The Denny’s in Teufort wasn’t particularly fancy; from the inside, you probably wouldn’t even be able to tell it apart from any other Denny’s in existence. The Scout didn’t care much for the ‘upper class lifestyle’ anyway; If the doors aren’t locked, that’s good enough for him.
And so much for spending the weekend with his mom, she told him shortly after leaving the airport that she’d be going off with her ‘new beau’ so he could spend time with Melissa. Her words specifically were, “I thought it’d be a great idea for Mel to finally get to know her father. You two could bond!”
Bonding. Great idea. What were they going to bond over? The weather? Scout didn’t know what little girls liked, he didn’t even know what girls his own age liked! And there was NO WAY he was taking her back to Red base with him. The guys would flip!
Or rather Pyro would fry her alive and then the Medic would experiment with her burned skin and feed it to his birds or something. Either that or Heavy would squash her without even realizing it.
“Mon cherie, shall we be going?”
Scout snapped back into reality to find the Blue Spy kissing his mother’s hand.
“We’ll meet you back here around 7! Love you!”
And before he could even gather his bearings, his mother and the Spy were gone.
“Just great.” he slumped over and let his head drop to the table.
Mel had been doing pretty well about staying quiet, she wasn’t quite sure what to say to begin with. This man looked far too young to be her father and he had barely said a word to her since she got here. “My mommy never really talked about you…”
Yeah? I don’t blame her, “She never talked about me?”
“Well… she said she met you in high school… and that you played baseball,” she pulled a book out of one of her smaller bags and put it on the table, “She showed me this.”
“Our old yearbook?” Scout flipped it open and looked at all the signatures of his old classmates, the memories all coming back to him. “I remember these guys. We all used to throw big parties on the field after the football players left practice. I remember putting a firecracker in one of the-”
It totally slipped his mind that he was talking to a 7 year old, “-um… nevermind.” he skimmed the pages until he found his senior portrait, “Ah, there it is. Its’a good picture of me.”
“Mommy said that you kissed the photographer so you could take a better picture."
"Oh yeah? What else did she say?"
"She said it still looked bad." Oh. "And that you look like you're wearing lipstick-"
"O-K Let's not go into that!" He cleared his throat, the yearbook quickly, "So uh... What do you want to do today?"
She pondered, "Well... we're in the desert... are there camels here?"
"Um, no."
"Oh..."
I can't believe I'm doing this... "We can uh... let's go see what my friends are doing..." I am going to regret every single moment of this
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Family Time #1: Scout
Fanfiction[This story is the first story in the Family Time series based off of the Daddy Fortress AU by tumblr-user paperfrays] Scout spends time with his long lost child, Melissa, at Red Base. Hilarity and endearing awkwardness ensues. Mostly awkwardness.
