Bless This Mess(Creature Family AU)

The Letter

Just to clarify, the only kids the have currently are Seamus, James, Nick, Kevin, Dex, Aleks, Steven, and Eddie. Eddie, however, is off in college.

Jordan's P.O.V

Now a days government is so out of wack. They passed a law a few years ago where you can only have a certain number of children based on your monthly income. (Wow Tune, Terra Nova much?) Failure to follow these rules, you go to jail. Any children you have now goes to the LCOA, Lost Children Of America. Putting that my father was a founder of an oil company, when he died he left me the business and the money along with it. Seeing that we have five kids and a high income, we were going to be seeing new faces around the house soon. Today we got the letter that changed our lives. It was an early Saturday morning and we were all eating breakfast. It was a particularly slow morning with some idle chit chat. As we were all eating, someone came to the door and rang the doorbell. Everyone looked to the door and stop talking. I promptly got up and answered the door. It was the mail man.

"Hello, how can I help you?" I asked him. He handed out a letter.

"Special delivery for the Mathewson's." He said, while I took the card.

"That would be us. Thank you." I smiled, he responded with a 'No problem sir.' I came back to the table and everyone looked at me.

"What?" I asked.

"Are you going to tell us what it is?" My husband, Dan, asked. Everyone agreeing with him. I looked down at the letter and it had a fancy wax seal on it. On the front it said our address and 'The Mathewson's' on the front in cursive. I slowly opened it and took out the letter. Every one was complaining about how slow I was opening I quickly gave it to Dan

"You read it. I'm to scared." I said. He laughed a little but abides and opens the letter, clearing his throat.

"Dear Mathewson Family, It is your time to help the community. By doing this we recommend to adopt four of more children from the LCOA due to your monthly income. A failure to do this will result in incarceration. We expect to have this task done near the end of June. Inspection of your house hold will be held on (Insert any day in June). Have a nice day and remember, the government abides your choices." Dan ended. The room was silent. The boys all knew what this meant. After all, we have done this with Dex and Kevin. The tension in the air was high. After Aleks began to speak.

"Daddy?" He asked.

"Yes Aleks?" I answered. He looked down and played with his hands.

"If we adopt more people..." He stopped. "Can we get at least one girl?" He asked. I smiled.

"Of course." Once I said that everyone said their word on the situation.

"Are we gonna get someone older than me?" Asked Seamus.

"If we get a girl she better be younger than me. Ain't no way I'm having a girl older than me!" Said James.

"Can we get someone my age?" Asked Nick.

"Will we have to clean out the guest rooms?" Asked Kevin.

"Will they be older than Eddie?" Asked Steven.

"When are we going to get them?" Asked Dex.

"Everyone calm down!" I yelled. "I know we're all really exited, but one step at a time please!" I'm glad that the kids were accepting but there's going to be a lot of arguing over who we're getting. Rest assured, a lot of work was going to be put in this month. Yet everyone was hyped.

-Time Skip-

"Okay Everyone!" I yelled. "Come down to the first guest room!!!" A few days have passed since the letter. Dan called Eddie a few days ago and said that he would try to get a day off of school so he could come visit. Everyone crowded around the door and waited for me to make another announcement but Dan continued for me.

"We are going to start cleaning up the guest rooms, for our soon to be visitors!" He said excitedly. I began again. "Anyway, getting back on track. Seamus, James, and Kevin. Can you three take care of the upstairs bedroom?" The trio nodded. And went to work."Next is Nick, Dex, and Dan, can you take care of this one?" They all agree's and I got out of the way.

"What about us Daddy?" Asked Aleks.

"You, Me, and Steven are going to clean the attic. Come on let's go!!!" I yelled prancing up the stairs and I heard them both sigh behind me.

-Time Skip-

It's been two hours since we've started cleaning and no one has finished yet. I don't blame them, those rooms are only used for junk and memories. While moving some boxes I heard a scream. It wasn't just a small yelp, it was like someone was getting murdered. I ran down the stairs.

"Who's screaming!!!" I yelled.

"Jordan hurry!!!" It was Seamus. I ran into the room quick and saw James holding something and shoving it in Seamus' face while Kevin and James were laughing.

"What's going on in here!?" I yelled. Seamus ran toward me.

"James and Kevin are being ASSHOLES." He said. I then saw what James was holding. It was a huge spider with spindly legs. I shuddered.

"James, kill it!!!" Seamus yelled.

"He just wants to say hi, be nice to Mr. Spider!" James said, coming closer to Seamus and me.

"James I'm not a child anymor- GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!" He yelled. "James I swear to God. Come one step closer with that fucking spider and i'll fucking punch you in the face."

"James, stop that. Put the spider outside or kill it." I said, backing away from the door.

"You guys are no fun." Stated Kevin.

James sighed, "Okay, fine." He walked away, talking to the spider.

"I'm not fucking working here anymore. I'll go work with Aleks and Steven. He walked away and was about to climb the stairs to the second floor. The door bell rang.

"Now that you're up, get the door please!?" I yelled.

"Sure."

Seamus' P.O.V.

As I went to open the door I somewhat fixed my hair that was in a do-rag bun. I was about to open the door when I heard someone... laugh? My eyes widened as I opened the door.

"Eddie!?"

"Shay!"

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I'm now breathing easy. Thanks for not minding about the changes!