For Vaders_Apprentice, who requested Dadan + Noir + Baby photos.
Noir couldn't stop the grin spreading over her face. "They never realized you had these?"
Dadan snorted. "Put food in front of them and the brats didn't notice jack shit." She snuffed out the spent cigarette and flicked it away, before digging out another and lighting it up.
'These' were a stack of scrapbooks, each with a name and a number scrawled along the spine. Ace had the most, but even Sabo had his own little scrapbook, filled with the few photos Dadan had managed to capture before the child's death.
Sitting open on Noir's lap was the first scrapbook Dadan created, full of Ace's baby photos. Little Ace looking up at the camera in confusion, eyes still baby blue, to him sleeping on a hibiscus patterned baby blanket that Noir recognized - it had been hers once.
Noir turned the page and let out a surprised laugh. The next picture showed Ace sitting at the table, surrounded by a disastrous attempt to feed him pasta. Face, clothes, and table smeared with sauce, Ace had the biggest grin on his face. In the background, one of Dadan's Family could be seen trying his best to contain the mess. From the red splattered on his clothes, the man had failed. Fantastically.
"Eh?" Dadan leaned over to see what amused Noir. The redhead barked her own laugh. "Ha! I remember that. Troublesome brat, it only went downhill from there."
Noir could see that. In the next photos, Ace had apparently learned to crawl and was doing his best to drive everyone insane. "You can blame my side of the family for that." Noir snickered. "Rouge always said I was a difficult girl when I put my mind to something."
The smile Dadan gave her could only be called mischievous. "Sounds like there's a story or two behind that."
Oh there were far more than that. Noir could write a book with all the things her younger and bullheaded self had decided were brilliant ideas. "Well, there was the time I uprooted Rouge's garden looking for Roger's treasure…"
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