A/N: Disclaimer: I own nothing yadda yadda legal jargon blah blah blah... right so yeah this was a one shot and it still is in my head but I read it again the other week and just started writing this for fun so i'm going to continue it and see how it goes. As always enjoy! CB x
The Super Sneaky Unicorn Hide & Seek Plan
You know how finding a needle in a haystack is hard? Well apparently finding one Doctor in one of thousands of hospitals is much easier. Who had thought it? Ohh Brittany did.
"There dad! Over there"
"No Janie, we stopped playing that, remember?"
"Look, a clinic, they count right? See there? we haven't been to that one in ages!" an overexcited 6 year old turned around in her seat and faced her dad, a pout playing at her lips.
Mike sighed, he knew it would be hard, Janie had been the best player, but she still wouldn't understand that she didn't have to look anymore, they had found her.
"We don't have to look anymore J-bird, we found Santana, you won! You got your pretty pink bike remember?" Mike grinned and looked round at his little girl through his rear view mirror before looking back toward the road.
"I didn't find her, you did, I didn't win" Janie slumped back in her seat, folding her arms while kicking her feet back and forth, Mike couldn't help but grin, she looked so dam cute.
"Awesome, does that mean I get the bike then? You know I love the pompoms on the handles, they're just so fluffy" Mike teased.
"daaaadddd" Janie whined out, scowling at her daddy.
"What? They are" he replied defensively before adding "and pink is so my colour right?"
The little girl looked over at her dad "it's not daddy"
Mike frowned "sure it is baby girl, remember that pink shirt I have? Your mummy always says I look dashing wearing it" he paused "what does dashing mean J-bird?"
Janie rolled her eyes "handsome like a prince daddy", Mike grinned at the description, Janie continued "but mummy lied, I told her lying is bad just like you and mummy say but she said it was important cause it would hurt your feelings" she nodded her head defiantly at the end, pleased with herself.
Mike lost his smile.
"Mummy did, did she?" he glanced at his wife next to him who had a deer in headlights look and was purposely not meeting her husband's eyes.
"Uh-huh" Janie replied, sharp eyes following a dentist's longingly as they drove by.
Mike huffed before smiling softly at his wife, shaking his head "huh, thanks for telling me J-bird, honesty is always best, maybe mummy should remember that when saying daddy looks good in pink... so no bike for me, can I still get pompoms for my bike? They'd look awesome".
"So awesome" Janie agreed quietly, her pout twitching at the end, trying not to smile at the thought of matching bikes with her daddy.
Remembering his point Mike continued "and of course you helped Janie, I couldn't have done it without you, you're so good at 'spot the hospital'" he glanced back at his little girl again, just catching the end of an eye roll.
"But I wasn't there dad, so I didn't do anything! I didn't win anything!" the bottom lip jutted out even more and Mike feared water works so quickly gathered his thoughts.
"yeah but I was on my way to your recital right?" that caught Janie's interest ever so slightly so he continued "so if it hadn't been for you I would have never see it right?" he nodded his head along with his point, helping reaffirm it in his mind. Janie was watching her daddy carefully, teasing her bottom lip with her teeth.
"And remember you saw the really big hospital a few weeks before and wanted to look then but we had ice cream for mummy because she had been watching her silly romantic movies and got super sad right?"
He saw his wife twitch her eyebrow at him, what? She said he didn't look good in pink.
"yeaahhh" Janie drew out as she thought it over, she had spotted the really big hospital.
"Exactly, it's all on you baby girl, I was just following your instructions from earlier" he paused and looked back over again seeing her brows furrowed together as she thought it over.
"I won?" Janie said with such uncertainty that Mike didn't even hesitate to answer.
"Totally won, I'm so proud of you Janie" he saw her grin at herself before directing her front toothless smile at her dad.
"I won!"
"Yeah you did J-bird! I would so secret hand shake you right now but daddy can't let go of the wheel" he tapped the wheel gently winking at his little girl through the rear view mirror, she giggled.
"Its cool daddy, mummy and Britt-Britt would see and it wouldn't be secret anymore and we'd have to make a new one which would suck cause it took forever for you to remember this one"
Mike smiled sheepishly "I got there in the end J-bird"
"I had to change some of it though" Janie whispered under her breath before looking back out the window, troubles forgotten.
Mike shared a loving smile with Tina over their perfect daughter before glancing back at their other companion, an unusually quite Brittany S Peirce.
Today was the day when one Brittany and Santana would meet again after nine years of estrangement, safe to say someone was a little wigged out.
It had been 5 weeks since Mikes fate meeting with Santana and it wasn't as simple as dropping everything and flying out to meet Santana straight away, time had to be taken off work, flights arranged, find someone to look after lord Tubbington the 2nd... harder than it sounds, if lord Tubbington was Satan's spawn then LT2 was Satan himself.
Mike has scars.
The Chang's had met with Santana a total of 8 times now, Mike honestly thought it would be harder than that to keep a hold of Santana but apparently now they know each other existed they can't help but meet.
One text from Mike the next day they were getting coffee later in the week. The week after she was meeting up with Tina and Mike for lunch, days later going out to dinner and introducing her to Janie.
Janie has some serious hero worship over the doctor, safe to say Santana wasn't kidding when she said she'd turn his daughter into a doctor, she was corrupting his child in the best possible way.
Santana was already set to speak at Janie's class in a few weeks for show and tell, Mike was thrilled how quick their friendship had reformed and how easy it was to get along, sure the woman had a bit of a mouth on her but it was said with none of the malice she had in high school.
Santana had gone soft, squidgy marshmallow soft... Mike had been punched in the arm when he pointed this out, apparently being a doctor meant she knew exactly where to hit as well, Mike bruised like a peach… or banana, whatever.
It hurt.
Today was the hospital family picnic, a chance for family and friends to come and relax with their hospital bound counterparts for the day, Santana had invited along the Chang's to the event seeing as her parents were living it up in the south of France at the minute and all her friends worked at the hospital so would already be there.
Brittany of course had been invited as well, Mike thought this was best place, a neutral ground where there is no pressure and some space if things go pear shaped, not that they will.
Mike had been playing over scenarios in his head, his favourite was them running toward each other and embracing, this was also in slow motion. That'd be cool.
Brittany had arrived last night, she was all smiles and a bundle of energy as always, having been non-stop talking about Santana since she found out, drilling Mike for answers then saying she didn't want them so she could be surprised when they meet.
Mike thought she had become a little bi-polar these last few weeks, nearly screaming down the phone for Santana's number then being all cool saying she didn't want to freak the other woman out.
Mike was the one who got freaked out and nearly asked Santana about it, he didn't though, he knew Brittany was nervous.
What if Santana wasn't the same, what if they didn't get on, what if, what if… He's pretty sure this is what is running through Brittany's mind now as he drives; she's been quite since she closed the door of the car, like she just switched off.
It especially annoyed Janie when she couldn't get a response out the woman to play eye spy like normal hence her turning to the default game of 'spot the hospital'.
Mike knew Santana was a little flustered as well, when he brought up Brittany would be visiting for a week not long back he'd seen the look that had passed over her face, fear and hope among other things.
She was a little shifty and shy when asking if Brittany was coming to the picnic with them as they watched on at Janie playing in the park, drinking their coffees.
He saw the look of relief when he confirmed she would indeed.
Mike was pulled out his thought when he felt a tug on his sleeve; he looked round at Tina who was watching him, a smile upon her face
"We're here"
"We are?' she laughed at him, kissing his cheek as she goes to help Janie out the back. Mike did a double take as he looked round, they we indeed there, he probably should pay more attention.
He ran his hand through his hair before opening his door, looking over his shoulder at Brittany as he went
"Coming Brittany?" she looked at him and he did not like what he saw
"Mike" it was all but a breath, he sighed, he knew his words of reassurance wouldn't help so did the next best thing.
"I'll leave the keys Britt and when you feel up to it, come and join us, me and Tina have our cells" shooting a grateful look at Mike she slumped back in the chair as if it would swallow her up.
Leaving the key in the car he joined his wife and child, ruffling Janie's hair and earning a scowl as he went.
Tina grabbed his hand and pulled him down for a quick kiss,
"Silly romantic movies huh? I think I remember you watching them with me, bawling your eyes out and eating most the ice cream" she grinned challengingly and Mike just shrugged.
"It was the notebook, you have to be heartless not to cry at that, and you know I'm a hopeless romantic at heart" he grinned down at Tina, giving her another quick kiss and wink, before she was pulled away by their overexcited daughter.
"Come on mummy, I wanna see Santana!" Mike followed them closely with his eyes, quickly glancing over his shoulder a Brittany before walking after them shouting ahead as he went
"You were lying about the pink thing right T?"
Thanks for reading! CB x
