Generation Next (X-Men fanfic)

Eighteen

Storm rubbed at her temples, stupid headache. There was simply too much to deal with while running the school. She wished she'd known all of this before taking over for the Professor, not that she'd had much of a choice after the Professor's death. Someone needed to be in charge

With a sigh, she rose and went in search of the kids. She found them hanging out in Ziva and Skylar's room. "I need all of you to take a trip to the grocery store, we need a few things."

Skylar smiled at her. "Sure, not a problem, we'd be happy to."

"Good, good, all right here's the list. It isn't long." She handed the list to Skylar before leaving the room, feeling a bit better that she'd at least gotten one thing off her plate for the day.

Ziva groaned. "Did you have to tell her we'd do it?"

"Why? What's wrong?"

"I don't know, I mean grocery shopping?" Ziva shrugged.

The curtain climbers appeared out of thin air, smiling widely. "Can we come with?" Mellissa asked.

Craig glowered at her. "Why exactly?"

"No reason, we just want to." She shrugged. "Ya know, get out of the house for a bit. We're growing children and we need fresh air and sunshine."

"Yeah and it sounds like fun!" Angela twirled, her tutu flared out as she did. "I'm even wearing my shopping tutu! See, it has shopping carts on it!" She pointed at her tutu. Sure enough, it had little shopping carts emblazoned on it.

Craig looked at Ziva and Skylar in question. They both shrugged. He sighed. "Fine you can come, but if you cause any problems you'll regret it."

Mellissa wrinkled her nose at him. "Oooh, I'm real scared!"

"You should be, we're going to ask A'Cadia to come with," Ziva told her as she headed for the door.

"Oh, come on that's totally not fair!" Stevie whined as he ran after her.

"No one said we were going to play fair," Ziva told him with a grin. She stuck her head into A'Cadia's room. "Hey, we're heading to the store for Storm, wanna come with so we can keep the curtain climbers in line?"

She smiled at Ziva in an evil sort of way. "Hey, why not, I like to see the fear in their eyes when the claws come out. Why let you have all the fun?"

Ziva chuckled and moved away from the doorway as A'Cadia walked over. Stevie sent them both a glare and stomped off down the hallway. "Guess he didn't like that," Ziva told her.

They made their way downstairs and met the others in the garage. A'Cadia arched a brow at her. "When did you get a car?"

Ziva shrugged. "I figured I'm here for the duration so the money I was saving for a house might as well be put to some good use."

Skylar squealed as she walked around the car. "Ooh, it's pretty. It isn't an Acura, but it's cute!"

Ziva rolled her eyes. "I don't need anything fancy."

A'Cadia tilted her head as she studied the car. "Well a Kia certainly isn't fancy, that's for sure."

"Oh, shut up and get in the car!" Ziva snapped as she pulled open the driver's door. She'd bought the Sorento because it had the third-row seat and it was cute. She grumbled and thought about seriously zapping A'Cadia as she started the car. She caught the smirk on A'Cadia's face when she looked in the mirror to back out of the garage and decided that A'Cadia probably knew what she was thinking, so she nixed the idea.

When they got to the grocery store, they made their way inside and Ziva turned to the munchkins. "You three had better behave!"

Angela gave her a wide-eyed innocent look. "Why would you think we'd misbehave?"