Hello!! I’m hoping you’re able to help me out with finding this fic. All I remember is scene(s?) with Jonny speaking French to his mom (I think on the phone while on the bus/plane with the team?) and he likes reading The Little Prince. It’s been bugging me for a while now and I figured I’d ask! Thank you.
I can recall three fics where Jonny likes to read The Little Prince, and they're all kidfics 😅
Chelsea Chelsea I Believe by empathapathique - this is the likeliest, i think. Speaking in French also seems to be an important subplot in this fic, but I can't find the part where Jon is speaking with Andree in French. Has this part though:
He runs his fingers over a single spine. Le Petit Prince—Pat immediately recognizes the title. He’s seen Jon with his own copy, dog-eared and ancient-looking, ready to fall apart the next time Jonny turned a page. Pat asked about it once, but Jonny only said that he’d gotten it from his mom. It seemed awfully sentimental, especially for a guy like Jon. Not that Pat could judge: the guys still tease that Pat’s spend half his time on the phone with his mom, the rest drunk off his ass, whatever time he has in-between bugging Jon. Jon used to carry it in his bag during road trips. Pat would see him pull it out every so often; flip the through the pages, read to himself in French. This went on until sometime last year, when Sharpy saw him with the book and spent half a bus ride making fun of him for it, joking about a fox and a prince: ‘And who’s your vain rose, Toe-ez?’
2. so show me family by duchessofavalon - this is deleted, but only has this in relation to your ask:
You’re being weird,” Jonny tells him one night when he comes back to the living room after reading Bells her requested bedtime story. Ever since he brought Bells his copy of Le Petit Prince, she’s been asking him to read it at least once a week. It’s the cutest thing Patrick’s ever seen, because Bells is trying to learn the French, but she’s so bad at it. He’d feel bad for laughing at his kid, but, well, he’s the kind of jerk who doesn’t feel bad for laughing at his kid. “How am I being weird?” When Jonny just shrugs, Patrick rolls his eyes. “That’s very helpful, thank you.”
3. Centripetal by ellievolia - this also deleted, but it's shorter than the other two and mentions this:
So here they are; Johnny sprawled on his couch with a book held over his head with one hand, and keeping Maddy secure over his chest with another. She’s half asleep, snuffling and moving from time to time, but seemingly happy to just stay there, listening to Johnny read out loud to her. “Je regardai donc cette apparition avec des yeux tout ronds d'étonnement. N'oubliez pas que je me trouvais à mille milles de toute région habitée. Or mon petit bonhomme ne me semblait ni égaré, ni mort de fatigue, ni mort de faim, ni mort de soif, ni mort de peur. Il n'avait en rien l'apparence d'un enfant perdu au milieu du désert, à mille milles de toute région habitée.” His version of the book is old, and battered; it’s a second-hand one that he found in a yard sale one summer in Winnipeg and couldn’t help himself from getting, remembering his mother reading it to him as a bedtime story when he was little. It was strangely sentimental of him, but at the same time he just thought that maybe, one day. At the moment it’s doing wonders to keep Maddy all quiet and warm against him, a comfortable weight on his ribcage; he doesn’t even mind when she kicks her feet into his stomach, his hand reaching down to loosely hold a tiny pajama-clad foot, making her giggle when he tickles her a little.
Please let us know if it's any of the three, or if anyone knows the exact answer, tag meee (i'm rusty at this)
