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N A I J A [ patil ] ([info]naijas) wrote in [info]valesco,
@ 2008-09-17 22:55:00


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[Pri!]
Okay, so she had to admit it--this whole having twins thing may or may not have been a lot more awesome than Naija Patil would have brought herself to admit just a few short weeks ago. As she perused the pink forest of miniature clothing in the back of the department store, she had been 'aww'ing at and grabbing about every other shirt or onesie off of the racks, all the while justifying her ample collection of baby clothes with a mantra of 'well, there will be two of them.'

Just as she had thrown an adorable pair of socks sporting a fluffy rabbit on each ankle into the basket, yet another thing caught her eye and she tugged her husband's arm to turn and see. "Look, isn't this cute?" she asked,--well, more stated, actually--and with her free hand pulled two of the tiny jacket off the rack. "Oh, I hate it when parents dress their twins in matching costume all the time, but we've got so much in the way of different wardrobes, I think that just one jacket wouldn't be a crime, right?"

So maybe she was taking this a bit far, the whole shopping thing. Patil babies One and Two were going to end up having larger wardrobes than English royals by the time that she was done, and she could tell that Priyaranjan didn't exactly relish that she was spending their money on lunch hour, but! But well, Naija felt like she had to get all of this done, and as quickly as was possible. After all, she was a healer, she specialized in pregnancy and birth and she knew how little time that many parents of twins had before their children were born, and---Alright, shopping for clothes when she was barely over a month may or may not have been pushing it a little, but at least she was getting it done, right?

Not really waiting for an opinion, she put the jackets into the basket on top of the other pile of clothes and turned for a rare moment to regard her husband fully. "So, what have you found?"



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[info]priyaranjan
2008-09-18 05:02 am UTC (link)
All of this pregnancy business was rather confusing to Priyaranjan Patil. It wasn't as if he'd been given a lot of warning about this particular trip, either -- he'd been sitting down to eat his cold spaghetti noodles over his sparse lunchbreak one moment and the next thing he knew Naija was whisking him off to some store where he'd found himself surrounded by close-knit booties and violently coloured bobble hats.

It was all very disorienting. What was more worrisome was the sheer volume of clothing that had managed to appear in the basket he was carrying. Not only was it heavy, but it also looked like it was going to end up costing him an arm and a leg...of which he only had two, thank you very much. Blinking at his wife when she asked him what he'd found, he managed squeakily, "Uh ... I like these ... socks?" He plucked a pair of green and orange lacy booties off the nearest pile.

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[info]naijas
2008-09-18 05:32 am UTC (link)
Naija regarded her husband with a pointed look, somewhere between annoyed and skeptical. Well, maybe it was just annoyed. "First of all," she said, enunciating as she took the booties out of his hand, "those are booties, not socks. Second of all," --she threw them back on the pile they came from-- "they're ugly as sin."

Frowning, Naija set down the basket on a rainbow of folded onesies next to her and crossed her arms over her chest. "Really, you act like I'm torturing you when, let me remind you, just weeks ago you were the one that couldn't get over that we were having children. Now I'm asking you one thing, one simple thing, and that is to help me prepare for that ever-approaching date, and all you can give me is 'I like these socks?'"

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[info]priyaranjan
2008-09-18 05:36 am UTC (link)
"Naija, you know very well that I can barely dress myself - I'd be completely useless if I didn't have my healer's robes to wear over top of half of the clothes that I own - and you want me to be responsible for helping you pick out what our children are going to wear ... in public?"

He shot her an apologetic smile, though, and went to pick up the basket that Naija had put down. "But ... er, well. I'm exceptional at carrying baskets, you know. Consider me your personal pack-horse." Because that was probably enough to at least stop her from smacking him if he was in danger of that, right?

Merlin, he hoped so. He had to go back to work after this!

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[info]naijas
2008-09-18 05:53 am UTC (link)
She seemed to consider his words for a moment, jumping between arguing further about how he should be helping her do this and just letting it drop and taking his offer of official Basket Carrier. There was a bout of excruciating silence, and then finally, Naija sighed and dropped her arms, turning to walk further down the aisle with an understood command that he should follow. It honestly wasn't worth it, and she knew she was overreacting and being hormonal and----what did she always tell her patients? Deep breaths. Deeeeep, calming breaths.

Wow, didn't that sound like a crock of shit right now?

"I still expect you to try," she finally said. "Even if I shoot down 99 out of every 100 ideas that you have, you have to at least get that one good one in there. Like how I like about one fourth of an ensemble out of the 25 or so you own. It's math, Priyaranjan."

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[info]priyaranjan
2008-09-18 05:58 am UTC (link)
He was about to say something about how 25 couldn't evenly be divided into one fourth ... but then she used his first name, his full first name -- and he knew that he was better off to just agree with her for the moment.

"Well, all right. Just be prepared to shoot down 99 percent of what I hold up." That meant that he was actually going to have to look ... but the more that he did look, the more the little outfits really did look adorable.

Priyaranjan was still baffled there would be two of them. "What about..." He glanced down at the rainbow of onesies. "Girls are allowed to wear other colours, right? I mean, this purple thing..."

...wasn't completely terrible, at least.

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[info]naijas
2008-09-18 06:16 am UTC (link)
Terrible being what she expected it to be, Naija took her own sweet time turning back to look at what her husband had picked out. She spent 30 seconds or so instead pulling various items off the back wall before she decided to pay attention to his first shot at an idea, but when she did, it stopped her dead in her tracks.

"That's--" she began, mouth open in surprise, and then all of a sudden a wide smile broke out onto her face. They honestly weren't kidding when they said the mood changes could come lightning fast.

Naija quickly abandoned her post over by the wall and went back to the table, rewarding her husband with a delighted peck on the cheek. "See, I told you you could do it! Now get a few other colors while you're at it--that pretty blue, maybe, and a yellow and green."

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[info]priyaranjan
2008-09-18 06:24 am UTC (link)
And just when he was expecting to have the garment torn out of his hands and set on fire ... that kiss had been rather nice, honestly. He grinned faintly and cast a lingering glance toward Naija before he obediently picked up a few other colours from the pile (Naija-approved, of course) and pushed the thought of not being able to afford any of this far from his mind.

They'd just have to budget things that weren't important. You know, like ... food. They got practically free medical anyway, thank Merlin. He glanced up and down the rows -- how was there so much for a child to own? -- and then back to his watch. They were still doing all right for time which was a good. Naija would probably maim him if he gently suggested they should be getting back to St. Mungo's.

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[info]naijas
2008-09-18 06:35 am UTC (link)
Once he had put the onesies in the basket, she dug through it gently with one hand, taking a mental survey of all that they were going to buy. It was still obviously very far from being enough, but well, this would not be the only shopping trip in the next eight-or-less months.

"Well, I suppose we've got enough clothes for now," she spoke her thoughts aloud, and then looked up to catch him glancing at his watch. "We've still got some time before lunch is over, right? Do you think we should check out the bedding section?" Naija asked rhetorically, attempting very hard not to be annoyed that he was so clearly wishing to get out of the store already. "I'd love to be able to get the nursery done by December, January at the latest---it just feels like there's so little bloody time to get it all together."

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[info]priyaranjan
2008-09-18 06:41 am UTC (link)
"For now," he amended as he glanced into the basket. Bedding, though, got him thinking. She was right - the few holidays that he took were often around Christmas and if he had to do any ... handiwork with charms and spells and things in the girls' bedroom ... well. It would be as good a time to do it as any.

Priyaranjan grinned a bit more eagerly. "I think that's a good idea -- at least figure out what sort of scheme we want to get going. I assume you're going to want a theme, right?" As long as it wasn't ... fuzzy iguanas or something horrifying like that. Those things were damned scary when they wanted to be! He wondered absently how parents gauged the comfort of the mattresses they were planning to sleep their infants on.

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[info]naijas
2008-09-18 06:57 am UTC (link)
Naija was honestly surprised at Priyraranjan's genuine interest in her newest topic of baby planning, and it must have shown on her face. Maybe---maybe if she would just handle the clothes, she could put him in charge (although, of course, only under close supervision) of other aspects of things, she could get more enthusiasm out of him.

"I do want a theme, actually," she nodded, unable to help but smile as she finally felt like they were getting somewhere. "But what I'm not sure is if I want to bind the two together with one theme, or if it should be two slightly different ideas. I'm trying to think---if I were a twin, would I want to be more or less associated with my sister?" Because Merlin, she didn't want to make her future daughters think they couldn't have their own minds or something. Picking out the right themes to start them on was absolutely critical where that was concerned!

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[info]priyaranjan
2008-09-19 02:01 am UTC (link)
All right, so he had found a way to calm her down and keep her from tearing out his liver -- that was good. And he really was interested in building the nursery if he could manage it. He'd never been particularly good with that sort of magic, but now was as good a time as any to learn, right?

Right.

"Well," he started carefully, actually considering it himself, "If the ideas were only slightly different, I suppose they'd still feel as if they were sisters ... but perhaps wouldn't feel as if they were exactly the same?" That made sense, right?

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[info]naijas
2008-09-20 07:07 am UTC (link)
"Yes, yes that's what I was thinking!" she exclaimed.

Oh wow, she felt so much happier than was normal over something so small. It was like euphoria, and Naija couldn't even place where it was coming from--how did women live like this for nine months at a time? Not that she anticipated dealing with it for a full nine months, but---ohhhh shit, that was right--

"You know, maybe we should try to get it all finished nearer to November," she mused, lifting a finger to tap her chin as she did the calculations in her head. "Then we can have time to get everything in it and buy all of the stuff we'll have forgotten, and I really don't want to work on things when I'm looking and feeling like a whale on dry land--"

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[info]priyaranjan
2008-09-21 10:15 pm UTC (link)
Ah, there was that look of utter confusion from Priyaranjan again. It wasn't as if the baby was going to pop out of her any second and yet Naija seemed to think that rushing things would be the best course of action/

"Erm," yes, he was definitely going to have to word this in just the right way, "Perhaps the end of November, I wouldn't want us -- me -- to make a silly mistake because I was rushing to finish things before the first day of December." And because he knew that wouldn't likely be well-received, "And of course you can still be buying things at the same time as I'm working on the nursery once we decide what we'd like -- sort of like multi-tasking."

Women liked to multi-task, right?

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