After a surgery to realign the bones in Siegbert’s leg after a bad fall, Soleil is worried about him and his feelings…
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“Papa?” Soleil piped up over dinner one day, big hazel eyes blinking as she pushed her peas aside. Xander looked up from his own dinner, smiling at his daughter.
“What is it, darling?” The little girl grinned, quickly vacating her seat, crawling under the table, and onto Xander’s lap. He chuckled at this before she puffed out her cheeks indignantly.
“Stop laughing! I’m being <i>very</i> serious right now!” she pouted, and Xander nodded dutifully.
“Of course, princess, continue,” he said, voice steady and warm. The girl on his lap cuddled into him.
“Papa, I know Sieggy has issues after his accident, but I still wanna go trick or treating with him,” she mumbled, and Xander froze. “I’ll be good with him! I promise! I’ll push his wheelchair and carry his candy bag up all the steps to people’s houses and make sure he gets all the candy he deserves!” she pleaded, and Xander held her in a tight hug.
“I… I’ll ask Dad, and Siegbert to see if they both want to, and if Dad thinks it’s okay…” he offered, voice wary. The girl squealed, her pink hair bouncing with her before Xander shushed her. “But if they say no, they it’ll just be me and you, understood?” She sighed, but nodded before slipping out from her father’s embrace and climbing back under the table to emerge on her own seat again.
She stared at her near-empty plate, eyeing the last of the food, the peas, distrustfully before grinning at her father. “Ice cream?”
“Eat your peas, then yes, “ he answered without looking up from his own food, and the girl whined in defeat.
Xander sighed as he cuddled into his husband on their bed, loosening up as Inigo ran his hands through his hair gently.
“Darling, Soleil was talking to me over dinner today…” he began, and Inigo hummed, encouraging him to continue. “She wants Siegbert to go trick or treating with her next week-” he flinched as his husband tensed behind him, but continued nonetheless. “She doesn’t want him to be left out, and she wants him to, her words, “get all the candy he deserves,” and… And I think it’s a good plan. I-I know he’s still recovering from surgery and this is only if he wants to of course but I-” he’s cut off by the sound and feeling of his husband laughing at his back. His frown deepens, afraid Inigo is about to say no despite the way his laughter doesn’t sound malicious, oh dear he’ll have to tell Soleil about this-
“Xander, darling, <i>that’s</i> what was worrying you? Oh honey, I thought it was company business that had you worked up,” he said softly, pressing a gentle kiss on Xander’s neck. “Of <i>course</i> he can go if he wants to, his current limitations shouldn’t stop him from being a kid, just like Soleil is. Now, if he doesn’t want to, then he doesn’t have to, but…” He felt his husband smile into his neck. “I’m pretty sure he’ll be overjoyed by the concept, though,” Inigo commented, and Xander smiled, turning to look his husband in the eye.
“God, did I ever tell you how much I love you?”
“Multiple times, Xander. Though I believe the first was during the coffee date that Elise crashed about a week before you asked me to move in with you?” Xander felt a blush rise up on his face.
“… I… I do believe that is true.” Inigo scooted forwards a touch so they were a hair’s width apart, grinning. “But I still mean it with the same intensity, if not more than I did mean it when I first spoke it.” Xander smiled as Inigo’s face flushed bright red. The man groaned and put his hands over his face.
“Uhg, Xander, how do you <i>do</i> that?! I’m just here and trying to get you to blush and you always do but then you pull something like <i>that</i> out of thin air!” he whined, and Xander laughed, taking his husband’s hands from his face gently and kissing him.
“Because I love you more than I can ever put into words, so when I find ways to make it even slightly apparent through speech I enjoy going through with it.” Inigo whined again before pressing into Xander for another kiss.
Soleil ran to her brother, grinning wildly as she spun around the corner into his room before skidding to a stop beside his desk. He looked up at her, seeming confused.
“Sol? Do you need help with math again? Because I really need to keep studying for-”
“Doyouwannagotrickortreating?!” she asked, and Siegbert blinked, confused.
“I’m sorry, Soleil, but you were talking too fast I didn’t-”
“Do <i>you</i> want to go <i>trick or treating</i>?!” she said again, slower this time. Siegbert blinked again before moving his hand to his chest.
“W-wait, y-you mean I might me a-able to…?” She nodded, grin growing with each passing second.
“Yep. Papa says he’d like that, so we just gotta wait for Dad to give the final verdict- Well, if you wanna go, that is-” He quickly spun his chair around, grabbing Soleil for a tight hug.
“Thank you, thank y-you so much, Sol…” he whispered, holding onto her as tight as he could. She just smiled, patting his back.
“It’s nothing, Sieggy! I mean, why wouldn’t I help out my bestest best friend?”
He just sniffled and held her closer.
When their fathers asked, both children cheered with joy before Soleil ran to get paper to sketch out what “cool costumes” her and her brother could wear so they would match. Xander smiled as he watched his children crowd the crayon box, rambling off about knights, Voltron, and “cool disabled fairies,” and also just barely managed to hide a giggle at Inigo sneaking up behind them to sweep them up into a hug, which Xander made his way across the room to join. This was going to be a great Halloween, he could tell.
And god, he loved his family.
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