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Look at Any Clock Telling Time; Elliott/Briar
Topic Started: Jan 7 2013, 02:32:22 AM (732 Views)
Elliott Fix
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2040. 5:12 pm.

Elliott arrived home at a time that would almost be considered early, and very pleased with himself about that fact. Even more pleased with this fact was a certain sixteen month old little red-headed girl who had, at the sound of the door unlocking and opening, ran to the entryway in the kind of way that showed both her inexperience at running and her excitement at his arrival. "Dada!" she shrieked in excitement.

"Ruby-girl!" Elliott grinned back at her as he crouched down just in time to catch her in his arms when she launched herself at him, giggling madly. "Hello, happy one," he said to her as he kissed her cheek, stood back up, and shifted her to his hip.

"Hi!" she tried to return his kiss but missed at got air instead as Elliott shifted and toed off his boots. This did not seem to bother her at all, and she momentarily nuzzled her head against his shoulder instead before sitting back up and giggling at him.

"Where's Mumma?" Elliott asked her, still smiling, then passed her from one side to the other to get out of his sleeves as he shifted out of his coat.

"Mumma!" Ruby declared, pointing toward the kitchen. Elliott was not surprised. He magicked his coat into the closet and made his way to the kitchen. Ruby bounced the whole way.

"Hello, you," he continued to smile as he greeted Briar, who was doing cooking things. Cooking things. Elliott should have probably known more cooking terminology by now, but it's not like Briar used the words while she was doing it.
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Earlier that week, Ruby had figured out that she could pull herself up onto the counter if she dragged a chair into the kitchen, so Briar had avoided using the front burners in a somewhat futile attempt to keep her from trying to grab pans. Briar turned around at the stove and pulled Elliott in for a kiss by his tie, still stirring a pot of risotto on the back burner.

"Hullo, love. You're home early," she remarked, obviously pleased.

"Me!" Ruby demanded, signing for a kiss. She obliged, giving her daughter three quick kisses on her cheek.

"Sorry, can't stop stirring. How was your day?"
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"Mmmm," he hummed into her kiss (which was not something he usually did); he was in a fantastic mood at being home early. And work had also gone well. He smiled at Briar when she pulled away and laughed when Ruby demanded a kiss as well.

"Brilliant," Elliott answered her question. "Charlie was so on top of things today that I almost felt behind. I suspect he probably wanted to get home to his girlfriend, too, but really. The Ministry can't know how efficient he is, or they'd take him away from me and keep him for their own." Elliott was having a lot more early days now that he actually trusted Charlie to do his job.

He bounced Ruby and leaned over to look at what Briar was stirring. "That smells amazing," he praised. "And your day, then?" he returned the question.
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She beamed at the compliment and ran her free hand down his arm to hold onto his elbow for a moment. She'd had a good day, herself, and his mood was infectious, so she pressed another kiss to his shoulder.

"I will personally invent stories of Charlie's poor performance and report him," she assured him with a smirk. She was joking, but if keeping the kid around meant her husband would always be this relaxed, she really might. "Or maybe you could dress him up as you and send him in to the office in your place," she teased.

She gave Ruby's foot a squeeze, "Do you want to tell daddy what we did today?"

"Look!" she enthused, leaning out to point at a cake cooling by the sink, then to herself grinning.

"Ruby helped pour and measure," Briar explained, smiling proudly. "And we played in the snow for a bit, and everyone got to have a nap. So all in all, a brilliant day here, too."

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Elliott laughed at the thought of Charlie trying to pass as him in the office. He was both much too tall and much too quite, although he talked plenty around Elliott and Q. He was doing much better on the phone. Face to face with strangers still needed a lot of work, though.

He smiled as Briar described their day. It sounded wonderful. "Ah, that explains why Kryptonite did not join Ruby bounding for the door. You wore him out in the snow, didn't you?" He teased Ruby. "And then probably fed him cake batter. Come to think of it, I really envy his day."

He stepped over for a better look at the cake. "Looks fantastic. You're probably going to bake your way through studying at school just like mummy did, eh? But you should think really hard about being a doctor like your Gran. Or a Healer," he continued to tease, and Ruby shook her head at him and laughed. Oh, she was going to be trouble, and soon. He was sort of happy she hadn't used her magic yet- he could only imagine what she would do with it.
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"Hey! Not everyone has to be a doctor," she protested, swatting him with a towel after pulling the pot off the stove. And anyway, Briar was fairly certain that if Ruby was going to emulate anyone, it was more like to be Kevin or Elliott; she followed both of them around like a puppy. Only time would tell. "You can be anything you want, little beast."
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Elliott laughed when Briar swatted him with the towel. Ruby was getting tired of being held and tried to wiggle away. "Except a homicidal maniac or internationally terrorist or," he let Ruby off and she started running away. He ran after her, "an assassin to the crown!" Ruby shrieked, enjoying the chase and not paying any attention to the nonsense coming out of his mouth. "But I would love you anyway!" Elliott declared as he scooped Ruby up and tossed her just as quickly onto the sofa in one swift move.

Ruby laughed, kicked her feet and shook her head at Elliott. "I would! I will!" he tugged on her feet. "Always and forever, even if you're irreversibly turned into a lion." Ruby sat up and roared a mighty roar at him. "Ahhhhh!" Elliott screamed and ran away, into the bedroom, and closed the door. And changed out of his work clothes.

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8:32 pm

Ruby was asleep in her room. Elliott wrapped his left arm around Briar's waist and tugged her down with him to sit on the couch. He kissed her temple and then grinned at her. "You know, you're pretty brilliant."
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She grinned and gave him a dismissive wave. "Tell me something I don't know," she teased.
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Elliott Fix
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He considered her for a moment. "Okay," he gave her a crooked smile. "I'm ready. Ruby's not really a baby anymore- she's walking and talking and- if you want- we don't have to wait." She had told him on their honeymoon that she didn't want to wait long to have another baby. And he had promised to be more agreeable. He hadn't planned on saying it now, but he still meant it. "To try for a baby," he clarified, just in case.

Truth be told, he was still mostly terrified at the notion of having two so close together, but Ruby was getting easier all the time... he could do it if that's what Briar wanted. And he so badly wanted to give her what she wanted.
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That was absolutely not what she had been expecting, at all, and the surprise flashed across her face before settling back into a smile. She curled up against him and kissed him softly. "I love you, Elliott Fix." She did, she really, really did. And there wasn't anything she wanted more than to have another baby; she was ready. But she loved her husband too much to agree, even if it was what she wanted.

Right now, sitting there with his crooked smile, when he'd been home on time every night that week, when he was so, so sweet with Ruby, it was hard to do anything aside from drag him to the bedroom and commence the trying. She kissed him again and pulled back to smile sheepishly.

"Would you be terribly disappointed if I said I wasn't ready yet? It's just-" she paused and nuzzled his neck, "Ruby is so fun right now. It's all new for her and she's so excited about everything. I want to be able to be excited with her, and I was completely miserable for most of the last pregnancy."

It was an easy lie because it was at least sort of true. But in reality, it was Elliott she was worried about, not herself. He was so busy at work, and even though he was amazing about not bringing the stress home, he couldn't avoid it all time. The last thing he needed was another year of sleepless nights. And she really was miserable last time around; she couldn't very well be supportive of him or his career when he had to take care of her.
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He shifted his arm to hold her closer as she curled against him and couldn't help beaming at her words and her kiss. He felt liked he'd definitely done the right thing, and all his anxiety over having another baby disappeared, at least for the moment.

And then the moment passed and his smiled dimmed with it. It was a weird feeling to be disappointed and relieved at the same time. He wanted to have a baby with Briar- he really and truly did. He wanted Briar to tell him she was pregnant and to feel like it was the start of something wonderful instead of how it felt when she'd told him she was pregnant with Ruby: like the unexpected twist ending to all the stories they shared (it wasn't, after all, but for a moment it might have been).

He wondered fleetingly if he'd ever time anything right with Briar. He'd told her he loved her too late, proposed when she couldn't say yes, had their honeymoon cut short because he couldn't say no... and then he wasn't even remotely relieved anymore, just disappointed. Disappointed in himself. He hadn't realized she'd felt so bad when she was pregnant. He remembered her being sick a lot at first, but he'd thought it had got better after. She'd worked the whole time. Literally; she'd gone into labor while at work.

"Oh." He couldn't stop his initial reaction. "I didn't- I hadn't realized you'd felt so bad- you stayed working the whole time. I'm sorry." He felt like sort of a rubbish husband, but then he remembered that they hadn't actually been married or even engaged then. So just a rubbish boyfriend, then. Still rubbish. He never wanted her to feel completely miserable. Belatedly, the thought that probably some of her misery had to have been emotional, rather than physical- everything with him and Kevin and all while being pregnant. Which made it worse, really, because it made it his fault. Sometimes it surprised him that she ever married him at all when he was so obviously terrible at making her happy.

He kissed her temple and squeezed her close. "I don't ever want you to be miserable," he murmurer into her hair.
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"Well, that was sort of an exaggeration," she admitted. She hadn't been completely miserable, just mostly miserable. Not going to work was something that rarely occurred to her, though, and it wasn't like she would have felt less sick at home anyway. At least being at work was a distraction.

She studied him for the brief moment before he pulled her closer; he had his disappointed face on. She'd seen that face all too often. She knew it would be a mistake to have another baby right now when so much was already changing. She knew that, logically at least. All she wanted was to get the timing right for once, she hadn't meant to hurt him. She was rubbish at making him happy, even when she tried.

She slid onto his lap and leaned her forehead against his, "I'm decidedly not-miserable right now." She kissed him lightly, "Or ever when I'm with you." She kissed him again, "Because you are a spectacular husband, and a brilliant father, and you love me even when I don't deserve it. I'm sorry if I disappointed you, but I don't want to rush- we're still young, I mean, you're practically a teenager as wizards go." She kissed him again and backed up to look at him, taking his face in her hands. "I want to have a baby with you, I would have five if you'd let me," she teased gently, "But I think you were right, waiting until Ruby is a little older will make it much easier."
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He wanted to feel better, but mostly just felt patronized instead. He hated her ever saying that she didn't deserve love. And then, God, bringing up his relative age as a wizard. He did not need to be reminded right now that he was going to live decades longer than her. Possibly even an entire century longer. He could barely return her kisses but he knew he had to or she'd make an even bigger deal out of things. So he did. And he smiled as much as he could. And he put his hands on her hips and rubbed his thumbs in circles and tried to figure out which part of what she was saying was a lie. Or at least why she wasn't saying what she meant.

He felt awful for feeling awful. He'd had such a good day and when Ruby had been awake they'd all been happy together. A very irrationally part of him wanted to go get her out of bed.

He did not want to be coddled just because Briar decided she did want to wait after all. He wasn't feeling dejected over that. Well, a little. Mostly just for feeling like he didn't know what she wanted, and because he felt like he wasn't getting the full story even now.

She held his face in her hands and, okay, he made sure to look her in the eyes and smirk a bit at her teasing. He wished she would have started with her next point instead of saving it until now. Because now he knew what she'd said about feeling miserable while pregnant was mostly just an excuse, because you can't get away with saying pregnancy is miserable but that you want to do it five more times a minute later and have it mean anything. And that was beside the fact that she had admitted she had exaggerated. He'd just surprised her and she hadn't had the right excuse picked out yet. She'd found it, though.

He turned his face into her right palm and kissed it, and then pulled her hands away and held them in her lap. "Probably," he agreed. He did still feel like it would probably be easier if Ruby was older, but he also didn't think it would be all that much harder if they didn't wait; he wasn't going to lie. But he hadn't decided yet if he wanted to call Briar out on hers. He kissed the corner of her mouth, decision made.

"I'm going to make some tea," he told her as he slid her back over to sit on the couch, opting for the typical English response to too many feelings. Growing up, his dad had sometimes parodied The Beatles' song 'Let it Be' and changed the lyrics to 'Cuppa Tea' or 'Make Some Tea.' When you find yourself in times of trouble... make some tea.
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She felt horrible about making him feel horrible, but mostly, she was relieved that he'd effectively ended the conversation. Admitting that he was the reason she wanted to wait was definitely not going to make anyone feel better.

Briar watched him walk away, then followed him into the kitchen and hoisted herself up onto the counter next to the stove. "Me too, please," she requested. She was definitely not going to keep the conversation going if he wasn't.
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Elliott Fix
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Elliott was already getting mugs out when Briar sat on the counter. He'd thought that he was just going to make it with magic, but since they'd both migrated to the kitchen he wasn't in any kind of rush. So he put the mugs on the counter next to Briar and got the kettle out. He filled it with water and set it on the stove to boil. He stepped in front of Briar, put his hands on her knees, and cocked his head to the side. "How long do you want to wait, then?" Elliott did not do well with ambiguity.
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She covered his hands with her own and rubbed her thumbs over his knuckles. That was a difficult question to answer given that it depended entirely on factors outside of their control. 'Whenever work stops keeping you so busy that you'd hate yourself for the lost time' was not exactly a good answer, even if it was true.

It wasn't that she couldn't manage on her own when Elliott had to be gone, she'd managed so far. It was hard because she knew he would give anything to be around all the time, but that his part in the revolution was too important for him to ignore the obligation. It would have been much easier if coming home after Ruby was already asleep or having to go in on the weekend didn't make him so sad. Easier at least for Briar to handle- she hated seeing him upset.

"Let's just wait a few months and talk about it again. We can see where we are and decide if it's the right time," she suggested. If there would ever be a right time for the two of them.
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It wasn't fair that this was something they both wanted but still had to wait for and talk about and decide. Ruby had just happened, with all kinds of contraception failing to impede her creation. Maybe Briar and Kevin just shagged like rabbits. Maybe it really was 99.99% effective and Ruby was just the one-thousandth time.

That thought gave him a surge of irrationally jealousy and he slid his hands up Briar's legs and held onto her hips while he leaned close for a kiss. But he changed his path at the last moment and instead ended with his lips next to her ear. "It's always just waiting with us, isn't it?" Stupid time wasters. That's what he'd called themselves that day on his front stoop.
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She winced; something about the way he'd said it felt threatening. After all, most of the waiting they'd had to do was because of her. They couldn't be together because she had to leave Kevin first, they couldn't get engaged because she didn't know how to say yes, they couldn't get married because she was trying to adjust to being a mother. And now, because she'd decided to make decisions for him, they were waiting again.

Her shoulders sank; it suddenly felt like a lot to be responsible for. As hard as she tried, maybe she tried too hard; she wasn't as good as she wanted to be. "Maybe it always will be," she replied quietly, turning her face away. She wasn't going to apologize because that would only end in a fight. But she reached up to trace his jaw with her fingertips and thought it as hard as she could, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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He pressed his forehead against her temple and shook his head. "I'm just selfish," he murmured into her hair. "I just want everything with you and I've never been good at being patient." People thought he was patient. He had learned how to wait. But he'd never learned how to like it.

He stepped between her legs so he could hold her closer- his arms wrapped around her waist and he pressed his chest against hers. He pressed a long kiss against her jaw and broke it with a sigh.
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She wanted to tell him that he wasn't selfish, but she knew that if she did, he would only insist that he was. She didn't know how to tell him it wasn't his fault without making him feel even worse. She'd never known how. There was no way to make him understand how completely sorry she was for making his life so complicated. Lack of confidence had never been Briar's problem, but she knew he deserved better than the incredible amount of baggage she brought with her.

She crossed her legs behind his back and kissed him, softly at first but then more insistently. She wasn't good at words, that was his specialty. So instead of saying anything, she turned off the stove and kissed him again, sliding her hands up under the hem of his shirt.
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