Socket

Mine and Aff's word challenge #6

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Children. Bloody children. There was 'exploring' and then there was just frustrating. The fact that he had spent the entire afternoon chasing after a 2 year old determined to put anything other than a plug in every plug socket in the apartment; even ones that Kay didn't know existed. Once again scooping her up from the floor, taking the pencil from her she had been trying to force into the device before she did some damage with it, he couldn't understand how Juliet did it.

If she were to tell her no, she wouldn't do it. But apparently him telling his daughter no was cue for a girlish giggle, a smack in the face or a good old hair pull and for her to do it again two minutes later. This time? The smack in the face. And thats why he had taken the pencil off of her so she didn't get him in the eye with it. With an attempt at a stern 'no' he placed the two year old down in the middle of the room, giving her a plush toy to try and distract her while he went to the bathroom. Surely she couldn't do anything in the brief period it took him to take a leak.

Wrong. Returning, Danae had in hand the metal pen Kay had been using to try and fill out some paperwork and was deciding that not only did she want to make that work like the TV did when it was plugged in, but that the area around the plug was boring and needed sprucing up with some artistic scribbles. Great, just great. She was going to kill herself and ruin the house at the same time. "I swear to god, Danae..." Mumbling, tattooed arms once again lifted the girl before she did any damage, narrowly avoiding a pen up the nose before she threw it, those fingers clamping down around strands of hair fiercely.

With a rather defeated sigh, sitting down on the sofa with the toddler attached to his head kay admitted he didn't think that raising a child would be easy; hence why he had never planned to be a father, but this was just taking the piss. And the joys of it all? He had this for another two days. Never again was he going to let his wife go away with work for more than a day, not if he didn't want to be driven towards an early grave.