Re: and she's the moon; willow/taradollsomeAugust 21 2011, 01:34:01 UTC
and the surprised, "eeep!" willow had made when their lips had connected.
it was a good eep, willow had told her later.
OH MY HEART. This is so beautiful and sweet and SO TARA, and I love how some of their issues are lurking in it -- Oz, magic-and-Willow -- but it doesn't at all detract from the utter loveliness, because everything's all sweet and new and alksjdfl;akdj. ♥
Empty Rings Around Your Heart. Part 1/2oltha_heriAugust 20 2011, 07:44:40 UTC
I haven't even reread through this. It's late. And it's angsty.
The pacing came through the wall back and forth, towards her, then away. Mary could hear him (and she knew it was him, could picture the wringing of his hands the way her father would offer him a scotch to steady his nerves, and the halting way he'd choke it down, nervous, nervous, nervous). He is waiting, and so is she now. She tried to be helpful! She was helpful during the war! But apparently she found the idea of childbirth far more distressing than bandaging a leg that had been partly blown away by a German shell. Her mother had sent her from Mrs. Crowley's bedside (Countess, Mary would have to call her one day, the title her Mother held, her Grandmother had held, and what would she be, what would she be? Lady Mary, never anything more, she thinks
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Empty Rings Around Your Heart. Part 2/2oltha_heriAugust 20 2011, 07:45:07 UTC
"I'd forgotten you could be nervous sometimes."
"Only on very rare and special occasions." She promises solemnly. His smile broadens and she takes one more step into the room, but his smile drops slightly and Matthew turns his head from her looking out the window. She can't help but go to him, she may not be able to love him, but she can at least be his family. "I am sure she and the child shall be fine." She says once she is close enough to speak to him quietly (to reach out, to touch him).
"You cannot-"
"No, no I can't." She cuts him off. "But Sybil and my mother and the Doctor are all with her, even if things don't go well there is a good chance that it won't be-" And she stops, as ever unsure how to talk to him truthfully without hurting him, "Matthew please."
And then he turns and looks at her, and he looks so scared. "I don't want to lose this Mary
( ... )
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it was a good eep, willow had told her later.
OH MY HEART. This is so beautiful and sweet and SO TARA, and I love how some of their issues are lurking in it -- Oz, magic-and-Willow -- but it doesn't at all detract from the utter loveliness, because everything's all sweet and new and alksjdfl;akdj. ♥
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The pacing came through the wall back and forth, towards her, then away. Mary could hear him (and she knew it was him, could picture the wringing of his hands the way her father would offer him a scotch to steady his nerves, and the halting way he'd choke it down, nervous, nervous, nervous). He is waiting, and so is she now. She tried to be helpful! She was helpful during the war! But apparently she found the idea of childbirth far more distressing than bandaging a leg that had been partly blown away by a German shell. Her mother had sent her from Mrs. Crowley's bedside (Countess, Mary would have to call her one day, the title her Mother held, her Grandmother had held, and what would she be, what would she be? Lady Mary, never anything more, she thinks ( ... )
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"Only on very rare and special occasions." She promises solemnly. His smile broadens and she takes one more step into the room, but his smile drops slightly and Matthew turns his head from her looking out the window. She can't help but go to him, she may not be able to love him, but she can at least be his family. "I am sure she and the child shall be fine." She says once she is close enough to speak to him quietly (to reach out, to touch him).
"You cannot-"
"No, no I can't." She cuts him off. "But Sybil and my mother and the Doctor are all with her, even if things don't go well there is a good chance that it won't be-" And she stops, as ever unsure how to talk to him truthfully without hurting him, "Matthew please."
And then he turns and looks at her, and he looks so scared. "I don't want to lose this Mary ( ... )
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"I'm not so sure of that anymore Cousin Mary. Sometimes I think you are not at all who you were."
Brb, WEEPING.
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