Millard Nullings One Shots

Apple Pie (Millard)

Unknown to most of the peculiars residing at Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children, Millard, was a brilliant cook. When he was younger he would watch his mum in the kitchen cooking and once he was old enough he would help her in any way he could. When he was 10 he entered a baking competition and much to his win surprised left with the prize of first place. When he started to fade away cooking and baking was his only way to make him feel visible again, when people tasted his food they would notice him and love him. He had cooked once while living in Miss Peregrines loop, but this was many years ago and before many of the current residents were even born (a/n don't take my word for this, it's more of a head canon I know others are older than him it's just a slight change.). There were 3 people who knew, Enoch, Miss Peregrine and Hugh, Enoch and Miss Peregrine knew because they were around back when he used to cook for the children and Hugh. Hugh only knew as, being Millards best friend, when Hugh was still pining after Fiona he was feeling down so, with Miss Peregrines permission, he stayed behind while everyone went on a walk and baked some cupcakes, Millard kept them in his room until the younger children had gone to bed and went to Hughs room, the spent the night eating them while Millard comforted him. Since then Millard hadn't cooked at all really, when Millard was in a mood Miss Peregrine would leave him alone in the house while she took everyone else out for a walk. Despite the fact that Millard had not cooked in many years, Miss Peregrine still had a small area in the pantry full of ingredients in case Millard ever decided to cook again as he really was a brilliant cook. He wasn't in a bad mood, he just wanted to be alone for a bit so he had stayed back from the walk. He had been wondering round the house for 10 minutes before he found himself standing in the pantry surrounded by all the ingredients, looking through the ingredients Millard had a sudden urge to bake. He grabbed all the ingredients he needed and began to bake. It took around 2 hours all together but Miss Peregrine had said that they would be going for a long walk as many of the children wanted to go to the beach. By the time they got back Millard had cleared everything up and gone back upstairs leaving his creation sitting on the dining room table. He had fallen asleep when everyone trampled back through the door, it was Olive who found the apple pie sitting on the table and shouted over to the others "Hey guys, there's an apple pie over here", she was very confused as to why there was an apple pie on the table. Everyone entered the room and crowded round the apple pie, for some odd reason they were all very fascinated by the apple pie. It was Miss Peregrine who finally broke the confused chatter, "I do believe the Millard has got back into baking again" everyone turned around to face her with curiosity as they had never heard of Millard baking. Enoch was he next one to speak "Millard used to bake a lot, he was very talented at it actually". Everyone was now fascinated by this unknown fact about there friend, "yeah he's so good at baking, can we eat the apple pie" asked Hugh, remembering the time he gave him cupcakes. Everyone else was now also asking and begging to eat the apple pie, "you'll have to ask Millard" everyone quickly ran upstairs to find him, they all fell into his room to find him, or rather his clothes asleep on his bed, he had flour in his hair from baking and everyone had decided there's an then that they needed to convince Millard to bake again. Everyone slowly backed out, closing the door behind them. As much as everyone wanted to eat the apple pie they decided to wait till after dinner to eat it.