[PPTH] Catching up

[doctortara]

Who: Tara & Evie
Where: Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital
When: Tuesday Evening
Follows: Nothing
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Tara pulled the strips from the foetal monitor into her lap and started to read over the print-outs. It was a nice healthy heartbeat and the gentle, regular beep beep of the monitor was soothing

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[doctortara]

Tara smiled, nodding. "I know exactly how you feel." She gestured Evie a little closer with her finger and pulled pyjama top up enough to nudge the covers away and reveal her hip. Tattooed there was a small red heart with Lachlan's name circling the top of it and Tha thu mo neart circling below it. "Tha thu mo neart. It means 'You are my strength' in Gaelic. I got this done just after he woke up from the coma. I just did it one day without even thinking about it. He's really the only one who sees it. It fits against his tattoo of the Scottish flag when we... well, yeah," she laughed.

She wrapped her hands around her bare baby bump and tilted her head as she analysed it. "I sometimes find it hard to believe this attached to me," she admitted. "Being pregnant is such a weird feeling. It's a perfect round shape. I love it, I really do. Not sure others would appreciate me walking around with it hanging out in a bikini! Lachie would. He loves touching-" She paused, her breath hitching a little. There was a kick under her left hand, which she took away. Not only could it be felt, but you could see the movement in her stomach.

[imnodoctor]

"See, now I just want a tattoo," Evie replied as she pretended to pout. "But he's just got his ink with his twin, so I'm not going to muscle in on their territory. He got me a pendant at Lachlan's party. It's beautiful, but I can't wear it here." She touched her neck wear it the topaz heart should have been nestled and licked her lips. "I want to get him something too, I'm just failing in the brain department. Mostly I just want him to know I'm not going anywhere."

Evie stared at where the bump had just moved. "Tara! Oh my god! It's alive!!" Evie knew it, but now she'd seen it. "Also, that it just freaky. Think the baby either likes your husband touching them, or doesn't like it?"