Chapter 1: Happy Birthday?

It was one year later, and Mary was tending to their newborn son, Sam.

She only hoped that Jack remembered that her birthday was today. And knowing him, he'd probably forget. He had even forgotten his own birthday, and that was after he read all the cards.

It was nine o'clock, and time for Mary to get to work. She put Sam into the bed, tucked him in, and kissed him on the forehead.

She trudged through the snow, slowly up to the north of the town. She hated the library now; all she did was stand up behind the counter, since nobody even borrowed any books. What was the point of having a library if no-one used it? Sure, people came in every once in a while, but only three people came on a regular basis, excluding her.

Those people were Gray, The Doctor and Jack. And right on cue, Jack burst in to the library, tripped over his own feet, and the basket of fish he was holding in his arms fell...right on to Mary's head.

To say she was angry would be an understatement. She was furious.

"What did those poor, innocent fish ever do to you!!" She yelled.

"Have to make money somehow during Winter, and no, I am not mining. You remember what happened the last time I went mining, don't you?"

Yes, she did remember. Jack was gone for three hours, and fainted deep down in the mine, and forgot to bring back the basket with all the jewels in it.

Jack mumbled something that sounded like an apology, and with his head hanging low, walked out of the library.

She bent down to clean up all the fish, which took at least an hour. And then Gary walked in.

"Whoa..." he said, looking at Mary. "What happened to you?"

"I was going swimming in the lake, trying to prove that the Harvest Goddess does not exist." Mary said sarcastically.

"Really?" asked Gray, who was practically jumping up and down in excitement, "Does she?"

"No, you imbecile, I was being sarcastic." Said Mary

"Oooh..." said Gray, who now looked thoroughly disappointed, "So what really happened."

"That isn't a matter of your concern."

"Okay, I know when I'm not wanted." Gray said bitterly, and he ran out of the library.

Since it was nearly closing time, Mary gathered her things and went home, so he could prepare the food for her birthday. She really shouldn't be cooking for her own birthday, but she didn't want to get rushed to the clinic from the poisoning that was sure to come from eating Jack's food. It was worse then Karen's, that was saying something.

She cooked the main course fairly quickly, and had just finished putting the cake in the oven when Sam started crying.

She got some cow milk out of the fridge, and warmed it up in the microwave. She gave it to Sam, who lapped it up happily. She put Sam back in bed, instead of carrying him, since it was six o'clock and Jack should be home soon.

She waited...and waited...and when Jack finally came home, it was nearing seven o'clock.

The look on his face when he walked in gave him a slight resemblance to an ape.

"Um..." he asked slowly "Is today an special occasion or something."

Mary beamed. "I shall give you the honor of deciding which occasion it is!"

"Er...um..." He stumbled over his words, "Is it our anniversary?"

Mary banged her head loudly on the table. "Nooooo..." she replied. "It's my birthday!"

"Oh..." Jack said, and he beamed like Mary. "I still bought you a present!" He reached into his pocket, and brought out a bottle of perfume.

"You shouldn't have..." Mary started, and then she started crying tears of joy. "It's every girls dream to become married and receive perfume as a gift! Thank-you so much!"

"Why don't we go to the Inn, and enjoy ourselves?

"But Sam..."

"We can get your mother to baby-sit him. She'll understand."

"Alright, as long as you behave yourself Sam," she said smiling, Sam always behaved, he was the perfect baby.

"Come on, let's go." Jack picked up Sam, and handed him to Mary, since it was obvious he didn't know how to hold a baby properly.

They dropped Sam off at Anna's on the way, and set off to have fun socializing at the Inn.

A/N: Sorry for the slightly late chapter. I knew what I wanted to write, but I didn't know how to write it. It took five times until I actually got something I liked.

I hope this is good enough...it was meant to be a bit longer, but it just didn't fit.

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