Birthday + I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On/Phrack 💕
It’s the night before Jane’s 16th birthday, and Phryne and Jack are in Jack’s kitchen, baking a cake
It is a relatively simple chocolate cake, but Jack, who is usually an excellent baker, is still nervous because the cake is for Jane’s birthday, so it’s got to be perfect
He practically lives at Wardlow by now, and it is Jane’s first birthday with Jack as a permanent member of the household
(And her first birthday with Jack as her father, but Phryne knows he knows and doesn’t feel the need to point it out to him)
The second time he gets pieces of eggshell into the bowl, Phryne takes the reins and deposits him gently into the nearest chair
Fortunately for their plan, this gets the cake into the oven much faster; unfortunately for Jack’s sanity, he’s rarely seen Phryne in the kitchen, and if there’s anything more overwhelming than having a daughter, it’s having both a daughter and a partner to share his life and his home with
He walks up behind her where she’s chopping more chocolate for the glaze, wrapping his arms around her waist and pressing his mouth to hers when she turns in his arms
He doesn’t expect her to reverse their positions and press him up against the counter (although he probably should have)
She can be rather forceful when she wants to be, and he yelps when his hand flies straight into the dirty bowl in his effort to keep his balance
He can just barely keep it from clattering to the floor, but his hand is covered in chocolate and his sleeve ruined
He can’t take his shirt off without taking care of his hand first, and before he can get to the sink, Phryne has grasped his wrist in both hands and is sucking the cake batter off his fingers, her eyes heavy on his
His shirt isn’t the only thing that comes off, and if they can do that much with such a small amount of batter, he’s not sure he wants to know what they could get up to if they planned for this possibility in advance
(He absolutely wants to know)
Jane’s birthday passes smoothly; there’s laughter (Phryne and Jane), half-suppressed happy tears (Jack), and Jane gets a new bicycle
It’s a good thing that he still has his bungalow, because when his own birthday rolls around two months later, the baking of the cake (with lots of extra batter) is the start of a long, and very private, celebration
It is followed by another far less private celebration at Wardlow, and it’s Jack’s first birthday with both a partner and a daughter
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