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Bella doesn't even know that Elspeth had plans to visit Downside until after she finds that Jane is offline, that wishing doesn't fix it. Elspeth is a grownup; Edward does not monitor her every minute of every day, does not report all her comings and goings to her mother.
It's Addy who tells her, uncharacteristically grave, after Bella makes the announcement that Aurum will be isolated until Elspeth finds a door. Elspeth rescheduled an appointment with Addy to go offworld.
And now Elspeth is not going to find them a door, because Elspeth is gone, might well stay gone till Jane is fixed, because time is only synced up due to Jane. And Bella cannot fix Jane. Elspeth might find a door after fifty years have gone by in Aurum.
Bella makes the revised announcement by brainphone to everyone except Jake.
Jake she tells in person. Jake she clutches by the shoulders while he sobs and shakes. Jake she offers to put to sleep so Elspeth will not come home to find him having done something regrettable. Because she will, eventually, come home. Jake she tucks into bed like she's his mother and sends into dreamless nothing so he doesn't have to suffer however long his imprint will be vanished where he cannot follow.
And then she goes to Edward and, because she is a vampire, she does not cry, but she does sob.
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luminous_regnant
temporal_affairs
Nathan laughs. "Of course it is. Your opinion on names about where it was last time?"
temporal_affairs
"Not really. Aedyt-or-Payl, then?" says Nathan, patting his mate's belly. "We should tell Kerron tomorrow noonish."
yourheartstrings
"I love you too, sweetheart."
She conjures herself a big plate of French toast.
She conjures herself a big plate of French toast.
temporal_affairs
Noonish the next day arrives. Nathan prompts the Joker when this occurs.
pina_colada
[You conjured an old-fashioned deep-sea diving bell and I need to come see the new species of shark you've just discovered?] Kerron replies, who has inherited his father's habit of wild guesses in response to prompts like this.
pina_colada
[Hah. 'Course you are. Empty nesters,] teases Kerron. [Due in, what, three weeks?]
manofmyword
[Yep! You are the first to know - well, third - blab it all over town or keep it a surprise, whichever makes you happy.]
pina_colada
[Come by Safesun after Rosalie slices and dices you, the local vibrant hybrid community'll throw the kid a party.]
temporal_affairs
[Aedyt, since you're not using that one, if it's a girl, Payl for a boy,] supplies Nathan.
pina_colada
[Good, munchkin was my adorable childhood nickname. But you better not have too many or you'll run out of cute words that end in -kin and have to call somebody "gherkin" or something.]
temporal_affairs
[Are you unable to envision your mum affectionately addressing a small child as "gherkin"?] asks Nathan.
temporal_affairs
Nathan snickers both aloud and by brainphone.
manofmyword
The Joker hugs his sweetheart and beams un-innocently.
He continues going about his life. People can notice his pregnancy all by themselves. He'll worry about getting an appointment with Rosalie when Nathan says it's time to.
He continues going about his life. People can notice his pregnancy all by themselves. He'll worry about getting an appointment with Rosalie when Nathan says it's time to.