Fic: Love Will Come Through 1/3
Ok, so, I was sick, mostly my head. No, not in that way. I had to fight migraines for nearly the whole week, which messed up my sleeping rhythm and which slowed me down in reading. I hate getting slowed down when it comes to reading all your wonderful work.
But, here I am, this is for ojos11
Thank you outuendo_11 for playing beta for me, that was lovely, I owe you.
Thank you grdnofevrythng for organizing.
Author: Vinjii
Title: Love Will Come Through 1/3
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Miranda/Andrea
Summary: Miranda has to work on Valentine’s Day.
Disclaimer: Every day I ask God to please give me La Priestly, sadly enough he is still refusing, so nothing is mine. I will not give up though. I will keep on asking. Who knows.
Day
Andy felt giddy, it was Valentine’s Day after all and you were supposed to feel giddy on that day, when you were in a relationship, right? Then again it didn’t matter what you were supposed to feel like because Andy felt giddy all the time these days.
Apparently that’s what Miranda Priestly could do to you, Andy had come to find. Not that she minded, not at all. She wasn’t bothered by the fact that she walked around like she had slept with a hanger in her mouth. Others might have been concerned, but not her. And these days she couldn’t care less what other people were thinking.
All she cared about was Miranda Priestly.
And in a few hours they’d be having dinner together. For the first time they’d be dining together in public. The next morning would be all about Page Six but Andy really didn’t care about that now.
Miranda Priestly had asked her to dine in one of the fanciest restaurants New York had to offer. Together. Tonight. All she cared about was this feeling of giddiness.
She doubted that anyone on this earth would care for anything else in such a moment.
Everything was already planned and ready. She knew what to wear, how her hair would look like, what kind of shoes she’d be walking in and which purse she’d be clutching to her side. Nigel had made sure that she would look amazing and she couldn’t wait to see the expression on Miranda’s face when she would see her for the first time.
Nigel was convinced there would be at least a slight jaw dropping; Andy on the other side would be happy with only lingering stares and those she was sure she would get.
Even the part after the dinner was already prepared.
So she had nothing left to do but be giddy.
“Is it necessary that you skip around the house in this manner?” Cassidy raised an eyebrow and put the controller aside. “I can’t concentrate when you do that and Caroline keeps on winning!”
“I’m sorry.” Andy mumbled knowing very well that scurrying around the house in this agitated manner would drive anyone insane.
She bit her bottom lip, forcing herself to stand still and sat down on the couch next to the twins.
“Just, today is a big day, you know?”
The two redheads grinned at her.
“Oh, we know.”
They looked at each other and if possible their grins got even bigger matching Andy’s as they scooted closer to the young woman and snuggled against her.
Andy felt a wave of happiness surge through her and she thought her heart might burst with love.
She wrapped both her arms tightly around the girls. She had been dating Miranda for seven months now and the twins had known about them from the beginning. They had been skeptical at first but when they had realized that she wouldn’t be another Stephen they had warmed up to her.
Both were very protective of their mother and Andy knew that they had been observing every movement, every look, every touch.
Upon seeing how smitten their mother was and how much she adored the younger woman they had started to do more than just warm up to her. They liked seeing the expression on Andy’s face whenever she looked at their mother, whenever they saw it, they just knew that this would work out. It had to work out.
Andy laughed.
“I should be less giddy, right? It’s not normal to be as giddy, it can’t be.”
The twins weren’t sure if she was actually talking to them or if it was more of a dry observation to no one in particular.
“Mom was the same a couple of days ago.”
“You’re kidding, right?”
“No.” Both twins shook their heads.
“When?” Andy was curious now. She couldn’t imagine Miranda in a giddy way it just didn’t fit. Then again it wouldn’t have been the first time that Miranda had behaved in ways that were, well, not her around Andy.
“When she asked you out to dinner, for tonight, after you said yes.”
Andy’s eyebrows were nearly reaching her hairline as she looked at the girls wondering if she should believe them. She remembered her own reaction. She had been sitting in her office when her cell phone had started to ring. When she had picked up, Miranda didn’t waste any time to greet her, she just blurted the invitation out as if she was scared that if she didn’t do it now, she wouldn’t dare do it later. Andy had to swallow a couple of times to get rid of that tight feeling in her throat before she managed to utter a simple yes. Of course, right after Miranda had already hung up on her, leaving her standing there with a goofy grin on her face.
“We swear!” The girls added in unison upon seeing Andy’s expression.
“She started to scurry through the house in this half skipping way, we weren’t supposed to notice, but she wasn’t very good at hiding it.”
“She was embarrassed. It was funny.” Caroline added after Cassidy’s explanation and Andy started to giggle.
The phone interrupted them and they all looked at each other. They did not like when that phone rang. At all. That phone ringing usually meant that Miranda was stuck at work, delayed or off to some other city to supervise a photo shoot that previously had been messed up by someone else.
Andy groaned as she stood up and hesitantly glanced at the caller ID. Miranda Priestly. Of course. She sighed and picked up.
“I have to work late.”
“Good morning to you, too, Miranda.”
“We’ll go out another day.”
Andy opened her mouth to reply but Miranda had already hung up on her.
Sure.
Going out another day it was.
And have a nice day, Miranda.
Both girls were staring at her, eyes filled with concern. “She hung up on you? She never does that!”
“I know.” Andy’s reply was nothing more than a soft whisper and immediately she had two girls wrapped around herself.
She smiled weakly.
“She probably was in a meeting.”
She didn’t look convinced.
“She was looking forward to tonight”, Cassidy said. “You know how she gets when things don’t go the way she wants them to go.”
“I know.” Andy sighed and pulled the girls closer, clinging to them as fear was surging through her stomach. She felt sick and she had a hard time keeping her thoughts from going crazy.
“But usually she gets like that with others, she talks to us, at least she usually tries...”
“She talks to us because she knows that’s what you want her to do, she makes an effort for you.” Cassidy poked her sister in an attempt to get her to say something. Anything. As long as it was comforting in some way. In any way.
“And that’s when it’s about others. This is about you, your dinner, your life, your relationship, that’s something entirely different.” Caroline looked at her sister not sure if what she had just said made any sense but Cassidy nodded.
“True.” It was still nothing more than a whisper but the twins liked the expression on Andy’s face already better than the one she was previously showing.
“Why don’t you take us to dinner?”
“Yes! Page Six would still get a kick out of that!”
This made Andy laugh and she nodded.
“How about we go right now, we’ll eat ice cream, then watch a movie and then go out for dinner?”
She didn’t have to wait for a reply, the twins’ faces said it all.
She tried her best for the rest of the day not to show that the fears had never really disappeared.
For months now she had been waiting for Miranda to get bored of her. She knew Miranda feared the same. But she also knew for a fact that she could not get bored with Miranda. An eternity with the older woman wouldn’t have been enough for her. She felt like she learned something new about her every day and every tiny bit she got of her she treasured and every tiny bit made her love the woman behind the fashion icon even more.
But she, she was just a young girl, kind of naïve, running after her dreams, trying to build a career, just like every other young girl in this world. One had to get bored of her at some point. She was pretty convinced of that.
They had shared an incredible seven months. Slowly Miranda had opened up to her and let her in, she knew there was still a great deal she hadn’t seen of her and she wasn’t sure if she’d ever see it all.
Of course, they had their fights. But Miranda tried to communicate, to talk to Andy and explain things instead of cutting her with harsh words and Andy tried hard not to storm out whenever Miranda failed.
There had been moments when she could have strangled the editor. But she knew that after Paris she wasn’t allowed to storm out. It would have hurt the editor more than any words coming from the older woman could ever hurt her.
They had always come out of their fights stronger than they had been before.
And of course there were the good moments. After all it had been an incredible seven months.
In the beginning Andy had tried to shield herself from the heartbreak she was sure was about to come. But the shield had been lost almost immediately and in the meantime the journalist knew very well that she was simply not able to function without Miranda anymore.
She wanted to spend the rest of her life with the editor and she was prepared to sacrifice whatever it took to make that happen. With Miranda she felt complete, she felt like she was home and she knew that’s where she belonged.
Without her she’d feel lost and she’d never be whole again.
And now the editor had to work on their first Valentine’s Day and had to cancel the dinner plans they had. Without an explanation. She hadn’t even taken her time to explain. Andy would have understood if something big had come up. She would have understood nearly anything if only the editor had taken time to explain.
But apparently she wasn’t even worth that.
It was no surprise that only the twins ate ice cream and only the twins enjoyed the movie. Andy was wrapped up in her thoughts, trying to smile, not to pull the girls down with her but her eyes were brimming with unshed tears while fear was clutching at her heart.
And secretly the twins weren’t enjoying the day so much either.
But, here I am, this is for ojos11
Thank you outuendo_11 for playing beta for me, that was lovely, I owe you.
Thank you grdnofevrythng for organizing.
Author: Vinjii
Title: Love Will Come Through 1/3
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Miranda/Andrea
Summary: Miranda has to work on Valentine’s Day.
Disclaimer: Every day I ask God to please give me La Priestly, sadly enough he is still refusing, so nothing is mine. I will not give up though. I will keep on asking. Who knows.
Day
Andy felt giddy, it was Valentine’s Day after all and you were supposed to feel giddy on that day, when you were in a relationship, right? Then again it didn’t matter what you were supposed to feel like because Andy felt giddy all the time these days.
Apparently that’s what Miranda Priestly could do to you, Andy had come to find. Not that she minded, not at all. She wasn’t bothered by the fact that she walked around like she had slept with a hanger in her mouth. Others might have been concerned, but not her. And these days she couldn’t care less what other people were thinking.
All she cared about was Miranda Priestly.
And in a few hours they’d be having dinner together. For the first time they’d be dining together in public. The next morning would be all about Page Six but Andy really didn’t care about that now.
Miranda Priestly had asked her to dine in one of the fanciest restaurants New York had to offer. Together. Tonight. All she cared about was this feeling of giddiness.
She doubted that anyone on this earth would care for anything else in such a moment.
Everything was already planned and ready. She knew what to wear, how her hair would look like, what kind of shoes she’d be walking in and which purse she’d be clutching to her side. Nigel had made sure that she would look amazing and she couldn’t wait to see the expression on Miranda’s face when she would see her for the first time.
Nigel was convinced there would be at least a slight jaw dropping; Andy on the other side would be happy with only lingering stares and those she was sure she would get.
Even the part after the dinner was already prepared.
So she had nothing left to do but be giddy.
“Is it necessary that you skip around the house in this manner?” Cassidy raised an eyebrow and put the controller aside. “I can’t concentrate when you do that and Caroline keeps on winning!”
“I’m sorry.” Andy mumbled knowing very well that scurrying around the house in this agitated manner would drive anyone insane.
She bit her bottom lip, forcing herself to stand still and sat down on the couch next to the twins.
“Just, today is a big day, you know?”
The two redheads grinned at her.
“Oh, we know.”
They looked at each other and if possible their grins got even bigger matching Andy’s as they scooted closer to the young woman and snuggled against her.
Andy felt a wave of happiness surge through her and she thought her heart might burst with love.
She wrapped both her arms tightly around the girls. She had been dating Miranda for seven months now and the twins had known about them from the beginning. They had been skeptical at first but when they had realized that she wouldn’t be another Stephen they had warmed up to her.
Both were very protective of their mother and Andy knew that they had been observing every movement, every look, every touch.
Upon seeing how smitten their mother was and how much she adored the younger woman they had started to do more than just warm up to her. They liked seeing the expression on Andy’s face whenever she looked at their mother, whenever they saw it, they just knew that this would work out. It had to work out.
Andy laughed.
“I should be less giddy, right? It’s not normal to be as giddy, it can’t be.”
The twins weren’t sure if she was actually talking to them or if it was more of a dry observation to no one in particular.
“Mom was the same a couple of days ago.”
“You’re kidding, right?”
“No.” Both twins shook their heads.
“When?” Andy was curious now. She couldn’t imagine Miranda in a giddy way it just didn’t fit. Then again it wouldn’t have been the first time that Miranda had behaved in ways that were, well, not her around Andy.
“When she asked you out to dinner, for tonight, after you said yes.”
Andy’s eyebrows were nearly reaching her hairline as she looked at the girls wondering if she should believe them. She remembered her own reaction. She had been sitting in her office when her cell phone had started to ring. When she had picked up, Miranda didn’t waste any time to greet her, she just blurted the invitation out as if she was scared that if she didn’t do it now, she wouldn’t dare do it later. Andy had to swallow a couple of times to get rid of that tight feeling in her throat before she managed to utter a simple yes. Of course, right after Miranda had already hung up on her, leaving her standing there with a goofy grin on her face.
“We swear!” The girls added in unison upon seeing Andy’s expression.
“She started to scurry through the house in this half skipping way, we weren’t supposed to notice, but she wasn’t very good at hiding it.”
“She was embarrassed. It was funny.” Caroline added after Cassidy’s explanation and Andy started to giggle.
The phone interrupted them and they all looked at each other. They did not like when that phone rang. At all. That phone ringing usually meant that Miranda was stuck at work, delayed or off to some other city to supervise a photo shoot that previously had been messed up by someone else.
Andy groaned as she stood up and hesitantly glanced at the caller ID. Miranda Priestly. Of course. She sighed and picked up.
“I have to work late.”
“Good morning to you, too, Miranda.”
“We’ll go out another day.”
Andy opened her mouth to reply but Miranda had already hung up on her.
Sure.
Going out another day it was.
And have a nice day, Miranda.
Both girls were staring at her, eyes filled with concern. “She hung up on you? She never does that!”
“I know.” Andy’s reply was nothing more than a soft whisper and immediately she had two girls wrapped around herself.
She smiled weakly.
“She probably was in a meeting.”
She didn’t look convinced.
“She was looking forward to tonight”, Cassidy said. “You know how she gets when things don’t go the way she wants them to go.”
“I know.” Andy sighed and pulled the girls closer, clinging to them as fear was surging through her stomach. She felt sick and she had a hard time keeping her thoughts from going crazy.
“But usually she gets like that with others, she talks to us, at least she usually tries...”
“She talks to us because she knows that’s what you want her to do, she makes an effort for you.” Cassidy poked her sister in an attempt to get her to say something. Anything. As long as it was comforting in some way. In any way.
“And that’s when it’s about others. This is about you, your dinner, your life, your relationship, that’s something entirely different.” Caroline looked at her sister not sure if what she had just said made any sense but Cassidy nodded.
“True.” It was still nothing more than a whisper but the twins liked the expression on Andy’s face already better than the one she was previously showing.
“Why don’t you take us to dinner?”
“Yes! Page Six would still get a kick out of that!”
This made Andy laugh and she nodded.
“How about we go right now, we’ll eat ice cream, then watch a movie and then go out for dinner?”
She didn’t have to wait for a reply, the twins’ faces said it all.
She tried her best for the rest of the day not to show that the fears had never really disappeared.
For months now she had been waiting for Miranda to get bored of her. She knew Miranda feared the same. But she also knew for a fact that she could not get bored with Miranda. An eternity with the older woman wouldn’t have been enough for her. She felt like she learned something new about her every day and every tiny bit she got of her she treasured and every tiny bit made her love the woman behind the fashion icon even more.
But she, she was just a young girl, kind of naïve, running after her dreams, trying to build a career, just like every other young girl in this world. One had to get bored of her at some point. She was pretty convinced of that.
They had shared an incredible seven months. Slowly Miranda had opened up to her and let her in, she knew there was still a great deal she hadn’t seen of her and she wasn’t sure if she’d ever see it all.
Of course, they had their fights. But Miranda tried to communicate, to talk to Andy and explain things instead of cutting her with harsh words and Andy tried hard not to storm out whenever Miranda failed.
There had been moments when she could have strangled the editor. But she knew that after Paris she wasn’t allowed to storm out. It would have hurt the editor more than any words coming from the older woman could ever hurt her.
They had always come out of their fights stronger than they had been before.
And of course there were the good moments. After all it had been an incredible seven months.
In the beginning Andy had tried to shield herself from the heartbreak she was sure was about to come. But the shield had been lost almost immediately and in the meantime the journalist knew very well that she was simply not able to function without Miranda anymore.
She wanted to spend the rest of her life with the editor and she was prepared to sacrifice whatever it took to make that happen. With Miranda she felt complete, she felt like she was home and she knew that’s where she belonged.
Without her she’d feel lost and she’d never be whole again.
And now the editor had to work on their first Valentine’s Day and had to cancel the dinner plans they had. Without an explanation. She hadn’t even taken her time to explain. Andy would have understood if something big had come up. She would have understood nearly anything if only the editor had taken time to explain.
But apparently she wasn’t even worth that.
It was no surprise that only the twins ate ice cream and only the twins enjoyed the movie. Andy was wrapped up in her thoughts, trying to smile, not to pull the girls down with her but her eyes were brimming with unshed tears while fear was clutching at her heart.
And secretly the twins weren’t enjoying the day so much either.