SDD Babysitters?!
Ch 12
How Does She Do It?!

DING DONG!

“I'll get it!” Avarus yelled, limping to the door. Did Ira really have to snap his ankle? Or rip out his lung? Or bash his skull into the chimney for that matter...?

“'Sup my bitch?!” Jackle greeted through the door.
“...'Sup?”
“WONDER TWIN POWERS ACTIVATE! FORM OF SUPERMAN!” Jackle laughed, striking a pose as the door opened. After a few seconds, he started glaring pointedly at Avarus, who was still just standing there.
“...Oh, me too?” Avarus blinked, before striking his own (rather unconvincing) pose. “Um...form of Tuxedo Man?” Avarus glanced at Jackle again, only to flinch; the dude was glaring at him, looking almost insulted.
“What-?”
“YOU SUCK AT THIS GAME!!” Jackle yelled angrily. Right at that second, Speckles half-ran, half-danced in, jamming to whatever she was listening to on her iPod.
“Speckles? What are you listening to?” Avarus asked.
“Hm? HI JACKLE!” Speckles shrieked, forgetting Avarus and glompig Jackle.
“Jailbait? What are you doing here?” Jackle asked, struggling to breathe through Speckles hugging him.
“The SDD's are babysitting us, silly!” Speckles giggled, releasing the caped moron.

“Really? COOL! Hey, where's Ira?” At this point, both Speckles and Avarus both froze up. As Jackle started babbling about Ira and how hot she was, Speckles and Avarus were both franticly trying to think of an alibi to bail out Ira, because both knew that Ira + Jackle = certain death for the poor idiot, and possibly a violent maiming for Avarus.

“Jackle, she's not coming downstairs tonight.” Avarus blurted out.
“And she's-wait, what?”
“She's uh, she's...um...” Avarus faltered, unable to come up with an excuse.
“SICK!” Speckles blurted out. “She's got really bad cases of, um, rabies and rectal cancer!” Hey, she was trying to come up with two debilitating diseases under pressure to keep Ira from having to deal with the guy. It's hard to think under pressure!
“Cancer?! NOOO!” Jackle screamed, trying to run to Ira's room, but was tackled by both Avarus and Speckles before he got the chance.
“She's not dying! (unfortunately) The Doctor said it was an incredibly rare, yet incredibly contagious form of cancer that goes away after a few days! So she'll be fine in a week or so!” Avarus yelled, adding on to the obvious lie in hopes of discouraging Jackle.
“Really? She's not dying?”
“Yeah! She's totally fine! Now then, why don't you go sit in the living room and kick Avarus's butt at cards?” Speckles laughed nervously, shoving the two grown-ups into said room.
“Cool!”
“HEY!”

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“You told them I had WHAT?!”
“I'm really sorry! I was under a lot of pressure!” Speckles apologized, hugging Ira around her knees. She had gone upstairs to explain the situation to the others, and apparently Ira had something against pretending to have cancer in her ass.
“Why the hell did you say I had THOSE diseases?!”
“I couldn't think of anything else! Please don't eat me!” Speckles begged.
“Whatever, Ira can just hide in my closet until we fix her wall.” Salomn interjected, hopefully stopping a fight from breaking out. Ira seethed for a second, than bent down to face Speckles, smiling for some reason. A nameless fear surged through Speckles; Ira was SMILING. Something bad was going to happen to her now, she knew it. Ira NEVER smiled at her.
“You win for now Speckles, but remember: I WILL get you for this. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but I WILL get even with you.” Ira whispered, still smiling, before standing back up and walking out of the room. Speckles turned green as soon as the older girl left, and bolted for the toilet. Oh god...

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Sally and Melyna both opened their eyes, than blinked in confusion. How did they get here? This blue box wasn't their crib, it belonged to the tall blue one that understood their language! So why were they in here? Was it because Mommy and Daddy were making happy noises again?

Sally frowned. Speaking of the blue one, she and Melyna had to do something about her. A grown-up that understood baby-speak could seriously jeopardize their mission, and possibly get them thrown in time-out.
What was their mission? To take over the entire Night Dimension. Nightmare, Nightopia, everything. From Dark Mountain to the Dream Gate, it would belong to THEM.
Unfortunately, things weren't going too well at the current time. For one thing, they were always under constant watch by the inferior Tall Ones, who seemed to think that they were superior just because of their ridiculous heights. Another problem was that all they had to work with was a bunch of baby toys and their adorable baby charms.
Nevertheless, the two infants had a mission, and darn it, they would succeed, and have the Night Dimension at their feet, and enough toys to make an entire castle. But first, they needed to figure out just how to take out the blue one. She could endanger the entire mission, and they'd have to come up with a new plan for world domination.

With this thought in mind, the two babies clambered out of the coffin and out the door...

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Envy was walking to his room, wondering when Taboo would be done in the laundry. It was kind of troublesome not having the little doll, because now he couldn't communicate as well, and had nothing to vent his annoyance on. Oh well, maybe some piano playing and cartoons would make him feel better.

As he approached his door, he could've sworn he heard soft singing and someone playing his piano. His eyes widened; someone was in his room?!

He swiftly walked to his room, and opened the door. There, staring back at him and sitting at his piano, was Reena, who now looked incredibly startled, and more than a little embarrassed. Envy blinked; he definitely hadn't been expecting this. Why was she in his room?
She was still sitting there, staring back at him nervously. She was in trouble, she could already tell, she had just invaded Envy's personal space, there was no way he wasn't at least a little mad!
They continued to stare at each other for a good couple of minutes, before Reena finally moved. Mumbling an apology and blushing heavily (which Envy noticed was a green color. How strange.), she rose to her feet and tried to dart past him. However, he grabbed her upper arm, making her freeze and whip her head to face him. He seemed just as surprised as she was, and just blinked for a few times before slowly pointing to the piano.
“...Do you want me to play that song again?” Reena asked nervously. Envy hesitated, then nodded. Slightly confused, Reena walked back to the piano and sat at the bench again, Envy moving to sit next to her. Looking at him for a second time, Reena slowly began to play again. She was nervous at first, but as the song went on, she became more confident, and even started singing again. Pretty soon, she even forgot that Envy was there, and just let the music float through her mind and out her fingers.
Envy stared, more than a little impressed. He had heard her say that she knew how to play piano, but he had never heard her actually play before now. Furthermore, she had always said that she wasn't as good as she could be, but here she was, totally absorbed in the music, and actually sounding really good; heck, with a little practice, she could be at his level!
As Reena played the final notes to her song, she couldn't help but smile slightly. This was the first time she'd played in front of someone and actually felt like she didn't completely suck. She looked over to see Envy's reaction. The youngest sinner maren's face was still mostly emotionless, but she had learned from living with her mom how to read silence, and she could tell he was impressed.

Just then, yelling could be heard from the open doorway. They both turned to see what it was, only to blink and sweatdrop. Envy raised a brow while Reena put her head in her hand and sighed.
Crawling past the door was Melyna, still wearing Envy's old gown, and she was carrying a screaming Taboo in her mouth similar to how a mother cat carries her kitten in her mouth, and her tail was flipping happily. Meanwhile, Taboo was decidedly less amused than the little baby.
“Wah! Get this baby off me! Envy, help! It's TEETHING!” Taboo shrieked, wings twitching as he begged. Melyna merely giggled, and kept crawling past the door and down the hall. Envy and Reena merely continued to watch, ignoring the doll's cries for help.
“...Wanna watch Tom & Jerry, eat apples, and forget about this incident?” Reena asked. Envy nodded, getting up to get some apples out of his closet.

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“What the-?!” Avarus exclaimed, having reached to take a card off the deck only to find the deck gone. He groaned. “Jackle, if you're going to cheat, try to make it less obvious!”
“What are you talking about? YOU'RE the one who stole the deck!” Jackle shot back. Avarus was about to sling a few choice explicit words at the floating laundry, when a strange smell suddenly floated by the two.
“Oh, god, what the hell just died?!” Avarus yelled, covering his nose with his tie while Jackle covered his with his cape and gagged in revulsion.

(A/N: How does that even work?! None of these people even HAVE noses!)

Avarus bent over, hoping the fumes would rise to the ceiling, when something under the table caught his eye. Or rather, someONE caught his eye. Someone who had spread the cards into a huge mess, and was now just sitting with a steaming diaper.
“SALLY!” Avarus yelled, gagging from the smell.

~20 minutes and several attempts at changing a diaper worthy of the Three Stooges later...~

Sally was sitting in a highchair around the card table with Jackle and Avarus, a fan blowing in her direction and cards in her hand. Just then, Salomn walked in, trying to figure out what that strange smell was. However, when he saw that Jackle and Avarus were letting a 7-month-old baby gamble, he became slightly cross.
“What the hell are you doing?! Letting Envy gamble was one thing, but letting Sally?! She's just a baby! What the hell?!” he almost roared.
“Come on! This munchkin's a natural! Almost as much as Envy is!” Jackle laughed, setting a card down. Sally set a card down, giggling as she mimiced Jackle's move, causing Avarus to grimace in response. Salomn frowned.
“I don't care if she's been playing for twenty years! She's a baby! She's NOT going to keep gambling!” Salomn scolded, walking over and picking up the little spawn of Satan. She immediately started squirming, trying to throw her hand down, and it actually landed on the table. All the grownups stared at the Royal Flush that now lay on the table, then stared at the little kid now holding her palm out in Jackle's direction.

Silence...then-

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!” Jackle yelled, slightly annoyed. “THIS IS THE 4th TIME THAT'S HAPPENED NOW!! HOW DOES SHE KEEP BEATING ME?!”
“Maybe you just SUCK!” Avarus snickered. Sally made a squeaking noise, and waved her hand again, a small pout forming on her face. Jackle made a grumbling noise, and pulled out what looked like a light green and pink-fringed blanket. Closer inspection revealed it to be a baby cape, and the perfect size for the now-cheering baby. Jacle lightly tossed it over, and she actually caught it, giggling the whole time.

“Aaaaaaaaaaw!”

All the guys (and the now caped Sally) looked up to see Speckles, Ignavus, and (to everyone's surprise) a giddy Myu holding Melyna(Myu definitely had major “bed head”). Speckles had just taken a picture, and was now running upstairs with a lightly giggling Ignavus, and Myu slowly wandered to the kitchen for an icepack (LIMP OF SHAME! XD) and to get Melyna's bottle. Avarus bolted up the stairs, hell-bent on destroying the camera. Salomn merely rolled his eyes and carried Sally back upstairs to put her back to bed.
After dropping Sally off, Salomn decided to see what Envy was up to, seeing as how no one had seen him or Reena for several hours. He opened the door to Envy's room, only for his jaw to drop from shock.

There, cuddled up on the couch with a bowl of apple cores and the TV still on, was Reena and Envy, both sound asleep.
Salomn gently lifted his brother up and placed him in his coffin, before throwing a light blanket over Reena.

Jackle left not long after that, and everyone went to bed not long after that, blissfully unaware of what would befall them the coming up day and night, as one window was left slightly open...

To be continued!