Chapter 21
Marian sat in her office holding her stomach in pain. It had been four days since the whole ice-cream thing, and her relationship with Robin had never been stronger. They had just had the closeness again. Just the little things like holding hands, or cuddling or just Robin kissing her on the nose in that goofy way that he did. Which she loved! But her stomach still hurt. The pain way dying down thanks to the pain killers she'd taken but she could still feel it.
Robin wondered down the hallway to his own office; more boring stuff to do. He walked past Marian's office and did a double take when he heard her groan. He knocked lightly on the door.
'Come in' she winced. So he came in.
'What is it baby?'
'Baby? You've never called me baby'
'Oh, sorry'
'No no, I like it. But we said no silly names in the office'
'Sorry lovebun, too hard to resist'
'That's ok… I can't think of a silly pet name for you' she giggled, then she felt the pain again
'Seriously Marian, are you ok?'
'Yeah, just a funny tummy. I'll be fine by tomorrow if that's what you want to know'
'I don't give a damn about the partners' weekend; I just wanna make sure you feel ok'
He had brought his hand up to cup her face and their noses were rubbing slightly.
'I. Am. Fine. I swear! Just a minor pain in my tummy. I've taken a pain killer, should kick in in about 5 minutes'
'Well, if you're sure' he didn't sound convinced, 'Unless,' something suddenly dawned on him, ' you don't think you could be…pregnant?'
(I was so tempted to leave a cliffie there, but even I'm not that mean. Well I am but…)
'NO!' her eyes were wide with shock
'You…you never know. Maybe you should have a test just to be sure. You may have been to wrapped up in work that you didn't realise you missed you "woman thing"'
She smiled at his embarrassment to even say the word.
'You can say it's name silly! And I know I'm not pregnant because this tummy ache is period pains you moron' but her smiled betrayed the nasty name
'Oh. Then, that's…that's good. Right?'
'I guess,' she hadn't really thought about it, 'I mean I want children, of course I do. Just not quite yet'
'And you do want my children'
'Yes, you or Guy's' she teased. But Robin didn't see the funny side
'They would be some very messed up babies'
'My children would never be messed up'
'No. I didn't mean…' he trailed off as he saw the laughter in her eyes. He bent over and scooped her into his arms, 'that's not even funny'
'Yes it is, it's very funny'
'Whatever. Tonight I'm gonna make you dinner ok? And then we can watch a nice film – nothing girly though – and we'll snuggle up on the sofa and you can have a hot water bottle for your belly and then I'll kiss you'
'And I'll kiss back. Sounds like a plan'
Not my best work, but I wrote this at 10:50 pm so what ya gonna do? :P
The next chapter will be the first one of the partners' weekend. I'm not sure yet how many I'll do of the partners' weekend but expect at least 3. Depends how much you like the scandal I have in store for you all!
For
those of you dying to know that little bit more, here's a line of
what's in store for the gang on holiday:
Guy
paced around the room,
'She used me! Just to get back at Robin'
'So hurt her' was Vasey's bored response
'No, I love her'
Vasey rolled his eyes and muttered to himself
'So hurt Robin. That's more fun anyway'
'How?' he winged
'I have to do everything! Get at his stupid sidekick Mulch. Kick him where it really hurts. And have fun with it!' he had that evil glint in his eye.
There! Gripped??
I'm having a postathon this week and I'm gonna update all my stories this week! YAY!! I've also got a new one planned, a possible Meg Cabot story (All American Girl) but I'm not sure about that one! As well as a new non fanfic story, just a fiction one. But if anyone's interested I can easily change it into RH. Then Traditional.Rose and I are thinking of something. But that's on hold for a while. But I might start that soon. Then my sister is hasseling me to co-write a fic of hers!
So I'm a busy bee! And I'm going to Cornwall in a few weeks!
Phew!
If any of the above sound particularly good let me know and I'll put them high priority! I can also tell you a bit more about them if you want
Anyway, review? puppy dog eyes
XXX
Hannah
Banana