I think about this constantly. Like maybe it isnât just Nanaâs birthday, itâs holidays, everyone elseâs birthdays, life events like high school graduations, college graduations, weddings, whatever, any day thatâs important to any of them, Hardison has it on his calendar, he knows about it, there is a group chat about it, and you will get a present even if he canât be there in person and he runs a weekly video chat for anybody who can join where they just check in, make fun of each other, talk about life, or whatever. (âOkay, okay, Darryl, I think weâve heard enough about your Star Wars fanfiction, Iâm notâ Darryl. DARRYL. Iâm not judging you, man, Iâm glad you have the joy of fanfiction in your life, Iâm just saying, that isnât my ship, and I KNOW itâs not anybody elseâs, and I donât think everybody wants to hear about your ninety chapter WIPâ look, can we put this to a vote and move on, people? Because somebody brought it to my attention that itâs Tashaâs high school graduation next month and we need to talk about presents before she gets back from quiz bowl practice and jumps on the call.â)Â
The calls have always been fun but they get a lot more interesting over the years, sometimes thereâs this blonde lady who like, rappels down from the ceiling behind Alec, and like, what is that about, but he doesnât even turn around he just smiles and says âHey Parker, everybody, this is Parker, Parker, this is everybody,â and the lady gives them a little wave and a smile before doing something with her gear and disappearing out of the frame again, and Alec just seems to think this is totally normal and if it works for him itâs normal and thatâs that, just like Nana says, so nobody says anything about it. And everybody like, low-key knows Hardisonâs not really a computer tech for some international IT company like he says he is, because he calls them from a lot of interesting places (whatâs a computer tech doing on a mountain in Alaska???) but nobody calls him on it because the whole time heâs had this âcomputer techâ gig the presents he sends them have been getting like, increasingly cooler. Also a couple of years ago they all started getting what are obviously homemade baked goods in the mail and many of them know from experience that big brother Alec Hardison makes a mean pan of scrambled eggs but theyâre pretty sure his culinary skillset does not include the delicately flavored confections theyâve been gifted recently, so they have a separate group chat without Hardison in it where theyâre discussing which one of the many other random people who have wandered through the background of the video calls over the years might be the person who makes this food. Maybe they have a bet on it. Everybody says smart moneyâs on the lady with the accent and most of them mock Darryl for his decision to stick with that grumpy white guy with the good hair but what do you know, Alec moves to Portland and that guyâs around in the background a lot more, usually with a towel slung over his shoulder, and Darryl canât take it anymore so he says âHey, tell your friend those scones were really fucking good,â and the guy stops on his way out of the room and actually smiles, and Alec says, âEverything Eliot makes is really fucking good,â and Eliotâs still smiling but itâs definitely a different smile when heâs looking at their brother, and half the kids on the call are like Dammit Darryl, and anyway I think about this a lot.Â
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