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Tweak says, "that's what she said"

Fitzwilliam Darcy (mrdarcy_) wrote in spinningcompass,
@ 2018-10-07 22:58:00

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fitzwilliam darcy, ~ash sully

Who? Darcy & Ashley
Where? Their apartment
When? Sunday night / Monday morning
What? Darcy's all grown up
Rating? TBD
Open? No

It had been a very normal evening. Ashley had been working late, but Jane had appeared with dinner, and then Robert had appeared even though he was meant to be away through the latest door with some friends. He'd claimed that Amsterdam was 'boring', but Jane had given her father a knowing look. Robert had secretly missed them, but he wasn't about to admit to it. He was a boy who liked to act like he was very worldly and independent, but Darcy knew that he was more of a family man than he let on.

They'd ate, Robert had regaled them with the more palatable stories of his vacation, and they'd had a rather heated game of scrabble that had involved calling Aunt Georgiana to make sure their father wasn't "making up regency words again".

Eventually they'd retired for the evening, and Darcy had read a couple of chapters of a novel before he fell asleep. At some point in the night, he rolled over and felt the warmth of his wife next to him. She'd obviously finished her shift and just slipped quietly into bed. Instinctively, he curled up against her, wrapping an arm around her waist and just letting her curls tickle at his nose.

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ashleysully
2018-10-07 10:31 pm UTC (link)

It had been long enough since the accident that Ashley had gotten used to just laying in bed next to her fiance rather than cuddling him. Of course, while Georgiana was small they had to sleep in separate beds but that thankfully hadn't lasted very long and she was back to being able to sleep in the bed with him.

She knew it would be a few more days before he felt well enough to change position in bed so when his arms were suddenly around her, she woke up a bit panicked. The room was dark so she didn't notice any differences, she just knew that he wasn't propped up on his pillows anymore.

"Hey. Wake up." She shook him a little. "You're going to make things worse..."

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	mrdarcy_ 2018-10-07 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	Darcy awoke with a bit of a start, blinking in the dark as his brain caught up with what his wife was saying to him. "Hmm? What am I making worse?" he asked of her, his voice just a little more gravelly than in his younger years, but nothing so drastically different. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

ashleysully
2018-10-07 10:47 pm UTC (link)

Ashley shifted a little so she could sit up. "Your back, Liam. You can't lay on your side like that." She was still waking up so even the little difference in his voice didn't register. She thought they had to be pretty great painkillers if he wasn't in agony at the moment.

"Come on, I'll help you." She reached over and turned the lamp on, getting out of bed to come around to his side. She made it around the bed before really looking at him and she stopped, just staring at him.

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mrdarcy_
2018-10-07 11:09 pm UTC (link)

"Hmm? No, it's fine..." he told her, a little confused. Of course he did have back issues, but it wasn't bothering him at that particular moment in time, and he didn't think he was lying in a position so peculiar that it should cause her any concern.

"There's really no need, love, I'm perfectly alright-" he told her. It was sweet that she worried about him, but she really was fussing more than she usually would unless he was crying out in pain. He looked up at her and just blinked a couple of times.

"Oh..." he sat up a little. "Hello. Have I gone back, or did you come forward?"

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ashleysully
2018-10-07 11:13 pm UTC (link)

"I um...I don't know." She hadn't thought about that. She hadn't thought about much other than he was definitely Liam but a bit older. When her brain finally caught up to what was going on, she walked back around and got her phone. She double checked it and then showed it to him. "Seems you've gone back." She cleared her throat.

"So um....how far back are we talking?"

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mrdarcy_
2018-10-07 11:31 pm UTC (link)

Darcy watched as she moved to check out the date, but even before she confirmed it, he knew what she was going to say. All he had to do was look about the room and see that it was their old apartment, before they'd had the kids and upgraded a little.

"Apparently so..." he nodded. He was really pretty calm about it. By this point in his life, he had spent more years on the station than he had in his own world, so he was more than used to the level of weird that could be thrown at you. "Thirty years," he told her with a bit of a nervous chuckle. Okay. That was pretty ridiculous.

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	ashleysully 2018-10-07 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	Ashley sighed and sat down on her side of the bed. "I just got Georgie back to 16 and now you're nearly 60." She laughed a bit. "You don't look it. Maybe 45, but not 60." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mrdarcy_
2018-10-08 02:41 pm UTC (link)

“Yes, thank you, I do still have two years,” he joked a little in response as she said ‘sixty’ twice. “And yet you still manage to flatter,” he chuckled softly.

She looked good. She always did, he’d never stopped finding her attractive, but now he was suddenly conflicted between thinking it was fine to appreciate his wife’s enduring beauty, and realising that he was admiring someone now over thirty years his junior.

“But at least you don’t have to go over the whole ‘we’re in space’ explanation yet again,” he remarked. There were some benefits to being older and not younger.

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ashleysully
2018-10-08 02:50 pm UTC (link)

"You're right. That's a plus." She really did get tired of having to say it over and over again. She ran her fingers through her hair and looked at him again. She shifted to actually lay on the bed and put a hand on his cheek.

"If this is what I have to look forward to then I did good." She chuckled. He was still handsome. Though now he was more than twice her age.

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mrdarcy_
2018-10-08 03:02 pm UTC (link)

It was such a simple gesture, but he felt himself relax a little as she touched his cheek. That was a good sign. She wasn’t freaking out, she understood that he was the same person really. Of course she did, but it put his mind at ease.

“Why thank you. I suppose it’s good to have that confirmed before you commit fully,” he joked a little. “You remain just as beautiful,” he told her, although he was sure he would think her beautiful no matter what happened.

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ashleysully
2018-10-08 03:12 pm UTC (link)

Ashley laughed softly. "Oh absolutely. I don't think I could marry you if you were ugly old." She smirked. Right about then is when she'd be kissing him but she hesitated. Yes, he was definitely Fitz, but he was still older. She blushed a little at his compliment. "That's also good to know."

She was quiet for a long moment and then looked at him. "Can we go back to you having your arms around me? I understand if it makes you uncomfortable, I just....it's been a couple of days." He hadn't been able to properly hold her since the accident.

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mrdarcy_
2018-10-08 03:29 pm UTC (link)

Darcy did laugh at that comment, because he knew that she would love him no matter how he’d turned out appearance wise. He had absolute faith in the strength of their marriage, especially after 30 years. He felt the moment as well. In fact, as soon as she’d touched his cheek he felt like he wanted to give her a kiss. But he had really doubted she would want that, and he didn’t want to be pushy, so he did nothing.

Her next comment did surprise him a little, although he wasn’t sure why. “It doesn’t make me uncomfortable, as long as you aren’t uncomfortable,” he assured her. As far as he was concerned, he had the absolute certainty that everything worked out for them. Nothing could be more natural that wrapping his arms around his wife, but- oh my God, she was even a little younger than their daughter. There was a momentary flicker of surprise over his expression at that thought.

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	ashleysully 2018-10-08 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm not uncomfortable." She smiled. His hair wasn't quite as ridiculously curly as when he was younger, and there was gray in it, but that didn't change how she felt about him. She did catch the look on his face and chuckled a little. "What's that look?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mrdarcy_
2018-10-08 04:05 pm UTC (link)

They were both being so thoughtful and polite, it was seeet and a little ridiculous at the same time.

Of course she caught the look. He chewed at his lower lip for a moment, wondering how much it was okay to say. Obviously she already knew that they were still married. It wouldn’t be much of a stretch as long as he didn’t give too many details.

“I just realised that you are a little younger than our children right now,” he explained.

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	ashleysully 2018-10-08 04:11 pm UTC (link)
	Ashley giggled and sighed as bit. Children. Plural. That was good. She liked that. "Oh, yes. That could be strange." She nodded. "But..I'm okay with it if you are." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mrdarcy_
2018-10-08 09:02 pm UTC (link)

It was a funny thought, but he knew logically that it really didn't matter. It wasn't as if she was so young that she was a child, she didn't even know how very close to becoming his wife that she really was already.

"I'm okay with it," he nodded. "You are still very much my wife, after all," he told her softly, and then corrected himself. "Or well, fiance currently, I suppose," he edited himself, and then he just did as she had requested and wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into another warm embrace.

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ashleysully
2018-10-08 10:36 pm UTC (link)

"Still just fiancee, yes." She chuckled softly. Ashley sighed happily and snuggled I to his chest, closing her eyes. "Don't feel any different." She muttered, not sure if he would hear her. After a moment, she lifted her head a little.

"I've got about a million questions running through my head. If you don't want to answer them, just say spoilers and I'll drop it."

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mrdarcy_
2018-10-08 10:43 pm UTC (link)

It was just lovely giving her a cuddle, and it really felt just the same as ever. He had no idea why it shouldn't, she was Ashley no matter what year it was after all. "Mmm?" he didn't catch it exactly, but then she was lifting her head to talk to him, and he forgot about it.

"Just say spoilers?" he repeated, and then chuckled softly. He actually did understand that reference now. "Alright... I don't want to jinx anything, you know? But okay... try me, what are you wondering?"

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	ashleysully 2018-10-08 10:54 pm UTC (link)
	Ashley smiled, happy that he got the reference. Of course he'd spent 30 years on the station so he was bound to. She took a deep breath and let it out as she thought what to ask first. Then she smirked a little. "How's the sex?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mrdarcy_
2018-10-08 11:01 pm UTC (link)

There were many questions that Darcy thought she might have for him, but that hadn't been one of them. It took him so by surprise that he burst out laughing, feeling himself suddenly burning bright red.

"Ashley! Oh, trust you to have that as your first question. You've got your priorities straight," he teased her. Once he'd composed himself, he did answer, smiling at the young woman before him before just saying: "wonderful".

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	ashleysully 2018-10-08 11:07 pm UTC (link)
	She really did love to make him blush. She laughed along with him and then snuggled in again. "Good. I never want to be one of those boring old couples that never has sex or does anything fun." She held him a little closer. "How many kids do we have?" She wasn't going to ask about their names. She didn't want to risk changing that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mrdarcy_
2018-10-08 11:15 pm UTC (link)

“Oh, we are definitely not that. We have a lot of fun still,” he assured her, just relaxing into her embrace now. It very quickly felt easy and normal again.

He was a little nervous about questions involving the kids, but he supposed a few details would not do any harm. “We have two, a boy and a girl,” he answered. Well, a man and a woman now, he supposed.

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	ashleysully 2018-10-08 11:19 pm UTC (link)
	"Good." Ashley nodded. She wanted to ask if they were still happy but it seemed ridiculous with the way he was holding her. And the question he already answered. "Are the twins or no? You don't have to tell me how far apart if they're not. I'm just curious." With the way twins ran in her family she wouldn't be surprised. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

mrdarcy_
2018-10-08 11:23 pm UTC (link)

Darcy shook his head a little at the next question. “Not twins, no.” They might as well have been, given how close in age they were, but he didn’t tell her that part. “I won’t say who’s older, don’t want to ruin the surprise,” he told her. It had been a truly beautiful moment when they’d found out about Robert being Robert, she deserved to live it first hand.

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	ashleysully 2018-10-08 11:33 pm UTC (link)
	Ashley hadn't realized she tensed up while waiting for his answer until she relaxed. She was actually scared of the idea of having twins. "Okay, good." She smiled. She was trying to sort through the questions in her head. "Some of the questions, I don't know if I actually want the answer or not." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)