Childcrackers Pillow Fight - Prompt

[pseudo8413]

This is a response to Sharpie's prompt suggestion for the 1st prompt swap. I had a fun time writing it. I kind of started on it as soon as I got it... And I couldn't stop! :P
But, I built onto it if you don't mind. :)

P.S. I have Pause and Beef as seven and Etho is younger. By how much, I can't decide what would be appropriate. Enjoy the little tidbits I included!

"Look! It's Beef's dad pulling up!" Pause exclaimed from the window. He ran past Etho's dad, Mr. Boulderfist and into the kitchen to open the door for his friend. He was already in his green dinosaur footie pajamas and his short brown hair was curled slightly around his ears.

Mr. Boulderfist walked behind Pause and held the door while the seven year old bounced impatiently on the doorstep. He was a tall blond man in his middle thirties and wore a green polo and khaki shorts. He waved to the occupants of the car and looked back inside the house at Etho.

His son was standing at the window where Pause had been waiting for the final sleepover guest. Etho touched the glass with his hand and breathed in deeply. He had chosen his redstone dust pj's to wear to bed, all by himself. Mr. Boulderfist smiled to himself when he saw Etho's black hair sticking up in a cowlick again, but noticed that something was off in the boy.

"You alright, champ?"

Etho glanced up at his father and over at oblivious, overexcited Pause. "Do they have to stay all night?" he asked, nearly whining out the "all."

He missed getting his question answered when Beef came into the house, clutching his sleepover bag.

Pause grabbed Beef's elbow and pulled him toward the stairs to Etho's bedroom. "Beef! Beef! Beef! You have to sleep next to me! We're going to play Go Fish before we go to bed and eat popcorn and play Etho's video games!"

Mr. Boulderfist grinned at Pause's eagerness and returned to the living room where a football game was showing on the television.

Beef pushed Pause away and stopped on the stairs and looked down at Etho. "Aren't you coming?"

Etho sighed and climbed the steps behind them, nodding along the way.

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Beef changed into his pajamas in Etho's bathroom and came out in the middle of an argument between Etho and Pause.

"No! Don't touch him Pause!"

"I'm not going to hurt it! I just want to look!"

Etho ran away from Pause with a stuffed penguin tucked under his arm and climbed onto his bed. He held the penguin above his head and glowered down at Pause.

He saw Beef standing awkwardly against the wall, having changed into orange race car pajamas. Beef smoothed his unruly brown hair, unsure of what to do.

Pause sat down cross legged on his sleeping bag and pouted. "Jeez, Etho. You invited us over but all you've been is a meanie!"

Moving away from the wall and standing next to Pause, Beef folded his arms. "You shouldn't fight, guys. We're friends, right?"

"Friends don't try to take Jarool. And they don't try to take my dad either," Etho muttered, and sat with his penguin in his lap. He touched the stuffed animal's yellow beak and downcast his eyes.

Pause and Beef both widened their eyes at Etho.

"What?" Pause began. "Where did you come up with that?"

Beef nodded in agreement with Pause. "Etho, your dad is great, but we've both got our own. Pause has two! Why would you think that?"

Etho shut his eyes and tears started falling. "He loves you guys more than me. It was his idea to have a sleepover." He curled over the stuffed penguin and held it tightly to his chest.

Both boys shared a pained look and slowly climbed onto the bed beside Etho and leaned against him with arms around each others shoulders.

"It's OK, Etho. It's not true, your dad loves you. My dad says that all little boys are loved by good fathers more than anything in the whole world," Beef said soothingly.

Shaking his head, Etho leaned into Beef and sobbed out, "No he doesn't. He's not good!"

Pause huffed loudly. "You really think so? What about the lion at the zoo? Didn't your dad help you get over being afraid of it? It turned out to be your favorite part!"

Hearing the chiding in Pause's tone, Etho sat up and rubbed his eyes, gradually wiping his face dry. "Yeah, he did. B-but I don't know."

"Jeez Etho, you're such a baby sometimes. Stop crying or I'll hit you with a pillow," Pause replied bossily.

"Pause..." Beef warned as Pause appeared ready to carry out his threat, raising a pillow over his head.

Ignoring Beef, and a small out-cry from Etho, Pause brought the pillow down on to Etho's shoulder. He grinned to himself when he got Etho to pick up a pillow of his own and angrily swat him with it.

Beef raised his arms in defense and attempted to escape the pillow fight he knew that was on it's way. However, Pause nailed him with an airborne pillow in the side of the face. Etho saw the pillow fly and hit it's mark. The corners of his mouth twitched when Beef picked up the pillow and stood up on the bed and went after Pause, swinging wildly.

Pause ducked away from the pillow and it instead hit Etho. Stopping for a moment, he waited to see what the younger boy would do.

Beef dropped his pillow and stared with wide eyes at Etho, afraid that he had made him mad. "I'm sorry Etho..."

Etho suddenly laughed out and swiped back at Beef with a pillow. His eyes had brightened and there were no more dried tears.

Grinning, Beef picked his pillow back up and chased Pause off the bed. He was glad that Etho wasn't upset anymore and looked actually happy to have his friends there.

Pause saw Beef's grin and winked. He was always the one to cheer Etho up, it seemed, no matter how much they picked on each other.

Comments

[yuna_dragneel23]

:D That's so cute<3

[pseudo8413]

Yay for cuteness!

[ex_writeitinsharpie308]

I loved it :D
So adorable! I wondered how this would go...

[pseudo8413]

I hoped you would approve! To be honest, I started writing it without a clue about where it would go either.

[ex_writeitinsharpie308]

I also approve of the add-ons. :D

[pseudo8413]

Yay! Thanks! :)

[bookworm2692]

D'awwwww. I love these three! A lot. Just, I can't handle the cuteness!

[pseudo8413]

:D Woo! I've overcome Book with cuteness! Team Canada was my first pick for characters and I knew it had to be them. ;)

[bookworm2692]

Yeah, you can never go wrong with Team Canada

[fallingonthefloor]

This is adorable :D

[pseudo8413]

Thanks! Free hugs from childcracker Pause for you! :P

[jack_unicorn]

I got really confused when you said that Etho had black hair. *confused Jack is confused*

[pseudo8413]

I'm sorry to hear that. How is it that you are confused, though? Have you never seen someone with black hair? If Etho has mentioned what hair color he has before, please know that I usually make up a person's appearance if I don't already know what their physical characteristics are. :)

[jack_unicorn]

I seem to remember that he said what hair color he had a in Bdubs stream a couple of months ago. Or in one of his videos.
Also, as someone feeling a little bit uncomfortable writing about the real people behind the characters in the game, I find it confusing when people doesn't base their looks on their skins. I understand it, I just find it confusing.

[pseudo8413]

I didn't know that. *shrugs* I can't know everything. Having the same problem in my fic. I get uncomfortable about that too! I can not relate to your confusion though. Awesome name, by the way! Unicorns!

[yaoi15]

Asnjocnoewjnalkndjkajndjnkckjdknwk (translation: 100000000/10 for adorableness!)