Title: untitled family fluff
Fandom: Panic at the Disco
Pairing: Spencer Smith/Ryan Ross
Word Count: 817
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Don't own anything except Alice.
Summary: Ryan's feeling pretty lonely until Alice comes out of her bedroom.
Author’s Notes: written for
tanisafan a few months back from a plot we've got in an RP. Posting simply because I can. Unbetaed, so all mistakes are mine.
Ryan’s pretty sure he looks pretty depressing, even for himself on Halloween night. He is, after all, curled up in his pajamas on the couch, in the dark, with the only light in the room coming from the flickering tv set, watching Nightmare Before Christmas. He can’t help his fingers fingering along with This is Halloween; he did love playing that song when Panic! covered it.
His hand drops into the bowl of leftover Trick or Treating candy - he’s actually priding himself that he’s raiding their own leftover candy, not their daughter’s - and he unwraps a Snickers bar, absently chewing it. He really does have no idea why he’s being so depressing. After all, he does love this holiday, and so far, between the haunted hay ride he did with Z and getting to take his new daughter Trick or Treating for the very first time.
“Daddy?” Alice’s voice comes from the stairway, soft and quiet, like she’s afraid he’ll get mad that she’s up, two hours after he and Spencer had put their little girl to bed.
Ryan nearly starts at the sound, pausing the movie right when Jack’s exploring Christmastown and sits up a bit more. He’s just in time for a little blonde bundle of sleepy girl to climb into and curl up in his lap. He shifts, wrapping his blanket around both of them. “Hey, baby girl.” He kisses Alice’s blonde hair, smelling the baby shampoo in the soft, faint curls.
Alice wriggles in close as Ryan hits play again, and he watches her watch the movie, eyes wide and reflecting the action. He wonders, briefly, if this movie is a good idea for a little girl to be watching when she should be asleep, but she shifts a bit as soon as Jack gets shot down, yawning wide.
“Daddy, can we watch another movie?” Her toes wiggle into Ryan’s thigh and he smiles down at her. He’s pretty sure the Princess Jasmine nightshirt she’s wearing is a present from Brendon and Shane, but he’s also pretty sure he doesn’t care. Brendon and Shane have their own son to spoil, Ryan knows, but that hasn’t stopped either of them from occasionally getting Alice things.
He slides Alice off his lap, getting up and changing Nightmare Before Christmas for Sleeping Beauty. Ryan won’t admit it, except to Spencer in their room, but he’s really loving having a kid, for all that he was scared about the idea. It took them a bit to fully adopt Alice, and in the few short weeks they’ve had her, in his heart, Ryan knows that he can’t imagine a life without his little girl in it. Of course, having a little girl reminds him a bit - a teeny tiny bit - of when he was dating Brendon a few years ago, with Alice wanting to watch every cartoon that comes on the tv, and at least one Disney Princess movie at least three times a day. But he really can’t complain, he thinks as he scoops Alice back up, resettling himself on the couch with her curled up against him.
He hits play, smiling quietly as he watches the movie. Alice falls asleep again somewhere around Briar Rose dancing with her handsome stranger, and the sound of her soft breathing is almost enough to make him fall asleep.
He’s just starting to doze off, thinking he should probably get off the couch before he falls asleep and wakes up with a sore back, and put Alice to bed again, when he feels Spencer’s hand on his shoulder, gently shaking him. He blearily looks up at Spencer, smiling faintly in the flickering light of the tv. “Hey.”
“Hey,” Spencer responds, leaning forward a bit to kiss Ryan’s forehead. “I was wondering where Alice was, and you. Followed the sound of Aurora’s wondering, and here you are.”
Ryan smiles sleepily as Spencer walks around the couch, settling in comfortably against him. “Yeah, I was eating what’s left over of the candy and watching Nightmare when Alice came in. She watched a bit, and wanted to watch a different movie.”
Spencer hums noncommittally, wrapping his arm loosely around Ryan’s waist. Ryan carefully rearranges himself and Alice - Alice is usually a deep sleeper, but when she wakes up, she’s hard to get to fall back to sleep - so he can lean against his boyfriend.
“Told you you’d be a good daddy.” Spencer softly says after a few minutes, and Ryan, even though his eyelids are starting to get heavy, can hear the smile in his voice. Ryan can’t think of anything to say, so he makes a sound that’s half grunt, half exhale.
It’s really not that much longer before Ryan’s fast asleep against Spencer, no longer looking so depressing. All in all, it wound up being a pretty good Halloween, after all.