Afterglow • Gideon Emery

7

Later in the day Jack and Hannah did come over to hang out. Though Gideon had a plan of going out for dinner tonight the Mitchell's just had to come and ruin that plan.

With Gideon and Jack drinking beers in the living room left Hannah and Chloe to make dinner. With the beginning of December weather frigid and wet they decided to make a soup.

Looking at her 'daughter' so often she could see her always scrunching her face as if she was trying fight through pain she felt. "Are you okay, Chloe?" Hannah asked her setting the spoon down and grabbing her shoulder.

"Yes..." Chloe muttered painfully "I'm fine. I ate a lot this morning"

"Why don't you go to the bathroom and I'll check on you later?" Chloe nods and walked away from her 'mother' and ran down the hall. Dempsey, being her guard dog, ran down the hall after her.

Hannah hummed then went back to the soup in the crockpot so the house didn't explode while unintended. They were having vegetable soup by the way.

Icebreaker laid down on his stomach laying against the snack bar being by Hannah's side always. His puppy eyes narrowed up to her like he was begging for food. She rose her eyebrow and gave in giving him a piece of meat, shaking his tail the husky ate the given meat so happily. "Cause you're my favorite boy" she whispered "shhh don't tell Bunny"

"Fennec Fennec Fennec"
"Hannah Hannah Hannah"

Hannah rose her eyebrows when she seen both the men come in calling her name. She rose her eyebrows looking at them then crossing her arms "what?"

"Tell this bottom that I am NOT a bottom OR a virgin!" Jack hissed pointing at Gideon

"TELL THIS BOTTOM THAT I AM A TOP AND NOT A VIRGIN!" Gideon yelled back at her, obviously these men are drunk.

"Uhhh, first of all, Bunny is not a bottom, he tops as much as me and I can promise you he's not a virgin-"

"HAH I TOLD YOU!"

"Shut the fuck up"

"Okay..."

"Gideon, you're a bottom and a virgin, get over it snowflake."

Gideon frowned looking down, his eyebrows risen as his blue eyes watered. "Where's my sunflower?! She'll tell you otherwise!"

"You leave my daughter alone!" Hannah hissed, forcing Gideon to jump and screech startled.

"Okay..." he whimpered

"Go back to the couch you bitches" Hannah told the two drunk men so they went back to the couch. She then grabbed two bottles of water and tossed them to both the drunks. "Sober up too."

"Okay—" the drunk men whimpered before they started drinking the whole water bottle without taking breathing break.

When she soup was done she turned the stove off and set her cloth down. She needed to check on her daughter. Walking passed the men who seemed to sober up a little bit, it was so magical to how they sobered up so fast talking about past missions like they weren't drunk before.

"Chloe?" Hannah said lighting knocking on the bathroom door.

"I'm in here." Chloe wasn't in the bathroom but she was in her and Gideons bedroom. Walking inside Hannah could see her laying on their bed staring up at the ceiling. "Sup"

"Hello..." Hannah says "you okay?"

"Yeah...pain stopped" she nods her head watching the ceiling fan spin. "Thankfully."

"You don't need medicines or anything?"

"I'm good, thank you."

"You feel like eating then?"

"I do actually."

"Well common then, it's ready for us and our dumbass men" Chloe giggled at her Hannah's Aries attitude. Hannah pulled her from her bed and so the two walked to the living room to see the men were watching the tv with eyes widened, watching explosions of cars as if they just heard a scary story, don't they see this every mission?

"What?" Hannah goes looking at them, then the tv, then right back at them. "What is it?"

"I...don't...know?" Jack tilts his head confused continuing to stare at the tv.

"Interesting..." Gideon then whispered

"I'm so confused-" Chloe mutters

"Idiots" Hannah walked away from them and went back to the kitchen pouring them all bowls of soup.

"Hey..Jack.." Chloe then speaks up

"Hmm?"

"I tried to teach myself how to play your song you played last week while you were on a mission." Chloe says looking at him with a smile, that kinda surprised Jack a little bit. He didn't think much of his music after not thinking about music for what has been a decade.

"Really?"

"Yeah..."

"Can you show me what you got?"

"AFTER DINNER!!" Hannah yells from the kitchen.

"My Fennec" Jack got heart eyes walking into the kitchen to see her.

"Common Jaguar" Chloe said wrapping her arms around his waist as they walked to the kitchen. While the girls had wine the men done had their alcohol privileges for the night so they drank water with their soup.

• • •

After dinner with Hannah laying back on the couch being tired and full bellied and Gideon laying back on his favorite chair the two watched Chloe and Jack at the grand piano.

"Show me what you got." Jack said then he pressed down on the starting key for first pitch.
A little nervous, Chloe hesitantly moved her fingers down to the piano keys. Again trying to remember all the keys he pressed before.

After each key she pressed another key came to her memory. Conclusively, she played the instrumental as close to how Jack did as she could. The entire time Jack nods to her very impressed with her.

"Okay, I love how you're doing for your first few tries. Except for some of your notes you you're pressing the high pitch keys, for those you need to use these down here. He pressed all the keys that Chloe didn't use. She felt like a idiot while she watched him play. "Try again now" doing as he says, using the keys he did, she did better this time. Sounding very close to Jacks song, she felt so proud of herself. Learning more about the piano made her want to play more and maybe write her own songs.
"Beautiful." Jack compliments her work "do you remember the words?"

"Some of them" she admits with a shrug but not caring about the words right now, she was just happy to being able to play one song on her beautiful piano.

• • •

Bedtime came around for the Emery's and with everyone's bellies still full it wasn't going to be difficult to go to sleep.

Chloe laid on top of Gideon like the human size teddy bear he is while he just had his head back with his eyes closed. "I know you're not asleep big guy" Chloe said looking up at him. Gideon snickered.

"You're right" Gideon opened his blue eyes to look at her eyes. "I have the next few days off, tomorrow you and I are going on a actual date" he said to her, not giving her a option to say no.

"Oh really?"

"Yes, really."

"Why?"

"Why not? Spend time with you alone."

"You don't want Joker around?"

"Oh no no no" Gideon shakes his head, it wasn't a second thought for him. He made her giggled.

"You're so mean to him"

"He deserves it" Gideon yawns laying his head back again. "You're going to dress beautiful tomorrow night, we will take the Pitbull and go have a nice dinner somewhere. I don't care where, it's also nice to get out of the apartments and not be somewhere killing people yeah?"

"Okay Jaguar" she gave him a cute smile. Gideon reaches over to the lamp pulled the string giving them darkness to sleep with.