After finishing their lunch without too many more incidents (Jack had asked Sami to try one of his "'eese bits" which led to Finn making puppy-dog eyes in Sami's direction before making the same request…Sami only relented when Finn offered up some onion rings in exchange), the three headed off for Sweet Dreams Ice Cream café. Jack happily toddled along the side-walk with one tiny hand held in Sami's, with Sami reasoning this was perfectly okay since Jack needed to walk off all the food he had just inhaled.

Finn merely smiled knowingly to himself, wisely deciding not to comment.

"Sami, are there any places 'round here that do custom tees?"

Sami pursed his lips in thought, "Probably? I mean, you can't walk very far in the tourist-trap sections of Florida without running into one. Thinkin' of getting something made up?"

"I had a great idea for new merch, got it while I was changin' into this," Finn shifted all his shopping bags into one hand, whilst gently tugging the hem of his T-Shirt with the other to illustrate his point, "Like…can you believe some people think the 'Rey' on this is talkin' about Rey Mysterio? And that the 'Finn' is referring to me?"

"Finn Bálor wearing a shirt that says 'Finn' on it, and they think it might be talking about you?" Sami tried very hard to keep the sarcastic drawl out of his voice, coming up with a faux monotone of disbelief in exchange, "I cannot believe it."

"I KNOW! Philistines, the lot of 'em," Finn scoffed, "Anyway, I was thinking that maybe there could be a shirt like this that has, like, all the cool Finn's on it? Like, Finn from Star Wars, Finn from Adventure Time, Finn Bálor and the 'me' on the shirt would be the person wearing it!"

"…so it would read 'Finn&Finn&Finn&Me'?" Sami asked for clarification, barely noticing Finn's enthusiastic nodding before a slight look of wonder overcame his features, "That's…huh…three Finn's…and me…ooh…"

Finn chuckled lightly at the slight blush forming on Sami's face, "Sami, don't think I don't know what yer thinkin' about, but remember there's a kiddo walkin' beside ya. Little ears, remember? Focus on my brilliant idea for now…we can talk about your 'Finntasies' later."

Sami could only grin bashfully, looking down at the completely oblivious Jack…the toddler's attention diverted towards some birds attempting to scavenge some fallen nuts from a street vendor's cart, "Sorry Finn, but I get the feeling that the second Disney get wind of that idea it'll be shut down faster than that weird taco stand Baron still mourns the loss of."

"…aww, I suppose that's true…" Finn sighed, "…but I could still have the shirt made for myself, right? It'd be a shame to let my genius idea go completely to waste."

"I certainly have no way of stopping you," Sami smiled fondly at his partner, "But again, that's for another day, I think? We should probably be heading back home after we get ice cream."

"Yeah, s'ppose so…" Finn mused to himself, watching Jack giggle softly as two of the birds started fighting over the discarded food on the ground, "Haven't heard from Jenny yet, have ya?"

"Uh…" Sami reached into his pocket with his free hand, fishing out his mobile and quickly having a check, "No messages…guess she's still at the hospital? I really hope it's nothing too serious…"

"Yeah…" Finn sighed softly, looking down at Jack again, "Do you think we'll have to look after him overnight?"

"Overnight wouldn't be a problem, he'd probably be fine as long as one of us was in the room with him…" Sami mused, a frown slowly forming, "…but we are due back at the Performance Centre tomorrow…and as brilliant as Matt has been in making the place a better place to work, I don't think he'd stretch that to us bringing in a neighbour's kid?"

"I could probably talk him into it," Finn cheekily grinned, "Besides, he knows far more about looking after kids than we do. He'd probably melt the second he saw Jack."

"Let's cross that bridge if we come to it, yeah?" Sami sighed, gently squeezing Jack's hand to get the toddler's attention, "You ready for ice cream now, or do you wanna watch the birds some more?"

Jack smiled widely up at Sami, enthusiastically waving his toy dinosaur up at him, "Ice 'ream!"

"I suppose that was a silly question, yes," Sami laughed softly as the trio began to walk off again, Jack happily toddling along beside Sami once more.

"Are all these different flavours completely necessary, Sami?"

Sami smirked to himself at the slack-jawed look on Finn's face as he stared in disbelief at the wide selection of ice-cream flavours on offer. He was about to answer Finn's question, but had to stop himself short as he saw a very similar look on Jack's face as his little head turned to look at all the ice-cream so quickly that Sami almost felt dizzy on his behalf.

"This is something I'll never get used to in America… it's like that popcorn store you mentioned with the hundred different flavours, or all those weird Pop-Tarts that I have to stop you from buying?" Finn continued on with no response from Sami forthcoming, "Back in Ireland you were stuck with vanilla, chocolate or strawberry…or if you were feeling really adventurous, mint choc-chip."

"What about that ice-cream dessert we had when we were over for your sister's wedding?" Sami asked, looking to catch the attention of the server, "That was different!"

"You mean the Viennetta? Oh, that's grown-up ice-cream; little boys with scabby knees from playing football don't get that."

"Huh, the more you know…" Sami smiled politely at the young lady who had come over to serve them, "Two tubs of vanilla, please?"

Finn turned to face Sami with a small frown on his face, "Hey, what if Jack or I wanted something else?"

"You always order vanilla Finn, and I'm not ordering anything too sickly sweet or flavours with bits in for Jack…don't want him choking on a mini-marshmallow or mixed nuts."

"Oh," Finn sighed in resignation, watching as two tubs of vanilla ice-cream were handed over to Sami, "Yeah, I guess that's fair. Wait, only two tubs? What about yours?"

"I'll help feed Jack his first…then I can get a cone or something to take-away so we can head back for the bus," Sami smiled gently at Finn as they wandered over to a nearby booth, before directing his attention to the toddler clinging on to his side, "Let's just hope for minimal mess making here, kiddo…"

Finn found himself mesmerized once more by the scene unfolding before his eyes. Sami had sat Jack on his knees again, gently tying another bib around Jack's neck before beginning to feed the toddler small servings of the vanilla ice-cream. Sami's attention was completely on Jack, allowing Finn complete unrestricted viewing of a side of Sami he found himself becoming increasingly fond of. It wasn't quite distracting enough to prevent him from enjoying his own ice-cream, but it was a pretty close run thing.

And then Sami started making little 'choo-choo' noises whilst moving the spoonful of ice-cream towards Jack's mouth.

Finn felt his mouth open in complete surprise as Jack giggled at Sami's silly noises, which only caused Sami to make even more exaggerated train sounds for Jack's amusement. Finn could suddenly see himself watching a similar scene, but with a dark-haired boy with shocking blue eyes who was eagerly telling his dad about the goals he scored at practice...or a little girl with curly red-hair discussing Disney princesses and unicorns, her chocolate brown eyes wide open at the tales her father was telling her...

I don't want this to end…

...his daydreaming was quickly brought to a halt as he realized two sets of worried looking eyes were locked directly on him.

"Okay Finn, this is the second time today I've caught you staring at me like you've seen a ghost..." Sami trailed off as he caught a good look at Finn, "...are you crying, Finn?"

"Huh? No, I…" Finn stopped abruptly as he brought a hand to his face, gasping in surprise at the wetness that had begun to trickle down his cheek, "…I guess I am? Sorry, don't know what came over me there…"

"Something you need to talk about…?" Sami asked gently.

"…I honestly have no idea," Finn shook his head, picking up a napkin from the table to wipe his eyes, "I'm having a great time today…but, yeah, these don't feel like happy tears. Kinda confused?"

"Well, let me know when you need to talk, okay?" Sami reached across the table to take one of Finn's hands in his own, "Whenever you're ready."

"Have I told you lately how lucky I am to have you in my life?" Finn managed a smile for his partner, a small snuffle the only tell-tale sign something was still bothering him.

"Only as much as I am to have you…hey," Sami glanced down at Jack, who had begun squirming in his lap, "Whoa, calm down there jitterbug, what's up? Need the toilet or…?"

"'inn sad…" Jack looked up at Sami with wide eyes and a small pout, "Needs hug."

"I think that is an excellent idea, Jackaboy," Sami smiled warmly at Jack, marvelling at his empathetic nature at such a young age, "C'mon then, grab Dino and let's scoot over there…"

Finn could only plaster on a sad little smile as Sami and Jack rounded on his side of the booth. Sami gently handed Jack over to Finn, the youngster immediately wrapping his tiny arms around Finn's torso as much as he could manage. It took all of Finn's willpower not to start crying right there and then, and he had to fight the urge to bury his face into Jack's hair to keep his emotions hidden away from them. Although it would have been a futile gesture in any case, Finn knew that there was no way Sami hadn't noticed the flickering of emotions overcoming his features. He found himself secretly glad that the seat beside him was currently full of bags of British goodies, because if Sami had sat beside him and joined in the hug Finn was fairly sure nothing would have stopped the waterworks. That meant that Sami had to settle for gently rubbing the back of Finn's neck from the side of the booth, the soothing actions not quite enough to completely calm him down but still welcome enough to ground Finn a little.

"I think we've had enough excitement for one day…" Sami sighed; the tense feeling radiating from Finn had completely caught him off guard, especially after the great day they had, "Shall we head back?"

"…we can do this again sometime, right?" Finn asked quietly, looking down at Jack with that sad little smile that he couldn't seem to shake off, "This…isn't the last time?"

Sami pursed his lips together…unable to shake the feeling there was more to this than just babysitting blues but knowing this was not the time, place nor situation to voice his confusion. It wouldn't do any good to worry Jack any further…Sami was fairly sure kids were painfully good at picking up states of emotional distress…maybe it was something my mother said once…"I'm fairly certain Jenny would let you borrow Jack if you asked, Finn."

Finn looked up at Sami, wide-eyed and so full of hope that Sami very nearly had to take a step away from the unexpected intensity, "…and you'd be okay with that?"

"I don't see why not," Sami shrugged, trying to keep his tone light…hoping not to cause Finn any extra stress, "Unless every time we babysit ends with you being in such a maudlin mood."

"Sorry, just being a bit of a silly," Finn reached over for Jack's dinosaur toy, waving it in the air in Sami's general direction, partially as a distraction and partially to remain hidden, "Dino thinks it's probably indigestion from that burger."

"That would not surprise me, no," Sami smiled softly.

"Dino's pretty smart," Finn nodded sagely, "Jack wouldn't pick just any old lame dinosaur, after all."

"'est dino taur," A small muffled voice sounded from the vicinity of Finn's chest.

"The very best!"

Sami could only let out a small huff of air as the two children in front of him laughed at themselves. Whatever might have been bothering Finn might have passed temporarily, but Sami just knew there would be one helluva awkward conversation once Jack had gone home.

The sinking feeling in Sami's stomach certainly wasn't going to be calmed by ice-cream.