A/N: I was in a pancakes for dinner kinda mood so between seeing if my pancakes would be perfect or rejects, I wrote this little thing.
"Damn it!"
Tori shuffled sleepily into the kitchen just as Jade brought her fingers to her mouth, sucking on them in an attempt to cool her burnt fingers. When Jade saw Tori standing in the kitchen doorway in her long pajama shirt and with her hair still sleep mussed, she dropped her hand and groaned.
"You weren't supposed to get up yet," she said, frowning as she turned back to the stove. Tori chuckled and came over to stand by Jade, resting her head on her shoulder.
"What's going on?" she asked, wrapping an arm around her girlfriend's waist.
"I was going to try to surprise you with breakfast," Jade muttered. "But so far I've burned all the pancakes and you woke up."
"Oh, well sorry for waking up," Tori joked, before looking at the plate next to the stove that held a small stack of burnt pancakes. "They don't all look burnt, there's some edible parts—"
"Save it," Jade said. "They're all burnt."
She poked at the newest pancake in the pan with the spatula, its edges just starting to get brown, and just starting to get bubbly on the top.
"Now is when you're supposed to flip it," Tori said, unhooking her arm from around Jade's waist and reaching for the spatula. After a moment Jade handed it to her, and Tori flipped the pancake. It was just perfectly golden brown.
"Now you let it cook for about a minute on that side," she said. The two of them watched the pancake cook, Jade finally flipping it when Tori gave the okay to. It was perfectly cooked, now golden brown on both sides.
"Go get a plate," Jade said, and Tori nodded. She turned away from the stove, returning a moment later with a clean plate for the new pancake. Jade moved it carefully from the pan to the plate.
"So, what was this for?" Tori asked.
"I just wanted to do something nice," Jade said, turning back to the stove to turn the flame off, frowning again. "But only got one good pancake out of it. The rest are rejects that I wouldn't even feed to a dog."
"Isn't there more mix?" Tori asked, but Jade shook her head.
"That was the last of it," she said, nodding towards the trash, where Tori could just see the top corner of the box.
"Well, we can share this one," Tori suggested.
"No, eat your pancake," Jade said. "I'll find something else."
"I want us to share it," Tori persisted, and Jade rolled her eyes.
"We'll each only get, like, one bite, but fine, if you insist," she replied, a smile appearing at the corner of her mouth. Tori smiled and gave a nod.
They headed to the table, where Jade had already set the fixings, and sat down.
"I appreciate this, even if it didn't work out how you wanted it to," Tori said, taking a forkful of the small, perfect pancake on the plate between them.
"Thanks," Jade said, taking her own forkful.
Looking at each other, the girls brought their bites to their mouths to taste the pancake.
After a moment, both Jade and Tori's eyes widened.
The pancake had looked perfect, but the inside somehow hadn't cooked fully, and each had been met with a surprise splurt of raw batter after biting down.
They immediately both spit their bites back onto the plate, before looking at each other again.
"Want to go out for pancakes instead?" Tori asked, and Jade nodded.
"I'll drive," she said, as they both got up from their seats.
Jade's gesture had been nice, but the girls both agreed that the pancakes from their favorite breakfast diner had saved the day.
A/N: Thanks for reading!