Author's Note: All characters over eighteen.
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Riker and Izzy arrived home in the late afternoon, having stayed after school for track practice. They entered their home with the intent of heading straight up to their room, but only made it halfway up the stairs before hearing the sounds of loud, aggressive sex.
The twins stopped and looked at each other, then as one sighed and turned back the way the had come.
"Dammit, Vi," Riker grumbled.
"You know she's loud on purpose," Izzy said, referring to their eldest sister.
"Yeah of course I know. And it's no good complaining because she just makes more noise."
Riker and Izzy retreated to the living room, which at least was out of earshot of the sex noises from upstairs. Riker sat on the couch, and Izzy did the same but swung her legs across her brother's lap.
"It's mostly her boys," Izzy said.
"Hm?"
"You know. You hear moaning and stuff, but it's not usually Vi. Usually whichever boy she's dating. That's who you hear, mostly."
"Yeah, and I don't know if that makes it better or worse," Riker sighed. He idly ran a hand up and down Izzy's leg. "Is she actually ever dating any of these guys though? Or just, you know, fucking?"
Izzy shrugged. "I asked once. She just smirked at me."
"No help there then."
"I do recognize some of them sometimes, though, so they can't all be one night stands."
"Especially since it's so often in the afternoon."
"Haha, yeah."
Zoe, the second eldest sister, arrived a while later. She was humming to herself, and like the twins headed for the stairs without thinking about it.
"I wouldn't do that," Riker called to her.
Zoe stopped, then slowly padded over to the living room. "Again?"
Riker and Izzy nodded.
"This one's a moaner," Izzy confirmed.
Zoe sighed. "The least Vi could do is keep it down if she's gonna always be boinking guys in her room."
"You'd think so, wouldn't you," Riker said.
"There's a chance they're done by now," Izzy said. "It has been, what, half an hour since we tried?"
"Something like that," Riker said.
"Oh the hell with it anyway," Zoe said. "I got a new game I want to break out anyway."
Riker and Izzy stayed right where they were while Zoe pulled out her playstation and popped in a new disc. Zoe settled herself on the floor, back against the couch, just in front of the twins.
"Elden Ring, huh?" Riker said. "I've been hearing good things."
"Same," Zoe said. "Here goes."
Izzy, less interested in watching than her brother, pulled out her phone to occupy her. Riker and Zoe chatted away while Zoe started her game.
Riker's hand brushed up and down Izzy's legs every now and then, just a casual caress. Izzy recognized that she and her brother had what was most certainly a more intimate relationship than a lot of siblings, it could even be considered weirdly close, but she wouldn't trade it for anything more 'normal'. Especially because she was proud of her legs, honed from years of running, and it was nice to have them appreciated sometimes.
Vi came downstairs a bit later, boytoy in tow. She saw him to the door, gave him a goodbye kiss, then returned and joined her siblings in the living room.
"Proud of ourselves, are we?" Izzy asked without looking up from her phone.
Vi sank into the comfy recliner that was, by right of age and fighting prowess, hers. Riker glanced at her and indeed saw the self-satisfied, cat-like grin on her face that he expected.
"Feeling pretty good, yes," Vi said. "Jealous?"
Izzy snorted. "Of what?"
"Derek. He's a cutie, isn't he?"
"He's alright," Izzy said, nonplussed. "You banged him before? He looked familiar."
"Nope. He lives down the street though."
"Oh. That's probably it."
Silence descended. Vi flicked her eyes around between her brother and sisters, seemingly waiting for some further comment.
"You guys waiting for me to finish, were you?" she asked when no one bit.
Riker sighed. "Yes, Vi, we heard you guys in your room. You're such a weird show off."
"Not showing off," Vi said.
"You're a huge show off," Zoe said without taking her eyes off her game.
"The worst," Izzy agreed, likewise not looking away from her phone.
Vi rolled her eyes and got back out of her seat. "Whatever. I refuse to be ashamed of it."
"That's fine," Riker said. "But you could do with being a little less proud of it."
Vi shook her head, her short, dyed hair tumbling over her eyes before she brushed it back. "Women have had to spend too long being--"
A chorus of groans drowned out Vi's point before she could finish it.
"We respect your choices to fuck every boy with a pulse," Zoe said. "We truly do. It's just we don't need to hear it."
"And you definitely make sure we hear it," Izzy added. "Like, every time."
"Can I help it if I know what I'm doing in bed?" Vi asked.
"At this point, probably not," Riker said.
Vi glared at her siblings, but gave it up. "Alright, whatever. I'ma get started on supper. Who's gonna peel vegetables for me?"
Izzy put her phone away and rolled to her feet while Riker and Zoe were busy bickering over whose turn it was. "I'm not doing anything anyway," she said.
"Neither are we," Riker said. "Peeling vegetables just isn't tha--"
"It's not appealing," Zoe said
"--t fun. Oh goddammit Zo," Riker said batting a pillow from the couch at Zoe's head, who only giggled, fully pleased with herself.
Vi and Izzy hit the kitchen, Izzy accepting her assignment of veggie prep in assistance of the evening meal.
"We really don't care who you fuck," Izzy said.
"Yeah, I know," Vi said.
"You just... you really do kind of show it off."
Vi smiled crookedly. "I know that too."
"Then why do--"
"Because it annoys the shit out of all of you."
Izzy made an offended noise and winged half a potato at Vi, who nearly caught the projectile, but instead it bounced off her wrist and into the sink.
"Don't throw food around," Vi chided.
"Don't be a little shit," Izzy countered.
"Can't be a little shit. I'm the oldest."
"And yet somehow you manage it anyway."
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Supper was cooking by the time Helena got home from work. Vi was hanging out in the kitchen keeping an eye on things. Helena greeted her with a kiss on the cheek.
"Hey, Mom. How was work?"
Helena shrugged. "Oh, you know. The usual."
"Thought it might be."
"Supper smells good."
Vi nodded. "It's almost ready. You've got time to get changed."
"Then I'd probably better get on it."