Emma Frost (thewhitequeen) wrote,
@ 2010-05-08 02:32:00

Expectations.
Emma was naturally an early riser. It wasn't unusual for her to greet the sunrise and start her day well before others did simply because she was a woman who always had Things To Do. In recent weeks though she'd been sleeping later. Morning would come and she was slower to get out of bed, sometimes even still clinging to the last tendrils of sleep when Scott came back into the room after showering. It just wasn't normal, not like her but with all the stress it would have been easy to brush it off as a consequence of the troubling days.

But jumping up from bed to run bolt into the bathroom and vomit--loudly--would be far harder to brush aside.

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	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 07:46 am UTC (link)
	Scott was up early himself, getting in his workout before his shower, then going to coax Emma awake. It was harder to do these days, but he figured it was only the stress they were both under. Hearing the vomiting, however, worries Scott as he enters the room. "Emma? Is everything okay in there? Do you need anything?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 07:48 am UTC (link)
	"Washcloth.." Emma croaks out before being ill again. "And a hair tie. Oh god..." Now she was not only sick to her stomach but embarrassed, too. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 07:55 am UTC (link)
	"All right, Emma. I'm going to get you that and a glass of water, but you'll need to let me inside when I come back." Scott says. He gets the washcloth, finds one of her hair ties (which she almost never uses, as he loves her hair down)and a glass of water. There's a soft knock on the bathroom door. "Emma, it's me. I need you to let me in." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 08:04 am UTC (link)
	Emma reached back and opened the door, letting him in as she sat on the floor, just waiting for another wave of sick. "Thank you, darling. I...have no idea what's wrong this morning. I just woke up and felt terrible." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 08:11 am UTC (link)
	"Was it something you ate? I was told you were sneaking pickles last night while I was out." he says, smiling gently. "I'm going to have Dr. Nemesis take a look at you so we can get to the bottom of this." he says, handing over the washcloth and water. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

thewhitequeen
2010-05-08 08:14 am UTC (link)

"It was pickles and chocolate ice cream, actually. I had this weird need for them. They sounded good and then the thought wouldn't go away." She smiled a little. The thought of the weird food didn't make her sick at the moment, which was nice.

"Scott, I hate doctors. When they're examining me, rather. I'm perfectly healthy." She took a small sip of the water...and promptly got sick again.

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one_eyed_bandit
2010-05-08 08:20 am UTC (link)

"Pickles and chocolate ice cream?" Scott asks, confusion in his tone. Emma loves chocolate and pickles, but never both together. He's never known her to want both.

A thought occurs to him just then, one that he's not wholly comfortable with.

"Emma, I'd feel better about if you went. You're not perfectly healthy if you're--"

She threw up again, and Scott held her hair back.

"You were saying?"

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	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 08:22 am UTC (link)
	"Perfectly healthy. Clearly I'm just tired." She shot him a look, that look. "I heard what you just thought." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 08:26 am UTC (link)
	"And if you are?" he asks. He doesn't bother denying what he thought, even though he's not fond of Emma simply taking information out of his head. "If you're pregnant, Emma, we need to talk about this." Scott says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 08:34 am UTC (link)
	"All right. Let's say I am." She really didn't think she was. That somehow didn't compute to her. There was just too much going on for that to be possible, really. "Tell me what you're thinking. Your facial expression is somewhere between 'this is bad' and 'fuck my life.' To be vulgar." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 08:37 am UTC (link)
	"It's not the right time for this to happen, granted, but if you are...then you are." Scott says, weighing the facts logically. "If you're pregnant, Emma, then you're off of field missions and anything hazardous effective the moment we know for certain." Scott tells her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

thewhitequeen
2010-05-08 08:42 am UTC (link)

"You make a baby sound like an unpleasant mission directive."

The sick seemed to be subsiding and Emma took the opportunity to wipe her face and rinse her mouth before offering her hand to Scott so he could help her up.

"I'll go on comms, obviously. Pregnancy has a tendency to do terrible things with centers of gravity from what I've always seen. And, frankly, I don't feel like modifying my uniform. It's bad enough I've had to alter the top."

She paused.

"This really isn't something you want. A child, I mean." She knew very well his fatherhood track record just as she knew very well her own...failures as a 'mother' figure. The Hellions crossed her mind again, bitterly, painfully.

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one_eyed_bandit
2010-05-08 08:51 am UTC (link)

"I wouldn't have chosen now for you to get pregnant, though, if I'd been exercising sound judgment, this wouldn't have happened. I'd have used to protection." Scott says.

"It's not that I don't want a child with you, Emma. It's just that...I've failed as a father before, and I don't want to do that to another child. And we're fighting a war. What kind of life is that to give a baby?" he asks.

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thewhitequeen
2010-05-08 08:54 am UTC (link)

"You and I know that neither of have the answer to that question, Scott and let's be honest: there isn't a good time. There never has been and likely never will be. Though with everything Osborn is doing who is to say that the world won't need a new generation like you and I?"

She sighed.

"Go get a damn pregnancy test and let's at least get this particular burden off our shoulders."

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	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 08:57 am UTC (link)
	"Emma, if you are pregnant...tell me, what are you thinking?" he asks. They've never really talked about children except in abstract. If she's pregnant, then their lives are going to change forever. He knows that this wasn't in her plans, either. Or at least, he thinks he does. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

thewhitequeen
2010-05-08 09:01 am UTC (link)

"What am I thinking? That as much as I'd love to have a child with you that I am the worst possible candidate for mother in the world, despite the fact that crazy people see fit to clone me with some regularity." She still grieved for her lost Cuckoos. "Scott, I'm a criminal. I'm a villain. Even if those things are in my past they're still part of who I am. They don't stack up to 'good mother.' Not even remotely. I..." she frowned. It was difficult still for her to admit some of her feelings and she had to fight to not slip to diamond and just not feel. "I'd be so scared I'd fail our child."

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	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 09:10 am UTC (link)
	"I am, too, Emma. I'm as terrified as you are. If you're pregnant with our child...we'll make this work. We'll find a way, like we always have. You and I have come so far already, there's no sense in giving in to fear now." Scott says. "I've always wondered if our baby would look like you or me." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 09:15 am UTC (link)
	She wasn't expecting that. She'd been in his head countless times, in far places that no one else had ever touched. She knew Scott Summers so intimately and yet that she didn't know. "You have?" The surprise registered on her face for just a moment. "Well she'd look like me, of course." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 06:53 pm UTC (link)
	"Wow, humble AND beautiful." Scott deadpans, before smiling. "How do you know that he wouldn't look like me? Or that she wouldn't? I mean, you are a beautiful woman, Emma...but I did help with this." he grins. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 06:55 pm UTC (link)
	"Better genes, darling. I'm absolutely fabulous and we both know it." She smiles at him then shakes her head. "We don't even know I am pregnant. This could just be bad pickles." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 07:12 pm UTC (link)
	"Emma, whether you are or aren't, I'm with you, all right? I'm not using this as an excuse to leave or stay. I'm with you. I know I don't say it much, but I love you. You need to know and understand that." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 07:15 pm UTC (link)
	"That's never something that you have to say, Scott. It's something I know in ways words couldn't even fathom. You forget how deeply I know you, darling. I know exactly the man you are and where you'll be when the world falls down." She squeezes his hand. "But I would like to get confirmation of my condition over and done with if you don't mind." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, well, of course. No sense in getting ahead of ourselves." he says, locking down his possible excitement and putting it away. He makes the call to Dr. Nemesis and sets up Emma's appointment for an hour from now. "All right, no food until after he can test you, Emma. Afterward, maybe I'll cook you a cheeseburger, if you're good." he smirks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	"If?" She quirks a brow and smirks at him. "Oh my darling, I am always good. Which is what has lead us to this possible predicament, no?" Damnable medical tests. She had other ideas. They would of course have to wait and Emma could be patient if need be. Even if her head would be full of possiblities until she knew yes or no. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 07:35 pm UTC (link)
	"And some people say I have a dirty mind. If that was the good I was talking about, we'd have a conversation about it, Miss Frost. But I meant you have to behave. Which I know is challenge for you." Scott smirks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	"Challenge? Me? Never. I am fully in control. It's you who have issues. Why, I can look at you just so and you'll have to use every bit of your willpower to not do terrible things to me." And yes, she would mess with him the whole hour's wait if she had to. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

one_eyed_bandit
2010-05-08 07:42 pm UTC (link)

"Who said they'd be terrible? If I remember right, you like those things." he said, pulling her close. He knows what she's capable of, but he's just as capable of resisting, too.

"I bet you'll try to weaken me over the next hour, subtly and mentally of course, just so that we can come and I'll want to tear your clothes off." he says, leaning closer.

"But it won't work, Emma." he says, letting go with a smile.

"Go and get ready, and we'll walk down there." he says.

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thewhitequeen
2010-05-08 07:46 pm UTC (link)

"You still haven't realize I enjoy it more when you try to resist me. It's cute, really." She kissed his cheek lightly, lingering in his arms a moment before moving away to dress properly. Once she had done so, for better or worse, she was ready for the long walk down the hall and to whatever twist fate now had in store.

Emma honestly didn't know what she wanted this time, what outcome would soothe her.

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	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 08:19 pm UTC (link)
	"Really? Hm. Then we'll talk about this more later." he says. When Emma's ready, Scott will escort her to Dr. Nemesis's office, and ask him if he can stay with her for the testing. The Doctor doesn't see any issue with it, so Scott stays by Emma's side for the procedure. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

thewhitequeen
2010-05-08 08:22 pm UTC (link)

It's pretty simple: blood work at first, then a more sophisticated scan. The scan will tell the tale, but the bloodwork, well...there's something to be said for traditional methods and after Emma goes through both, she sits with Scott, waiting. It doesn't take long before the doctor returns, half-smiling with the results.

You're pregnant.

The grip on Scott's hand goes from flesh to diamond in less than a second.

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one_eyed_bandit
2010-05-08 08:29 pm UTC (link)

You're pregnant.

Scott never thought he would be the father of another child, not after how disastrously things had gone with Nathan. To hear Nemesis' words was like a cold bucket of ice-water being thrown on him...

followed by the heat of a fire unlike any he'd ever felt.

Emma's form goes to diamond, and Scott holds her hand, turning to whisper in her ear.

"Emma, calm down. You don't know if your diamond form is difficult for the baby or you right now. Please, don't hide from his. Let me be here with you." he says.

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thewhitequeen
2010-05-08 08:32 pm UTC (link)

"I...it's a defense mechanism..."

Even the diamond form can't disconnect this emotion. It has no name, no shape, no taste. It just is and it consumes all of her. Emma slowly begins to become flesh again, unable to hide from how she feels. Fear, pain, terror, hope. Large bright lights of hope.

For the first time in recent memory, the White Queen is stricken all but speechless.

"We're...oh my god."

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	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 08:57 pm UTC (link)
	"We are, Emma. Maybe...maybe this time we can do it right. Together. We've got each other, and neither of us are walking away." he says. "Will you do this with me?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 09:03 pm UTC (link)
	He was asking her to do this with him, but it wasn't even a question that needed askin. "Yes. Absolutely yes." It was then that she let herself admit to herself how much she wanted the child. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	"Just so you know...I hope she does look like you." he whispers, pulling her close. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 09:13 pm UTC (link)
	"You want this, don't you? Fear and all." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 09:14 pm UTC (link)
	"I do. I really do. I didn't know how much until it happened." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	"I really want this, too. I have actually wondered, you know." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	one_eyed_bandit 2010-05-08 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	"What did you wonder, honey?" he asked. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thewhitequeen 2010-05-08 09:28 pm UTC (link)
	"What it would be like to have a baby with you, my love. " She smiled and kissed him. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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