TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME
Finn, he’d never thought that he and Kitty would end up together in the same place again. In some ways, after Marley died, he didn’t want that, either. He didn’t want to be around anyone that would, or could, make him feel emotionally connected… because those people, all they do is get into your head and heart, then die.
That’s what his mom did, right? She was the only one who believed in him, who told him how good and smart he was even when other people didn’t believe the same. His mom held him when he cried the night Marley left him. She told him not all girls were like that, not all of them would leave him. But that was a lie.
Fucking Marley came back, and she came back with his child. If the sting of her leaving wasn’t enough she’d kept him away from something he wanted, needed, to be good at. After being abandoned by a man, Finn hated so much that Max could ever look at him that way. Because later on, when Max got older, Finn knew he wouldn’t throw Marley under the bus, he wouldn’t make it out to be all her fault. Max deserved to look at his mother in the best light possible… so Finn would let him.
He’d got Max to the field early after texting Kitty the address and he sat on the bleachers watching his son warm up with the rest of the team.
When Marley died, Finn hadn’t been much of a father, let alone ready to take on the job full time. Even in that moment, seeing Max laugh with his friends on the field when they’d miss a ground ball or over throw a catch, Finn was overwhelmed. That kid there, he was Finns’. That still didn’t always click.
No matter what though, Finn shook it off. He shook all of it off. The emotions. The feelings. They were all replaced with a slight façade that was Finn seemingly unattached. It was for the best, he kept telling himself…
Especially when he saw Kitty walking towards the baseball diamond and something in him decided to open his arms while she walked forwards for a hug.
“Hey! You found it!” he greeted with a smile, forced slightly, but a smile nonetheless, “Glad you came… Max will be too,” Finn added, his arms open to anticipate the hug.