A Family Moment Fic:
Characters: Don, OC-Elle, Maggie, DJ
Rating: K
Word Count: 808
Thanks to LPT for betaing, and for kid speak.
Disaclaimer: nothing is mine. I just like to play.

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Don stretched awake, and found himself alone in bed. He rubbed his eyes, and laid there for a second, before slowly getting out of bed. He stepped towards the bathroom to take care of his morning routine. A few minutes later he stepped out, and was about to get his robe on to head downstairs, when heard whispers coming down the hall. He quickly got back into bed in a sitting position, and pulled the covers up to his stomach.

Don felt his face split into the widest grin, when his wife and two children came in with breakfast and presents.

Maggie yelled, "Happy Father's Day, Daddy!"

"Daddy Day," DJ piped in before he jumped onto Don's lap.

"Thank you Little Buddy." Don replied, as he gave his son a hug.

"DJ, scoot over to Daddy's side, so I can give him his breakfast." Elisabeth said, with an amused smile on her lips.

"Tay." The little boy crawled over, and sat to Don's left.

Elisabeth set the tray on Don's lap. She leaned down and kissed Don on the cheek and said, "Happy Father's Day."

"Thank you." He grasped Elisabeth's hand and gave her a kiss back, before he patted her burgeoning four-month pregnant belly.

"Daddy, I made you a present. Wanna see?" Maggie asked

"I sure do, Sweetheart."

She grinned as she handed him a white box with a red ribbon on it. "Mommy put a bow on it for me."

"Ah, I see." Don open the package to reveal a pencil holder that had multi colored painted Popsicle sticks glued around it. In the holder were pens with Don's name on them.

Maggie giggled, "Mommy bought the pens with your name on them. She said that you are always losing yours, and this will help."

Don arched his eyebrow, "Oh, really?"

"Well, it's true." Elisabeth laughed, as she sat down on the edge of the bed. "DJ, why don't you give Daddy his present from you?"

"I no have. I weft it my woom." The two year old exclaimed.

"Well go get it, you Silly Goose." Elisabeth said as she shook her head. .

"Tay!" He jumped off the bed, and made a mad dash for his room.

Elisabeth called out, "Slow down. Daddy is not going any where."

DJ froze in place. He gave his mother a sheepish grin before taking one exaggerated step after another, towards his bedroom.

Both Don and Elle chuckled at their son's antics.

Maggie climbed on the bed too. "Here, I made this card too."

"Very nice." Don looked at the card. Inside Maggie wrote in her seven year old hand printing on the front of the card.

'I love my Daddy'

On the inside of it she had written,

'Cause he is the best. He finds bad men and puts them away. He is strong and funny. We play baseball and eat ice cream. Love Margaret Carolyn.

"Aww thank you Baby." Don kissed the side of Maggie's head.

DJ came running back to the room, but stopped and moved very slowly when he got to the threshold. He had a large grin on his face, and walked over to the bedside. "Ear Daddy. I picked it out all by myself."

"You did?" Don took the offered gift bag from DJ. He noticed that Elisabeth had turned her head, and put a hand on the side if her face. Puzzled at her actions, he took out the item that was wrapped in tissue paper. He unraveled the tissue paper slowly, giving his young son a wink before finally revealing the present. Don took one look at the item before he slowly said, 'Uh, wow Buddy, this is the nicest yellow tie with fish on it I have ever seen."

"Yous wike it Daddy?"

Elisabeth's shoulders were shaking with amusement, when she gave Don a mirthful glance.

Don cleared his throat before answering the question, "I, most certainly do, Little Buddy. It is uh, very bright and happy."

DJ jumped up on the bed and yelled, "Yay! Daddy wikes da tie." He stopped jumping on the bed, and turned a solemn face towards Don. "Yous wear to catch bad guys, wight Daddy?"

This was the last straw for Elisabeth a loud giggled escaped her lips. "He sure will. Right, Don?"

Don narrowed his eyes at Elisabeth before smiling at his son. "I will certainly be happy to wear it to catch the bad men." Don grumbled to himself, remembering that he did the same thing to his dad, and knew somehow, that Alan was getting revenge on him.

Maggie tapped her mother on the shoulder, "Mommy, didn't DJ pick out one of those ties for Uncle Charlie and Pop Pop too?"

"He did." She answered unable to keep the evil grin off her face." Except that Uncle Charlie has a matching vest."