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Tweak says, "I feel like chicken tonight!"

Tahri (needforspeed) wrote in spinningcompass,
@ 2018-05-01 20:58:00

Entry tags:

!closed, shepard, ~addie sully

Who: Addie and Male!Shep
Where: JR and Shep's apartment
What: A confused Addie returns to adulthood.
When: Backdated to the day this happened
Rating: Low?
Open: Nope

Addie blinked as she took in the scene around her with a furrowed brow, trying to place herself. The last thing she remembered was helping Henry with stocking supplies in the medbay, but this clearly wasn't it. It looked a lot like her parents' kitchen, almost like what she remembered from before she'd come to the past. She was perched on the kitchen counter in pajama bottoms and a t-shirt, like she had a hundred times before growing up. Pancakes were cooking on the griddle and she smelled bacon somewhere.

The sound of the refrigerator door closing caught her attention and she turned her head to see her father, or at least the person she'd grown up calling her father, turning around. He was a bit more muscular than she remembered, definitely younger, and there wasn't a hint of grey in his full head of red hair and thick beard. "Dad?" She must be seeing things, the station was playing tricks on her.

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	commander_shep 2018-05-03 07:25 am UTC (link)
	Shepard smiled when he turned around. She was grown again. And she figured out why she hadn't been all what Addie had been looking for when she'd first arrived, in that one word. She was used to seeing them like this. "Yeah. The station is messing around. So..." He directed his hands down. He had been fixing breakfast, starting with coffee. (Reply to this) (Thread)

needforspeed
2018-05-03 08:03 pm UTC (link)

"So..." Addie still wasn't quite sure whether she was back in 2018 along with the grown versions of her oldest siblings or somewhere after. But the food smelled good and so did the coffee.

She hopped off the counter and gave her father a side hug being careful not to spill his coffee and moved to pour herself a cup. "So what happened? How long was I whatever I was?"

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	commander_shep 2018-05-04 10:31 am UTC (link)
	"You were four, for almost a month." Went back to flipping pancakes. And turning sausages. When he was satisfied nothing was burning he turned back to her. "I guess you don't remember that?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needforspeed 2018-05-04 02:08 pm UTC (link)
	"Really?" Addie scrunched her nose as she tried to recall, and her eyes widened. "You know actually I do remember bits and pieces I think. They're mixed in with what else I can remember from when I was that small. I was very confused but I had fun." She raised the coffee cup to her lips for asip and gave a blissful sigh. "Ahh that wonderful gift of caffeine." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	commander_shep 2018-05-05 09:00 am UTC (link)
	"Well, that's kind of weird. But I enjoyed our time together." He sipped from his own mug. She was right caffeine was a wonderful gift. His lashes fluttered and he took in a little more than he began with. Shepard took up the pancakes. "Do you still like..." He pointed at the breakfast foods he was preparing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needforspeed 2018-05-05 11:17 pm UTC (link)
	"I always loved spending quality time with you, daddy. It doesn't matter if I'm four or ninety four." She grinned at him and took another sip of coffee, feeling herself wake up a little more. "Blueberry pancakes and sausage? Yes!" She pumped a fist. "Best. Dad. Ever. I don't let myself have it very often because I don't want to get fat, but yes I love it." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

commander_shep
2018-05-06 08:32 am UTC (link)

He chuckled at her enthusiasm, as he turned the sausages one more time and poured up four more pancakes. "I don't think you'd get fat from blue berry pancakes. There's leeway in breakfast foods. Especially if it has fruit in it." Shepard knew he was absolutely pulling that out of his ass, but if blueberry pancakes made her that happy he saw no reason to skimp on them.

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needforspeed
2018-05-06 03:29 pm UTC (link)

"Well it isn't very healthy to have it all the time. Balance and all that." It was probably one of her favorite breakfasts though she couldn't put a finger on why.

She watched him pour some more on the griddle. "I remember trying to make them myself once when I was around four or five. Everyone else was asleep and I was up early, and I was hungry and wanted pancakes so I was going to make them." She still remembered the look of horror on her mother's face when she'd walked into the kitchen and saw the disaster area. "It didn't go well but at least I didn't burn the apartment up."

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	commander_shep 2018-05-07 09:01 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah you're probably right. I should just throw these out..." Shepard cocked a brow at her, a little grin playing over his lips. A little chuckle rumbled in his chest. And he had a small hope that it would be something he got to witness in this lifetime. In this timeline. "Well, that's something. " (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needforspeed 2018-05-07 11:40 am UTC (link)
	"Sure you can throw them out through my stomach." A matching grin spread on her face and she rubbed her middle for emphasis. "I would hate to let food go to waste." "Mom scolded me but you both had trouble keeping straight faces. Then I had to help clean it up." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	commander_shep 2018-05-08 02:42 am UTC (link)
	Shepard's little chuckle turned in to a full blown laugh. "Alright then. More it is." He flipped up the four that were in the pan only to pour up for more, and add a few extra blueberries. "Did I sneak in and do most the work?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needforspeed 2018-05-09 12:31 am UTC (link)
	"You did. Mom didn't say anything either, but I learned my lesson." She eyed the food cooking on the griddle eagerly as her stomach growled. "You were always the softie of the two of you." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	commander_shep 2018-05-09 08:02 am UTC (link)
	He flipped the last four even as she eyed them. He pulled up all the sausages. "With all of you kids? Or just you?" Shepard was sure she'd said she was the youngest. What they had failed to ask was how many were between her and Ash and TK. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needforspeed 2018-05-09 11:04 am UTC (link)
	"I think it was all of us but the others would tell you I got away with murder." Addie shrugged. "But we were always pretty close." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	commander_shep 2018-05-10 08:14 am UTC (link)
	He couldn't doubt that she could have got away with murder. Shepard nodded as he pulled up the rest of the pancakes. "I like the idea of that. Us being close." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needforspeed 2018-05-10 10:58 am UTC (link)
	"We will be again." Addie felt compelled to offer up the idea, since it was clearly on his mind. "It's just getting used to each other first is all." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	commander_shep 2018-05-11 04:21 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, I guess you're right." Shepard hid the disappointment that they just couldn't go back to the way things had been when she was four. He picked up the plates that held the pancakes and sausage and carried them to the table. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	needforspeed 2018-05-12 03:36 am UTC (link)
	She topped off the coffee and followed him to the table. Addie was good at reading him even if he wasn't obvious in his disappointment. Hopefully they'd be back to the closeness they'd had before she came back tot he past soon. Once he'd set down the plates she gave him a hug, feeling they both needed it. "Thanks for making breakfast dad, love you." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	commander_shep 2018-05-12 10:04 am UTC (link)
	Shepard was a little surprised by the hug. It took him a beat to return it, but when he did he wrapped his arms around her middle, and picked her up off of her feet just a little. "You're welcome kiddo. I love you too." (Reply to this) (Parent)