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Post by Paul Lahote on May 19, 2009 0:21:51 GMT -5
Paul was busy at work. All those months in the construction business had paid off for now he was able to work on his and Rachael's place. They were expanding, adding another addition onto the place that they now legally owned. It was so much better than renting . . . it was so much more permanent, and Paul loved that. They would never have to move when they got married. All they need was a white picket fence. Yes, Paul was very happy with the current living arrangements.
He took a step back to admire his work. It was not nearly done, he had just gotten started a couple of days ago and with his other job, and the whole wolf thing . . . well, he was trying to make time for everything. He did not feel overworked or tired in any way. Everything he was doing he was very happy about. He was with Rachael, he was in a great pack, he had a decent paying job . . . what more could he want in life?
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 19, 2009 0:50:34 GMT -5
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Rachael was in shock. Not the 'slap her to snap her out of it' shock, more the 'I don't think it has hit me yet' shock. She drove her little blue bug up to the house and parked, with two wheel's in Paul's grass and two on the drive. Got out of her car, and shut the door, but the seat belt was hanging out of the car.
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She walked up to the house and stumbled up the steps, and into the door. She didn't go in, however, she sat on one of the porch seats not far from the door, put her heels on the edge of the seat and her hands around her waist as she rested her head on her knees. She felt something wet on her lips and put a hand up to them, only to pull away with some blood on her finger tips.
The doctor had said to expect that. . . .
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 19, 2009 1:02:37 GMT -5
Paul heard the car arrive, as the sound of her blue bug became more familiar to his ears in the months that they had been together. He stopped working, standing there as he waited for her to come in. And he waited . . . and waited . . . and waited. But he did not hear her enter. Surely that was her car, he wouldn't have mistaken it . . . right? His curiosity got the better of him, as it was mixed with slight concern. Maybe she had groceries that she needed help with. Mmm food. Paul could do with some food right about now.
When he went outside, he stood on the porch, looking first at the car, and then around the area for her. But then he heard her . . laughing as she was sitting right on the porch . . . with her head down . . . and tears on her face and . . . was that blood?"Ray?" He asked, concern now filled his tone. "What happened? Are you okay?" He crouched down in front of her, trying to get a clear image of her face. He put his hand on her shoulder in attempt to get her full attention. Now, he had reason to worry. Had someone hurt her? did she get into an accident of some sort? Paul was determined to find out.
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 19, 2009 1:36:40 GMT -5
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When Paul touched her she stopped laughing and crying gave a short gasp as if someone had woken her up from a dream. She looked up at him with a blank expression for about two seconds before smiling up at him in big overly happy way. "Hi."
She started crying again but in a more sane, happy way. Looking down at her hand she laughed short chuckle. "I need to wash my face!" ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 19, 2009 1:43:17 GMT -5
Something definitely was not right. "Ray, whats going on? You're bleeding . . . " he said, speaking the obvious, but did she even realize that she was? She seemed a little hysterical right now. He hated to see her cry, he hated seeing her this upset over something. Whatever it was, it must have been bad and whoever caused it, was going to be dead very shortly. "Come on, I'll help you," he said, helping her to stand up. He still wanted to know what had happened, but right now, he wanted to calm her down first.
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 19, 2009 2:11:19 GMT -5
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Rachael stood up and let him help her to the wash room, where she washed her face, and then brushed her hair, and then dried it on a towel. Feeling some what calmer (but still happy enough to have a huge smile on her face) she turned to face a worried Paul . . . the the constitution zone they lived her.
And reality sat in. "Paul?" Rachael said as she reached for the counter, and leaned against it. "Can I ask you some more wolf questions?" ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 19, 2009 2:14:21 GMT -5
Her question was not one he expected it, nor was her expression. He was still worried about the blood, and the way she was crying on the porch. "Are you sure you're okay?" He asked, returning her question with another question. He was far more concerned about her rather than any wolf issues she may have. Or wait . . . was that part of the reason she was so upset? Because if it was, then he would gladly ease any of those concerns. "As long as you're sure you're fine . . . cause like I said, you were bleeding before . . . "
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 19, 2009 2:19:47 GMT -5
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"I'm fine! I just . . . tripped on the steps. Don't worry." It was a lie but telling him the real reason why would be bad. "Come here." She took his hand and pulled him to the other room and then sat down on one end of the couch and patted the seat next to her. "I have some questions, and I know my bout of random emotional stress was weird, but I promise, Paul. I am fine!"
Once he was sitting, she spoke again. "So, I know my great-grandfather was a wolf, and my grandfather and father wasn't, and my brother is. So how dose that work? Was your great-grandfather a wolf?"
www.ramblingsandthoughts.com/Quileute_Wolf_Pack_Genealogy.pdf ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 19, 2009 12:10:55 GMT -5
First she was crying, then she was bleeding, then she was laughing, and now she was asking questions about his lineage? What the hell was going on! He took a seat next to her, looking at her with confusion and worry. "Why are you emotionally stressed?" He asked, wanting to know more about her state rather than the line of wolfs which he descended from. She didn't sound or look fine . . . something was not right.
"Why do you need to know this now? Are you sure you're alright, maybe we should take to the doctors, why were you bleeding?" He had ignored her question and answered it with several of his own. "If I answer this question, will you tell me whats going on?"
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 21, 2009 21:35:34 GMT -5
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"Paul, I am an emotional girl, in case you might have missed the signs." And it was only going to get worse. "I just have had an emotional day." She wasn't ready to tell him about the--hehe. . . .The Babies!, yet. She wanted to do it special but she needed to know some things first. "I went with one of the imprintees today to the doctor." Not a lie, Rachael and Kim had gone, for TB test. Something all teachers had to get once a year. It was a simple short four second test, but since Rachael had been 'feeling odd' she had other test done to see if she needed more vitamins or something.
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 23, 2009 11:10:16 GMT -5
The doctor?! Paul was about to ask the typical questions: what, what where, when and WHY! But when she explained that one of the imprintees was pregnant, he changed his mind. "Oh . . . oh! Really?!" It was rather surprising, mainly because they are all still young . . . sort of. "Who is it? Em? Kim?" Those were really the only possible imprintees. "Claire?" He added jokingly. And then of course there was that little vamp creature . . . but he doubted it was her. He didn't even consider her someone that a wolf could imprinted on; he still saw her as a freak of nature.
"It depends on who got her pregnant. It's usually our great grandfather, or great-great grandfather who has the wolf gene. And whenever vamps are around, it becomes that much more dominant."
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 24, 2009 23:25:31 GMT -5
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With her brother going to marry a half vampire, that wasn't a good sign. "What if the soon to be parents, moved out of La Push. Would their sons be safe as long as it's a vampire free area?" She asked ignoring the parent question. She wasn't about to tell Paul he was the father, and she the mother until she knew if he was even ready for kids. What if he wasn't? Or would never leave La Push because he wanted his sons to have this life?
If it was a girl, Rachael could stay here, and hope she found a man someday like Paul. Someone who loved her more then life. However she did not want her son faced with the life Paul lived. Of this war going on in their back yard. ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 24, 2009 23:40:29 GMT -5
Paul's curiosity was growing and growing. "I guess so." Who was leaving? Was Sam leaving? How could he leave his pack? No. He couldn't . . . he wouldn't. Would he? What if that was what Emily wanted? He knew Sam would do anything for her, just as Paul would do anything for Rachael. "Ray, who are these soon tob e parents? You gotta tell me. Come on. The suspense is killing me."
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 24, 2009 23:52:17 GMT -5
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"An imprintee." She said again when he asked who. She wondered again how he felt about kids. "Paul. . . . You like kids. Do you ever want any of your own?--Our own?" She edited on the end so he knew what she meant. It was a 'some day' question, to him but his someday and Rachael's eight months left might be worlds apart. She hoped not. ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 24, 2009 23:58:27 GMT -5
The question threw him off a little, and the thought of Rachael being the one pregnant had not even crossed his mind. "I never really thought about it before." Was this one of those things that women needed to talk about, and needed to be assured of? "But I'm sure you'll make a great mother." He kept thinking of who it could be.
"It's Kim isn't it. She's the pregnant one. Man, didn't that guy use a condom." He didn't want to know the answer to that question since the visuals he got when they were in wolf form was more than enough . . . thankfully, Jared had been so kind as to edit.
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 25, 2009 0:35:02 GMT -5
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"What about you? Do you ever want to be a Dad, Paul? I know you said, when we first started dating that you had time to still be a kid." She remembered that comment from a few months ago. . . . wow, only a few months ago. Time suddenly seemed more important. While it had felt like years to her (wonderful years) it had only been months! ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 25, 2009 0:45:37 GMT -5
Where was this coming from? "Where is this coming from? Did the fact that one of them imprinted make you want to have kids or something? I guess we can talk about it . . . if thats something you really want. I just figured you'd want to get married first." He took her for a more traditional kind of woman. After all, she did not want to sleep with him until they were married. There was just that one exception, when their intense emotions got the better of them and the pain of the possibility of never seeing each other again overwhelmed them.
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 25, 2009 0:55:23 GMT -5
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She pulled her knees up to her chest and hugged them but it was a casual move and not an emotion ridden one like before. Still it was her 'thinking' or 'this magic stuff it getting to much' safe zone pose. "Marriage." Her voice trailed off as she thought over things. She wanted forever with Paul but she was girl enough to want him to ask her not the other way around. "How do you feel about that?" Marriage with her. ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 25, 2009 1:02:53 GMT -5
Paul wondered if she finally had enough waiting, and wanted to move forward. "Well, I guess I always saw that in our future, ever since we started dating. What I don't know is when you were ready for marriage." Did she want to get married now? It seemed kind of out of the blue, but maybe not for her. Maybe this had been on her mind for a while. "If tha'ts what you want, then I would do anything to make you happy . . . so that's what we'll do. If you want a big wedding, nothing will stand in the way. If you want to elope, I'm ready to leave as soon as you say the word." He was willing to do whatever she wanted, and though he may not be prepared for all the responsibilities associated with marriage, he would force himself to get prepared.
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 25, 2009 1:10:09 GMT -5
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"Paul, I know you love me but I don't want you to ask me because you think it's what I want!" She said feeling like she had pushed him into the the choice. She knew there was a 'forever' in their live time, but that didn't mean he was ready to be a husband. "I just wanted to know what you thought of marriage, or if you still wanted to be a kid for a few more years. I just want to know what PAUL wants, not what Paul thinks Rachael wants." ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 25, 2009 1:39:07 GMT -5
"What if Paul only wants what Rachael wants?" He knew that she wanted to hear more than that. "Are you in a rush to have kids? I do plan on becoming your husband one day Ray, I've thought about it before. I just figured that it would happen in a few more years, because thats when you would be ready. I was ready to comitt to be with you for the rest of my life the day I saw you for the first time after I phased." He paused for a moment. "But if you are in some sort of rush to have kids . . . are you?" He asked again, trying to picture himself as a father.
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 25, 2009 1:45:17 GMT -5
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She didn't want to go in circles however; "How do you feel about kids?" She asked watching his face closely trying to see what this meant to him. He had assumed marriage would happen in a few years and she would hold him to that. There would be no her telling him he was a father, and him turning around and saying marry me. She knew what he wanted before hand, now. . . at lest about marriage. ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 25, 2009 1:57:02 GMT -5
"I dunno." He really didn't. Didn't they have time before they had to think about this? "Is this pregnant imprintee wanting to put their kid up for adoption and are you interested in adopting it, or something?" He asked, smiling since the idea seemed so silly. "Did this whole situation make you want to have kids sometime in the near future?"Could they support kids, financially? Paul thought they could, or he would find a way for them to . . . because again, if that was what Rachael wanted . . .
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 25, 2009 2:03:07 GMT -5
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"Paul--" Maybe not. She watched him getting the fact the was confused and she was being random. They were going in circles and this was not the time to drop a bomb like this. He might not be ready. She should let him get used to the idea, think about things slowly and maybe work up the topic over a big streak dinner. Maybe allot of streaks, and some other meats to go with it. Work him up to it. "--Your the father." She blurted out. ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 25, 2009 14:55:02 GMT -5
What? No! He couldn't be! That didn't make any sense. He had been faithful to her. "The father of . . . " He was so very confused. What was she talking about? "That's impossible Ray, I never cheated on you." So it wasn't another imprintee . . . it was just another woman, no wait, was it an imprintee? That really didn't make any sense. How could--
oh . . . Oh . . . OH!
That was when it hit Paul. It hit him hard. He immediately stood up, not because he wanted to, he just didn't know what else to do. His expression was pure shock; utter disbelief. Rachael . . . was . . . pregnant . . . with . . . his . . . child?!??!
He stood there, unsure what to do with himself, as the shock and unexpected surprise consumed him. "How--" No, he didn't need to know that. "When--" He didn't need to know that either. "Why--" Irrelevant. He felt his head spinning.
"I need to sit down." He slumped back down onto the couch, not having realized that he had been sitting before he unnecessarily stood up . . . and was now sitting again. He was at a complete loss of words. She was kidding, right? She had to be. Was it April 1st? Was this some weird prank that one of the guys put her up to? This was impossible. IMPOSSIBLE!
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 25, 2009 20:02:11 GMT -5
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[/size][/color] Rachael was worried about how she broke the news to him, since he seemed to be in shock. She waited a few seconds after he sat down before slowly crawling over to him and climbing into his lap. "Paul?" She knew how he felt. He had seen her in shock her own self on the porch. "I'm sorry." She said meaning how she broke the news. She was not sorry for her babies. . . .
Oh, she still had to break that one to him. The doctor said she had two heart beats. Twins did run in her family. Wrapping her arms around him she just leaned there against him, waiting for it to sink in. [/blockquote] ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 25, 2009 20:28:31 GMT -5
Paul just sat there limply. He was completely zoned out as he stared straight ahead of him, trying to process the information she had just told him. They were going to have a child. A kid. A baby. A boy or girl. A mini Moran. A Black baby. They were going to have a kid. A KID!
Eventually, when Paul had felt her close to him, he slowly put one of his arms around her, while keeping his expression completely stunned, staring at the wall on the other side of the room. He didn't know what to do or say. He just sat there, his eyes wide, his lips sealed, his brain working faster than it ever had, and his head spinning in a million different directions.
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 25, 2009 23:38:24 GMT -5
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[/size][/color] She just sat there and waited for him to start thinking (or at lest speaking since one did not go hand in hand with the other). She held him tight and out kiss the side of his face every few moments so he would know she was there. "It will be ok. You don't have to do anything if you don't want to." She wanted him to be there but she was wondering if he was ready for all this. He had said a few years and that marriage came first. So many he wanted to be carefree before being a Dad. Just because he imprinted didn't mean he was ready for family. [/blockquote] ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by Paul Lahote on May 26, 2009 10:30:42 GMT -5
He couldn't not do anything . . . he just didn't know what to do. He knew nothing about being a father. He was barley mature enough to be a husband. Wow. A husband. Did this mean she wanted to get married as soon as possible? Love, marriage, baby carriage . . . isn't that how it went? Wait, was Rachael planning on keeping the baby? Yes. Of course she was. He knew her well enough to know that, but there were just so many possibilities running in his mind. They were going to have a baby
He continued to sit there, feeling as if he had to say something to show that he was supportive, that she wasn't alone in this, that he would do everything he good to help her . . . but silence continued to fill the room for a few more moments. "A baby," he repeated, completely spaced out.
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 28, 2009 19:03:16 GMT -5
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[/size][/color] "Well," Rachael started and trailed off. "Sort of." She knew that wouldn't make any since to him but she didn't want to explain the 'twins' part to him until he was in a better frame of mind. "I will tell you more once this has sank in for a moment." She said and kissed his forehead again. "Just take a moment, Paul. Your gonna need it. Do you want me to get you some water or something?" [/blockquote] ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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