#also it's an ambiguous situation since it's implied that callum had a piece of rayner in himself like a parasite but it's gone now

[pooks]

so i had this thought...Callum as babysitter for Avery and Esteban is really adorable

it all starts with Martin complaining over how hard it is to find a babysitter for the babies. cause Cecil works, Carlos works and so does he and Jon. he can't afford to take more day offs.

and Callum, who's just chilling on the couch, scrolling tik-tok, just looks up and says "i can watch then. i'm like their big brother after all, right"

i'm gonna assume it takes a lot convincing cause Martin wasn't entirely sure if a fourteen year old could look after two toddlers on his own. but eventually, Cal looks after the babies when he doesn't have school.

hey, they even works out a schedule, i bet. probably taped up at the fridge, along with a chore wheel (yes, i bet they have a chore wheel)

and Callum doesn't mind cause he doesn't have much of a social life anyways (except for that football player crush in his school) and the babies likes him, so everyone wins.

to everyone's surprise (including Cal as well), he's a great babysitter. he entertains the babies, make sure they are fed and clean, plays games with them, takes them outside for a bit (he never forgets sunscreen or their hats) and treats them ice-cream

also headcanon that Callum isn't proud of his actions at Night Street in the fearpocalypse and he doesn't want to fall back to it (even if it's unclear that was his own actions or not, it's left ambiguously), so he really takes this role super-seriously

the consequences is, of course, the babies likes to joke and mess with him when they get older asdfghjkl

but Cal is still the best damn babysitter in Night Vale

thank you for coming to my TED

(please note that these are just headcanon and imaginations. the Welcome to Somewhere Else AU belongs to @sm0kebreaks @kerink and @game-warden, a TMA/WTNV crossover)