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Post by ERFanRach on Nov 26, 2006 10:33:20 GMT 10
Awesome Update!!!
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Post by Lubyfanatic316 on Nov 26, 2006 11:23:16 GMT 10
Great Update!
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Post by zacefron4life on Nov 26, 2006 11:28:47 GMT 10
Brilliant update!!!
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Post by jadestar on Nov 26, 2006 13:14:58 GMT 10
aww soo beautiful *sigh*
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Post by larue on Nov 30, 2006 12:47:07 GMT 10
She was floating...almost flying through the cool night air....arms out stretched and hands catching the wind as it breezed through her open fingers. She closed her eyes and just enjoyed the feel of having such freedom. She shook her head slowly so the strands of hair caught on her chin and nose were freed to join the tangles floating around her face and neck. She opened her eyes again and a silent scream caught in her throat as she saw the bus hit the ground in front of her and could almost feel the heat from the explosion. Abby’s eyes flew open and she sat straight up in her bed and clutched her stomach as a cold, clammy fear spread through her. She looked around the darkened room and tried to still the thudding of her heart The other side of the bed was empty. He was gone. Abby waited a moment to settle herself and then pushed the coverlet aside and padded across the hall to Joe’s room. Luka wasn’t there either. She went to the crib and held her breath as she took in the sight of the sweet little boy spreadeagled on the mattress there. He was zipped into a cozy green sleeper and his blanket was pushed to the end of the crib. Joe’s cheeks were flushed as he slept and his mouth was open just a bit. His dark brows slashed across his forehead and the fingers of one hand were wrapped around the small plush frog she had finally managed to replace. They had gone to six toy stores but finally found it at a bookstore. She smiled and pressed a kiss to her finger tips and then touched his cheek.
Her hands were still shaking a bit as she made her way to the staircase and looked downstairs. The only light she could see came from the flashing timer on the microwave. It was three a.m. She made her way down the steps carefully and glanced around. He had pulled the curtains aside and the lights from the street cast an eerie early morning glow to the room. He was leaning back in a chair at the window, looking out the window to the sidewalk below. She made her way carefully to his side and saw the uneaten sandwich that sat on a napkin on the window sill.
“Can’t sleep?” she asked quietly. Luka was startled but then smiled and put an arm around her waist. “What are you watching for?” He shook his head and shrugged.
“Nothing,” he sighed. “Bad dream?” Abby shrugged and raked her fingers gently through the hair at his neck line.
“At least I woke up before I hit the ground this time,” she sighed. Luka shook his head and drew her down into his lap and hugged her close to him. He sighed as she turned to look out the window. He’d been doing that a lot lately. Watching outside for.....nothing? She grinned as he pushed her hair aside with his nose and nuzzled the bare curve of her neck with his lips. She giggled softly and cringed a bit as his beard stubble scratched her. Her eyes caught the open box of Christmas decorations nearby. He’d been busy while she’d slept. He’d gotten their holiday things out of their storage area in the basement. She shifted and reached into it to pull out the snow globe she’d packed away last year. She settled back in his arms and shook it They watched the white flecks settle around the winter scene inside and then Luka took it to wind the key on the bottom. They were silent as they listened to the tinkling tune, lost in their own thoughts and memories of a less happy time.
She’d been with Carter when Luka gave her the snow globe as a Secret Santa gift. She hadn’t known it was from him when she unwrapped it. It was beautiful. And they’d barely been on speaking terms. But she kept the snow globe. Actually kept it out on a table all year long. She knew where it had come from. She knew the minute he took it from her in Susan’s bedroom when she was getting her coat. She knew when he wound the key and heard the music. The words on that song weren’t as totally lost on her as he’d thought they were.
It had been the hardest Christmas of his life that year. He was missing his family .....missing Croatia and, more importantly, missing her. It was hard to watch her be with Carter. Hard to hear her insist that she was happy with him. To know that she was going to go home with him. Go to bed with him. He missed her. All of her. And he tried to drown that with work and a bottle. And nearly killed Erin in the process.
Luka’s arms tightened slightly around her and Abby turned to look at him as the music wound down. Their eyes met and he smiled slightly.
“I thought we should get a tree soon,” he said. “Unless you want to wait till your mother arrives.” Her eyes searched his for a moment in the light from the street lamps. “It’s going to be our baby’s first Christmas,” she said softly as she set the snow globe on the windowsill. She smiled affectionately and kissed him gently. Luka’s eyes closed as the kiss deepened and her fingers raked through his hair at the back of his head. Their mouths opened to one another and they savored the togetherness. She smiled a little as she felt his response and then carefully stood up from his lap. She took hand in her’s.
“Doing this here would be fun but it makes no sense when we have such a comfortable bed upstairs,” she said as she waited for him to stand up. “Think we’re getting old?” He grinned and laughed as he shook his head. He glanced back at the window and his smiled faded a bit. She tugged on his hand and their fingers clung together as they made their way up the steps to their bedroom.
They took their time....something they couldn’t do very often. Slow, soft kisses tracing from one sensuous spot to another. Clothing discarded one piece at a time. Warm hands molding and massaging and tracing and tickling. Bare limbs wrapped around one another. Tongues and lips meeting and exploring and tasting. Moving together. Watching one another. Reading every expression. Loving one another as only they could. Sighing, snuggling and resting together. Satisfied and sated.
She was floating again. Drifting slowly through soft and whispery clouds of mist. She stretched out her arms and this time her fingers closed around the solid and protective arms of her lover. There was nothing to fear. She sighed happily and let herself slip into deeper sleep.
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Post by Lubyfanatic316 on Nov 30, 2006 13:07:31 GMT 10
Great Update!
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Post by <3 Luby II 2 <3 on Nov 30, 2006 13:20:43 GMT 10
Lovely!!!
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Post by ERFanRach on Nov 30, 2006 20:44:48 GMT 10
Great Update!!!!
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Post by Andie on Nov 30, 2006 22:09:22 GMT 10
2 updates in four days? must have been inspired...and I'm very thankful for that!!! I was really missing your fics... hope you keep updating them so fast! I loved it, it was sweet and passionated!!!! UPDATE AGAIN SOON!!!!!!
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Post by *Natalie* on Dec 1, 2006 7:14:31 GMT 10
Great update Really love this natalie x
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Post by zelda on Dec 1, 2006 7:20:26 GMT 10
Lyn, I read this passage being enthralled by the style and the music of the words. Drifting with Abby and Luka in a kind of cocoon! And nothing else mattered! Tell me if I'm definitely a nutcase!
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Post by luby2534 on Dec 2, 2006 5:51:41 GMT 10
Lovely update !!!!!
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Post by josefine on Dec 2, 2006 10:04:53 GMT 10
Great update!!!
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Post by jadestar on Dec 3, 2006 4:27:41 GMT 10
wow, what a beautiful chapter - it feels like you're in another world while reading it - somewhere safe and warm
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Post by larue on Dec 7, 2006 21:04:19 GMT 10
Maggie had arrived three days before Christmas and immediately flew into a frenzy of preparations. Luka was very good natured about taking her orders as they set about cooking things for a ‘traditional Wyzenski Christmas’. Abby just rolled her eyes and worked an extra shift at the hospital to stay out of the way. They wrapped and tucked packages under the tree and planned to celebrate on Christmas Eve.
“Mass? You want to go to church on Christmas Eve?” Abby stared at him increduously. Luka nodded and shifted Joe on his shoulder as he patted his back.
“We always went as a family when I was growing up,” he said. “I’ve gone here as well.”
“Not last year,” she said.
“Not last year,” he replied with a slight smile and gazed at her piteously.
“No...please...not the eyes,” Abby moaned as she turned away.
“Consider it your Christmas gift to me.” Abby rolled her eyes and shook her head as he drew her into a hug with Joe on his shoulder.
“But, I already bought you something. You’re going to like it. I promise.”
“Come on......” Luka wheedled. “It can be our first....family.....tradition.”
“I think it’s a wonderful idea,” Maggie said as she sipped a mug of tea from her seat on the couch. “Your grandma used to make us all go to midnight mass after we opened presents, Abby. Don’t you remember?” Abby swung her face to Luka’s.
“You’re not talking about midnight mass, are you? I mean we both have to work tomorrow and midnight mass could last.....”
“No,” Luka chuckled. “There’s an early one at Our Lady of Sorrows. It’s just around the corner.” He looked at his watch. “In fact, it starts in about 20 minutes. Get your coat and let’s go. I’ll dress Joe.”
Surprisingly, the church was filled with families and excited children. Abby sat next to Luka with Joe in her arms and listened to the service taking place. It was different from the mass she remembered as a child. The church was bright and cheery. There were poinsettias everywhere. Candles burned and cast a familiar odor of warmth around them. Maggie and Luka slipped to their knees for the rosary and Abby listened as the priest chanted. There was a pounding in her chest and in her head as she held her son and gazed around at the stained glass and statues around her. She wasn’t sure she believed in all of this. She was just here because of Luka. After all, where had God been for her? Where was his ‘protection’ all of her life? Joe squirmed in her lap and she smiled as she hugged him and absently pulled out a set of plastic beads for him to chew on. Her gaze shifted to Luka as he intoned with the priest with his eyes closed in prayer. She shook her head slightly. With everything that he had been through in his life, how could he still have this....faith? Faith. That was what had gotten her through things after the shooting. But it wasn’t faith in God.....it was faith in the doctors and people that healed them. Faith in Dr. Anspaugh and Dr. Raab. That’s what had saved Joe...wasn’t it? She was a doctor, too, wasn’t she? She knew all about procedures and skill. But there was something else. She knew that even with the very best.....it wasn’t always a sure thing. Abby’s arms tightened around the little boy in her lap and she swallowed. They had almost lost him so many times. And here he was. Healthy. So very sweet. A real gift.
Very slowly Abby lifted Joe to her shoulder and patted his back. She hugged him and then slowly slipped to her knees on the prayer bench in front of her. She glanced over at Luka as his eyes opened in surprise. He tipped his head to look at her and then smiled as he slipped a hand over her’s and closed his eyes again. Her voice was barely a whisper but she joined in the prayers that had been drilled into her as a child.
Luka was deliriously happy when they got home again. Dinner had been warming in the oven so they settled down to eat. After dinner Luka passed out gifts and had as much fun watching ‘his girls’ open them as he had buying them. Maggie surprised them with matching pajamas.....another Wyzcenski ‘tradition’. “Don’t look at me like that, Abby,” she had said when she saw her daughter’s face as she ‘d explained the gift to Luka. “I even sewed them for you and Eric more than once. Don’t tell me that you have forgotten that?” Abby had just shrugged. Joe fell asleep in her lap surrounded by ribbons and discarded wrappings and boxes. The three of them sat up late into the night just talking and eating cookies. Eric called from Florida, where he was spending the holidays with his girlfriend’s family. Luka called his father and talked to his brothers and nieces and nephews....and whoever else was within reach. It was the most perfect Christmas she had ever spent. And she was almost sad that they would be working the next day.
But Luka had other surprises in store for them. She groaned when he jostled her awake and then finally opened her eyes when he sat Joe next to her face on the pillow.
“Reci njoj probuditi se Mama!” Luka said in a soft whisper. “Santa Recenica je dogoditi se.”
“Luka...” she groaned as she looked at the clock and then pulled a pillow over her head. “Come on. We don’t have to go in for three hours.” He guided Joe’s hand to Abby’s back and patted it.
“Wake up, Mama, wake up!” he said. “It’s Christmas! Santa Claus has come.” Abby peeked out from under the pillow at Joe’s face and then Luka’s grin.
“Okay...okay....” she sighed. “I give up.” She sat up and scooped Joe into her arms as she climbed out of bed. She shook her head and headed out the door to the staircase. Maggie was already up and pouring coffee when Abby climbed down the steps. She could smell something good and cinnamony coming from the oven.
“What are you doing up so early?” her mother asked in surprise. Abby shook her head and rolled her eyes.
“Little boys....” she sighed. Maggie laughed and handed her a mug of steaming coffee. Abby took a sip and sat down at the table.
“No...no...no.....” Luka said as he pulled her to her feet again. “Under the tree...” He took Joe from her and watched her with a silly grin as she headed for the tree and the filled stockings he had put there. “What did you do?” she laughed as she handed a stocking to Maggie and then gave one to Luka with the baby’s name on it. She sat on the floor next to the tree and pulled her own into her lap . Luka cuddled Joe in his lap and watched her out of the corner of his eye. She was laughing with Maggie as she pulled one treat after another out of her stocking. The tube of scented body lotion...his favorite. An huge orange. He’d looked everywhere for that. The package of new panties. Lip gloss in a clear candy cane container. A new toothbrush. The stuffed reindeer. The smile on her face faded as her fingers closed around the small square box he’d hidden in the bottom of the stocking. She lifted her eyes to his. He ducked his head quickly and concentrated on waggling the jingle bell rattle in Joe’s hand. He kissed the top of the baby’s head and looked up at her. Abby was watching him with a slight frown. Her cheeks were flushed. She gently scattered the things in her lap aside and stood up from the floor.
“I’ll be right back,” she said and hurried toward the staircase. Luka sighed heavily and shook his head. He rolled his eyes and stood up. He settled Joe in a stunned Maggie’s lap.
“Be right back,” he said with a grin and followed Abby up the stairs.
Their bedroom door was closed. He rapped softly and opened it. She was standing at the end of the bed with her back to him. He supressed a smile as his eyes raked over her slim figure in the navi cami top and flannel reindeer pajama pants that matched his own. He could tell by the set of her shoulders that she was angry.
“Abby....” he said softly. “It’s not what you’re thinking.” She turned to face him and held out her hand with the small jeweler’s box in it.
“What am I thinking, Luka?” she sighed. He grimaced and shook his head. He took the box from her and turned it over and over in his fingers.
“I promised you that I wouldn’t ask again until you were ready, right?” He shifted his feet. “I wouldn’t break my promise to you.” He opened the box and looked at the ring inside. He smiled a little and took it out of the box. He tossed the box onto the bed and held it up.
“However, this....is a promise ring,” he said. “Because I promise that I will be there for you..... forever.” He reached for her right hand and slipped the ring onto her finger. “I promise that I will do anything to take care of you. And..... I can promise you that my father will kick my ass if you are not wearing it when we arrive in Croatia.” She laughed as he pressed a kiss to the ring on her finger and grinned rakishly. Tears stung Abby’s eyes and they widened as she held her hand up and studied the ring.
“It’s a ruby,” she said.
“Umm hmmm.....a small one,” Luka nodded slightly. “It was my mother’s. She gave it to me when I left home to come to the states.” He studied her face.
“Are you going to keep it?” he asked softly. “I want you to keep it.” Abby stared down at the ring and then looked up at him. Her bottom lip quivered and she moved to encircle his neck with her arms. Luka grinned and lifted her up and swung her around as he kissed her. They fell onto the bed together and Abby laughed as he groaned. His hands found their way inside her pajama pants and he squeezed her bottom as he pressed her closer to him. “Luka, “ she gasped as she lifted her face from his. “We have to go in to work. We have a shift.”
“Aw...damn....who did that to us? It’s Christmas!” Abby laughed and lifted herself off the bed. She hit him with a pillow as she headed out the bedroom door. Luka sighed and folded the pillow under his chin to rest a moment. His thoughts were tumbling in his head. Wonderful thoughts. Happy thoughts. Abby was keeping the ring.
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