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Beth is the biggest cat person ever, if she could adopt all the cats she crosses path with, she would. So it’s not a surprise the first thing she did when she got her first appartment was, in fact, adopt a cat. His name is Piper and he hates people, which is great for her, because she hates people too.

Piper is reluctantlyto her at first, he is a senior cat and is really fat. Beth follows his diet the same way she works on coding, like a religion, and sometimes she thinks Piper hates her more for that, but is for his own good.

Slowly, she wins Piper’s trust. She thinks it may have happened a day he couldn’t breath good and she stayed with him all the time at the vet, she noticed the cat let her pet him more often after that and that he was more relaxed in the apartment.

There was a couple of weeks when she tried to change Piper’s name to Cinnamon, since he really likes the smell of it, always calm when she lights a candle with that scent, and so. But like I say, he is a senior cat and it didn’t work and she kept calling him Piper when she forgot, so meh.

When she brings people to the apartment, especially guys she may think of date, the cat loses it and is mean to them. He doesn’t let anyone touch Beth, she belongs to him.

But the moment he met Chris? He loved the doctor. Or maybe he realized Chris is allergic and decided to slowly kill him, any of the options is actually kind of right.

Chris dad died when he was a kid, so he felt responsible for his mother and sister, even when both women actually took good care of themselves and him.

Yet he was seen as such thing: “the man of the house”, but also grow up to be a very understanding and patient person, he is very respectful and nice. His mother is proud of him, just like his sister is too.

His mother doesn’t like when he goes out to Space, she is scared something bad will happen to him so when he calls, she is never there. She is afraid it will be the last time she sees her son, so she prefers to have the image of him sane and real on her mind. He understands it.

When Amy met Beth, they weren’t dating yet. She went to visit her brother while training and met the entire crew, she liked Beth because she is... normal. She doesn’t look like a superstar, she doesn’t act like if everyone was above them, she is nice and likes to talk to Amy even when Amy doesn’t get half her references. 

Beth likes Amy. She is excited to have someone to explain her references, to talk about the things she loves because Amy asks more about it so she can understand, which means Beth can talk about it all the time and she appreciates it. She also appreciates that Amy truly wants to bond with her.

Amy was excited when Chris told her he had feeling for Beth and talked about her a lot back home, his mother laughed saying if she was sure it was Chris the one in love.

So yeah, Amy had a little crush on Beth.

Johanssen was kind of nervous to meet Chris’ mom. Mark scared her to no end when he said Beck’s mother was special with people, that she didn’t like anyone right away. It was all lies and Beck wanted to kick his ass for it.

Thanks to that, the first meeting was a litle awkward, because Beth wanted to cause a good impression and Mrs. Beck was just... so sweet.. and nice... maybe it was a trap? Amy and her mother laughed out load when Chris explained wht happened.

Mrs. Beck did a cheers on their wedding that make Chris cry, he grow up only looking up to her and for him his mother is too damn important.

Amy is the cool aunt that takes her niece out and buy her nice dresses and cool things for her hair, and cookies she shouldn't eat too much. She also is the one with the best stories about grandpa.

Cat person all the way. She has a blog and she puts cats in there. Also has a fat cat who hates other people but Beck.

She has a collection of mugs and uses all of them, every morning she pcks one different for her coffe.

Her cats drinks coffe too. And yes it should be terrible for a cat, but the damn thing just doesn’t die.

Superhero movies fan. But doesn’t read comics, there are too many and she has no time.

Doesn’t sleep well, like never. So she is mostly a night person.

Mornings are terrible, man. As we saw in the book.

While drunk she gets talkative and shitty, she can fight you any time while drunk.

She fights a lot on the internet.

Title: TBN Fandom: The MartianPairing: Chris Beck/Beth JohanssenRating: GWarnings: Spoilers from the book. Needles mention, needle fear involved.N/A: I’m very sorry for the super late reply, you probably don’t even remember asking this or maybe you are not even following me either lol. But still, I wanted to write this anyway.

As Vogel laughed while Martinez took the picture of his new tattoo, Beth fell the knot on the bottom of her belly drop into a wave of cold feeling around her entire body. She heard the artist ask for the next one, and the laughs of Watney and their pilot when Lewis announced it was her, she had said with a cheerful tone: go Johanssen! and she knew this was the worst idea ever. And not because she thought the tattoo tradition is bad or that tattoos are bad, is just— The… the thing. The inty thing, what is its name? THE THING! Yeah, it was a little overwelming to surrender to it, she was trained astronaut now but she hadn’t had the need to fight one of those pointy, shining things in forever. She always hated going to the doctor.

LMAO, like one of those AUs in which the drunk one crashes the other’s couch? Ok!

So Chris is the new guy in town, in the way that he has been working in Air Forces for thepast years and nw, he is honorably discharged aftr an accident that involved him on bed for months with one leg in the air. He got a jo at the General Hospital and it’s, for the moment, living in Mark’s apartment since Martinez, his old roommate, just got married. They have known each other for a long time, been friends all of it, same with Martinez. So its okay, it’s not like Chris in kind of depressed with all that has happen or something, he just needed a night off and Mark was like “yOU KNOW WHAT, I HAVE TO CHECK THESE FUCKING EXAMS FOR TOMORROW AT 7 AM, SO YOU GO ALONE”, because he is a professor and life sucks near finals. So yeah, he goes alone.

And he gets a little bit drunk on his solo night, just to find he has lost his keys and now has to climb to their apartment because there is no way Mark is opening the door to him. Sighing, there it goes the adrenaline junkie. Finally, he gets the window open, crashes in and sleeps on the couch because he has no energy to go to his room…

Until there is something touching him. Something fluffy? What the fuck is Mark doing now? And he opens his eyes to a cat. A cat. In their apartment. In the apartment of two guys who are allergic to cats. He screams, the cat gets scared and meows in despair, kinda hurts him and Chris is climbing moe and more into their couch when he realizes, this is not their couch! Or their living room! Why is there so many clothes in the other couch? And what is that— ARE THOSE PANTIES!?

Then, a girl. With a pan over her head, ready to fight the strange man on her apartment on a way too big for her old shirt and red panties. Is this some kind of weird, too vivid, wet dream or something? Of course, the punch doesn’t feel like a dream. It’s real. And next time, when he wakes up, he is on a bed, and there are voices out the room, and then there is– Mark. “What the fuck happened?” “You crashed little Beth’s apartment, man! And you scared the living jesus out of her and her kitten, come on, asshole”. Way to go with first impressions, right?

‘The way you say I love you’ + #9 When baking chocolate chip cookies

This was a bad idea, Beth recognized maybe way too late. Her husband was already covered in white dust while their baby smashed her little hands happily on the table of her baby chair, dust also dancing on the air around her. Chris looked serious as he poured the liquid chocolate into their bowl, careful to not let any of the work out of the little mess for the cookies they thought would be fun to do, but when Beth came to the realization that both of them didn’t knew a thing about cooking, it was too late: Beck was too into it, too passionate about finishing stuff he has started and give his best.

She smiled a little, at least this would be a good tale to tell their daughter when she was older. Besides, the aby was having the time of her life playing with kitchen tools and flour, she also find it funny the way Chris would react to thing don’t going his way and, at least, he would stay calm when her laughter filled the room, Chris smiled to the when he looked behind him and both woman of his life where looking at them working those cookies.

“You are not helping anymore?”

Beth shook her head, putting her hair behind her ear. “I’ll put it on the cutter once you are done and then into the oven, otherwise, it’s yours.”

He smiled again, this time mixing the flour, chocolate and everything in between so Beth could put all on the cutter and then, to the oven. They looked as the cookies got baken and their daughter grown impatient, after being doing faces and making voices for her for a while, the clock sounded and the cookies were ready. Beth looked at them with distrust, they looked too good to be truth. They waited for them to be cold, and when the time came, Chris was supposed to be the one doing the sacrifice of taking the first bite but…

“Oh, no.”

“Well, little miss bravery is taking it!” He said, as their girl took one cookie and put it on her mouth, drooling over it. “Is it good, babydoll?” 

And the answer came with the cookie flying past them to the wall. Both astronauts looked at each other before breaking into laughter, he took one of the cookies and tried. “Oh fuck!”

“Chris!”

“Oh my god, I’m so sorry!” He said, laughing and leaving the cookie in the plate again. “Damn, this thing is disgusting. Don’t even touch it, Jesus.”

“Awwwn, that’s okay!” She said, hands around his waist. “I already knew they were going to suck, babe.”

“What?”

“We are terrible in the kitchen, you know that.”

Chris smiled, that sweet expression he always did when she was right. Beth put on her tiptoes, kissing him softly before the laughs of their daughter made them look behind. They walked to her and did faces once more, then Chris kissed Beth’s cheek and she looked at him.