Anti decided to go with the flow for now.

But that didn't mean he wasn't going to make their lives as miserable as he could.

Anti woke up cuddled into the couch covered in the blankets Chase threw on him. At first he had wanted to toss them back into his face but he was also cold so he begrudgedly hid himself away under them.

He also really wanted to annoy Jackie and what better way than to accept the other's attention.

Anti HATED being an actual child but then again, he was finding out pretty quickly that it had its perks. For one: The other egos turned soft towards him because of it. If he were an adult trapped in there with them, they'd surely all be against him and Jackie might even kill him without remorse.

Yeah, it was okay for now to be a kid.

Then again, there were also a couple downsides. One being that Chase and Henrik thought they could tell him what to do all the time. Two, Jameson and Marvin had the WEIRD tendency to baby him somehow or treat him pitifully. Probably because it was Marvin's fault in general that he was like this. And that pissed Anti off royally.

It seemed Jackie was the only one who didn't give him special treatment.

And what was that smirk he gave him every so often?

Weird.

Anyway, Anti was buried in the blanket Chase provided, too comfy to move anywhere and he wouldn't.

He heard footsteps stomping around symbolizing that someone was up.

He didn't expect for his feet to be knocked off the couch, though.

"Oof! Hey!" Anti popped out of the blankets to see Jackie glaring at him, "What'd you do that for!? I was sleeping, asshole!"

"No you weren't. I could hear your breathing. The news is on, anyway and I'm watching it" Jackie leaned back on the couch and turned on the TV, not giving a fuck if Anti was murdering him with his eyes.

But before he could scream at the hero, he smelt something in the air.

'What is that?' he sniffed the air again like an animal, not realizing Jackie was staring at him like he was a fucking wacko.

"The hell are you doing?"

Anti glared at him again, "I smell something. Not that it's any of your business"

The hero rolled his eyes, "Chase is making breakfast. Told him to just give YOU oatmeal"

"Fucking prick"

"Takes one to know one I guess"

Anti rolled his eyes but hopped off the couch, throwing the blanket over Jackie's face before bolting towards the kitchen.

"You little fucker!"

But Anti made the right decision to run and hide behind in front of Chase who was at the stove.

"What'd you do, little dude?"

Anti stuck his tongue out at him, "Fucking nothing! He just hates me"

"Well yeah and most of the time, you deserve it." Chase started to crack a bunch of eggs in the skillet, "How you like your eggs?"

Once Anti felt safe, he finally moved away from the fatherly ego but made a grossed out face, "I don't eat eggs"

"You allergic?"

"Pft. Fuck no. They're just gross"

"It's good protein for a growing boy" Chase snickered, "I'll make some scrambled for ya with some extra butter."

Anti snorted but stared up at the coffee pot, 'I want coffee'

Looking back at Chase who was busy cooking, he thought this would be the perfect moment to sneak some. Carefully, Anti pulled out one of the drawers, ready to climb his way up.

He was almost there. He just had to stretch a LITTLE!

Anti just got to the pot's handle when he froze. He felt someone's eyes on him. Turning, Anti saw Marvin having just walked in the kitchen with a small smirk on his face.

Anti gave him a glaring pout but Marvin was different from the others when it came to food and drinks. With Chase still busy, Marvin levitated Anti back onto the floor and poured a small cup of coffee.

Looking back at the 'child', he held up the teaspoon that was for the sugar.

Anti held up three fingers and Marvin poured in three teaspoons plus a little cream, sneaking it to him before anyone could notice what just happened.

Anti was happy but he'd never outwardly admit it. Marvin was kind of his favorite at this point.

"Alright, everyone! Breakfast's done! Come and get it, dudes!" Chase suddenly shouted, startling Anti.

He thought he'd have more time to suck down his energy juice!

In his sudden fear of someone taking it away from him, Anti chugged it down as fast as he could, making Marvin facepalm.

"Dude" he whispered to him, "That was espresso"

Anti snapped his head back to Marvin and whisper yelled at him, "I thought it was just regular coffee, you psycho! Who makes an entire pot of fooking espresso like that!?"

"Schneep!"

It was right then that Anti knew he fucked up.

"You don't chug coffee anyway, you lunatic! You're supposed to sip it!"

"Don't tell me what to do!"

"Vhat's going on over here?" Henrik heard some of the commotion.

Not wanting to get in trouble for giving it to him, Marvin interjected, "Nothing! Everything's fine! Anti was just getting me a cup for my coffee! Ehahahah!" he grabbed the cup out of his little hand and poured himself some espresso.

'Man, he's a bad liar' Anti thought.

But Henrik took it from him and poured his own. He didn't seem suspicious and walked away.

'Must be too tired still to detect it, though'

Jameson came in as well along with Jackie as Chase set the plates of food down.

Anti was about to take his plate of food and run like usual until he saw the eggs on his plate, "The fook is this?"

Chase sat down with his own plate, "It's eggs, bacon and toast."

"I said I didn't want eggs! They're fucking gross!"

"Just try 'em. I bet you'll change yer mind"

"Contrary to popular belief, I don't eat the unborn, Brody. You sick fuck"

Marvin snorted and cough up a piece of his bacon.

Jackie pat his back to help but glared at Anti, "Just fucking eat, already. Be lucky-"

"What? Be lucky why? Be lucky you're even giving me food? Fuck off, ya fake ass Robin!"

Jackie blinked, trying to process what he just said, "D-did you just call me a side-kick!?"

"Whatcha gonna do about it, bitch!?"

Jackie tried to get up to go beat his ass but Jameson shoved him back down in his seat.

"That's what I th-AH!" While his mouth was open, Chase shoved a forkful of scrambled eggs in his mouth.

Everyone watched sort of in awe as Chase pulled the fork out, waiting for Anti's response. The father shrugged, "Did it to my kids all the time"

Anti looked like he was frozen but even he couldn't deny . . . . .

These eggs were actually pretty fucking good. Without looking at the others, Anti suddenly scarfing down the rest of them on his plate, licking his lips and utensil.

Chase smirked at him as he finished them, "Good?"

Anti stopped himself from licking the plate, "Wh . . . what was in those?"

The father looked ready to brag, "Well you see, I have kids, myself, Anti. Kallie doesn't care for eggs sometimes so what I do is put just a little bit of bacon grease and more butter and some cheese with some salt and pepper and a little bit of chives for garnish"

"No fucking wonder." Anti looked like he had stars in his eyes. He wanted more.

"Not exactly healthy anymore when you add all zhat" Henrik chastised him.

He just shrugged, "Eh, whatevs."

Anti held out his plate to him, bacon and toast still there.

"What? You want more?" Chase was reading his mind, basically by this point.

'I'd want more, too' Jameson signed.

Anti started hopping on the balls of his feet but wouldn't answer. He felt . . . . like his heart was gonna pop.

Without really noticing, though, Chase took his plate and piled on more eggs for him. He was kind of hopeful he'd sit with them and eat this time but those thoughts were deflated when Anti took the plate from him again and ran with his second helping.

He was so fast, too.

Marvin sipped on his coffee, 'He's either gonna be sick later or really fucking annoying'

It didn't take long for Anti to eat the rest of his breakfast. He didn't want to admit it of course but he loved Chase's cooking and if he could make eggs taste so good, what else could he make that would taste extra good?!

'I should manipulate him into making homemade pizza or something'

But before he could think more on it, he felt his heart in his chest pounding.

'Huh . .. . that's never really happened before. Why's that- . . oh'

The espresso was starting to work.

And it was starting to . . .ache?

He didn't know what to do. He drank so much of it.

'Am I gonna have a heart attack? Is this what that feels like? Nah, my arm isn't numb and my chest doesn't exactly hurt. But I'm really sure I'm not supposed to feel and heart my heart beating so loudly like this'

For some reason, he found himself tapping his foot and pacing. He couldn't help himself. He had to move around to get rid of this feeling.

It was almost as if he were glitching out during a storm and he didn't like it. Glitching out during storm always hurt like he was being torn apart or eaten alive.

He held his head and whimpered.

He didn't feel RIGHT.

He was starting to get scared.

What was happening to him?!

Henrik was the one who walked into him doing these things and immediately he knew why.

But he was gonna mess with him first, of course.

Hen walked into the living room, "Vhy are you pacing? Something on your mind?"

Anti huffed but wasn't sure he wanted to answer him.

Henrik chuckled lightly, "You know, it vould benefit you to eat vith us. We von't bite. And I think Chase vould appreciate it"

"Fuck off! I'm not sitting at your stupid family dinner table like I'm some part of your family or something! Did you fuckers forget who I am!? Huh, Doctor House?! Mind yer own business!"

Henrik held up his hands with a slight smirk, "Even more snippy than usual I see? Did your diet change? I don't know what you were used to eating or . . . drinking at your apartment all alone"

Anti swallowed but he still wanted to refuse Henrik's suggestion.

His heart was still pounding so hard even though he was starting to feel tired, too. Was he suddenly crashing? Was being a kid making the effects of the espresso even worse?!

He started to sweat a little and Henrik noticed, "Anti?" he sighed heavily then, "Anti, I know you drank what was in zhe coffee pot and Marvin gave it to you. How much did you drink?"

Anti didn't want to give in but he felt like if he didn't, he might die. His body wanted to glitch so bad to get rid of it but he couldn't because of the stupid spell!

So he gave in and mumbled, "The whole glass with sugar and cream"

Henrik ran a hand through his hair, "Fucking stupid, zhe lot of you. . . . MARVIN, GET YOUR MAGIC ASS IN HERE RIGHT NOW!"

"Wow, didn't think you were that stupid"

Anti wanted to kick Jackie from where he was on the couch but Henrik was still forcing water down his throat along with an IV in his arm to flush out the caffeine. Henrik said something that his blood pressure had sky-rocketed to dangerous levels and he needed to be treated right away.

Needless to say he wasn't going to be allowed near the coffee maker for a while.

"I feel bad" Marvin had to put a calming spell over him to help lower his blood pressure so he wouldn't stroke out or something, "I shouldn't have given you any. Honestly, I thought you'd be able to take it, too. Guess not"

"He's a kid now. There's a lot of things he can't do like he used to." Chase was aware of Anti's angry pouting but he was just glad he was oka-

Wait, why was he relieved?

He hated that there was this part of him fawning over kid Anti like one of his own. He hated that Sean made him like this. So protective and caring towards kids. Anti was the one that-

But he couldn't think about that right now.

Anti growled, pushing away the water from his mouth, "Stooooop! I'm fine, now! Get away from me! I'm not fucking helpless!"

"Hah" Jackie laughed, "Riiight. Funny you say that with an IV in your arm"

"Shut up, jerk!"

"What happened to the REAL insults? You turn into a kid that hard, you forgot them? You getting censored, little man?" he teased him.

Jameson sway Jackie's arm, 'Leave him be! He's had a hard day!'

Jackie just rolled his eyes, "Whatever. I'm done here. I'm gonna go around the city a couple times."

"Be careful!" Marvin called to him, "There's some gang of bikers that rolled into town yesterday. I don't know if they're the good or bad kind so just watch out, alright?"

"Yeah, yeah" Jackie waved him off.

"AND TAKE ZHE DAMN MED KIT VITH YOU ZHIS TIME!" Henrik shouted.

"And some food for lunch!" Chase called also, "Love you!"

"Shut up!" was the response they got.

Anti wanted to chuckle but remembered where he was and who he was around.

"Hey" Chase nudged him, "I'll make you whatever for lunch to help absorb the rest of that crap in ya. What you gonna be hungry for, you think?"

Anti felt a faint smirk in his head, " . . .. pizza"

Today, Anti found out just a few of the ups and downs of being a kid.

He couldn't decide yet if it was fun or not, though.