Well, I'm having some trouble coming up with a full chapter, but I have no shortage of short, random scenes I've written, so I figured I'd just string a few of them together for your enjoyment
They aren't in chronological order, but they all involve Lucy. Let me know what you think!
PS- the first one was inspired by a conversation I overheard between a mother and daughter while I was on the subway a couple weeks ago. It was pretty much adorable.
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"Mommy, what's this?" Lucy asks as she tugs at the bottom of Andy's wedding dress, which is protected in a layer of plastic and hanging in her parents' closet. She's been digging through it for the past ten minutes while they're getting ready and she's already made quite the mess.
"It's the dress I wore when I married Daddy," Andy explains before exchanging a smile with her husband.
"It's so pretty," Lucy declares as she continues to eye her mother's wedding gown.
"Thanks sweetie," Andy replies.
"Do I get to wear a pretty dress when I get married?" She wonders a minute later.
Andy stops and exchanges another look with Sam before she bends her knees and gets down to her daughter's level. "Sure, sweetheart… who are you going to marry?" Andy questions as she pushes a lock of hair behind Lucy's ear.
"Daddy," Lucy answers, matter-of-factly.
"But I'm married to Daddy," Andy reminds her as she and Sam each let out a quiet laugh.
"But… but… Daddy, don't you wanna marry me?" She turns to ask her father. And before he even has a chance to prepare himself, she's already got her lower lip sticking out in a pout and the big brown puppy dog eyes pointed his way.
He immediately scoops her up in his arms and rests her on his hip so they are eye level. "Of course sweetheart, but then who would be married to Mommy?" He inquires.
"She can find someone new to marry," Lucy suggests, causing Andy to chuckle under her breath.
"Hm… but you know Luce, I'm pretty sure your mom wants to stay married to me," he tells her. "Right, Mommy?" He asks his wife.
"Well…" she starts to tease until she gets a glare from her husband. "Yeah sweetheart, would you mind if I keep Daddy?" Andy asks her daughter as she takes a few steps closer to the two of them and proceeds to rest her head on Sam's shoulder. "I don't think I'll love anyone else as much as I love him," she adds before peering up at her husband and giving him a loving smile.
"Okay fine, I guess I can marry Leo," she decides as both adults attempt to tame down their smirks. It's pretty common knowledge that their little girl has had a bit of a crush on the teenager ever since he babysat for Andy and Sam a few months back. It took Sam quite a while to actually think it was funny, but he can laugh about it now. "You can keep Daddy," Lucy agrees.
"Thanks sweetie," Andy replies as she gives her daughter a kiss on the forehead before giving her husband a quick kiss as well. "Guess you're stuck with me, Swarek," she tells him.
"Guess so," he replies with a smirk before leaning in and giving her another kiss. "Kindda like being stuck with you, though," he tells her with a smile and a pinch at her waist.
"Mm… the feeling is entirely mutual, Detective," she flirts before she leans in for yet another kiss.
"Guys," Lucy implores. "Stop kissing. I'm gonna be late for preschool!" She declares, causing both Sam and Andy to let out a laugh.
"Okay, sweetheart. You help Daddy pack your lunch while I go wake up Noah," Andy instructs.
"Let's go, Daddy!" Lucy demands as she wiggles around in his arms and pats his shoulder a few times.
"Yes, ma'am," he replies, before he gives his wife a smile and then carries Lucy out of the room.
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"Daddy!" Eight year old Lucy calls to her father as she pads through the kitchen to greet him at the table.
"Hey sweetheart," he smiles as he welcomes his daughter with a kiss on the forehead.
"Daddy, can you help me do my homework?" She asks, as she slides into the seat beside him.
"Of course, Luce," he agrees.
"I need to ask you three questions from this list," she explains as she waves a piece of paper in the air.
"What kind of questions?"
"Personal ones," she grins.
"Honey, why don't you ask your mom, she loves that kind of thing," he suggests as he shoots his wife a smile.
"I already did! It's your turn," his daughter informs him. He meets Andy's eyes to see her poking her tongue out at him, while a smile plays on her lips.
He sighs on the inside and tries to imagine what his sweet little girl might ask him. She really is her mother's daughter, so there's honestly no telling what it could be.
"Okay, I'm ready. Ask away," he offers.
Lucy smiles and taps her pencil against her sheet of paper while she thinks. "Okay Daddy, what's your favorite thing to do?" She asks him.
"Hmm…" he thinks out loud. "Spending time with my family," he tells her as he pushes her bangs out of her face.
"What about poker night?" She wonders.
Yeah, both Sam and Andy let out a laugh at that one. "Well, don't tell Uncle Ollie but I think poker night is number two on the list," he tells her.
She nods and scribbles on her notepad. "What are your three biggest accomplishments?" She asks a moment later, doing her best to pronounce the word.
He smiles. "Hmm…. Number one… convincing your mother to marry me," he grins, while he looks up at his beautiful wife, who is cooking dinner for their family. She gives him a big smile in a return and even after all this time, it still makes his heart flutter. "Number two… you, your brother and sister," he declares with a gentle pinch of her leg, eliciting a giggle from his daughter as she tries to squirm away from him. "And number three… let's see…. well I did train this rookie once and she sort of became the best cop in all of Toronto, so… I'm pretty proud of that," he adds with a grin as he glances over at Andy.
She playfully rolls her eyes, but the way she's beaming at him, gives her away. "You're really laying it on thick there, Daddy," she laughs.
He chuckles. "It's all true," he defends with his hands in the air.
"Mommy! Daddy wouldn't lie!" Lucy joins in, eliciting laughs from both her parents.
"I know he wouldn't, sweetheart," she agrees before walks towards them and leaning down to kiss her daughter on the head. And on her way back to the kitchen, she stops to give her husband a kiss on the lips.
"So Daddy, how did you convince Mommy to marry you?" Lucy wonders with an inquisitive smile.
"Hmm… you'd have to ask her that, Luce… I'm still not quite sure," he informs her with a slight shake of his head and a smile of his own.
"Mommy?" Lucy calls to her mother.
"Well…" Andy begins as she wipes her hands off on a paper towel. She walks back towards them, sits down at the head of the kitchen table and taps her finger against her chin to think. "Your Daddy is pretty handsome, so that definitely helped," she teases. "And I knew he'd give me some pretty adorable babies," she adds, earning a giggle from her daughter. Then, she looks up at Sam and gets serious. "And I knew he'd take really good care of me and our babies… and that he'd always be there for us," she continues, this time earning a gentle squeeze of the hand from her husband. "And I just couldn't ever loving anyone else even half as much as I love him," she adds as she beams at Sam.
Lucy watches the exchange of looks between her parents with an amused smile before considering her next question. "So how did he ask you to marry him, Mommy?" Lucy wonders.
Andy grins. "Well… he took me to your Uncle Ollie's cabin and he was really nervous," she explains with a teasing expression on her face.
"I was not," he interjects.
"Yes he was," she whispers to her daughter, cupping her face to try and keep the words away from her husband.
Lucy giggles and Sam rolls his eyes.
"So, he was acting pretty weird and he was trying to make everything perfect, but so many things kept going wrong and he was freaking out a little," she continues.
"No I wasn't," he argues.
Now it's Andy's turn to roll her eyes. "And so I told him that even though all of these things were going wrong, I still loved it because it was just completely… us," she explains as she meets her husband's gaze and shares a smile with him. "And then, I started walking away while babbling on about dinner, but when I turned around… he was down on one knee, asking me to marry him, and I was completely stunned," she says.
"Yeah, you did kind of leave me hanging there for a second," he reminds her.
"It was just a second!" She argues. "I was just surprised… and I did say yes, didn't I?" She argues.
"Thank God," he says with a twinkle in his eye and a smirk on his lips.
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She had just gotten into bed when Sam walks through the door. She heard him come in a few minutes ago and then make his usual stops to give the kids a kiss goodnight. It's the typical routine on the few occasions when he's forced to work past their bedtime.
"Hey," he says as he walks into their bedroom.
"Hey," she replies with an uneasy smile. She's trying to fake it, but she has something to tell him and she knows he's not going to like it.
"Everything okay?" He asks as his brows start to furrow. He moves to sit beside her on the bed and places his hand on her thigh as he waits for her to speak.
"Yeah, I just… I have to tell you something, but just… don't freak out," she implores.
"You know I hate when you say that… what's wrong?" He asks, the concern already evident on his face.
She lets out a deep sigh and prepares herself to tell her husband what happened today. "Okay, um… it's about Lucy," she begins. "She's fine," she adds right as he's about to open his mouth.
"What happened?" He asks, already starting to tense up.
"I mean it, she's fine," Andy continues. "We already talked about it and I spoke with her teacher… they took care of everything, so there's really nothing to worry about," she prefixes.
"Andy, just tell me what happened," he implores, unable to hide his impatience.
"Okay, okay," she says. "Lucy was just having some trouble at school today… with a boy in her class," she explains.
"What kind of trouble?" Sam asks suspiciously.
"He was picking on her a bit," Andy tells him.
"Picking on her how?" He probes.
"He was teasing her… she said that he kept pulling her pigtails out and then he stole the cookie from her lunch… nothing too serious… and the teacher saw it and she handled it. And like I said, I talked to Lucy and she's fine… everything's fine," Andy assures him.
"You should've called me, I would've come home," he argues.
"Sam, I would've called you if it had been a big deal," she promises. "Lucy barely remembered it by the time she got home… they found out they're going on a field trip to the aquarium next month and she was all excited about that, so yeah… it wasn't a big deal… and you were working," she reminds him.
"You know I would've come home," he tells her.
"I know, but it wasn't necessary," Andy replies. "The teacher handled it and everything is fine. Lucy is fine," Andy tries to tell him.
"I don't like it. Maybe I should go down there and talk to him," Sam suggests.
"Sam! What are you gonna do? Threaten a first grader?" Andy says with a laugh.
"Maybe…" He says with a huff.
She looks over at her husband and just can't help the wave of affection that comes over her. As crazy as he's being, she just loves when he gets protective of their kids. Honestly, Sam is never sexier than when he is being a Dad. It seriously gets to her every time and sometimes she swears he does it on purpose because he knows exactly what it does to her.
That's when she can't help but roll on top of him and straddle his lap as her hands skim his chest. "You are so sexy right now," she tells him.
He gets a silly grin on his face and gets his hands on her waist. "Just right now?" He asks with a mock pout.
"No… you're sexy all the time… just especially sexy right now," she amends.
Sam hmms and goes to kiss his wife before pulling back at the last second. "Are you just trying to distract me from this whole thing with Lucy?" He asks her with a suspicious raise of his eyebrow.
"Maybe a little," she admits with a laugh. "But you know what it does to me when you do your whole protective dad thing," she accuses.
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah… I just want to do all kinds of inappropriate shit to you," she flirts.
"Well, by all means," he says with a smirk and a wiggle of his eyebrows.
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Pretty sure I got those last two lines from somewhere, but I have no idea where…
Anyway, let me know what you think! I realize it's complete fluff, but that's basically the gist of this whole story, so I assume you're used to it by now lol.