SUMMARY—Of course the only way Miranda’s crush would notice her is because she walked into him and somehow ended up with a concussion. Or maybe Chief only came to visit because he feels bad for hospitalizing her.
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John accidentally knocks into Dr. Keyes after removing his emotional regulator pellet. He doesn’t know how he didn’t see her there, or before, for that matter. He’s always been aware of her, but this time something is different. Has she… always been this cute?
EXTENDED SUMMARY—Miranda didn’t know you could get a concussion just from walking into someone. Then again, Spartan John-117 is such a massive mountain of a man, anything is possible. She’s lucky he didn’t accidentally tackle her like she saw him doing some poor marine on Eridanus II. That surely would have ended her. According to the nurse, Master Chief rushed her here himself, and now he has come to visit. Miranda has been waiting years for John to notice her. While she would have taken literally any other means to get his attention, at least she has it now.
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Ever since removing his emotional regulator pellet, things are somewhat amplified and John has been distracted. Captain Keyes already ordered him to leave the waiting room. Of course the admiral was livid: John walked into his precious daughter enough to knock her back a few feet (what is she, like, 5’3”? About 120lbs at most?). John should have been paying attention, should have caught and stabilized her. He’s been waiting an hour disobey orders and pay Miranda a visit. At least she’s smiling now, which is good, and pretty to look at. Actually, it’s hard to look away from her which... wasn’t the case before.
AUTHOR’S NOTE—Yes, hello, buenas tardes. I only watched this show because it was on Netflix recently and know nothing else about the universe or how anything in it really works.
What I do know is that I love her big sad eyes and I love his big sad season 1 eyes 🥺 hence this fluffy love story. I loved the scene when he runs into her after learning the truth about being replaced as a child with a genetically compromised flash clone. They remind me of the very first fanfic I wrote and almost didn’t post, in which I had an OC very similar to Miranda fall in love with a military commander, and so this pairing is my jam.
POV: Miranda and John
Not canon-compliant
Slow burn + eventual happy ending
No Halsey or Cortana
No beta we die like flash clones
Title from “California Daze” by Peace
TAGS—Fluff and angst, slow burn, cute misunderstandings & feelings, first kiss, developing relationship, John and Miranda figuring this romance thing out, domestic fluff, big tall guy + smol girlie, eventual happy ending.
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turns out if you go out touch grass long enough you actually meet the daddiest of single daddies and live out several of your fav fanfics in real time???
