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Sorta Fairytale

Chapter Two – A Night With The Davies

Ashley opened the front door and let herself into the house, she was exhausted. It had been a long day of endless meetings and recording sessions where nothing seemed to go right. All that had kept her going all day was the thought of coming home to her family.

She deposited her bag and jacket on the hallstand before following the smell of her wife's delicious cooking into the kitchen. Spencer had inherited her father's talent for cooking, which made him so proud.

Ashley paused in the door way and grinned at the sight of her daughter doing her homework at the table while Lucas tried to help Spencer in the kitchen, probably being more of a hindrance than a help. Hannah caught sight of Ashley and went to greet her when Ashley held a finger to her lips and grinned cheekily before pointing to Spencer. Hannah giggled quietly and pretended to zip her lips.

Ashley stepped out of her heels and crept silently across the floor. Just as she was about to grab her wife around the waist Spencer spun around and said, "Gotcha!" Ashley jumped like a mile in the air and clutched at her chest.

"Jesus Spencer way to give me a heart attack!" She gasped.

Spencer chuckled, "Oh yeah, like you were about to give me? Sorry Darling but you just can't sneak up on me, I always know when you're there," Spencer's smirk softened into a loving smile as she leaned forward and kissed her wife tenderly.

Ashley grinned as she circled Spencer's waist with her arms, "So you always know when I'm around huh?"

Spencer tilted her head and smiled, "Yeah I do. It's like I can feel you, I always know when you're near me."

Ashley beamed and kissed her wife again before scooping Lucas up in her arms, making him squeal with excitement, "Come on little man let's leave Mommy to get dinner ready and go get washed up. You too Hannah, time to get washed up for dinner."

Hannah jumped up and took her little brother's hand once Ashley set him down. They ran from the room hand in hand to get cleaned up for dinner. Ashley picked up Hannah's homework and began setting the table. They made it a habit to have a family sit down dinner most nights. It was a habit Spencer had picked up from her parents and one that Ashley was happy to indulge.

Ashley had just finished setting the table when Spencer carried in plates piled high with spaghetti and salad. Once each place setting had a plate of food and a glass of water Spencer went to get the kids.

Ashley got the homemade garlic bread out of the oven and put it on a plate before taking her seat at the table. Spencer came back in with the kids and they all sat down to eat. One tradition Ashley was glad Spencer had not gotten from her parents was saying grace, every dinner at her in-laws started with grace and it never stopped making Ashley feel awkward. She thought it was a flashback to the time Paula made her say grace the first time she'd had dinner at their place. That had been one traumatizing blessing!

Once everyone was eating Spencer turned to her wife and asked, "So Baby how did the meeting go this morning?"

"Well besides the fact I noticed about halfway through that I had my top on inside out, it went great. We agreed on a location for the New York office and I got Ethan to agree to be the managing director for that office. It's all pretty exciting, but will mean a few trips to New York over the next couple of months to get things set up, which I'm not too happy about, I hate being away from you and the kids," Ashley explained with a slight frown.

Spencer smiled kindly at her wife, "That's ok Baby, we'll miss you while you're gone but it won't for too long and hey maybe one time we'll even come with you so I can see Lily and I can show the kids New York." Spencer's former mentor and longtime friend, Lily Zee, had been living in New York for a few years now.

"That sounds great Honey, what do you two think? Would you like to go to New York in a few months?" Ashley asked her kids with a grin.

"Oh really? We can go? Momma I wanna see the Knicks!" Lucas said with a huge smile, he had inherited his love of basketball from his uncle Glen and was showing some real talent for the game.

Hannah beamed, "Mommy can we go to Broadway? Can we please?" Hannah had decided at about age two that she wanted to be an actress after Spencer took her to see a play that her Aunty Kyla was directing with some kids that had come into the Counseling Centre that Spencer's father ran and where Kyla had been working for a number of years.

Spencer tilted her head and pretended to consider the questions, "Well I guess we can go see the Knicks if they're playing while we're there and if there is a play or musical on that you want to see and that's appropriate I think we might be able to do that too. But you two have to be very good until then and work hard at school so you can take a few days off to go to New York with Momma and Mommy."

The kids both jumped up from their seats and threw themselves into Spencer's arms with cries of thanks and over the top promises to be on their best behaviour.

Ashley caught her wife's eye and smiled lovingly. Spencer was really such a good mother and it always touched Ashley's heart to watch her with the kids. Parenting had come as naturally to Spencer as breathing, while it had taken Ashley a little longer to get the hang of it, which Spencer was sure was due to her insecurities that she was going to become her mother. Christine Davies really had a lot to answer for.

Ashley now had no contact with her mother and hadn't spoken to her for over ten years. Christine's refusal to come to Spencer and Ashley's wedding because she was going to a spa had been the last straw. After that Ashley completely cut her mother out of her life. Christine had never even met her grandchildren and they had heard through a friend of Ashley's father that Christine was onto her sixth husband, a wealthy businessman about twenty years her senior.

After Spencer had been thoroughly thanked by the children they sat back down to finish their dinner. Ashley beamed down the table at Spencer, "So Baby how did that meeting with New Line go today? When I called you earlier they said you were still in there."

"Well it went really great actually. They've signed me up to do this film about a young single mother who is really struggling and then she meets someone who changes her life. It is a solid script, but I have a few changes I want to make and I already have some ideas about casting. In fact I put in a call to Sophia Bush to see if she might be interested. Ever since we did that film together, Waiting To Escape, we've talked about working together again. She seemed keen and promised to read the script once I've finished reworking parts of it," Spencer gushed excitedly. She always got so animated when talking about her work. The only thing she got more animated talking about was her family.

"That's awesome Baby, when do they think shooting will start?" Ashley asked.

"Well they're thinking in about five months or so. I mean there is still a lot of work to be done yet. Oh and the best part is that the film is set here in L.A. so I shouldn't have to go away to film." Spencer explained.

"Oh that's good Mommy, I don't like it when you go away," Hannah said. Spencer reached over and gave her daughter's hand a squeeze.

"I don't like it when I have to go away either Baby Girl," Spencer murmured. There had been a few films that had required Spencer to go and film on location in other countries and around the US which had meant she was away from home for weeks or months at a time. None of them liked that too much.

Once dinner was finished and the kids tucked into bed Ashley found her wife standing on the decking out side their back door looking out over the ocean. They had moved into the beach house just after they gotten engaged, both of them loved being close to the water.

Ashley had brought the house as a surprise and brought Spencer out to it blindfolded. Spencer had cried when Ashley told her the house was theirs, a place for them to raise a family together, a place to grow old and more in love together. They had been living at the house for about 11 and a half years now and were blissfully happy.

Ashley stepped up behind her wife and wrapped her arms around her waist. Spencer relaxed back into her wife's arms and let out a sigh of contentment. Ashley kissed her gently on the cheek as they watched the ocean as it raced to the shore.

"What are you thinking about Baby?" Ashley asked, holding Spencer tighter to her and laying tender kisses on the top of her shoulder.

"I was just thinking about how lucky I am to have this life. I mean I have a wife who I fall more and more in love with everyday, two of the kindest, brightest and most beautiful children and a career that I am proud of and that I love. I wish I knew what I did to get so lucky," Spencer murmured and she tightened her hold on her wife's arms.

"Well Baby, whatever it was I'm really glad you did it. I couldn't imagine my life without you and the kids. I love you so much Spencer Carlin-Davies" Ashley whispered against her wife's ear.

"I love you too. How about we head on up to bed and I show you how much?" Spencer said turning around in Ashley's arms and giving her a coy smile.

"Hmm I like the sound of that," Ashley murmured. Spencer slipped from her arms and led the brunette up the stairs to their bedroom. On the way they checked on their children, who were both sleeping soundly.

Spencer led the way into their bedroom and closed the door behind them. Ashley stepped up until she had her wife pressed against the door and began a slow assault on her lips.

Spencer moaned throatily as Ashley moved down and began placing hot kisses over her neck. Ashley smirked against Spencer's skin as she felt the moans vibrating in her wife's throat. Even after so long together their passion for each other was limit less.

Ashley gently slid her hands underneath Spencer's top and began inching it upwards, never losing contact with her hot, silky skin. Spencer arched away from the door and into Ashley's body as Ashley bit down gently on the skin where her neck met her shoulder. Ashley broke her contact with Spencer's neck just long enough to lift her top over her head and toss it into the far corner of their bedroom.

Spencer leaned in and captured her wife's lips in a kiss that was rough with passion and want as she began moving them towards the bed. Ashley smirked against her wife's lips as the back of her legs hit the bed. Ashley spun them around and pushed Spencer backwards so that she was laid out on top of the covers. Moving quickly Ashley lowered her body over Spencer's and trembled at the contact. The feeling of the gorgeous blonde beneath her never failed to affect Ashley.

They were tender with each other as they slowly freed the other from her clothes. Once they were both naked Spencer flipped them over so that she was lying above her wife. With a soft smile, which was only ever bestowed on Ashley, Spencer began trailing kisses all over her wife's throat, chest and shoulders while her hands began to roam.

Ashley writhed and moaned as she arched her body up into her wife's to try and increase the contact. Spencer smirked against her wife's neck and moved back off Ashley to keep the contact frustratingly light. Ashley groaned in protest and splayed her hands out across Spencer's back so that she could pull her wife firmly down on top of her, causing Spencer to chuckle breathlessly at her wife's impatience.

They moved against each other, their sweat slicked bodies creating a friction that tread the line between pleasure and pain. Hands and mouths explored familiar territory as the two women drove each other to the heights of ecstasy. Just before they tumbled over the edge together in an epic climax Spencer lowered her lips to her wife's ear and murmured, "I love you." Ashley bit down on Spencer's shoulder to muffle her cry as she climaxed, while Spencer buried her face in Ashley's neck.

Spencer collapsed on top of Ashley, gasping for air as she came down from her high. Ashley wrapped comforting arms around her wife's body and ran soothing hands over hot and sensitized skin. Safe in each other's arms they feel into a deep sleep where they dreamed of each other.

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