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Horror 101, Monday

Mitchell wasn't... looking quite as collected as usual today. He was leaning against the back of the classroom, and that was that. In the center of the room were a big stack of fairy tale books, most of them European.

"So I gather you're all a bit busy right now," he started, "I thought I'd get something full of horror for the younger ones. And I have fingerpaints. You know."

A beat.

"Encourage your children to write. Or draw. Or do it yourself. Make something scary and show it off. Enjoy the vacation. And remember - this is how most of us start with our horror. As cautionary tales."

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Fingerpaints, fairy tale books (The Brothers Grimm feature heavily), pencils and coloured paper. Make use of them.

Kendra made a beeline right for the fingerpaints.

"Look Mommy, colors!"

"Yes, sweetie," Chloe said. "Paints."

"I want to color!"

"Yes, Kendra and let's try not yelling inside, ok?"

"I'mma gonna make hair like my mommy's!"

Chloe may have whimpered at that.

"This is below me," Cara said, shaking her head. "I won't do it. Where's Mummy? I want her to entertain me."

Alex very nearly threw some paint at her. Very nearly.

"They're for babies," Annika agreed, also looking for their mother. "Only little kids fingerpaint."

"Exactly," Cara agreed, giving Alex a look of smugness. "And I don't want to get my fingers dirty. That's what Daddy's are for. Mummy says."

"I do not want to know what your father does to get his hands dirty, Cara," Emma sighed, moving to sit with the two girls. "Okay, if you're bored, what do you want to do? Write our own fairy tales for your dads?"

Annika glanced at Cara hesitantly. "Maybe," she said, hoping it wouldn't sound babyish. "I get to be a princess and ride a pony, right?"

Most things, in Annika's opinion, were better if they involved tiaras and ponies.

"Fairy tales?" Cara scoffed, looking unimpressed. "I'm way past fairy tales in reading comprehension, Mummy. Duh."

"I know you are, that's why we're writing them for Daddy," she answered sweetly. Buuuuuuuuuuurn. "Or I'll help you write a horror story, and Annika can do a fairy tale." Pencils were being handed to each girl, because Emma wasn't going to write it for them, unless they were having trouble with printing.

"Have I told either of you two about the time I saw a real, live unicorn? They're not pretend, and they're not just for little kids."

"When you went to visit Aunt Karla," Annika said. She was starting to carefully draw a wobbly pony on the first page of paper. "I know, Mom. And then you always say we'll visit her sometime but we never do."

"Unicorn?" Cara asked, a little interested in that. "Aren't those fake? Daddy says they're fake. Just like happiness."

"Sometimes Daddy says things that aren't true, just to tease," Emma said, picking up a pencil of her own to try and draw one.

It probably wasn't much better than Annika's pony. Emma wasn't an artist.

"I went to visit your Aunt Karla and stay at her home for a long weekend. I like it there a lot, because there's more people like me. The Blood can do a lot of things besides telepathy, but it's nice to have people around that understand," she said, trying to draw the unicorn's head. "I met a young dragon the size of a pony, and saw real unicorns, an entire herd of them."

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While Annika busied herself whining (she seemed to be going for a medal in the activity), Felix settled in with a book of fairytales.

"You didn't want anything else to read?" Jack asked, watching the boy carefully.

He shook his head. "I like these. They're true. And you like it when I want to read in English."

"...all right," Jack said, wondering what the boy meant by 'true' but a little afraid to ask. He'd doodle idly while the boy read.

"Are these yours?" Tony asked Jack.

Jack bobbed his head in a nod. "Annika's mine and Emma's," he confirmed, indicating the blonde girl. "Sebastien and I took Felix in. Passing on a tradition, it seems."

"You didn't have any?"

Tony shook his head. "Not this year. Last year a kid that Ronan and I adopted showed up."

"It's exhausting but interesting," Jack said, then -- making sure Felix wasn't listening -- leaned toward Tony. "Even if the little glimpses of your futures they show you sometimes aren't what you would pick for yourself."

"Yeah," Tony said. "But we don't always get to choose. Looks like you have options, though. Or are they from the same world?"

"Completely different," Jack said. "The girl's from New York and now, more or less, and her mother and I seem to be together. The boy was adopted after the second World War. They only met yesterday."

He rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "They ... haven't tried to kill each other yet."

"Second World War?" Tony shot another glance at Felix, suddenly getting what Jack meant by not what you would pick for yourself. "Oh."

"Oh," Jack agreed, grateful Tony had pieced it together so quickly. "I'm going to worry about it after they go home."

"Yeah, babysitting's enough to deal with," Tony said. "Don't let Jaime look after them, by the way. He'll feed them sugar."

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Yeah, Joshua? Still not into this fairy tale junk, and never would be. He was the one chucking little balls of paper and paper airplanes at people who weren't looking.

Shut up, it was creative too.

Eventually, Dani moved on from the books to drawing. He was creating a rather gruesome scene of what seemed to be a dragon being slain by a knight. Helped by a samurai.

He was having a hard time deciding between obsessions. Shut up.

... Oh, hell. Why not?

It wasn't as though Jonothon had a child to tend to, but that wasn't about to stop him from picking up one of the fairy tale books and flipping through it idly for the duration of the class.

The Brothers Grimm were delightfully gruesome, when you got right to it.

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