Chapter 3: Jaskier and the day before

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The next day Jaskier was up early. Today he would go buy clothes for the boys and put together their closets. Carpet and wallpaper should be up and done by tomorrow and treats and decor will be arriving after they move in but they have mattresses and blankies and and

' Calm down Jask... they like you. It'll be okay ' Jaskier tells himself.

Jaskier got dressed in a pair of pink shorts, a yellow button up short sleeved shirt, a pair of white sunflower socks, and his pink sneakers. He packed his plain black backpack with a sunflower on it and got on his way to the store and then the pound. He quickly ordered everything to be picked up after he left the pound. He ordered blankets, sheets, pillows, and got his delivery slip for the mattresses. He also hopped over to the grocery and bought a pack of milk candies and some granola bars, and packed them away in his backpack.

Jaskier tried his best to stay calm. Today people would be coming over to put down the carpet and painting and putting up wallpaper. Everything is going to be okay. Mattresses and bedroom furniture and everything else essential is either being delivered or he's buying today. It'll all be okay once he gets his babies home.

He again walked right to the doors only waving at the lady behind the desk. He asked Damien to unlock the doors and soon enough he was grinning ear to ear being half smothered by warm purring witchers. Today they asked him if they needed to bathe before coming home and Jaskier saw that as an opportunity.

"Oh no, no you don't! We can have a lovely bath time the second you get home! I have a quite large tub in the bathroom by your bedrooms. I don't think we can fit two of you in at a time but the bathroom is big and it'll be all steamy and warm and nice. I think that will be perfect! I'll get each of you a nice bath caddy with soaps and shampoo and everything! I'll add it to the list!." Jaskier said excitedly and put that on the list on his phone.

"You have a list?" Eskel asked and looked over at Jaskier's phone. Jaskier pulled the electronic close to his chest.

"No peeking! I want you all to be dazzled when you get home!" Jaskier said and checked his phone. 11:30. Thirty more minutes until he had to leave for the day.

"Well babies… I only have half an hour before I have to leave. I've got so much stuff arriving today for your rooms! I'm so excited! I really hope you like them. I have a few things I need to do in the kitchen too… I think you all need steaks as your welcome home dinner!" Jaskier told them. Lambert purred extra loud and conked his head against Jaskier's. Geralt looked sad though.

"Geralt, my sweet dove, why the long face?" Jaskier said and put his hand under Geralt's chin making the pet look at his face. Geralt's eyes looked teary and he had his bottom lip stuck out and quivering a bit.

"You're so nice…" Is all the white haired babe said before the tears started to fall. He kept his trembling lips sealed shut but his eyes let out rivers of tears. Jaskier gasped and pulled Geralt into his lap so his head could rest on the singer's shoulder.

"Oh you poor baby, poor little baby. I'll always be nice to you darlings. You don't deserve to be treated in any way but nicely. It's okay, it's alright, I'm right here you can cry as long as you need." Jaskier said in a soft gentle tone and petted down Geralt's sides. Geralt sniffled and whimpered and rubbed his face into Jaskier's neck.

"Bear… you can't just keep him here… He's got things to do." Eskel said as he tried to pull Geralt away but he tightly wrapped his arms around Jaskier. Eskel tried to pry him and Lambert rubbed the crying babes back.

"No! No, I 'anna stay! I wanna stay!" Geralt cried out and grabbed onto Jaskier so hard it probably would leave bruises. Jaskier felt his heart break in a million pieces as he tried to pull himself away from the witcher. Jaskier started to tear up as he stood up, effectively dropping Geralt onto Eskel's lap.

"I'm sorry baby, I'm so sorry. I'll be back tomorrow. After tomorrow you can come sit on my lap all day everyday and cuddle up with me in bed and never ever have to leave. But I need to go. I'm so sorry you poor little baby." Jaskier said as he watched Eskel hold down Geralt's hands from where they wanted to grab back onto Jaskier. Jaskier had a few tears rolling down his face. He looked over at Lambert who looked frightened and had a few tears rolling down his face. He was the youngest so it probably upset him like nothing else to see Geralt so distraught.

Jaskier bent down and wiped away Lambert's tears and kissed his forehead.

"Calm down kitty. I love you, I'll see you tomorrow." Jaskier said as he ruffled Lambert's hair and rubbed his ears a bit.

"I want Jaskier! I want I want-" Geralt hollered again and thrashed around in Eskel's grip. The eldest of the three only shushed and held tighter onto the white haired babe.

"Bear, Geralt, Stop. Stop it. You're not being nice. Stop it!" Eskel scolded Geralt until he went lax and just cried quietly. Eskel looked up at Jaskier, he looked sickened. Jaskier bent and kissed Eskel's forehead and whispered to him.

"Eskel, baby, darling, I love you. I'll see you tomorrow. Please look after him until I can come back." Jaskier said right against Eskel's scarred forehead. Eskel nodded.

"Goodbye Jaskier. Ple-please come back soon." Eskel said shyly. Even his walls were starting to crumble when he was about the tender man. Jaskier nodded and quickly turned away and knocked on the glass and waved at the person who had let him in.

"I will return tomorrow. I'll spend all day with you if I can. Bye bye for now babies." Jaskier said and smiled back at them. The door opened and he hurried out with tears running down his face once again.

He hated having to leave his babies each day. But he had to go because he needed the house to be perfect for when they arrived. He needed to go and wait for the delivery trucks.

Soon Jaskier was sitting at his desk with his office door thrown open, watching the workers drag in each box of furniture and everything else he bought. He would go through it himself and organize it all. When he had arrived home he had placed a same day order for their clothes, hygiene tools, and toys. There were boxes stacked from the entry all the way covering the living room floor and covering the kitchen counters. Jaskier waited until the only people left were those who were painting and putting up wallpaper. Tomorrow while he was away people would come and lay the carpet and flooring.

Jaskier got up and walked over to his kitchen counter which was littered with brown cardboard boxes. He grabbed a steak knife from the drawer and cut the first one. Soaps and toothpaste. He pulled out big pump bottles full of chamomile, honey, and lavender shampoos and conditioners. He lifted packs of toothbrushes and sweet flavored toothpaste, he laughed at himself right then, he's going to have to make sure the boys don't eat the toothpaste. He finished the box off by pulling out coconut body wash and creamy hand soap.

Jaskier put those in one spot on the table. That would be the bathroom section. Box after box he organized each into piles on the table. A pile of mainly blues, blacks, and whites and chamomile scents were Geralts, the pile of soft cottony greens and sweet scents were Lambert's, and the big red pile scented with honey and herbs was for Eskel. There was also a pile of towels, soaps, and everything else for the bathroom and a pile of toys and mats for the basement.

Jaskier had only unpack the kitchen area and there was still so much more but he smiled. This was all for his babies. He loved giving. He loves pampering, not just himself, but everyone around him. You could ask his backstage staff or anyone who had ever worked for or with him. Now he had three babes who expected the minimum. He had three babies who could be pampered and spoiled rotten. He was pleased as a peach.

Jaskier took a break and had a sandwich and a bowl of fruit and yogurt. He just walked around while eating. He peaked in the now perfectly painted rooms. He would have to tip the painters, they did an amazing job… He walked down to the basement where the walls were now covered in a nice calm grey paint and the floors were covered in a plain hardwood floor. He had chosen a flooring that was more sturdy than pretty because he planned on covering the floor in some nice colorful puzzle piece mats and rugs.

Jaskier walked back up to his mess of boxes. He started with a big heavy one that looked like it had a bookshelf in it. A nice plain wooden bookshelf for Eskel's room. He pulled the box over to one side of the living room. The Esk-y side of the room. He shoved a mattress and a box spring over to that side. He popped open each box and looked for all of the witcher's stuff. Red, brown, tan, and yellows soon piled up on that side of the room. He then moved onto Lambert's and then greens, golds, creams, and dark greens piled up on that wall. Jaskier then pushed the rest to the other wall. Geralt's wall was piled with blues, whites, grays, and blacks piled up there.

At the kitchen counter Jaskier found and pulled out three plastic bathroom caddies, blue, red, and green, and started putting them together. A nice comb and brush, shampoo and conditioner, a fluffy loofah, a washrag, bodywash, and a bottle lotion in each. Eskel had mostly herbal and lavender scents, Lambert had honey and floral scents, and Geralt had chamomile and vanilla. He made sure to get each boy scents and textures that they liked.

Jaskier smiled down at the baskets and then looked up and looked in the backyard. He let out a bit of a gasp. It was already dark out? He turned to look at the oven clock and oh… oh it was already eleven… he'd been organizing and separating for almost six hours…

Jaskier decided he best get a shower and get to bed since he needed to be up and ready by about nine to go visit the babies. Jaskier smiled as he made his way through his nightly routine and smiled when he got in bed. Maybe the babies would like to sleep in his bed… He'd better get a bigger bed than his (very comfortable) queen bed.

Jaskier slept very well with dreams of wrastly witchers with full tummies and brushed ears.

The next day Jaskier got up, ate some pancakes, packed his backpack and got on his way. He picked up a bag of powdered donuts on his way after getting gas. He again got beeped into his babies room and cuddled with them for hours. He brought a brush with him today.

After the boys finished eating the donuts and cuddled with him for about an hour, and after quite a bit of sniffing and kissings and nuzzles and a few licks, Jaskier pushed Lambert and Eskel off his sides and pulled Geralt's head up off his lap.

"What doin?" Geralt mumbled as he blinked awake and rolled onto his butt to sit.

"I brought a brush with me! I thought you might let me brush your hair or your tailsl? If not that's fine! Or if you'd like to do it yourselves that's also fine! You choose though." Jaskier said and watched his babies all smile and wag.

"Can I go first?" Eskel asked his brothers. Geralt nodded and Lambert said a small "sure". Then Eskel then scooted to be in front of Jaskier backwards. Jaskier started with hsi hair and around his ears, he didn't have a little brush for their ears with him, and then when that was all smooth and tangle-less he started to brush the eldest's tail. Jaskier thought it was quite therapeutic. The rhythmic brushes down the lovely dark brown fur. The way occasionally Eskel would move to flip his tail one way or another. Jaskier hadn't noticed that Geralt and Lambert both had shifted to sit beside him and watch.

When Jaskier was done he bent forward and kissed the back of Eskel's neck.

"All done puppy-dumplin! Who's next?" Jaskier asked. Eskel turned back to him and looked so relaxed and happy. He had on a sweet smile plastered on his face. No one ever called them names like that.

Lambert quickly clambered over so he was sitting where Eskel was once Eskel scooted to sit by Jaskier's backpack.

"I wanna be brushesed! I wanna be all pretty." Lambert said as flicked his long sleek tail up into the man's lap. Lambert had a quite soft tail if Jaskier was being honest. His hair was quite greasy and his ears probably needed to be cleaned but that would be easy to handle tomorrow when they were all home with him.

As Jaskier ran the brush through Lambert's hair the last time before moving to his tail he asked the boys a question.

"Are you excited to come home tomorrow?" Jaskier asked and Geralt started to purr so loudly and Eskel let out a few breathy whines. Lambert started to wiggle on his butt though.

"Yes! Yes! Getta go home! Getta go home with Jask-y! Jask-y!" Lambert chirped out happily. Eskel yapped out quick "Home! Home! Home!" and Geralt purred and let out a high pitched growling noise. Jaskier laughed at Geralt.

"Baby Bear, what was that? You're so silly." Jaskier asked and turned toward Geralt, who had the biggest smile spread across his face. His eyes were squinched up because of it and his big fang teeth were on full display.

"That's his happy noise. We've never met anyone else who can make it but it just means he's happy." Eskel explained and Geralt just made the noise again. It sounded like it should be either a growl or a coo but ended up being a cute little mix of them both.

"Well it is so cute! I hope to hear it all the time when we get home! Let when I show you all your rooms… and your beds… and the pantry!" Jaskier finished and Lambert heaved himself back so he thunked his chest against the man's.

"Food! I wanna eat all the food! And candy! I love candy! And bread, I love bread! And meat I love meat!" Lambert rambled on. Eskel agreed and Geralt just stared at Jaskier.

"Yes I know. I'll cook us a nice dinner and we can have a lovely long bathtime and we can all watch a movie. How does that sound as a first day in the new house?" Jaskier suggested.

"I wanna be home with Jask-y. I wanna cuddle and a blankie." Geralt said. Jaskier is so happy he bought about half a billion blankets for each of them.

"I want steaks and kisses and bath time with Jaskier." Lambert said and smiled up at his new owner.

"I wanna be anywhere but here… on a mattress with some cookies." Eskel said and giggled. Jaskier could tell his walls are only up because he isn't home.

Jaskier spent the rest of the day talking to the witchers and cuddling and took a nice long nap. The babes didn't ever sleep well in their little prison. They even showed Jaskier how they can do soooo many push ups and sit ups and how flexible they are. And Jaskier appreciated it all very much. He should buy them some nice yoga mats…

When it was time to leave there weren't any tears, just big smiles and kisses. Jaskier smiled as he made his way home.

The carpet and flooring was all laid and perfect so Jask put together each room. Void TVs but the rest of everything was all ready. Curtains to sheets to chew toys in bins. He waited until the bedrooms and bathroom were ready before venturing down into the basement. He would let the babies decorate down here, but he got all the boxes down there in the closet.

That night after a nice flowery bath Jaskier hopped into bed and had dreams of snuggly warm bodies and strange growly purrs and big wet kisses.

Tomorrow's the big day...