AN!/ Hello all! I'm back with the second part of this saga. I decided to split it up into a saga because I thought that would be a little more exciting for everyone! If you have not read the first part to the saga, which is 'I See You Brought A Guy', I shall fill you in on what has happened! The story is set the day after Stan's leaving dinner and the few days after that. As planned Mary and Marshall did go their separate ways, until Abigail started accusing Marshall of making the wrong choice after they had bumped into Mary and Kenny at the park. Marshall then confronts Stan about his first argument with Abigail and Stan suggests that Abigail was too harsh. Kenny had suggested dinner with Abigail and Marshall to smooth things over. Mary and Marshall then took Stan to the airport for an emotional goodbye and then went to Mary's house for the dinner. Mary and Marshall then encountered a very awkward first day as not being partners. The ice was broke when Marshall had thanked Mary for his gift, which was a picture of Norah. Marshall was really missing Norah she he went to go and pick Mary up from her house so he could see her, but he had ruined the morning by making it even clearer to Mary that he had chose Abigail over Mary. Delia had wanted to know more about Mary and how she worked and Marshall had covered the basics until disaster struck as Mary was stabbed on a witness visit and Marshall was panicking thinking he had lost Mary forever. Marshall visited Mary and poured his heart out to a 'sleeping' Mary. But she heard everything. During Marshall's visit Abigail came to collect a statement from Mary and Abigail had said some very harsh words to her, which Marshall had heard as he was outside listening. The day after Mary and Marshall had shared an emotional moment in the hospital and Mary had told Marshall that she could not release him again. Mary was released from hospital the next day. Marshall took her a 'surprise' dinner the same day which was fun. Mary had to run to the office so Marshall took her and Norah there. Delia had made them all get a photo which ended up being perfect! Marshall then had to run home to change shirts but thought he would do that before he took Mary home. He made her come in only to find Kenny and Abigail half naked on the couch! Kenny and Marshall had a fight and Marshall ended up staying at Mary's house. This next part of the story is that night and on! So after all of that, let's begin the next chapter!
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The first hour that Marshall was there was some what awkward and had a lot of tension. Mary had made Norah some dinner as it was nearing 5:00pm. Marshall had stood in the door way for the last twenty minutes until Mary had finally told him to sit down. She had offered Marshall something to eat a number of times but he politely said no thank you every time. Mary had bathed Norah and changed her into some pyjamas, the ones that Marshall had gotten her in fact.
Marshall's mind was playing games with him. There was a thousands thoughts spinning in his mind. Why Abigail had had sex with Kenny. Why Kenny had had sex with Abigail. What Abigail was doing now. What if they had just continued after he left? This thought especially have him shivers down his spine. He was even thinking about how he was feeling. What was his next move going to be. How was Mary feeling. Why was he even at Mary's. The last thing he thought Mary would want was him here. After what Abigail had just done to Mary and Kenny's relationship. That was the first relationship since Raph where she was settled. All these thoughts were spinning around his head. How was he even going to face Mary.
Mary joined Marshall in the lounge with a freshly washed Norah who's hair had gone very short and very curly. Mary loved how her hair went when it was wet. She sat with Norah on her lap and brushed Norah's hair, Marshall didn't even acknowledge her presences. She put Norah down onto the floor who crawled over to Marshall in almost an instance. She didn't know what to do. Mary knew Marshall loved Norah but didn't know how Marshall would react to her. Marshall felt Norah tug at his jeans, he came out of his gaze and looked down at Norah and smiled.
It took a while for Marshall to react to Norah, he acknowledged she was there, but didn't really take note. "Oh hey you!", he leant down to pick Norah up and placed her on his lap. Mary was relived by this, she knew how Marshall was feeling and wasn't too sure how Marshall was going to react to Norah. "What's up with my favourite bug?", Marshall cleared his mind of his thoughts and was now focused on Norah, not forgetting Mary was watching his every move. "Marrrr, marrrr, shull 'urt?", she pointed, but did not touch his eye, which was a bit bruised. He laughed at how Norah had tried to say his name, "No no sweetie, Marshall is fine.", why was he talking in third person, he thought, "I'm fine, how are you?", he remembered all she had seen not less than 3 hours ago. Norah simply nodded to Marshall, and put her head against his chest. Marshall felt his heart skip a beat, he had never been this close to Norah by her decision, every time he seen Norah, Mary or Jinx had handed Norah to him, and sometimes she was hesitant to go to him, because of the how much of a stranger he had been. Mary had seen Marshall close his eyes when Norah laid her head on to his chest. She would keep that moment forever. She sat and watched for a few moments, they were both fast asleep, Marshall had both arms around Norah, and Norah hand both arms around Marshall's chest.
Mary stood up quietly from the couch and walked into the kitchen. She poured herself a strong drink and sat at her kitchen counter. She couldn't believe all of this could happen in just one day. She sat and thought about the last 2 weeks or so in her life, they were crazy. Her father came back, and died right in front of her. Her partner had confessed her love for her and she somehow turned him down, and let him go off and marry Abigail. Stan had left and now she had no father figure at all, of course, he was always a phone call away, but it was never the same not having him there. She was finally getting on with her life and was actually starting to like Kenny, she had released Marshall again, for the last time. That thought sent shivers down her spine. And then the first time she had stepped into Marshall and Abigail's apartment, it was to find Kenny and Abigail at it. Ugh. She finished her glass and cleared the kitchen up. It was about 9:15pm and she hadn't even made Marshall's bed up yet. Luckily Jinx had washed Mary's bedding yesterday so he was going to have fresh bedding. She made up the double bed and couldn't clear her mind of how Marshall was going to sleep alone tonight. Marshall had had a pretty rough two weeks too. The bed was and she was to get changed for bed too, she popped her head to check if Marshall and Norah were fine. They were both still fast asleep. She walked into her bedroom and was puzzled on what to wear for bed. Normally she would just wear a pair of joggers for bed, but would that be inappropriate now Marshall was here, she was worried incase he woke up during the night and came to the edge of her bed. She decided to go for a over-sized top, which she wore most nights, she thought this was most suitable as this covered up everything and went down to her knees. She got changed and went to see what she could wear tomorrow, Mary wasn't usually this prepared, but since she had guests, she thought this would be best. It was just a usual day in the office, she hoped, so jeans and a top should cut it.
She crept into the lounge to find both Norah and Marshall still fast asleep, luckily Norah had already had her pyjamas on so it was just a case if getting her to bed without waking her or Marshall up. She stood back a moment so she could see this sight on last time. She leant down and put her arm in between Marshall chest and Norah's stomach, and the put her other arm near Norah's legs, Norah did not stir, but as soon as Mary touched Marshall's chest, he was awake, he watched Mary cradle Norah for a moment before she noticed he was awake. He raised his eyebrows signalling Mary silently, she nodded back, ensuring that everything was ok. Marshall sat up and looked around and suddenly all of the memories of what had happened came back. He couldn't believe he found himself on Mary's sofa. After that thought his attention turned to Mary's legs which made their way out of lounge. It was very rare Marshall seen Mary's legs. He had always admired them. He shook this thought off and stood up from the couch, he took his suit jacket off and felt a wet patch on his chest, which was from Norah, he couldn't even remember falling asleep with her. He walked into the kitchen to go put his jacket into the bag he brought, and change his shirt, but it wasn't there. He didn't want to shout of Mary because he could wake Norah up if he did. He put his jacket on the bench and then he unbuttoned his shirt. "Hey", Mary stood in the door frame in the t-shirt which was obviously far too big for her. Marshall turned around and smiled at Mary, his thoughts were on her legs. When Marshall tuned around, Mary got a shock, she had always told Marshall that he was 'lanky', but she didn't realise how muscly he was. When she saw his shirt was unbuttoned her thoughts went immediately to his chest, which was firm and almost heavenly like to Mary. "Hey, Norah got me slightly, um, soggy", Marshall pointed to his white shirt which had a grey patch on, from Norah's drooling. Mary laughed quietly, "you're bag is the spare room, on the bed, which is made up, unless you prefer the couch? I mean you seemed pretty comfy", Mary teased Marshall laughing at the end of the sentence. "What can I say, I've got the touch!", implying that Norah was only asleep because she was with Marshall. "You can stay more often if she keeps going out like that", Mary laughed but then got serious, remembering that Marshall could only stay for a few day. Mary showed Marshall to his room, "Abigail texted a few times, but I don't know your password sooo.", she pointed to the bed where his phone was, "yes you do", "yes I do what Marshall?", "you do know my pass code". Marshall looked at Mary firmly and was watching her mind got through a thousand thoughts. "Marshall, I honestly don't.", her mind was going round and round in circles. "It's your birthday silly, what else would it be?", Marshall said this in such a calm tone. "Why would it be any different?", Marshall was looking at a completely blank Mary. "Why. Why. Why would it be MY birthday, not your own or your Dad's birthday or her birthday for that matter?", Mary was truly shocked, she felt a thousand emotions, excited, scared, happy. The list went on. "I'll prove it!", Marshall leant down to get his phone and stood closer to Mary, not even looking at the texts from Abigail and swiped his phone across to the keypad. He slowly typed her birthday i 9, and his phone was unlocked. Mary looked up to Marshall. "Ok. You got me.", Mary honestly couldn't believe it. "And before you ask why, it's not mine or my Dad's or Abigail's is because I'll always remember yours, gee can you remember that time we went to the baseball game on your birthday and we won! I did pretty good that year didn't I!", Marshall started looking through his bag for something to sleep in. Luckily he had a pair of joggers in the bag. Mary was still shocked at how his pass code was his birthday. "Ok, so yeah, erm. I'll leave you to it, and I'll see you in the morning, if you need anything else just let me know." Mary made her way out of the door at the end of the sentence until she was pulled back from the door frame by Marshall. "Thank you for this Mare it means a lot. Hopefully I can be out of your hair in no time.", Marshall pulled Mary to his chest, and even though Mary was not a hugger, she did not mind this hug. 'I don't want you to be out of my hair', she thought silently. She looked up and smiled at Marshall. He looked down at Mary. How they both wanted to kiss each other. Mary had to pull away from Marshall and simply turned and smiled at him, making her way out of his room to her room.
Wow! That bottom paragraph was a lot right! Apologise! So sorry this had taken so long but I have been at college and there is a lot of work! Soooo first night at Mary's house isn't so bad, the next part of the story is during the night and the days after that! Will get writing that ASAP!
thanks to a reader who told ME to hurry up with this part!