The Perk, Saturday Evening

[tasenburn]

It was a tearful Elle who sat at a table, holding her toddler son in her lap.

"I just don't understand," she said to the cameras, looking dramatically pretty. "Why does he always have to be late? It's like he just doesn't care about us

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[asgardcreated]

Jon had long given up trying to ignore the cameras that followed him around, and was actually chatting with the guys as he walked towards The Perk.

"Yeah, she bitches about the fact that I'm always late and says that I don't care about them, but really? I own my shop, I have to take care of things so that I can pay the bills. I don't see anyone else stepping up to put $40 shoes on our kid's feet. It seems like she thinks having my own business means I can take off whenever I want and still have the money rolling in, but that's not the way it works."

He stopped talking as he opened the door and smiled when he saw Elle and the baby.

"There's my boy."

[tasenburn]

Elle's eyes lit up when she saw Jon come through the door. "Look who it is," she cooed to their son, laughing softly as the baby made giggly noises and baby grabby hands in Jon's general direction.

"We're glad you're here."

Because she would be nice, even if she wanted to complain about his being late. There were some things you just didn't do in front of your baby, and argue was one of them. She tried to avoid that whenever possible... and she and Jon did argue a lot sometimes.

[asgardcreated]

If arguing was an Olympic sport, they would be on Team USA.

Jon happily scooped up the baby and grinned. "Hey Sonny boy, were you good for your mom today?"

"Everything good today?" he asked Elle.

[tasenburn]

"Pretty good," Elle said. "You were late -- " Because she couldn't not say something. " -- so that sucked, but you're here now so everything's okay." And then she gave him a smile, a real smile and not her usual smirk.

Someone was clearly trying to behave today.