bedtimes and wounds

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Summary: Shelby deals with the consequence of adopting chaotic, slightly scary, children; and having a monsterslayer as a girlfriend

Shelby groaned awake to glowing eyes and froze, staring back

“….Tortoise whattt are you doing?” she asked

“do you know where my trains are?” he asked instead of answering

She sighed, and looked at the time, “sweetheart its 11pm” she said, rubbing her eyes with one hand before propping her cheek up against it

“….I know but…I lost them and couldn’t find it before I had to go to bed…” Tortoise whispered

She groaned and sighed again, sitting up and throwing the covers off her, knees over the side of the bed, “do you know where you last saw it?” she asked

“no”

“okay…where were you last playing with it?”

“don’t know”

Another sigh, “okay, okay that’s fine. Did you check your room?”

“obviously!”

“okay okay, keep your voice down love…did you check outside?”

“yeah”

“….did you check the porch “

“….no”

“okay then lets go check the porch”

Turns put they didn’t even have to go out side….it was behind the couch and Tortoise saw it while Shelby was unlocking the door
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“mama” False asked

“mmm” she moaned wake, looking at the clock then to her daughter, “Sparky its 2:10am….”

“yeah I know”

“….okay, what- what do you need me for?”

“oh, nothing! I just wanted to tell you I finished my project”

“oh that’s great False” Shelby said tiredly, resting against her pillow

“I sharpened the blade”

“….thats nice False”

“its super sharp, it cut through an apple! Clean!!”

“that’s sounds amazing False- mind turning down your volume though? Don’t wanna wake you brothers”

okay” she whispered

“not- you don’t gotta turn it down that low lovely”

She tilted her head confused

“nev- nevermind” she didn’t have the energy for this, “keep going, ignore mama right now, she’s just tired”

“okay! Well I tested it on a bunch of stuff! You could use it to cut your vegetables!”

“thank you False, maybe ill try it tomorrow”

“mhm!! It’s a guillotine so its super sharp!”

“yes yes, very sharp sounds amazing, you can show me in the morning okay? Show me how you made it and stuff”

“okay!” false chirped and she left

Shelby settled back into her bed

“…..wait it’s a what?” she asked , brows furled together staring at a wall, concerning lacing her tone, “…..I’ll deal with it in the morning”
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“mom!” a whisper shout came, making her groan awake, again, and blink her eyes open

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