Ok, new rule

[jjtaylor]

Today and tomorrow are going to be crap days at work, and I know it and can't do anything to mitigate that. So! In the spirit of moving the fuck on, let's play.

Timestamp meme: Give me a timestamp sometime in the future or sometime before the start of one of my stories, and I'll tell you what's going on. (Bonus: if you pick a story that has a sequel

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[jjtaylor]

Ooooooh! Gerard and Lindsey invite Frank and Jamia over for dinner Friday night. Not the usual get-distracted-making-out-and-burn-the-tofu-pups dinner, but a real, sit-down dinner. And ok, there's a little distraction with the making out, but nothing gets burned. There's even a tossed salad. Fancy stuff.

They're chatting about Skeleton Crew and this exhibit Lindsey has been asked to be a part of and then Gerard, halfway through a bite of tossed salad, says, "We want to have a kid."

There's a whole long pause, and then Jamia gets up and hugs Lindsey and is like, "You're not pregnant right now, are you? Did I get you pregnant? That's fucking awesome!" And then Gerard catches Frank's eyes and, oh, shit. Frank's checked out. He's gone, he's not a part of the conversation.

So they finish dinner chatting around the big declaration and then Lindsey starts a pot of coffee and is like, "Ok, so, it's not an announcement, it's a discussion."

And Frank makes a face and Jamia kicks him, and Lindsey gives Gerard a side-eye of unspoken "your turn to chime in here, man" and Gerard says, "We want to have to baby. We want to know if you want to have a baby."

Frank says, "Pretty sure it only takes two people." And Frank's good at making everyone nice and tense when he's scared and so the conversation goes on for a while, through two cups of coffee and dessert at least, until Gerard is like, "Lyn and I are gonna make the baby, but I want all four of us to raise it. And if you guys want to have kids sometime, I want you to want the same thing."

And oh. Frank didn't get that part, because it's Frank, and because a year after being in a poly relationship, he's still hanging on to a lot of assumptions about what "regular" and "real" relationships look like, and so a baby meant an end to this thing all four of them were doing. It meant going back to two and two. Except that what Gerard just said means....

"You mean we'd still - " Frank asks, looking from Gerard to Lindsey to Jamia.

"Yeah, you'd be on speed dial to bring me kit kats and spicy thai rolls in the middle of the night when I'm huge and hormonal," Lindsey says. "But I bet I'll have awesome pregnancy boobs."

And so Frank sits there kind of stunned for a while, and finally he smiles and is like, "Dude, babies!"

[barmy_bunk]

&frankie;

[ciel_vert]

Awwwwwwwww of course BABIES! :D