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Title: Bake Sale Blues
Fandom: FFVII
Characters: Cloud, Tifa, and Denzel
Rating: K
Notes: From the cloti forum, for the prompt "fork". Utensils seem to make me think of baking. (Also, this is a lame title. Suggestions welcome.)
Tifa was in her element, managing to make cookies and lecture Cloud at the same time. His eyes followed the fork in her hand as she shook it at him for emphasis.
"I said no cookies, Cloud, and I meant it. These are for the bake sale at the elementary school."
"It was only one, and it was broken!"
"I don't care!" One hand still on her hip, she turned back to the perfectly round balls on the cookie sheet, and began making equally perfect and precise hatch marks on top with her fork. "You need to set a better example for Marlene and Denzel."
Cloud subsided at that, simply leaning on the counter and watching her work. A moment later Denzel came in at a run. "Tifa! I'm sorry, I forgot! Ms. Goodman said not to bring anything with peanuts in it. The Sanderson twins are allergic." Pausing only to give Cloud a quick hug -- the man hadn't been home earlier -- the little boy barreled back out of the kitchen, footsteps loud on the hardwood floor as he crossed the bar.
When Denzel's noise had faded, Cloud straightened and walked to the refrigerator. Tifa was still frozen in place from a mixture of shock and disappointment, when a fresh-baked, picture-perfect peanut butter cookie, decorated with a liberal dollop of chocolate sundae sauce, appeared in front of her mouth. Cloud nudged it against her lips and she obediently opened, biting into the soft confection as she slumped against him. They really were good -- especially with Cloud's addition of chocolate -- and she'd been almost finished baking, too. His arms wrapped around her while she chewed, and once she'd swallowed he spoke.
"Do we like the Sanderson twins?"
"Cloud!" She wanted to be appalled, but at that particular moment, frustrated and annoyed, she felt her lips twitch. Poor things. It wasn't the twins' fault Denzel had forgotten to tell her, or that they were allergic.
"I know, I'm kidding." Truthfully, he felt sorry for the little tow-headed boys. Tifa's peanut butter cookies were his favorite. Pressing a kiss to her temple, he fished his keys out of his pocket. "Tell me what you need and I'll get it from the store. Just save some of these for me."
When he returned with chocolate chips and oatmeal, he was rewarded with an overflowing plate, and a kiss still sweet from the sundae sauce.
Fandom: FFVII
Characters: Cloud, Tifa, and Denzel
Rating: K
Notes: From the cloti forum, for the prompt "fork". Utensils seem to make me think of baking. (Also, this is a lame title. Suggestions welcome.)
Tifa was in her element, managing to make cookies and lecture Cloud at the same time. His eyes followed the fork in her hand as she shook it at him for emphasis.
"I said no cookies, Cloud, and I meant it. These are for the bake sale at the elementary school."
"It was only one, and it was broken!"
"I don't care!" One hand still on her hip, she turned back to the perfectly round balls on the cookie sheet, and began making equally perfect and precise hatch marks on top with her fork. "You need to set a better example for Marlene and Denzel."
Cloud subsided at that, simply leaning on the counter and watching her work. A moment later Denzel came in at a run. "Tifa! I'm sorry, I forgot! Ms. Goodman said not to bring anything with peanuts in it. The Sanderson twins are allergic." Pausing only to give Cloud a quick hug -- the man hadn't been home earlier -- the little boy barreled back out of the kitchen, footsteps loud on the hardwood floor as he crossed the bar.
When Denzel's noise had faded, Cloud straightened and walked to the refrigerator. Tifa was still frozen in place from a mixture of shock and disappointment, when a fresh-baked, picture-perfect peanut butter cookie, decorated with a liberal dollop of chocolate sundae sauce, appeared in front of her mouth. Cloud nudged it against her lips and she obediently opened, biting into the soft confection as she slumped against him. They really were good -- especially with Cloud's addition of chocolate -- and she'd been almost finished baking, too. His arms wrapped around her while she chewed, and once she'd swallowed he spoke.
"Do we like the Sanderson twins?"
"Cloud!" She wanted to be appalled, but at that particular moment, frustrated and annoyed, she felt her lips twitch. Poor things. It wasn't the twins' fault Denzel had forgotten to tell her, or that they were allergic.
"I know, I'm kidding." Truthfully, he felt sorry for the little tow-headed boys. Tifa's peanut butter cookies were his favorite. Pressing a kiss to her temple, he fished his keys out of his pocket. "Tell me what you need and I'll get it from the store. Just save some of these for me."
When he returned with chocolate chips and oatmeal, he was rewarded with an overflowing plate, and a kiss still sweet from the sundae sauce.
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Date: 2009-04-30 04:58 am (UTC)From:Oh, lovely way to start it. Lecturing Cloud about eating a broken cookie (and as soon as you had her making round balls and flattening them with a fork, I guessed it was peanut butter cookies), only to find out that now she's not supposed to bring anything with peanuts. Kids are a blast. "I forgot!"
"Do we like the Sanderson twins?"
"Cloud!"
*dies laughing* I love getting to see little glimpses of Cloud's humor. ^_^
Awwwww, and a melty-sweet ending. What a lovely thing to read before I crash. Thanks for sharing. ^_^
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Date: 2009-04-30 05:19 am (UTC)From:I loved the line about the Sanderson twins, and then I got nervous that someone would be offended. ¬.¬ I decided to keep it anyway, and it has generally received pets and love, so I guess I worried for nothing.
Thank you for reading and taking the time to comment before bed! ^_^
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Date: 2009-04-30 05:02 am (UTC)From:Hahahahaha. Oh, Cloud. Plus, the idea of him grocery shopping is SO CUTE and I don't know why. Oh man, Cloud at the supermarket.
Very cute, especially since I just read the cupcake story on ff.net ... um... I really am sorry for bombarding you with reviews! I can't help myself. Kind of like how Cloud can't help but go for baked goods. :P
I like the last line, too <3 <3 <3
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Date: 2009-04-30 05:03 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-04-30 05:17 am (UTC)From:I almost made this Sweet Tooth revisited, but I thought that was an even sillier name than Bake Sale Blues. ^^;
You can never bombard someone with reviews. Well, unless they were mean, but yours aren't! No need to say sorry, I enjoyed the pick-me-up. Especially since it's Wednesday. *hugs*
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Date: 2009-04-30 05:22 am (UTC)From:Where is this Cloti forum?
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:13 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-04-30 05:33 am (UTC)From:Nice use of the peanut butter cookies/peanut allergy! And Cloud's humor was excellent (and, one suspects, gleefully based his knowledge that he was about to get about a half-batch of peanut butter cookies all to himself). Love the fact that he not only gives Tifa a cookie, he puts chocolate on it, just for her.
JD
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:16 pm (UTC)From:I have a recipe that takes regular peanut butter cookies, and then -- just before they come out of the oven -- you put a miniature reeses cup on one, and another cookie on the other side. Then you let them have just a liiiittle time in the oven for the candy to soften, and then you sandwich them together. They are made of WIN. (At least, they are if you like peanut butter and chocolate!)
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Date: 2009-04-30 08:01 am (UTC)From:ah, you know I love it!
I swear, this makes me feel a tiiiiiny little bit stalker-ish, i mean LJ< ffnet, cloti forum... :D
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:16 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-04-30 09:44 am (UTC)From:I know puns suck, but I can never resistCloud sure earned the right to those yummy rewards! :) What a hero.
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:17 pm (UTC)From:I'm glad you enjoyed!
Puns don't bother me, I read the Xanth novels earlier in life.no subject
Date: 2009-04-30 11:47 am (UTC)From:I love making peanut butter cookies! my dad is in love with them and whenever we make them he doubles the recipe so we have PB cookies galore...he just recently started making them with kisses in the middle and now he is in love with that! He loves Reese's and they remind him of those!
But I digress...this was so cute. I can imagine everything happening the way you wrote it even the "...Do we like the Sanderson twins?"!
HAHA! I laughed...I suppose that was his reluctant way of saying "If we don't like them we can give them the cookies...but I really want them for myself!"
=3
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:22 pm (UTC)From:My younger brother loves peanuts, but has developed an allergy. =( Which seems weird, as he just turned 35, but that's what his doctor says. (He had 2 incidents where his tongue and lips got swollen.) So it's very sad. =( On a silly note, though, when he was a toddler, his hair always smelled like peanut butter and/or syrup. XD
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Date: 2009-05-01 01:15 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-05-01 04:30 am (UTC)From:My mom used to call it (that peanut butter/syrup mix) his own personal hair tonic.
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Date: 2009-04-30 02:22 pm (UTC)From:...I want cookies now.
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:23 pm (UTC)From:Sorry I made you crave sweets, though!
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Date: 2009-04-30 08:41 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-04-30 10:59 pm (UTC)From: