Syverson | Oh, baby!
Summary: Youâre struggling to care for your goddaughter when the Captain pays you a visit.
Word Count: 1.9 K
Warning: Soft!Syverson, pure Sy with a baby fluff coming your way! SFW!!!! <3
I didnât get to do my usual SyverSUNday, so this is a lil Sy for your Thursday my loves.
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Just because youâre a woman doesnât mean that you know the first thing about taking care of a baby, but Michelle was your best friend and little Beth is your goddaughter. If they need you, youâre there.
When Michelle called you crying hysterically that her mother was in a car accident and wanted to know if you could come spend the weekend at her house, looking after Beth while she and her husband Michael went out of town to see her mother in the hospital.
You told her you were on your way.
Grabbing an old shopping bag from under the kitchen sink, you packed the essentials and didnât bother getting out of your PJâs. It would take about an hour and a half to get to Michelle and Michaelâs house and you wanted to be comfortable on the drive over.
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âMesh, stay calm, okay. You talked to your sister, right?â
You were leaning against the passenger side window of the car looking in at Michelle and Michael as they got ready to back out of the driveway to prepare for the six-hour car ride to Mobile, Alabama, to see Michelleâs mother.
âYeah, yeah, I talked to her. As much as I could. You know how Christine is, everything is always about her.â
You remembered Michelleâs older sister and could concur that Christine thought the world revolved around her. You take Michelleâs hand and give it a squeeze.
âEverything is going to be okay. Iâll take care of Munchkin, yaâll be careful and call me when you stop to get gas and when you get there so I know yaâll are alright.â
âUh, hey YN, I called my old army Captainâheâs a good friend and Beth adores him, I let him know what was up and he said he might swing by to check on you two.â
Michael leaned over in the driverâs seat to talk out of the passenger window.
Great, so theyâd called in reinforcements? Instead of feeling salty about that, you nodded.
âThanks, Mike. Iâm sure weâll be okay but I appreciate it.â
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Any other time, Beth was a joy to be around. The sweet little six-month-old was a happy baby. She loved bouncing on your belly, taking long walks around the house and sucking her binkie, but something about today had the baby girl in a rare state.
Maybe she could since your anxiety? Maybe she missed her mommy and daddy, or maybe she was just having a bad day, but from ten oâclock that morning when she woke up from her morning nap with a wet diaper, she couldnât be pleased.
You walked her, rocked her, read to her, gave her a bottle. Checked her diaper again to see if she was wet.
All the usual things you did to help soothe her were not working. You even tried a warm bath in the sink with some of that lavender sleepy time bath soak, but she would whimper and grunt and cry all the same. She turned down food, which was not normal.
Instead, Bethâs big eyes kept looking at you, pleading for something as she gnawed on her fist and slobbered all over herself.
âOh, honey, I wish you could just tell me whatâs wrong. Mama and Daddy will be back, I promise. You donât have to be sad.â
You cooed and coddled her before sighing and falling onto the couch, flipping the tv on. Beth loved Nascar she could watch those cars make left turns for hours on end. Not today. Sighing, you laid her on your belly, stroking her back, patting her bottom, thinking maybe she had gas and that was making her miserable and fussy when the doorbell rang and she let out another piercing wail of discontent.
With a small grunt, you got up from the couch, hugging Beth to your side, getting batted in the face by a baby fist that knocked your glasses accuse you turned the deadbolt and opened the door.
At first, you werenât sure what you were looking at. It was just big blurry red shape and instantly for a second, your frazzled mind asked if someone summoned the Kool-aid man.
âWell, hey sugar. Whatâs going on here?â
A deep timber asked and you felt Beth reaching for whom ever was at the door while you tried to straighten your glasses.
Blinking into focus behind the lenses of your glasses, you took him in.
âA-are you the Army captain?â
The big, burly, bearded man took Beth out of your arms and tucked her up to his chest like a football as her tiny fingers grabbed his beard and pulled.
âAtâs me darlinâ, Dwight Syverson, everyone just calls me Sy.â
Now wasnât the time to swoon, that accent and a baby in his arms that was now cooing and chewing on his chin and he didnât seem at all bothered as drool dripped on his red shirt.
Syverson stomped his boots off, stepped inside, and kicked the door close with the heel of his boot. âWhatâs all this fussinâ I could hear her from the truck.â
For a brief second, you wilt under his cold cobalt stare and gulp a little bit imagining what he must have been like when he was in the Army, bossing around the other officers. Right now, it feels like the bull of a man is accusing you of something.
âI do not know what to do⌠Bethâs been upset since she woke up. Iâve rocked her, walked her, I sang to her, and I even put on her favorite show. Nothingâs working. I donât know, maybe she misses Michelle or she can tell somethingâs wrongâŚâ
As you ramble, you drift off, shrinking as Dwight stares at you. Beth seems fine now that heâs here.
The little traitor.
Syverson assesses Beth for a second, holding her aloft and wiggling her in the air, which makes her giggle as a long thin line of drool breaks from her chin and drops on his shirt again.
Between feeling completely betrayed by your goddaughter, your child-rearing skills under heavy scrutiny, you canât help looking up at his chest. Yes, you had to look up to meet his chest; you wonder what heâd look like in a wet t-shirt contest.
âSeems fine to me, ainâtâcha bug? Hnn? She just doesnât know how to sweet talk the ladies.â
With a grunt, Syversonâs heavy boots thumped on the floor as he sat down on the couch, still holding Beth, who was latched onto his chin again.
âDo you think you could get some food down her while youâre here, Sy? Iâve been trying with her all day and sheâs even turning down her bottle⌠Iâve never seen her do that.â
Maybe feeling upset that Mike called in reinforcements wasnât such a bad thing. Beth was normally such a happy baby you werenât that worried, but after today you questioned maybe you werenât around her nearly enough even though you came down almost every weekend to spend time with your best friend and goddaughter and other family, though youâd never met Sy before. You had heard plenty about him; they were some pretty wild stories, but youâd never come face to face with the famous Texan.
âTurninâ down a bah-bah? At ainât like you, bitty bitty.â Syverson spoke to the infant.
You immediately grab her bottle and hold it out. You are a mess. Your hair is a ratâs nest from sleep, thereâs drool all over your t-shirt. You didnât even put a bra on before hopping in your car to get here.
You nervously take a seat in the recliner. Sy tries to get Beth to take the bottle, but at least she proves you right, she wonât take it. Keeps, pushing it out with her tongue and whimpering every time it comes near her mouth.
Sy sets the bottle between his legs and looks at Beth. He sniffs her all the usual checks youâve done countless times before; he sets the little bundle on his leg and sticks his finger in her mouth.
âWhat are you doing?â You ask.
Sy doesnât answer. His brows are drawn with concentration as his finger feels around inside Bethâs mouth. She welcomes it because itâs something new for her to gnaw on.
Sy looks up, and he hits you with the full force of a grin that makes your ovaries ache.
Holy Fuck.
âLittle Boogerâs cuttinâ a tooth.â
It takes a second for what he said to hit you before you move from the recliner to the seat of the couch next to him, nearly falling into his weight. Sy moves his finger and Beth gives out a disgruntled bark, wiping the slobber covered digit on his leg as you stick your finger in Bethâs mouth and check it out. Sure enough, thereâs a little bump on the right side thatâs holding a little heat.
âWell, Iâll be damned. Look at you sweetie⌠youâre getting your first little tooth.â
At least this, you know how to deal with. You jump up from the couch, marching into the kitchen. Youâre a woman on a mission as you check the cabinets and find the baby Tylenol.
Measuring out a small dropper, you come back and carefully pop it into Bethâs mouth, making sure it gets swallowed instead of drooling it back out.
âThere we go, honey, that should help. Hang on, Auntie has one other thing that might help and then⌠weâre gonna see if we can get that bottle in you. I know you gotta be hungry.â
You hurry back to the kitchen, putting away the medicine before looking around in the freezer. At the very back you find what youâre looking for.
âLook what I got, sweet girl.â
You smile, waving a frozen waffle. Bethâs eyes are following you as you bring it to her mouth and her tiny hands grab it and she gnaws on the cool ridges.
Within ten minutes, Beth is the calmest sheâs been all day and Sy is feeding her.
âWill you be okay with her for a minute while I use the powder room?â
Sy glances up, giving you that grin again.
âSure, sugar. I think we got this handled⌠go on and take care of yourself.â
You hurry into the bathroom and get a good hard look at yourself. Just as you thought you look horrendous and quickly brush your hair out before using the bathroom and coming back out to find Sy putting Beth down for a nap in her playpen. Sheâs down for the count.
âI could hang out for a while⌠tag team this.â
Sy looks at you. He seems a little bashful now that he doesnât have Beth to distract him. Itâs absolutely adorable.
âThat would be great. If youâre hungry, I could whip something up in the kitchen, I have a feeling Beth might be asleep for a little while⌠Michael and Michelle have always talked about you, it would be nice to⌠get to know you for myself.â
That sounded like it was loaded with some kind of hidden meaning and youâd go to hell with gasoline drawers on if you said you didnât want to get to know Sy a LOT better but youâre surprised by how bold you feel.
âIâd like that, darlinâ. Michelleâs always talking about you⌠Iâve been curious myself.â
Curious. Syverson had been curious about you?
Maybe nursing Beth through her first tooth wouldnât be so bad⌠as long as Captain Syverson wanted to help.








