Monday night at Nell and Gladio's

[mylandmyrules]

After work Nell headed home to get things ready for the evening. She thought simpler was better, both in case there were children and in case people chose to stay home with their children instead.

It would be easy enough to throw together an extra simple pasta bake or plain noodles to go with the fresh bread she'd made. And, of course she had plenty of cookies and brownies.

If she was perhaps a little quieter than usual, well, there were a number of things occupying her mind.

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[chef_chocobro]

At some point, eventually, the topic of Gladio and Nell had come up with Calli, and, of course, she was hoping to get the chance to see them. So when she was still around on Monday, well...he supposed it wouldn't hurt to invite her along so she could go see them, especially as her curiosity grew even more as she started to come around to the fascinating fact that all of this was in the past for her.

Only problem was that Calli wanted her other father to be there, too, but Stark had pointed out that he'd hardly had any time to spend with his other children, and Calli, riding some sort of magnanimous high from her successful dinner plans last night, loftily decreed that they could come too then.

So there was a sigh and a warning voicemail sent to Gladio that apparently, they were bringing a whole crew with them, with Stark and Calli and Summer and Bixby and Cass all thrown into mix.

At least they'd had time to make two different kinds of cupcakes, what else?

[mylandmyrules]

"How are you holding up," Nell asked sympathetically. "Sounds like it's been quite a weekend."

[chef_chocobro]

"Yes, well," Ignis said with a sigh, "I suppose it was time for Prompto to finally pass the torch to someone else for having a particularly chaotic one of these weekends. But it has been...enjoyable. I can't say it's been like that for any of the others."

All apologies to Spero and Lancea, of course, but he knew they would understand.

"Have you and Gladio been enjoying the quiet, at least, on your end of things?"

[mylandmyrules]

"I... yes, I suppose we have," Nell said slowly. "It has been quiet. The party was fun on Friday night. I think Gladio might have missed being a part of the chaos."