fuck it friday

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eddie doing some birthday party face painting

Eddie gets lost in requests for butterflies and whiskered animals, one particularly adorable sunflower, and a ladybird who cheerfully scuttles off looking only slightly like she’s contracted a horribly contagious disease from medieval Europe. Through it all, he watches Buck out of the corner of his eye, dancing and prancing in the afternoon sun with at least three tiny children attached to him at all times, a blur of pink. He's just finishing up with the last kid when Maddie announces it’s time to cut the birthday cake, rushing back inside in that whirlwind of stressed energy unique to parents on their children’s birthdays. Eddie watches as Chim smiles after her, fond about it, before hurrying in himself when Maddie calls for him impatiently. Something in Eddie’s chest aches then, just a little. He wishes he had more memories of Shannon like this—he missed enough of Chris’s birthdays when they were together that he didn’t get to have that first-hand with her, only through grainy home videos filmed by his parents and emailed to him after, her grin bright even as her dishevelled hair and tiredness was apparent through the screen.

im so nearly done i promise im just walking fucking everywhere so whenever i get home im so sleepy my brain refuses to even attempt coherency and it’s been slow going!

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