It's Monday when Elizabeth gets a few hours to herself and Nathan to actually mark their one year anniversary - she keeps looking at him like she's surprised and half-apologetic for her surprise. The girls are at school and she's got to go and talk to Ginger about her dentistry later, but for right now they have pastries and coffee and a few hours ( Read more... )

The fourteenth is their last morning together in Barcelona; Elizabeth has plans in the evening with Faye and Inspector Abberline (plans that allegedly, she tells Nathan, will involve chocolate cake with cherries and possibly experimenting with cherry stems) and a thousand things will need to be sorted out at the apartment before that (the fifteenth ( Read more... )

It would've been easier -- and cheaper -- to just have pinpointed straight to the villa. Having sent most of her luggage ahead of her that way made it even more of a logical move. It would've been practical. She had the resources to take advantage of; she should take advantage of them instead of making things needlessly more complicated.

Somehow, ( Read more... )

couples_therapy posts!

[ meet the family/if we break up]

[ first kiss]

[ post-coital conversations]

[ distance]

[ i knew i was in love...]

[ feelings of loneliness]

[ history]

[ comfort]

[ first impressions]

[ fight]

[ personal style] (pg13-r?)

[ the next few years]

[ decisions]

[ authority] (set end of june)

Elizabeth gets home at around two in the morning, letting herself into the apartment as quietly as possible to avoid rousing either the dog or the children, and manages one of these. Hamlet's missed his mistress, and she keeps finding him bumping into her knees when she goes to turn around. She keeps thinking my city my palanquin my gods my life ( Read more... )

Introduction.
Hello, I'm Dr Weir -- Elizabeth. Elizabeth is fine. I'll be doing this alone--I am currently involved, but I'm sure you should at least share a home before you share a therapist. I think it'd be personally useful. Or Astrid talked me into it; one or the other ( Read more... )

Their wedding day goes off without a hitch, and Miss Elizabeth Weir becomes Mrs Frederick Abberline with a perfunctory touch of lips and the declaration of a small-minded man who thinks he knows more about her situation than she does ( Read more... )

After a memorable night in the bar with her sister and Abberline, Elizabeth doesn't quite make it all the way back to her apartment. Pinpoint in hand, she detours to the swimming pool in the building and sits at the edge, carefully unhooking her stockings and rolling them off to dip her toes into the heated water ( Read more... )

Elizabeth wakes up.

The truth is, of course, that she doesn't. When she does wake up, she'll know that. She knows the shape of these lies; they're familiar, if not remotely comforting ( Read more... )

It does rain, after all ( Read more... )