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A seven year old John Chesterton shared the task of setting the table with his father. Unfortunately, a child with a love of games should probably not be given any kind of responsibility which involved sharp objects. And neither should their father.

"Avarst! Ye matey!" Ian Chesterton cried at his son, brandishing a butter knife like a sword.

"Arrrr!!" John replied with one eye closed as though he were wearing an eye patch.

"Submit to me, matey, or I'll gut yer through!"

"NEVAAR!!"

The butter knives clinked once before Barbara managed to catch them at it; "boys!" she called from the doorway into the dining room. "That's quite enough. One of you will literally skin the other and I am not in the mood to drive over to the emergency ward."

Unfortunately, neither boy was paying much attention. To begin with they looked suitably shamed, but all it took was a quick exchange of looks and they lunged at Barbara, who screamed. And then giggled as the tickling fingers of John and Ian found her most ticklish spots. She managed to wriggle away, and ran for the kitchen, the hall and finally the lounge where they tackled her onto the sofa and tickled her until she managed to cry for mercy between fits of laughter.

Now breathing heavy, all three Chestertons sat on the sofa a moment, contemplating who to tickle next when the doorbell rung.

"I'll get it," Barbara said and pushed herself up to walk to the front door. Her hand reflexively went to her hair, double checking that everything was still in place. When she opened the door, flushed in the face from the giggling, hair didn't matter. Even dinner didn't matter. Nor sword fighting, or anything else.

"...Howard," she gasped.

Date: 2013-10-20 05:10 am (UTC)
iselldrugstothecommunity: (Basic - Observing)
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"Because I'm wondering how you're going to deal with not having someone to mother."

Date: 2013-10-20 05:54 am (UTC)
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"Nothing really. I guess I'm just trying to psychoanalyze you because I spend way too long playing shrink for myself."

Date: 2013-10-22 12:09 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] iselldrugstothecommunity
Howard shrugs and stares up at the stars.

"I'm just wondering who you are underneath taking care of everyone else."

Date: 2013-10-22 03:53 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] iselldrugstothecommunity
"No, I'm just..." He takes a seat next to her. "I just never knew you before you were Team Mom."

Date: 2013-10-23 10:57 pm (UTC)
iselldrugstothecommunity: (Sad - Uncertain)
From: [personal profile] iselldrugstothecommunity
"Was this what you saw for yourself, before you met Ian? Or me?"

Date: 2013-10-26 01:46 am (UTC)
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"You don't have to try and puff up my ego every time you talk about me. It doesn't really work." He looks up at the sky, at the stars. "I just don't want to drag you off track, you know? It's not like...it's not like I'm not trying to get back on my feet."

Date: 2013-11-05 09:40 pm (UTC)
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"Yeah but," he pauses. "What happens after you and Ian die?"

Date: 2013-11-07 07:27 am (UTC)
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"Who's going to take care of us?"

He's made a hundred contingency plans and never had an answer.

Date: 2013-11-07 06:30 pm (UTC)
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"I just don't know if I'll ever be able to make it on my own."

Date: 2013-11-08 08:30 am (UTC)
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"Yeah. Let's do that," he says quietly. "I can't sleep worrying about it."

Date: 2013-11-08 09:09 am (UTC)
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He doesn't say anything for a long time. It isn't easy to admit he still needs that, even as an adult. He doesn't feel as if he has the right to ask for it.

But to just take it? Maybe.

He nods and starts to head back inside, head hanging.

Date: 2013-12-29 01:36 am (UTC)
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"I think maybe. But you can tell me again." He settles in, letting a cat sleep at the crook of his neck.

Date: 2013-12-30 07:50 am (UTC)
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"I bet he still wouldn't know what to do if you decided to dress all sexy one day and throw yourself at him in the bedroom," Howard mumbles, trying to close his eyes without nightmares graffitied on the backs of his eyelids.

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