Kid Tested

[Sterekdrabbles challenge for 02/25/19: “cart, reach, rib”]

On AO3.

Mac appeared at the front of the shopping cart, “Daddy, I can’t reach the cereal I like.”

Stiles’s heart knocked against his ribs. “Why aren’t you with Papa?”

“He was lookin’ at things. It was boring.”

“OK.” Stiles scooped up his son. “Here comes Papa now.”

Looking still alarmed, Derek’s face seemed the only one Stiles could see in the crowd.

“He’s fine!” Stiles cheered.

“Mac,” Derek’s voice, soft as ever, was parent-serious. “Never walk away from me like again. Promise.”

“I’m sorry, Papa. I promise.” Mac hugged his papa’s neck as the three clung together in the dairy aisle.


[Mac is a recurring original male child character in a kid fic series of mine. None of it's posted on Dreamwidth.]