Story: "Up the Water Spout" Part 5
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ysabetwordsmithThis story belongs to the series Love Is For Children which includes "Love Is for Children," "Hairpins," "Blended," "Am I Not," "Eggshells," "Dolls and Guys,""Saudades," "Querencia," "Turnabout Is Fair Play," "Touching Moments," "Splash," "Coming Around," "Birthday Girl," "No Winter Lasts Forever," "Hide and Seek," "Kernel Error," "Happy Hour," "Green Eggs and Hulk,""kintsukuroi," and "Little and Broken, but Still Good."
Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Natasha Romanova, Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Betty Ross, Bucky Barnes.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Mention of human trafficking and nonconsensual drug use. Slightly offstage sexual violence. Dubcon/Noncon.
Summary: Sometimes the Black Widow needs to hunt, and sometimes she needs help settling her personality afterwards. Uncle Phil arranges an extra ageplay session.
Notes: Hurt/comfort. Family. Fluff and angst. BAMF!Black Widow. Black Widow is creepy. Spiders. Coping skills. Asking for help and getting it. Hope. Nonsexual ageplay. Caregiving. Competence. Girl stuff. Toys and games. Gentleness. Trust. #coulsonlives
Begin with Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Skip to Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10.
"Up the Water Spout" Part 5
"All right, girls," Uncle Phil said with a brisk clap of his hands. "Let's get started."
"What are we playing first?" Betty asked, turning to Uncle Phil for guidance.
"We'll start with jump rope," he said. He went to an equipment locker and selected an assortment: a blue nylon rope swivel-mounted on wooden handles, a plastic one with tube beads in alternating colors, a leather boxer's jump rope, and a premium speed rope. He offered Natka the first. "Nylon is easy for beginners."
"I like the plastic kind because it makes this cool clicky sound when it smacks against the floor," Betty said as she made her selection. With a lazy twirl of the rope, she demonstrated the sound, stepping over the line. "Then if you go fast, the beads streak in the air." She sped up, skipping expertly over the plastic rope as its colored sections made stripes.
"So you just ... jump it?" Natka said, casting a dubious look at the rope in her hands. "I do not see the point in this."
Betty gave her an impish grin. "Oh, that's just the beginning." Her wrists flicked back and forth as she paced through several different steps. "You can do all kinds of things with a jump rope."
"You can jump forward, or backward," Phil said. He used the leather rope to demonstrate a more methodical progression. "You can also cross your arms, or side-swing. Many athletes jump rope as part of their training."
Natka tried the steps. She had no trouble with the forward and backward versions. Crossing took a few attempts to learn. She tripped trying the side-swing. "This is more complicated than it looks," she muttered.
"You'll get the hang of it," Betty said. "Now the fun part is the rhymes. You say the words in time to the jumps."
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, show your shoe
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, that will do!
As Betty sang, she suited actions to words. Natka watched her, entranced.
"Give it a try," Phil prompted.
Natka obeyed, the simple tricks holding her attention just enough. Betty circled around them, skipping over her own rope as she moved in a wide ring. She taught Natka more rhymes. Slowly Natka got into the spirit of it.
"Would you like to try two-person twirling?" Phil asked.
"Okay," Natka said.
Phil got out the longer ropes. They had a pair of those, one with pink handles and one with blue, joined by the same pink-and-blue nylon ropes. That made it a little easier to do double-dutch with the contrasting handles, because you had to spin the ropes in opposite directions. "All right, first Betty and I will show you how to twirl the rope," he said to Natka. "You can help me twirl while Betty jumps, and then you'll get a turn jumping.
It only took a few spins for Natka to grasp the idea. She quickly took over Betty's handle. Pacing herself to Phil's speed was more challenging. Eventually she figured it out. "Now what?" she asked.
* * *
Notes:
Jump rope is a popular children's game with many rhymes. There are basic and more advanced steps in learning to jump rope. Double dutch uses two long ropes and is more complicated.
Know which kind of jump rope to buy. There are nylon, plastic beaded, leather, and premium speed ropes. This is the double dutch set.
[To be continued in Part 6 ...]
Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Natasha Romanova, Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Betty Ross, Bucky Barnes.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Mention of human trafficking and nonconsensual drug use. Slightly offstage sexual violence. Dubcon/Noncon.
Summary: Sometimes the Black Widow needs to hunt, and sometimes she needs help settling her personality afterwards. Uncle Phil arranges an extra ageplay session.
Notes: Hurt/comfort. Family. Fluff and angst. BAMF!Black Widow. Black Widow is creepy. Spiders. Coping skills. Asking for help and getting it. Hope. Nonsexual ageplay. Caregiving. Competence. Girl stuff. Toys and games. Gentleness. Trust. #coulsonlives
Begin with Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Skip to Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10.
"Up the Water Spout" Part 5
"All right, girls," Uncle Phil said with a brisk clap of his hands. "Let's get started."
"What are we playing first?" Betty asked, turning to Uncle Phil for guidance.
"We'll start with jump rope," he said. He went to an equipment locker and selected an assortment: a blue nylon rope swivel-mounted on wooden handles, a plastic one with tube beads in alternating colors, a leather boxer's jump rope, and a premium speed rope. He offered Natka the first. "Nylon is easy for beginners."
"I like the plastic kind because it makes this cool clicky sound when it smacks against the floor," Betty said as she made her selection. With a lazy twirl of the rope, she demonstrated the sound, stepping over the line. "Then if you go fast, the beads streak in the air." She sped up, skipping expertly over the plastic rope as its colored sections made stripes.
"So you just ... jump it?" Natka said, casting a dubious look at the rope in her hands. "I do not see the point in this."
Betty gave her an impish grin. "Oh, that's just the beginning." Her wrists flicked back and forth as she paced through several different steps. "You can do all kinds of things with a jump rope."
"You can jump forward, or backward," Phil said. He used the leather rope to demonstrate a more methodical progression. "You can also cross your arms, or side-swing. Many athletes jump rope as part of their training."
Natka tried the steps. She had no trouble with the forward and backward versions. Crossing took a few attempts to learn. She tripped trying the side-swing. "This is more complicated than it looks," she muttered.
"You'll get the hang of it," Betty said. "Now the fun part is the rhymes. You say the words in time to the jumps."
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around,
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, show your shoe
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, that will do!
As Betty sang, she suited actions to words. Natka watched her, entranced.
"Give it a try," Phil prompted.
Natka obeyed, the simple tricks holding her attention just enough. Betty circled around them, skipping over her own rope as she moved in a wide ring. She taught Natka more rhymes. Slowly Natka got into the spirit of it.
"Would you like to try two-person twirling?" Phil asked.
"Okay," Natka said.
Phil got out the longer ropes. They had a pair of those, one with pink handles and one with blue, joined by the same pink-and-blue nylon ropes. That made it a little easier to do double-dutch with the contrasting handles, because you had to spin the ropes in opposite directions. "All right, first Betty and I will show you how to twirl the rope," he said to Natka. "You can help me twirl while Betty jumps, and then you'll get a turn jumping.
It only took a few spins for Natka to grasp the idea. She quickly took over Betty's handle. Pacing herself to Phil's speed was more challenging. Eventually she figured it out. "Now what?" she asked.
* * *
Notes:
Jump rope is a popular children's game with many rhymes. There are basic and more advanced steps in learning to jump rope. Double dutch uses two long ropes and is more complicated.
Know which kind of jump rope to buy. There are nylon, plastic beaded, leather, and premium speed ropes. This is the double dutch set.
[To be continued in Part 6 ...]
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Date: 2014-09-08 09:49 pm (UTC)I am not commenting because this story is bringing up stuff from my girlhood that I need to deal with, and I thank you for that, but I am not ready to comment about it.
*hugs*
Date: 2014-09-08 09:51 pm (UTC)