Title: Mom
Theme: Necessary
Pairing: None
Rating: K
45. Necessary
"Do you need this?"
"Nope."
Maddie's going through his clothes and old toys and junk, and it's weird. His mom is still wearing that jumpsuit, and she's holding up article by article, and the pile of things he decides he doesn't need grows bigger and bigger. Periodically, Jazz comes through and gives him a frustrated look, because she's done her spring cleaning hours ago, but Danny just keeps finding more and more trash, so she can't relax, or do whatever it is she does when she doesn't have chores or homework.
"Does this shirt fit?"
"Not even close."
"Do you have the laces for those sneakers?"
"They broke."
"Aw," she says, holding up a teddy bear. "I got you this when you were a baby."
"It's almost as old as Bearbert."
She sighed. "You don't need that, do you?"
He smiled warmly, and though he never touched the ratty old thing, contrasted, "Oh, sure I do."
God, aren't Danny and his mother just the sweetest?