[NYC] Special Delivery

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Who: Riley & Evie
Where: Mount Sinai Medical Centre, New York
When: Friday evening
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Riley laughed and pulled back, his arms still around her. "What are you going to be like if I ever need to go away for weeks on end to a conference?" He gave her another kiss. "Your timing was good. I've just finished keeping Tara company until her parents came. Now I'm all on my lonesome."

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Evie just grinned as she pressed a series of kisses all over his face. It was true, she had missed him. "I'll be lost in a deep dark pit of Ben & Jerry's and watching our homemade porn," she joked before kissing him and making herself comfortable on his lap. "How is Tara? And Pat? And Lachlan? For some reason it feels like months since I've seen any of you. Crazy I know, but what can I say? You shouldn't be alone. You're too pretty to be alone."

[pullmysteth]

Riley raised his eyebrows. "We haven't had that out recently, have we?" he laughed. "Pat's awake, finally. He and Aiden are spending some time together. Lachlan is terrible. When he's not sleeping, he's throwing up, but he's a bit more settled now than he was earlier. Tara is her usual trooper self. She hasn't left his side. We might need to bring you in as reinforcements to convince her to go home for some sleep. Those chairs are fuckers for regular person, let alone a pregnant person in her third trimester. Lachlan's too ill to lecture her. He just lies curled up in a ball. He can hardly keep his eyes open. I'm just glad we were here otherwise he would've stuck to the whole 'I'm fine' shit and it could've been a disaster."

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She gave a shake of her head and readjusted her arms as they looped around his neck. "No, we haven't. Maybe it's time for a new one. Or even a Christmas themed one. We could get it out every holidays." Her smile faded as she listened, but Evie was relieved to know everyone seemed to be doing okay. "What if we found a bed for Tara? She might be more willing to rest if she knew she could do it next to Lachlan. I'm tempted to see if we could even pinch one of the recliners from Maternity. Tara's definitely in need of it."

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Evie rubbed her hand against his back and nodded. It was true, they weren't the only ones to have crap parents and their really were things that were so much worse in life. She let out a sigh and glanced up at him. "Maybe Tab needs to talk to a professional? Try and get the anger worked out once and for all. Maybe it's not healthy, but the anger is there for a reason."

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"All anger is there for a reason," Riley murmured. He kicked his toes against a spot on the elevator floor. "Tab's stubborn. Talking to a professional won't help. She prefers to be angry at my mother than anything else. I've never felt anger towards them. Frustration, yes. Not anger. They're still my parents. I still love them."

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Evie rest her head against Riley's chest, but as soon as she was comfortable the elevator dinged and the doors opened up. She kept one arm around Riley as they got off. "Maybe she just feels like your mother has done her a greater injustice? I don't know, I'm not Tab. Frustrated is probably healthier, but if she won't talk about it, even to a professional than the anger will always be there."

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"Yeah, probably," Riley said with a slight shrug. "I've lived with it for twenty odd years. It's not like I'm not used to it. I don't have to agree with it, though. There have been times she's gotten pissed with me for not being as angry at Mum as she was. In our younger days, of course. I was always a fence sitter. I didn't like discontent or confrontation. The fights between them... when I was a kid, I used to sit in my wardrobe and cry." He laughed softly. "I've always been a wimp."