Isla
Ever doesn't voice it out loud, but if he had Isla would have been able to confirm with certainty that the news she's about to drop falls under all three categories: dizziness, shock, and the sort of foundational shaking of a routine so carefully maintained that it has become a lifeline all on its own. She sits, though, and he comes to join her, and as he belatedly takes her hand she can't stop the soft, adoring laugh that sighs out of her. Gods but she loves this man, every facet of him, and although she's about to alter their lives permanently, that feeling doesn't so much as flicker.
"Thank you," she murmurs, her free hand moving to cover his own, as if to cradle his fingers between her palms. "I'll keep it as simple as I can. For the past couple of weeks, I've been feeling a little unwell - and please don't feel bad. It's mostly been in the morning when I'm already out at the clinic. You wouldn't have seen or known."
Taking another breath, this one more to steady herself than Ever, Isla gives his hand a warm squeeze. "My symptoms aligned with something quite specific, and so I went to Stormbreak for a test to confirm, and I just received a positive result. For a pregnancy." Shifting automatically to sit a little closer, she doesn't try to force him to meet her eyes, but her presence is both loving and clinical, as if she can anticipate the world falling away beneath him already.
"I know we were careful. Every time. But it's happened."
"Thank you," she murmurs, her free hand moving to cover his own, as if to cradle his fingers between her palms. "I'll keep it as simple as I can. For the past couple of weeks, I've been feeling a little unwell - and please don't feel bad. It's mostly been in the morning when I'm already out at the clinic. You wouldn't have seen or known."
Taking another breath, this one more to steady herself than Ever, Isla gives his hand a warm squeeze. "My symptoms aligned with something quite specific, and so I went to Stormbreak for a test to confirm, and I just received a positive result. For a pregnancy." Shifting automatically to sit a little closer, she doesn't try to force him to meet her eyes, but her presence is both loving and clinical, as if she can anticipate the world falling away beneath him already.
"I know we were careful. Every time. But it's happened."
sooner or later, we all have to wake
and try forgetting everything
and try forgetting everything
