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#1: Unnamed- until I think of a good name for it... Author: Mary, Location: Sussex University

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:37 am

This first post is ridiculously short but just think of it as something to wet your appetite. Let's just hope I get some time to finish writing it before I post the rest of what I've written. (Sorry Lizzie that it took so long.)

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“I’m pregnant.”
He was not quite there for a second.
“Pregnant? But we said…”
“I know love, but it’s just how it is.”
A smile dawned on his face, the momentary concern washed by the realisation that he was to become a father, for the third time.
“Pregnant?” he said again, settling more comfortably on the sofa, his arm around his wife.
“Yes love. Pregnant.”
He smiled, his chin resting on the top of head, as they watched the lowering flames flicker in the hearth.

#2: Author: KathrynW, Location: London

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:40 am

Thanks Mary, I'm looking forward to seeing more of this Very Happy

Kathryn

#3: Author: aitchemelle, Location: West Sussex

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:51 am

Thanks Mary! Consider my appetite whetted!

#4: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:07 pm

And mine! So more of this please.

#5: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:34 pm

Mine too!

#6: Author: Mary, Location: Sussex University

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:44 pm

Man- I knew that there was an h in whet. It's the product of watching One Tree Hill whilst typing on my bed. Sheesh. Anyway- more soon.

#7: Author: aitchemelle, Location: West Sussex

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:13 pm

Mary wrote:

Man- I knew that there was an h in whet. It's the product of watching One Tree Hill whilst typing on my bed. Sheesh. Anyway- more soon.

I tried it one way and then the other until I could satisfy myself as to which way round it was!!

#8: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:16 pm

Looking forward to further episodes, Mary.

#9: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:43 pm

Thanks, Mary. This is brilliant so far. I look forward to finding out who the characters are.

#10: Author: Eilidh, Location: Macclesfield

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:07 pm

Looking forward to more. Thanks Mary.

#11: Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:58 pm

Please post more soon, its a really intriguing introduction!

#12: Author: Rosy, Location: Gloucestershire-London-Aberystwyth

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:44 pm

Oooh. Madge and Jem maybe?

#13: Author: Lizzie, Location: A little village on the Essex/Suffolk border

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:20 pm

Yay! Hurrah! Finally!

You've inspired me to write more of mine...must get on with that.

Thanks Mary, more please!

L xx

#14: Author: Lizzie, Location: A little village on the Essex/Suffolk border

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:22 pm

One Tree Hill was awesome by the way. I haven't seen it for ages but I sort of picked it up. Jake's a cutie.

#15: Author: LL, Location: madpanicaaaarghmove, London

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 10:08 pm

oooh I love One Tree Hill too.
Thanks Mary!

#16: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:57 am

*Making various wild guesses as to who they are*

Thanks, Mary - looking forward to more Very Happy

#17: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:54 pm

*joins the guessing*

I'm trying to think of people who had their second and third children in quick succession....

#18: Author: Mary, Location: Sussex University

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:30 pm

Well my sister read this through and gave me the go ahead. I had planned to keep the suspense up, but the fact that it had already fallen off the first page annoyed me- so I'm posting again! Woo! Let's see how the guessing goes now! (Note to self- learn new punctuation that isn't the exclamation mark.)

“Dr Bettany- can you come to ward 7?”
Rix looked up from his paper work and sighed, capping his fountain pen.
“Is it Miss Williams again?”
“Sorry Doctor. She simply won’t see another doctor, Doctor”
Rix smiled, slipping his suit jacket on and ordering his papers.
“It’s quite alright Nurse Fawkes. That is just what happens with some patients.”
Firmly closing the door behind him, he strode down the corridor, entering ward 7 and smiling broadly.
“Now Miss Williams. What can I do today?”

There was already frost on the grass as Rix arrived home that night. He shuffled through the pile of post on the table by the door, picking out an early Christmas card, and a letter from his mother.
“Lou? Are you in?”
“No Rix, but we’re in here”
He pushed open the door to the Salon, finding his aunt in the big chair by the fire, a small child sleeping soundly in her lap. He stole across the room, squatting down next to his aunt.
“How has she been today? Not too much trouble?”
Jo smiled into her nephew’s concerned face: “No love. It’s a joy to look after my first grandchild, even if she is honorary.”
“You are her great-aunt”
Jo grimaced at her nephew.
“Don’t call me a great-aunt. I’m not old enough to be a great anything!”

The winter sun dawned late over the frost encrusted grass. It sailed into the Maynard’s airy dining room, where Mary-Lou was seated, buttering small-fist sized pieces of bread for her wiggling daughter.
“Beattie petal- sit still or you’ll get your food all over your face”
She wiped off the dribble of jam from Beattie’s chin and handed her another piece of bread, giving her a brief respite from the terrors of breakfast to have a drink from her coffee cup. Her peace was short-lived, as her daughter threw her last piece of bread on the floor.
“Oh Beatrice Elizabeth Bettany. What have you done?”
“Nothing of much consequence. Anna can do wonders with cleaning this house.”
Mary-Lou turned despairingly to her aunt.
“Oh Jo- it was all jammy as well.”
Jo laughed, picked up the piece of bread and sat down at the table.
“Believe me: much worse things have been thrown onto that floor. Really, just sit down and I’ll see to it in a minute.”
Mary-Lou, finally resigned to being forced to finish her breakfast, sighed and smiled.
“Thank-you Jo. We really won’t be here too much longer. It’s just until the first painting is done in the house.”
“Oh don’t be silly. You are more than welcome to stay here as long as you need. And anyway, I love having you here. All the children seem to be away at the moment, and it’s a relief to have you, Rix and Beattie here. It really is!”
Mary-Lou gulped a lump down and took a sip of coffee.
“They’ll come back soon. You know that they can’t resist home at Christmas.”
“Oh I know that, but they’ll only be here for a few weeks and then it’ll be silent again. I’m very grateful that you and Rix decided to come out a help with the new goings-on at the San. Jack is so relieved for your being here.”
The women sat in companionable silence, drinking their coffee, with the temporary peace only disturbed by Beattie noisily slurping from her cup of milk.
“Where are Rix and Jack anyway?”
Jo’s calm face clouded suddenly.
“Jack was called early this morning: Miss Williams at the San is getting much worse. It turns out that she was sicker than anyone ever thought” said Jo, “although why she needed both men is a mystery to me.”
“Well you’ve both started, and solved a mystery”. Mary-Lou continued, aware of Jo’s puzzled face: “I had no idea what Rix said as he left the room in the early hours, although being a doctors wife, I should have learned that by now.”
The sun was at last totally up, contrasting with the bleak landscape. The glowering clouds were moving ominously toward the sun, moving Jo to remark that they had probably already seen the best of the day’s sunlight, and worse to come on the appalling weather front.

Last edited by Mary on Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:01 pm; edited 1 time in total

#19: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:14 pm

Awww. Thanks Mary

Wonder what's wrong with Miss Williams. Maybe she has a crush on Rix Laughing

#20: Author: Chair, Location: Rochester, Kent

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:18 pm

Thanks, Mary, for solving the mystery for us!

#21: Author: Mary, Location: Sussex University

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:59 pm

Ah but have I? Hmmm. Puzzle over that one.
Now I need to go sleep having worked through last night and got three hours sleep. My eyes aren't focussing. Yes- sleep it is.

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