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Post by Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton on Jul 12, 2021 5:31:28 GMT
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He’d given her a few weeks to sort out whatever guilt she had felt at hiding her secret life from him. He even thought he might have been done with her. He should have been done with her, leave her to her new man and the baby they had together, but Ric was never one to do the right thing. He came into the Leaky but when he didn’t see her behind the bar he waited until the bartender was distracted with another patron and sneaked into the back, taking the stairs two at a time. The door to what should have been her flat was closed but a quick listen told him someone was home. Hopefully not her husband, but he was up for a fight if it should go that way. Rapping his knuckles on the door, Ric leaned against the doorframe and waited.
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Post by Tessa Nicole Abbott on Jul 12, 2021 18:47:26 GMT
 But I'm busy mending broken pieces of the life I had before Hannah was asleep! Hannah was asleep and Tessa had a whole hour to herself. She hoped. Hannah was a great napper, she usually went out like a light and woke up in a beautiful mood. Tess left her in her cot upstairs and tiptoed down to the living room, picking up the poopy nappy she'd just changed and tossing it in the bin, a blast from her wand sending a fresh smell over the apartment. She washed her hands and leaned against the kitchen counter, eyes closed, a sigh of contentment on her lips. Then someone started rapping on the door. "Oh, shit!" Tess whispered, rushing to the door and yanking it open before whoever it was could knock again. "Shhh, the baby's asleep," she said, then got a look at the person in front of her and froze. "Oh." Tessa's heart went wild at the sight of Alaric leaning against her doorway. It was such a familiar sight, one she used to welcome when she was younger. Now she wasn't sure whether she felt giddy with anxiety or attraction. He looked so good. _______________________ tag: Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton words: 217 notes: <3 outfit: Summer heat.[googlefont="Butterfly Kids"][googlefont="Cinzel Decorative"] |
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Post by Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton on Jul 14, 2021 3:37:18 GMT
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Footsteps grew louder as someone approached the other side of the door and Alaric dropped his hand, knowing he had no need to knock a second time. He wasn’t sure whether he was expecting Tessa not to answer the door to him or for her to just open it a bit more calmly than she had, but regardless of what he had been expecting, Tessa’s rushed appearance at the door and scolding him because the baby was sleeping made him chuckle. “Well, hello to you, too, Sweetness. Am I interrupting?” He gave her a charming smile, still leaning against her doorframe with no intention of moving until he was good and ready.
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Post by Tessa Nicole Abbott on Jul 14, 2021 15:19:17 GMT
But I'm busy mending broken pieces of the life I had before She fought it so hard but when Ric flashed her that smile, Tess couldn't help but smile back. "No, no," she said, trying to keep her voice low so Hannah wouldn't hear. "Kind of." She cringed, running a hand through her hair as her brain moved at lightning speed trying to find a way out of this situation. The other week she had literally ran away from Ric downstairs with Hannah in her arms. She had nowhere to run now. He had her trapped, blocking the only exit. The best she could do was slam the door in his face, and she really didn't want to do that, despite her flight instinct going into overdrive. "What are you doing here, Ric?" she asked, resigning herself to a conversation. _______________________ tag: Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton words: 161 notes: <3 outfit: Summer heat.[googlefont="Butterfly Kids"][googlefont="Cinzel Decorative"] |
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Post by Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton on Jul 18, 2021 18:12:31 GMT
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He could see that she was flustered and he put it down to her having just put her kid to sleep. Or maybe it was because her husband was sitting in the other room listening in and waiting to create an excuse for Ric to start a fight. Not that he had come here looking for such a thing, but if it happened, it happened. “I just wanted to finish our conversation, dollface. You ran out of there like a doxy outta hell. Didn’t even introduce me to your new man. Is he here, by the way?”
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Post by Tessa Nicole Abbott on Jul 18, 2021 19:07:06 GMT
But I'm busy mending broken pieces of the life I had before This was getting more and more confusing by the minute. He thought she'd ran off because she didn't want him to meet her new man? She would have laughed out loud if it wouldn't have woken the baby. "There is no new man," she said, wondering if she was saying the right thing. The thought of Ric never looking at her the way he had in the bar two weeks ago just because he thought she was taken made her stomach churn. She always wanted him to look at her that way, even if she literally ran away from him a lot of the time. "It's just me and Hannah."_______________________ tag: Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton words: 143 notes: <3 outfit: Summer heat.[googlefont="Butterfly Kids"][googlefont="Cinzel Decorative"] |
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Post by Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton on Jul 18, 2021 19:32:31 GMT
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No new man? Alaric’s smile changed ever so slightly into something more seductive. “I can’t imagine the fool who would leave you,” he replied, eyebrows raising in her direction. He could handle a baby. Sure. He’d come to her looking for adventure, to shake up his mundane life a bit, and her having a kid with some absent bloke didn’t need to get in the way of his plans. “So, are you gonna invite me in, or are we setting up camp in the doorframe?”
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Post by Tessa Nicole Abbott on Jul 18, 2021 20:15:01 GMT
But I'm busy mending broken pieces of the life I had before Tessa let out a strangled laugh, putting her hand over her mouth as his comment really hit home. She was the one who had left him and ran for the hills. The words tumbled out of her mouth before she could stop them. "You are the fool, Ric," she said, staring up at him and waiting for it to all click into place. She couldn't lie to him with Hannah in the next room, she couldn't pretend that it wasn't his baby. _______________________ tag: Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton words: 115 notes: <3 outfit: Summer heat.[googlefont="Butterfly Kids"][googlefont="Cinzel Decorative"] |
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Post by Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton on Jul 19, 2021 2:40:58 GMT
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Far from inviting him inside, Tessa began laughing at him and she damn near choked herself trying to stop it. She claimed he was the fool who had left her but that wasn’t exactly the case. She had been the one to run away. She had left him, so if he was the fool... He gave a single bark of disbelief as he slowly came to the realization that she was cluing him into. “What are you on about, Abbott?” Was she taking the mickey out of him? Was this her idea of a sick joke? Alaric straightened himself up, no longer leaning causally against the doorframe, the charming smile having faded from his face. If she was saying what he thought she was saying, well shit.
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Post by Tessa Nicole Abbott on Jul 19, 2021 18:54:52 GMT
But I'm busy mending broken pieces of the life I had before Abbott. No cute nickname all of a sudden. Tessa felt sick, but she knew she'd feel better after getting this off her chest. "We haven't seen each other for two and a half years, Ric. Hannah is almost two. You do the maths." She turned and walked into her flat, leaving the door open. She opened the fridge and grabbed herself a bottle of beer, all the while calculating how fast she could pack a bag and get herself and Hannah out of the country if Alaric reacted badly to finding out he was a father. _______________________ tag: Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton words: 129 notes: <3 outfit: Summer heat.[googlefont="Butterfly Kids"][googlefont="Cinzel Decorative"] |
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Post by Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton on Jul 20, 2021 5:08:22 GMT
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No maths equation had ever come together in Alaric’s head faster than the one Tessa laid out for him. He stared at the back of her head as Tessa turned and walked back into her flat, leaving the door open. For what? In case he wanted to come in and play daddy to a kid he didn’t know existed until a few weeks ago? A kid he wasn’t even sure was actually his? She was off her rocker if she thought he would just swoop in and act the perfect father the second she finally got around to telling him about his own damn kid. Nearly two years old! Two years and she never once came after him. By the time Tessa turned around from the fridge, Alaric would be gone. He made no sounds as he slipped out, down the stairs and disappeared through the crowd in the pub below.
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Post by Tessa Nicole Abbott on Jul 20, 2021 18:29:24 GMT
But I'm busy mending broken pieces of the life I had before He was silent. Didn't say a word, and after squeezing her eyes shut to block out her worst fears, Tessa turned to find an empty doorway. "Figures," she said, sliding to the floor in front of the fridge and pulling her knees up. He probably hated her, and why shouldn't he? She'd kept his own child from him for two years, taken away the choice of being a father because she'd decided on her own that he wasn't fit for the job. As if Tessa was any more of a role model for a kid. Her face scrunched up as she tried to fight back the sobs, tears streaming down her cheeks. And if he didn't hate her, then he'd ran from the news like she'd thought he always might, rejecting the sleeping baby upstairs. Either way, he was gone, and Tessa was left alone with her fears and her mistakes, crying on the kitchen floor. _______________________ tag: Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton words: 189 notes: <3 outfit: Summer heat.[googlefont="Butterfly Kids"][googlefont="Cinzel Decorative"] |
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Post by Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton on Jul 21, 2021 3:33:03 GMT
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It was several hours later, after a few beers and a few conversations with random blokes and one sweet old lady at the bar, before Alaric was ready to actually face what was happening. He was by no means over the shock of finding out he was a father, nor the anger at having had said news delayed by two years, and he’d definitely not come to terms with how his life might have to change to accommodate having a child, but he was ready to face Tessa at least. Two and a half years ago he’d lost the one thing he thought he would always have around to keep things lively and that was precisely what she was bringing back into his life. He had sought her out to shake up the mundane after all, and while this was definitely not what he had in mind, he couldn’t run from what was happening. Now that he knew, he had to deal with it. With her.
Having made a quick shop into a toy store on the way over, Alaric knocked on Tessa’s door around 8 o’clock, not giving a second thought to social lives or bedtimes. He trusted that she’d be there, but he was feeling notably less confident as he waited in front of her door this time around.
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Post by Tessa Nicole Abbott on Aug 2, 2021 11:50:29 GMT
But I'm busy mending broken pieces of the life I had before Hannah had woken not long after the disaster in the doorway, and Tess hadn't had much chance to do anything about it. She'd been busy playing, cleaning toys away, making food, reading books, kissing bumps, and plotting the best way to dump the Leaky onto one of her siblings first thing in the morning so she could run for the hills and never look back. Rufus wouldn't be surprised if she bailed on the pub, he was practically waiting for it to happen, he'd take over for her, surely. Except he didn't want the Leaky at all. Elle was tied up at Hogwarts so she couldn't have it. Her parents were too old. Could she just abandon it and leave it to looters? It was a possibility. She cleaned up after tea and gave Hannah a bath, tiring her out with toys on the living room floor when there was a knock at the door. Tessa wasn't expecting anyone. Her stomach immediately clenched in knots as she stood up and peeked through the tiny glass hole in the door. Shit. How dare he come back after just walking away like that? Anger bubbling beneath the surface, Tess kept her cool in front of Hannah, but snapped her fingers to get Morgana's attention. "Morgana. Guard." She opened the front door, and the huge Bernese Mountain dog got up from her bed and trotted out into the hall. Tess slammed the door after her, listening to the sounds of warning growls as Morgana did her job. "And bite his balls off," she whispered irritably, going back to Hannah with a fake smile. _______________________ tag: Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton words: 303 notes: <3 outfit: Summer heat.[googlefont="Butterfly Kids"][googlefont="Cinzel Decorative"] |
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Post by Alaric Dimitri Pinkerton on Aug 15, 2021 4:44:08 GMT
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The door opened relatively quickly, a good sign Ric thought, but instead of meeting Tessa for a chat he was face to face with a very large dog who looked none too pleased at his presence. The door shut, leaving him with the dog and a shopping bag in hand with a yarn-haired doll inside. “Oh, that’s mature,” he said loud enough that Tessa hopefully could hear him through the door. “Come on, Sugar. You can’t leave me out here all night.” The dog’s growls raised in volume as Alaric spoke, and he eyed the dog carefully as he took a step backwards. “Call the damn dog off.” In a more soothing tone, he spoke to the dog, “good doggy. We’re all good, aren’t we?” The dog growled again, letting him know they were not all good.
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