Take Care of my Baby! [D Ranked Request Solo]

A few after her last job, Antonia could find herself in Magnolia yet again, surprisingly. Or not so surprisingly, having in mind that she had spent most of her time in Magnolia. At least 4 of the 5 jobs she had done had been in Magnolia, having in mind that possibly the only job outside Magnolia she did was the passport one, because it had been in Rose Garden, and not in Magnolia. But anyways, now Antonia was walking towards the house of her clients, a job paper in her hand, while the sun was setting. This job, just like the other ones she had done recently, was simple, it didn't need as much dedication and time as other jobs Antonia had seen on the Sabertooth job board. There was one that mentioned a phoenix, which amazed Antonia truly.

But back to the job, she walked to her client's house and withnessed a car waiting in front of it. Of course, the job consisted into Antonia taking care of a baby and putting it to sleep, or well, in other words, Babysitting, while the parents had their night out. It sounded easy, and Antonia was lucky to have caught this easy job before anyone else did. She arrived in fron of the door and knocked on it, hoping that this would go as smoothly as she thought it would, but heck, she had a bad feeling in her chest. Which usually meant that, even if the job ended well, the things she woudld have to go throught weren't going to be so easy.

The door was opened to reveal a tall, curvy woman with quite a fair chest, dressed in avery fit red dress, that was also terribly short, and was on high heels, which increased her already big height. Antonia's eye twitched as she saw many jewelry onthe woman's neck, and, on her hand, a ring with a mermaid ornament on it. How annoying. Antonia had a severe disgust and hatred developed against sea creatures, but she sighed and shook it off, limiting herself to smile at the lady, that, at first sight, appeared to be quite not nice, but turned out to be the complete opposite.

'' How could I help you dear?'' She asked nicely as her eyes ran Antonia's quite average, although curvy stature. Antonia, on her turn, handed her the job request, smiling, as she was happy that thi woman didn't turn out to be some major peacock, as she called woman with high seld-esteem. She turned out to be a well-dressed nice lady. '' Oh so you are here for the request? Come in, dear, come in.'' She made Antonia way so she could come in, and instructed her to go to the living room, where she would explain in detail the request right before leaving with her husband to go out.

As Antonia sat, though, the woman asked her her name and her guild, and, of course, where she was from, as she had never seen a girl with real rabbit ears coming out of her head and a fluffy pink rabbit tail at her back. '' I am Antonia Leviaette Valentine, miss, Member of Sabertooth. And well, certainly, I am from Minstrel, not from Fiore, so...'' She shrugged and let her client begin explaining her problem. As it appeared, she had a small son, Daniel, who she loved dearly. But that night, she and her husband had decided to go out for a bit, and had to leave Daniel under the care of someone, someone capable of keeping him safe, because, according to the client, this boy was a true troublemaker, despite his age. And what was Antonia's job? She had to put him to sleep. It seemed easy, but the client assured Antonia that it was everything, but easy.

And for some odd reason, Antonia believed that.

As soon as the parents left the house, Antonia got to meet Daniel in the worst light possible: meeting him by seeing him on the kitchen counter playing with some REALLY sharp scissors. Tripping over her own feet, terrified about what might happen to the child, Antonia ran to it and snatched the scissors from its hand. She fell on the floor shortly after that, hitting her face, but it didn't matter, as she let out a soft ''Ow'' and got up again, as she feared the baby could be up to a new problematic and perillous thing to do. She found him going towards the cables of the television in the living room, and quickly ran to him, taking him in her hands. God, what a troublemaking child. She sat on the sofa, letting Daniel sit in her lap, and letting the scissors on the table. Her red eyes remained fixated upon his blue ones and she was about to say something when suddenly, and pretty quickly, to be honest, Daniel climbed her shoulders, sitting on them, feet around her neck, took her rabbit ears in his hand and pulled them with all the strength he had. She yelped and caught the base of her ears with a pained expression, snatching her poor ears out of the child's grasp. Daniel was laughing his baby ass off, while Antonia was sitting in a corner, holding her ears tightly as they hurt.

And to top that, due to her utter embarrasment, her hair began changing its colour from Pink until it became Light Blue. She stood there for at least 5 seconds more until she got up and went to check on Daniel. He had dissapeared, why did she expect anything else? With a sigh, she walked towards the bathroom, where she woukd surely find him this time.

And quite, Daniel was in the bathroom. But what he was doing scared Antonia out of her mind, but was also the most hilarious thing she had seen a child coming up with. He was stuffind his mouth with toilet paper. Toilet Paper. Antonia quickly ran to him and took all of the toilet paper out of his mouth, which, gladly, he had not been able to stuff with a lot of paper. He began spitting the small rests of toilet paper he had not allowed Antonia to take out, but suddenly, his eyes were caught by the soap. Antonia saw where he was looking and let out a cold Tch.

'' Oh no you don't, you little beast. Off to bed before you stuff your mouth with the cat. And NO you CANNOT stuff your mouth with the cat. Don't even think about it. And NO, don't you even NEAR my ears.'' She said through gritted teeth and took the small guy in his bed before he had actually managed to pull her ears yet again. She sat next to his bed and began trying to figure out how to make the little guy fall asleep. Maybe a bedtime story? A song? She did not know.

15 minutes went by until Antonia finally managed to discover what would get the little beast to sleep. She took a glass of milk and gave it to him, making him drink it entirely, and then sat next to his bed, thinking of songs of her childhood that helped her fall asleep. She sang quite well, although not as often as she should, she didn't think she sang well enough, and avoided doing it in front of people. But now the case was extreme, and it required extreme moves, a.k.a singing. She inhaled deeply and focused on trying to reproduce her voice the most pleasing and soft way possible. It turned out quite well.

When the song had finished, Antonia noticed that Danila was already closing his eyes, falling asleep, though not completely. In a determined moment, she could have sworn that she heard him say the word ''sing'', in order to indicate to Antonia that he wanted her to continue singing. And that is what she did. She sang another song, and another song, and another song until she finally noticed that he had fallen asleep. Wiht a pleased expression, she silently got up and left the room, closing the door slightly, so that she wouldn't wake up Daniel while she dealt with fixing osme disasters Daniel had caused in the living room.

Most of the house was a disaster due to Daniel being a terrible troublemaker. Antonia hoped she could deal with all before the parents were home. First, she cleaned the cat from the toilet paper it had around its body, naturally placed there by Daniel. The kitten had been really interested in Antonia's ears the entire time and played them as Antonia tried to clean it from the toilet paper. When she finally finished, she went towards the bathroom, where she removed all evidence that Daniel had tried to stuff his mouth with toilet paper. After that, she moved towards the kitchen, where she left the scissors, towards which she had developed hatred, and then hid the cables Daniel had managed to pull out of their hideout behind the television in the living room. Finally, she checked on Daniel again and sat on the sofa, exhausted, just when Daniel's parents came back.

'' Yooho, we're home~ How's Daniel, Antonia?'' Asked the client, leaving her purse on the sofa while her husband had directly went to check on their child. Wow, what a lack of trust.

'' He's asleep and okay, ma'am. Just like he should be.'' Antonia responded, getting up. The client waited a few until her husband came back, confirming the theory that their child was certainly okay and asleep. Without hestiating, the clientess took out a bunch of jewels, Antonia's reward, without doubt, and handed them to her, thanking her for taking care for her son so well, and sending her out of her home, nicely, willing to get some sleep after the long night. Well, Antonia wouldn't lie if she said she needed that too, but mostly she needed to check on her ears. God, the little guy sure was powerful, the strength with which he had pulled her ears was ballistic.