Kate has been in front of the mirror for almost an hour trying to tie her purple tie. She really wants to use it for tonight, but without help, it won't be possible. The short-haired brunette sighs angrily and throws the tie on the desk, giving up.
She fixes her hair a little and looks at herself in the reflection, choosing to leave some buttons on her black shirt open. She pulls the sleeves off her wrist a little and smiles to herself.
She starts thinking about what the night will be like, she knows she will love it anyway, but she has a certain fear, she always does. Her gaze goes to her ring on her left ring finger, a simple but beautiful golden ring, not too thick, not too thin.
Kate is slightly startled by a thin, feminine voice calling her.
"Mommy, I can't tie my shoes!" Kate turns to see the miniature of her wife, big green eyes, very light blonde hair.
The 8-year-old girl wears a beautiful white dress with purple and lilac flowers. She has one of her sneakers between her toes and the other untied on her foot.
"Oh, my love. Come here, let me teach you again." The taller one approaches her daughter and carries her to the bed.
Kate kneels in front of her and places her booted foot on her leg.
"I'll do this one and teach you the other one, okay?"
"Okay, but go quickly. We can't be late." Kate laughs lightly, Natalia is a copy of her wife, in appearance, manner, character and even accent.
"Yes ma'am."
Kate gets up after tying her sneakers and sits next to her daughter, takes the sneakers from her hand and shows her step by step so she can learn.
"Got it?"
"I get it. Let me do it now." Nat rips off her mother's shoes and puts them on her own feet. The girl tied the knot with difficulty, but she did it.
"That's it, you did it!"
"Yes! Now come on, mommy!" The girl jumps out of bed and pulls her mother's hand.
"Calm down, calm down, I'm coming. I have to get your mother's present, hurry up."
"Go quickly! I want to see her soon."
Kate laughs again and walks over to her dresser next to the bed, opens the drawer and takes out a small purple velvet box. Obvious.
She hears her little blonde call again and hurries to go downstairs and pick up the busque of lilies and red roses that are in a vase of water.
"I'm here, my love. Did you get your coat?"
"Is hot. I don't want to."
"But, baby, when we get out of there late at night, it's going to be cold."
"I can handle it, I'm my mama's daughter, right?"
"It's okay."
Kate and Nat left the house and she put the little one securely strapped into her car seat. She carefully places the bouquet on the passenger seat and walks around to the driver.
"I want my song, mommy!"
"Of course, miss." Kate turns on the car's touch screen and goes to the favorites playlist, clicks on American Pie.
"Long long time ago..." Nat starts to sing along.
It doesn't take long for Kate to follow the girl and the two shout "Bye bye, Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to leeve, but leeve was dry" when she reaches the chorus.
The way to the place is not long, about 10 minutes, there was time for the whole song to play and the beginning of All Too Well, Kate's favorite.
She turns off the car and goes around to get her daughter from the backseat. Opening the door, she releases Nat from the seat belt and places her on the floor. The brunette takes the bouquet and locks the car. Kate holds the little girl's hand and they enter the fancy restaurant.
All in quality wood, with shades of red on the seats and tables, a more vintage area in the café. There are even those old vinyl record players, which are now playing Russian ambient music, very low. The place is crowded, almost every table occupied, employees running from one side to the other, or coming in and out of the kitchen.
Some waiters and waitresses greet Kate and Nat, they walk straight to the kitchen doors, but before they can enter, a waitress unknown to Kate stops them.
"Sorry ma'am, but you can't come in here. It's restricted."
"Are you new here?" Kate asks friendly.
"How did you know??"
"Well, Ava." The brunette reads the name on her uniform. "Everyone here knows exactly who I am, so they didn't stop me."
"And you would be..." The young waitress with short, shaggy hair is quite confused.
"Ava, let them in, this is Kate and Nat, the boss's wife and daughter." Another waiter, a younger one, Peter says, walking past them with a tray on top.
"My God! I'm sorry, I really didn't know, forgive me, Ladu Belova...!"
"First: I'm not a lady. I'm 34. Second: It's Bishop Belova, and third: you don't need to forgive yourself. It's okay."
"Ok but really, I'm sorry, you can come in."
Ava leaves, still a little awkward, and the two go through the doors.
"Mommy, I can't see anything."
Indeed, the scene of a restaurant kitchen is crowded, even more so for little Belova Bishop. All she sees are white pants running back and forth on the checkered floor. Kate bends down and picks up her daughter, supporting her hips.
"Put the bouquet well hidden behind my back, but don't crush it." She hands it to her daughter.
"Okay, mommy."
"Let's find our woman."
Kate goes closer to the corner so as not to disturb all the cooks' rush. She didn't have to walk far to see her petite wife scolding one of the newbies in Russian. The red-haired, freckled young man holding a mop looks like he's going to cry at any moment. The poor guy probably doesn't even understand and that's why he's more scared than normal.
"И в следующий раз, когда я увижу, как ты возишься со шваброй, ты будешь на улице. Нам ясно??"(And the next time I see you here fumbling with that mop, you'll be on the street. Are we clear??)
The boy nods sterically and runs out of her way.
"Mommy looks like she's going to explode." Nat laughs at the blonde's red face, who hasn't seen them yet.
"Yes, any time, my love."
One of the cooks with a metal prosthetic arm whispers something to Yelena and points to where Kate and Nat are. Yelena looks at them and her gaze automatically softens and a smile appears on her face.
Yelena passes by the cooks and until she reaches the wife and daughter.
"What are you doing here??
"Celebrate your birthday!" Nat says excitedly.
"Kate, my love." Yelena looks at the taller one. "I told you I would be busy today, so we were going out tomorrow."
"Mommy here couldn't wait, and neither could I."
Yelena smiles and caresses her daughter's hand, but becomes serious again when looking at Kate. She is visually tired and stressed, today would not really be a good day to celebrate 10 years of marriage.
"Look, I know. But I wanted to come as a surprise, we wanted to. We can wait, I swear. We can stay at a table, eat a little, I don't know, we'll wait. And then when you're done, you come together at the table with both of us."
"Kate, it's our anniversary and you want to spend the night sitting in a restaurant without me?"
"In your restaurant, but yes. I don't mind, I'll wait. If Nat can't handle it, she can eat first and I'll wait. And, by the way, I have something for you."
"You have?" Yelena's green eyes shine with hope.
"Two, but one is only on the table. Give it to her, daughter."
Nat holds out her hand with the bouquet to the shorter mother.
"I can't believe it, a bouquet of lilies!?? I love lilies!" Yelena smells the flowers.
"I know." Kate winks.
"Do you really want to wait? Don't you want to do it tomorrow?"
"I'm sure, Lena. Nat too. She's very excited. We wait calmly. But don't rush either, because then it will turn out wrong or bad."
"Okay, моя любовь." (My loves) Yelena stands on tiptoe to kiss her wife for a brief moment.
And then the daughter's cheek.
"What did I do to deserve you in my life?"
Kate smiles once again and takes her wife's left hand, leaving a kiss on it.
"Go on. We'll be here when it's over. I promise."
Yelena smiles one last time before walking away and asking an employee to place the flowers in a vase of water in her office.
Kate leaves the kitchen with her daughter and they are taken by Peter to a table, initially for two, but Peter quickly leaves and returns with an armchair for the little girl. He offers to put Nat in and the girl laughs, she likes Uncle Peter.
"Do you already have an initial order?" he asks.
"Ice water."
"And juice!" Nat asks excitedly.
"How does it taste this time, young lady?"
"Let me think... ahhh, tangerine!
"Noted, tangerine juice and water. Anything else?"
"Not now. I'll call you later, Peter."
"Fine. Excuse me."
The boy leaves with a smile and Kate looks at her daughter, she is very excited.
"Mommy loved our surprise!" Nat smiles.
"She loves us, of course she did."
"I still wish I'd brought Fanny and Lucky."
"Love, dogs are prohibited here."
"But Mama is the boss!"
"I know, but this is her place, and even though it's us, we have to respect the rules."
"Ah, okay. I'm bored, I thought she was going to come have dinner with us now."
"Do you want to paint or play on my phone?"
"Paint for now."
Kate gets up quickly to grab the coloring magazine on a table near a pillar and a bucket of colored pencils. She puts it in front of her daughter.
"Have a good time."
"Thank you, mom."
-At your service, Miss Belova."
It's now 8:30 pm, Nat paints and has fun on Kate's phone until 9 pm, then she says she's hungry. Kate obviously expected this, she orders her daughter's plate and gets something for herself, just to nibble on it. The daughter's dish was Mac and Cheese, the house's fashion, in particular, the dish even came with a note from her other mother saying "The best Mac and Cheese for my favorite little girl."
"Look, mommy." Nat points out. Kate takes the paper and reads it, smiles.
"She thinks in everything, you know that."
"Yes."
Nat eats calmly and as it gets late, the restaurant empties, Kate swears she saw Peter celebrate when a couple who seemed inconvenient finely closed the check and left. She ends up laughing at the boy's excitement as he cleans the table. The poor boy must be tired too.
After the little one eats, she soon yawns.
"I'm sleepy, mom."
"Do you want to nap on my lap while we wait for mama?"
"Yes"
Kate gets up and removes her daughter from the highchair, returns to her seat, arranging her daughter on her lap and pulling one side of the blazer to cover her while hugging her with both arms.
"You can sleep, when she arrives, I'll wake you up." She kisses the blonde hair and scent spread across his chest.
"Okay, mom."
Natalia doesn't take long to sleep, after all, this is practically a tradition, the girl may not even be sleepy, but all she has to do is mom Kate hug her and she gets sleepy and falls asleep. That's funny.
Kate observes that now the restaurant is emptier, besides her, there are only two other tables occupied and people are already eating dessert. She also observes when the kitchen door opens, that the movement inside has decreased and the number of employees has also decreased.
Finally 10pm arrives. The closing time. For those outside. One of the chefs agrees to stay to make their dish and Peter also stays, although Yelena insists that he leave. The blonde walks through the kitchen doors with a tired smile on her face. She walks to the table where her wife and daughter are and sits down, for a boss who cooks all day, this was heaven, sitting down after hours of work.
"You really waited."
"Of course. But not the little one here."
"I already suspected she wouldn't make it. But, we can enjoy it more this way. Put her there on the couch."
"YOUR daughter asked me to wake her up as soon as you arrive, but I'm not going to do that. I'll be right back."
The brunette gets up with her daughter carefully on her lap and walks to the sofa that is a seat for some tables, she lays Nat down and takes off her black blazer, using it as a blanket for her daughter. She makes sure to take out the velvet box and put it in her pants without Yelena seeing.
Upon returning to the table, Peter soon appears with his notebook.
"Good evening, ladies. What would you order today?"
They both laughed.
"I'll have the shredded chicken with grilled rice and salad, please." Kate doesn't even need to look at the menu to order.
"Fine. And you, miss?" Peter turns to Yelena.
"You know what I want." She blinks.
"Of course. Anything else?"
"Wine, but the weakest one. I'm driving."
"Okay. Excuse me."
"I'm sorry I'm being like this, Kate. I wanted something more striking." Yelena reaches out to take Kate's hand from the table.
"For me to come to your crowded restaurant and wait until closing just to celebrate our 10 years, isn't that remarkable?"
"You're right. I know I was surprised, but I wanted at least a warning to get ready. I look horrible."
"Don't you ever say that again!"
Yes, Yelena with her tired eyes and smile, wearing a dirty white boss uniform and disheveled hair is not horrible for Kate. It will never be.
"Kate..."
"Shiu! You're perfect and always will be, you'd look beautiful even wearing a trash bag."
"My God!" Yelena laughs.
"But it's true." Kate smiles and kisses her wife's hand once again.
"I'm glad you came. I was already feeling guilty for leaving you alone at home today."
"I wasn't alone. Lucky, Fanny and Nat spent the afternoon with me on the couch. I can say I gained a few grams from the amount of candys and popcorn I ate today."
"I can get used to it."
"Good."
The orders soon arrived and they ate, talking about each other's day, Yelena's inconvenient customers who complained about a tomato seed. From the Disney movie marathon that Kate had done with her daughter in the afternoon. Kate's new archery student, Lila is very good and she has barely started.
"Oh, I'm dead!" Yelena leans in her chair, placing her hand on her stomach after eating.
"But you're talking."
Yelena half-closes her eyes with a smirk.
"Funny, Kate Bishop."
"And we came back with the full name." She mocks the brunette.
"Only when you make that kind of joke."
"You love these jokes."
"And I love."
"Satisfied?"
"I can't even handle dessert."
"Yeah, me neither. But can you handle this?" Kate places the purple box in front of Yelena.
"A ring?" Play.
"Yes, another one." Ironizes Kate. "Open it, you'll love it."
"More than I love you?"
“I don’t think more than this”
Yelena straightens up and takes the box. When she opens it, she finds beautiful arrow-shaped earrings and a necklace in the same shape.
"Where did you get that??"
"I had it done. I have contacts." Flashes.
"I loved!" Yelena leans over the table and kisses her wife.
"What i said?"
"Put it on me."
Kate stands behind her wife and takes the necklace, she puts it around her neck and closes the chain. She lowers her head to kiss her blonde hair. The arrow was right next to the necklace Yelena already wears with her wedding ring on it. For fear of losing it, getting it dirty, and scratching it, she put it around her neck, it is a little wider, resting above her heart.
"So beautiful." Kate leaves her hands on her wife's shoulders and massages briefly, Yelena moans softly at this, she has been tense all day and just this simple touch has improved.
Yelena looks up and smiles.
"We're both upside down."
Kate smiles and bends down to kiss her, she raises one of her hands to her beloved's face. Before walking away, she kisses her wife's cute nose.
"I love you. Happy 10 years."
"Happy 10 years, моя жизнь." (My life).
Bonus:
Yelena runs both nails down her wife's back, just tonight, she already has several scratch marks. She moans softly feeling Kate penetrate her with force.
It's the night of the next day and with Yelena at home and Nat at Clint's house, things heated up pretty quickly.
"More...Kate!!" She begs with her eyes throbbing with pleasure.
Kate nods breathlessly and places her hands closer to the side of her head on the mattress, going deeper and faster. Yelena feels Kate's penis going deep and she feels that her climax will soon come. Kate is no different, she still has the strength to penetrate quickly after the 3rd round.
Yelena tightens her ankles around her wife's waist and uses her as support for her to finally reach her climax and explode, literally. She moans loudly, closing her eyes tightly and pressing her nails even tighter on her wife's sweaty skin.
"Baby... I'm gonna... ahh!!" Kate came too and moaned along with it.
They looked at each other for a moment, sweat all over their bodies, their faces red, breathless and tired, but in love.
"Fuck, I love you so much, Kate!"
Yelena kissed her intensely while they are still recovering from the climax.