anomaly_research_nerd: (Kid Connor)
anomaly_research_nerd ([personal profile] anomaly_research_nerd) wrote2023-11-18 01:45 am

MHA #16 - Saturday Morning

When Connor awoke that morning it was to two nearly immediate realizations. One was he was lying on the floor by the couch tangled up in his usual blanket. Two was Rex who was sitting on the back of the couch chirping curiously from his perch.

"Awwww Rex, come on just let me sleep a little more" he said trying to pull the covers over his head. Connor vaguely remembered falling asleep on the couch watching a movie with Nick during their sleepover. He must have been tossing and turning like usual and fallen off the couch at some point. Not that it was anything new.

"Nick? You still asleep?" he called out to Nick who he assumed was under the tangle of blankets still on the couch.



(For the wee tiny roommate who has been modded with permission!)
itsananomaly: (young nick cutter)

[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
Nick sighed as it became clear he wasn't going to be getting back to sleep, "I suppose we better go and feed him and then maybe we can feed ourselves as well?" he said hopefully, "I want pancakes," he decided.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Nick grinned as he felt a little more awake, also rubbing the sleep from his eyes, "then you look after Rex and I'll go and make pancakes," he decided.

He had seen his parents make pancakes, he figured how hard it could be.

Somewhere Lester was getting a cold shiver and facepalming right now.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Nick grinned as he made his way to the kitchen, even though he stopped and realised that he didn't know how to use a stove, "oh I didn't think of that part," he admitted sheepishly, "there's recipes where you don't need to use a stove or oven right?"

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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
Nick giggled as he watched Rex eat the food and then he turned his attention to start looking through the freezer, “oh there’s ice cream in here!” He said cheerfully as he took out the tub, “let’s have ice cream for breakfast!” The pancakes were long forgotten.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh yes sundaes and we can add bananas and maybe whipped cream as well?" Nick said hopefully as he took out the couple of tubs of ice cream that he found in the freezer and then he went searching in the fridge, "that way with the bananas they'll be healthy!" he added, because the bananas totally made the difference with the amount of sugar they were going to be adding to them.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes best chocolate banana sprinkle sundaes ever," Nick said cheerfully as he found the whipped cream in the fridge as well, "I'll start getting the sundaes ready," and he began to scoop out very large generous amounts of ice cream in the bowls, except he started to get a little carried away and a blob of ice cream landed on the floor, "oops," he said sheepishly as he dropped it.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
Nick giggled at that, "Rex can definitely have his own sundae, you'd like that Rex wouldn't you?" he grinned as he added some chocolate syrup to his own bowl and yes there was more syrup being added to the floor as he dripped it everywhere, next he got some sprinkles and added a very generous amount of sprinkles and some sprinkles ended up on the floor.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh yes whipped cream," Nick said cheerfully and he also helped himself to a generous amount of whipped cream on the sundae and spraying it everywhere as well, "okay let me reach over for the bananas," he said and a few minutes later of careful reaching he came back with two bananas, "here you go," he said as he handed them to Connor.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
Nick's eyes were wide as he watched Connor cut the bananas in fascination, "oh wow that's so cool," he said and then he began to heap the cut bananas onto his sundae, "there we go our sundaes are now complete," he said cheerfully, "best breakfast ever," he declared.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Nick giggled as he tried to carry his very large sundae over without spilling anything else, he mostly succeeded except for the trail of chocolate syrup that followed behind him.

“Made it,” he declared as he sat down on the couch next to Connor and sat down.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Nick beamed at that as he took a massive scoop of ice cream and some of it began to dribble down the front of him on the couch, "they're really tasty too and we're having a bal ... bal..." he struggled a bit to get the word out, "healthy breakfast," he settled on instead.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hello Rex," Nick said cheerfully in between his mouthfuls of food, "would you like some sundae? They're really good?"

And then he scooped up a bit of sundae and held it out towards Rex, some whipped cream and sprinkles falling on the couch as he did.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-18 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Nick shrugged and went back to eating his sundae, “definitely don’t know what you’re missing out on,” he nodded, “this is the best sundae ever Rex!” he said as if that would change Rex’s mind.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-19 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Nick returned that grin and thumbs up and focused on devouring the rest of his sundae, it truly was delicious even if a lot of the sundae was spilling over onto his clothes and the couch and his hair.

It was fine, it was the best sundae ever and yes the perfect fuel that was necessary for all that exploring they were going to do.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-19 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Nick smiled at that as he licked away the last traces of the sundae, "it really was, I'm glad that we could make sundaes for breakfast, I was never allowed to eat sundaes for breakfast before, they were always a sometimes treat and only for dessert," he made a face at that.

There was a reason for that.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-19 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
"I love this place too, there's so much cool stuff here," Nick smiled as he looked over at Rex and then he brightened up considerably at the mention of his birthday, "do you think ... " he hesitated, feeling rather shy all of a sudden, "do you think we could go fossil hunting? I want to see if I can find a tribb....tribo...tribblite," he tried to get the word out.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-19 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Tribbobite," Nick repeated confidently, pleased to have gotten it right, "oh going to the beach to look for fossils will be so much fun and Rex can come with us as well," he added.

What could possible go wrong with that?
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-19 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
"It's going to be so awesome, with Rex's help we'll find plenty of fossils," Nick said cheerfully because that was totally how it worked right?

His smile widened, "this is going to be the best birthday ever and I'm going to be five years old," Nick held up his hand to show how many fingers that was.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-19 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
"That is so cool" Nick exclaimed loudly and Rex looked over a little annoyed at how loud the little humans were being right then, "we should make the fossil hunting a joint birthday party," he declared, "I mean its practically your birthday already," he nodded.
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[personal profile] itsananomaly 2023-11-19 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Nick grinned at that, "its going to be the best birthday ever," he declared, "I've never gotten to do fossil hunting for my birthday before," he said, completing ignoring the fact that he'd only had four birthdays prior to this one, "I'm glad that we can celebrate our birthdays together,"