dad!husband!steve x mom!pregnant!reader christmas drabble…
fluff with a tiny reference to smut
ideas creds for reader’s very funny gift for steve to @cruelestsummerss (i had to🤭)
“Santa must know you were a super good girl this year Daisy.” you smile warmly, watching from the couch as your 4 year old daughter sits at the bottom of the tree, beside her huge pile of presents.
Meanwhile your husband sits beside you, arm slung comfortably around your shoulder as he filmed your daughter opening her presents on the camcorder.
“Mommy can I play with my Barbies now?” your little girl holds out a doll box with her chubby hands, waiting for you to open it for her.
“Not yet, pipsqueak, soon. Mommy and daddy need to do their presents first.” Steve places the camcorder down on the table and stands up, ruffling your daughters hair on the way as he moves to grab your gifts from under the tree.
“Steve it’s okay I can get it myself-“ you attempt to protest as he pick up the gifts you’d bought him as well as the ones he’d bought you.
“Uh uh. You’re in delicate condition honey, I gotta look after my girl.” he presses a soft kiss to your forehead as he sits back down beside you, gifts in hand.
“No Daddy, I’m your girl.” Daisy pouts in protest. She was going through a major daddy’s girl phase since she found out you were pregnant, not exactly happy mommy’s attention would be on the new baby in a couple months…
“Dais, we’ve talked about this. You and mommy are both my favourite girls. You want snuggles?” he holds his arms out, returning a mock pout in her direction.
“Okay daddy. Mommy can open presents first, because daddy is best at buying presents. ” she climbs up and plops herself down in Steve’s lap, wriggling around excitably as she watched you eagerly.
“Yes ma’am, here you go mommy…” he smiles apologetically at you, handing you two neatly wrapped gifts.
You unwrapped the first one, the smaller package, a Wham! CD.
“Oh baby you shouldn’t have… This was my favourite!” you gasp excitedly.
“I know. I remember you calling in every day when I worked at the radio to request George Micheal.” he smiles smugly, that cocky smile he did when he knew he’d done something to please you.
“Well aside from you, he was the man that held my teenage heart…” you give him a teasing smirk.
“Open the next one mommy!” your little girl demands, impatient little hands practically chucking the present at you off of where it had sat on your lap.
“Daisy be careful with mommy…” he tuts softly, pulling the little girl further back into his lap, as if shielding you from impatient toddler hands.
“What’s this huh? A Tiffany box… Steve I said we weren’t doing expensive gifts…” you give him a mock angry look.
“You’re giving me the best gift I could ask for by carrying my baby, I wanted to spoil you… Just open it.” he shrugs, still keeping that smug smile on his face.
Inside was a gorgeous golden heart necklace with his initials engraved on the back of the heart.
“Oh it’s lovely.” your gush softly.
“Here…” he scooches closer, careful with the little girl in his lap, and with tender hands he puts the necklace on you.
“I’ll treasure it.” you place your hands softly where the golden heart sits above your own.
“Daddy can I open yours?” Daisy beams sweetly up at him, like she’d been waiting to ask.
“Yeah pipsqueak. Go on.” he hands her his gifts.
“Thank you daddy.” she eagerly unwraps the first present.
Inside was a photograph of the three of you on the beach from the summer, in a dark wood frame.
“Baby I love it. It’s me and my girls.” he smiles warmly, also letting out an exaggerated gasp for the audience of the 4 year old who’s short attention span needed the entertainment to keep her interested.
“It’s nice isn’t it?” you nod softly.
“Yeah. Especially you in that bikini. I dream about that little white number…” he gives you a teasing wink that made you weak in the knees, he still managed to do that to you even after all these years.
“Mommy is pretty?” Daisy pipes up, gently poking Steve’s chest for his attention.
“Very pretty. That’s where you get it from.” he nods, sighing softly as he admired just how pretty his girls were.
“Open the next one Daisy. Daddy’s gonna love this one…” you have a mischievous look on your face now, like whatever was coming next was going to be good.
Daisy eagerly unwraps the present that had been your proudest find.
A Fabergé Farrah Fawcett hair care set. With a shampoo, conditioner and of course his favourite signature hair secret, the hairspray.
“Oh you didn’t. Honey! Where did you even find this? They hardly sell it anymore.” he gasps, he’d been secretly missing his teen hair products…
“Babe we live in Hawkins. Of course our beauty supply store still has stock from nearly ten years ago. I just asked the girl in the store if they had any in the back, and she sold it to me.” you let out a delighted laugh, knowing you’d struck gold with this gift.
“Well, guess ‘The Hair’ Harrington is back in business.” he smirks playfully.
“Like you ever went out…” you roll your eyes affectionately, knowing he’d probably be rocking his iconic hairdo till it went grey.
“Seriously though baby. Thank you. That was… a seriously good find…” he tucks the box safely under his arm, like it was some kind of rare treasure and not just a box of hair products.
You slide over and place a quick, soft kiss to his lips, pressing your forehead to his as you break apart.
“Gross.” Daisy scrunches her little face up in exaggerated as she finally slides off her dad’s lap to go back to her mountain of new toys, blissfully ignorant to her parents’ little love fest.
“Can Daddy get a proper kiss now?” he smirks, cupping your face in his hands.
“Depends, has he been good?” you playfully tease.
“Oh no, very naughty. But mommy likes it when daddy’s naughty…” he whispers cheekily, pulling you into a his lap, carefully still as he was ever cautious of the precious cargo you were carrying.
“Just kiss me you idiot.” you giggle like your a teenager again.
“Okay beautiful.” he sighs dreamily as his lips come to meet yours.