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e l l i o t ([info]fortunesfool) wrote in [info]valesco,
@ 2011-08-07 20:36:00


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Entry tags:elliot alderton, ellsinore alderton

Elsie!
One should note, that you should never get bitten by a werewolf. It tended to ruin your life. Well, most aspects of your life. Elliot mused silently as he flipped through the muggle newspapers, looking for temporary job openings. He'd always been a hard worker, enjoying moving up in the world and being someone's boss. That was the kind of Gryffindor Elliot was, the bossy-sort. So when he'd been bit, nearly killed, he'd thought that maybe life really was over, he'd decided that maybe being in charge wasn't everything. Maybe he could just, you know. Live alone on a hilltop and never enter society again.

Of course----of course he couldn't do that, he had his father, he had his son, he had Eliza, he had Elsie. Elsie, Elsie, Ellsinore Branstone who was now Ellsinore Alderton because for some reason, a reason Elliot still couldn't understand, she'd still wanted to be with him after he'd been turned, she'd even wanted to marry him and spend the rest of her life with him. Him. Elliot, the werewolf.

She was why he continued to jump from job to job. Elliot liked to have another one up before he got fired for missing days, for being too sick. It made him feel better, really---not being fired, but starting fresh every few months. It didn't help the bills, or give them much time out for fun, but---it was better than the alternative, right?

He heard the click of the door and Elliot looked up, smiling as his wife finally returned from her long excursion. Elliot shut the paper and let out a breath, eyebrows high, "I've got chicken, mashed potatoes, and penne alfredo all ready to go in the kitchen. Be impressed."



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[info]softwhatlight
2011-08-08 12:58 am UTC (link)
She told herself she was not going to cry in front of him.

Elsie knew she was late coming back. Elsie also knew that Elliot wouldn't ever reprimand her for it, sometimes even in cases where he ought to. It was something she usually did her best to avoid, because she felt guilty, but today she'd taken advantage of it. She would say it made her sick, but given the full thirty minutes she'd spent in a lavatory at St. Mungo's, it was quite clear that there wasn't much that didn't currently make her sick.

With no amount of bitter irony did Elsie reflect on just a year ago, when she'd seen every single one of her close friends expecting, and just how deeply she'd wanted a child of her own, too. But of course, Elliot had been bitten. There was simply no point. No discussion, even. Elsie had thought it was understood. They just couldn't. It was sad to her, of course, but it somehow seemed a very small thing after learning to cope with marriage to a lycanthrope. And she did thank every day she had Liam, because even in spite of the tenuous bond she sometimes felt with the five-year-old, she loved him dearly, and resolved that he'd be enough. Now, she just didn't know.

She told herself she was not going to cry in front of him.

But just that one look at his face… that in spite of his circumstances, he sounded so happy about a simple dinner about broke her. Her bag slipped from her grasp as her face crumpled, tears obscuring his still-smiling face from her vision.

"Elliot—" she began, trying to control the uncontrollable hitches in her throat, "I—we—"

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[info]fortunesfool
2011-08-08 04:31 pm UTC (link)
Elliot sat stunned for a few seconds, his mind jolting to the conclusion that she must absolutely hate penne alfredo. When that stupid thought disappeared, Elliot jumped out of his chair, causing it to tip over and crack on the floor. He rushed to Elsie, hands going to her elbows to try and hold her up, completely bewildered at what could have shaken her so hard. Had she been hurt? She looked okay---mugged? No, her purse was still here, she---

"Okay, okay, it's okay, whatever it is it's okay," he said soothingly, putting his arm in a stronger grip around her as he led Elsie to the couch. Elliot let her sit and he positioned himself on the floor in front of her, kneeling to look her in the eye. He'd never seen her like this, not since----Elliot felt his chest clench as he tried to keep his composure, because his wife had been the strongest woman he'd ever known, and to see her like this..His hands gripped hers, trying to get his wife to take deep breaths to relax and---and tell him what the hell had happened.

"Elsie, what happened?" His gut twisted, his mind immediately coming up with the million very reasonable explanation that had all too much to do with him.

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[info]softwhatlight
2011-08-08 07:48 pm UTC (link)
It was so hard trying to get a grip on herself. Elsie thought, she'd so hoped, that since she hadn't cried with Eliza, she wouldn't cry at all. Then as soon as she'd seen Elliot, it was like trying to stop a dam with a quill. She could barely see in front of her, and though her wails were quieting, the steady flow of tears down her cheek let up not at all.

"I was at—St. Mungo's, and I—," Which had been a horror in and of itself, because she hated being there. And now it was so much worse than she'd previously imagined. One moment of composure, that was all she needed, one moment to spit it out. There was a break in the tearing sobs and her shoulders shuddered as she tried to contain herself.

"I'm so sorry!" she gasped, holding so tightly to his hands she must have been scouring him with her fingernails. "Elliot—I'm pregnant."

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[info]fortunesfool
2011-08-08 09:33 pm UTC (link)
He gaped. Blinked, gaped, and let out a short breath. Elliot wasn't sure if he could function any further than that. Pregnant! Elsie was pregnant! Elsie was pregnant and she was crying hysterically, apologizing about it. He knew why, of course he knew why, but the tremendous guilt he felt overwhelmed any sort of fear he might have for them, their future, and this...baby. A baby! It could be a baby, or it could be...

"It's okay," he said, his voice shaking because he wasn't that good of an actor, even if---"It's okay, it's not your fault, this isn't---this isn't---bad."

Elliot pried his hands out of Elsie's death grip and took hold of her face to make her look at him. When he tried to focus on her, her completely distraught and terrified expression brought tears to his eyes and Elliot took a few deep, shaky breaths before continuing. He'd helped make this baby too, hadn't he? She shouldn't feel sorry about this, they hadn't been careful enough, he hadn't even---

"It's not," he reassured her, pushing up on his knees to press his forehead to hers, trying to get Elsie to focus and breathing regularly. It--it couldn't be good for the baby, could it?

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[info]softwhatlight
2011-08-12 03:52 am UTC (link)
She bit her lip to stop the wretched gasping, or letting out anymore weeping. This wasn't Elliot's fault either, and he didn't deserve her falling to pieces in front of him like this. He hadn't recoiled, hadn't flinched, hadn't blamed her, hadn't yelled, hadn't done anything but try to put her at ease. He deserved the same. Elsie could compose herself, she could, because she had to. But her arms still slipped around his neck, tight, for the comfort and hopefully strength, and her eyes still closed because she didn't want the risk of more unstoppable tears.

"I don't know what's going to happen to—us." The more she got into her uncertainties, the more her tentative grip on composure yearned to slip. She hadn't even stopped to think about them all, but just the prospect that it might not be—that it could

"I'm scared and I don't know what to do," she whispered, trying so very hard not to let her voice falter or break.

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