cat + mikael, soft squad au *MWAH*
“I hate to be blunt, but that Easton guy sounds like a total douchecanoe,” he said to Catherine, eyes narrowing while he crosses one section of Regina’s hair over the other. “Never give dickheads like that the time of day. And never say dickhead.”Mikael had never been good with kids, always afraid of saying the wrong thing, of setting a bad example. With ten or so years between them, and the two girls barely breaching their teen years, even, he had never once considered the possibility of getting along with his girlfriend’s baby sisters. But as he sat with legs criss-crossed on the floor of Louis Daly’s guestroom to braid the middle daughter’s hair at her younger sister’s suggestion, it became harder to remember why he had any of those reservations in the first place. A soft, amused smile spread across Catherine’s face when she looked at him. “You’re doing it wrong.”Mikael raised an eyebrow. “What? Oh.” “It’s right over middle now,” she said.“Fuck.” Mikael released the section he’d been holding, letting the remaining locks of Regina’s hair fall to her back. “Hey, Regina, is it alright if I do it again?”“I don’t care,” Regina said.A small, fond laugh escaped his lips at the predictable response. With a smile forming as he grabbed a brush to start the french braid over, Mikael thought, perhaps, family wasn’t as ugly a word as he had once believed.














