"Replenishing the Necessities"
Summary: Mattie needs something, and she needs it now.
Note: Living with a wife and three daughters, my father always felt a little outnumbered. It was his reactions to us that inspired me to write about Harm learning to live with the two women down the hall.
Disclaimer: Harm, Mac, etc. are not mine, so don't sue me because I have an imagination and too much free time.
Written 5 March 2004
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"Can we go to the drugstore? I need to get something," Mattie said as she plopped down next to her guardian on the couch.
Harm looked up from the legal pad in his lap. "I'm working on something. Can't it wait till tomorrow?"
"Not really," she told him. "Look, if you can't take me, let me borrow your keys and I'll just get it myself."
"Nice try," he responded wryly. "What's so important that it can't wait until later?"
Mattie gave an exaggerated sigh and rolled her eyes. "If you must know, I'm out of pads."
Harm blanched when it clicked that she wasn't referring to legal pads. He managed to stammer, "I, um, I thought you used tampons."
"I use both."
The look on his face was priceless. "You can do that?"
"Uh, yeah," she said, incredulous that he could be so clueless at times. "So, can we go?"
"Let me find my keys."
Summary: Mattie needs something, and she needs it now.
Note: Living with a wife and three daughters, my father always felt a little outnumbered. It was his reactions to us that inspired me to write about Harm learning to live with the two women down the hall.
Disclaimer: Harm, Mac, etc. are not mine, so don't sue me because I have an imagination and too much free time.
Written 5 March 2004
*****
"Can we go to the drugstore? I need to get something," Mattie said as she plopped down next to her guardian on the couch.
Harm looked up from the legal pad in his lap. "I'm working on something. Can't it wait till tomorrow?"
"Not really," she told him. "Look, if you can't take me, let me borrow your keys and I'll just get it myself."
"Nice try," he responded wryly. "What's so important that it can't wait until later?"
Mattie gave an exaggerated sigh and rolled her eyes. "If you must know, I'm out of pads."
Harm blanched when it clicked that she wasn't referring to legal pads. He managed to stammer, "I, um, I thought you used tampons."
"I use both."
The look on his face was priceless. "You can do that?"
"Uh, yeah," she said, incredulous that he could be so clueless at times. "So, can we go?"
"Let me find my keys."