closed starter for liam baker ! ( @pastghcsts )
If there was one thing the handful of years he'd had his dog had taught him it was that neither rain, nor snow, nor dark of night could keep Jaina from pestering him for a walk and Ruairi, to his perpetual chagrin, could never quite say no to the particular brand of puppy dog eyes the dog could fix on him when she had half a mind to do so.
That morning he sighed quietly, wrangled Fionn into getting ready to brave the outdoors, shot a text to his boyfriend and trekked down towards the winter festival. It would give Fionn a chance to spend time there and Jaina a healthy dose of exercise that she seemed to sorely need if the way her tail hadn't stopped wagging since they'd left the house was any indication. It was peaceful right up until the moment Jaina must've caught a scent she recognized and tugged sharply on her leash until she could run around the ankles of a man he realized, after a brief second of panic, was his vet. "Dr. Baker!" Ruairi exclaimed, a sheepish smile already on his face. "I'm so sorry about her― I'm just glad she didn't get away from me but your biggest fan needed to say hello, I suppose."