Doctor Strange, Doctor Palmer and the Cloak of Levitation

by TapTapAlways

Doctor Strange settles into the New York Sanctum, accompanied by the boa constrictor which is his new cloak. Aside from saving the Earth, Stephen finds himself with a lot of unfinished affairs with Christine, not to mention the desire to settle them and make it right. A slowburn Baby Strange story with a twist.

27. And After Sunshine Comes Another Storm

I am terribly sorry for not updating for a while - work got crazy and life got crazy and hopefully it will be better now. I'll make it up to you. Not by a long chapter, though, because my characters had other ideas.

I do not own Marvel's things...

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Christine had long ago realised that life had a tendency to run away with you. Profound - and important - as her discussion with Stephen had been, she was on call and had patients, and suddenly she had not spoken to the "Supreme Sorcerer" (apparently, if Elice was to be believed) for over a week.

The one time she did make time to call, Stephen had been wandering in his astral form, and she'd ended up 'talking' to his cloak instead. And every time Stephen called her - three of four times, to his credit - she was always in the operating theatre. She was quietly grateful that he of all people could understand that. He clearly did, too, leaving her kind and warm messages, seemingly not in the least bit annoyed.

As such, Christine's life was busy and she was preoccupied with important things, and though she didn't forget about her strange sorcerer, she had rather lost the ball on it all. Lucky as she was that Stephen was busy in his own right, with equally as important things (if not more so), what is meant to be has a tendency - as she had also found out before - to remind you.

In this case, it did so by way of four days of her waking up puking every morning, and a positive pregnancy test. Sighing, Christine picked up her cell phone on another nauseous morning, after finally feeling - slightly - better.

She was not done dealing with their last important conversation, not by any means, but she was clearly out of time. It was past time they had another one. Life had a way of getting in the way of your plans for life, and there was not much you could do about it, but deal. Years later, Christine would marvel at the fact that the obvious thing - happiness - did not occur to her during those first few mornings, but when she confided as much in Elice, the then Doctor and Master had laughed and said, "Blame that on the morning sickness!"