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After years of secret calls via the pay phone on the periphery of the town boarders, Spy was finally able to reunite with his lover in person. Unfortunately, it was with their son in tow. Spy and Scout had only recently starting learning how to navigate their newly revealed relationship and Spy wasn’t sure how their fraught bond would change with Delilah added to the mix.
Although Spy did know that, if he didn’t want to immediately start a fight, he’d have to let Scout have the first contact with Delilah. Six years was a long time to not be able to physically see one’s mother and Scout had still been living at home before he relocated to Teufort. Most children who left the nest saw their mothers more frequently than that. So Spy took the moment to have a smoke and let the boy and mother have their reunion.
For about the time it took him to light the cigarette and place it between his lips anyway. Spy had spent years being an ass to the kid. Old habits were hard to break.
“Ah, and where is my hug mes chers?” Spy asked, smirking at the dirty glare Scout shot him for the interruption.
“Fine.” Scout said with some venom, clearly still not comfortable with his parents’ relationship with each other… never mind that he wouldn’t exist otherwise.
And then suddenly, at a speed shocking to both Spy and Delilah, Scout had thrown his arms around his father in their very first embrace. Spy actually spat out his cigarette from the impact.
“This is not what I meant.” Spy grumbled.
“No, but I like this better.” Delilah said, smiling. “Good to see that you two learned to get along.”
And Spy would be damned if he returned that hug or removed the irritation from his face. But if he failed to make an attempt to actually get Jeremy to release him… well, he’d deny whatever anyone insinuated.
END