So this is a sequel to Favorable Favor. After rereading, I have to agree with my beta and friend, that the last chapter of FF was a great stopping point. This will be a short sequel. Hopefully, it will be the boost that gets my mojo back and I can write more. Hope you all enjoy and still want to read the things I post. :D
Third Times the Charm…
Chapter One
Elizabeth smiled; there was nothing better than luxuriating in bed with her husband, well there were a few things but... "You know, that spot on my back that you continuously worship, actually has a name?" She said, feeling Jason fingering that exact spot.
"Really, so these amazing indentations, so alluringly placed, have a name, what is it?" Jason asked with a sultry smirk.
His wife was a fountain of weird and sometimes trivial knowledge but secretly, he delighted in everything she shared. There wasn't a single subject that was taboo or off limits. Since he had returned from his last mission for Sonny, everything had changed, in his opinion for the better. Feeling his wife foot connect with his shin, he simply said, "Hmmm?"
Elizabeth smiled warmly, "Did I lose you for a moment, you looked a million miles away?"
"Just thinking about you and what a treasure you are. So please, tell me the name of my favorite spot."
"Yes, dear husband, they are called dimples of Venus. I don't know why but that always sounded so sensual, very…erotic to me. Perhaps it is because Venus de Milo is the pinnacle of beauty, sensuality, in my humble opinion." Liz said wistfully, remembering Jason teasing her for spending hours gazing at that statue and the one of David, on their honeymoon.
"Now who is a million miles away?" Queried Jason.
"I was thinking about our honeymoon, travelling all across Europe. It was such a beautiful trip and I think all that alone time, really cemented us as a couple. We stand united and if we have a problem, we talk about it privately. I am truly, a very fortunate woman."
"I'm the fortunate one and in my humble opinion, you are what all women should strive to be. I may have been slow on the uptake but I think I have learned from all of my past mistakes."
"I think we both have. Neither of us is letting outsiders dictate how we should live or with whom and just think, in three short months our house will truly be a home." She said with a beatific smile.
Life was a little nuts after Jason returned. They spent some time just mourning their losses and getting to know one another, deeper and more carnally. Once they felt they were ready, Jason and Elizabeth both spent time with the fertility doctors. It was a period of time spent in consultations and talking with a grief counsellor. Their desire for a family was great and nothing was off limits when it came to achieving those goals. They stayed on the fertility drugs at the doctors insistence and boy, did those drugs work…very well indeed. And she thought, maybe fate was just waiting for them to do this the old fashioned way, seeing as the third time was the charm, in more ways than one.
"Do you really think we have beaten the odds? There has been so much heartache but so much love as well and rationally I know most of our problem's stemmed from my body not being ready or being overly accepting of the fetuses…Jason, I know most of the time I smile and it is genuine but every once in a while, my fear gets the better of me and…I try not to think about it, jeepers, sorry, hormones…" She said as she fanned her eyes, trying to will away the moisture collection there. "You take me to such heights of pleasure in all ways; just some times those fears sneak in and steal my positivity. I don't mean to be a doubting Thomas, I need to be optimistic, optimism is the way to go…Can you just tell me to shut up and stop rambling, you are supposed to protect me from myself you know." Elizabeth laughed, while gently slapping his arm.
"I love your rambling but honestly, you are right, we have had a lot of heartache. Perhaps…this all started as a favor, something we both wanted but were trying to control because we were scared to be honest. While we have been friends for years, more than friends, perhaps what we went through needed to happen, to alter us, to alter what our thoughts on relationships, our relationship should be. It's been almost two years since we lost the twins, but look at us now. Triplets…need I say more. It is almost as if fate finally said, 'thanks for waking up, here's your prize…' Through all our hardships, we are closer than most people ever get, if we hadn't suffered our losses, would we still be pinning for each other, because we weren't brave enough to share our inner most thoughts and feelings?" Jason said, gently massaging her abdomen, a look of adoration, firmly on his face.
"You could be right. I wanted you, boy did I want you, with the passion of a thousand burning suns but I was scared, terrified…wanting to move forward but so sure you didn't see me like that. A few kisses and that lovely few moments at my studio, nothing of a sexual nature really happened for us. Simply put, we were giant idiots. Imagine if when you were shot and disgusted with Sonny and Carly, if we had simply ran, after you healed of course, our life, wow…after six months of marriage I am regretting it took us so look. Look at the pleasures we have found with one another." Elizabeth said with a laugh, wiggly her eyebrows suggestively.
Smiling gently at his wife and enjoying her more passionate nature, Jason said, "You know better than that. It was just yesterday we were told to keep your blood pressure down and no more penetration sex."
"I know, I'm just playing with you anyway. I want this pregnancy to go smoothly, so if Dr. Meadow's says no sex, it's no sex and if I have to keep my blood pressure down and stay in bed, which she hasn't dictated yet, I will. We are both excited for this journey. I love you." Elizabeth said around a yawn that was so large, it brought tears to her eyes.
"Sleep my beauty. You know one of our babies will have you up in a few hours, playing the drums on your bladder or kidney." Kissing her softly, he readjusted so his children rested on his stomach. Watching with humor as Liz had barely stayed awake to place her head on his shoulder.
Unable to sleep, Jason allowed his mind to wander.
In his line of business and being who he was, fear never really had a place in his life. He had felt fear when he was raising Michael, being a first time 'father' but that was a natural fear he was sure all parents felt, being solely responsible for another human life was daunting in and of itself. His life up to that point, had not prepared it at all.
With Elizabeth, his fears were probably just as organic. When they first me, he was too old for her, , he was/is dangerous and not least of all, he was damaged…there was also the mere fatalistic fear that gripped him in the beginnings of his friendship with her, that came from his job and the people who wallowed and or luxuriated in that life. Those two things had caused him a lot of terror. A bomb in her studio, his less than well-meaning friends, locked in a crypt, grazed by a bullet and a horrible marriage to Satan's minion Ric Lansing…
Yes, he had known fear and while he was afraid, he was also, oddly optimistic. They had suffer through many trials and tribulations to get where they were today but they had come out the other side, stronger and happier than even they knew they could be. They were able to communicate, instead of bottling everything they felt up, like the world would end if they shared their inner most thoughts. They talked through everything and even though being more verbose still wasn't his thing, he now understood how miscommunications and being at cross purposes had led to their admittedly short courtship. Being able to talk about everything, nothing was off limits, nothing was taboo. And if emotions ran high...they took a few moments to calm their tempers and then faced things like logical, loving adults.
Elizabeth quoted Phyllis Diller, 'Don't go to bed mad, stay up and fight' to him one night and it had stuck with him. It was sound advice and the makeup sex after every fight was quite…spectacular, if he did say so himself.
Realizing his thoughts had sort of run away with him, Jason gently kissed his wife goodnight, before following her into slumber. Like Elizabeth had said, get used to sleeping when you can now, because when the babies are born, you will want sleep and won't remember what it was like. Three babies were going to be one hell of an adventure and he couldn't wait.
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