really, it spiraled after the whole never offside baby incident. everyone started calling misa baby, even the younger sharks, mack on the ice, grin wide and mischievous as he skates by, baby move your feet faster, will, standing in the cat’s kitchen, misa baby taste this and misa goes without thinking, letting will prod his mouth with the spoon of whatever he was cooking, graf and zack, twin expressions as they coo at misa, the only ones able to get away with it as much as they do, baby’s multi-point night, taking the baby home
asky joins, you got this baby during a shoot out drill that misa almost fumbles, luca chirping baby almost didn’t have it eky and muhks when they were here, eky’s fond and sweet, aw baby’s falling asleep when they’re on an early morning flight and muhks swats at eky let the baby sleep, we need him good tonight cherny is sweet with it, cheeks as flushed as misa’s when he gets close, heads bumping and so good baby that has misa squirming a bit, grin too wide and cheeks cherry red
but it’s sam who uses it the most, baby come here, baby let’s go, baby don’t bother him, baby baby baby that devolves to babe, honey, sweetheart, sugar plum, honey bunches because misa went through a honey bunches of oats cereal phase, bug and bear and puppy—much to toff’s chagrin—get mixed in there somehow but the one that backfires on sam is kitty.
misa curled up in a sun spot on the floor of toff’s living room, stella quietly guarding him when sam spots him. the sunlight makes his expression softer, rounding out the sharp edges that are coming through.
sam takes a picture and sends it off to the knights group chat kitty’s all tuckered out and ignores the barrage of messages that range from there’s something seriously wrong with you to he’s so cute i’m gonna lock him down if you don’t
it slips out while they’re hanging out in the backyard of the wennbergs, misa chasing after the kids, joining in on them screaming until sam says kitty come and eat and misa bounds over, grinning widely at sam and takes his plate from sam’s hands.
toff lets out a groan, money exchanges hands between trouba and keifer, mason lets out a holler and sam ignores them all to look at misa; there’s a toddler on his lap, picking at misa’s plate as misa twirls pasta onto his fork.
he ruffles misa’s hair, his chest squeezing when misa pushes up into the touch, even if his attention is on the kid on his lap.
kitty sort of becomes sam’s thing for misa, the two syllables now solely meant for him. he reacts to it as if it’s his name, wide brown eyes that turn glassy when sam is above him, pressing into him, kitty whispered into the line of his neck, kitty, kitty, kitty as misa trembles underneath him, nails digging into his back, leaving behind long red scratches that has the locker room whistling at sam when he takes his shirt off.
misa ignores their chirps, a silent kind of satisfaction settling in his chest when sam turns to look at him.