Re: Hope Falls

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 0:32

"Thea." Magnus stated quietly, kicking his shoes off to curl himself around her, wrapping his arm around her waist gently. "Tell me what's going on in your head."

"No, no, no, no." Karina cried. Hours later, she relaxed against the covers and closed her eyes - breathing erratic as another baby's cried echoed into the room.

Davika instantly took it to the side of the room to clean it with a damp towel, this baby a lot smaller but still have strong lungs. "A boy. An older girl, and a little boy. Congratulations to you both."

Phoenix Mon 15 Aug - 0:41

“It doesn’t even have a beating heart and already I am nothing but its vessel. I cannot do my favourite activity any longer, soon my food will be restricted because I have no doubt a list will show up of what I cannot eat. I will be treated like glass, fragile.” Thea murmured, her shoulders resting into him. “And… if this child is a female she will inherit the sight. She’ll become the Guardian’s pawn like my sisters and I. Knowingly doing that… it already makes me a terrible mother in my eyes. How can I look my own daughter in the eye knowing what will happen to her?”

“Kari I - I am so proud of you.” Emmett admired Karina softly, resting his forehead against hers gently. “I love you, well done my love.”

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 0:44

Magnus tensed, his smile disappearing as his thumb gently traced circles against her skin. "If you do not wish to have this baby then... then you do not have to have this baby, Thea. You aren't obligated, I will love you no matter what. I know this was never your plan."

Phoenix Mon 15 Aug - 0:50

“It may be my body but this child is also yours, and you want it. I could feel you sagging into the bed just then. If I don’t have this baby it will irreparably damage our relationship even if you say it won’t…” Thea murmured sadly. “This is why the plan was for you to have your children with someone else, so I wouldn’t condemn a child with my curse, but you could still have the heir you wanted…”

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 0:54

"I want you more than I want a child." Magnus assured, leaning in to press his lips to the back of her neck. "I promise I will not grow attached to the idea of it anymore, if you do not want this child then we don't need to have this child. What I think is irrelevant, it is your decision."

"Of course the more painful one was the angel child." Karina snorted tiredly.

Phoenix Mon 15 Aug - 0:57

“We weren’t prepared for wings… we should’ve been prepared for wings.” Emmett frowned apologetically. “Our son is a surprise mm

“It will change everything.” Thea shook her head, shaking as silent tears began to fall. “You will never think the same of me, it will change it all… so I either lose your opinion or risk hurting our kid… I lose in every situation, every aspect…”

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 1:03

"I only ever saw two girls, in those visions before we even - before I even loved you. I was presumptions." Karina laughed tiredly. "A girl and a boy. Angel and Seer. How exciting."

"I got excited by the thought of it all when she said, my imagination ran away from me and I was selfish; I'm sorry." Magnus whispered, leaning in to kiss the back of her neck gently. "If this chi- this... bunch of cells needs to come fo an end then I will be right there with you and I will love you the same. Nothing will change, Thea, you are everything I have ever wanted. Not a child; you. A life with you."

Phoenix Mon 15 Aug - 1:13

“The reason I won’t be at that meeting, with the Adair’s. If I’m not in the room with them they won’t be able to detect it - but judging on the length of your hair in that vision I’ll be very far along, so maybe it’s just a case so they don’t see, rather than scenting it… it makes sense now, mm? Why I wouldn’t be there.” Thea reasoned, turning over so she could press her forehead to his chest. “Don’t apologise for imagining your life with the thing you want from it…”

“You were so brave, well done.”

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 1:18

"We don't know that, and even if you are right then the future can be changed. You do not want a child, so you won't have one. Give the word and I will arrange for this to be dealt with, by the evening it will be a nightmare for you... a nightmare woken up from."

"Thank you for lying." Karina whispered, glancing over when Davika cleared her throat and nodding a confirmation when a glance was given to the babies. Moments later the boy being placed in her arms, and the girl being brought over and offered to Emmett.

Phoenix Mon 15 Aug - 1:24

“I don’t want to condemn one to the bullshit I had to deal with, to being Guardian property. I got lucky here, with you. What’s to say our daughter will be as lucky and won’t get stuck with someone horrible?” Thea asked shakily, pressing her palm against his chest to feel his heart. “And I - I wouldn’t forgive myself Magnus, putting my daughter through that… not having children was about not putting them through how unfair the life can be for someone with my gift.”

“No lie, no lie at all.” Emmett shook his head, glancing down at the child placed in his arms, expression softening instantly.

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 1:33

"Oh so tiny, little wings..." Karina fussed quietly over the baby in her arms, moving her hand to let him curl his hand around her little finger. "It's nice to see you too." She grinned, her gaze moving over to Emmett and their daughter a moment later. "Are you ready for the hard part?"

The baby in Emmett's arms blinked up at him with round; steely blue eyes; born with caramel brown hair that stuck to the tops of her head as she kicked her legs.

"If you don't want a baby then we won't have a baby," Magnus reaffirmed, pressing his lips to the top of her head. "I choose you, Thea. I choose us. You are more important than a imaginary child."

Phoenix Mon 15 Aug - 1:37

“This will change us…” Thea sobbed then, burying her face in his neck. “You’ll resent me for this in the future, we won’t be the same and - this will ruin how you think of me, you won’t look at me the same.”

“Of course.” Emmett chuckled as he placed his finger in his daughters hand, overwhelmed.

((Nighty))

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 1:44

"Never. Never." Magnus promised, tangling his fingers in her hair as he held her close. "You aren't giving me enough credit. I'll have to do better if you think something like this would make me love you any less."

"Your daddy is very special," Karina whispered softly, going between her son in her arms to the daughter in Emmett's. "He has to look after the King, and all the people here. He is very brave, one of the bravest people in the world... he'll look after the three of us more than he does the king; you two are very lucky." Directing at Emmett a moment later; "We need names."

(( Night))

Phoenix Mon 15 Aug - 19:31

“I don’t know if I can put it on another prison - what being my daughter will mean. I don’t know if I could live with it…” Thea cried, curling into him as small as she possibly could.

“Names when you’ve had some rest.” Emmett agreed, leaning over and kissing her head. “I’m so proud of you Kari.”

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 19:39

"We would protect her, we would not let them near her unless one of us were in the room. It can - we can negotiate and compromise, if you want to keep the baby then we can find a way. If you don't then, well, that's okay too."

"I knew I could do it without Dagmar." Karina chuckled weakly. "All I needed was you."

Phoenix Mon 15 Aug - 20:15

“I couldn’t live with myself if I condemned my child to the stuff I had to go through Magnus.” Thea whispered, swallowing thickly. “And I - I don’t want to lose my agency that I fought so hard to get - I don’t want to be reduced to a carrier who’s been told what I can and can’t do and where I can and can’t go… where I’m not Thea anymore, just a vessel.”

“Of course you could, I knew you could.”

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 20:22

"You wouldn't be a vessel, not to me." Magnus snorted softly in disgust.

"Swap babies?" She asked quietly, offering the smaller boy to him. "Let me look at her properly."

Phoenix Mon 15 Aug - 20:26

“But to everyone else… I want to be Thea, not the heirs mother… the way Dagmar is only known for being a glorified mistress of Conan’s because she produced children. I know we’re married but I don’t want it to even come close… and the healer is already dictating to me my activities. It’s - it’s so much to deal with. I didn’t - I just want to pretend this isn’t happening for a while, can we pretend this isn’t happening for a while?”

“Of course,” Emmett murmured, gently swapping the children over and taking his son in his arms.

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 20:32

"For a few days but... but we can't leave it too long or else your ability to make that choice becomes more complicated." Magnus whispered with a sigh, leaning his head back to stare up at the ceiling.

"I wasn't expecting a boy... are you happy?:

Phoenix Mon 15 Aug - 20:46

“You’re sighing, you’re mad at me… you hate me don’t you?”

“Of course I’m happy, we have two beautiful children. I’m so… so happy.”

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 20:50

"You'll have to teach him how to fly; I wouldn't know where to start...or - no we'll get him a private teacher, he won't be a good flyer if you teach." Karina smirked.

"I'm not mad at you, I don't hate you. I just don't know what to say to make you feel better."

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 20:50

"You'll have to teach him how to fly; I wouldn't know where to start...or - no we'll get him a private teacher, he won't be a good flyer if you teach." Karina smirked.

"I'm not mad at you, I don't hate you. I just don't know what to say to make you feel better."

Phoenix Mon 15 Aug - 21:02

“I’m a fantastic flyer!”

“I just…” Thea moved to sit up, reaching to touch his face before tending as another vision seized her.

**BestNameEva** Mon 15 Aug - 21:09

"Another one?" Magnus frowned, moving his arms to wrap them around and pull her closer; gently running his fingertips up and down her arm. "You're safe."

"I rarely ever see you fly, I rarely ever see your wings. If our son wasn't sporting some tiny ones I would believe that you were lying to me about being an angel at all." Karina smirked.

Phoenix Mon 15 Aug - 21:23

“You’re exaggerating, my love.”

Upon touching her skin, Magnus would’ve been pulled into the vision along with Thea.

From her point of view in their room, watching a longer haired Magnus by the fire for a while, snow falling in the dark outside, marking it winter. In his arms a huge bundle of blankets that he stared down at, though his hair covered his expression, a dark head of hair visible between the blankets, Magnus letting out a slow exhale before the vision ended.

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