Prompt from jedibubbles: Baby Shepard-Alenko's first word is Wrex.
"Okay, come on, sweetheart." Shepard frowned at Ashley, still half in the throes of the tantrum she'd been throwing not an hour before, her mouth stubbornly shut. Shepard looked down at the spoon in her hand helplessly.
She was right. She was an awful mother. She couldn't even get a toddler to eat properly.
Ashley's twin, Adelaide, sat happily in her chair cooing over her toys despite having been done eating for nearly a half hour. Thank everything at least one twin had gotten Kaidan's patience.
The front door opened, and she grumbled under her breath before yelling back. "Kai, I need your magic."
Kaidan's hand clasped over hers, and he kissed her cheek. "What happened?"
Shepard shrugged. "One minute she was calm and playing with her hanar. The next moment she's wreaking holy hell and trying to break things with her biotics."
"How long ago?"
"About an hour."
He took the spoon. "Okay, Ash, here comes Uncle Joker with the Normandy—"
Shepard shook her head as he got Ash to open her mouth and dropped the spoonful into her mouth. She gently patted his backside as she moved to get Adelaide out of the chair. "Come on," she said as she hefted the toddler out and onto her hip just as the doorbell rang.
Shepard hurried to answer, surprised to open it and find a large bulk of krogan. "Didn't know you were on the Citadel, Wrex."
He chuckled. "Bakara's here checking on the Embassy. I thought I'd come by and check on my favorite humans."
Shepard stepped aside, letting him in. The tip of a glove-covered finger tweaked Adelaide's nose. "Kaidan's getting Ashley to eat. She was in fine form earlier."
"Takes after her mother, apparently."
Shepard chuckled.
Adelaide wriggled on her hip, babbling underneath their conversation with her arms extended to the krogan. Apparently dissatisfied with the lack of attention, she finally let out a loud shriek.
"Wrex!"
Shepard and Wrex stopped talking, Wrex's attention attracted to the toddler and Shepard's mouth hanging slightly open. The girl giggled, and repeated herself. Kaidan stuck his head out of the kitchen.
"Did she just …"
"Yeah," Shepard replied, still slightly stunned.
"Well," Wrex chortled, scooping her out of her mother's arms. "Who am I to deny that?"