kitchen, n

1.
"Well this is nice," he says. "Having dinner on an actual kitchen table like actual grown-ups, instead of on our laps. Izzy would be proud."

"Izzy would," Izzy says, slapping him gently upside the head and coming to stand beside Bobbi with her plate.

"She would be prouder if you had remembered to get chairs."

2.
"This table is sturdier than it looks," he gasps as he rolls off her, hands still grasping her hips.

Bobbi rolls her eyes. "Probably not a good idea to tell Iz that when she comes over later– oh shit, she's reaching in ten minutes!"

He snatches a rough kiss and a glare as she leaps off the table like a cat and sprints to get dressed.

He calls after her, "I saw you smiling, I know you liked it!"

3.
"You're… You're pregnant? I'm going to be a daddy?"

4.
"It wasn't your fault Bob, none of us could've seen it coming."

He scoots closer on the brand new kitchen chairs they'd finally gotten ("You're pregnant! I don't want you to have to stand to eat!"), but she pushes him away and buries her face in her hands.

The baby high chair sits unused and abandoned in a corner like an accusation.

5.
"Bob, please, we have to talk about it."

She stares at him with cold eyes, stranger's eyes. His hand, reaching out to grab her, draws back.

"There's nothing to talk about."

Her voice breaks on 'nothing', hollow as her womb.

6.
What are these, she asks, pain and realisation blooming in tandem in her eyes, in every line of her face. As if it hurt her as much as it had hurt him. Was still hurting him.

Lance?

She asks again, softly, and her voice trembles in that one syllable. Her use of his name, the first time in months, almost makes him cave and pull her in his arms.

He holds his arms stiffly at his side, knuckles white, and stares at her with cold eyes, stranger's eyes.

"Divorce papers."

His voice sounds as hollow as hers does when she says a last goodbye.

7.
"I should have stayed. I should have stayed. I should have stayed," he repeats into the mouth of his new lover, clutching it by its neck, a dozen more scattered at his feet.

He laughs and cries and laughs and cries and

Alternate ending:

(8.
"Do you think she still likes her salmon done this way? Does she still like red wine?"

He pauses, speaking to thin air, but maybe she was here. You never knew with Iz.

"I wish you were here Iz; I need your help."

"I don't want to screw up with Bobbi again.)

A/n:
kitchen, n
"The kitchen is the heart of the home."

Based on a tumblr prompt: "things you said at the kitchen table".