Let me carry your story in my heart

!!! CleoJohn single parents AU?

OH MY GOSH OK *PAIRS THIS WITH WIDOW!CLEO*

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Tiffany shrieks with laughter as John catches her, grabbing her around the waist and spinning her around. Troy watches from the sidelines, mouth agape, until John lets her go to run shrieking around the park again.

It makes Cleo's eyes water.

She loved Hannibal, truly, but he never wanted kids. She didn't realize how little he truly interacted with them until John started interacting with them. Where the children had to climb up onto Hannibal to get his attention, John approaches them, he gives them hair ruffles and candy and little compliments like it's nothing. He smiles at them, fond and gentle, and...

Oh, for how he treats her children, Cleo would marry him in an instant. But then he comes to her at the table and leans down to kiss her cheek and whisper a sweet nothing to her, and oh - her heart belongs to him, too, this wonderful man.

John Wu, "It's quite simple, really..."

"It's quite simple, really..." Wu leans across the counter to So-Ae. "You want to sell something to someone, you have to make them trust you or the product. Assuring them that you use it, eh, that works. That's part of what I do."

"So your job is just selling things?"

"I do whatever Chau wants." He smiles, pushes a strand of hair out of his face.

It's no secret that he's one of Chau's most trusted people. Good in the shop, good with people (Compared to most of the thugs around here.), experienced enough with the kaiju to lead expeditions into them, good at listening and good at following orders.

Good at scamming people.

"And what he wants from me today," Wu continues. "Is to show you how we handle this end of the kaiju processing for future reference. So stick close, yes?"

"Yes." She mumbles, her attention drifting to a little kaiju figurine on the counter. She picks it up. "How much is this?"

Oh, yes, Wu thinks. She'll fit right into the bone slums.