Shorts Series: Stitiches - 2024
“No, Reggie. Tell the president I can’t come into the Pentagon today, I’m a little too busy to do basic IT work that any chump out of middle school could do with their eyes closed. Call Mark Zuckerburg, I’m sure he’s dying to get a chance with the President… No I don’t care that you consider this a *National emergency”… god… REGIE DON"T YOU DARE PUT HIM ON THE PHo… Hello Mr. President," A sigh left his lips as Daniel sat in his home office, not wanting to deal with the idiocracy of an entire nation. Though only 22 years old, Daniel had already been recruited by every government agency in the world. I mean… could he blame them? He was the Daniel Parker. Every now and again, he’d take an odd job here and there between classes at Oxford, but right now he was a little busy. And by that he meant…
[color= bb8582] “PAPAA… wh…ere is mommy” [/color] Daniel smiled as a little girl stumbled into his office, barely able to get out the words without stumbling ever so slightly. With his free hand, Daniel picked up his little girl, kissing her cheek as he continued to listen to the President blabbering on about the Cyberhack, ignoring the question his daughter posed for a few seconds while he told the man on the phone to shut the hell up. “Mr. President… If I may… It’s a BLOODY cyber hack and honestly, a subpar one at best. Literally, call anyone from MIT, I’m sure one of those idiots can figure it out. Thank you, and good day sir.” Daniel sighed, hanging up the phone and putting it in his pocket. He smiled at the girl in his arms. “Why are people such idiots, my love?” Dan asked his daughter who laughed as he tickled her before shrugging. “Do you want to learn how to cause a cyber hack? Do you?” he asked the little girl in between soft kisses to her cheek, a sigh leaving his mouth as his phone rang again. Pulling the device out, Daniel rolled his eyes seeing White House on the line and hung up, despite there being three more calls. It was only when he saw Jezebel calling that he finally picked up, groaning when he heard her on the line. “DANIEL YOU CAN’T HANG UP ON THE PRESIDENT. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH SH!T I"M GETTING”
“Seriously? They called you?” Dan rolled his eyes. “Fine, FINE. I’ll fix it, but tell the President he owes me yet ANOTHER favor. I really need to start cashing in on those soon I swear.” Dan muttered, using his shoulder to hold his phone in place as he worked on his Parker Watch for about 4 seconds and muttered “Done. Tell the president I sent an email to the Pentagon with the location of the people causing the cyber attacks. Now tell him to leave ME AL-”
In the midst of everything he was doing - phone in his ears, child in one arm, working on his watch on the other, Daniel wasn’t necessarily paying attention when VC was wiggling out of his hands. Which is exactly what led to him dropping his phone the second he heard the scream from his daughter who had to begin crying as her head hit the ground. He had accidentally lost a hold of his daughter, and though she hadn’t necessarily fallen far, the girl had hit her head against the table causing there to be a small wound on her forehead. Worry immediately filled his body and truly, in that moment, nothing else mattered. He could hear Jezebel asking what happened from the fallen device, but all Daniel cared about in that moment was his daughter. Tears filled her eyes as the little girl cried for her mommy… which was a little bit of an issue because her mom was filming a movie right now and trusted Daniel to take care of their daughter.
Suffice to say… Val was going to kill him. “Hey… baby… you’re okay… don’t cry… keep those… tears… in your… tear ducts…you wouldn’t…want to run out… for your mom…” Ah yes… crying girls… that was never a talent Daniel had figured out. Usually, when VC was crying, Val was around to comfort her with Daniel a good foot away giving moral support but not actually doing anything himself. Picking up the phone, Daniel started actually freaking out. “JEZ I DROPPED MY CHILD. SHE HATH FALLEN FROM MY HAND. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO AND THERE IS WATER COMING FROM HER EYES” Daniel screamed through the phone as he gently picked up his daughter as she continued to cry.
Honestly thank god Jezebel was there to talk him through it. Dan did… still go a little overboard taking his helicopter to the hospital and getting his daughter there in under 5 minutes where he got her treated at the pediatric ward. It was a simple procedure… a… tiny CT scan to make sure she didn’t have a concussion… and a lot of ice cream but his little girl was bubbly once again - running around with the ice cream in her hand off whatever sugar high Dan had gotten her in. She had a little bandaid on her forehead where they gave her 7 stitches to make sure nothing scarred.
But out of everything… now was the worst part. Telling Valerie… and how did he do it?.. well… through text of course! Though… could you blame dan? Don’t judge him. Having a technological medium just made the whole situation… just a little less… worrisom. He started off easy… telling Val that something had happened… but everyone was okay. VC Just… had a little trip to the hospital and had to get “A band-aid”
The moment Val stopped freaking out and was glad her daughter was fine. Then Dan added that the girl just had… just like… 2 stitches… which freaked her out again. Though once again, Dan talked her down… before adding it was more like… 4 stitches… and so on and so on. Once Dan finally worked up to telling her it was actually 7 - she was a little less surprised, and a little more worn out by Dan’s idiocracy. Though Idiocracy or not…
“Mommmmmmyyyyyyy” Dan watched as the little girl ran to her mother on set who was invested in her phone - probably because she was texting Dan seconds earlier. Dan had already been driving to her work after the hospital, he simply believed texting her the news would be less of a “I"m going to kill you dan” Which it was. There was a smile on her face as she picked her daughter up, kissing her forehead as the little girl told her mom about all the ice cream she had.
After talking to the little girl for a few moments, she finally looked at dan, walking towards him. “Dan. I love you but you’re an absolute idiot,” she whispered, before placing a kiss on his lips. “But I’m your idiot and you’re stuck with me love… so… I kinda promised VC Disney because of the whole…” He looked at his daughter before looking back at Val “d r o p p i n g thing” he continued, spelling the word out instead of saying it. “So what do you say? I already booked the entire park out and if we leave now we can get there in… about 2 hours,”
@CerealKiller - Val and VC
@Littlefeets - Sis