TERRIFIC THURSDAY: Kids

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Ello poppets theladymore offering another prompt. Todays theme is KIDS, whether it be your character having Kids or your favorite Character as a kid. Release you inner child!

While we want to have fun we have to remember the rules

♥ No more than five prompts in a row.
♥ No more than three prompts from one fandom at a time.
♥ No spoilers in your prompt until at least one week after the original airing/publication date. If there are spoilers in your fic, warn in bold and leave at least three spaces

To make it easier on our code monkies remember the following format:

fandom(s), character or pairing, prompt

EXAMPLES:

The Hunger Games, Peeta/Katniss, The First Day of Kindergarden
Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir, Their first kid
Doctor Who, Amy Pond/Rory Williams + OC Child, They finally get the chance they were robbed of years ago.....raising a child.

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Comments

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Chuck, anyone, de-aged character -- he/she's a handful

FILL

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

Maybe if Casey had retained his memories of himself - while he was... like this - this wouldn't be so hard. A very-much-adult John Casey, stuck inside a tiny, child-like version of himself would be creepy but ultimately manageable.

Adult John Casey would not have led Chuck and Sarah on a two hour scramble through the bowels of Castle, terrified that they wouldn't catch their newly-pintsized partner before he pushed the wrong button. Adult John Casey wouldn't have hidden inside Jeff's van because 'Gen'al Beacon was mean to Unca Chuck!' and force Chuck to call in a fully-outfitted SWAT team, certain that John had been kidnapped.

Adult John Casey would not have pouty-lipped and puppy-dog-eyed a defenseless Sarah into reading him bedtime stories (which they both hope Casey can forgive them for, once he's restored to his proper age and size; Ronald Reagen biographies worked fine the first couple of nights, but after that Ellie insisted that they all head to the Barnes & Nobles and buy John some appropriate children's books.)

Adult John Casey would not have thrown a military-grade temper tantrum until 'Unca Chuck' and 'Unca Mow-gan' agreed to stop doing 'dumb spy stuff' and play with him.

Toddler John is watching Captain America, for the fifth time, sitting in his Uncle Morgan's lap, while Chuck packs away the complete set of Skippyjon Jones picture books and Avengers action figures that soon-to-be-once-more-adult John will probably curl his lip at.

"Are you sure we can't just-"

"You know we can't, Chuck." Sarah stops him, but she doesn't look happy to do it.

"What if it doesn't work?" Chuck pushes on. "What if it hurts him? He's going to be so scared..."

"We've got to try, Chuck. Casey - our Casey - deserves to have his life back," Sarah says firmly. "Don't you want him back?"

Sarah doesn't say what both of them are obviously thinking. It's become unclear which Casey is "their" Casey... and, whichever one comes home with them tonight, they're going to end up missing one of them

Toddler John clings to either Chuck or Sarah or Morgan through the duration of the trip to DC, but only moments after placing him, with his tiny quivering lips, inside the restoration chamber and tearing themselves away, Adult John Casey steps out.

He is dazed but otherwise completely unharmed. And completely oblivious to everything that's happened since the de-aging.

"What the hell's going on? Where the hell are we?" Casey demands, in his gruffest, most intimidating growl. "Walker, you alright?" he asks, only somewhat softer, when Sarah springs an emphatic, obviously unexpected hug on him.

"She's fine, Casey," Chuck says, with a hand on his wife's back and a somehow even voice. "It's just good to have you back, Casey."

And it is. Spying wasn't the same without Casey's snark in Chuck's earpiece; Casey's back to his back in a firefight. And if Chuck gets a little teary-eyed himself, when he realizes that he forgot the box of Toddler John's toys he packed at Casey's - and it's gone when he goes looking for it - well.

His worries are put to rest the day Casey finds himself babysitting Clara. Chuck and Sarah drop by before Ellie and Devon come to get her back, and they find Casey sitting on his couch with Clara on his knee, reading Skippyjon Jones - complete with voices.

They sneak away, grinning at one another like idiots.

When The Winter Soldier hits theaters, Chuck asks Casey to go with him and Morgan. Casey pretends to grumble about it, but he watches every scene rapt, while Chuck and Morgan pretend they got popcorn dust in their eyes.

Re: FILL

[daria234.livejournal.com]

I love this <3

This is so adorable and I can so picture all of it. I love that Chuck has mixed feelings about which Casey is their Casey, I love them reading to him, I love how much little Casey loves Captain America.

Thank you so much!!!!