never to part
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“Is there a different way of saying this?”
There are, in fact, a dozen different ways to say what Max is telling him - though from ‘preggers’ to ‘up the spout,’ they all come back to the same thing.
OR: Max and Daniel navigate One Hell of a Nine Months.
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- Part 1 of never to part
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He has a wonderful life, Seb thinks, as he lets his eyes slide shut in the darkness, Mark already snoring softly beside him.
He’s long-since made peace with it not featuring a baby.
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- Part 2 of never to part
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“Nah,” Lando says, almost wanting to laugh, the concept is so fucking ridiculous. “Nah, there’s no way. I’m on the pill.”
“Yeah you’re on it,” Oscar says slowly. “With all the love in the world though, d’you always remember to take it?”
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- Part 3 of never to part
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"Or maybe you have no plans,” Giano adds, that same, strange smile twisting his jaw. “That is ok too, I think. To be young like you, and to have no plans yet— I understand.”
Fernando doesn’t exactly agree. He has plans, plenty of them. It’s just that none of them have ever involved becoming a father.
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Much later, at a wedding, Fernando reflects on the road not taken.
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- Part 4 of never to part
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“How,” Lando asks of Violet, weakly, around 5AM, “how the fuck can you still be screaming?”
Oscar doesn’t know. He stopped being able to do that - knowing about things - around two hours prior.
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- Part 5 of never to part
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He has to fight for the calm to settle around them as he cradles her little head, which should feel like a contradiction in terms, and does— only George gets this feeling that’s going to be the constant sum of his life now, so long as Emily is in it: forcing the calm, so his little girl can float.
OR: many times George and Alex watched their daughter, and many times Life Carried On.
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- Part 6 of never to part
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He should’ve expected it. At all times, everywhere, with everyone, Christian has spent literal decades primed to expect shithousery around every corner— and maybe it’s the noise, or the disquiet, or the bitter taste in his mouth with no benefit, but his guard slips, if for only a moment.
When he grabs hold again, there’s a 6”5-o’clock shadow looming— and with it a conversation Christian entirely does not want to have.
In case Christian wasn’t clear, whosever bloody idea this was deserves to be put down.
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- Part 7 of never to part
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There’s only so much running a man can do, and he and Lewis have done enough of that for several lifetimes.
It’s excruciatingly awkward, yet when Lewis says —
“I saw the statement. Your Dad—"
— it’s also like setting foot in a perfect storm.
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- Part 8 of never to part
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“Seb,” Mark says, pressing fingers to his temples in the sense that, if he tries really hard, he might be able to have a good swirl around in his own grey matter. “This is kids' football. They’re five year-olds. Do you know how fucking insane this is?”
Seb looks up once, and only once, from the eight-foot whiteboard now dominating their lounge.
“No?” he says, “why would I? Please pass me the blue markers.”
OR: In which Seb becomes a Soccer Mom (derogatory), and Mark does his best to Cope.
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- Part 9 of never to part
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“Okay,” Oscar says, sleeves rolled up, Marigolds on. He nods once, then again, like the most important person he has to convince is himself. “Okay. I reckon we’ve got this.”
Lando, sat on what was once a nursing chair with Violet still whimpering in his arms, looks with total disbelief between Oscar and the bed, wall, and pillows utterly fucking streaked with their daughter’s puke.
“You taking the piss?”
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- Part 10 of never to part