Headcanon Request: mccree, reaper, hanzo or zenyatta getting together w/a single mom reader?
Note: Since it was so long, I only did McCree! I’d be happy to do others in the future! :D
“Listen, I was wonderin’ if, you know, wanted to hang out sometime,” McCree started, his voice sounding almost flustered as he danced over the words. It could have been the fact that your gaze wasn’t wholly on the cowboy, as it constantly drifted back towards your young daughter, and she had found quite the entertainment in having a little adventure with her figurines around one of the couches in the rec room.
“Hang out?” You couldn’t help but feel curious about what Jesse meant, if there was some deeper intention beyond simply spending time together as friends, fellow agents for the organization.
McCree looked even more flustered at the aspect of having to be a bit more descriptive. He tugged at the front of his hat after a moment, seemingly to adjust it over his eyes, but you’d seen it enough to recognize it as a nervous tick. His face looked a bit flush.
“Well uh, yeah. I suppose most people would call it a date,” he said lowly, still tugging on that hat. You wonder if it was something deeply meaningful to him. “I mean, I don’t mean t’be too sudden about it, but we’ve been gettin’ to know one another really well and--”
“Jesse,” You feel a thin creeping of annoyance. Not at him, absolutely not, but at the prospect of having something to plan so last-minute, something that you actually wanted to do with someone for once. “I can’t just go out with you on the drop of a dime--and I would want to--but you know I have to find a babysitter first to watch-”
“I know what’cha gonna say,” McCree interrupts you. “And we ain’t going anywhere fancy. No stuck-up restaurant or anything like that. I was thinkin’ one of the parks on the mainland of Spain.”
His words made you pause. In the couple times you tried to date with a young child on your hand, some of your partners had been the ones to suggest getting someone to watch your daughter, or going out of their way to make sure that she wouldn’t be joining.
It was nice, but a little confusing, considering it would be your first date with McCree.
“McCree,” You started, your thoughts beginning to toil around, worrying that he was overplanning the whole thing, feeling obliged to do something when he really wanted something else, when-- “I really can just get someone to watch her, you don’t have to act like you’re-”
Again, you were interrupted, though this time not by the words of the cowboy in front of you, but instead your young daughter practically running into his legs. She was fast-growing, but still not even tall enough to reach the bottom of his hips.
“Mr. McCree!” She shouted, raising up one hand to show off one of her little figurines to him. “Look what I got! He looks like you!” In her hand was a small figure of what could have been a cowboy, all things considered--he had a hat at least that resembled what the man often wore. She mimicked the sound of a tiny gunshot a couple times, making Jesse smile and, after a moment, kneel down to her level.
“Y’see, what this cowboy right here really needs is a horse to ride out into the sunset on,” He says, gently taking the figure from her tiny hands and looking it over.
“But I don’t have a horse,” the little girl whined, her face drooping for a moment. “Can he still be a real cowboy without one?”
“Of course he can,” McCree gave her the figure back, then gently rubbed a hand over her head. “A horse is just something extra to make him cool.”
After a moment or two more, she ran off, back into the heart of the rec room to continue her little adventure over the couch cushions. You and McCree watched the young girl for a while, silent--at least, that was until the man filled it with his voice.
“...There’s a little toy store near the park I’m thinking of,” He said. “When was the last time she got a chance to go shopping?”
You offer a shrug.
“I’ve been so busy, she hasn’t really been out of the base that much since Winston recalled everyone.”
You turn your face just to catch McCree gazing at you, his eyes looking a little wide, filled with some level of excitement quite reminiscent of what you often saw in your daughter’s own.
“So then it’s a date?” He asked. “We go to the park, and then we go check out that toy store? I’ll buy her whatever she wants--can’t have a cowboy without a horse, after all. Maybe even a lil’ ranch set.”
The gesture was unspoken, the meaning at least, but it didn’t fly over your head in the slightest. A blush worked over your cheeks as you regarded him, feeling a little leap in your chest as you answered,
“...it’s a date.”

















