Disclaimer: I don't own Glee, nor do I completely own Nick and Jeff (although I'm pretty much creating their personalities myself since we haven't gotten to know them too well on the show).
A/n: So I was sifting through the remainder of the prompts on my list, and I just sort of jumped on this one because I thought this would be adorable and somewhat telling about Nick and Jeff's parenting skills. Is it bad that I'm sort of falling in love with Elliot, because he's just so darn cute?
Lemonade
Nick pressed a quick kiss against the top of his little boy's head before he ruffled Elliot's hair.
"Dad! Stop it!" Nick couldn't help but chuckle at Elliot's reaction to his show of affection. "You're going to scare off all the customers!"
"I don't think your Daddy is going to be scaring anyone away, El," Jeff replied from his place in the lawn chair a few feet behind Elliot's. "The whole lemonade stand idea… it's not exactly the best thing to do in the middle of November. I'm not sure that we're going to have many customers, since it's kind of cold out."
"But I want to sell the lemonade we made, Papa!" Nick knelt down as he recognized the signs of an oncoming temper tantrum from the five year old, smiling at the little boy. "I don't want to stop…"
"I know, Elliot. Which is why we're going to keep trying, even though we haven't sold any lemonade yet. Papa Jeff was just pointing out that maybe this wasn't the best day for your idea, and that maybe we should try again when it warms up in a few months." Nick did his best to wipe away the tears from the little boy's eyes, knowing that it probably came from a need for a nap because they had gotten up abnormally early that morning. Elliot's little sister, Elizabeth, was already inside laying down in her bed upstairs for a nap, even though it was more than an hour before her usual nap time.
"We can try again?" Elliot asked. Nick nodded, smiling at Elliot.
"In just a few months, when things start to warm up again, we'll pull out the lemonade stand again. And I bet if we get it set up early enough on a Saturday, when all the neighbors are mowing their lawns, we'll make a lot of money."
"And we can give it to the sick kids?" Nick raised an eyebrow, more than a little confused. "The ones at the hospital, like Jenny… she said that there weren't any good toys in the playroom when she was sick. I wanted to buy them some toys, which is why I wanted a lemonade stand."
Nick couldn't help but smile as he wrapped his arms around his son, giving him a big hug. "Elliot, that is one of the sweetest things you've ever asked me if we could do. And I promise you, as soon as we can make some money we'll do another lemonade stand and use all of the money to buy lots of toys for the kids in the hospital to play with." Nick watched as a smile spread across the little boy's face.
"Can we go inside now, Daddy? It's cold."
"That's the second best idea you've had today," Nick replied, standing up and taking the pitcher of lemonade so that they could get everything put away and go warm up inside the house.