Who wants brownies?

Susan Storm was in a good mood. A REALLY good mood. Her business was booming, she was finally doing something constructive with her new nature, AND she was getting her own office set up, what wasn’t there to celebrate? Dancing to the tune on the radio on the kitchen table while baking brownies in the oven, the woman spun and twirled, enjoying herself. At 2 in the afternoon Susan knew her family wasn’t due back and her kids still had an hour until they came back from school. Which gave her some personal time to enjoy herself.

“Do you remember… Twenty first niiiiiight of… September… Love was changing the miiiiind of… Pretenders… While Chasing the clouds awaaaaaay.”

Bouncing from one end of the kitchen to the other, in nothing but her red silk underwear and a baker’s apron, the blue skinned succubus was in her natural form, her long silver hair swishing in the air and shaking her hips to the rhythm while she lost herself to the music.

“Ba de ya… Say that you remember… Ba de ya… Dancing in September…”

Hearing the ‘ding’ of the oven’s bell, Susan bent at the waist to open the oven and pull out the freshly baked brownies with her bare hands, her demonic nature making it where picking something up that was steaming hot was no different from picking up a tray of ice cubes, even going so far as to place her palm on the brownie batter to check if it had come out all right. Smiling at her handy work, the blue succubus spun around and kicked the oven door closed… Then stood dead stiff when she looked up to find her two kids Franklin and Valaria staring back at her. Dropping their school bags on the floor at the entrance of the kitchen in surprise.

“Uhm… Hi kids… You’re home early, how was school?”

Staring up at the blue skinned demoness smiling back at them with a toothy grin and wearing close to nothing save an apron that said, ‘kiss the cook’ and her underwear, both children blinked in confusion before Franklin finally found the nerve to speak. “They let us out early…Mom? Is that you?”

“Uhm… Yes sweetheart, I’m just wearing a Halloween costume.” Responded the blue demoness, blushing a deep shade of blue and flicking her high swooping horns over her head to give the impression they were fake.

“In August?” Piped in Valaria, finally finding her voice.

Squirming on the spot, Susan’s eyes began to shift nervously. “Well, I bought it early and wanted to try it out.”

“So why are you in your underwear?”

Looking down at herself, back and forth around the kitchen and her kids, she looked back down at the tray in her hands, regaining her smile. “Who wants brownies?” Seeing their eyes light up at the offer, she set the tray on the kitchen counter to cool while she scampered off to change.

*

Meanwhile back in Hell…

“I don’t know what’s taking so long, shouldn’t he have broken her already? Or at least make her stop with this bullshit?” Asked one of the demon’s of Mephisto’s court, forced to wear mittens and a sweater that read ‘If I’m wearing this I’m cold, fuck off!’

“He’s a master manipulator! He’s probably biding his time, waiting for the right moment to strike.”

“The right moment to strike was before my lunch froze over, I swear I can feel my ribs rattle… And I’m a fucking famine demon!”

“Boo hoo, try wearing my rotten shoes.” Complained the pestilence demon, wearing his own tacky sweater and winter hat while shivering in the hellish wastes. “I can feel my boils and pustules congeal…”

Lovely… Keep it to yourself.”

“THAT’S THE FUCKING PROBLEM!!!”

*

Leaving her kids to eat their brownies, the Invisible Woman came back in the kitchen wearing her blue costume and back to her human appearance, telling her kids she had to take off her ‘make up’ before joining them again at the table and cutting herself a slice of brownie from the tray.

“Now kids, don’t tell Dad or the others about that costume, it’s a SECRET.” She winked to her son and daughter, smiling when they nodded with their mouths full and a brick of chocolate fudge brownie in either of their hands.

Hearing the door open, Susan sat up to see that Reed and the others returning home. Getting up, Susan went to the living room to embrace Reed at the door and kiss him, leaving Johnny and Ben to roll their eyes as the two sat at the couch to turn on the television.

“Hi sweetie, how was work.”

“Oh, wonderful Suzie, I offered a new paper to the publicist about my theories on atomic bodies occupying the same space in multiple dimensions; I tried to explain that matter in other dimensions occupy the same space as other identical matter in similar dimensions like the anti-matter ad negative zone realms we travel through…”

“BLAH BLAH BLAH! Less talking, more football!” Harped Ben from the couch, getting a nod from Johnny as he turned up the volume.

Well then, maybe you can explain it more…In bed tonight?” Leaning up close to whisper in his ear. “I can sure think of some atomic bodies sharing the same space under the bed sheets.”

Taken back but not surprised by his wife’s desires, Reed quickly nodded and smiled back at the blonde beauty smiling up at him. “Oh-okay.”