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[island_anne]

It simply could not be put off any longer. While Anne could and had been altering the clothing she already owned, the fact was that there were only so many seams she could let out before there wasn't any fabric left to accommodate her. Two weeks ago she had only been showing if you knew her intimately enough and knew precisely what to look for.

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[jdick]

"That was sexy, Anne, you should fuckin' wear it," Joe announced as he headed toward the washing machine, opening the lid and pulling out his wet clothes. "Seriously, that's the sort of shit I hear makes mermaids go crazy."

He hadn't heard that, of course, but he was pretty sure that there was no one on the island who was more fun to tease than Anne.

[island_anne]

"Perhaps, if you find the fabric so appealing, then you could wear it," said Anne, holding up the piece of clothing again before it was lost forever in the box. "I could make you a shirt from it. In fact, I could probably make you five, and still have scraps left over."

[jdick]

"Do it up," Joe said brightly and there was a chance he was forcing himself to sound more cheerful than he actually was, but Bucky had left him alone for almost two days now and he was feeling pretty good. "I hear that pattern drives FBI Agents wild, too."

[island_anne]

"You are positively incorrigible," said Anne, but she did set the garment aside to see what she might do with it, if only to tease Joe as much as he was teasing her. Perhaps she'd make him an apron from it. "But this doesn't help me at all. Oh Joe, I do need to find something to wear."

[jdick]

"Here," Joe said, pulling one of his shirts out of the dryer and tossing it in Anne's direction. It was blue, which was rare for Joe, but it was also big and if Anne wanted it, she was more than welcome to it. "I bet there's a bunch of big ass t-shirts in there if you look hard enough."

[island_anne]

"The box doesn't seem very cooperative at all," admitted Anne, though to be perfectly honest she hadn't been looking for very long yet. "All I need to find are a few things which I might alter to suit my needs. Things that are not terribly ugly."

[jdick]

"Maybe you're just too picky," Joe replied with a grin, throwing his wet clothes into the dryer and bringing a pile of dry clothes over to Anne's side, dumping them on the floor.

"What's wrong with this?" he asked, bending down and digging a long yellow dress out of the box. "Looks like a fucking muumuu."

[island_anne]

"There's nothing at all wrong with that that I can't fix with a little cutting and sewing," said Anne, snatching it from his hands before he dropped it back into the box to be gone forever. "If only the box would give me more like it. And perhaps in something of a softer fabric."

[jdick]

"Maybe it's giving them to me because it thinks I should wear 'em," Joe pointed out, grinning at her. "If this thing gives me anything like that, I'll pass 'em along to you, deal?"

[island_anne]

"That would certainly be helpful," agreed Anne, "though my need has become somewhat pressing." It hadn't been so very long ago that she had shown Joe her belly, almost entirely flat and just showing the barest signs of holding a child inside. Now her pregnancy was apparently even though her clothes to all who cared to look.

[jdick]

"Yeah, you're getting kind of round," Joe agreed, nodding a little as his gaze dropped down to Anne's belly, then grinned up at her again. "Soon enough he's gonna start kicking and stepping on your bladder and fun shit like that."

[island_anne]

"Our child will be perfectly well behaved, even while in my womb," said Anne firmly, though her smile suggested she believed no such thing. "Once or twice I have thought I felt her moving, but I suspect in retrospect that it was just wishful thinking and that what I felt was merely a bit of gas."

[jdick]

"I don't wanna hear about your bodily functions," Joe told Anne, trying to keep a straight face as he said it, pointing a finger at her. "And how's this?" he asked, grabbing another dress-like shirt from the box, this one with a turtle on the front.

[island_anne]

Anne wasn't entirely sure how she felt about the turtle, but it was certainly adequate, and the fabric felt very soft and elastic. "I think that will do just fine," she said. "Oh, I know we mustn't be choosy when it comes to the clothing box, but I do hope I might find at least one thing that I consider pretty."

[jdick]

"You'll make anything you put on pretty just by being in it," Joe informed Anne with a faint grin, then began to fold his clothes in a haphazard sort of way, leaving them in a pile on the floor.

[island_anne]

"Oh, it's very gentlemanly for you to say so," said Anne, "but I fear that with some garments, there is simply no hope."