Title: Tough (1/3)
Author: Jay
Fandom: Guiding Light
Pairing: Otalia (Olivia/Natalia)
Rating: PG/G I don't know lol
Song: Tough - Craig Morgan
A/N: Alright. This is going to be in three parts maybe I dunno. But it's around three or two years after Natalia returns. This started out as a songfic but then I decided to make it more of a tiny ficlet. So I hope you enjoy!
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She's in the kitchen at the crack of dawn
Bacon's on, coffee's strong
Olivia sat at the kitchen table trying to figure out why the hell she was up again at such an ungodly hour. Actually she was surprised at the fact that she was able to put together a coherent thought at such a time in the morning. Never being one for that whole 'early bird catches the worm' bit, she liked to sleep in. Unfortunately she was in love with one of those birds. Deeply and completely in love with one. The little bird was in fact moving around the kitchen with grace getting breakfast started for their children.
"Here baby." A kiss was planted on her head and a cup of coffee appeared breaking her from her thoughts.
"Thanks," She mumbles as a dimpled smile appears in response.
Kids running wild, taking off their clothes
If she's a nervous wreck, well it never shows
Suddenly the sounds of multiple tiny running feet echoed through the small kitchen. Olivia rolled her eyes and cracked a smile as three children came barreling into the room. Before she could even speak, a soft, but stern voice spoke.
"What have we told you about running in the house?"
"But momma, Tony doesn't have on any underwear!"
Olivia snorted into her coffee, and tried to cover her laughter by coughing.
Natalia looked over at her wife and narrowed her eyes before kneeling in front of her three year old son, "Antonio baby, why aren't you wearing any underwear? Don't you like the ones mommy and I bought for you with Spiderman on them?"
"Yeah, but I don't want to wear them."
Olivia finally got herself under control enough to give her own input, "Buddy, I thought we went over this. You're a big boy now and you gotta wear big boy underwear." She watched as her son furrowed his brow and got the same confused look as his mother. Natalia ran her fingers through his curly locks and gently tugged at his little chin. "Sweetie you have to wear underwear all the time, okay?"
They both watched as their child's bottom lips poked out, "Okay momma."
"That's my boy. Now why don't you let Emma help you pick some out…"
Takes one to football and one to dance
Hits the Y for aerobics class
Drops by the bank, stops at the store
Olivia watched as her eldest daughter took her youngest son's hand and led him out of the room. She brought her gaze back to her other two girls in the room. Natalia had guided her youngest to her chair and had placed pancakes in front of her. "So what's going on today with you doodlebug?"
She watched as her dimpled child looked up and softly spoke, "Momma's taking me for my first dance class today."
Her little brown eyes showed her nerves, as she looked down at her plate and pushed her bacon around. Olivia moved over and began to cut her pancakes for her. "You know mommy used to be nervous whenever she went into a new place."
She watched as those little eyes seemed to grow twice their size, "Really?"
"Uh huh, but guess what I did?"
"What?"
"I remembered that I am a Spencer-Rivera woman and that I'm the bravest in the world."
She watched as the little girl scrunched up her tiny brows, resembling her other mother. What am I going to do with these people? All of them and those damn puppy dog eyes. I'm never going to win a single argument in this family.
"Does it really work mommy?" her little girl asked around a mouth full of heart shaped pancakes.
Always the hesitant one aren't you sweets, "Yeah baby it does. That's how I worked up the courage to ask your momma to marry me. I was so nervous because I loved your momma more than I'd ever loved anyone and I didn't want to her to say no. I went up to her and said, 'I would like to be Olivia Spencer-Rivera because I love you and our children and I think your name would really sound better if it were Natalia Spencer-Rivera and then..."
"Then your mommy's heart monitor started beeping and we had to go check her out at the hospital. Mommy was saying the words that I make her put a dollar in the bad word jar for saying," Natalia said sending a teasing smile towards her wife.
Olivia rolled her eyes," Well ya know what, you could have said yes before we got to the hospital, and perhaps those words wouldn't have been said."
Natalia placed a steaming plate for Olivia on the table and turned back around to the counter to get more coffee, "True, but then we wouldn't have had the pleasure of watching Uncle Rick faint now would we?"
The little girl let out a peal of tiny giggles, "Uncle Rick fainted?"
Olivia watched her wife turn around. The second their eyes met, Olivia smiled and responded, "He sure did baby, right after your momma said yes."
Natalia's cheeks darkened slightly as a small blush covered her face," It's not like I would've said anything else. I loved mommy just as much. "Natalia sat down two more place settings for her other children just as they walked back into the kitchen and sat down happily next to Olivia. "Plus I thought the name Spencer-Rivera sounded so much better than Rivera."
With a smile, Olivia leaned over and wiped off some syrup that was conveniently placed on her son's cheek. I wonder where he gets that from. "So, wife of mine, what do you have planned for today?"
Natalia handed Emma a napkin, "Well the parents are supposed to take turns bringing snack for Antonio's football camp and Madison's ballet classes. So I was thinking of hitting the store and getting some oranges to Mr. Football…"
Olivia zoned out her the rest of her wife's details about her day as her thoughts moved to the woman in question. Look at those little dimples. All of our children have 'em. Dimples and big doe eyes. Why can't I have dimples like that? I want to be adorable beyond belief and get whatever I want by batting my –
"Mommy?"
She looked around the table and found four rounded and curious eyes.
"I'm sorry I missed it. What's happening?"
Natalia sent a teasing smile her way, "I asked you what time did you think you'd be getting home so I knew when to put the chicken in."
Has on a smile when I walk through the door
The last to go to bed, she'll be the first one up
And I thought I was tough
Thinking of coming home already, Olivia replied her usual time, giving Natalia a brief summary of what her day held before her. Natalia began to clean up the table, sneaking kisses here and there on their children; Olivia couldn't help but smile even more. Olivia got up from the table as three children ran out of the room to get their things for the day.
"You are an amazing woman Mrs. Natalia Spencer-Rivera," Olivia stated as she wrapped her arms around Natalia's waist and planted a soft kiss at her temple.
Rinsing off the last plate, she turned in Olivia's embrace, "Is that so Mrs. Olivia Spencer-Rivera? Here I was thinking the same thing about you." She leaned forward to place a kiss on her wife's lips.
My favorite part of the morning.
"Momma and Mommy kissing in a tree!"
"K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
Do my children have some kind of radar?
Natalia giggled at the tiny voices ringing out the childhood song.