You never know when you're gonna meet someone

And your whole wide world, in a moment, comes undone

You're just walking around then suddenly

Everything that you thought that you knew about love is gone

Outfit  @lassiter
St. Mungo's Cafeteria, October 6th, 2017.
Word Count: 507

Arleigh had had Jack for a few weeks now, and she wished she could say it was getting easier, but it wasn't, she was tired, and she felt like she was failing at everything. She needed help but she had no one she could ask, of course, she had a friend come over and try to give her tips, but she needed someone to be there with her at night. Her apartment was starting to feel so big and so empty and the sounds of a baby crying at 3 am seemed to echo like a horror movie against her walls. She was not prepared to take on a newborn when he had arrived on her doorstep, delivered by the tiny blonde teenager who had no more a clue what to do than she did.  She had not gotten much sleep those first few nights with Jack, it wasn't that he was a fussy baby, he just was adjusting same as she was. She felt bad for her tiny nephew, he was likely missing his mother, every time she held him she felt like a fraud, she was not his mother and she could never take the place of her, and somewhere inside she felt he knew she was just some imposter. 

She had been so exhausted that work had been going by so much slower than usual, though she was happy to get away, her job was not exactly the best one for someone looking to not be around a newborn baby. She was a healer in training but she was planning to be a pediatric healer, and she spent a large amount of time on the pediatric floor. Still, she felt she had heard more screaming babies in the last month than she had the entirety of her training program, it was almost as if they were mocking her pain at this point. She had made her way into the cafeteria feeling rather defeated for the day, but also growing hungrier with every minute. She got her food and looked around trying to find somewhere suitable to sit, then she spotted him, her boss, well somewhat, and in a year he would be her co-worker. He had always seemed nice enough, and he was certainly plenty handsome. Arleigh made her way over to where he was sitting alone. 

When she finally reached his table, she looked at him and asked politely "is this seat taken?" he seemed to indicate that it was indeed free, though she wasn't really taking no for an answer, she was tired and needed to have a seat and her lunch was tempting her nose with each moment that past. "how is your day going so far?" she asked him, while trying not to stare at his amazingly chiseled body, she had had a crush on him for forever now, but she thought he would never look twice at her so she had never said anything to him about it, but boy did she at least love to look at him.

Work kept his mind off of it. Kept his mind off the past and the things that he couldn't seem to forget, but mostly off his parents and their upcoming fist at Christmas. He volunteered every year to towel, because he got the best surgeries, the best cases and it meant that he didn't have to deal with his family that much. He loved them, but the sympathetic looks from his sister and the speeches from his father about the things that he needed to do was just a bit too much for him. He supposed that he could go home for the holidays, but going to Ottawa meant there was a chance of seeing her with her new husband. The thought made him feel sick, and missed him off even more when he thought about it, but he tried to not think about her. That was a very long time ago.

His girlfriend, if she could be called that, had decided that she didn't want his baggage a few weeks before and he was back to filling his time at home with whiskey and wishes. There were some cases that were hitting him hard and he knew that the job seemed easy enough, but not everyone got better, not everyone got a cure, and there were those that they had to make comfortable, and those who didn't get that chance. It hurt him, he wanted to save them all, to see them smiling and laughing as they went home, but it didn't work that, a lesson that he had learned hard.

He should have been eating, he knew that he needed food, but the shift would be over before he knew it and he would be able to stop by the pizza place near his flat. His mother would murder him if she knew how he was living. He was no stranger to the interns and healers in training to want to sit with him. She wasn't one to his knowledge, by there were so many and they all looked the same most days. Young, that was all he saw unless he stopped to really look at them. She asked to sit and he waved his hand and looked down into his cup, before taking a sip of the hot liquid in the paper cup. "As well as any other day I suppose. " He said before giving her a smile. " You?" He asked including his head before slowly drinking from his cup again.

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YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU'RE GONNA MEET SOMEONE



AND YOUR WHOLE WIDE WORLD, IN A MOMENT, COMES UNDONE



YOU'RE JUST WALKING AROUND THEN SUDDENLY



EVERYTHING THAT YOU THOUGHT THAT YOU KNEW ABOUT LOVE IS GONE

Word Count: 430

Arleigh had never really been in a serious relationship, there had been a few noteworthy suiters at Hogwarts, but nothing that lasted an absorbently long amount of time. She had never lived with a man other than her father and she had never really had someone who made her heart leap out of her chest. Arleigh was far too busy for any of that, she had had this goal, this dream of being a healer ever since her parents died, and possibly before that really. Her mom had always told her stories about her older brother Jack who had died of a heart condition before she was ever born before Piper was ever even adopted. Her mom still talked about Jack with tears in her eyes all the way up until the day she died. Her son had left a missing piece in her that even two healthy daughters could not fill. Her mother loved them of that much she had been sure, but there was always a piece missing from her and it made Arleigh want to make sure that nothing like that ever happened to another mother again. Of course, that was impossible, she could not save them all, but she could at least try to make a difference, no matter how small. 

She could also try to help with her nephew Jack, try to make his life better because she knew her sister was likely feeling the same way her mother had been. She was probably in that terrible place they called Kolna, missing her son with tears falling from her eyes. Though she did not want to imagine her sister like that, she could not help it, and it made her feel so guilty for ever complaining about being tired. She knew her sister would give anything in the world to be the kind of tired she was right now. She took a bite of her food trying to put the vivid thoughts from her mind, she looked over at the man sipping his tea across from her, he had not gotten anything to eat and she automatically went into mother mode, hoping he would have something to eat later, it was hard being in his position of that much she was sure and she would hate to think that he wasn't eating enough to go along with it. He responded to her question and also asked her how her day was going as well "It is fine, just a little tiring with a newborn at home" she quipped before taking a sip of her water. 

His marriage had been something that still reminded him of his youth, something about mistakes made when he was young and not something that was done in sheer desperation. He had cared for Dorothea once upon time but things had changed so much. They had gone from being so great together and clicking to ready to rip out each others throats. Loss had a funny way of changing people, a way of making things that were once hidden under the rug shine in the light of day; and those things that had once been things that they merely bickered about became full blown screaming matches.

He had stopped caring, he had stopped trying, because nothing that he did was good enough, and she had become a stranger in his bed. So he stayed in the guest room they had, he worked as much as he could and he talked to her a s little as he could. It shouldn’t have been a shock but it was. He found her with his best friend and instead of even trying to fight her about it, he had just left He moved out without a fight and filed the papers. It was like he had been waiting on it to happen but he was so shocked when she had, that he hadn’t expected it at all.

He lived a life free of attachment and free of expectations from anything or anyone save from his job. He liked it that way. Occasionally, something happened, someone would stumble along into his life and he would enjoy life a little. ”Oh, I wasn’t aware you had been pregnant. Are you sure that you should be working again so soon then? “ He asked concern on his face, taking a drink from his cup. ”Is there anything we can do to help?”


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YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU'RE GONNA MEET SOMEONE



AND YOUR WHOLE WIDE WORLD, IN A MOMENT, COMES UNDONE



YOU'RE JUST WALKING AROUND THEN SUDDENLY



EVERYTHING THAT YOU THOUGHT THAT YOU KNEW ABOUT LOVE IS GONE

Word Count: 410

Arleigh was imagining what it would have been like if she had had a baby, she was young but she did have a good head on her shoulders, she could have been a good mother. It was this difficulty of having a baby to love that was not yours, knowing that someday his mother would, hopefully, come back and take over and you would just be the aunt that cared for him for a while early on. She had been trying to remember that role that she was supposed to play as she looked down at the sleeping infant in her arms every night, she wondered how it would be when he started talking, would he call her mama? How would she handle it if he did? She did not know, she was not prepared for those kinds of questions in her mind just yet and luckily she knew it would be a while before she would have to answer such questions. Still, she hoped like hell that Piper would be home long before then, she hoped that Piper would even be home today, that somehow magically, she would just be there waiting for her when she got home, though she knew that was not likely to be the case. 

She looked over at the man "oh, I wasn't...I mean I never have had a baby, it is my sister's child, but she is unable to take care of him right now, so I am keeping him until she is able" she said trying to explain the situation carefully. She did not know where the man's allegiances lied and she did not want to presume he was light only to find out he was a Death Eater later who would come to take the very child she was supposed to be protecting. He kindly offered help which, to be honest, Arleigh could have used a lot of, but she did not know it what way specifically he could help, though she did recall he had a touch of jaundice that she just could not seem to get rid of. "Well he does have a little bit of jaundice and I have tried every remedy I could think of and nothing seems to be working, perhaps you would be willing to give him a checkup for me?" She asked feeling like it was not too large of a request to make of someone she knew so little aside from work. 

but I'm starting to believe
_{that this could be the start of something good}

Children were not something that Will thought that he would ever see in his future, this was for two very important reasons. The first being that he would need to be in a relationship and the second would be that the relationship would need to be serious enough for him to even want a family with them. Yes, he knew that sometimes things happened and babies happened even when parents didn’t want them , after all his job dealt with that all of the time, but Wil wanted to be a father, a husband, not just some no account baby daddy. He had once had a plan for his life and Dorie had fucked that up when he had fallen for her, so he had changed everything and gone into pediatrics, for her; because surgery was too competitive for her likes and needs, It wasn’t like he had wanted this path, but once he had started down it he had fallen for it.

Kids were his weakness and he had even thought about adopting a baby himself, taking some time off from his practice and just being the head of the training program for a while and focus on himself and the kid, but he knew too well that he couldn’t do it alone. Even with all his knowledge and expertise, he would be a mess from the other side. As he brought his mug to his lips he did what he always did and thought about what might have been, but it was better this way and he knew it. His life had been a mess for years and would keep being amess until he could just honestly figure out what it was that he wanted. That was always his biggest problem. He was just too indecisive, because making a mistake was scary as fuck.

He listened to the girl explain about the child before nodding his head in understanding. Ah, yes, now that is understandable, but that statement still stands. If you need anything, like time off or help or anything, just let us know.” Of course, by us he meant me, but hey. She could probably read between the lines and understand that, right? ”Sure, bring him in, but the one thing that I have learned that helps with that is sunlight and there are a few spells that should help with it and a salve. We can see which one will work best for him though.” He wasn’t even going to make her make an appointment.

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