Post-canon trophy husband chase HCs? (you’ve probably talked about this before but it’s the first thing I could think of)
man at first i reread this as "cameron's rebound husband" and was like. wow. creative. avant-garde
okay i'm assuming by trophy husband we're talking Dean Cameron. dibala never happened yippee, when cuddy still leaves in s8, cameron takes over.
they HAD planned to start a family right away, right after the wedding, but with one thing and then another, it keeps getting put off (mostly by cameron). she does still WANT kids and to start a family, but she's also afraid it'll set back her career etc.
i think both of them, without even thinking about it, assumed "we'll have a baby and cameron will stop working for a while." just because that's both how they were raised to expect things to go, right? so cameron feels like she'd be selfish and a bad mother if she doesn't, and it isn't that she doesn't want to take time with a baby! she does! she just wants to have her career as well!
so it takes a surprisingly long time before it occurs to either of them "wait, what if chase is the one who quit his job?" what if he was the stay at home parent? house is literally in jail, chase is unemployed, it's literally fine.
it IS a bit tricky at first -- cameron has JUST been made dean, it's a bad time to take maternity leave, she's stressed as HELL and feels like a Bad Mother and wants to run for it, but after a couple months they have things figured out.
when their kid is a bit older, chase does i think return to work, at least part-time. he really does enjoy being a full-time parent, but he needs SOME mental stimulation or he gets stir-crazy and needy/resentful in his own way. he takes a job in diagnostics under foreman md once house is "dead", specifically because chase figures he can get away with a part time schedule and bringing his daughter to work. which. is true. but foreman HATES it. like, he's fine with the kid, mostly? but he's perfectly aware chase is taking advantage of him and the department and THAT bugs him.
their second kid is much easier: cameron and chase are old pros, have a routine, and this time she's more established and can afford to take more time off with her newborn.
half the moms at daycare/playgroup have HUGE crushes on chase lol. he's aware of this. he kind of? flirts back? like playfully, he truly doesn't mean anything by it, he's just joking. he just enjoys the attention lol. this bugs cameron. not because she thinks he's going to cheat or take it too far, just, come on. don't these women have better things to do?
a LOT of cameron's job as dean is Schmoozing. wooing donors. cocktail parties. she doesn't mind them, usually, but sometimes the superficiality/insincerity of it all gets to her. chase, however, is fantastic at this. a lifetime of rich kid private school networking paying off. cameron starts making sure he attends all of her business dinners -- not just because, you know, how sweet, she brought her partner, but because he's her secret (asskisser) weapon. he jokes she just likes to see him in a tux.
they have amazingly perfected the art of Flying With Small Children. their kids are world travelers before they're in school. they don't quite manage to spend "summers in melbourne," but they do go once or twice, and of course there's yearly visits to visit 13 in greece, etc.
cameron's office has a lot of very tasteful (beige/wooden) baby toys tucked away. like, expensive luxury stuff. at home, there's lots of colorful plastic and noisy toys, she just tries to keep her office a bit "nicer" (since it's a more public space), but it does NOT help her reputation as a Beige Mom lolol
