Beginning at the End
Spoilers: None.
Pairings: Parker/Hardison
Rating/Warnings: G
Word Count: 525
Author's Notes: I was doing some drabbles for Paradox-o-Rama and since I was just trying to bang them out, I did a set of 'Baby's First.' Then I said to renisanz, 'You'd know what would be cool? Baby's First Locking Picking.' Thus this odd little fic was born.
It ends at a small chapel in New Hampshire.
Well, sort of.
They won't precisely be Parker and Hardison anymore. Now they've become Parker and Alec Newton. Parker picks it because it meant 'New Town' and she is quite fond of the cookie.
Their house is modest by their standards, tucked away in a corner of Riverdale, a neighborhood in the Bronx. The area has excellent schools and the demographics are sufficiently multi-cultural. It's the perfect place to raise a family. That's the reason for all of this, you see. Parker becomes pregnant.
It isn't precisely planned. They'd talked about it, for the far-off distant future, but Fate has a way of making sure things happen as she wants.
The team is still active, now and then, and Alec helps when he can. Parker goes into the City once a month to keep her hand in, but they have other priorities now. Her name is Kayla. She looks like Alec: twinkling brown eyes, curly dark hair that falls to her shoulders, and a mouth that tilts up at the corners.
They are discovering, however, that Kayla is a carbon copy of her mother.
Traditional baby gates are easily scaled. Eliot flies in and crafts gates from plywood, smooth and as high as an adult's hip. They leave horrible scrapes on the walls, but Parker says better the walls than the kid. Childproof locks last until she turns eighteen months.
Alec walks into the kitchen one afternoon to find Kayla on the floor, pots and pans scattered around her, as she takes handfuls of flour and tosses them into the air. She explains to him, very seriously, that she is making it snow so that Santa will come.
It will turn out that she used a refrigerator magnet to undo the magnetic cabinet locks. Her parents don't know whether to praise her or scold her.
When Parker walks into Kayla's bedroom on her second birthday, she finds her daughter sitting on the bed, playing with the toy she was supposed to get at her party. Parker picks up the wrapping paper littering the floor and decides it's time to give in. Alec will fight her on it, but Nate is the one who will eventually talks him around. Kayla grows up learning the family business.
She won't be alone, though. Her brother will inherit a hefty IQ, along with Alec's charm and Parker's grin. It'll be a while, before he comes along. Kayla is all her parents can handle at the moment.
So yes, life as they know it will end in that chapel. Priorities shift, responsibilities accumulate, and love grows. It's a different kind of happily ever after than those found in fairy tales. After all, it's not exactly typical, a hacker for a hero and a thief as his princess, is it? They'll make their own happily ever after.
That's the ending. Right now, though, Parker and Hardison are sitting in first class, on a plane bound for Tokyo. Hardison naps while Parker eyes the other passengers. They have been waiting a long time for this trip and when they deplane?
It starts.
Pairings: Parker/Hardison
Rating/Warnings: G
Word Count: 525
Author's Notes: I was doing some drabbles for Paradox-o-Rama and since I was just trying to bang them out, I did a set of 'Baby's First.' Then I said to renisanz, 'You'd know what would be cool? Baby's First Locking Picking.' Thus this odd little fic was born.
It ends at a small chapel in New Hampshire.
Well, sort of.
They won't precisely be Parker and Hardison anymore. Now they've become Parker and Alec Newton. Parker picks it because it meant 'New Town' and she is quite fond of the cookie.
Their house is modest by their standards, tucked away in a corner of Riverdale, a neighborhood in the Bronx. The area has excellent schools and the demographics are sufficiently multi-cultural. It's the perfect place to raise a family. That's the reason for all of this, you see. Parker becomes pregnant.
It isn't precisely planned. They'd talked about it, for the far-off distant future, but Fate has a way of making sure things happen as she wants.
The team is still active, now and then, and Alec helps when he can. Parker goes into the City once a month to keep her hand in, but they have other priorities now. Her name is Kayla. She looks like Alec: twinkling brown eyes, curly dark hair that falls to her shoulders, and a mouth that tilts up at the corners.
They are discovering, however, that Kayla is a carbon copy of her mother.
Traditional baby gates are easily scaled. Eliot flies in and crafts gates from plywood, smooth and as high as an adult's hip. They leave horrible scrapes on the walls, but Parker says better the walls than the kid. Childproof locks last until she turns eighteen months.
Alec walks into the kitchen one afternoon to find Kayla on the floor, pots and pans scattered around her, as she takes handfuls of flour and tosses them into the air. She explains to him, very seriously, that she is making it snow so that Santa will come.
It will turn out that she used a refrigerator magnet to undo the magnetic cabinet locks. Her parents don't know whether to praise her or scold her.
When Parker walks into Kayla's bedroom on her second birthday, she finds her daughter sitting on the bed, playing with the toy she was supposed to get at her party. Parker picks up the wrapping paper littering the floor and decides it's time to give in. Alec will fight her on it, but Nate is the one who will eventually talks him around. Kayla grows up learning the family business.
She won't be alone, though. Her brother will inherit a hefty IQ, along with Alec's charm and Parker's grin. It'll be a while, before he comes along. Kayla is all her parents can handle at the moment.
So yes, life as they know it will end in that chapel. Priorities shift, responsibilities accumulate, and love grows. It's a different kind of happily ever after than those found in fairy tales. After all, it's not exactly typical, a hacker for a hero and a thief as his princess, is it? They'll make their own happily ever after.
That's the ending. Right now, though, Parker and Hardison are sitting in first class, on a plane bound for Tokyo. Hardison naps while Parker eyes the other passengers. They have been waiting a long time for this trip and when they deplane?
It starts.