18.3.3. You should've seen it!

Co-written with doctortara | Follows THISIt was after two in the morning when the phone rang. Lachlan had just gotten Riley back down to sleep after taking the very early morning feed duties. He nearly jumped out of skin at the noise and bounded out into the hall to grab up the phone before it woke his wife or son again. ( Read more... )

Dinnae force the binky on him. He might get "unsightly frown lines".


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28.4. Decision

Co-written with doctortara

[Follows THIS]Tara decided that if there was going to be a Heaven and she got to choose what it was, it would be this. Lying naked in bed wrapped around her as equally naked husband and feeling his arms locked protectively around her. It wasn't even because they were post-coital, even if they technically were. It ( Read more... )

11.7. "I do. Whatever happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I'm happy now... because I love you."
| Groundhog Day

Co-written with doctortara

[Follows THIS]Lachlan was at home alone in the house for all of two hours before he let himself realise how much he was deeply missing his family. And it was only two hours because he spent nearly half an hour ( Read more... )

57.5. (from Week 42) Tension

Co-written with doctortara

[Follows THIS, THIS and THIS]

Tara carefully taped the tiny fresh diaper up and leaned over to drop some soft kisses to her son’s forehead. She earned a coo in return and smiled, brushing his fine blond hair back with her fingertips. “It’ll be good to get you home, A Stóirín. Out of these disposable ( Read more... )

16.1.5. “Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.” - Rosa Parks

Co-written with pullmysteth

[Follows THIS]It was an unusually cold evening for March in Princeton that night. It almost felt like it was still winter when they were well on their way into spring. Lachlan couldn’t ( Read more... )

22.7. Early

Co-written with pullmysteth & sexyinscrubs

[Follows THIS]When Lachlan arrived in his son's room early that morning, the last thing he really expected to see was both Riley and Pat there. Of course he didn't have a problem with it, and it was actually a relief, but he just really wasn't in the mood for talking to anyone. He was sort of teetering between ( Read more... )

15.1.5. “Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain” - Star Trek: The Next Generation

Co-written with doctortara

[Follows THIS]

( Marriage came with certain duties. It was a fact of life. Some of them were fucking fantastic. Others painful. And then there were those things in between that maybe weren't always so pleasant, but came with the territory of when you love someone so much your heart heats up every time you look at them... )

11.8. "Yep... Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing... Somethin' we was born with... Somethin' that's ours and ours alone... Somethin' that can't be taught to ya or learned... Somethin' that got to be remembered... Over time the world can, rob us of that swing... It get buried inside us under all our wouldas and couldas and ( Read more... )

Track 09. You go in the morning, the morn before light
Warm is the bed and my back where you'd lie
[‘Grand’ - Blue Foundation]

Co-written with doctortara

[Follows THIS]Lachlan woke up so quickly and abruptly that he nearly fell off the recliner chair. He caught himself just before he ended up with any broken bones, but the groggy scramble to get up was ( Read more... )