Buying a nursery

[kittykat]

Sally walked threw the baby store on her lunch break from the store. Ian was still out of town and she didnt know when he was coming back or if he was; she still havent told him face to face that she was pregnant even thought she emailed it and left messages. Then there was Markus that she wanted to talk to and find out what was going on with them too. Touching her now starting to show stomach, slowly she took a breath as she tried to hold in the tears.

Looking at the cherry wood cribs and other unisex things as she started to scan and set up her list. Her mother was happy to find out she was pregnant but told her that she would not be there for the court has asked her back to them and she was thinking of accepting the call. She nodded her head as she smiled and touched a soft green blanket and took it in her hands, she would buy it now. She didnt know why but she must, she was starting her nesting early on.

The Doctor thought she should be taking it easy but it was hard since she was running Colby Security Services until Ian came back. Business was booming and she was busy she needed to hire outside help since she was starting to have more problems but she didnt tell anyone yet. She looked at car seats and smiled a small glow moved around her as she touched the pink one. She wanted a girl or maybe even a boy.

Sally in truth wanted a healthy baby and didnt care if it was a boy or a girl. Maybe Markus would help her set up the nursery, she still needed to know if he wanted one at his place or something else. Maybe he would stay with her...Sally laughed as she shook her head and wondered if Markus would be able to curve his playboy ways.

What was sad is she found herself looking forward to seeing him or even his text and calls. Shaking her head as she wondered what that meant, she went on looking around

[mrkslrd]

Thoughts were a powerful thing. Thoughts were makers of hell, heaven, time, and coincidence. Which strangely enough summed up Markus' entire being. He was in hell without Sally near to hand. Yet the thought of her lifted him into heaven which was a place a devil such as he never truly belonged. There was no coincidence that he knew it was time to once more bask in the glow of her love. He had denied himself as he knew that in the end she was far more of the light than the shadow if his world could rightly stand.

So he thought on her as his feet made their way round the city. His nerves stretched and bent towards the pleasure of her. He could have called to her but anything worth doing was worth doing in the most amazing of manners. he allowed the goddess to move through him to carry him towards his destination. It was an odd surrender that for him was as close to faith as he'd dare come.

It was with no small amount of true joy that he fell upon her like night she was suddenly all around him. Standing in the human department store amongst the swaddling meant for newborn babes he found her longingly considering the life growing within her.

As he shadowed her a smile upon his lips he saw that she was lost in thought. Her body called to him and yet he hesitated. Watching her this way stirred emotions in him he had no right to ever expect to be there. Curious in the extreme. As he'd heard the mortals say time and again devils rush in where angels feared to tread, and so he did. Covering the ground between them in a blur stealing a kiss and moving a hairs breadth pass her he bowed. "Greetings mother of joy," he said teasingly hoping to illicit one of her bright beaming smiles.

He knew that he did not in fact deserve any such greeting as he had stayed away. Old habits did in fact die hard especially when such habits were so formative to what a person actually was. He'd not lain with another carnally yet the urge the impetus to dance and dither about was so strong as to at times even shock unflappable him. He'd teased, taunted and tickled yet the consummation of his jests never seemed to materialize. He blamed this or that but the truth was standing before him. It was due to Sally. Due to the life they'd set about creating in their moment of abandon. In their moment of joy.

Stress was marked across her being and he didn't like the look of it. That would not do in the least. He swore silently that he would root out its cause and insure that it never cast a pall over her again. His face however beamed with the simple joy of laying sight of her. He had busied himself, the fruits of his labors ripening into his full ownership of several establishments. Houses of spirits and frolic though they were t would serve as the base for his future accumulation of wealth. Wealth that would insure that even here amongst the mortals that she and their child would live as unto royalty.

There was so much to discuss and so much to more hear he was aflutter with anticipation.

[kittykat]

Sally had a ghost of a smile on her lips as she licked them after Markus kissed them in his greeting. Her face light up with the joy of seeing him even if her face looked warn and more pale then usual, then grew a little harder then what it normally was when she saw him. She was hurt that he forgot about her at lest that is how she felt even if it was false. The fact that she was dealing with this alone now it almost killed her but she will talk to him about that later right now she was going to enjoy him there.

"Well hello to you too. How have you been it has been awhile since I heard a word from those lips you used to steal a kiss from mine." She said as she looked at him the hurt in her eyes as she quickly looked away from him. Moving to the strollers that where there as she found a nice one that was made for walking and things in that nature, scanning it she turned to look at Markus again. "So why have you stayed away for so long Markus? And is everything better now that you will stay around? I need help if you are willing to offer it."

The room seemed to spin as she gathered herself, she felt the kick and with out thinking she grabbed his hand and placed it on her stomach. She was now 15 weeks along and was very scared with how real everything was becoming, the movement felt like fluttering as a tear fell from her eye. It was very real now and she was very scared that she may have to face this alone, while she prayed to the goddess that she wouldnt be.

[mrkslrd]

The paleness would have been hard to detect lest one knew her. The way the light seemed to be absorbed by her skin. The way it subtly mixed with her lighter hues creating its own vibrancy that had nothing to do with tanning or any of its related kin. She was blessed with the moon-kissed skin many a Sidhe longed for. Her mortal blood somehow making it all the more radiant. Except now. If she were fully of Fae he would hazard a guess that she had begun to fade. Yet she was not and yet here the signs were evident. He pondered how might the life growing within affect her. Or perhaps not the life within but that about her.

"These lips have called your name forever; but for fortunes grace would have gladly remained in the hell of your absence, lest the form which carries them might present a bit of joy to your eyes..." Markus said as he looked on the hurt his sudden arrival had caused. She was moving away from him. Mentally. It was expected in the end she was Arcadian enough to know that the flame of him would never be that of the hearth. His would ever be that of the moths pyre. Moving instep with her he couldn't bring himself to disappear once more yet it was a thought. He could see to her happiness without tainting her with his presence. He could protect her from the world of dangers as well as himself. Yet for all of his noble intentions he couldn't bring himself to move from her shadow. "I have tarried far too long this I know. But my sojourn was for the betterment of my standing; so that I might provide a less ignoble means for our child." 'And you' the last he said only to himself. it was the vilest deception he attempted to play upon himself. Concluding that if he said nothing as to his feelings for her then it might torture him less; should she move beyond him as he expected her to.

Her hand seeking his was a shock. He'd expected her to attempt to keep her distance as he watched the pained look and tightening of her eyes. Tears slid along her cheek moistening her blouse. The life within her jumping to the sound of their voices was a sign he was sure of it. He kept his hand there against the sheath of her skin as their life kicked within her. He searched the rafters overhead as he felt moisture on his face. It was no strange bought of interior rain. It was the joy in him welling up and gushing forth. Dropping to his knees he placed his face against her stomach. Humming he smiled as a lullaby he'd all but forgotten sprang to mind.

What a sight they must be he absently thought as wrapped his arms around her. Their child her and him what fools they were.

[kittykat]

Placing her hand on the back of Markus's head as him hummed to the baby a full smile touched her lips. Slowly she played with his hair as they stayed there, her hand on his hair the other caressing his cheek. Hope started to burn in her chest that he would stay, it also hit her that he may love this child and care for her in his own little way. Maybe that is why he stayed away, maybe he thought he was protecting them from him; but she wanted him around.

'Goddess' Sally called out to the mother in her head, begging her to help her. 'Please let this be real and not a dream...I cant handle another dream that you send to tease me. Mother I want him here with me, please Goddess let him stay and not run this time.I need him...'

She knew he will never be that family guy that she may want but she needed him to be there for at least the baby. Her face soften as she bent down a little and place a finger under his chin to get him to stand up. Eyes were on them as she glances around, too many for her comfort.

"Marks lets go some where were we are alone and do not draw more eyes on us then we already have." She said as she looked loving down at him her eyes searching for his. "We need to talk it seems there is alot that we both are not saying...That and to tell the truth I am hungry."

[mrkslrd]

Her hand on him and the feel of heart beat stirred him. He knew that in this moment all was perfectly right with the world. As all of the moments before he knew that it would end yet he held on tighter all the more. As she urged him to his feet he spared another moment whispering to the life within her.

Her thoughts were curious things. He could at times see the wheel of their turn and others, like now he could barely skim the surface of them. Her quietude effected him like none other. Instead of feeding the nagging doubt in him he smiled cultivating the feeling burning in his chest. The feeling that made him wish to be better in all regards for her.

She knew he will never be that family guy that she may want but she needed him to be there for at least the baby. Her face soften as she bent down a little and place a finger under his chin to get him to stand up. Eyes were on them as she glances around, too many for her comfort.

"Then let us be off." He said attempting to hide how he well and truly did not care whomsoever saw them. Let them look on and learn what adoration is he thought "True, there is much be tween the words we share; There could be more if you'd chance it." He teased taking her hand in his left. The heat of her acting as an aphrodisiac He already had a destination in mind. He could use glamor to speed their travel but he was unsure how she might feel of such a thing so he merely pushed a small bit into the world so as they might have a cab waiting outside the store.

[kittykat]

Sally smiled at him as she tried not to wince with the pain in her side, she was on her feet for too long. Slowly she watched him move to his feet as she licked her lips trying her best to hide the problems she was having with the pregnancy, moving slowly to the lady and returning the scanner gun to her for the list. Slowly she turned back to him and took a breath with one of her breath taking smiles as she held her hand out to him.

He was a strange creature in her eyes, one she would love to learn about in many different ways. That first she learned a little about his sexual apatite and that made her melt into a puddle but his views on family was something she felt he didn't really care about. She did know he cared for the baby though with that he won a little more of her.

She placed her hand on her stomach as waited on him to join her, she left the green blanket here as she wondered if the people were almost done fixing her house for a baby. They were working on turning part of her work space into the nursery for this little on it was going to be a smaller room but enough for the child till it was old enough to have a room of its own.

She felt the pang in her side as her face started to wrinkle in pain and placed her hand there. Sally breath started to deepen as she to hide it all , her skin paled even more. Her body straightened as she pushed everything off and looked at him.