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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[somethingwithglowing]

Excuse you, Stark. Summer had been working out. Canonically, buff Summer could bench press her grandfather.

Who...admittedly looked like he weighed 98 pounds soaking wet, but there were a lot of mechanical parts in there, you know!

"Hmmm." Bixby considered this carefully, narrowing his eyes at Gladio across the room to get a good measure of him from this distance. "Probably a lot. He probably has one for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I could probably eat that much, to start with."

[stykera]

"Will you still have room for cupcakes?" Stark asked.

"And... you aren't planning on eating any hearts, are you?"

[somethingwithglowing]

"There's always room for cupcakes," Bixby countered with a laugh, before shaking his head. "But no, I'll leave the heart-eating to Cass. She said she was going to eat mine, too, but you know she's just full of it."

[stykera]

"I'm glad one of you doesn't want to eat me," Stark said with a heavy mock sigh. "Though I don't want her eating you either. Maybe she needs more noodles. Or cupcakes."

[somethingwithglowing]

"Maybe," said Bixby, with a little bit of the excitement of a brilliant plan starting to form, "if we made her cupcakes that looked like hearts, and then it's the best of both worlds!"

[stykera]

"Very good idea," Stark said approvingly. "Gross hearts or valentine hearts?"

He had a feeling, somehow, that gross was going to be the winner.

"I wonder how much like real hearts we could make them look..."