"So, what exactly is it that we need from here?" Sully asked as he chewed on some gum in order to refrain from lighting a cigar in the supermarket. He had almost done it once or at least twice if Nathan's counting.

"Just the essentials." Nathan looked over his list, donuts being on the top of it. Sully sighed. It was the kid's turn to make the shopping list this month. Hell, he usually was the one to make it every month. Sully really couldn't make the list himself or there'd only be cigars, cigars, cigars, lighter, cigars, food, and cigars.

"With that look on your face, kid, we better not be here for some goddamn pregnancy test. If we are, say so and I'll drop you back where I found you." Nathan smirked. That was usually Sully's threat whenever he felt Nate had some sort of plan up his sleeve.

"We are, Sully. I'm such a looker, I can't keep the ladies off me." He chuckled and Sully shook his head in return. "So, what's the first thing on the list?" Sully squinted his eyes a bit, trying to eye the list. Nathan smiled widely.

"Other than donuts, Nate."

"Trying to avoid the essentials, I see. Well, there's toilet paper." Victor turned away from the kid to spend a good second to stare at the woman who just caught his eye. Time to up the Victor Charm.

"Uh, hey, kid. Why don't you...uh..." Damn. How was he going to get the kid off his case for five minutes? Well, if he couldn't persuade, a woman loves a soppy story about a man and his kid, right?

"You going to talk to that woman over there?" Nathan asked with a smirk. Well, I'd be go to hell, he thought.

"You caught me, kid."

Nate chuckled to himself as he grabbed the cart and he and Sully went their separate ways. "Oh, that old dog, barking up the wrong tree as usual. She is waaay, out of his league." He pushed the cart to the toilet paper section of the warehouse store. He eyes the shelves one by one and saw the toilet paper on the top shelf. Of course, he could easily climb that, but with people around?

"Damn. How am I going to get it?" He waited for his own answer. "Oh well. I'll just come back to it later."

Nate continued to race to the other sections and grabbed what was needed. He passed the toilet paper section again and again, waiting until it became empty again. The brown haired boy passed by it again. As vacant as a ghost town. He parked his shopping cart and began to climb the shelves. They were pretty sturdy and he was pretty light, so there would be no harm, unless someone caught him of course. He then reached the top shelf and threw his favorite brand down.

He climbed back down easily. No one saw, and it was all good. Mission accomplished!

"Kid."

"Oh, hi, Sully." Nathan had a sense of adrenaline. Climbing something and being so risque about it in a public place made him feel so accomplished even though he did this all the time. All that feeling left him a bigass grin on his face.

Sullivan chuckled. "You finished that quickly?"

"Oh, yea, easy peazy lemon squeezy. Where's my new mommy?" He gave a little giggle as he watched Sullivan react. 1. Nathan never referred to Sully more than anything than his guardian, so that was a bit weird to hear. 2. That woman ditched him quicker than an out of style jacket and this was the 80's so most everything was out of style.

"Um, she's not really worth my time. Come on, son. Let's go home." Son. Nate smiled back at him as they both proceeded to the check out line.