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Who: John, Sarah and Kira
When: 16th June
Where: Museum
What: Waiting to camp out at the museum
Rating/Warnings: Low
Status: Complete



When Kira had first mentioned Penguins and Pyjamas, a sleepover initiative at the California Academy of Sciences even Sarah had to admit it looked good. It was a bit expensive but Kira’s birthday wasn’t too far away and she had been really good with all the craziness that happened to them. So after inviting John, Sarah had booked them all in and that was how they were here. Watching Kira walk around and read everything she could about the exhibits she was looking at while they waited to be called into the special planetarium show.

“It’s pretty cool being here when it’s closed right?” she said to John, “Although I am waiting for everything to start coming to life” she grinned.

“It’s really cool,” John grinned at Sarah as they wandered around the exhibits. “I told you not to watch Night At the Museum before coming here,” he joked. “Not even sure they have an Egyptian wing here,” he chuckled, squeezing her hand in his. “You're enjoying yourself? Seen anything on the map or anything that you'd definitely want to see?” He asked.

“How could I not? It’s a great movie and this was the perfect reason to watch it again” she told him with a smirk, “I’m having a great time, even if I’m not absorbing everything as much as my daughter the sponge. They have an earthquake exhibition thing I want to see, I’ve always found that kind of thing interesting” she replied, “After the planetarium show of course”

“Babe, there was no way we were leaving this place without seeing the planetarium show,” John grinned. “But earthquakes...that’s interesting. Although I guess it makes sense…” he trailed off before leaning in with a cheeky grin on his face before continuing in a low voice so only she could hear. “You do seem to love it when I make the earth move.” He chuckled and pressed a quick kis to her temple.

“Oh I know and I also know that you and Kira will then spend the next hour or so discussing what you saw and it will be adorable” Sarah said, she often found it amazing how easily her daughter got on with John and she was incredibly grateful that John hadn’t been put off by her having a kid. A lot of men would have run a mile.

“Oh my god, I cannot believe you just used such a cheesy line John Crichton. Be ashamed” she teased him though the arm around his waist squeezed him and her smile was bright.

“Just don’t put it on YouTube or anything. Don’t want to ruin the poor kids street rep by being seen talking science with an old man,” John winked, chuckling as she pulled herself closer to him. “Really? You didn’t think I’d stoop to giving you a cheesy line?” he asked rhetorically, pulling them to a stop and pulling her close before burying his face in her neck to press his lips there. “You just wait til we get home and I’ll show you earth moving…” he muttered against her skin as he slid his hands up her back.

Sarah laughed, her own arms sliding up his chest to wrap around his neck, “You are such a bad influence” she told him with a smirk before pressing her lips to his.

Just before they parted a young girls voice reached them, “Your parents are so cool Kira. Mine are boring, they both work in a bank. What does your dad do?” turning her head a little Sarah caught Kira smiling before she answered her friend, “He’s a teacher at the university, he’s super smart” she answered proudly laughing when her friend said that must be where she got her brains from then they moved off to look at a display, leaving Sarah surprised by the whole exchange.

John stood quietly while they listened to Kira and her friend, not quite sure what to do with himself. “Well….that was different,” he said quietly, not quite looking at Sarah in front of him. “Umm...are you ok with that?”

“Different is certainly one word for it” Sarah said, feeling just as awkward. “Yeah, I mean if you are? I can have a word with her if you like? I know it’s not an ideal situation” She’d never had to deal with that before, admittedly previous boyfriends never lasted that long before but she’d never thought Kira would let her friends assume John was her dad.

John went to speak then stopped, looking in the direction that Kira had trotted off in with her friend. “I...uh, no, it’s fine,” John smiled and shook his head as he looked up at her. “I mean, you don’t need to talk to her now, but..perhaps it’s something you should talk over with her when we get home? We uh...I don’t think we’ve ever spoken about her real dad before…” he trailed off.

“Yeah that’s a good idea. I mean talking to her about the whole situation here” Sarah clarified, “I can’t talk about her dad. Mostly because I don’t know who he is. I was a pretty wild teenager” she added though her gaze was averted as she said it, alluding to the fact that she’d slept around enough not to know who the father of her child was wasn’t something Sarah was proud of.

“Hey, look at me,” John said quietly before he gently caught her chin with his thumb and forefinger and ducked slightly to catch her eye. He gave her a little smile as he looked right at her. “It’s ok, it’s not like I didn’t know you were with people before. I just...I want you to be sure that you and Kira are ok with where this sort of thing generally means we’re going and what it could mean. I’d be more than happy if Kira wanted to call me dad,” he gave a little chuckle. “But I want you to be certain that it’s the right thing for you and Kira first,” he gave her a crooked smile.

As Sarah listened to John she once again was reminded of how bloody lucky she had been to find someone as incredible as John was. Smiling she wrapped her arms around his neck, “You are going to get laid so much when we get home, I am going to rock your world for being so bloody amazing”

John couldn’t help but chuckle as she wrapped her arms around him. He held her tightly and pressed a kiss to the side of her head. “Promises, promises,” he murmured.