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Pippa ([personal profile] pippa_flynn) wrote2017-02-03 03:50 pm

Akeem

Straight away after Christmas Pippa had taken Fin's recommendation and gone to see Hex. He told her it was much too early to tell if she was preggers but he ran an STI panel, just to see. He told her it was a bit early to tell that, either.

Ever since, she had been peeing on sticks every few days, just waiting for her period to come. But it didn't. And it didn't. And now she was officially late. By two weeks. But every stick said negative. And so she had made arrangements with Hex once more, not wanting to go to her regular doctor because of her 'condition' as well as Akeem's. No, the NHS wasn't equipped to deal with Fae or werewolves.

And so she set a time to meet with Hex and then went to Akeem's shop to see if he'd come with her. No call, no text, she simply dropped in.

"Akeem?" she called into the book shop. "Are you in here somewhere?"
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-04 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Akeem took her into his arms, first, and pressed a kiss to her forehead. "It's your body. I'll be there, whatever you decide."

He did not want to be a father, but he would not abandon his child, if that was what she wanted.
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-04 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
"It's not real yet," he told her, arms warm around her, chin tucked on her hair. "It might not be a decision at all."
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-04 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't think anyone's ever ready for an unexpected pregnancy," Akeem told her quietly. "But whatever happens, you're not going to go through it alone, Pippa."
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-04 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
"You might want to be done of me, first," Akeem pointed out, cupping her face in her hand. "But if you want to keep this child -" if there was a child, "then we'll do the adult thing, and still be his parents, no matter what."
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-04 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm here," Akeem told her quietly, moving a hand to her hair, cradling her head and holding her to him.
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-04 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Akeem dropped his hand from her head to her waist, so that she could stay in his arms to hear the results if she preferred that, but he would also let her go if she moved away.
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-04 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Thank you," Akeem added with a nod, and a small smile for the nurse. He felt rather weak with relief, he had to admit.
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-04 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Pippa, I rather think we share the blame in this," Akeem pointed out, stroking her jawline with a thumb, a tender gesture. "And you've had it far worse than I. If anyone ought to apologise, it should be me."
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-04 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Quite," Akeem told her with a small smile, and pushed her hair back behind her ear. "Let's not be this careless ever again, shall we?"
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-04 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Anywhere you'd like," Akeem told her. As usual, all of him was in agreement: he wanted nothing but to make her happy. "Shall we find your friend to thank him again, first?"
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-04 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Akeem held her coat out for her and helped her into it, not gentlemanly so much as caring. On their way back out, he looked around in case he spotted Hex, but the young man was nowhere to be seen. They found themselves outside, and he pulled out a cigarette of his own, glad to be able to ignore the hospital smells a little more easily now. "Have I ever mentioned I loathe hospitals?" he asked around the cigarette as he located his lighter in his coat pocket.
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-04 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"The smells are atrocious," he explained, leaning over to light her cigarette before his own.
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[personal profile] leloupnoir 2017-02-07 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Quite," Akeem agreed. "Unless your magic enhances your senses?"

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