Jackson was feeling bad as he hadn't been able to see Harriet in over a week due to his work schedule. Throughout the week he had come up with a plan to spend some time with Harriet on his day off. He had chatted with April and she was super supportive and helped him to put everything into place. On normal circumstances Jackson tried not to over spoil his daughter and to teach her about money even though she was young but every so often he'd give her something special.

After he finished work for the day and he had headed home to refresh and get ready. Once he had napped, showered and got dressed in his best black suit and white dress shirt he called April to let her know he'd be over shortly. He then called Roger his mother's limo driver who came to pick him up in the black lincoln limousine and take him to April's. On the ride over Jackson made sure everything was how he wanted it to be and he was surprised by the slight butterflies he felt when Roger let him know they had arrived.

Jackson had got out of the limo and adjusted his suit before he headed up the driveway and knocked on the door.

"Hey Jackson, nice suit, come on in." April said as she moved out of the way to let him in the lobby. "Hey bug? Your dad's here!" April called down the hallway. A few moments later Harriet came down the hall dressed in a light purple floral dress with white tights and black mary jane shoes holding a little plastic flower purse.

"Hi daddy! I've missed you. You look so fancy! " squealed Harriet

"Hi Hattie, I've missed you too! I had to dress up to take my sweetest girl on our date. Are you ready to go?" he asked as he scooped her into his arms. "Say bye to mama!" Jackson instructed as he leaned Harriet in to kiss April goodbye.

"Bye mama! See you tomorrow for God and waffles!" she said

"Haha sounds good bug, have a great time with daddy. I love you!" April said through laughter.

Jackson leaned down to grab Harriet's overnight bag with his free hand before he headed out, bag and baby girl in hand "See you at church in the morning April."

Roger had taken the bag from Jackson and put it in the trunk while Jackson buckled Harriet in her car seat and got in beside her.

"Daaaddy! This is so big and fancy!" Harriet exclaimed as she clapped in excitement.

"Grandma let me use her special car for our special day. Cool huh!" Jackson answered. "Want to see something even cooler?" he asked as he leaned forward to the ice bucket and pulled out the sparkling apple juice and plastic champagne flutes he had stored in the car earlier.

"Bubbles in princess cups!" Harriet said as Jackson handed her a glass and they cheersed.

A few minutes later they had arrived at their destination and Jackson helped Harriet out of the car.

"A giant cupcake! Are we eating cupcakes?" Harriet asked with glea.

They had arrived at Cupcake Royale, a bakeshop in Seattle that happened to be owned by Jackson's good friend from university. "We're going to decorate and eat them!" Jackson explained, leading Harriet inside and to the back room his friend had insisted they use. It was decorated with giant cupcake balloons and there were letter balloons spelling "Welcome Harriet". Inside the glass room was a marble rectangle table with lots of cupcakes in different flavours, a rainbow of different icings and every topping you could imagine along with two chairs for Harriet and Jackson to use. On each seat there were an apron with the cupcake logo, one adorned with an H and one with a J and two chef hats. Jackson helped Harriet to put them on and then followed suit before he led her to the sink in the corner of the room to wash their hands before they started decorating. "Watch dad!" Harriet exclaimed as she pumped out some soap and rubbed it all the way up to her elbows "I'm scrubbing in, just like you and mama do at work!" she giggled.

"That you are bug! Who taught you that?" Jackson asked with a laugh while washing his own hands and helping Harriet to finish hers. "Aunt Arizona came into the daycare the other day and showed all of us! It was so fun." she explained.

"Let's get decorating." Jackson suggested as he and Harriet headed back over to their table and got comfortable in their seats. "What flavour of cupcake do you want to decorate first?" Jackson asked

"Chocolate please." Harriet declared as Jackson grabbed a chocolate one for her and funfetti for him.

About an hour later with a dozen cupcakes decorated in multi colours and sprinkles galore and both Jackson and Harriet covered in a significant amount of icing from the icing fight that ensued, it was time to pack up the cupcakes into two white boxes tied with mint green ribbon and continue their adventure.

"Alright Hattie, back to the car we go." Jackson said as he grabbed their cupcakes in one hand and his daughter's hand in the other.

A few minutes later Jackson rolled down the window to reveal they were at the McDonalds drive through.

"Cupcakes and a happy meal? Best day ever!" Harriet said as Jackson ordered her a mcnuggets happy meal with apple slices and milk and a big mac meal for himself.

After they grabbed their dinner Roger took Jackson and Harriet back to Jackson's house.

Once they were home Jackson and Harriet finished their dinner and Harriet in the process had managed to get sticky bbq sauce all over herself. "Bug, I think we need to get you into a bath" Jackson chuckled as he lifted her out of her highchair.

Since it was a special day Jackson grabbed the bubble bath as he took Harriet up to the bathroom. He took her into his bathroom because his ensuite had the bathtub with the jets.

About half an hour later with Harriet all cleaned up and Jackson significantly soaked from the splashing that ensued Jackson got Harriet changed into her pajamas and they both went downstairs into the den with the tv. Jackson let Harriet head in on her own while he gathered up supplies for their next activity.

Harriet got super excited as her dad brought in a giant pile of blankets and pillows.

"Anyone want to build a fort to watch Moana in?" he asked as Harriet ran over to him, grabbed at the blankets and started to string them along the furniture already in front of the tv.

Jackson helped Harriet to arrange the blankets into the perfect fort before he blew up the queen size air mattress and placed it inside with a copious amount of pillows and duvets. He gave Harriet her own personal size of natural popcorn and a sippy cup of water and for himself he made a full bag of popcorn and a glass of Coke.

As they had settled in to watch the movie Harriet turned to Jackson "Daddy this was the best day ever! I can't wait to give mama some cupcakes tomorrow and tell her all about it and show her my very own chef's hat. Thank you!"

"You're welcome bug! We all deserve a special day now and again" Jackson replied.

"Ya I really missed you the last few days but mama reminded me that when you or her aren't with me it's because your helping other people and maybe even other mama and daddy's little girls and that's pretty awesome. So even though I miss you, that's ok because it's only for a little."

"That's right bug, mama and daddy have to be away sometimes to help other people but it's only for a short amount of time, and that whole time we're thinking about seeing you. I cant believe what a big girl you're becoming, so grown up of you to understand. I love you so much and no matter how long I'm away I'll always come back sweetpea, that's a promise."