Three Times Matt Hates Mohinder [Or Wants To] - Matt, Mohinder, PG
Title: Three Times Matt Hates Mohinder [Or Wants To]
Rating: PG
Characters: Mohinder, Matt, Molly
Spoilers: Season two.
Summary: Title sums it up well. This is me sitting down to write angst and falling short again; it's fluff! Pure fluff! Oh, wtf brain.
For heroes50, prompt 'hate'. Table here.
1//
It's early in the morning and Molly hasn't done her homework. She's flustered and staring at the little exercise book with the dark green cover, eyes scanning over her English work.
Matt is packing her lunch and Mohinder walks into the room. Molly looks up, eyes bright and confused. "Mohinder! Can you help me with this?"
"You should have done it earlier," he says, and breezes past her with a kiss to her head. "I have to get to work. Matt will help you."
Dread hollows out Matt's stomach and his head snaps around. "Uh, Mohinder... I don't think..."
But it's no use, because the front door is already clicking shut. Molly looks at him hopefully and he shuts her lunch box, carrying it to her side. His cheeks feel hot with embarrassment as he attempts to read through her work, scanning over words that just won't form right in his mind.
She packs up her book a few moments later, lips thinned and work unfinished.
"I'm not so good with the words," he explains, but she thinks it's not that hard and didn't think he was stupid and in that moment, he thinks he might hit Mohinder when he next sees him.
Molly understands when he explains his dyslexia, but that doesn't change a thing.
2//
Sometimes it's quiet in the apartment but it's rare, so Matt makes the most of it; he kicks back, he relaxes and he takes the moment not to think about a goddamn thing. It's his favourite sort of time and he savours every second of the break from their hectic lives, because it never lasts that long.
He gets home one day with Molly already in bed and Mohinder nowhere to be seen and thinks he might have found one of those moments, so he settles down in his favourite chair with a satisfied sigh.
Then Mohinder walks in and sits down, quiet as anything with a book in his head, but he has this really annoying song going round and round his head louder than Matt would think possible and even though he doesn't recognise the tune, it's lodged in his mind quite firmly within minutes.
He hides all of Mohinder's tea and coffee the next day in retaliation, but he doesn't even notice; he just buys more and Matt could not possibly be more frustrated.
"I had that song in my head the other day," Mohinder says when Matt walks past him humming it, oblivious as ever.
Matt very nearly hits him that time. It's a good job he left his gun in the other room.
3//
The morning of Matt's birthday, nothing happens. It's infuriating. It's his first birthday for as long as he can remember without Janice making a fuss. He doesn't get a card, or breakfast, or a good morning kiss.
He sits at the table and Mohinder's nowhere to be seen; Molly doesn't say a word to him beyond 'morning', just chomps away at her sugary cereal and sings a song about sunshine in her head. Matt sighs and drinks too much coffee. He's sure he dropped enough hints; a swell of anger settles in his chest and this time he really will hit Mohinder.
Then just before he's about to leave for work feeling like crap, there's the clearing of a throat behind him and there's Mohinder with a plate full of the most delicious looking cake he's ever seen, complete with a single candle on the top, one of those cool ones that shower little sparks as they burn. It surprises a laugh out of him and his whole mood does a back flip into happy.
Molly starts singing 'happy birthday!' and Mohinder apologises for not finding enough candles for his age and Matt does hit him, but it's light and friendly and accompanied by what just might be the biggest smile he's ever given anyone.
"I don't think I can stomach cake this early," Matt laughs.
Mohinder just gives him a bright grin. "Then you can save it for later. Molly and I have quite a few hours after work and school to treat you, after all. Happy birthday, Matthew."
Maybe Matt hates him a little bit for making him angst (even for just a little while), but the friendly birthday kiss Mohinder plants on his cheek on their way out of the door pretty much makes up for that.
Rating: PG
Characters: Mohinder, Matt, Molly
Spoilers: Season two.
Summary: Title sums it up well. This is me sitting down to write angst and falling short again; it's fluff! Pure fluff! Oh, wtf brain.
For heroes50, prompt 'hate'. Table here.
1//
It's early in the morning and Molly hasn't done her homework. She's flustered and staring at the little exercise book with the dark green cover, eyes scanning over her English work.
Matt is packing her lunch and Mohinder walks into the room. Molly looks up, eyes bright and confused. "Mohinder! Can you help me with this?"
"You should have done it earlier," he says, and breezes past her with a kiss to her head. "I have to get to work. Matt will help you."
Dread hollows out Matt's stomach and his head snaps around. "Uh, Mohinder... I don't think..."
But it's no use, because the front door is already clicking shut. Molly looks at him hopefully and he shuts her lunch box, carrying it to her side. His cheeks feel hot with embarrassment as he attempts to read through her work, scanning over words that just won't form right in his mind.
She packs up her book a few moments later, lips thinned and work unfinished.
"I'm not so good with the words," he explains, but she thinks it's not that hard and didn't think he was stupid and in that moment, he thinks he might hit Mohinder when he next sees him.
Molly understands when he explains his dyslexia, but that doesn't change a thing.
2//
Sometimes it's quiet in the apartment but it's rare, so Matt makes the most of it; he kicks back, he relaxes and he takes the moment not to think about a goddamn thing. It's his favourite sort of time and he savours every second of the break from their hectic lives, because it never lasts that long.
He gets home one day with Molly already in bed and Mohinder nowhere to be seen and thinks he might have found one of those moments, so he settles down in his favourite chair with a satisfied sigh.
Then Mohinder walks in and sits down, quiet as anything with a book in his head, but he has this really annoying song going round and round his head louder than Matt would think possible and even though he doesn't recognise the tune, it's lodged in his mind quite firmly within minutes.
He hides all of Mohinder's tea and coffee the next day in retaliation, but he doesn't even notice; he just buys more and Matt could not possibly be more frustrated.
"I had that song in my head the other day," Mohinder says when Matt walks past him humming it, oblivious as ever.
Matt very nearly hits him that time. It's a good job he left his gun in the other room.
3//
The morning of Matt's birthday, nothing happens. It's infuriating. It's his first birthday for as long as he can remember without Janice making a fuss. He doesn't get a card, or breakfast, or a good morning kiss.
He sits at the table and Mohinder's nowhere to be seen; Molly doesn't say a word to him beyond 'morning', just chomps away at her sugary cereal and sings a song about sunshine in her head. Matt sighs and drinks too much coffee. He's sure he dropped enough hints; a swell of anger settles in his chest and this time he really will hit Mohinder.
Then just before he's about to leave for work feeling like crap, there's the clearing of a throat behind him and there's Mohinder with a plate full of the most delicious looking cake he's ever seen, complete with a single candle on the top, one of those cool ones that shower little sparks as they burn. It surprises a laugh out of him and his whole mood does a back flip into happy.
Molly starts singing 'happy birthday!' and Mohinder apologises for not finding enough candles for his age and Matt does hit him, but it's light and friendly and accompanied by what just might be the biggest smile he's ever given anyone.
"I don't think I can stomach cake this early," Matt laughs.
Mohinder just gives him a bright grin. "Then you can save it for later. Molly and I have quite a few hours after work and school to treat you, after all. Happy birthday, Matthew."
Maybe Matt hates him a little bit for making him angst (even for just a little while), but the friendly birthday kiss Mohinder plants on his cheek on their way out of the door pretty much makes up for that.