The One With Mary-Anne
Will walked into his kitchen and kissed a very giggly, sweet girl sitting in her high chair, waving her small plastic spoon in the air. He tweaked her nose and kissed it, and she clapped delightfully and poked his stomach. Will laughed, picking her up and mercilessly tickling her. Saffiyah, who was at the stove, rolled her eyes, but smiled.
"Careful," she called, mixing the scrambled eggs. Will stuck his tongue out and Mary-Anne giggled, trying to reach it. He smiled and kissed her again, before putting her back in her chair. Saffiyah was too busy to notice Will put a finger to his lips at Mary-Anne, who smiled and went back to her building blocks, and he tiptoed behind his wife and tickled her.
She yelped and doubled over, and he quickly turned off the fire on the stove before grabbing her and picking his wife up, kissing her passionately. Saffiyah melted for a moment, before wheeling back to reality, hitting him on the head with her wooden spoon.
"Mm-Will! Not in front of Mary-Anne!" She whacked him again and he just grinned up at her. She raised an eyebrow and tried to get his hands off her, which were placed underneath her bum, hoisting her up in the air, his long arms wound around her.
"It's not like she hasn't seen already," Will slid her down a bit so she could kiss him, and she moaned when he rubbed against her suggestively. She broke away from him and rubbed her nose against his.
"Cheeky," She kissed his nose and lips again, before he set her down on her feet. "I swear that's all you think about."
"'Course," Will grinned. "How can I help myself when a beautiful woman is in the same house as me?"
She giggled and kissed him again, and at that moment the phone rang. Saffiyah set off down the hall to answer it as Will cooed over Mary-Anne. She smiled, before picking up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hi, this is Harry. I phoned yesterday evening."
Saffiyah felt herself blush. "Oh…I'm sorry about that. I-
"-It's ok, Mrs Scarlett. I understand entirely. Your husband was there, I presume?"
"Call me Saffiyah. And, well…yes, he was."
"I would think so. I'm married too."
Saffiyah raised an eyebrow. Who was this guy? "I don't mean to be rude, Harry, but who are you?"
"Oh, I'm so stupid. Sorry, Saffiyah. I'm calling to tell you that I was the teacher that covered for you whilst you were on maternity leave."
"Oh!" Saffiyah sat down and watched Mary-Anne grip her father's hair and giggle. "I hope you're calling to say you have my students work!"
"I am, indeed. I was thinking to give them to you today, if that is alright."
"Sure, that would be great. Why don't you meet me after I finish work at the school, in my office?"
"Great. Can't wait. Have a nice day, Saffiyah."
"You too. Thanks again. Bye."
She set down the phone and sighed with relief, smiling. Pondering back to Will, he kissed her and smiled.
"What's put my little sunshine in an even bigger mood?" Will asked, picking Mary-Anne up as he spoke to Saffiyah.
"That was Harry, he covered for me, remember?"
"Oh," he tickled Mary-Anne and kissed her nose. "What did he want, then?"
"Oh, to give me the work he forgot to leave behind." Saffiyah grinned. "I thought I'd lost it!"
Will smiled and kissed her softly on the cheek. "How could you ever do that, babe?"
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Marian yawned as she drove into the school, noticing how Robin's car wasn't in his reserved space as usual. She switched off the radio and parked, remembering how they had driven home together in utter silence. Sighing, she grabbed her bag and, locking the car, walked into the school office.
"Morning," Marian smiled at the receptionists. "Miserable day, isn't it?"
"Certainly is," May smiled back at her. "How are you?"
"Good, thanks, May. Tired, though." Marian signed in and put down the pen, picking up her bag again. "Marking books until about one in the morning."
"Oh dear!" Fiona looked up from her files. "You shouldn't be up that long!"
"She certainly shouldn't," Marian turned around and saw Guy standing there, a small smile on his face. "Why have you been up so late, Marian?"
She blushed. "I had a lot of work, Guy." She tucked a strand of hair behind her small ear. "I should get going. Bye."
He nodded at her and she left, sighing with relief as she walked to her office.
"Strange," She murmured to herself, unlocking the door.
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Allan knocked on the door to the art studio. When he heard a small, 'come in' he entered, seeing Laura look up and roll her eyes.
"Allan," Laura continued to set down chalk on the A4 pieces of paper at tables. "If we get caught-
"-They can't do anythin'," Allan waved her comment away. "Besides, I wanted to ask you somethin'."
"Oh?" She raised and eyebrow at him, walking over and winding her arms around his neck, kissing his nose. "And?"
"Well…I though' we could go to dinner today," Allan blushed, looking down at his feet. "Are you free?"
"Sure," She kissed his cheek and smiled. "Where are we going?"
He bent his head and kissed her passionately. When they broke apart, he smiled and leaned his forehead against hers.
"It's a surprise," He whispered, tilting his head to kiss her again.
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Saffiyah looked back at Mary-Anne, and smiled at her before turning to face Will, who was looking out at the road as he drove.
"Will?"
"Hmm?" He moved his hand to her leg and patted it affectionately.
"Are you sure we should be doing this? Always giving Mary-Anne to Luke? Don't you think he needs space?"
Will sighed. "I've thought about it to, sweetheart. But he seems to have taken to her well, I've tried to talk to him about it, but he insists on looking after her."
"Lukey!" Mary-Anne giggled delightfully, waving her teddy bear in the air. Will smiled at her in the mirror.
"Uncle Luke, princess," Will put the indicator on. "I'm afraid I can only call him Lukey."
Saffiyah giggled and he smiled at her, raising his hand to her cheek and stroking it as he turned into another road. Saffiyah turned her head and kissed his torn hand, putting it back on the wheel.
"Concentrate on the road, babe." Saffiyah shuffled in her bag as she heard her phone ring. "Hello?"
"Saff?"
"Hey Luke." Saffiyah smiled. "We're nearly there-
"-I'm sorry, Saffiyah. I can't look after Mary-Anne."
"Is everything alright?"
Will looked worryingly at Saffiyah and she smiled reassuringly at him.
"No, not really…my friend has collapsed and I need to be with him. I didn't really want to take Mary-Anne with me, but if you want-
"-No, Luke, it's fine. We'll take her to work with us." Saffiyah bit her lip. "look after yourself, ok? Bye."
"What's up?" Will asked.
She sighed. "We're going to have to take Mary-Anne to work with us. Luke can't take care of her, his friend's in hospital. Take a turn here."
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"Of course you can," Vaysley smiled sickly at them. "What a little cutie pie. Hello, darling!"
Mary-Anne buried her head into Will's shoulder, and Saffiyah turned to the headmaster.
"She's a bit tired," She indicated to Will that they should go. "We should get going. Thank you."
"Pleasure," he smiled evilly at them. "Pleasure."
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"Hello, gorgeous!" Allan walked up to the worried couple and took Mary-Anne into his arms, kissing her cheek. "I've missed you, my little princess!"
She giggled and poked his cheek whilst he tickled her. Saffiyah and Will smiled at them as he played with their daughter.
"Onkel Alan!" She claimed, giggling. "'Elo!"
"hello, darling." He kissed her nose and held her securely, the little girl resting on his hip as he turned to her parents. "Everythin' alright? Why is my gorgeous girl here, at school? You realise this is a secondary school, right? She can't enrol yet."
Saffiyah shook her head fondly and Mary-Anne giggled, making Allan tweak her nose.
"Luke couldn't look after her today. So she's coming to school with us-
"-can I have her?" Allan asked excitedly. "Please?"
"Hey!" Everyone turned to see Robin. "My little angel! Why are you here?" Robin lifted Mary-Anne from Allan and kissed her cheek, tickling her like Allan did. "I missed you, gorgeous!"
Mary-Anne giggled and wound her arms around Robin, burying her head into his neck, feeling sleepy. Saffiyah noticed this and smiled.
"You've all been getting her excited so she's going to sleep," Saffiyah went over to Robin and held her arms out. He handed Mary-Anne over gently and Saffiyah hushed Mary-Anne as she whimpered, rocking her gently and bouncing her up and down whilst she went up to Will and gave him a quick kiss.
"Bye, darling," She whispered, kissing his soft cheek.
"Bye," He kissed Mary-Anne's head gently and then kissed his wife again. "See you at four."
"Oh…" Saffiyah realised she hadn't told him she was meeting with Harry today. "I-
"-You're not busy again?" Will asked, his green eyes looking down at her so powerfully that she felt her knees go weak. Allan looked at Robin and they looked down at their shoes, trying to ignore their conversation.
"Will, I-
"-What are you doing tonight, then?"
"Oh babe. I have to meet with this Harry guy and then-
"-You don't have to meet him," Will clung to her desperately. "Stay with me, with Mary-Anne. Babe, spend TIME with me!"
"You know Harry, babe, I have to pick up-
"-why today? We have the perfect chance-
"-no we don't!" Saffiyah whispered, clutching Mary-Anne. "We don't, remember? Luke's busy. Everyone else is busy-
"-have you asked them?"
"We can't interfere!"
"Look at them, they love Mary-Anne! How do you know?"
They forgot that Robin and Allan were standing right there. Robin was about to speak up, but Allan nudged him not to.
"Will, let go. I have a class-
"-and our baby." Will let her go, looking away. "I'll pick Mary-Anne up at 12-
"-she can't spend her time in a DT room, Will. Not with sawdust and-
"-I have the afternoon free." Will kissed Mary-Anne again. "See you at 12, then."
Saffiyah felt tears well up in her eyes as he turned away from her, not even kissing her. Well, they had just argued. Allan and Robin noticed her crying, without her knowing, as she walked away with Mary-Anne.
"You were a bit too hard, mate." Allan told Will quietly. "That wasn't really fair."
He heard Will sigh, and then turn around to look at them. "I know, Allan, I didn't mean it," He replied quietly. "But it's not fair that I can't even have one bloody evening alone with my wife."
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"Hey." Robin walked into Marian's office. His small smile vanished as she looked at him coldly.
"You can't just walk in without knocking, Locksley." Marian shuffled the papers on the desk and glared at him.
"Back to Locksley now, is it?" Robin asked, turning around as she got up and walked past him, filing the papers. "No babe or sugar or even my name, Robin?"
"What do you want?" Marian snapped.
"I want to talk to you about yesterday!"
"And I don't," Marian turned around to glare at him. "You were being totally selfish and showing me that you don't trust me in the slightest!"
"What?" Robin yelped. "What the hell are you on about?"
"You heard me, Locksley."
"STOP CALLING ME THAT!"
"STOP ACTING LIKE A TWO YEAR OLD, THEN!" Marian screamed back, opening the door and storming out of her own office.
Robin stood there, his mouth wide open.
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"Come in," Saffiyah wiped her eyes and gave Mary-Anne's toy back to her, watching her daughter play happily and then giggle with delight as she saw who had come in.
"Caba!" She claimed delightfully, and Saffiyah kept looking at her, knowing Will was behind her. She sniffed and smiled at her daughter.
"What's Caba, darling?" She ruffled her hair gently. "It's Dada."
Will opened his mouth, but closed it again. Her back was still facing him. He coughed and Saffiyah still didn't say anything to him. He began to worry.
"Saff?"
"What." She grabbed her paperwork and started to sort them on her desk whilst Mary-Anne sat on the desk, holding her arms out for Will. He walked over and took Mary-Anne into his arms, and dared himself to kiss Saffiyah on the head, her soft, silky locks dazzling him with her usual scent of mint and now a new tang of baby powder.
"I'm sorry," He whispered, gently kissing her head again and nuzzling his head into her hair. "I had no right to be like that with you. I know it isn't your fault that you have to meet with that Harry guy and do coursework and all that lot. I've been inconsiderate and selfish. You've had to look after Mary-Anne and now you have to do that and work and try and get time with me, and you've tried to spend time with Laura and Marian but you couldn't… and I've been unfair. And…and I think we should have a talk."
She felt tears fall down her cheeks- relieved, but sad tears. She turned and his eyes looked at hers and that wonderful connection they had just came rushing back, and she felt a weight off her shoulders. Saffiyah stepped forward and into his arms, Mary-Anne tugging on her hair and Will putting an arm around her. They heard a knock at the door, and, laughing softly, she wiped her tears and walked over- only to find Allan.
"I thought I could take my special little gem with me!" Allan exclaimed brightly, but you could still hear seriousness in his voice. "I think you both need a talk. Come on, darling," He walked over and took Mary-Anne out of Will's arms, kissing her cheek and smiling as she giggled at him and tugged his blonde hair. "Let's go make a mud castle!"
"What-" Saffiyah started, but Will had walked over and laid a gentle hand on her shoulder. Allan winked and set off with Mary-Anne, and Will closed the door. After a moment of simply staring at each other, he took her into his arms again-properly. She nuzzled her head into his warm chest and sighed.
"You have a class," Saffiyah's voice was muffled in his shirt as she admitted the fact, withdrawing her head reluctantly. "We can talk later-
"-We have twenty minutes," Will kissed the top of her head and held her securely. "We can talk now."
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Laura was sipping her coffee and reading her book at her desk, relieved to have most of the day free. It was the same with everyone else too, the year nine's, ten's, and eleven with sixth form had gone on a joint languages trip.
Just as she was about to grab some work and mark it, Allan practically bounced into the room with a giggly Mary-Anne in his arms.
Laura gasped, and set down her coffee to walk over, squealing. She lifted Mary-Anne out of his arms and kissed her cheeks over and over again until Mary-Anne was laughing too hard.
"Hello, gorgeous!" Laura squealed, tickling her. "My god, I've missed you, darling! What is Uncle Allan doing with you? Where-Why aren't you with Luke?" The last questions were aimed to Alan. He explained and she nodded.
"So we have this princess for the morning?" Laura rested Mary-Anne on her hip and walked over to her desk to pick up her coffee and drink it quickly. "Allan, babe, you have class. She's fine with me-
"-She can come to my class!" Allan said indignantly. "The year seven's are just a bunch of shy midgets, they won't harm her!"
"Allan!" Laura giggled at his description of the Year Seven's. "Isn't he a meanie?" She told Mary-Anne, who giggled delightfully and nuzzled her head onto Laura's shoulder. "Aww, but he's got a soft spot for you, I have to say. Completely besotted-
Allan cut her off with a firm kiss. Laura, taken aback, wound one arm around his neck whilst the other held Mary-Anne. He snaked his way to her and pulled her tightly against him, moving his kisses to her ear.
"I have a soft spot for another special girl too," Allan whispered, and kissed the spot behind her ear lobe before withdrawing with a cheeky smile and taking Mary-Anne back into his arms to give her back to her parents.
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Robin strolled over to where Marian was, too, walking, and quickly pushed her into an empty classroom and locked the door.
Marian turned around with fury in her eyes. "What the hell are you doing, Robin?" She screamed, tying to get past him. "Fuck off!"
"IF YOU'RE GOING TO KEEP IGNORING EVERYTHING I SAY, AND COMPARE ME TO THAT LOW LIFE-
"-COMPARE YOU? WHEN THE HELL DID I EVER COMPARE YOU TO HIM?"
"ALL YOU DO IS RANT ON TO ME ABOUT HOW NICE HE IS, AND HOW SWEET HE IS, AND HOW HE'S JUST MR PERFECT, AND YOU CAN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT HOW I FEEL!"
"Tell me Robin," Marian glared at him, tossing her hair over her shoulder. "Can you blame me? Are you ever going to grow up and promise me what you did a year ago- that our relationship will actually go somewhere?"
"It IS!" Robin insisted. "I SWEAR IT IS! YOU JUST KEEP GOING OFF WITH HIM THAT I CAN'T- I CAN'T-"
"What?"
"it doesn't matter." Robin turned away. Marian started to get angry again.
"TELL ME!"
"NO!
"FINE!" Marian picked up her things again and tried to get out. "DAMN YOU, LOCKSLEY! UNLOCK THE DOOR!"
"where the hell are you going?"
"none of your business."
"I'm your boyfriend!"
"You haven't been acting like one."
"IF YOU KEEP ACTING LIKE THIS TOO, WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO OFF WITH GUY?"
"I WAS GOING TO! AND MAYBE I WILL, AT LEAST HE LIKES THE IDEA OF MARRIAGE! HE'D PROBABLY SHOW HE LOVES ME AT TIMES! AT LEAST HE'S GROWN UP! MAYBE I WILL GO OFF WITH HIM, ROBIN LOCKSLEY!"
Robin watched her leave with, for the first time, hatred and annoyance towards her.
He didn't even run after her.
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"Right, we have a meeting!" Allan announced to everyone in the staff room. There was just Marian, Laura, Robin, Will, Saffiyah and little Mary-Anne, however. He smiled at her and picked her up.
"A meeting?" Saffiyah repeated, watching Allan coo over Mary-Anne and tickle her. "Why weren't we told beforehand?"
"Dunno," Allan shrugged and put Mary-Anne back on the floor, and she crawled to Robin, who picked her up as well and tickled her whilst she giggled hysterically. "We have to go now, though."
Robin stood up and, kissing Mary-Anne on the nose, handed her back to Saffiyah. Mary-Anne pointed to the ceiling and looked at her mummy in wonder.
"Faga!" she exclaimed, and they all laughed.
"Ceiling, darling." Saffiyah kissed her soft cheek. "Say ceiling."
"Faga," Mary-Anne repeated, and buried her head into the crook of her neck to doze off. They all smiled at the adorable little girl and walked to the meeting room. Will wrapped an arm around Saffiyah's waist and kissed her soft cheek, smiling at his sleeping daughter. Allan did the same with Laura and brought her close to whisper in her ear.
"What do you think this meeting is for then?" Allan whispered to Laura.
"Don't know, babe. That's why we're going to go." She smiled, before opening the door to the room and gasping.
It was her ex-boyfriend, standing there grinning at the shocked trio of girls. Saffiyah handed Mary-Anne to Will and walked over to Laura, where Marian was too. The three girls clutched each other in shock as the boys suddenly realized what was going on. The man smiled.
"Missed me much, Laurie?" He asked, grinning. "Saff, Marian? You missed me too?"
They clutched each other even more tightly.
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A/N: Thank you to my reviewers, you all dazzle me with your lovely comments! Please keep it up! If i get reviews, i'll be more tempted to actually post my chapters and check over them, and i could update weekly, maybe every couple of days, who knows? Thank you to people who have added me to their favorite author/story and done the alerts too. Do review, i'd love to hear what you think!
So...why is Laura's ex-boyfriend back? You'll find out...in chapter four! Mua ha!
NEXT TIME
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Laura screamed. "GET AWAY! GET OFF OF SAFF! SAFF! SAFF, WAKE UP! SAFFIYAH?"
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"What the hell has happened to my wife?" Will whispered as he took Saffiyah's hand and felt tears glide down his cheeks. "WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED?"
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"Robin's just been ignoring me and Saffiyah-Saffiyah-
Guy held her hand and Marian continued to sob. He stroked her cheek and she looked at him in utter shock.
"W-what are you doing?" she whispered. "I-
Guy wasn't listening. He leaned in and pressed his cold lips to hers.
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