Saving Ma
Summary: After Frank proposed to Natalia, Rafe Ave and Emma team up to help their moms.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters and I do not make any profit from this.
Chapter 57
After everyone else had gone to bed, Ashley and Ava, Rafe and Whitney settled down to watch a movie, still wired from the stress of the day. Ava sat in the plush arm chair and pulled Ashley into her lap. Ashley smiled and snuggled into her. Rafe sat on the couch with Whitney leaning against him, his arm around her, her feet up on the cushions.
When the movie ended, Ashley pulled a sleepy Ava to her feet. "We're going to hit the hay. This one is about to fall over."
Rafe smiled as Ava leaned over to kiss him goodnight. "Ok, good night you two. See you in the morning."
Whitney called out a good night they reciprocated and leaned into Rafe on a sigh.
Rafe pulled her closer. "I wanted to thank you for all that you have done for me and my family the last few weeks."
Whitney shifted turning to cup his cheek. "Of course. I love your family and I care so much for you. I had to do everything I could to help. You'd have done the same for me if I still had my family and they needed it."
Whitney had been and only child of two only children. She had no aunts, uncles, or cousins and all her grandparents had passed years ago. He parents had also died the year before in a car accident, so it was just her.
Rafe smiled and kissed her forehead. "Of course I would, but you do have a family now. Once mom and ma claim someone you're in. So unless you break my heart you will have a family forever."
Whitney smirked, "and if you break my heart?"
Rafe laughed, "Then you will definitely have a family, although I may be in deep shit and mom may castrate me."
They both laughed and she moved in to place a light kiss on his lips. He shifted deepening the kiss and nipping at her lower lip. She opened for him and the kiss turned passionate quickly.
Once the need for air became necessary they pulled apart trying to catch their breaths. She rested her head against his chest. "God you can kiss."
He chuckled and pulled her closer. "You're not too bad yourself." He yawned and stretched his back.
Whitney smiled. "I think it's time for little mama's boys to be in bed. You look exhausted honey."
Rafe gave her a playful glare. "Mama's boy?" She just arched an eyebrow at him smirking. "Ok fine, so what. I love my moms'."
Whitney chuckled. "Hey I didn't say it was a bad thing. My mama always told me you can tell how a man will treat you by the way he treats his mama. So I guess I'm pretty lucky."
Rafe smiled, kissed her lightly and yawned again. Whitney stood and pulled him to his feet. "Come on sleepy head. Time for bed."
Rafe pulled her close as he stood. "Nooo, don't want to. I want to sit and hold you some more."
Whitney snuggled his chest. "How about I stay with you tonight and you can hold me while we sleep, but only to sleep. I'm not ready for anything else yet."
Rafe smiled, "I know honey and I told you I'm fine with that. I'm not either, but I would love to hold you all night again. Last night was great but I would like to do it again without my stressed out family in the bed with us."
Whitney smiled and kissed her cheek. "Ok, I still have a pair of shorts and a tee shirt in your room I can sleep in."
She grabbed his hand and led him to his room. Once in she grabbed her things and went to the bathroom while he stripped down to his wife beater and boxers, threw on a pair of sweat pants and climbed in bed. He lay back and closed his eyes. He smiled when he felt the bed dip and opened his eyes as she settle into him.
He sighed in contentment and wrapped his arm around her. She shifted and rested her chin on his chest looking up at him. "Rafe?"
He looked down, "Yes honey."
She sighed looking down then looked into his eyes. "Would you be upset with me if I told you I want to wait until marriage be for…"
Rafe cupped her face. "I told you we would wait until you were ready. If that's what you want I'm ok with it. Honestly, I went against my own beliefs with one girl, one time and that turned out disastrous, and I was raise catholic so you can imagine the guilt there. So I'm completely fine with waiting."
Whitney smiled and lay her head back down. "Thank you. I was raise Episcopal so I understand guilt. Catholic light right."
They laughed and he held her closer. "If your Episcopal why haven't I seen you in church? We changed to the Episcopal Church after Ma had a disagreement with our priest about our family. It's the only one in town. I've never seen you there."
She shrugged. "I only moved to Springfield right before I started working here. I work most Sundays so I haven't had a chance to go. I go to Wednesday night services when I can."
He shifted pulling her face back up to look at him. "You need to put in a request to have Sundays off. We give the day off to anyone who wants it to go to church. Than you could go with us on Sundays."
Whitney perked up, "Really, most places could care less."
Rafe just smiled. "Think about who you're talking about. My family goes every Sunday unless extenuating circumstances keep us from it. You know how upset Ma was when we didn't go last week."
She smiled shyly. "Oh, I didn't think of that. Well, I'm off this Sunday already. Do you think your family would mind me tagging along?"
Rafe kissed her nose. "Absolutely not. Ma would be thrilled, and I'm sure Ava and Ash would love to take you to Sunday school with them. Ava says it's always fun. They are in the young female adult group."
Whitney squealed. "Great, I've really missed Sunday service. Wednesday night is never as good."
Rafe smile and they settled into each other. They both fell asleep with smiles on their faces.
The next morning Natalia woke in her favorite position. Olivia was sprawled almost completely on top of her buried in her neck. Natalia ran her hands up and down her bare back, relishing the feeling of contentment she always had waking with her wife.
Olivia began to stir. She looked up in to pools of liquid chocolate and smiled, "gd mrng prcss" she said on a yawn.
Natalia just smile, god she loved a sleepy half coherent Olivia. "Good morning querida. Sleep well?"
Olivia stretched rolling over taking Natalia with her. "Always when I'm with you."
Natalia leaned up and kissed her softly. "It's after 7:00, we need to get up. Ava stole the baby monitor last night and I'm sure they're all up by now."
Olivia smile rubbing her arms. "Ok, let's go before they start a riot and eat each other. I'm starving myself. Someone gave me quite the workout at 4:00 this morning."
Natalia stretched against her. "What can I say, I woke up and you had your hand in all the naughty places and I just had to wake you."
Olivia chuckled. "You like my hands in all the naughty places."
Natalia kissed her lovingly. "Absolutely I do, why do you think I woke you up?"
They laughed and got out of bed, throwing on some yoga pants and tee-shirts then headed out to see the kids.
When they entered the common room they found all their babies snuggled together watching cartoons. Natalia grabbed her phone and took a picture before they saw them. She loved it when she found them in a dogpile of limbs snuggled together like this.
Olivia chuckled at the picture and the kids all turned when they heard her. Rafe rolled his head back and looked at them upside down. "Hey, you're up. Great I'm starving. I need food ladies." Emma and Mateo nodding vigorously.
Olivia chuckled looking at Natalia, "See I told you. Cannibals the lot of them."
Natalia laughed and headed to the phone. Olivia dropped in the arm chair after scooping up a reaching Natalio. "So what's on the agenda for the day? We have nothing going on today so, what would you like to do?"
Emma raised her hand. " o."
Olivia laughed, "What is it Jellybean?"
Emma smiled. "Can we go to the Zoo? Mateo and Natalio haven't gotten to see the animals there yet and I love the zoo."
Olivia smiled and looked to the others. They were all smiling at Emma then nodded to her. "Well let's ask Ma what she thinks and we will see."
Natalia walked back into the room taking Natalio and sitting in Olivia's lap with him. "Ask Ma what she thinks about what?"
Emma bounced in place on Ava. "If we can go to the zoo today. Everyone wants to we, just had to ask you."
Natalia looked to Olivia who nodded and back to Emma, "That sounds like a plan to me but we need to go by the house and get Natalio's stroller. Jane has his other one in her trunk. We can check on the progress there then head to the zoo."
They all nodded and Ashley sat forward. "Can we see if Mom and Blake want to go? Mom loves the monkeys."
Olivia laughed, "Why does that not surprise me. Of course. Call her and see if they want too. We can take the Beacon 15 passenger van. It's not needed right now. Tell her we are leaving here in 2 hours to head to the house then off to the Zoo for the day."
Ashley nodded taking out her phone turning to call Doris. When she hung up the phone she turned back to the group. "She said they're in. They're eating now and will be over after they shower and change."
Natalia clapped her hands together, "Excellent. This should be fun, I've only been to the zoo once with Emma's class and we didn't have time to see it all."
They all turned at the knock on the door and Natalia and Ava went to answer it to grab the breakfast carts. They sat and enjoyed their breakfast talking about what they wanted to see the most at the zoo. They showered and dressed for the day and met up with Doris and Blake then loaded up the Van and headed to the Farmhouse.
