Harvest Moon; Gina/Louis; Epsilon set
Fandom: Harvest Moon: Magical Melodies
Pairing: Louis/Gina
Theme set: Epsilon
Rating: PG
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#01 - Motion
His two-week stay at the Sanitarium with what he calls a minor mining accident is turning out surprisingly restful, considering that the pretty girl with braids and glasses that runs it never sits still, always bustling quietly around.
#02 - Cool
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow," he mutters, one hand clamped over his mouth, glaring balefully at the cup of steaming coffee and admitting that maybe she had a point when she said he should wait for it to cool a bit.
#03 - Young
She had always assumed that he was younger than her by a couple years, at least, so it's surprising when she finds out that he's five years older.
#04 - Last
She half-expected to cry on the last day of his stay here, because she's so enjoyed having company for the first time since Dia and Kurt got married, but ends up laughing instead when Ann comes to pick him up and brings a tiny dark grey kitten - named Louis - wearing little glasses and looking decidedly annoyed about it.
#05 - Wrong
She's taken a wrong turn, scurrying from the shower, towel clutched tightly around her and hair hanging damp and curling down to her waist, into Louis's room instead of Ann's to wait for her clothes to dry from a heavy rainstorm, and now he's dying to go the wrong way too, welcome her warmly and urge her to stay instead of pointing her down the hall.
#06 - Gentle
When he comes in for a flu shot, he's so obviously nervous that she volunteers half-playfully to hold his hand while Alex readies and administers the needle, because she's secretly terrified of them too.
#07 - One
He turns bright red and mutters something about a late night when he comes downstairs to ask Ann snappishly to keep the noise down while people are trying to sleep, only to find Gina, who was over for lunch and stayed to help.
#08 - Thousand
"I wasn't exaggerating much when I said I've read it a thousand times," she laughs softly when he stares, bewildered, after reading a passage from her favourite book aloud, only to have her quote along with him right to the end of the page.
#09 - King
“King me,” he requested smugly, and her adorably annoyed little pout, because she was so sure she had this one as good as won, was like an extra reward.
#10 - Learn
They've both learned a good deal from Ann and from each other: he's learned how to tell a second-degree burn on sight, and she's learned just when to duck under the table to avoid the debris.
#11 - Blur
She's aching and half-conscious from a tumble down a steep hill, and her glasses are lying broken somewhere halfway down, but she still knows by his voice that that blur of unkempt darkbrown and rumpled white is him, and it's the most beautiful sight in the world.
#12 - Wait
He'd like to stay behind and make sure she's still okay when she wakes back up again, but the young doctor, although very grateful to him for rescuing his poor sweet clumsy little nurse, seems anxious to get rid of him, especially when Gina cuddles against Louis's shoulder and smiles a little in her sleep.
#13 - Change
“I guess it's an okay change,” he shrugs awkwardly when she asks wistfully, “but I still think you look better with your glasses,” and she's glad he thinks so because she sees better with her glasses too, and can't wait for them to be fixed so the dim shapes and colors around her coalesce back into the world she knows.
#14 - Command
He's a little nervous when Alex calls to him to wait up, because something about it doesn't sound like a request, but he relaxes immediately when the young doctor reminds him with a little grin that there's a special day coming up at the end of autumn, and effectively clears up a problem he's been having by informing him, friend to a friend, that Gina likes coral jewelery best.
#15 - Hold
She flushes sweetly pink when he tells her that she's a natural born mother as well as a natural born nurse, because when she found him on the couch behind Ann's workbench, in the grip of a nightmare it just felt…well, natural to kneel and cuddle him close until he woke up and calmed down.
#16 - Need
"No, Louis, I do like them, they're very beautiful," she assures him hastily when his expression grows panicked and lost, "but there's only so much jewellery any girl needs, and these gifts all the time really aren't necessary - I like just being with you."
#17 - Vision
For both of them, the world turns into a dizzying and incomprehensible jumble of colour without their glasses; but that's why they can see better than most people in other ways, and accepted easily and gladly what might have left another young couple miserable and confused.
#18 - Attention
But understanding it doesn't always mean knowing how to handle it, and it's only a matter of weeks after he's first asked would you like to and she said yes, thank-you and they spent an evening drinking sodas at Duke's, before Alex has to suggest lightly that maybe Louis has been a little chilly to her lately because he feels neglected in favour of long hours at the Clinic with a man who was all but in love with her at one point.
#19 - Soul
He's heard her say before that a healthy soul is necessary for physical health, and he wonders a little sourly how much of that idea she's picked up from the doctor.
#20 - Picture
One night, Louis tells Gina with a grin that someday he wants a picture of her in some sexy lingerie, and Gina, who's been gulping down Martha's special hot rum toddies all day for a cold, blushes and strips immediately down to just innocent schoolgirl white knickers and knee-socks, arms instinctively folded over her chest, and tells him sadly that this is the best she can do on such short notice.
#21 - Fool
"I'm sorry I was acting so ridiculous last night," Gina mutters, bright red and miserable, upon waking up the next morning with a tremendous headache and dim recollections of crawling into his lap wearing…not a lot; Louis just assures her that it's okay, he didn't mind, thinking of the new prize of his photo collection.
#22 - Mad
"Geez, you two are nuts," Ann declares, shaking her head, when she finds Louis and Gina trading glasses, just to see what will happen, and each dissolving into gales of laughter at the sight of the other squinting furiously to get used to a different prescription.
#23 - Child
"If we ever have a kid," Louis chuckles as they trade back again and both rub their eyes dizzily, "he'll need glasses with lenses an inch thick."
#24 - Now
"I know," she smiles into his hair when she materializes behind him in the Junk Shop mid-morning, slender arms winding around his neck and a soft little cheek pressed to his, and he asks timidly if she isn't supposed to be at work right now; "But I didn't want to wait until later to see you, so the doctor let me take an early lunch."
#25 - Shadow
He thinks Ann named that cat after him with good reason, because whenever he comes to visit the Sanitarium, Gina adopts two shadows, both named Louis.
#26 - Goodbye
She's said plenty of goodbyes in her life, and there have always been tears in her eyes; so somehow, when it's time to say it to Flowerbud Village for a wedding trip of two months with Louis, it seems a little wrong to her that the only tears in her eyes are of gladness.
#27 - Hide
When she finds that silly old photo of her with only the knee socks and undies, she blushes furiously, then frowns thoughtfully, and then hunts up Eve to help her with an extra-special, top-secret mission.
#28 - Fortune
Louis has felt like his luck had just improved dramatically the first time he met her, and his luck couldn't get any better when they got married; but when he comes home from an evening session in the mines to find a snuggly, affectionate Gina clad in a filmy, lacy contraption of pale yellow, he feels, pulling gently at the material, like it just has.
#29 - Safe
She doesn't exactly feel safest when she's with him, because after all, he doesn't have much more muscle strength and combative skill than she does; but she feels most cherished and loved, and that's like a better kind of safety.
#30 - Ghost
She expects him to laugh, her logical, scientific Louis, when he catches her reading avidly from a big book of ghost stories; instead, he colours a little and asks if he can borrow it when she's done.
#31 - Book
Alex doesn't comment when he notices that Gina has scheduled more time for Louis's appointment than he'll need to do a thorough check-up, but grins when he notices that the latter part overlaps with his lunch hour.
#32 - Eye
"Louis, I thought you didn't even like sweets," she huffs in fond annoyance when she catches him eyeing that blueberry pie she made for Dia longingly; and he shrugs sheepishly, "Well, neither do you, but you were sneaking little spoonfuls of the filling the whole time you were making it, and now all our spoons are dirty."
#33 - Never
They've tried skiing once now, Louis thinks, wincing as his sprained ankle gives a throb and reflecting that he really should have taken a cue from Gina, who slunk off inside the lodge to drink hot cocoa after the first half hour and the first three trips down the hill on her face, so now they never have to do it again
#34 - Sing
Even though he doesn't really like it, he asks her at least once a month to make chocolate cream pie, because she always sings while she's kneading the crust and whipping the cream, and he does like hearing her cheerful bursts of song from the kitchen.
#35 - Sudden
It seems awfully sudden, when he announces grimly that he's not going to help Ann at the Junk Shop anymore, now that Gina's finally got time to go with him because Alex ordered her off work until the baby is born, and she can't stop a tiny thread of fear from creeping into her mind, that Louis would rather see Ann alone.
#36 - Stop
At least, until he stops it in its tracks by noticing that something's wrong, picking it relentlessly out of her in the sort of stubbornness that she's never associated with him before, and then he laughs until she pouts at him, because it's just so funny, her thinking that he'd spend that kind of time with anyone else when he loves her more each day.
#37 - Time
She thinks he's adorable in the early morning, still asleep, hair even more mussed from sleep, happily snuggling a pillow until she tugs it gently away and insinuates herself between his arm and his shoulder; he thinks she's beautiful in the evening, because her hair and skin blend with the moonlight, and her eyes glow through the dimness until she becomes something elfin and mocking and irresistible.
#38 - Wash
When she lets the cat in from a nice, leisurely walk in the rain, he's covered in mud, so she takes him immediately upstairs for a bath, much to his disapproval; and the Louis without whiskers and a tail but with shaggy dark hair and beautiful hands watches enviously and asks, with huge pitiful eyes, if she'll give him a bath next.
#39 - Torn
When he hears her sigh that this one didn't turn out, either, sees her twist that pencil back into her hair to hold up a long heavy mass of silveryblue, hears the sound of ripping paper, he winces: "Gina, my neck is sore from gazing off into the distance; can we stop for today?"
#40 - History
Dia very carefully does not ask why the sight of Tequila Slammers makes both of them giggle and blush madly; there are some things she just doesn't want to know, even about Gina.
#41 - Power
As it turns out, Gina's newfound love of splitting kindling is a good thing, because that winter there's a terrible storm, and the power goes out for three days; they spend most of the time in front of a roaring fire, wrapped up in each other, and don't even notice when the lights come back on.
#42 - Bother
"I wouldn't mind if you didn't bother with nylons anymore," he said hopefully, because even though he likes easing that sheer fabric down her slim, pretty legs, leaving a trail of kisses as he goes, he also likes the idea of being able to slip his hand up under her skirt and make her make those half-horrified, half-pleading little squeaks when he does it in public.
#43 - God
"The problem with the Harvest Goddess," she hears him retort when Ann asks, "is that everyone who's not a farmer is kind of screwed."
#44 - Wall
"That wall is covered in clowns!" Ann exclaims between gales of laughter when two proud aspiring interior designers show her the nursery; "Your kid is going to grow up traumatized!"
#45 - Naked
He always thought that Gina's smile when she looked at him was the prettiest sight in the world, but now that he's seen her eyes filled with that pure, undisguised, exquisite happiness, smiling down at the wee little man in her arms, all of two minutes old, he thinks he's changed his mind.
#46 - Drive
"Don't worry, I know how to do this; I drove a golf cart once," Gina assures him with a comforting pat as she starts the gleaming red rental car, and Louis says a quick prayer for the two of them and decides grimly that Michael will give little Jody a good home.
#47 - Harm
It's strange that two parents as quiet and careful as them should have such a rough-and-tumble little boy - Auntie Ann's influence, they suspect - but at least their respective life paths, nursing and often-disastrous inventing, keep both from panicking the first time Jody comes storming back in, bruised and bleeding, from a fist-fight with Auntie Ann and Uncle Blue's daughter.
#48 - Precious
"I suppose this is what being a mommy is about," she says sheepishly when she notices him staring, astonished, because both Jody's first sippy-cup and one of her best china plates were slipping from the shelves, and she lunged for the babyhood keepsake first, leaving the plate to chip on the counter top.
#49 - Hunger
"I'm hungrier when we have supper at the Inn than when Mommy makes it," Jody tells his father in a tone of finality, and Gina thinks she might be a little more hurt over her small son's words if she wasn't too busy trying not to laugh.
#50 - Believe
By the time Gina finds her tummy swelling with their third baby, it seems impossible to imagine that they ever wanted five; but every time Jody's little sister Robyn smiles adoringly up at her daddy, it's equally impossible for Louis to imagine that they ever wanted to stop after one.
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Pairing: Louis/Gina
Theme set: Epsilon
Rating: PG
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#01 - Motion
His two-week stay at the Sanitarium with what he calls a minor mining accident is turning out surprisingly restful, considering that the pretty girl with braids and glasses that runs it never sits still, always bustling quietly around.
#02 - Cool
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow," he mutters, one hand clamped over his mouth, glaring balefully at the cup of steaming coffee and admitting that maybe she had a point when she said he should wait for it to cool a bit.
#03 - Young
She had always assumed that he was younger than her by a couple years, at least, so it's surprising when she finds out that he's five years older.
#04 - Last
She half-expected to cry on the last day of his stay here, because she's so enjoyed having company for the first time since Dia and Kurt got married, but ends up laughing instead when Ann comes to pick him up and brings a tiny dark grey kitten - named Louis - wearing little glasses and looking decidedly annoyed about it.
#05 - Wrong
She's taken a wrong turn, scurrying from the shower, towel clutched tightly around her and hair hanging damp and curling down to her waist, into Louis's room instead of Ann's to wait for her clothes to dry from a heavy rainstorm, and now he's dying to go the wrong way too, welcome her warmly and urge her to stay instead of pointing her down the hall.
#06 - Gentle
When he comes in for a flu shot, he's so obviously nervous that she volunteers half-playfully to hold his hand while Alex readies and administers the needle, because she's secretly terrified of them too.
#07 - One
He turns bright red and mutters something about a late night when he comes downstairs to ask Ann snappishly to keep the noise down while people are trying to sleep, only to find Gina, who was over for lunch and stayed to help.
#08 - Thousand
"I wasn't exaggerating much when I said I've read it a thousand times," she laughs softly when he stares, bewildered, after reading a passage from her favourite book aloud, only to have her quote along with him right to the end of the page.
#09 - King
“King me,” he requested smugly, and her adorably annoyed little pout, because she was so sure she had this one as good as won, was like an extra reward.
#10 - Learn
They've both learned a good deal from Ann and from each other: he's learned how to tell a second-degree burn on sight, and she's learned just when to duck under the table to avoid the debris.
#11 - Blur
She's aching and half-conscious from a tumble down a steep hill, and her glasses are lying broken somewhere halfway down, but she still knows by his voice that that blur of unkempt darkbrown and rumpled white is him, and it's the most beautiful sight in the world.
#12 - Wait
He'd like to stay behind and make sure she's still okay when she wakes back up again, but the young doctor, although very grateful to him for rescuing his poor sweet clumsy little nurse, seems anxious to get rid of him, especially when Gina cuddles against Louis's shoulder and smiles a little in her sleep.
#13 - Change
“I guess it's an okay change,” he shrugs awkwardly when she asks wistfully, “but I still think you look better with your glasses,” and she's glad he thinks so because she sees better with her glasses too, and can't wait for them to be fixed so the dim shapes and colors around her coalesce back into the world she knows.
#14 - Command
He's a little nervous when Alex calls to him to wait up, because something about it doesn't sound like a request, but he relaxes immediately when the young doctor reminds him with a little grin that there's a special day coming up at the end of autumn, and effectively clears up a problem he's been having by informing him, friend to a friend, that Gina likes coral jewelery best.
#15 - Hold
She flushes sweetly pink when he tells her that she's a natural born mother as well as a natural born nurse, because when she found him on the couch behind Ann's workbench, in the grip of a nightmare it just felt…well, natural to kneel and cuddle him close until he woke up and calmed down.
#16 - Need
"No, Louis, I do like them, they're very beautiful," she assures him hastily when his expression grows panicked and lost, "but there's only so much jewellery any girl needs, and these gifts all the time really aren't necessary - I like just being with you."
#17 - Vision
For both of them, the world turns into a dizzying and incomprehensible jumble of colour without their glasses; but that's why they can see better than most people in other ways, and accepted easily and gladly what might have left another young couple miserable and confused.
#18 - Attention
But understanding it doesn't always mean knowing how to handle it, and it's only a matter of weeks after he's first asked would you like to and she said yes, thank-you and they spent an evening drinking sodas at Duke's, before Alex has to suggest lightly that maybe Louis has been a little chilly to her lately because he feels neglected in favour of long hours at the Clinic with a man who was all but in love with her at one point.
#19 - Soul
He's heard her say before that a healthy soul is necessary for physical health, and he wonders a little sourly how much of that idea she's picked up from the doctor.
#20 - Picture
One night, Louis tells Gina with a grin that someday he wants a picture of her in some sexy lingerie, and Gina, who's been gulping down Martha's special hot rum toddies all day for a cold, blushes and strips immediately down to just innocent schoolgirl white knickers and knee-socks, arms instinctively folded over her chest, and tells him sadly that this is the best she can do on such short notice.
#21 - Fool
"I'm sorry I was acting so ridiculous last night," Gina mutters, bright red and miserable, upon waking up the next morning with a tremendous headache and dim recollections of crawling into his lap wearing…not a lot; Louis just assures her that it's okay, he didn't mind, thinking of the new prize of his photo collection.
#22 - Mad
"Geez, you two are nuts," Ann declares, shaking her head, when she finds Louis and Gina trading glasses, just to see what will happen, and each dissolving into gales of laughter at the sight of the other squinting furiously to get used to a different prescription.
#23 - Child
"If we ever have a kid," Louis chuckles as they trade back again and both rub their eyes dizzily, "he'll need glasses with lenses an inch thick."
#24 - Now
"I know," she smiles into his hair when she materializes behind him in the Junk Shop mid-morning, slender arms winding around his neck and a soft little cheek pressed to his, and he asks timidly if she isn't supposed to be at work right now; "But I didn't want to wait until later to see you, so the doctor let me take an early lunch."
#25 - Shadow
He thinks Ann named that cat after him with good reason, because whenever he comes to visit the Sanitarium, Gina adopts two shadows, both named Louis.
#26 - Goodbye
She's said plenty of goodbyes in her life, and there have always been tears in her eyes; so somehow, when it's time to say it to Flowerbud Village for a wedding trip of two months with Louis, it seems a little wrong to her that the only tears in her eyes are of gladness.
#27 - Hide
When she finds that silly old photo of her with only the knee socks and undies, she blushes furiously, then frowns thoughtfully, and then hunts up Eve to help her with an extra-special, top-secret mission.
#28 - Fortune
Louis has felt like his luck had just improved dramatically the first time he met her, and his luck couldn't get any better when they got married; but when he comes home from an evening session in the mines to find a snuggly, affectionate Gina clad in a filmy, lacy contraption of pale yellow, he feels, pulling gently at the material, like it just has.
#29 - Safe
She doesn't exactly feel safest when she's with him, because after all, he doesn't have much more muscle strength and combative skill than she does; but she feels most cherished and loved, and that's like a better kind of safety.
#30 - Ghost
She expects him to laugh, her logical, scientific Louis, when he catches her reading avidly from a big book of ghost stories; instead, he colours a little and asks if he can borrow it when she's done.
#31 - Book
Alex doesn't comment when he notices that Gina has scheduled more time for Louis's appointment than he'll need to do a thorough check-up, but grins when he notices that the latter part overlaps with his lunch hour.
#32 - Eye
"Louis, I thought you didn't even like sweets," she huffs in fond annoyance when she catches him eyeing that blueberry pie she made for Dia longingly; and he shrugs sheepishly, "Well, neither do you, but you were sneaking little spoonfuls of the filling the whole time you were making it, and now all our spoons are dirty."
#33 - Never
They've tried skiing once now, Louis thinks, wincing as his sprained ankle gives a throb and reflecting that he really should have taken a cue from Gina, who slunk off inside the lodge to drink hot cocoa after the first half hour and the first three trips down the hill on her face, so now they never have to do it again
#34 - Sing
Even though he doesn't really like it, he asks her at least once a month to make chocolate cream pie, because she always sings while she's kneading the crust and whipping the cream, and he does like hearing her cheerful bursts of song from the kitchen.
#35 - Sudden
It seems awfully sudden, when he announces grimly that he's not going to help Ann at the Junk Shop anymore, now that Gina's finally got time to go with him because Alex ordered her off work until the baby is born, and she can't stop a tiny thread of fear from creeping into her mind, that Louis would rather see Ann alone.
#36 - Stop
At least, until he stops it in its tracks by noticing that something's wrong, picking it relentlessly out of her in the sort of stubbornness that she's never associated with him before, and then he laughs until she pouts at him, because it's just so funny, her thinking that he'd spend that kind of time with anyone else when he loves her more each day.
#37 - Time
She thinks he's adorable in the early morning, still asleep, hair even more mussed from sleep, happily snuggling a pillow until she tugs it gently away and insinuates herself between his arm and his shoulder; he thinks she's beautiful in the evening, because her hair and skin blend with the moonlight, and her eyes glow through the dimness until she becomes something elfin and mocking and irresistible.
#38 - Wash
When she lets the cat in from a nice, leisurely walk in the rain, he's covered in mud, so she takes him immediately upstairs for a bath, much to his disapproval; and the Louis without whiskers and a tail but with shaggy dark hair and beautiful hands watches enviously and asks, with huge pitiful eyes, if she'll give him a bath next.
#39 - Torn
When he hears her sigh that this one didn't turn out, either, sees her twist that pencil back into her hair to hold up a long heavy mass of silveryblue, hears the sound of ripping paper, he winces: "Gina, my neck is sore from gazing off into the distance; can we stop for today?"
#40 - History
Dia very carefully does not ask why the sight of Tequila Slammers makes both of them giggle and blush madly; there are some things she just doesn't want to know, even about Gina.
#41 - Power
As it turns out, Gina's newfound love of splitting kindling is a good thing, because that winter there's a terrible storm, and the power goes out for three days; they spend most of the time in front of a roaring fire, wrapped up in each other, and don't even notice when the lights come back on.
#42 - Bother
"I wouldn't mind if you didn't bother with nylons anymore," he said hopefully, because even though he likes easing that sheer fabric down her slim, pretty legs, leaving a trail of kisses as he goes, he also likes the idea of being able to slip his hand up under her skirt and make her make those half-horrified, half-pleading little squeaks when he does it in public.
#43 - God
"The problem with the Harvest Goddess," she hears him retort when Ann asks, "is that everyone who's not a farmer is kind of screwed."
#44 - Wall
"That wall is covered in clowns!" Ann exclaims between gales of laughter when two proud aspiring interior designers show her the nursery; "Your kid is going to grow up traumatized!"
#45 - Naked
He always thought that Gina's smile when she looked at him was the prettiest sight in the world, but now that he's seen her eyes filled with that pure, undisguised, exquisite happiness, smiling down at the wee little man in her arms, all of two minutes old, he thinks he's changed his mind.
#46 - Drive
"Don't worry, I know how to do this; I drove a golf cart once," Gina assures him with a comforting pat as she starts the gleaming red rental car, and Louis says a quick prayer for the two of them and decides grimly that Michael will give little Jody a good home.
#47 - Harm
It's strange that two parents as quiet and careful as them should have such a rough-and-tumble little boy - Auntie Ann's influence, they suspect - but at least their respective life paths, nursing and often-disastrous inventing, keep both from panicking the first time Jody comes storming back in, bruised and bleeding, from a fist-fight with Auntie Ann and Uncle Blue's daughter.
#48 - Precious
"I suppose this is what being a mommy is about," she says sheepishly when she notices him staring, astonished, because both Jody's first sippy-cup and one of her best china plates were slipping from the shelves, and she lunged for the babyhood keepsake first, leaving the plate to chip on the counter top.
#49 - Hunger
"I'm hungrier when we have supper at the Inn than when Mommy makes it," Jody tells his father in a tone of finality, and Gina thinks she might be a little more hurt over her small son's words if she wasn't too busy trying not to laugh.
#50 - Believe
By the time Gina finds her tummy swelling with their third baby, it seems impossible to imagine that they ever wanted five; but every time Jody's little sister Robyn smiles adoringly up at her daddy, it's equally impossible for Louis to imagine that they ever wanted to stop after one.
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