Daily Drabble 56

[coffeebuddha]

Title: Things Beyond Your Ken
Author: coffeebuddha
Rating: PG/FRE
Characters/Pairings: Spencer Reid/Derek Morgan, others
Word Count: 988
Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me.
Prompt: sugakane_01 requested "Reid/Morgan and Emma's first date."
Notes: This is set in the same universe as Date Night. Whoever can tell me where the title comes from first without using google wins five internet points and a comment fic of their choice, because I'm in that kind of mood. (We use the honor system here, people. Please don't cheat.)

"You're too trusting," Derek says darkly. "I don't see why we couldn't at least run a background check on the kid."

Spencer shifts on the sofa to swing his feet up onto Derek's lap and says without looking up from his book, "Because we promised Emma we wouldn't turn into Hotch. Remember how badly he freaked out Jack's first boyfriend? Do you want our daughter to stop talking to us for two and a half months?"

The pause stretches a hair longer than it should and Spencer thumps Derek's thigh with the heel of his foot. "Bearing in mind," he says, peering out from over the top of his book, "that this whole mollusk thing probably only has another couple weeks before she has a different obsession to talk nonstop about."

"What do you think we'd have to do to keep her from talking to us for two weeks?" Derek asks.

Spencer kicks him again and says, "We don't deliberately antagonize the children, Derek. I'll make you recite the house rules again if I have to."

"Right, no, I've got them," Derek says. He taps his fingers over Spencer's bare ankle and frowns at the muted game playing on the television. "Maybe we shouldn't have given her permission to start dating yet."

The book is tossed onto the coffee table at that and Spencer scoots and twists until he's straddling Derek's lap. "She's sixteen." A kiss on the cheek. "She has a car and any number of friends who would be willing to cover for her if she decided to try to sneak around." Another on the nose. "She's a good kid, we raised her well, and I want her to feel like she can always be open and honest with us." A long, slow one on the lips. "Everything's going to be fine."

There's a bang as the front door slams open. 

"Jacob is an asshole!"

"Oh, yeah, everything's fine," Derek deadpans at Spencer. "We're in the den, princess!"

Spencer rolls his eyes and drops back onto the couch just as Emma appears in the doorway. There's a large orange stain on the front of her dress and the heel on one of the strappy sandals dangling from her fingertips is broken, but she looks more angry than upset, so he's not ready to start worrying yet. That still doesn't stop him from asking, "Do we need to have him arrested? Because we know enough of the right people that we could probably have him tried as an adult."

That earns them something that's almost a smile. "No, it's nothing like that. Jacob, the idiot, decided it'd be a good idea to bring his friends on our date."

"Oh, bad move," Derek says with a wince.

"Very," Emma agrees. "I think the highlight of the night was probably when Adam spilled his orange soda on me, which made me stumble and break my heel."

"So no second date then," says Spencer. "Did you at least get something to eat out of it?"

"No. I wouldn't even get back into the car after the soda fiasco." She pouts for a moment--a look Derek swears up and down she didn't get from him, though anyone with eyes could tell that's a lie--and waves her shoes at them, then brightens a bit. "Henry came and picked me up. In fact, he's waiting in the driveway. He thought I could use some cheering up, so he's going to take me out for a real dinner after I clean up and get changed."

Derek opens his mouth to say something, but Emma's already taken off down the hallway toward her room. He turns toward Spencer instead. "No."

Spencer walks over to the window and lifts the blinds. When Henry looks up and catches sight of him, Spencer waves at him to come in.

"No," Derek says again. "He's a nice boy--hell, he's practically family--but he is way too old for her."

"At least we won't have to run a background check on him," Spencer points out. "And do you really want to explain to JJ why you have a problem with her son taking Emma out to what might be a perfectly innocent dinner?"

"I hate you when you make sense," Derek grumbles, but Henry walks in before he can really start to sulk, and he straightens and goes to put an arm around him, completely ignoring Spencer's warning glare. "Ah, Henry, just the man I wanted to see. Let's have a little talk about my princess."

There's nothing overtly threatening in Derek's demeanor, but Henry's already starting to look a little green around the edges and Spencer wonders exactly how tight his grip is.

"What he means," Spencer cuts in, snatching his wallet up from where he dropped it on the bookshelf earlier and opening it to pull out a few bills, "is that we know what it's like to be a college student, so here's some money to take care of dinner. Consider it a thank you for helping Emma."

Derek and Henry both start to talk at the same time and Spencer cuts Derek a dark look as he tucks the money into Henry's shirt pocket.

"Take her somewhere nice and have her home by ten," he says in the same voice he uses when dealing with particularly disagreeable undergraduates.

Emma breezes through the room right on cue and hooks an arm through Henry's, executing a neat little turn that has her rocking up to peck Derek's cheek and pulls Henry out of his grasp at the same time.

"Will do," she chirps and then they're gone.

Derek turns the full force of his glare on Spencer. "Traitor."

Spencer shrugs, completely unrepentant. "I'll make it up to you with a blow job?"

"Better be a good one," Derek says, only pausing long enough to turn off the television before following Spencer back to the bedroom.
 

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Comments

[roachstar.livejournal.com]

Hehe awesome!

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) You have the prompt, hun. How would you like your R/E this time? ;)

[roachstar.livejournal.com]

High School/College AU? :D

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

Will do!

[roachstar.livejournal.com]

*excited*

[zilentdreamer.livejournal.com]

There was some serious flailing as I read this. Derek as the OverlyConcerned! parent had me giggling so hard I was afraid I was going to sprain something.

I love how Spencer is totally holding the leash in this relationship. *cackles*

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

Hee, thank you! Flailing is always good! :D Derek is a total fretting mother hen and of COURSE Spencer is in charge. lol

[magical-mia.livejournal.com]

Totally unprepared am I to face the world of men! I watched that film EVERY day for a year when I was five (you lucky thing, learning more about my childlhood!) So cute, I love that you're back writing! And excellent use of Henry! ♥

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

I'm a musical theater nerd at my heart of hearts and I LOVE The Sound of Music. :D You get a comment fic for getting it right. Let me know when you decide what you want.

Thank you! It feels really good to be back.

[magical-mia.livejournal.com]

Oh God me toooooo; I am so looking forward to the Olympics this summer because apparently the prices of musical tickets here in London are going to plummet and I am planning to take full advantage. (very little interest in the Olympics themselves oops!)

And yaaaay, a comment fic! That is so exciting!! Perhaps, as we're on the subject on musical theatre, a Glee fic would be fun? Maybe an angsty Puck/Kurt something, with protective!Puck?

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

There's enough light filtering in from the streetlight that Puck can make out the milky white slope of Kurt's shoulders and the subtle, almost delicate curve of his spine. Kurt's loose and lax the way he only ever is right after an orgasm; he almost reminds Puck of Play-Doh when he gets like this and Puck has to fight the urge to try to and mold or reshape him.

In five minutes, give or take, Kurt will start to come back to himself. It'll start with his fingers, which will twitch and curl in against his palms when he presses the heels of his hands to his eyes. It goes faster after that, tension steadily creeping back into the lines of his body, and his eyes sharpening to laser precision. He doesn't bother to clean the come or sweat off of his body before pulling his clothes back on--he prefers his shower to Puck's and he never wears anything over that isn't due for the dry cleaner's--and then it's just a matter of a few practiced movements to finger comb his hair into something that doesn't look too much like sex hair.

Puck will watch the entire show propped up against his headboard with the sheet riding too low on his hips to hide anything. He'll smirk, half out of habit and half out of defense, as Kurt gathers up all of the evidence that he was ever here, and when the other boy slips out of the room without so much as a single word or a backward glance, he'll flick his hand in a small, sarcastic wave.

It's their routine, perhaps the only thing in Puck's life he could classify as theirs, and it's as used and worn in as his favorite jeans. Exactly once he'd made the mistake of saying, "You could stay if you wanted."

Kurt's eyes had flicked over his face almost too quickly to track and those pretty lips had twisted with something that was mostly obscured by the shadows, but might have been scorn. "No. I don't think so," he'd said; it had taken nearly a month before he came back to Puck's bed and so Puck hadn't asked again.

So Kurt will leave. Right now it's just Puck's bed, but soon enough it'll be Lima, and then he'll be well and truly gone, so far away that Puck will never be able to reach him.

And that's fine, or something like it, because Kurt's not the kind to play games and he was clear about what he wanted out of this from the beginning, and Puck has no right to be angry or upset.

Puck wishes he was a little less prone to playing games himself.

There's three, maybe four minutes left before Kurt starts to pull himself together, though, and Kurt is still laying there all sweet and open and easy. And if Puck uses that time to press his face into the soft hair at the nape of Kurt's neck and pretend that this is his to keep, then who does that really hurt?

[magical-mia.livejournal.com]

This is so beautiful; I am in seriously awe of your ability to create such a vivid picture with so few words. I just want to keep you and your brain! But so saaaaad - Kurt loves him really right? And he's going to realise soon and they're going to be happy ever after? Right?????

Thank you so much; you have broken my heart but in the best way! ♥

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you, sweetie! I'm glad you like it! :) In my head, they're stuck in one of those situations where they both think the other's only in it for sex while secretly pining away.

[sugakane-01.livejournal.com]

I cannot take the cute! Henry and Emma? Henry and Emma! Me gusta! OMG so cute and we know that boy was raised right :)

LOL Spencer is running that relationship like a boss and its adorable...and Emma has TOTALLY picked up on her daddy Spencer's tricks on how to handle Derek. Poor Derek doesn't stand a chance.

and I giggled at the Hotch/Jack bit b/c man...that is SO Hotch right there. And you know Hotch refused to apologize for it too...I shudder to think of what would happen if Hotch had a girl. Can you imagine the poor boy coming to pick up Aaron Hotchner's little princess? At least Derek has Spencer to keep him somewhat sane :)

thank you for such an awesome fill for my prompt :)

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you like it. And of course Henry and Emma! lol

Derek's been whipped since the moment he met Spencer. Emma's just carrying on the tradition.

Hotch makes Derek look like a disinterested parent. ;)

[maldeluxx.livejournal.com]

Henry... a very good choice *nodsnods* And amused about Hotch and Jack XD Among other things. <3

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[thrace-adams.livejournal.com]

Awww I really enjoyed this one LOL

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[theslashbunny.livejournal.com]

OMG! I love Papa!Derek and Papa!Spencer so much!! And the mention of Hotch was hilarious. But OMG these two as parents! And the threat to have Jacob tried as an adult and Derek even not wanting Henry to date Emma and HOLY CRAP YOU'RE THE BEST! -tackleglomps you and snuggles- THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR AMAZING BRAIN WITH US!!!!

Also, Sound of Music reference FTW!!! -is a musical theater geek-

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

Hee, thank you, sweetie! &hearts They are WAY TOO MUCH FUN to write as parents. How had I never written kid fic before this? XD

Did you see your schmoopy hammock fic from a few days ago? Because you totally got schmoopy hammock fic. :)

Musical theater geeks unite!

[hunt4me.livejournal.com]

the highs and lows and the joys of being parents to a teenage girl. At least she's not into weird Japanese/Korean/Asian singers and wears funny makeup. Image Spencer trying to explain all the bad things about makeup to his daughter.

Loved it. :) thanks for writing it and sharing it.

[hunt4me.livejournal.com]

bahahaha and I noticed Jack and his share of boyfriends. ahahaha

[coffeebuddha.livejournal.com]

lol Thank you! :)

[dani-elizabethx.livejournal.com]

is it weird that i now ship emma/henry?
no? good! :D