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Five minutes later, Helios still had blood on his leg. Ten minutes after that, Helios had a leg with paper towels on. And a full twenty five minutes after the original incident, a grumpy Helios had a shoddy made bandage on the still slightly dripping leg.

"Phobos and Demios say they're sorry," Mars sheepishly said.

Helios didn't look at the two dogs and human.

"Why were you under the table, anyway?" Mars asked the two dogs. Mars faces shifted into a confused one as the dogs responded.

"What?" Mars asked before talking to the Human at the table, "I need to.. look under the table?"

Mars did just that and came back up with a slightly chewed box. You didn't need to be Mars to know the dogs were sorry.

"So are we going to open the box?" Mercury asked.

"No, there could be something dangerous in there," Jupiter said, taking the box.

He got a look from all seven kids.

Saturn took the box from Jupiter and opened it, placing it in the middle of the table so everyone could see.

"Glasses!" Exclaimed Earth, "and a piece of paper?"

"It's says prescription 2.5?" Questioned Luna.

"It means he's has bad eye sight," Venus said, "What? I'm the closest planet to Earth, I know what Google is."

"Google?" Uranus asked.

"Yeah, it's on your phone, has all human information on it." Venus explained grumpily, "In the box," he added before looking at the phone with the dark orange case in his hand.

There was a scramble to get their phone from the box, adults included, except one.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE'RE MARRIED!?"

"Looks like Saturn found out who our other parent is," Earth said, smirking.

"I need to talk to Jupiter alone," Saturn said, blushing furiously.

"Sure," came one word reply.

As the two grown-ups left the room, Helios looked at each of his children, "You're not getting any pets.", before leaving the room.

"What?"

"Why?"

"Come on,"

Uranus, Venus and Mercury chased after their father figure, complaining, bartering and begging.

"So what's this?" asked Earth holding up a blue thing in the almost shape of an L.

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