Hello, you lovely beautiful beans. I hope your day is going well! If it's not, I hope that reading has provided you a nice chance to relax and take a break.
Song Suggestion: 7 Years by Lukas Graham
Disclaimer: I own nothing, Capcom please don't sue. Fair warning this is a sad chapter.
"We're home" Chris calls as he and Rose walk into the house from the garage. Another day down and with it another week as Friday evening started to set in despite the storm brewing outside.
"Welcome home," Emma called from the living room before getting up to meet the two in the dining room. "I need to go grocery shopping tomorrow so tonight is leftover night to clear out the fridge."
"Sounds good, Do we still have any of that meatloaf left over?" Chris asks curiously as he moves to stand next to Emma and leans forward to rest his arms on the island counter.
"I think so," she replied s she leans back against the island and raised an eyebrow. "You want leftover meatloaf?"
"pa'segtti n nugets" Rose cheers as she hurries to join the two now that her shoes were put away.
"What, it's good, I like your meatloaf," he says shaking his head a bit as he gently puts an arm around her. "makes for a good sandwich."
"Aw," she replies with a touched smile. It was a silly compliment but it made her happy since meatloaf usually had a bad reputation as the 'gross' meal. "ooh, yeah actually that sounds good. toast the bread a bit."
"Now you're being dangerous," he replies jokingly with a smirk which causes Emma to laugh.
"pa'segtti n nugets," Rose says once more as she was getting frustrated that neither replied.
"Okay, I heard you Rosey. I was just talking to Chris for a second," Emma says with a slight sigh before giving Chris a peck on the cheek and getting up from her place leaning against the island counter. "You need to make sure you take turns okay?" She adds and Rose pouts with a grumble. At this rate, Rose was going to be the equivalent of a 3-year old by the end of the month and that was usually when things got particularly rough with toddlers. They're more aware and have a wider vocabulary to express that they're not happy with rising expectations.
Emma digs out a Tupperware container of cold leftover spaghetti, a container of spaghetti sauce, and the meatloaf from the fridge and puts that on the island before fishing some heat and eat chicken nuggets out of the freezer. Microwaved nuggets weren't awful, she'd be fine. oh speaking of chicken nuggets hot wings sound good too. maybe she could pick some up while she was out grocery shopping tomorrow. Yeah, that's a good idea. Emma works on plating up Rose's food while Chris gets the loaf of bread from the bread box and puts two slices in the toaster.
"Can you put two slices in for me too? you sold me on a Meatloaf sandwich," She requests.
"Vulture," He says quietly with a playful smirk.
"Stingy," She teased back.
"ROSE," Rose chimes in as she hurries over to get into her seat.
Emma chuckles at that and goes to put the plate together, then places it in the microwave. Spaghetti with chicken nuggets was a weird combo but hey, if she ate it that was fine. Chris put down the extra slices of toast as Emma requested before getting them both a clean plate as well and starts putting his sandwich together.
Beep~
The microwave announced that the child's meal was warm and Emma took the plate over to rose with some silverware and cut up the food so it was manageable for the child. While she did this Duke made his way from the living room to the dining area to lay under the table instead, in hopes of catching the child's dinner scraps as they fell to the floor.
"What do you say?" Chris asks before taking a bite of his meal.
"Dank chu," Rose replies before digging in as a soft Pitterpatter could be heard in the background from the rain that started to fall.
"You're welcome," Emma replies and heads back to the Island to put together her own sandwich. luckily she already took care of Duke or his walk would have been a nightmare. She stares curiously at the open container of spaghetti sauce before adding a few spoonfuls of that on top of the meatloaf slice and closed up the sandwich.
"Ew what the hell?" Chris says as he noticed the strange addition.
"What?" Emma says in return as she carefully picks up the dripping sandwich.
"Did you just put Spaghetti sauce in your sandwich?" Chris asks which causes Rose to giggle.
"It's basically a meatball sandwich but flat, don't even," Emma rebuttals before taking a bite. It was pretty good but it was missing something.
"it's cold though," he points out through a chuckle.
"I didn't see you warm up yours," Emma points out in return before taking another bite. yeah no, it was definitely missing something.
"I didn't add spaghetti sauce to it either," He says before focusing on his own meal as he picks up his plate to go and sit at the table.
"Mm. It needs Parmesan," She says before putting the sandwich down to go back to the fridge and look for some.
"You and your college food," Chris says with a laugh. anything weird that she ate usually could be traced back to that. "Your dad is a chef what would he say if he saw you eating like that."
There was that word again. Rose thought and kept munching on her food. She'd ask summer the next time she visited. She was a big kid so she would know.
"Probably something like 'way to go with using every part honey, waste not, want not,' " Emma replies while attempting to imitate her father's voice as she got the tiny green shaker container from the fridge, brought that back over to her plate, opened the sandwich and added a healthy amount to it before closing it back up and trying a bite. There we go, that's on the money. Meatball sandwich that doesn't slide around as much. absolute masterpiece.
With that, she put away the remaining leftovers before taking her plate to join the others. The meal went by quickly after that and before long it was time for bed. Emma tucked in Rose for the night before heading downstairs to start her own nighttime routine. A quiet hmm crossed her lips as she noticed the soft pitter-pat from before had increased to a steady downpour.
"... It's dark out she wouldn't be watching this late at night, right?" Emma reasons and opens the back door. "Duke, time to go out, go potty," she instructs and the dog begrudgingly goes outside. finds a spot to quickly take care of business and hurry back inside where he shakes off the rain the second he was able to. "Oh gosh well thanks for that," Emma says with a frown, and Duke sneezes in response before trotting back to his favorite place on the couch to rest for the night.
Emma gives half of a chuckle at that before making her rounds to shut down and lock up the house before making it to Chris's Study and knocks on the open doorway.
"Hey," She says quietly to get his attention. It was a bit weird to see him jolt in response. She must have snuck up on him. Once he looked up from his computer she spoke again. "I'm going to head to bed a bit early."
"Alright," He says with a nod, "I'll join you in a minute." The agent adds and goes back to focusing on his computer as she walked away. One tab was opened to his bank accounts so he could balance out the month's expenses. He was finally starting to recover from everything that happened back in February and March... And April. God It's been one hell of a year. He clicks to bring up the tab he had been looking at before which displayed various jewelry. He stared at it for a moment before a frustrated breath passed his lips. Why was this so complicated... All the same with his financial recovery he should be able to talk to her about all this come October. so. next month. A hint of a smile crossed his face as he closed everything so he could shut down the laptop for the night.
Once his Office was locked up he made his way over to his and Emma's room and closed the door behind him to find Emma was already curled up in bed and poking at her phone. He got changed for bed and moved to join her under the covers.
"I thought you were going to bed," He points out amused.
"yeah, just double-checking the grocery list for tomorrow," she says in return. "I was thinking chicken carbonara would be nice. it's been a while. Oh and if you can please remind me, Rose is outgrowing her clothes again. I've been really scatterbrained lately and keep forgetting that I need to pick up some T3 shirts and pants for her..."
His content smile remains as he listens to her speak and chuckles to himself.
"What?" She asks curiously as she looks away from her phone and over to Chris.
"Nothing." He replies shaking his head.
"mhm," she replies clearly not buying it as she put her phone down on the nightstand.
"Really it's nothing," he affirms before giving a more genuine answer. "I was just wondering what things might have been like if I meet you sooner."
Emma gives a tired chuckle in response as she snuggles up to him. "Hmm, that is an interesting thought. I'm not sure how that would work. We were never really in the same place until a few years ago." She points out in return. "How much earlier were you thinking about?" four or five years earlier might have been possible. they were both technically in the area at that point. actually yeah maybe a bit earlier than that, this wasn't too far away from where she went to college.
He smiles at this as he rests his eyes and puts an arm around her while they talk. "Wishful thinking is saying back in my STARS days."
now that might be pushing it. "What year was that?" Emma asks curiously.
"You're actually gonna do the math on that?" he asks amused as he thinks it over. "hmm, 1997, 98 ish."
"Let's see, 98, I would have just started college," Emma says with a slight chuckle. "Even assuming we were somehow both in the same place I doubt if we ran into each other would be for good reasons." She admits still amused by this little game of what if. "That was right in the middle of my rebel, teased hair, Jnco jean, bras are shirts phase."
"And I looked like a reject backstreet boy, your point?" He says in return with a slight smirk.
"You were a cop and I was at parties drinking while underage and saying fuck the police," Emma points out more bluntly while trying not to laugh.
He bobs his head a bit before smirking. "Well... Mission accomplished."
Emma swats at his arm as a few laughs escape her.
"All the same, I doubt I would have been on some college party raid," He adds before explaining further. "STARS was a Special Ops team that focused on Urban Terrorism responses and rescue services."
"Well, aren't you fancy," Emma replies amused. "Okay. so, what do you think would happen?"
He thinks it over a bit. "Well, did you ever go out for coffee?"
"I was running on zero sleep between dorm parties and homework. Yeah I'd go out for coffee, that was the nectar of life," Emma confirmed whiles still smiling.
"Well that could work," he points out. "Never did like the shit they had back at the precinct. Punched a guy over it once."
"Seriously?" Emma asks amused. "How did you not get fired?"
"Kinda did," he says as his smirk returned. He got put on leave then the city was destroyed. "In my defense, it was on purpose to get put on leave so I could go to Europe for a bit."
"That is not better," Emma says now openly laughing. good gracious they were a couple of misfits huh?
"It was for work, kinda," He says while thinking it over. Again he did technically go of his own volition and he wasn't paid to do that, but he was doing recon work that he, Jill, and Barry agreed was needed and only one of them could go without raising the alarm.
"oh kinda. that word is showing up a lot," Emma jokingly teased.
"It was work, I was doing some undercover recon, I couldn't have anyone at the station know why I left so, I went with the tried and true option of rebellion to get 'kicked out'." He says while shaking his head. "I definitely didn't know what I was doing back then. I'd try sending coded messages but we never really agreed on an actual... code. so I'd just write stupid and hope they understood."
"Really? You're telling me that Chris Redfield didn't have a plan? I'm shocked," Emma says causing him to give her a gentle squeeze in return.
"Very funny," he says with a chuckle. "I think I wrote one talking about how I got back from a date with a hot chick, and something about an extra-large umbrella? how Barry should stay away and leave the babes to me."
"See now how was I suppose to compete with the babes," Emma says while keeping her chuckling in check to avoid waking Rose, though that would be an impressive feat to be heard given the heavy rainfall, two closed doors, and distance.
"To this day I still don't know if either of them actually understood that I was trying to tell them that I had a run-in with Umbrella corp, that I needed more time and not to come help me, and that I could handle the operatives I found." He admits while smiling to himself and using his free hand to cover his eyes. As much as this would have been embarrassing to admit to anyone else, with her, it was just, fun reminiscing. She was laughing with him, not at him.
"So, given the circumstances, If I were to notice a total babe," he says clearly making fun of himself, "at the local coffee shop, who was running around in a bra as a shirt, I might have tried to introduce myself," Chris says as he moves to hold her close to kiss her. "See if we can get into some trouble."
"Oh really?" Emma replies with a hint of a smirk as she kissed him back.
"Mhm," He confirms quietly. "It is raining out, could maybe get into some trouble now," The agent suggests with a hint of hope. His scorecard for the year was a resounding. 2. not the month, or season. year. It kinda sucked but they just never had the time and hopefully now that would start to go back to normal.
"I'll have to see if I have an umbrella," Emma replies in return.
The two had hardly noticed the addition of crashing thunder. a particularly bright flash of lightning crossed the sky and a thunderous Boom was heard seconds after causing Rose to wake up. what was that? why was the sky angry? another flash of lightning and clap of thunder after caused the girl to hide her face under her blankets as she clung to her doll.
Flash, crack, boom.
Rose yelped and quickly crawled out of bed with her doll and hurried down the hall. why was the door closed? it was never closed. Driven by fear the toddler jumped and reached for the doorknob a few times and missed. Come ooon. she reached for the handle while standing on her tiptoes.
Click.
The couple hadn't made much progress, a few kisses while tugging at layers of clothes that were in the way. Chris paused as he heard the creaking sound of the door. "Shhh" He motions for Emma to be quiet while he listens. That wasn't right, Rose couldn't open doors yet what was th-
"Kris," says the toddler in an attempt at a whisper.
"Holy shi-" he jolts as he suddenly hears the voice much closer than he expected. rolling over he sees tiny eyes staring back at him. Okay... she could open doors now. great. "Rose, you're supposed to be asleep," god damn it.
"Is scwary out, I slweep with you guys?" Rose asks while pulling on the bed to try and get up like last time.
"Rose, no. Wait outside, I'll tuck you back into your own bed," Chris says in return. Nope nope nope. This kid kinda caught him with his pants down. Go away.
"but, I'm Scwared," She repeats with a whining tone. this wasn't fair. She was allowed to sleep in the bed before...
"Rose, go to your room, I'll be right there," Chris says earning frustrated grumbles in return before she did inevitably go outside but stayed in the hallway instead.
Flash, crack, boom.
Rose yelps and hides her face behind her doll. It took a few seconds but Chris eventually fixed himself back up and walked out to check on Rose to find her waiting for him in the hall. On one hand, he felt bad that she was so upset but on the other, she still didn't do what she was told. She was getting more rebellious which he was not thrilled about.
"Alright, let's go get you tucked in." Chris says as he nudges her a bit to signal for her to follow.
"It's scwary dow," she repeats meekly.
"Why is it scary," He asks as they walk back to her room.
"It's lowd" She whines.
"It is kinda loud yeah," he agrees as he waits for her to crawl back into her bed. "Rain's a good thing though," he says as he moves to sit next to the bed so he can rest his back along it's side. "Rain makes the plants happy."
"It does?" She asks a bit curiously.
"Mhm." he replies while waiting for her to calm down a bit. "It feeds the flowers, and all the fruits and vegetables that you like," He lists of.
"wike corns?" Rose asks.
"yeah, like corn," he confirms. "it's extremely rare for a storm to hurt someone. you're inside. so you're safe. okay?"
"...otay," Rose says with a nod.
"Try and get some sleep," Chris says as he moves to stand back up and head out.
He makes his way out of Rose's room back over to his own and closes the door behind him, making sure to lock it this time before getting back into bed and picking up where he left off.
The next morning arrived. A smile crossed his face as he heard their morning alarm go off. Despite the hiccup, it was a good night. He snuggled closer to Emma and gave her a peck on the back of her neck. "Morning,"
Emma grumbles in response. Normally she was a morning person but she'd been so groggy in the mornings lately.
"Do you mind watching rose while I check some Emails?" he asks giving his usual excuse for some time alone on his computer. He could only use that excuse so many times to hide his planning but, it was enough for now.
"More emails?" Emma asks concerned.
"Yeah, well. You know how it is. I barely get things done at work now, so I need to catch up somehow," He replies with a shrug.
"Mkay, Just let me shower real quick and I'll take care of Rose," She agrees as she pushed herself to sit up.
"Alright, love you," he says as he gets up and waits for his turn to shower.
"Love you too," She says as she got up and walks over to the master bath.
Ugh. She felt so gross and bloated. She smacked her lips while stretching. It probably just meant her cycle was going to start soon. She was a bit late at this point. Once she washed up and changed she makes her way back out of the bathroom. She still felt so gross though, this sucked.
"Alright, your turn," She says as she heads over to the door. maybe some breakfast would help with the groggy.
"Thanks," He says as he gets up to use the shower.
Emma makes her way out of the bedroom, down the hall, and over to Rose's room to wake her up. "Rosey," she says quietly as she moves to sit on the edge of the bed. "Rosey time to get up."
While her guardians had a good night's sleep, Rosemary, did not. The thunder was still loud and kept waking her up since she wasn't used to it. She shook her head No and moved to hide under her blankets.
"Rose, you need to eat or you'll be sleepy all day," Emma points out. "You can have a nap later but for now you need to get up."
"Nooo," She whines causing Emma to quietly sigh. Yep. She was definitely getting into the terrible toddler phase. Once they learn No it's all rebellion all the time.
"You're going to miss cartoons," Emma points out and hears a quiet gasp in response.
Not the cartoons. she grumbles while thinking over her options and ultimately decides to get out of bed.
Emma helps her get dressed and walks with Rose downstairs to get the kid a bowl of Cereal, Turn on the TV so Rose could watch from the table and feed Duke his breakfast. Emma munched on her own bowl of fruit loops as comedic slap happy cartoons played in the background. Rose really did seem out of it. she usually played inside. maybe a bit of fresh air would perk the kid up. The 3 finished their breakfasts and Emma heads over to the door to get Duke's Leash.
"Rose, why don't you come with me to walk Duke," Emma suggests.
but the cartoons. Rose grumbles inaudible complaints causing Emma to chuckle slightly. Oh to be a toddler.
"Come on, it will only be a few minutes. we can leave during the commercials and we'll be back before you know it so you won't miss anything," Emma offers, not like commercials really mattered anymore with DVR. Once they got back Emma could just Rewind the show and Rose could pick up where she left off.
The walk was mostly uneventful, it was good to get Rose out of the house for a bit and show her that everything was okay after the storm that scared her so much but at the same time, it didn't really seem to help with her energy levels. She was just genuinely tired. Emma Kinda hoped it would help her own grogginess too but nothing. Oh well. It was just going to be one of those days.
They made their way back into the house and once free of his leash Duke heads up the stairs and into Chris's office to sleep under his desk. Kids and cartoons were so noisy. Chris watches with mild amusement. "Hey Duke, need a break?"
The dog sneezes in response.
"Alright, rest up old man," He says shaking his head. how old was duke now anyways. 9, maybe 10 years old. He was getting up there in age as far as dog years go.
Rose toddled back to the living room to watch her cartoons which Emma did rewind so the kid would be able to pick up where she left off, though honestly, it was doubtful that the kid was keeping up with some long term overarching lore that would require not missing 5 minutes of a show.
Emma took this time to go through the rest of the fridge to see what she could cleanout. There were a few apples left. Maybe a healthy snack would help. She cuts up the apple slices and puts them on one of the plastic plates they got for Rose.
"Rose, Do you want a snack?" Emma asks as she carries the plate over to the dining room table.
snack? "yes" Rose says as she hurries over. "Appy sices" she says excitedly as she moves to take the plate off the table.
"No, Rosey, you need to eat your snack at the table, you can still see from here," Emma says as she takes the plate and puts it back.
No fair. "Up?" Rose requests while motioning to be picked up.
emma winced at that. Rose was getting to big for that and she really didnt feel great. "Sorry rose no up."
She kept getting told not to do stuff. No talking over people, No Sleeping with them, No sleeping in, No snacks in the living room, No being held. This was the worst! Rose started to Cry as she stood in place and continued to make her motion to be held.
"Goodness, you are cranky today," Emma says with a slight frown as she noticed the beginning of a tantrum. you're supposed to remain calm but firm. you can do this. "Rosey I Know you're upset but you're getting too big to be held."
"dwats nwat fwair," Roses sobs out "I wanna!"
Calm but firm, "Rose no." Emma says as she goes back to the counter to clean up.
It's not fair, it's not fair, it's not FAIR! She continued to cry and stomp her feet for a bit before shouting again. "NWoo" Rose screams back causing Emma to looks back with a frown that instantly turns to panic. Rose's hair was sticking out on end.
Duke perks up and gives a low growl while anxiously looking around.
"What's wrong bud?" Chris asks he starts noticing that rose was sounding more and more upset. Definitely a nap day.
"Rose?" Emma says with quiet concern. oh gosh, what's wrong with the baby? She's really upset, her hair looked like someone spent an hour rubbing a helium balloon against it. Emma quickly drops what she's doing and starts walking over.
"NO!" The toddler shouts.
Crash, bang, thud.
A burst of energy escaped the child as she screamed causing the glass of the windows and lights to shatter, furniture to get thrown and with it, sending Emma flying back with a resounding thud as she smacks into the remaining frame of the sliding door and fell forward to land face first on the floor.
Chris jolts as he hears the sound of shattering glass and out thuds and crashing of furniture. "Shit," He quickly heads downstairs only to stare as at the center of the destruction was Rose while Emma laid in a sea of broken glass.
Rose stayed in place horrified at the destruction around her. Why wasn't she moving... "Em-ma?" She asks quietly. no response. "Em-ma?"
still no movement. Oh no, oh god please no. "Emma!" He hurried over despite the glass shard littering the floor and moves to pick her up and check on her. She wasn't bleeding, she still had a pulse, thank god. Chris looks over to the Silent terrified child. "What did you do?"
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"I-I didwn't mwean it," Rose says horrified. she didn't know she could do that.
Oh lord, what happened? Emma thought with a grumble. It felt like she got hit by a truck. Who was talking?
"Em? Try not to move too much," Chris says as his attention shifts back to her.
"I'm fine, just a bit sore," Emma says as she moves to try and sit up.
"Careful, there's glass everywhere," He says as he moves to help her stand.
Emma winces, wow this was gonna be a sucky next few days. hopefully, she would feel better by Monday.
"You should see a doctor?" Chris points out.
"and tell them what?" Emma points out before shaking her head. "It's fine. If it gets worse I'll see someone but for now, it's best we keep quiet about this."
"I can take you to the BSAA medics, If you start feeling off tell me okay?" he says and Emma nods though she wasn't sure she felt comfortable doing that. They might try and take Rose away.
"I'll be fine," She affirms once more before looking around. Where was Rose? after scanning the area she noticed the child had moved to hide behind the toppled-over dining room table.
As much as it did hurt and it was going to for a while, it was hard to ignore that this was a moment where her reaction was going to stick with rose whether she liked it or not. Emma gave Chris a quick peck on the cheek before trudging forward and kneeling down by the table.
"Hey," Emma says and rose moves to hide. "That was pretty scary huh? are you okay?"
upset toddler mumbles were heard in response.
"You didn't know you could do that right?" Emma asks patiently, it hurt and she wanted to shout and curse but she pushed it down. "But now you do, and now we do too. We can work on it together. It's not a bad thing."
Rose peaked out from behind the table to see Emma offering a hand to her. Fresh tears welled up at the corner of her eyes. She quickly toddles over and clings to Emma while Crying. "I'm sworry, I'm Sworry," She repeats while nuzzling her face against the woman getting tears and snot on her shirt. "I didwn't mwean to."
"It's okay. but we need to clean now so you don't get hurt by the glass... you need to go play in your room for now." Emma says and the kid nods. Rose stayed in her room, and tried to play but she mostly just snuggled with her doll. she was terrified of accidentally doing that again.
Chris looked around at the damages... well. Looks like that talk was going to have to wait until December at least... He frowns as he moves to go and get the broom so he could help sweep up glass. "We need to do something," he says quietly.
"I know... I just dont know what we can do..." Emma says in return.
"you're sure you're okay?" He asks concerned and once more Emma nods.
"If it's a concussion it won't show up for a few days." Emma replies, while looking around "guess I'll need to cancel with Karen though. dear lord what a loss." Emma says with a slight smile. maybe next month. "It's going to take both of us to get this place fixed up before Monday... I'll Call Jack maybe he can help."
"The girls shouldn't come over until we're sure she has more control," Chris says still clearly more visibly on edge about this. Again Emma nods.
"Maybe the BSAA can help her train now that we have an idea of what her powers are," Emma suggests, if they felt like they were monitoring her when he brought rose in each day maybe they wouldn't freak out... "This can't be the first time they had to help someone right?"
Chris bobs his head a bit. kinda yeah. there was jake but they didn't exactly help him. "Well... she's a unique case..."
Emma forces a neutral expression. there had to be something they could do.
"...I'll see if I can't call a friend. She might be able to help" Chris offers.
Phone calls were made and the rest of the day was spent clean up the house, tape up the windows, and putting furniture back into place.
The next morning came and the alarm woke up a stiff and sore Emma. Ohhh shit that hurt. She thought as she held her stomach and hurried to the bathroom. Oh gosh well of course her Cycle would start now. Emma thought annoyed. this was the worst she felt in a long time and she once woke up with piercings she didn't remember getting. "Of course mother nature says I get to deal with double the cramps for being late." she grumbles to herself and simply moves on after prepping for the day with Tylonol and pads. The cramps and bleeding lasted 2 weeks before finally stopping and her Soreness left her.
It wasn't until the 19th that the normal routine was broken once more and a knock was heard at the door.
"I got it," Chris says as he hurries over to the door to open it finding a woman around Emma's age with Short brown hair waiting there with a decent size bag.
"Hey, sorry it took so long for me to get here, you know how it is scheduling time off," says the woman as Chris lets her in.
"Rebecca, good to see you." He says closing the door behind her.
"Good to see you too, I was surprised to get a call that wasn't about the end of the world," She says and nudges him.
"Yeah," he says with a half-hearted laugh. "Rose is in the living room." Chris says and leads the way to find Rose sitting on the couch and clinging to Duke as she watched TV.
Emma gave a slight wave to the guest before looking to Rose. "Rosey we have a friend visiting."
"friend?" Rose parrots. maybe it was summer or maurie or Fannie she thought as she moves to stand up on the couch to look and see who it was. Oh, it was a big person.
"Hi Rose," Rebecca says as she walks over. "Is it okay if I sit with you?" she asks and Rose hesitates but nods.
"otay," she agrees.
"thank you," Rebecca says before nodding to Chris that she'd be okay. Chris nods back and heads up to his study to go and get the Medicine samples that he saved. he could at least give her half. he still needed a few just in case he needed to prove anything at the BSAA.
Rebecca watched a bit of the show with Rose for a moment. "Do you like Sponge Bob?"
"Yeah," Rose replies happily.
"You do?" Rebecca says with a happier tone.
"He's Swilly," she replies happily.
"He is silly," Rebecca agrees. "Do you like Lollipops?"
"yes~" Rose says excited. Questions about candy usually lead to candy.
"Me too," Rebecca says as she puts her bag down and starts digging through it, and takes out a swap test that Rose recognized from her checkups with the BSAA.
Rose frowns upon seeing it. she didn't like those they taste bad.
"Well, I have some with me but I need to do these tests first. would you be okay if we get these out of the way so we can have some candy and talk about sponge bob a bit more?"
"It's okay," Emma says quietly to try and reassure Rose that she was safe. As much as they didn't want to do testing on Rose, they needed help...
Rose thinks it over before nodding.
"Okay, it's just a quick one two and done okay?" Rebecca coaches and uses the first of the 3 tests. "One two done. One two done. you're doing so well. one more. and. one two done." Rebecca says before quickly digging out a pretty decent size lollipop for the toddler.
by this point Chris makes it back and hands over the small package to Rebecca.
"And thank you," Rebecca says before tucking that away into her bag with the tests.
"Pretty sure I should be saying that to you," He points out as he moves to take a seat by Emma.
"Not at all, It's a good chance to catch up, and I got to meet this cutiepie," Rebecca says before bopping Rose on the nose which causes her to giggle. "I can't promise I'll find anything though. but I'll give it a try," Rebecca adds.
"Still, you traveled all this way. Can I get you anything? Do you have a place to stay?" Emma says figuring she should at the very least check.
"I'm fine, I got a hotel not far from here. Might do some sightseeing tomorrow before heading back." Rebecca says before looking back to Chris with a smile. "Though what's this I heard about a Christmas card list? and I better get added to it for this." Rebecca says with a chuckle.
"Alright," Chris replies with half-hearted reluctance. Looks like he was writing four of those this year.
So yeah. To clarify the subtle writing, Emma had a miscarriage and didn't know. Technically she was pregnant. Romantic getaway time back in July was super effective. I didn't want to intro that plot sooner since this would inevitably happen. Rose is young and unstable with waaay too much power that she didn't really even understand that she had. If I introduced it sooner then Chris and Emma would have known about said kid and it would have been much worse. even if she somehow never threw a tantrum as a three-year-old equivalent, an outburst would eventually happen and it would be even worse if Emma was holding a living baby. As the coddler of the two, she was always going to end up being the one caught in the path.
now they know, and now rose can start practicing staying calm so she doesn't have a similar outburst. or at the least Emma will know what to look out for to protect herself and baby Piers.
we are getting close to a baby piers intro though and I will confirm when the counter officially starts so you guys can count down lol.
Review Response:
Starrat: Glad you liked it U always happy to hear from you
Guest1995: Allow me to first say, I am sorry, cause this is probably the opposite of the chapter that you were hoping for but I promise things are starting to fall into place I just needed to get a few things taken care of. Rose needed to learn about her powers first. now that that's out of the way it shouldn't be too much longer before the Baby Piers timer starts. I want to be able to give you an exact chapter count cause I do have it planned out at this point but I don't wanna spoil it for others. I don't really have a way to tell you on the side. so. math equation it is. (7x24)/42 = number of chapters until baby piers timer starts