side on the couch. "Plus, you've gotten up anyway."
Chris rolls his eyes at that, shaking his head in amusement. "Okay then." He says, before turning to Georgeta. "Do you want one too while I'm at it?" He asks.
Georgeta shakes her head. "No thanks." She says. "I might head off to bed soon, and leave you boys down here to yourselves."
Chris nods, before making his way into the kitchen, where he's met with a grumpy looking ginger cat. Though really that's not much of a surprise. That cat is always grumpy, and he's always especially grumpy around Chris. Unless of course Chris has something for him.
"Okay, Muffy." Chris sighs. "What is it you want now?" He asks, looking over at the cat's food bowl to see it pretty much empty. "Did Seb refill your bowl before we got the girls ready for bed?" He asks, more to himself, as he's not expecting any answer from the cat.
Shrugging, he grabs the box of cat biscuits out of the pantry and refills Muffy's bowl. He's not too sure if Sebastian had already refilled it or not, but at least the cat has more food in his bowl for if he gets hungry during the night.
Once that's done. Chris gets set on making Sebastian his coffee, and one for himself. He doesn't really need one, but he might as well make himself one anyway.
Then again, he does need to be up early in the morning to take Taissa off to school, and then start going over some emails regarding this new contracting job. He's sure his boss has probably emailed him some information regarding the job and maybe something about who these people are that have hired them for the job. Maybe also something about the dinner meeting thing on Tuesday night also.
As soon as he's finished making his and Sebastian's coffees, Chris is walking back out in the living room to find that Sebastian had managed to fall asleep on the couch. With Muffy curled up asleep on his stomach.
"He gets me to make him a coffee, and then he falls asleep before I can even give it to him." Chris smiles, voice full of affection for his sleeping omega.
Georgeta hums in amusement. "Well, you know how he is." She says. "He was like that as a young boy also."
Chris nods. "Some things just don't seem to change." He says, smiling down at Sebastian, before setting both mugs of coffee down on the coffee table, and kneeling down next to the couch. "Hey, Seb." He says, shaking Sebastian's shoulder gently, trying to get him to wake up.
Sebastian lets out a displeased grunt, before screwing his eyes shut. "Chris." He groans. "Fuck off, I'm tired."
Chris chuckles at that. "But I've got you your coffee you wanted." He says.
At that, Sebastian cracks open an eye, before glancing at the mug of coffee on the table. He opens both eyes at that, sitting up a little, causing Muffy to jump off his stomach.
He reaches out tiredly for the mug, and takes a large gulp, whining as the hotness of the coffee burns his mouth. Setting the mug back down on the table, he sits up fully, stretching his arms up in the air, as he yawns.
"I think after I've finished this coffee, I'm going straight to bed." He yawns, grabbing the mug again, this time taking small sips so he doesn't burn his tongue again.
Chris nods. "Yeah, that sounds like the best idea here." He says.
Sebastian raises an eyebrow at him, as he sips at his coffee. Though, he doesn't say anything. He knows that Chris is right after all, as he is very tired right now, and coffee doesn't really help him stay awake.
Chris sits back on the couch next to Sebastian, grabbing his mug of coffee, before wrapping an arm around Sebastian's shoulders.
For the next hour or so, they just spend time together out in the living room watching TV. Sebastian's mother having retreated off to bed not too long ago, leaving Sebastian and Chris alone cuddled up on the couch as they finish watching an episode of Breaking Bad, before they also decide to go to bed.
And when Sebastian and Chris do finally decide to head off to bed, Sebastian is quick to fall asleep cuddled up against Chris under the covers. With the cat having decided to sleep right across his legs, so he can't move them in fear of waking the cat.
Chris just hopes that the cat stays down the end of the bed instead of at the top near the pillows. He doesn't really want to be woken up early in the morning with a scratch to the face.
Again...