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Hestia Abbott (eagleofdelphi) wrote in all_roads,
@ 2008-02-01 17:01:00

Entry tags:

*thread-completed, dominic abbott, hestia jones

Learning to co-parent; the Abbott's [HJ, DA]
WHO: Hestia, Dominic
WHERE: the Abbott's
WHEN: Wednesday, 29 December, 1999; early evening
SUMMARY: Hestia's learning how to parent and Dominic has to learn his daughter is an adult – no, really, he does. COMPLETED THREAD.
RATING: PG?

Hestia didn't want to be doing this. She really, really didn't want to be doing this. But, as usual, her own words had screwed everything up and an attempt to figure out what, ultimately, to do with the information about Hannah had ended with her needing to do something or risk Dominic continuing to be upset with her.

Her entrance to his study had the look of someone going to an execution, resigned but completely ready to run the other way if she could risk it. "So, we have to talk, but I don't know how," she said without preamble as she drew close to him.

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regretfulde
2008-02-01 10:23 pm UTC (link)

Dominic had been pacing since he learned that she was coming, slowly wearing a hole in the floor. He wasn't sure what to say. While he was glad that Hestia had taken to acting so motherly toward Hannah, he worried about what it meant, what it would mean to them raising this new baby together.

"Yes..." he sighed, moving to take her hand as he wasn't sure what to do but he knew that they needed to face this together.

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eagleofdelphi
2008-02-01 10:27 pm UTC (link)

"I need you to tell me how I'm supposed to handle this!" Hestia exclaimed abruptly, his 'yes' having given her no indication of what to do, though she kept hold of his hand. "I've never been a parent, you have twenty years of experience on me! I don't even know if it's parental, it might be a friend thing and if I make it a parent thing I'll ruin everything and Hannah will hate me and you'll freak out and people may die because everything will get out of control and I. Just. Don't. Know."

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regretfulde
2008-02-01 10:50 pm UTC (link)

"No one is going to die." He said quietly, leading her to the sofa. "Not because I don't WANT Macmillan to die, but because harming him would make Hannah sad, and so I won't." He helped her to sit, then sat next to her, draping one arm over her shoulders. "But this...this I don't know what to do, what to say. We'll learn anew with the baby, because truth be told I was gone during so much of Hannah's life and then SHE was gone to live with her grandparents that I don't know much more than you...but that doesn't solve this. We have to come to some sort of agreement, because I can't stand being in the dark and you two not trusting me with things and she needs to be able to trust you as well."

Sighing heavily, he looked at her with tired eyes. "So I don't know."

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eagleofdelphi
2008-02-01 11:02 pm UTC (link)

Leaning into him as they settled on the sofa, Hestia wondered for the hundredth time in the last few days how mothers handled things like this. It was about being a mother, she had come to understand that recently, for a friend would refrain from many things Hestia knew she must inevitably do in being in a relationship with Dominic like their was. Yet, she knew that 'friend' camaraderie they had built would not go away and that complicated matters. This was an impossible place to be in, to know Dominic already felt hurt at being left out, to know Hannah had trusted her with some very private 'girl talk' and not knowing how to bridge the gap so that Hannah didn't become hurt yet Dominic no longer was hurt either.

"Hannah's getting serious about Ernie, more serious than I think you've wanted to admit," she finally said quietly.

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regretfulde
2008-02-01 11:12 pm UTC (link)

"How serious?" The words came quickly, a knee jerk reaction. "Snogging closer serious or about to run off and elope serious?" Oh, there were a million steps in between, he knew that, but though neither of those two steps was desirable, he hoped that the reality was closer to the former than the later. Perhaps it was selfish, wanting her to stay his little girl for a bit longer, perhaps it was his own foolish way of trying to compensate her for not being the father he wanted to be when she was younger, but he wasn't ready to give her up, to have her define herself first as Macmillan's...whatever she would be rather than his daughter.

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eagleofdelphi
2008-02-01 11:26 pm UTC (link)

Despite herself, Hestia snorted with laughter and then shook her head. "No, they're not going to elope," she said, shoulders shaking with quiet laughter before she grew calm again. The laughter had succeeded in loosening a bit of tension so, while it likely accounted for what she had laughed as she did, out of nervous tension, it had also helped immensely. "Hannah would never do that, Dominic, she'd never run off and deprive you of being there, being at her side. Ridiculous man."

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regretfulde
2008-02-01 11:40 pm UTC (link)

That soothed him a bit. "Well you can never know with that rash Macmillan boy at her side." he said, his voice still a bit defensive though even he knew how foolish it was to think that Hannah would concent to something like that. "So what do you mean then if not that. Is Macmillan going to come take his own life in his hands and ask me for her hand or something else?"