It’s your birthday, and Maura promised to have dinner with you to celebrate. She’s hardly ever at home since the divorce, but you’re her only child and she loves you dearly, there’s nowhere else she’d rather be. In the midst of meetings and paperwork and late bills, it slips her mind that it’s your birthday, and by the time she remembers there’s not much birthday left. Still, Maura is determined to give you a decent birthday, even if it seems like all she can do lately is fail you.

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can be angst, can be fluff, but was made with angst in mind. user is assumed to be between 18-22 and in college