She hasn't actually figured out the logistics of the sippy cup yet, but at least she's holding it. If only we all just held a full cup and didn't drink from it...


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19.5.3. Hug someone

Co-written with straight2point
[Follows THIS and THIS]Nearly two days hanging out in the halls of the ICU, and Ali was starting to look a little worse for wear. She didn't particularly care, though. In the old, pre-Sunshine days, she would always be immaculately presented if she stepped out in public. Hair, make up, expensive clothes, ( Read more... )

19.4.2. Promise

Co-written with paramedically
[Follows THIS]Ali was sitting on a bench in the long, stark corridor of the Intensive Care Unit at Mount Sinai Medical Center. An empty coffee cup was crumpled between her clasped hands as she stared unseeingly at the bottom of the water cooler across from her. It wasn't that she didn't know what to think about the ( Read more... )

2.2. "We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."
- Harrison Ford

Co-written with isabelowens
[Follows all HERE | Simultaneous to THIS]It was nearly one o'clock in the morning, but that was hardly an issue. Ali had nearly fallen over her own feet when she opened the door and found Izzy standing there with a large tub of Ben ( Read more... )

27.4. Hold

Co-written with paramedically | Follows THIS"You're kidding? Chicken Pox?" Andrew asked in concern as he came over to where Ali was setting the baby capsule onto the sofa and lifting Jamie out into her arms. "Where has she been to get that?" He tucked the crutches under his arms so he could stroke the baby's tear-dampened cheek softly ( Read more... )

Whoever said new mum-hood is easy? Want to give me their address so I can go and boot them up the arse?

She just... won't stop crying.

Don't even think about putting bunny ears on her, Campbell Fraser.


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12.6. “Women, can't live with them... end of sentence.”
| Will & Grace

Co-written with straight2point

[Occurs a few days before THIS and THIS]

Ali came through from the kitchen with an arm load of things which she dumped onto the coffee table with a smirk. She had everything from four different flavours of Ben & Jerry's, dark, milk and white chocolate along ( Read more... )

57.2. Stay

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[Backdated about a week ago | Follows THIS]

( You and my daughter are the reason I get up in the morning, because to be fucking honest, when I wake up most days right now, I feel so heavy and down that I really don’t know want to get up again. But then you’re lying there next to me and you’re warm and you’re touching me. You’re waking up and making sure I’m okay and, Andrew? No one has ever, in my whole life, made me feel the way you do every morning when I wake up and you lift that black cloud from my mind... )

11.15. "Clark has more issues than Rolling Stone."
| Smallville

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[Follows THIS]Ali heard the doorbell ring in the distance and she glanced at a sleeping Andrew beside her. She had taken to sticking to his side like glue. Truth was, she was more worried about him than her external facade was letting on. He'd taken quite a fall and ( Read more... )