PARENTHOOD
Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen After finding the gate, most of them sat down in the chairs to wait for their plane to land. The seats were leather and arranged in six rows. Above them was mounted a TV that was currently showing CNN and off to the right was a huge plate glass window. Outside the window were the runway and several planes waiting at other gates as well as one that was heading towards the runway. The Doctor and Rain took the children to get some snacks and magazines while the others sat in the seats. Amato and Peri and Shilah and Mingxia were kissing each other and whispering in each other's ears. Rose watched them for a moment and then tapped her husband's shoulder. "Hmmm?" Alan said with wide eyes. Rose puckered up her lips and waited. Alan stared at them for a moment and then looked at his family members happily snogging beside him. He looked around and noticed no one was around and he looked back at Rose who was giving him an impatient look while she kept her lips puckered. "Snogging is boring and overrated," Alan said to her. "Let's strip and have a go by the gate over there." Amato snickered into Peri's mouth while Rose gave him a "Yeah, right," look. "You must think I'm thick," Rose said to him. "Not at all, you're very thin and sexy and buxom and...oh wait, you mean thick as in stupid. Well, yes, yes you are." The others laughed as Rose smacked his arm. Alan grinned and kissed her on the lips. The couples quickly pulled apart when they noticed the others were walking up. The Doctor was carrying a brown sack while Hope walked beside him, drinking a small plastic bottle of milk and carrying an activity book underneath her left arm. Namid, Sokanon, Chaska and Christopher were walking behind them, sipping Cokes from bottles and laughing and chatting. Hope walked by her family to the plate glass window, she sipped her milk while she watched the planes at the other gates. Meanwhile, Alan and the others pulled out bottles of iced tea and soda and drank it while the Doctor and the others sat down beside them. "I figure once we land in London, we might take in a show," the Doctor said to them. "We'll be landing there in the late afternoon so perhaps we can find something everyone will enjoy." "You can do that," Alan said. "I'll be busy smashing Big Ben." "Oh God, stop the Godzilla rubbish, will ya?" Rose said, rolling her eyes. "But...Godzilla smash," Alan said in a mournful voice. "What is my purpose in life if I can't smash?" "I s'pose you'll have to find a new purpose in life, mate," Amato said. "Like collecting bow ties?" Alan said. Amato fingered his red bow tie. "Bow ties are cool," he said in a suave voice as Peri laughed and touched his bow tie with him. "T-shirts are cool too," Alan said, fingering his navy blue t-shirts." "Not as cool as bow ties," Amato said. "Nope, t-shirts are cooler," Alan said. "Nope, bow ties are cooler," Amato said as everyone laughed. "You know what's really cool?" Sokanon said to them. They looked at her. "What?" Amato said. "Shutting your gob and keeping your daft thoughts to yourself." Alan and Amato stared at her for a moment and then Alan suddenly leapt up. Sokanon jumped up and ran to Hope when Alan roared at her and tried to grab her neck. "There, that takes care of that," Alan said, sitting back down while everyone laughed. "Insult Godzilla, will ye? Godzilla will smash you in a minute if you don't watch it." Sokanon started to go back to her seat when Hope tugged on her arm. "Hey!" she said, pointing to a plane that was coming in for a landing. "Cool," Sokanon said, turning to watch it with her. The other children joined them and stood there watching the plane touch down on the runway and slow down. Hope looked around excitedly and ran over to the Doctor. "Daddy, look!" she said, pointing to the plane. "I see it, Sweetie. Is the aeroplane landing?" he asked her. "Uh-huh. Cool," she said, nodding. 'I wanna go on one!" "We will, Baby, just be patient," Rain said. "We have to wait for our plane to land before we can get on it." "I wanna go!" Hope said. "Me too!" Alan said, getting up and bending down to her. "Me wanna smash!" "Go 'way!" Hope said. The Doctor snickered at the look of shock on his brother's face. "But...Godzilla smash," he said mournfully while Hope giggled. "Can I have a sip of your milk?" "No!" Hope said before she walked back to the window. "Well, nyah to you then," Alan said, sitting down. Rain leaned against her husband. "You know, I've been thinking," she said to him. "Yes?" the Doctor replied. "Why don't we skip London and take a train to Cardiff? None of the children have been on trains and we can have Jack meet us at the train station and go out to eat with us." "Ooo, I like that idea," the Doctor said. "What do you think, everyone? Wanna do that after we get to London?" "Yes!" Hope said, running over to him. "I wanna go!" "Oh, you just wanna go, go, go and never stop," the Doctor said, tousling her hair. He took the activity book from under her arm and took a pencil out of his inside jacket pocket. He gave both to his daughter and smiled when she sat on his lap and looked through the book. While they were doing that, Shilah gave his wife a kiss on the cheek and leaned into her ear. "If we take the train, how 'bout we find a private spot onboard and do a bit more than snogging?" he murmured in her ear. "Ooo, you dirty old man," Mingxia said as he chuckled. "How 'bout we join the mile high club instead?" "Ooo, even better," Shilah said, sliding his arm across her waist. "We'll wait till the lavatory is empty and then make our move." "Um, ew?" They looked over at Sokanon who was leaning down into their faces. "This doesn't concern you, Missy!" Shilah said as everyone laughed. "Um, yeah, but I can hear you and I don't feel like barfing my lungs out, especially when I see the two of you heading for the lavatory," she said. "Then keep yourself occupied watching the clouds and you won't see us," Shilah said. "I'll still know you're doing it," Sokanon said, walking back to the window. "Then go to sleep and you'll be too busy dreaming to know we're doing it," Shilah said to her. "Actually, mate, you better get in there quickly because you know...Pear Bear and I might just beat you to it," Amato said while Peri giggled. "Not unless me and Tarty Moo get there first," the Doctor said with a wistful sigh. "Excuse me?" Rose said while Rain bent over laughing. "Oh, I'm sorry, TM, you didn't get the memo that we're joining the mile high club?" the Doctor said innocently. "I think my husband might have something to say about that," Rose said. The Doctor looked at Alan who shrugged. "Pork her brains out, serves the slag right for not letting me be Godzilla." Everyone laughed when Alan jumped up and ran after Rose tried to smack him in the head. The Doctor glanced down at Hope and tugged at Rose's shirt. "Tarty, Tarty, look at this." "Will you quit calling me that?" Rose said as everyone laughed. "Tarty, Tarty," the Doctor said, ignoring her as he tugged on her shirt. "What?" The Doctor pointed to the activity book. Hope was drawing a scribble on one page. "Scribble creature, shhhh," the Doctor said, pointing to it. Rose grinned and leaned down into Hope's face. "Honey, draw your daddy so he can get sucked into the drawing," she said to him. "No," Hope said as she kept her eyes on her drawing. "See, my daughter loves me, she doesn't want me to become a part of the drawing," the Doctor said. "Well, that's because she doesn't know you like I do," Rose said. She was about to say something else when suddenly Namid rushed over and grabbed her arm. Behind her was her brothers and sister. Rose gave her a quizzical look. "Look everyone, over there," Namid said, pointing off to the right. Everyone looked where she was pointing and saw a disheveled man looking around. He was wearing a white t-shirt and blue sweat pants that were a size too big on his thin body. He had sandy blonde hair that was slightly unkempt and a full beard. The man continued to look around him for a moment. Then thinking no one was watching, his right hand snaked down into his sweat pants and he scratched his crotch. The Doctor's mouth dropped open as the older children gaffawed and ran back to the window. "Yeah, that was attractive," Peri said, making a face. "Okay," the Doctor said, turning his head when he saw the man pull his hand out, inspect and sniff it. "I think now is the time to ring Jack and tell him to meet us in Cardiff." Rain gave him her mobile so Hope wouldn't be disturbed. Ignoring the man, he opened it and dialed Jack's number. After the Doctor got through talking to Jack and giving him the information for the flight, Jack promised that he and his team would meet them at the train station so they could go out to eat together. By this time, the lobby was filling up with other people and their plane was slowly pulling up to the gate. "Have fun, Doctor, and be careful. We'll see you in Cardiff," Jack said. "Okay, talk to you later, the plane just pulled up to the gate so it won't be long now till we board," the Doctor said. Jack told him goodbye and the Doctor hung up the phone. He smiled at Hope and watched while she drew a crude dog on one page while everyone waited for the call to board.
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