greydayss: "JFP Promopt! Japril and baby boy or girl go camping, bringing along the telescope from Season 10. I loved how you brought up bears in the 100 Days Project and was wondering if you wouldn't mind doing that again?"

This one is also for tvisinmyveins! Just picked this actual prompt to publish bc its older and had a few more details. I will say that I'm on Jackson's side here, so this might not be that great.

100 Encore, Day 67: "Acquired Taste"

"Come on guys, it's time for s'mores….I was fine with cooking dinner out here…but you can't miss s'mores…If you aren't out here in 10 minutes, I'm only making s'mores for meee! They are really yummy guys….you'll never know if you don't try…" April called from her spot alone at the campfire.

After a whispered conference with his dad behind the closed tent her son peeked his head out. "We say no way! E-joy your s'mores mama…to-morrow when we on real baycation me an' daddy will get mint choco sundaes. So much bedder den a s'more but we nice we will share acause we love you!"

"Come on, I love you guys too! I know this isn't your thing that's why we're only here one night! I just wanna share what my summers were like with my boys!" Again, the tent door closed.

Julian's head popped out again. "We tired from da hikin'."

"Come be tired with me! I'm just sitting here alone with two empty shoulders waiting for your heads to rest on them."

Julian sighed, going back into the tent and out again. "There's skeetos out there! And…." He lowered his voice, "Bears, mama!"

"Oh for heaven's sake! I'm not scared of bears and never have been. I'll protect you both. You tell daddy that I ran to him because I love him, not because I was scared of bears or anything else. And you guys should be running to me and s'mores and stars. Remember J? We brought the telescope!"

Julian's eyes widened, but after one last conference, Jackson finally emerged from the tent. "Thank you baby," April said, as he slowly made his way to the campfire, little man trailing behind.

"You promised to protect me from bears and professed your love for me in the same speech. I had to run to you."

"I hope this isn't really your version of running to me babe. You could at least smile and walk briskly. I know you can run. I've seen you play basketball."

They finally reached her and planted a kiss on each one of her cheeks. "Alright, what do we do here?" Jackson asked, staring at the fire.

"Yeah, what we doin' here?"

"What do you mean what do you do. You've seen it. Here, I picked out sticks for you and you put a marshmallow on it and then just…hold it there til it's golden brown. Then hand it to mommy and I'll slide it onto the graham cracker and you can stick a piece of chocolate in there and eat it."

"Mama, dis is so dan-ner-ous wit a fire right there."

"Nah bud, you'll be fine, trust me. I'd still be in the tent if it was dangerous. But mom's right. We're here one night and we should have the most fun we can. Sorry, mom…for not trying very hard. But I'm just not a camping guy." But he put a marshmallow on a stick and started roasting.

Julian sighed as April handed him a stick. "Yeah mom. Dis OK, it's not da funnest thing. I wanna go into a pool an' eat real food an' play baskeeball."

"You don't want to tell ghost stories while we roast these? That's what my dad used to do with us."

"Daddy, you know any?"

"Ghost stories? Nah, I've never been camping before either, J. This is my first time, too. I'm not liking these mosquitos…"

"Yeah, skeetos are the worst!"

"Oh please stop your whining already. Tomorrow we'll be in a hotel with AC and room service…"

"Geez, don't sound so miserable about it, you are a fan of room service," Jackson laughed. "Camping is an acquired taste and…I just don't see the point."

"Let me tell you something…you're an acquired taste mister but I learned to love it."

"Yeah you did." He raised an eyebrow.

April blushed. "Anyway, I'll show you the point…The payoff of anycamping trip is this right here…" She slid a golden brown marshmallow off of her stick, smiling when Julian instantly followed her lead. "Now you take two graham crackers and two pieces of chocolate…..are you watching daddy?" Jackson just smirked.

"I gotted two big choc-lates mom," Julian grinned before taking his first bite.

"I see bud. But the bite is the best part…everyone ready? One, two, three…"

They took bites at the same time, but April tried to concentrate on the boys' reactions. Julian's face lit up. "This is much better then hot dogs and beans, mom!"

"I know, right? I was telling the truth. Camping is fun." Juliian nodded against his mom's shoulder, munching on his s'more. Jackson followed suit on her other side.

They each made one more s'more, and while ghost stories were not allowed, knowing how delicious they were got Julian more excited.

After s'mores, April set up the telescope they brought from home to show her little space man how much cooler the stars looked out here. "Wow you guys! There's so many stars here, look!"

"I know bud, cool, right?"

"Yeah! So cool. And mom, all three of us will fit cozy in that sleeper bag?"

"Yeah, I got a giant one so we can all sleep in one bed, different than home."

"Only can do this when we campin'? Sleep agether an' s'mores an coolest stars?"

"Yup, only camping. You're slowly acquiring a taste for camping, huh? You kinda like it?"

"Yeah dad, you too? S'mores were so good?"

"Yeah, J! And the stars were cool and I can't wait for our little slumber party!"

"So camping isn't so bad?"

Jackson shrugged and kissed April's cheek. "Maybe I'm just not cut out for hiking…but I wouldn't wanna do this for more than two nights…and I know you're daydreaming about that pool." It was true, and she'd at least got them out of the tent. So April considered herself victorious and started cleaning up the site so they could go conquer the sleeping bag.