There was a point at which Aaron Dingle couldn’t picture a future for himself. But this morning, he sat there and fed his son porridge while making train noises, and admitted that he sees himself taking that little boy for crappy movies and comforting him over his first heartbreak and teaching him how to drive.
He has all these plans for a life with a husband he never expected to meet, a son he never expected to have, and a sister he never thought he’d find again because now, he can’t stop thinking about the future.
a soft touch, g, 2.8k, warnings: none. a short fic tracing Aaron’s feelings about Seb.
Aaron always loved kids for a whole host of reasons. There’s the obvious, they have little to no malice in them, except Leo after he builds a Lego tower and crushes it like he’s Godzilla. They simply exist in the world hopefully ignorant of the trials and hardship that go on around them and it makes them brilliant. What would you do if you suddenly became a flying ant for the day? Noah asked him once while they were eating cereal before Noah had to go to school. And even if they do know hardship, they rise above. Just watching Debbie’s Sarah is proof of that.
So, Aaron comes to Seb with eyes wide open. Does he entirely forget the circumstances of him the first time he holds him? No, but his wailing cries stop and he smiles with his scrunched-up baby face, and Aaron loves kids. They sit, and they cuddle, and Robert gets his work done, blonde hair a little less mad and not being pulled out between the baby changing table and printed out spreadsheets. When Seb stops and starts crying as Aaron tries to hand him back, Aaron almost loses it. This tiny mischief maker is having him on. Plain and simple. He isn’t unhappy about it, he’s genuinely amused by this small terror. ADaddy’s boy, huh?
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