No Scissors Deals
"Valentino! You don't make any deals with the Toddler, when it comes to playing with Scissors! And don't let her cute behavior, wrap you around your little finger!" - you hear the voice of your Daddy Vox from across the Room, but don't look over towards him. Very carefully, your little fingers want to reach for the gold chain, that your Papito Valentino is wearing around his neck, while you reiterate your request , to finally be allowed to play with the scissors and Valentino's cherry-pink eyes just flash with amusement.
Curious, you took a few clumsy steps closer to the high shelf with the many compartments.
Velvette's spacious office was already deserted at this late hour.
The employees of the social media-focused Velvette had gone home.
The fashion icon from hell was editing one of the her videos on her laptop , because it needed special settings and at that very moment both Valentino and you could hear Velvette hissing at Vox from her small private office, that he should turn down the damn firewall, to further boost towards her already good online reach.
Vox had told Valentino to keep an eye on you ,while he took care of Velvette's problem. And since Valentino himself was on his cell phone and was obviously sending a few voice messages to Angel Dust, you really wanted to take a look at the large shelf.
It wasn't the first time you had been in Velvette's work office.
Sometimes it could be pretty stressful and hectic here.
But that didn't bother you, whenever Velvette was given the babysitting task, she let you have plenty of tablet and cell phone video time, when she wasn't busy dressing you up like a doll and needing you to plan a mini fashion line for the stylish demon toddler.
"Oh there! Scissors!" you said quietly as you stopped in front of the large white meter-high shelf that stretched up to the ceiling and your devilish eyes flashed with joy , when you saw a pair of scissors there.
It was a pretty pair of scissors with pink hearts and dark blue handles as a design.
Oh, you really wanted to hold these beautiful scissors in your hands and play with them!
And pretend you were a great fashion queen, like Velvette was.
Sometimes you try to imitate different members of your Vee family.
One time, before going to bed, you ran excitedly to Velvette with the Vox electric toothbrush and whispered to her that you can now talk to the toothbrush like Daddy because Daddy can talk to the television.
And if you play with the scissors, you'll definitely be able to help Velvette a lot!
You made your decision, you first tried to stretch your hands up as high as you could... but the scissors were on two shelves above you. Too far to be able to reach for them easily.
Next you try to climb up the shelf...which only works to a limited extent, because not even after 3 seconds you slip and land on the floor with a loud thud and an old vase knocked over on impact.
Valentino, who felt disturbed in his voice message and was about to shout , annoyed that this noise was really shit in timing and should be quiet, turned around and was with you, within a few moments, picking you up from the floor with one of his two pairs of arms and looking at you with concern.
"What happened baby? You know Velvette hates it, when one of those ugly vases breaks?" , said Valentino with a hardly regretful look at the fragments of the vase. None of which - thank Lucifer - hit you.
You sniffed once, startled by the impact on the floor and dissatisfaction at not having the scissors yet.
Valentino stroked your hair soothingly , before he moved a few steps away from you and sent another voice message to Angel.
The recording time was shorter than before and so you were able to express your wish as soon, as Valentino put the phone back in his pocket.
"Scissors! Wanna! Play! Papito, scissors? Climb, no, no....ouchie....scissors?", you said and pointed to the large shelf with your left hand.
Valentino followed the hand gesture with a quick glance ,before gently examining you through the heart-shaped lenses of his glasses.
"Naaaw Papito's little princess wanted the scissors to play with, and fell down while climbing?" - Valentino cooed with obvious amusement.
"Yes! Help Papito? Please, please", you said and bounced up and down in the Overlord's arms.
Valentino just shook his head no with little interest and thought you already had enough toys.
Toys that were often dragged from your room to the living room and that he had to run in zigzags to get a new coffee. Scissors like that were really nothing special.
"Eat Veggies like good girl... like a big kid... don't cry ... yes scissors?" - you replied hopefully. Proposing a deal was easy. Even though your fathers always had their own rules, it was no secret that you really cried a lot when you ate certain vegetables and refused to try even a small bite.
"So you want to eat your vegetables and not cause a drama, hm? And in return I should give you these scissors to play with?", repeated Valentino and didn't seem to be averse to the idea.
"Oh, there are actually several scissors. It seems to be your lucky day, baby. There's still blood on one of them...ah! That must be my attack , after my last author for the films quit!", said Valentino and eyed one of the scissors that still had blood on it with an annoyed expression on his face. That bitch deserved that!
You clap your hands once and nod eagerly, not because you understood Valentino's last words, but because there are apparently several pairs of scissors...oh, you can then help Velvette diligently!
"Valentino! You don't make any deals with the Toddler, when it comes to playing with Scissors! And don't let her cute behavior, wrap you around your little finger!" - you hear the voice of your Daddy Vox from across the Room, but don't look over towards him.
Very carefully, your little fingers want to reach for the gold chain, that your Papito Valentino is wearing around his neck, while you reiterate your request , to finally be allowed to play with the scissors and Valentino's cherry-pink eyes just flash with amusement.
"Scissors? Pretty please?", - you wanted to touch the glittering gold of the chain, but Valentino playfully grabbed yours hands with his other two hands to stop you.
"Hmmmm.....if I contradict Voxxy now, Papito won't get any of his ´toys´ later, and Papitio would be very sad because of this" - said Valentino with a grin. His gold tooth flashed once.
And you were still far too young and small to understand , the allusion and the real meaning that it was never about toys, that Vox was withholding from Valentino, but something completely different.
An impatient whimper escaped you as you snuggled closer to Valentino's upper body and asked sadly for the scissors once more.
"Wanna help.....Velvette! Scissors! PLEASE!", you whimpered and Valentino smiled at your cuteness.
"No need to burst into tears...besides, Daddy Voxxy didn't say anything about the scissors in our kitchen, Princess", Valentino said soothingly.
"VAL!"
While you were calming down with the cuddles Valentino gave you, Vox seemed to have heard the part about the scissors in the kitchen, and reminded his partner , that the rule applied to all scissors in the V-Tower.
"But she wants to help Velvette, Voxxy! And eat her Veggies from now on like a good Girl" - Valentino defended his affection for the deal with the vegetables.
"It will definitely work without Scissors. I'll say it for the last time, Valentino. No scissors DEALS!"
THE END
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