Prompt 12: "I can't believe you don't like Disney movies."

Summary: Modern AU (for Ginchy because she's been so amazingly supportive!) where Shelagh goes out a date with both of her boys. Tim is nine, so basically this is late Season 2, but set in 1991.

A/N: The movie choice is all me because it's my favorite Disney movie and it came out the year I was born, so I feel bound to it. :P This is pure fluff. Like so fluffy you might have to call Christopher for cavity help.

Disclaimer: I own nothing relating to Call the Midwife or Disney Inc.

"Tim!" Patrick called out as he burst into the flat. "Timothy, where are you? Tim!"

"I'm right here, dad." Timothy sighed from his place on the couch with his Gameboy not two feet from his frazzled father.

"Oh, yes, you are, sorry." Patrick rattled.

"Dad, is everything okay?" Tim asked skeptically.

"Fine, it's all rather, um, fine. Listen, Tim, you like Nurse Mannion right?" Patrick asked hesitantly as he sat on the couch next to his son. His hands were shaking and he hoped Tim didn't notice. He'd been dating (was that even the right word for nearly 10 years of growing affection suddenly turned to romance?) Shelagh Mannion for two months now and he felt like a bit of a prick for not telling Tim until now, but he and Shelagh wanted to find their footing first. She'd been a part of both their lives for so long and he didn't want to risk hurting Tim if things didn't work out. The past two months, however, had been nothing short of miraculous and he felt it was time for a man-to-man chat.

"Yeah, she's cool." Tim said with a smile. "She made those cupcakes for scouts! They were way better than yours."

"Well thank you, son." Patrick shook his head. "Her cupcakes aside, um, how would you feel about seeing her more often?"

"How come?" Tim asked.

"How come?" Patrick repeated, confused.

"Yeah, how come we'd be seeing her more often?" Tim pressed. Patrick cursed his own parenting. Tim was nothing if not full of questions and detail analysis and somehow he felt fully responsible for that as a head doctor at the Royal. His late wife, bless her tried valiantly to level their son's intellectual cheek with her unending empathy and social grace, but it didn't stick.

"Well, you see, it's like this…" Patrick tried, suddenly nervous. "...Nurse Mannion and I are dating."

There was probably a much more delicate way to say that, but the words just fell out of him and now all he could do was wait for a response.

"Oh." said Tim.

Patrick looked up in horror. 'Oh' didn't seem to bode well for his future plans.

"'Oh' like you're surprised, but happy or 'Oh' like you're never going to speak to me again?" Patrick questioned.

"'Oh' like…" Tim pondered for a moment and Patrick was pretty sure he could feel his heart about to give way until Tim grinned. "Does that mean I get double presents at Christmas if you two get married?"

Patrick laughed in relief and amusement.

"I think that's a long ways off, but I think it might be possible if you play your cards right." said Patrick with a ruffle of Tim's hair. "Well, now we got that bit out of the way, what would you say to going to the movies with Shelagh and I on Saturday?"

"Don't you take girls to the movies on dates?" Tim snarked. "No offense, dad, but I don't want to see you on a date."

Patrick rolled his eyes before he could remember he was trying not to teach Tim that habit.

"Yes, normally, one does take a woman to the movies on a date, but Shelagh isn't just dating me, she's also dating you in way." Patrick explained.

"Me?" Tim asked with a disgusted grimace.

"Not in the same way, obviously," Patrick corrected, "but if all keeps going as it is, I'd very much like to add Shelagh to our family one day and I only want to do that if you're okay with it."

"So, it's like a test? To see if I like Nurse Mannion and you together?" Tim proposed.

"That makes it sound rather dire, but yes, if you like." said Patrick.

"Do I get to pick the movie?" Tim asked excitedly.

"Of course you do." Patrick readily agreed.

"Oh, Shelagh, Doctor Turner wants to see you in his office when you have a moment." Nurse Franklin whispered as they passed between patients. Shelagh blushed at the wink Trixie sent her - perhaps she and Patrick weren't being as subtle as they thought…

She quickly finished up her notes on Ms. Robins and walked as quickly as she could without drawing attention to one Doctor P. Turner's office.

"Come in." He called out as she knocked. He must've known she'd be quick, he sounded far too excited at the interruption.

"I think Nurse Franklin knows about us." Shelagh remarked as she shut the door and pulled the blinds. "She winked at me when she delivered your message."

"Are you alright with her knowing?" He asked as he got up to kiss her hello. He would never tire of the relaxed look that took over her normally-stressed face after they kissed.

"I suppose so." Shelagh replied. "I mean, I suppose everyone will find out eventually. If nothing else, at least it'll get the other nurses off my back about my dwindling love life. Did you know Jenny asked if I was considering becoming a nun last week?"

"She didn't!" Patrick gasped.

"She meant it in good fun; they all do." Shelagh smiled. "To be fair, I haven't really dated since John left and that was five years ago."

"Well, I'm grateful you broke your pattern." He said sincerely. Shelagh smiled and moved to sit on his desk. She could get used to the giddiness of a new relationship.

"I told Tim last night." Patrick admitted.

"And?" she asked.

"And he wants to know when we're getting married and if it means he gets double Christmas presents." Patrick chuckled.

"Well he certainly has his priorities in order." Shelagh giggled. "I'm glad he didn't start throwing things."

"He adores you, Shelagh, as do I." Shelagh blushed under the compliment. "So much so, in fact," Patrick continued, "that we'd like you to come with us to the moviesonSaturdaywillyoucomeitwouldmeansomuchtobothofus?"

"What was that?" Shelagh asked with a knowing smile. Patrick took a breath. Why was this so hard?

"Will you come to the movies with Tim and me on Saturday?" He asked hopefully.

"Of course I will!" Shelagh agreed excitedly.

"Good," Patrick let out a breath of relief, "because I already asked Tim and he's really looking forward."

"I take it that means the boy picks the movie?" Shelagh asked knowingly.

"Welcome to the world of parenting." Patrick quipped. "It'll be fine though. I looked at the listings and the only one I think he'd want to see is the new Disney film, you know Beauty and the Beast? Or at least I'm assuming he would. He likes the other Disney films, even if he pretends to hate the princess movies to his friends, so I'm banking he'll ask me to take him."

"Oh, that sounds nice." said Shelagh.

"Great, so it's a date then?" Patrick asked as he snuck his fingers up her leg to play with the edge of her skirt. She hated him for that. He was so bloody charming.

"It's a date." she wiggled out of his grasp and blew him a kiss on the way out the door.

"Can we get popcorn and chocolate?" Tim asked as the smiling trio entered the cinema.

"Why don't you ask Shelagh what she wants and we'll go from there?" Patrick suggested. Truth was, he'd by the entire concessions stand if the two of them wanted it, but he wanted Tim to get used to including Shelagh in decisions.

"Can we get popcorn and chocolate, Nurse Mannion?"

Shelagh laughed at Patrick's sigh. That wasn't exactly what he meant.

"I think popcorn and chocolate sound wonderful." Shelagh replied. "And you can call me Shelagh outside of the hospital, you know?"

"Okay!" Tim's smile grew. So far, he really liked this whole dad-dating-Shelagh-thing. "Shelagh?" Tim asked as they stood on line for their popcorn and chocolate. "What's your favorite Disney movie?"

"Hmm?"

"Your favorite Disney movie!" Tim repeated. "Mine's Peter Pan. Dad says his favorite is also Peter Pan because I like it, but he always cries during Fox and the Hound, so I think it's that one."

"Tim!" Patrick shouted a little louder than he intended. Shelagh just beamed. So much ammunition for later on.

"What's yours?" Tim asked again, oblivious to his father's embarrassment.

"Um, you might not like my answer." Shelagh stalled. "I don't really like Disney movies..."

Patrick and Tim's jaws both dropped.

"You don't like Disney movies?!" They gasped in unison.

"I can't believe you don't like Disney movies, Shelagh, why didn't you tell me, we could've done something else." Patrick irrationally panicked.

"Well, it's not that I don't like them necessarily." she tried to defend herself. "It's just, I've never seen one."

"WHAT?" Tim's shocked exclamation drew the attention of everyone else in line prompting an extremely awkward apologetic smile from Patrick to the vendor and a sheepish grin from Tim.

"Sorry, but how is that possible?" Tim asked completely baffled.

"I don't know," Shelagh shrugged, "my parents never took us to see any when I was little and then once I was older, I suppose I didn't care anymore." She gazed teasingly at Patrick, "I don't have a child as an excuse to go see them."

"Well now you do." Tim said innocently as he took her hand in his. Shelagh and Patrick melted at the sincerity in his voice. He meant what he said and Patrick's heart burst knowing Tim honestly wouldn't mind going to the movies with just Shelagh in the future.

"Then I guess you'll have to educate me, won't you." she smiled down at Tim.

When the final credits rolled, both boys were gleefully satisfied to see Shelagh wiping her eyes. It was the first of many Disney nights to come.

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