MCA #1- Tuesday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

While Rey was definitely not new here, this was the first year she'd really experienced the last week or so this way. Pollen had always been a frustration before, and the kids she'd had had been impossible in ways that meant it was harder to get too attached. It was a little different when there was a possibility, even if Cerra probably wasn't ever happening either, and it was making for a weird Tuesday.

Rey had taken these thoughts, bottled them up, spent twice as long training in a futile effort to make up for last week, and then felt like she got back to her apartment too early. Well, she could always put away the things they'd "cleaned up" by shoving them out of sight when the girls showed up...


[For the boy!]

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[long_memory]

Silver had done some bottling of his emotions as well over the last couple hours. He never had the desire to be a father so it all coming so easily to him was a little disturbing. Being alone only made the thoughts worse, so towards the afternoon he went across the hall, knocking on Rey's door before letting himself in.

They had a fake kid together, he figured they were at the letting themselves in part of the relationship by now.

"I think my apartment is mostly clean now."

[thatwaslucky]

Honestly, she really liked him walking in like that.

"Congratulations," Rey said with a little smile. "I feel like I'm forgetting a location where we shoved things."

[long_memory]

"I'm sure we'll find something somewhere we forgot about in a few months," he said, smiling. "It's oddly quiet in here now."

Jamie had been a quiet child, but Cerra made up for it.

[thatwaslucky]

"It is," she agreed, and wrinkled her nose a little. "I don't know how I feel about that."

The quiet meant thoughts, at the very least.

[long_memory]

"I understand what you mean," he said. "It was...a more pleasant experience than I imagined."

[thatwaslucky]

"You turned out to be pretty good with kids," Rey pointed out.

[long_memory]

"I know. It's weird, right?" It was weird to him, anyway.

[thatwaslucky]

"I'm not surprised," Rey said, making her way to the couch. "You're good with people. Kids are people."

[long_memory]

"I guess so," he said, joining her on the couch. He always thought children would be harder to talk to since he couldn't really relate to their experiences. It wasn't like he had much of a childhood to compare it to.

"You did pretty well yourself."

[thatwaslucky]

Speaking of not having a childhood to relate to...

"Kids are easy," she said, immediately leaning in against him. "I've always kind of found if you just show interest in them they're fine."

[long_memory]

"This was really the first time I've spent a lot of time with them," he admitted. "But you've been through this before, right? Who did you have kids with before?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Um. Fandom's version of Luke and who I now know to be Kylo Ren."

Yeah. This year was different.

[long_memory]

"Wow. That last one must have been...interesting." Sure, that was a word for it.

[thatwaslucky]

"I still worry about that one sometimes," Rey admitted. "And it was while I was in school, so I hadn't even met him yet. Interesting is... a word for it."

[long_memory]

"I don't think that's something you have to worry about now," Silver said.

[thatwaslucky]

"No, that is definitely not happening," Rey said with a little laugh, and paused. "The aftermath of the weekend is stranger when you can't look at the situation and definitively say it'll never happen."

[long_memory]

"It is," he agreed. He would have been lying if he said there was absolutely no way Cerra wouldn't happen in the future. Or Jamie, for that matter. He ended up in Fandom randomly, there was no way of knowing whether or not he'd end up back in the 1700's just as quickly.

"At least they were good kids, so it's not like something to dread."

[thatwaslucky]

"I would not have expected that from you," Rey admitted.

[long_memory]

"Is that a good or a bad thing?" he teased.

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't hate it," she answered, smiling. "Is that weird?"

[long_memory]

"No, I don't think so," he said with a slight smile. "I don't think it's weird if you don't think its weird."

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't think it's weird," she decided, smiling. "How was it having Jamie around for you?"

[long_memory]

"It was a surprise and not a surprise all at once?" he tried. "I mean, her showing up at all was surprising, but it wasn't surprise that she was a possibility."

[thatwaslucky]

"Were you and Madi that serious?" Rey wondered.

[long_memory]

"Things worked a little differently back then. And even then, it worked differently than the rest of the world." It's not like pirates abided by normal courting rituals.

He thought about it for a long moment before responding, "But, yes, I suppose we were that serious. I loved her, and I believe she loved me."

[thatwaslucky]

Was that a little weird to hear? Yes and no. It wasn't like she didn't know he had a life before her. "Can I ask why you broke up?"

[long_memory]

There was another pause as he thought about how to answer that. "We didn't, really. I ended up here, 300 years into the future."

[thatwaslucky]

"Oh." She really hadn't expected that one. "Wow."

[long_memory]

Yeah, probably something he should have brought up before, huh?

"It's not great, I know," he said. "But as time went on, it became increasingly obvious to me that I was not going back there. She most definitely thinks I'm dead by now."

[thatwaslucky]

"That had to be terrible for both of you," she said, frowning. "Why do you say it's not great?"

[long_memory]

"It doesn't bother you?" he asked.

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't know that that's the right word. I'm a little surprised you didn't say anything." But also not, because he didn't really share when things bothered him. "Did I move too fast with you?"

[long_memory]

"No, of course not," Silver said. "If anything we moved too slow."

[thatwaslucky]

"You're sure?"

She didn't know why, but that was what she got stuck on.

[long_memory]

"Of course I'm sure," he said, leaning in to give her a quick kiss. "You don't need to doubt that."

[thatwaslucky]

"Good," she said, smiling a little. "I just... I don't know. I don't want to have started something while you were still getting over her."

Which really had more to do with making sure he got that time to do that than anything else.

[long_memory]

"No, there wasn't much to get over. I don't mean that in an uncaring way," he added quickly. "It's just Madi was very self-sufficient. It would have been harder to let her go if I were worried about her wellbeing, but she's someone who doesn't need anybody else's help."

Honestly, she might have been better off without Silver there.

[thatwaslucky]

"I think I can see that." She wasn't going to think that he'd probably be able to get over her the same way. "I can definitely see that in Jamie."

[long_memory]

At least the excuse sounded complimentary rather than the more truthful 'I bury things quickly and never acknowledge them again'. Even he wasn't truthful to himself about that.

"She handled things rather well, didn't she?" Silver said with a slight smile. "The both of them did."

[thatwaslucky]

"You sound proud," she said, a little teasingly.

[long_memory]

"Aren't you?" he asked with a smile.

[thatwaslucky]

"I am. I just like this look on you," Rey said.

[long_memory]

"I don't know how long it'll last," he joked. "I might forget what they were like in a few weeks."

[thatwaslucky]

"No, because that's when we'll find the rest of the things we hid and the whole weekend will come back," Rey laughed.

[long_memory]

"Fair point," he said, laughing. "We didn't really do a great job cleaning."

[thatwaslucky]

"We did not. At least we know next time to make sure we've cleaned up before anyone can get here."

Notice how her solution wasn't 'don't wreck the apartment.'

[long_memory]

Well not wrecking the apartment was not an option.

"That is a lesson learned," he said with a laugh.

[thatwaslucky]

"I should probably catch up on radio before I go to Caritas tomorrow," Rey realized. Find out whether she was going to get teased and how bad.

[long_memory]

"It might be a good idea," Silver said. "Best be prepared."

[thatwaslucky]

"Maybe I can distract them with pictures of Cerra, who probably did not see my bra on a lamp." Rey felt like Cerra would have pointed it out if she had.

[long_memory]

"I feel like if she saw it the whole town would know about it." Somehow she would have escaped and shouted it at the top of her lungs.

[thatwaslucky]

"Do you think she's like that to make up for us being quieter?" Rey asked, amused.

[long_memory]

"Possibly," he said. "Or she hasn't yet figured out how to use her gift of incessant talking for good."

[thatwaslucky]

"Or she was just trying to keep us distracted," Rey mused.

[long_memory]

"Distract us from what?" he asked, amused.

[thatwaslucky]

"Whatever she was trying to get away it, probably," Rey said.

[long_memory]

"I can't believe you would suggest that our daughter would use nefarious means to try to get away with something," he teased.

[thatwaslucky]

"Where would she even pick up such a thing," Rey said wryly.

Cerra's Rey absolutely started warning her away from the dark dude by like age two.

[long_memory]

"I have no idea," Silver lied. "The internet?"

[thatwaslucky]

Rey had to laugh at that one. "Really?"

[long_memory]

"You can learn a lot of things from the internet." That's how he knew half his knowledge about this century!

[thatwaslucky]

"And definitely not from your thief and pirate father, not at all," she grinned.

[long_memory]

"Well...it might have a little to do with it," he joked. "Just a little."

[thatwaslucky]

"As long as she's using her powers for good," Rey said. "I guess wanting to go see her dad isn't a terrible reason."

[long_memory]

"I feel like if she had been with me at the time, she would have snuck off to see you," he said.

[thatwaslucky]

"Might have depended on whether your attention was on her or not," Rey countered. "I doubt that version of us is ever bored."

[long_memory]

"I believe that is true of most parents," he said. "Though us more than others, after seeing Cerra."

[thatwaslucky]

I like her, though," Rey admitted.

[long_memory]

"I do too," he said, and was still a little amazed by that. "Maybe we'll see her again next year."

[thatwaslucky]

Well, that made her heart do a little tiny flip she didn't want to admit to.

"I'd be okay with that," she said, snuggling closer to him.

[long_memory]

Silver put his arm around Rey, kissing the top of her head. "I would be too."