"Let's stay home" | Quarantine AU

Chapter 3 - "Game night"

Here it is guys! I know it's a little later than usual but I'm actually happy with the outcome, I only hope you do too! I decided to take a suggestion and do a game night chapter. I knew it had a lot of potential and I did my best to make it fun. Feel free to always leave suggestions and ideas about this story! Anyway, next chapter it's going to be Bane! ugh, can't wait!

Adjusting to their new daily life hadn't been so difficult as Emma would have thought. To be honest, the idea of living with three men had terrorized her a little, not because she was afraid or something, she knew she was safe with them, but because of what it implied. Emma had never been the perfect housewife kind of girl. She learned how to take care of herself and her house but that was that. Primal survival skills. Now she was stuck at home with three grown-up men and she suddenly wondered how it was going to go when it came to chores. She really hoped that they didn't believe she was going to do all the work because if they did, well they better think twice. After the guys had settled in and rested after the long journey, well only Tommy actually since Eddie already lived in the city, Emma gathered them all in the kitchen.

"Since no one has left, I presume that you've all decided to spend this upcoming quarantine here," she broke the ice, "although, you can still change your mind and catch a plane or a train before it's too late." she continued looking at each of them.

"Why does this feel like a kind of initiation?" Eddie mused suspiciously making Emma throw an ugly look at him.

"It's not but I hope you understand that every one of you is involved and so has to lend a hand," she continued. However, she could see that they weren't really following her so she decided to be more direct. "I'm talking about house chores guys."

Emma watched as realization washed over their faces and to her surprise, there was no trace of reluctance.

"Of course pet, don't even have to say it," Alfie mumbled crossing his arms on his chest making Emma send a sweet smile his way. She had always known that when it came to lending a hand Alfie had never refused nor complained.

"Whatever you want my lady." Eddie, of course, complied sarcastically while Tommy only nodded. Emma knew that he had been taking care of himself for a while now, her heart would always clench in apprehension for him at the fact and this current situation was no different. She was happy that he was here though, she would make sure that he was doing okay.

"Wonderful. Now, let's get to business, what do we want to eat tonight?"

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After everyone agreed that it was definitely the right night to order some pizza, Emma had called her trusted pizza place down the road. They were still enjoying the food when Alfie came up with a tremendous idea: playing board games.

"Absolutely not." Emma posed her veto already imagining hundreds of ways in which it could be wrong.

"Why, are you afraid of losing?" Alfie, never the missing the chance to take the piss on her, mocked her.

"Board games are the recipe for the perfect disaster. You all transform into children when you play. And maybe you have forgotten Alfred but we're going to live together for a while." She glared at him, explaining her point of view as a matter of factly.

"She just knows that she's going to lose." Again, Alfie taunted her looking at Tommy for his support but he didn't go along with him. Emma did her best to fought the sudden voice in her head that pushed her to prove him wrong. However, she knew that she needed to be the one to keep the balance and if she played, there was a slight chance that she'd got carried away and then she wasn't sure what could happen. Alfie loved provoking her and putting her on edge, and she was competitive and prone to angry outbursts when she played. That wasn't a good match. Knowing this, she took a deep breath forcing herself to calm down and ignored him.