It's a quiet day, Miz playing a few rounds of golf before he has to be on set. It's such a late start that he even invites AJ and Sara to come to the building, knowing that it's going to be a low-key day that they can just relax and enjoy the scenery for a bit. When they meet him outside, he leans in and kisses Sara on top of the head before curling his fingers around AJ's jaw and kissing her slowly. "Hi, sweetheart."
"Hello. So what's on the agenda today?" She adjusts Sara on her shoulder as they walk inside, Mike pushing her stroller into the building.
"Not much, I think," he says, smiling as the general response to a baby being in the midst happens and the cast and crew come over to coo and babble to Sara Louisa as she stares back at them with confused, wide blue eyes.
AJ chuckles as the baby buries her face in her shoulder after a few minutes of this, a relief that she'd chose to do this instead of crying her uncertainty out. Mike brushes the group away, urging them to come see Sara a little later, and AJ smiles before venturing away from where filming's being held. She bites down a laugh when she spots Heath struggling to sit in a ridiculously short directors chair, sandwiched by normal sized chairs for Bo and Axel. "What's going on, Heath?" she wonders, eyeing him.
He half-huffs, half-pouts, which only makes her want to laugh harder. Instead, she pulls him up out of the chair and settles him in Bo's empty seat, resting Sara in his arms. She takes Heath's small seat, which fits almost well, and taps her fingers against the chair arms. "Did my husband do this?"
"I think so," Heath drawls, making faces at Sara as she uncoordinatedly grabs at his nose and lips, making him laugh. "Had my own regular sized chair at the start, but came in a couple'a days later and it was gone, replaced by this thing. Bo and Axel didn't know, but yeah, Miz had this kinda look about 'im. It wouldn't surprise me."
AJ watches him play with Sara for a few more moments before getting up. "I have an idea," she says, grabbing Mike's chair and dragging it behind the trailers, where the studio's barely used, and pulls the name label off of the back of it. Returning to Heath, she looks around a couple of minutes before finding a small child-sized chair and dragging it over, putting the label on it instead.
Heath watches her, wide eyed and with a bit of a smirk. "Won't he get mad at that?"
She shrugs and takes the baby, settling in Axel's chair. "Maybe, maybe not. Either way, we can use it to get your chair back. Isn't that right, Sara Louisa? Help Uncle Heath get a proper chair so he won't be so uncomfortable?" She kisses the baby's nose when the little girl coos and waves her fists around, smiling.
"Uncle Heath?" he repeats, smiling at the two of them. "Really now?"
AJ nods. "Sure, why not. You're good with her." She purses her lips at the baby, chuckling as Sara's head turns towards Heath when he speaks. "See, she already recognizes your voice."
"Guess she does," Heath murmurs, looking awestruck by it all. "Ya alright with me bein' your Uncle Heath, Sara Louisa? Huh?" He holds his finger out to the little girl and grins as she grips at it, staring back at him.
"I think that's a yes," AJ says softly, smiling at him. They're still sitting there, watching Sara Louisa fall asleep against her mom's shoulder, when Mike returns, humming to himself after another scene wrapped, leaning in to kiss AJ on the cheek and brush a hand gently down Sara's back.
She watches closely, along with Heath, as Mike turns to sit down and stops short. "Alright, who did it?" His angry blue gaze turns right to Heath and he lifts his hands up innocently.
"Hey, man, wasn't me!" Mike's scowl only grows as Heath shrugs.
"Maybe if you returned his chair, husband, yours would return too," AJ says sweetly, and Mike's jaw drops as he realizes the depth of the deception.
"You?!" he exclaims, pouting at her. "But, AJ-"
"Return it, Mike," she says, voice turning a little sharper. As soon as he huffs and turns to dig the chair out of wherever he'd hidden it, her sweet, chipper disposition returns. "Now that wasn't too hard, was it?" She smiles sweetly at him as he drops Heath's chair in place, Heath scampering off to get Mike's chair from where AJ had hidden it earlier. Once all of the chairs are back where they belong, Mike sits down and takes Sara from AJ, stroking her back lightly as she sleeps on, oblivious to her surroundings.
"I wish I could sleep that easily," Heath says, eyes locked on the little girl as she breathes in and out, totally safe and comfortable in her daddy's arms.
"You haven't seen her at 3 AM," AJ jokes, but her smile is soft, proud as she looks over her family.
That night, once they're all settled and Sara is tracking a toy that Naomi had brought her as AJ shakes it at her, Mike sighs into his phone. "Sorry I didn't call sooner, man. This movie came out of nowhere and I've just been... running all over, you know?"
"I understand," Ricardo says.
"So you're doing... alright? I mean, I know things aren't great, but you're hanging in there, right?"
"Si. I am. I'm living with Alicia now. She's... great, we're getting along well, and it's... nice to have someone around who understands, you know?"
Mike peeks at AJ and smiles. "Yeah, I definitely do. I just wanted to get in touch, apologize for being off of the grid for awhile. Anything you need, I'm just a phone call away, alright? By the way, I have to send you newer pictures of Sara Louisa, that would cheer anyone up for a little bit. Unfortunately, I need to get off of the phone because I have an early call time in the morning... but take care of yourself, say hi to Alicia, and we'll talk more as soon as I get a minute to breathe again, alright?"
"Alright, Mike. Tell AJ and Sara good night for me."
"Will do. Night, man."
"Good night."
They hang up and Mike approaches his family, kissing AJ and running a hand down Sara's stomach as she squirms and stares up at them. "How is he?" AJ whispers.
"He's trying to seem fine," Mike says. "I'm not sure how real that is, but I think being with Alicia right now is good for him. As soon as we're back in the States, maybe I'll take a quick stop in Florida and see how he really is." He kisses the side of her head. "Time for bed?"
"Yes," she says simply, clearly tired as well.
He smiles and leans in to kiss the baby one more time before easing AJ towards the bathroom, watching her get ready for bed. "I really am the luckiest man in the world," he muses.
She pauses at the sink and smiles at him. "Yes, you are." Sighing as she sips from the tap water, making a face at the strange taste it has, she turns and wraps her arms around him, the droplets of water down his neck causing him to shiver. "Sara and I are pretty damn lucky too."
He beams down at her, lifting her up and settling her on the counter before kissing her warmly. Bed can wait for a little bit, he decides.