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No Worries 16
by ciejye
 

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The sound emanated in the room long and loud. 

"JENNIFER!" Walter admonished from his place in the big leather chair where he was going over some files.

"It wasn't me!" Jenny sputtered indignantly, "I was raised to leave the room when I needed to do  … that."

Walter looked at the other occupant of the room who had the good grace to blush. "Excuse me" Fox murmured and shifted.

"EWWWWWWWWW GROSSSSS" Jenny explained, her hand covered her nose and mouth as she scrambled off the couch she was sharing with Fox, her schoolbooks flying everywhere. 

A moment later the smell hit Walter, it was a sulfur/garlic/bathroom after a chili dinner/something-died-in-there kind of smell. 

"Fox WILLIAM!" Walter exclaimed as he gagged and got up for the air freshener, Fox wanted to die from embarrassment. Jenny headed for the balcony as Walter thrust the newspaper in Fox's hand and shoved him to the bathroom.

Half an hour and several flushes later Fox, still red-faced came from the bathroom.

"You okay Babe?" Walter asked.

Fox blushed deeper and nodded. "Just don't go in the bathroom for a while.

Walter chuckled and grimaced at the same time. 

Fox ended up in the bathroom four more times in the next two hours. Jenny asked several times if she could PLEASE go join an orphanage before she died of asphyxiation. Walter frowned at her but after the fourth trip he was contemplating joining her. Finally, Fox went to bed rather than come out in the living room. Jenny had finished her homework and went to the kitchen. Walter heard posts rattle and water run, he thought for a moment and looked at the time, then headed into the kitchen after his little girl. 

"Hungry?" he asked as Jenny dumped rice in the pot. 

Jenny grinned, "Yes but this isn't for me ifs for Fo..errr Tattah,"

Walter smiled at the catch and turned on the oven "that is sweet of you sweetie, but I don't know that Fox really wants to eat right now." And pulled a frozen pizza from the freezer. Jenny's eyes lit up then glanced at the clock slyly.

Walter saw her look and smiled "Don't worry you can stay up for pizza baby girl" the last word was cut off by Jenny's tight hug, she had been on restriction for so long she didn't think she would ever get a break. 

"THANK YOU Papa!!"

Walter smiled and hugged his baby back. In the time since Alex had brought Jenny home Jenny had been on her best behavior. She seemed to thrive on the stricter rules and discipline, finding security in it. Walter made sure she had plenty of time for her as well three nights a week he came home by six and every other weekend the three of them did something special together, they also started going to church as a family on Sunday mornings. 

Church was interesting, Fox and Walter didn't hide that they were a couple and Jenny was proud of her two fathers. The first church they tried politely asked that they not return unless they stopped living in sin. The second simply excluded them from everything with a wall of silence.  The third was ambivalent and while they didn't condone two game men as a couple they didn't pass judgment on it either. The Pastor refused to let them receive communion because they didn't repent all their sins. 

The fourth church accepted them with open arms saying that while there were Biblical references to homosexuality as being a sin it was also said judge not lest ye be judged and let he who is without sin cast the first stone, and love they neighbor. 

They were at peace there and became quiet active in the youth group and choir. 

Walter watched Jenny boil rice for 20 minutes then pour the water into a bowl, he grimaced as she added Jell-O mix and stirred an ice cube or two into it. 

"He'll never drink that," Walter observed as Jenny poured a glass of it. 

Jenny grinned and took out some of the rice and mashed it up, then shaped it into two suppository bullets. "I think he will," she grinned as her father tossed back his head and just laughed. 

"Just look gruff Papa and back me up." Jenny picked up the tray with the Jell-O rice water and bullets, she paused at the junk drawer and took out the latex glove that was in there.

"You are truly an evil child." Walter laughed.

Jenny simply grinned, "You say that like it's a BAD thing." She dimpled a grin again then stopped. "Have to look serious, " she said as they went into the Master bedroom. 

Fox was lying on the bed in his boxers and a T-shirt, he looked a bit feverish as Jenny entered he pulled a sheet over him, "a little privacy brat" he snarled. 

Jenny set the tray where he could see it "NO!" Fox said forcefully,

"You have a choice Tattah, either drink this or we can use these." Jenny said firmly.

Fox glared at his soon to be adopted daughter who just glared back for a moment when Fox didn't move, Jenny picked up the latex glove pointedly and flipped it over toward her father. Fox picked up the glass of Jell-O rice water and drank it down without a breath. "THAT's just NASTY," he gagged and sputtered. As Walter hid a chuckle. 

"But it will help." Jenny said softly.

"How do you know?" Fox asked nastily "What do you have a degree in medicine too?"

Walter frowned at his lover, true, Fox didn't feel good but that was no reason to take it out on Jenny, who was only trying to help. 

Jenny on the other hand simply smiled  "nope, no degree yet, next week perhaps. I know because that's what grandma gave me when I was sick with the green apple dirties" 

Walter laughed and should have remembered the remedy from his late mother, which had been used on Jenny as a young child. 

"All right, whatever," Fox said as he finished the last of the drink and gagged again.

Jenny grinned and tucked him in, she kissed him on the forehead the stood up and turned to her father "lets go have pizza now Papa, it should be done." She said with a pure wickedness just so Fox could hear and groan.

Walter saw the look on Fox's face and swatted his daughter as she passed him. "That was just mean." he admonished sternly. 

"I'm sorry." Jenny tried to look contrite as she rubbed the stinging spot on her bottom. 

Walter leaned over Fox and kissed his forehead "I'll come back in a while and give you a back rub." he promised. 

Fox grinned at the promise and snuggled down deeper into the covers, to sleep off whatever this was that was trying to kill him slowly. 
 

In the kitchen Walter glared at his child who tried to look contrite. "Forgot your manners there for a moment it would seem." He growled. 

"I'm sorry Papa, I know it was wrong, I .. I didn't mean to be a brat." Jenny sniffed for effect. "I was just remembering when I was sick and how I got teased by Tattah."

Walter knew when she was talking about, and nodded, Fox HAD teased her when she had the stomach flu a couple weeks earlier, but he also got a backside swatted as she had. "I didn't let him get away with it either." He said firmly. "You know how it feels, so why do it?"

Jenny sniffed again and pouted. "I don't know, it well I.. that is .. I don't know it was mean.. I'm sorry." Then she yelped as her father's big hand landed on her rump again. 

"Don't let it happen again or there will be a lot more than just two swats landing on your sassy little backside." Walter admonished firmly, then pulled the pizza out of the oven. "Now lets eat." 

"YES SIR!" Jenny grinned and dug into the hot ham, mushroom and pineapple pizza with gusto.
 
 

To be continued in part 17