[Follows THIS | Simultaneous to THIS]Ali rested her head on Andrew's shoulder as they rode the elevator back up to their apartment. She analysed the fresh cast on her wrist with a tired smirk on her lips. "This is officially my first treatable sex injury," she declared. "How cool is that ( Read more... )

14.15. “If you hurt that girl I will kill you, nurse you back to health, and then kill you again!”
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[Follows THIS]Mark looked down at the pink teddy bear in his hand and let out a rough, shaky breath. He tried to swallow away the nerves fluttering inside him, but it was impossible. When he returned home from a meeting with his old boss ( Read more... )

LINK: Andrew had fed and changed Jamie, putting her in one of the new little dresses Ali had bought specially for their holiday, and then settled her back in her crib with the mobile going and her sippy cup, which she still didn't actually drink from. She just liked to suck and gnaw on it until she was a little drool factory, so he made sure she ( Read more... )

19.10.2. "Here And Now" - Luther Vandross
One look in your eyes and there I see
Just what you mean to me
Here in my heart I believe
Your love is all I'll ever need

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[Follows THIS, THIS and THIS]Ali was in more than an awed dazed. That morning she had thought she was already having the best birthday of her life, but Andrew had just ( Read more... )

19.4.2. Promise

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[Follows THIS]Ali was sitting on a bench in the long, stark corridor of the Intensive Care Unit at Mount Sinai Medical Center. An empty coffee cup was crumpled between her clasped hands as she stared unseeingly at the bottom of the water cooler across from her. It wasn't that she didn't know what to think about the ( Read more... )

2.7. "In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt."
- Meg Cabot

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[Follows THIS and THIS]Ali met Andrew at the door wearing just a t-shirt and an indulgent grin. "How about we forgo dinner in favour of a quickie?" she suggested, drinking in how hot he ( Read more... )

How am I meant to not jump his bones when he looks this yummy in a tie?


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27.4. Hold

Co-written with paramedically | Follows THIS"You're kidding? Chicken Pox?" Andrew asked in concern as he came over to where Ali was setting the baby capsule onto the sofa and lifting Jamie out into her arms. "Where has she been to get that?" He tucked the crutches under his arms so he could stroke the baby's tear-dampened cheek softly ( Read more... )

57.2. Stay

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[Backdated about a week ago | Follows THIS]

( You and my daughter are the reason I get up in the morning, because to be fucking honest, when I wake up most days right now, I feel so heavy and down that I really don’t know want to get up again. But then you’re lying there next to me and you’re warm and you’re touching me. You’re waking up and making sure I’m okay and, Andrew? No one has ever, in my whole life, made me feel the way you do every morning when I wake up and you lift that black cloud from my mind... )

37.5. Photograph (from Week 29)

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[Follows THIS]Despite Marc’s insistence he should raise the subject with Ali, Andrew hadn’t found the right time. Or maybe he was just scared what she would tell him? He paced slowly back and forth in front of the large balcony windows of Ali’s apartment, the Upper East Side night time his back ( Read more... )