SO MUCH CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT! AND JLH's PREGNANCY! AND PENELOPE BEING HER PENELOPE-Y SELF *Is happy*
Obviously, this is a post-el for 10x17 "Breath Play"
Flames tonight will be donated to the HUBF. Thank you.
Kate sat at her kitchen counter, leaning on her elbows, acutely aware of the absence of motion in her house, knowing what it meant.
She could let go.
Kate felt a few tears splash onto the white counter, and she wiped her eyes. She knew that her pregnancy would change everything, but she didn't want to lose her relationship with Meg. Although Meg wasn't biologically Kate's, she was, in every way, Kate's daughter, as much as her sister's. Now, Kate knew that, despite all her efforts, Meg would come to see this baby as a replacement.
"Then we'll just have to keep her from that, won't we?" Chris said, causing Kate to whip her head around.
"Did I say that out loud?" Kate asked quietly, pulling him in for a quick kiss.
"No, but I know you. And I know when you're thinking, even though I'm not a fancy F-B-I profiler," he said, accentuating the acronym as he said it. Kate laughed slightly, before bursting into tears.
"I hate this whole 'hormones' thing," Kate stated sadly.
"This is the part where I pretend to get it even though I'm not a girl, isn't it?" Chris joked. Kate smacked him lightly on the back of the head.
"I just… I feel like I'm losing Meg, after all this time," Kate murmured, having found herself a warm place in Chris's arms.
"We haven't lost her for good. Don't worry," Chris said, tilting Kate's head up, "no matter where she goes, we'll find her."
As she kissed Chris lightly again, Kate whispered, "I hope so."