Title: Elysia to daddy

Style: Drabble
Genre: Fluff
Rating: G


"Hello? Investigations department." Lieutenant Colonel Hughes picked up his phone as it started ringing, expecting a call from one of the other departments about something concerning the case he was working on.

"Daddy? Hi!" A little girl's voice came floating over the line.
"Mummy said I could call you today, since I wasn't up this morning and mummy says you won't be home until I've gone to sleep." Hughes melted at the sound of his little daughter speaking over the phone.

"Elysia! How's my little angel doing today?" His voice immediately lost the business tone he had used when picking up, instead reverting to the voice he used when speaking directly to his daughter.
"I'm good. I helped mummy make a pie in the kitchen today. I got to stir the mixture that went in it!"

Hughes could hear his daughter smiling into the phone and imagined her helping her mom wearing the cute little apron she had.
"Does my little angel know what type of pie it is?"
"Mummy says it's daddy's favourite. Uhh-" He could hear her sticking her finger in her mouth and thinking about what Gracia had called it. "Mushroomy pie! It tasted sweet!"
"Don't eat too much then, save some for daddy when he comes home tonight."
"'Course I will, we made it just for daddy!" She paused for a second and Maes thought he could hear Gracia softly talking to their daughter. "Mummy says we should hang up soon because you might receive an important call."
"Almost nothing's more important than my Elysia but I do have work to do, so that might be a good idea. I'll try to come home early okay sweetie?"
"'Kay daddy, bye!" He heard a sort of raspberry sound and he knew it was his daughter sending a kiss over the telephone.

Hughes smooched back into the mouthpiece.
"Don't forget to tell mommy that I give her a kiss too! I might see you tonight okay? Bye!"
"Bye daddy!" With that the phone clicked off, leaving Maes in an elated mood.

Until the phone rang again of course.