A Long Time Coming (Lysander/Roxanne)
Title: A Long Time Coming
Rating: G
Pairing: Lysander/Roxanne
Prompts: Grandaddy 'Sophtware Slump',
Summary: Their daughter's growth
AN: based on a request by drcjsnider who asked for Lysander/Roxanne with a child. Written in the time it took to start and finish the Sophtware Slump album, then edited while listening to Washed Out. I do apologize for the lateness of it. If there's a part of this you'd like to see an expansion let me know and I'll see what I come up with :)
He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot
‘I’m prepared for this,’ he assures himself. He’s stopped counting how many times he’s told himself that.
Roxanne is screaming as she pushes. His being deaf doesn’t stop him from feeling the vibrations her voice causes or seeing the tears of pain leaking from her eyes. This is going to be completely fine and he won’t even think about his grandmother dying while giving birth to his mother.
Her eyes are on him as she takes quick, rapid breaths. He’s unconsciously taken on her breathing pattern as he runs his hands over her swollen stomach. ‘Safe’ he signs into her hand, but gets no response as she begins to push again.
Hewletts Daughter
He smooths Dana’s hair down, but the cowlick sticks up nonetheless and he can’t help but grin. Roxanne coos softly to their daughter as she runs a brush through the girl’s hair with one hand. Her hair is brown and her skin the same tone as Roxanne’s and he loves her so very, very much.
Jed the Humanoid
Dana’s a daddy’s girl through and through. The expressions she makes are completely Lysander’s, no matter how much she tends to look like her mother in every other way possible. Despite her daughter’s attachment she can’t help but feel a bit bad during storytime when she reads aloud to their daughter while Lysander watches on unsure of what to do. Sometimes he signs along with the story, practice for Dana, other times he simply watches on with a look of discontentedness.
The Crystal Lake
Dana is seven when they take her on her first expedition. She had slept with them under the stars on the small patch of land they owned, but Bulgaria is much different then their land.
It is wild in every sense of the word. There are trees everywhere she looks and not a familiar landmark in sight. She grips her mother’s hand and when she holds her hand out for her father’s it takes her a full minute before she realizes he’s not at their side.
“Mommy, where’s Daddy?” she asks, her voice nearly frantic.
Roxanne smiles knowingly and points out Lysander, two hundred feet away and kneeling on the leaf covered ground.
For the first time in her life, Dana is jealous of the attention her father’s work is getting.
Chartsengrafs
He watches intently as she opens that first gift on her 14th birthday, waiting for a smile or a grin, just a sense of happiness. Lorcan tells him that his own children have reached the teen years and he’s just as lost as Lysander. Lysander doesn’t find these words comforting in the slightest.
Dana rips the paper off without the fanfare of old and looks blankly at the set of dress robes they’d bought her. She smiles just a little, ‘Thanks Dad, Mum,’ then goes on to the next.
Underneath the Weeping Willow
“It wouldn’t kill you to go talk to your Dad, you know,” Roxanne says as she hangs the laundry. “He’s been looking forward to seeing you.”
“I don’t have anything to say,” Dana mutters. She’s just finished her fifth year and as odd as it might sound she’s not sure she wants to be associated with her father so much. Most of her friends seem to know him as the quite chap in the town library. She’s never told them anything different and she’s beginning to believe that’s all he ever was.
Broken Household Appliance National Forest
Her mother’s at her aunt’s. This should have been so easy, but her father’s always been full of surprises. He gives her a curious stare as he catches her halfway out the door.
‘Going out’, she signs without really thinking about it.
‘Where to? With who?’ he signs back in rapid succession.
‘Friends from school. There’s a party. I’ll be back by eleven.’
‘Where? Who?’
She sighs.
Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
It’s loud and nauseous and all of her friends try to outdo one another in the area of maturity. She’s seen loud before, a member of the Weasley family couldn’t avoid loud parties, but this is something different altogether. People scream for attention and she doesn’t want to be here anymore.
She searches the room over for a fireplace, but can’t find one. Tapping Sharon on the shoulder, she signs ‘Can we go now?’ The friend looks at her in confusion.
E. Knievel Interlude (The Perils of Keeping It Real)
‘What’s going on?’ Roxanne signs after a minute of watching the quiet scene in front of her. Dana is asleep on their couch, her knees pulled up to her chest, her head resting on her father’s shoulder. Lysander only shrugs.
Miner at the Dial-a-View
‘She’s graduating,’ Roxanne signs.
‘Yes,’ Lysander replies simply. Roxanne doesn’t buy it though. She’s learned that just as much can be said in the way someone signs as the tone of a voice.
‘She’s moving to Bulgaria to be with that boy.’ She waits to see Lysander’s face, but he finds his eggs particularly interesting that morning. She raps softly on the table and signs ‘Are you OK with that?’
Lysander shrugs. ‘It’s her decision. I can’t make her do anything.’ His movements are aggravated but slow. It’s like listening to someone who’s too frustrated to fully form the words. ‘She still loves us?’
She smiles. ‘Of course. Wanderlust, it was in your mother’s blood too.’
So You’ll Aim Toward the Sky
‘Dad’, Dana signs, interrupting the conversation between her daughter and father, ‘Elizabeth’s hands are going to be sore tomorrow.’
Her father and daughter give her equally sad faces, to which she just rolls her eyes. Her mother laughs heartily at the quickness of the exchange. Dana’s husband just smiles. He doesn’t know sign language, his English isn’t very strong either, but he has an idea as to what just happened.
Dana watches as her father helps Elizabeth form letters of the alphabet with her fingers and shows her simple hand signs, his hand occasionally brushing her hair back the way he used to do when he was teaching her and she smiles.
Rating: G
Pairing: Lysander/Roxanne
Prompts: Grandaddy 'Sophtware Slump',
Summary: Their daughter's growth
AN: based on a request by drcjsnider who asked for Lysander/Roxanne with a child. Written in the time it took to start and finish the Sophtware Slump album, then edited while listening to Washed Out. I do apologize for the lateness of it. If there's a part of this you'd like to see an expansion let me know and I'll see what I come up with :)
He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot
‘I’m prepared for this,’ he assures himself. He’s stopped counting how many times he’s told himself that.
Roxanne is screaming as she pushes. His being deaf doesn’t stop him from feeling the vibrations her voice causes or seeing the tears of pain leaking from her eyes. This is going to be completely fine and he won’t even think about his grandmother dying while giving birth to his mother.
Her eyes are on him as she takes quick, rapid breaths. He’s unconsciously taken on her breathing pattern as he runs his hands over her swollen stomach. ‘Safe’ he signs into her hand, but gets no response as she begins to push again.
Hewletts Daughter
He smooths Dana’s hair down, but the cowlick sticks up nonetheless and he can’t help but grin. Roxanne coos softly to their daughter as she runs a brush through the girl’s hair with one hand. Her hair is brown and her skin the same tone as Roxanne’s and he loves her so very, very much.
Jed the Humanoid
Dana’s a daddy’s girl through and through. The expressions she makes are completely Lysander’s, no matter how much she tends to look like her mother in every other way possible. Despite her daughter’s attachment she can’t help but feel a bit bad during storytime when she reads aloud to their daughter while Lysander watches on unsure of what to do. Sometimes he signs along with the story, practice for Dana, other times he simply watches on with a look of discontentedness.
The Crystal Lake
Dana is seven when they take her on her first expedition. She had slept with them under the stars on the small patch of land they owned, but Bulgaria is much different then their land.
It is wild in every sense of the word. There are trees everywhere she looks and not a familiar landmark in sight. She grips her mother’s hand and when she holds her hand out for her father’s it takes her a full minute before she realizes he’s not at their side.
“Mommy, where’s Daddy?” she asks, her voice nearly frantic.
Roxanne smiles knowingly and points out Lysander, two hundred feet away and kneeling on the leaf covered ground.
For the first time in her life, Dana is jealous of the attention her father’s work is getting.
Chartsengrafs
He watches intently as she opens that first gift on her 14th birthday, waiting for a smile or a grin, just a sense of happiness. Lorcan tells him that his own children have reached the teen years and he’s just as lost as Lysander. Lysander doesn’t find these words comforting in the slightest.
Dana rips the paper off without the fanfare of old and looks blankly at the set of dress robes they’d bought her. She smiles just a little, ‘Thanks Dad, Mum,’ then goes on to the next.
Underneath the Weeping Willow
“It wouldn’t kill you to go talk to your Dad, you know,” Roxanne says as she hangs the laundry. “He’s been looking forward to seeing you.”
“I don’t have anything to say,” Dana mutters. She’s just finished her fifth year and as odd as it might sound she’s not sure she wants to be associated with her father so much. Most of her friends seem to know him as the quite chap in the town library. She’s never told them anything different and she’s beginning to believe that’s all he ever was.
Broken Household Appliance National Forest
Her mother’s at her aunt’s. This should have been so easy, but her father’s always been full of surprises. He gives her a curious stare as he catches her halfway out the door.
‘Going out’, she signs without really thinking about it.
‘Where to? With who?’ he signs back in rapid succession.
‘Friends from school. There’s a party. I’ll be back by eleven.’
‘Where? Who?’
She sighs.
Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
It’s loud and nauseous and all of her friends try to outdo one another in the area of maturity. She’s seen loud before, a member of the Weasley family couldn’t avoid loud parties, but this is something different altogether. People scream for attention and she doesn’t want to be here anymore.
She searches the room over for a fireplace, but can’t find one. Tapping Sharon on the shoulder, she signs ‘Can we go now?’ The friend looks at her in confusion.
E. Knievel Interlude (The Perils of Keeping It Real)
‘What’s going on?’ Roxanne signs after a minute of watching the quiet scene in front of her. Dana is asleep on their couch, her knees pulled up to her chest, her head resting on her father’s shoulder. Lysander only shrugs.
Miner at the Dial-a-View
‘She’s graduating,’ Roxanne signs.
‘Yes,’ Lysander replies simply. Roxanne doesn’t buy it though. She’s learned that just as much can be said in the way someone signs as the tone of a voice.
‘She’s moving to Bulgaria to be with that boy.’ She waits to see Lysander’s face, but he finds his eggs particularly interesting that morning. She raps softly on the table and signs ‘Are you OK with that?’
Lysander shrugs. ‘It’s her decision. I can’t make her do anything.’ His movements are aggravated but slow. It’s like listening to someone who’s too frustrated to fully form the words. ‘She still loves us?’
She smiles. ‘Of course. Wanderlust, it was in your mother’s blood too.’
So You’ll Aim Toward the Sky
‘Dad’, Dana signs, interrupting the conversation between her daughter and father, ‘Elizabeth’s hands are going to be sore tomorrow.’
Her father and daughter give her equally sad faces, to which she just rolls her eyes. Her mother laughs heartily at the quickness of the exchange. Dana’s husband just smiles. He doesn’t know sign language, his English isn’t very strong either, but he has an idea as to what just happened.
Dana watches as her father helps Elizabeth form letters of the alphabet with her fingers and shows her simple hand signs, his hand occasionally brushing her hair back the way he used to do when he was teaching her and she smiles.