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Vivian sat on Gabriel's shoulders as she reached with the extended brush to finish painting the tall ceiling of the living room. When she announced that she was done, Gabriel put her down. He groaned as he rubbed his shoulder and retreated to the kitchen for a beer. A whole week had passed and they had finished with painting the whole first floor. Vivian looked at her watch, it was 7 in the morning, and they had gotten a very early start on finishing the paint job. Gabriel came back to the living room and flopped onto one of the covered chairs. He closed his eyes and leaned his head back.
"Did I crush your shoulder wolf-man?" she went behind him and rubbed his aching shoulders slowly. He just moaned and leaned forward as she worked his lower back with her hands. After she worked out the stress of his muscles she began to pull the painters tape off the wall. They repainted the walls white, but the molding was a light blue. Gabriel watched as she dragged the stepladder to the center of the room to take off the bag covering the chandelier. Vivian tossed it down on the covered floor. Gabriel stood and went to Vivian. He wrapped his arms around her legs; she braced her hands on his shoulders as he lifted her off the ladder.
He looked up at her with a serious face as her body slowly dragged down his. His mouth found the opening of her shirt. He pushed back the fabric with his nose and kissed her longingly underneath her collarbone. He moaned her name against the blush of her skin. She wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her face in his hair, drawing circles on his back.
Gabriel dragged his hand up her back, kissing her again till she was drunk with love. He wrapped her legs around him, and wrapped his arms tightly around her small frame. She finally pulled his head back staring into his soft eyes.
"What's up baby?" she asked sincerely then kissed his mouth.
"I love you my queen."
Vivian laughed softly. "I know. I love you too. What are thinking about?"
"Last night, and yesterday…and the day and night before." He smiled suggestively.
"Ah, I see now." She smiled and laughed. "Well you're going to have to wait a few days, because I'm still worn out." She said as she snuggled against him again with her chin on top of his head.
"I was thinking about that, and the fact that we didn't use any protection…unless you're on the pill?"
"No." she nuzzled against his hair. "What are you getting at?"
"Well, I was wondering, maybe we should get a pregnancy test, just in case…I kinda think it would be nice if…"
"If I'm pregnant?" she finished for him and looked at him.
"Yes. It's soon, but I want us to have children."
"I do too, but it's way too early! I still have to finish school Gabriel, and I don't know what I'm going to do after that, like should I go to college or what? Its too much to think about." Gabriel could easily how defensive she was becoming so he calmed her down by kissing her neck again.
"Shhh, shh, darling. We won't have pups until you are ready. Ok?"
"How can I calm down?" she pulled away and paced around the room. "I'm not ready to loose my figure just yet, yeah that sounds conceited but I know you'll miss it too." She ran her fingers through her hair.
"And isn't really expensive to have a baby too? I mean we can't afford to do anything except fix up the inn! We have to clean this place, hire cooks, and I want to really fix up the garden. And there is absolutely no way on this earth I'm going to start a new school pregnant. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY! OH MY GOD WHY DIDN'T WE THINK ABOUT THIS? We can't have kids now!"
Vivian was going hysterical, so Gabriel grabbed her. He held her shoulders firmly.
"Hey! Stop this right now." He ordered and waited until she calmed down. "Listen to me. Just calm down okay? Everything will be all right."
Vivian calmed down and just sank in his embrace. She nodded in response.
"I still think we should check just to make sure though." He said softly in her ear. She nodded her head. "Do you want me to make you some lunch?" he asked and she nodded in reply. He kissed her mouth slowly, demanding she respond. She did meagerly and when Gabriel wasn't satisfied he pulled her into his arms completely, picking her up so she was wrapped around him and kissed her neck and spoke lovingly in her ear.
"Please don't be mad at me okay?" he kissed her mouth pleadingly.
"I'm not, I…I'm sorry I got so worked up." She lay her head on his shoulder.
He carried her to the kitchen then put her down at the bar. Hew put his hands on either side of her, pressing their foreheads together. "I didn't mean to make you worry Vivian." She kissed him in response to show that she wasn't upset anymore. Gabriel went to the fridge to make them some ham sandwiches and Vivian went to the phone.
"Who are you calling?"
"Mom." She answered and dialed the phone. It rang twice before Esme picked up.
"Hello?"
"Hey Mom, happy mother's day." Vivian said. "Sorry I couldn't send you a card, but I thought you'd like me to call instead."
Gabriel heard and cursed. "Damn it I forgot." He left the kitchen and ran upstairs to call his own mother on his cell.
"I heard Gabriel running up the stairs," Esme said. "So how's the house?" she inquired gleefully.
"Gorgeous! We finished painting the first floor about 30 minutes ago, and Gabriel was fixing lunch."
"I suppose you've got your bedroom fixed up by now?" Esme hinted slyly.
Vivian rolled her eyes. "Of course mom. And if you have to know, which I know your dying to, we have mated." Her mom tried to suppress a squeal, but poorly.
"MOM! Calm down please!"
"Sorry honey, I just can't help to be so proud of you, being queen and all. We're almost done packing here. But we have to wait two more weeks as you know."
"Yeah…listen, Gabriel and I finished weeding the gardens outside, most of them are cold frames."
Gabriel finished his conversation with his mother before Vivian did, and when he appeared downstairs the phone cord stretched across the kitchen disappearing behind the refrigerator door. He shooed her away and got out the meat for her.
Vivian finally hung up and turned towards Gabriel who finished preparing the food.
"Sometimes just talking to her wears me out."
"Oh hush," he teased. "If anybody is going to wear you out, it'll be me."
"Yes sir." She said in mock tone. "Now gimme some food!" she reached for her plate in his hand. Gabriel plopped on the seat beside her. "However when we do have kids that is going to take a whole lot of my attention away from you. Do you think you can stand that so soon?" she teased.
"Hmm, good point. I think I'll need you just for myself for a while. I can't say I'd ever be jealous about our kids though."
"Good, cause that's messed up. What would we name them?"
"I don't know…why? Afraid you're pregnant?"
"A little…I mean it is mother's day so that'd be quite ironic…"
"Well all right, just in case, if we were to have a son, I'd name him James Andrew. Well I actually have a few more ideas for boy's names.
"Like what?"
"Well, I like Robert Anthony, Derrick, and Dixon."
"If we named our son Dixon, he'd have a friend named Mason, and then people would ask where the line was." Gabriel laughed at her joke.
"But I like Dixon."
"Well me too, but I couldn't help it. I like all those names. But what if it's a girl?"
"Ya got me on that one, I have no idea for girls names."
"Hmm, well lets see, I like…Salvadora."
"WHAT?" he was shocked. "Um, no."
"Hahaha, gotcha!" she laughed and took a bite from her sandwich.
"I think you just pulled that out of nowhere."
"No, I really knew a girl named that. Caitlin is nice, and so is Dana." She claimed. "Maybe we're thinking about this too much…" she sighed.
"Yeah. Goddess I'm nervous now." He claimed trying to eat his sandwich.
"Well join the club." They finished their food in silence thinking about the possibility of pregnancy.
When Gabriel was done he reached over and took Vivian's hand in his, squeezing it reassuringly. He leaned over and wrapped the other arm around her.
"Listen, if you are pregnant everything will work out, I promise. And if you aren't we'll have pups one day." She nodded in response.
Three hours later they finished painting four rooms. The previous owner had scraped off all the paint ages ago, so the windows looked shitty as Vivian said.
"I don't know if my arms I can handle three floors of doing this." She put down the extended roller to let the blood flow through her arms again. Gabriel looked up from the windows he was painting.
"Do you want to switch?" he offered his hand for her to take so she could get down from the ladder.
"Yes please!" they switched positions.
"I'm going to go get the stereo," Gabriel left the room and trudged downstairs, then up again. "It's too quite in here." He tried for a channel but got a lot of static. So he went to find his CDs.
"What do you like to listen to?" he asked flipping through the case.
"I'm not really partial to much." She admitted.
"What? No music? Well I'll just have to teach you about some of the finer artists." He pulled out a Beatles CD. "You gotta love the classics."
As soon as the first song came on Gabriel started to sing, his voice not mixing with John's very well, but Vivian had to admit how adorable he was singing.
"Nobody ever loved me like she does, ooh she does, yeah she does. And if somebody ever loved me like she do me, ooh she do me, yeah she does." Gabriel looked over to Vivian as he sang making her blush. After a while Vivian picked up on the lyrics and sang with him.
3 days later
Gabriel paced around their room waiting for Vivian to come out of the bathroom.
"Gabriel I can hear you pacing, will you please sit down?" she called irritably.
"Sorry." He called and sat down on their bed. Vivian was doing her pregnancy test, and both their hearts were racing with anticipation. Gabriel went out onto the balcony to be in the cool morning air so he would calm down.
He filled his lungs with the cool mountain air and braced his hands on the iron rail. He was listening intently for the door to open. He inhaled deeply and Vivian came out onto the balcony. He turned to her as she held the test in her hand.
"What's the verdict?" he inhaled and watched as Vivian turned it over to look.
She sighed deeply. "Not pregnant."
Gabriel sighed in relief and pulled her into his arms. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, just relieved. I was so not ready."
"Trust me, I could tell." He planted a kiss on her forehead. "Good thing I got some stuff…"
"Sorry but I'm not in the mood for tonight." She looked up at him.
Gabriel pouted in response, and watched as Vivian left the balcony. "Sorry but it ain't gonna happen." Gabriel sighed in response and trudged down the stairs behind her.
He took her hand in his and raised it to his mouth.
"I love you, but when it does come time to have kids, please don't freak out so much." He said. "I want us to have kids. I want us to be mates forever, and I know you were upset, but that hurt my pride, a lot, when you got so upset."
Vivian looked at him, and immediately regretted flying off the handle earlier. What Gabriel said next made Vivian realize something. She watched as Gabriel sat down on the covered couch. He ran a hand through his long hair.
"I'm not ready to have kids either…but a part of me was excited. It meant to me that even though we haven't been together a long time, we would have a real connecting force. And I want us to have something like that. I want to know what you like to do, and I want to share what I like too. I want us to be together forever."
Vivian sank beside him on the couch. She twined her fingers with his. "I want that too." She said softly. She nuzzled his ear. "I'm sorry, I was being ridiculous before." She listened to Gabriel's slow breathing. He wrapped his arm around her. "I want us to have at least two." He said.
"That's a good number."
"Mhmm, boy and girl. Unless you're up for five?" he teased.
"Only if your ready to have a fat wife?" she retorted.
"That's a no." he laughed, and things were calm the rest of the day.
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