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Time Marches On; Het, James/OFC, 2004, Sequel to 'The Shortest Week'
Topic Started: August 18, 2012, 1:22 pm (12,214 Views)
CarpeDiemBaby
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Man... I was waiting for that! :drool :drool :drool
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Powerslave
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Hard to write?! You did amazing! It was so very :drool :drool

I'm so happy James and Zara are back together!
:heart: :heart:
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-DJ-
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Thanks, love you guys! :heart:

I told the landlord I wasn’t renewing the lease on my house and I moved back into James’. Back home. Maddy loved her bigger room there and loved being around the dogs all the time. It was also hard to keep her out of the pool now that it was summer was here and even harder when James was here. His touring schedule was better now; two weeks on and two weeks off. All the guys had families now and needed to see their kids grow. We were also getting on better than ever now. Obviously we had small arguments and disagreements but we knew how to work them out.

I woke up one morning in late May and a blinding stream of sunlight cutting through the heavy curtains was giving me a headache. I looked at the clock and it was only 9.45am. I pulled the covers over my head and rolled over to curl into James but his side of the bed was empty. There was no note on his pillow or texts on my phone. His keys were also gone off the dresser.¬¬ I tried to go back asleep but my headache got worse.

I got up to have a shower and take two aspirin but it felt like my stomach was tying itself up in knots. I was light headed and dizzy. Then I felt like last night’s dinner was about to make another appearance. I ran to the bathroom to and spewed my guts up. And I was late.

Fuck.

I brushed my teeth, splashed cold water on my face and took the two aspirin from the bathroom cabinet. I looked awful and I didn’t want to feel like this looking after Maddy all day by myself. When I got dressed I went into her room but she wasn’t there either. I searched the whole house and the garden but no one was home.

I called James’ cell phone but all I got was his answering machine. What the hell was going on? I called Anna to see if she had any info.

“Hey, you haven’t heard anything from James have you?”

“No. Why?”

“Him and Maddy aren’t here. I tried calling him but his phone’s turned off”

“Oh…I have no idea, Zara”

“Hmm…are you busy today?”

“Yeah actually I’m really busy. I’m meeting this guy and he’s taking me camping up the mountains!”

“That’s cool. It’s just I think…I think I might be pregnant so I was gonna ask you to come over
and we could do the whole test thing again you know?”

“Jeez I’d love to but this guy is like…taking me skiing so I can’t”

“Thought you said camping?”

“Skiing, camping, same thing”

“Alright well I’ll let you know what the tests say okay?”

“You do that! See ya!”

The first time I found out I was pregnant was okay because even though James wasn’t there, Anna was. But this time neither of them would be around and that sucked. I didn’t even know where one of them was.

I eventually stopped feeling sorry for myself and went to the drugstore. I needed to find out if I was pregnant whether I was on my own or not. I stood in the family planning aisle where the condoms were next to the pregnancy tests. Bit late for those now… there were around fifteen different brands and prices varying from $8 to $40. I settled for two of the same brands I got years ago with Maddy. When I got to the cashier she was smiling like she had just been told the funniest joke in the world.

“Expecting are we?” she asked me.

“Well I don’t know yet”

“You look familiar…do I know you?” she spoke in a strong Southern accent.

“Doubt it”

“I think I do…” she cocked her head to the side staring at me. This was getting awkward.

“So um…how much?”

“$25.43” I handed her some bills and left the line.

I went next door to the smoothie place and ordered the biggest strawberry and banana smoothie they had. Fuck it. If I was gonna get fat, and according to the drugstore lady I was, I’d do it in a slightly healthy way.

I drove back home and took the tests. While I waited for the results I tried James’ phone again. “Hey this is James. Leave a message and I’ll get back to you. Later!” Goddammit. I walked around the bathroom having the same feelings and thoughts as I did before I had Maddy. Would he want more kids? We hadn’t discussed it and both of us were busy working. I didn’t know if we’d have time for more kids.

Fifteen minutes of worrying later I looked at the tests.

Pregnant.

I spent the rest of the afternoon watching daytime tv and reruns of sitcoms from the 80s. I was in no mood to paint or draw. I was pissed and if and when James came home, he was going to know about it.

Four o clock rolled around and I had exhausted myself from doing absolutely nothing all day. I was drifting in and out of sleep lying on the couch with a cosy blanket when my phone vibrated under my head roused me.

“Hello?” I yawned.

“Zara—“ James spoke down the line.

“About fucking time! Do you know how worried I’ve been? Where the hell are you?!”

“Zara listen to me. You have to come down to the gallery right now” his voice was laced with worry. I woke up immediately.

“What’s wrong?! Is Maddy with you?”

“She’s…just come down here…this is so bad…” he trailed off and his voice turned into a whisper.

“James! What the fuck is wrong?” I shouted trying to get an answer out of him and put my shoes on at the same time.

“Get here as soon as you can…I’ll explain it all then…oh my god”

“James!”

The line went dead.
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OH GOD! :ugh: Oh god pleas let Maddy be ok!! :ugh:
Zara pregnant again? Wonder if James wants another kid...? :biggrin

Loving this! :heart:
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Great updates! I wonder what James will think about another baby. And I think Anna was hiding something... Could she be planning something with James? I hope so!

I hope you update soon again! :)
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Sol
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February 12, 2013, 5:19 pm
Great updates! I wonder what James will think about another baby. And I think Anna was hiding something... Could she be planning something with James? I hope so!

I hope you update soon again! :)
I was thinking exactly the same thing! I have a bad feeling about Anna...

Please, update soon! :)
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CarpeDiemBaby
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February 12, 2013, 5:19 pm
Great updates! I wonder what James will think about another baby. And I think Anna was hiding something... Could she be planning something with James? I hope so!

I hope you update soon again! :)
Yeah, I thought the same. Maybe they wanted to give Zara a surprise or something.

More! :heart:
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OMG I need to now what's going to happen!
More plz :heart: :heart: :heart: I'm in love with your fic!
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Alright dudes, here it is; the last chapter of this story. I'd like to thank everyone who has read and commented on it, you made all the bouts of writer's block totally worth it! Thank you! :heart:


I drove like a crazy person to the gallery. Weaving in and out of traffic and breaking all kinds of speed limits on the way. The whole drive was a blur of people giving me the finger and honking their horns at me but I didn’t care because I had insane thoughts going through my head; was the gallery burnt to the ground? Was James or Maddy hurt in some way?

When I pulled up to the gallery I saw James standing outside with his back to me staring at the ground. The building was still standing so I could cross that off my list. I jumped out of the car and called his name but he didn’t turn around.

“Hey what’s wrong?” I walked over to him and touched his arm.

“Nothing” he turned to me and handed me a red rose. “Everything’s great. I have no idea why you’d think otherwise” he smiled and went to walk into the gallery.

“Whoa. Hold on a second” I stopped him from going any further with a hand on his chest.

“Twenty minutes ago you were shouting at me to come here and you sounded hurt. What’s the big idea?!”

“Come inside and I’ll show you”

He took my hand and walked inside into the main hall where he had a table set up in the middle with cartons of Chinese food on it and a small candle in the center of the table.

“I could have you arrested for breaking and entering you know” I said putting the rose he had given me on the table.

“Not really. Anna gave me the keys”

“Both of you were scheming behind my back?” he pulled out a chair for me to sit down.

“Sure if that’s what you wanna call it. I like to call it doing something nice for my wife”

“Yeah, yeah” I laughed. “Where’s Maddy?”

“She’s staying with Anna for the night” I nodded and opened up all the cartons of food; noodles, rice, egg rolls, chow mein, dumplings and prawn crackers. “So what’s all this in aid of?”

“Nothing. Just saying I love you I guess” he said sitting opposite me at the table.

“Nothing says I love you like going missing for the day, right?”

“I had to do it this way”

“Well you have a very funny way of doing things”

“What did you do today?” he said slurping fried noodles into his mouth off his chopsticks.

I decided not to just blurt out I took a pregnancy test on my own and that it was positive and we’ll be having another kid soon.

“Watched tv, drank a smoothie and tried calling you around a billion times….What’s that smell?”

“What smell?”

“Like paint fumes or something”

“I dunno. I have good news; I get an extra week off from tour so I’m not back until the 12th”

“Awesome! I’ll be needing you around anyway”

“What?”

“Uh…well like I always need you around”

“Right” he nodded dismissively into his rice.

“Hey I have a question for you”

“Shoot”

“You love Maddison right?”

“That’s your question?” his head snapped up from his food as if I was questioning his love for his daughter.

“Well no—“

“What kind of question is that?! Of course I do. You and her are my world”

“Okay so…how would you feel about having…y’know…more kids?” I kept my eyes on my food
while I asked the question.

“Right now? Jeez I don’t know” Fuuuuuuuuck. “I mean, yeah it’d be cool and stuff but we’re both busy at the moment and I’m not sure the road is the best place for a baby. You understand what I’m getting at, right?”

“Yeah…yeah I do”

This was a nightmare. I was pregnant and he didn’t want kids right now. I stopped eating my food and looked away from him. I could feel tears welling in my eyes and I didn’t want him to see me crying.

“You finished?” he took the food from the table and put it into a plastic bag ready to throw out.

“Yeah” my voice broke.

“Hey what’s wrong?” he knelt in front of me and put his hands on my knees.

“I was just so worried about you earlier. I thought something bad happened”

“Don’t worry about it. I have something that will cheer you up. C’mon”

He tugged me towards the stairs.

“Wait” he covered my eyes with his hands. “Okay go”

We stumbled up the stairs and after tripping a few times we got to my office. I heard him flick on the light switch and he took his hands off my eyes.

“Holy shit” he had painted the walls in the office that had been bare for three years with spray paint and his graffiti style. There was a purple car with three people in it, presumably us and various other things like skulls and guitars. It was awesome because it was personal. There were piles of empty spray cans in the corner.

“How did you know I wanted you to do this?” I was surprised because I never mentioned it to him.

“Anna told me”

“Thank you. I love it!” I kissed him lovingly. “So that what that smell was”

“Yeah” he coughed. The fumes were getting overwhelming. “Might wanna give it a few days before you come back in here” he laughed.

I brought him up to the roof to watch the sun go down. We had a clear view of the Golden Gate Bridge from up there. The sky was a pinky, orangey color and I felt James arms snake around my waist from behind as I stood at the edge of the roof. His bent his head to rest on my shoulder and kissed my neck.

“Sorry for worrying you. I just wanted it to be a surprise”

“It was and I love it. The gallery’s complete now” I turned around to hug him properly

“Well not really…” he smirked.

“What do you mean?”

“We haven’t…y’know here yet” he raised and eyebrow kissed me passionately but I didn’t kiss him back. I put my hands on his chest to get him to slow down.

“Hey…I have something to tell you…”

“You okay?” I nodded and took a deep breath.

“I know we talked earlier but um…I’m pregnant”

His mouth dropped open and his eyes stared at my belly.

“Are you serious?” he whispered.

“Yeah…how do you feel about it?”

“It’s a surprise sure but it’s great!”

“Are you sure because you said you didn’t want more kids yet and—“

“Forget about that! There better be around six babies in there” he grinned and poked my belly.

“I hope you’re joking!”

“Kind of…six kids would be awesome though”

“Really? All those sleepless nights, the crying, the diapers…”

“Maybe not all at once then” he laughed.

“That’s why I was looking for you earlier because I took a test and it would’ve been nice if you were there but we can go to the doctor tomorrow” I assured him.

We were quiet for a while, just enjoying each other’s company and watching the sky get darker. I was so relieved that he was pleased we were having another baby. Things would get a little tougher obviously but I had a feeling we could figure it out.

“I wonder what would have happened if you hadn’t have found me on the street that night” he spoke out of the blue.

“Well I’d probably be in Texas with Joe right now staring at the poster of you on my wall and you’d probably still be a successful musician who didn’t know I existed”

“I’m glad you’re not. I’m glad you’re here with me…so you can stare at me for real” he pulled me into a tight hug.

“Me too. Did ever say thank you?”

“For what?”

“Making my life a billion times better”

“You’re welcome I guess” he chuckled. “Anyway let’s go home, it’s getting cold up here and you’re gonna need sleep if we’re going to have seven kids soon. I love you, baby” he kissed my head.

"I love you too, dude"

The End.

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I loved your story so much :heart: :biggrin

I love the ending

Wonderful job! :heart: :heart: :heart:
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Sol
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That was so cute!! :heart:

I really enjoyed your story!
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CarpeDiemBaby
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Aww, I loved the end! :heart:
This was amazing, thanks for sharing your fic with us! :D
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AHHH!!! Holy Shit. I just started reading it and it's OVER :(

James was so cute at the end, but I did want to slap him for awhile.
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Loved that :'))
Awesome, awesome, awesome :heart:
Your writing was awesome and I loved the end :D
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February 13, 2013, 2:54 pm
James was so cute at the end, but I did want to slap him for awhile.
^^ Agreed.

I'm so terrible with this whole feedback thing but I gotta say I loved this entire fic :heart: & I'm glad everything worked out, yay :D
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