note: So I normally really, really don't do kidfic, but I was talking with someone who likes it and... Zaeed is the only way to make kidfic pallatable.
Drabble Shepard is any random Shepard. Kid's dad is any random bloke (or asari).
"Look, I - damn it, I'm supposed to pick the kid up from school. Will you do it for me? I'll call ahead."
"You don't ask goddamn much, Shepard."
"Thanks!"
—
"Well, Mr. Massani, it looks like Ms. Shepard has given permission for you to pick up her daughter, but—" the secretary eyed the huge man's tattooed arm and hideous scaring "—but this is highly irregular."
Just then a little girl in pig-tails trotted into the office, screamed "Zaeeeeeeeeee!" and climbed up the man like a monkey.
"Fuck, watch yourself, you little rat! What kind of shit you been up to?"
"Mr. Massani!"
The little girl laughed. "Mama says you talk di-irty."
"Your mama's a goddamn hypocrite, is what she is."
"Whassa hippo-crit?"
"Someone who's talked worse than me since she was younger than you, squirt. And if you tell her I said that, your uncle Zaeed will squash you flat."
Balancing her on his broad shoulders, he sauntered out of the building.