What's This? [Baby Shower]

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Tags: @josh [@amelia @gabriel] [@jason Clare Kyoto] [Nicholas Robinson @kaylee] @charliemack Kyle O’Brian @mercury

Well Amelia was a great help in throwing this baby shower she didn't really want. Eh. She seemed like she needed something, a little extra to keep her mind off things. She was pregnant too, Rhiannon ran into her at the maternity store one day. She never really liked those kinds of girly girls, but it's not like she could have left her alone with those big sad brown eyes. Accursed puppy eyes and the people who could imitate them. Oh well, she was doing this baby shower thing now. So she figured she'd add Amelia into it too. She didn't exactly tell her, though she did find out a little about the people Amelia really loved. Mostly Nick and Gabriel. So those two where coming. She hadn't seen Nick since he died, it was a little weird when she heard he was a Lar now. Good for him though. With his girlfriend training kids until the world stopped spinning. She couldn't do the living forever thing herself, it'd hurt too much. Maybe with Josh she could though.

Okay. Josh and Amelia helped her with the food stuff the day before, and some of the decorating so they wouldn't have to do it in the morning. Then this morning she got out the banner that included Amelia's name on it. She kind of meant to tell Amelia about including her in the baby shower, but oh well. Surprises where fun. Except blow horns. Not fun. She made it mostly purple, and used some blue decorations from the wedding too. It wasn't obnoxiously Roman purple, but it was still a bit. She might have suggested to all the guests that it was a double Baby Shower, and gifts would probably be split and traded. In case someone got two of the same and the other didn't get it or something like that. Rhiannon wasn't sure how these things worked, just tried to inform everyone the general idea behind this, whatever this was.

Banner, up. Tiny gift bags, done. Enough food to hopefully keep Mercury and one of his boys satisfied, the world can only hope. There were pickles, deviled eggs, some cheese ham puff things. Rhiannon wasn't sure what to call everything, it was more like she made what tasted good. Since getting a house, and extra mouths to feed, she'd been testing out recipes. Lots of recipes. It was something to do as she tried settling down from War, and being trapped in an infirmary room for a month.

Everything was cleared off, paper plates, cups, drink, and probably enough food to feed a highschool football team was almost done. She gave a ten to fifteen minute gap for people to arrive and hopefully not get cold food. She really hated mass amounts of people, and her version of mass was five. Five people were too many, but with Josh's family making random visits she was getting maybe a little used to dealing with it. Mostly with long naps afterward.

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Amelia put the finishing touches on the last package by curling the ribbon and took a step back from her bed in the barracks to examine her work. Perfection. Three neatly wrapped presents sat on her bed. Hmm, right about now she could use a little help, but ah, she’d manage. Carefully, as if the gifts were made of glass or something – which they weren’t – she hefted the packages up and managed to get out of the barrack without tripping. She couldn’t check her watch, but she was sure the shower would be starting quite soon. She had just enough time to get the Rogers’ home and not be late. In fact, with any luck, she might be early. She didn’t mind the odd looks she got carrying three bright packages to New Rome. Was she invited? She hadn’t even bothered to check. In her mind, since Rhia had invited her to be a part of planning it, logically she was going to be in charge of making sure it went on smoothly. It wasn’t her shower, no, but she took its success personally. Not that she really knew Rhia and Josh before all this, but hey. She’d just happened to bump into Rhia in the maternity section of a store a while back. Why she had been in there when she was so far from even showing, she really wasn’t sure, but maybe it was just the excitement of the whole thing. Well, halfway. Part of her was really excited, but part of her still dreaded it. That part that felt horrible every time she saw Gabriel and thought about how she had betrayed him. That part that turned away from the negative attention she got too often these days. She wasn’t sure she regretted it; she certainly wouldn’t blame the baby at all. No, her baby was going to grow up loved and cared for and doted upon. Even if it was just her and the baby… No, she couldn’t think like that. Gabriel had said he would stand by her side, stay with her, but at the same time, she knew he had every right to abandon her and he should.

But that was not the topic of right now. Right now was celebrating Rhia and Josh’s love for each other and the little bundle of joy they were bringing into the world together. They were a cute, happy little family now and she wished the very best for them. One could even say she envied Rhia, but again, that was besides the point. It would be very unladylike of her to allow such emotions to show. Just happy. Happy happy happy. Finally she got to the right door and placed the presents down. The small one containing what she figured had to be the cutest boy onsie she had ever seen, a medium sized package containing a fashionable diaper bag, and a larger one containing a jacket for Rhia that would still look flattering no matter how big her belly was. She smiled, satisfied and looking forward to this little party, and knocked on the door.

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Word Count: 520
Notes: onsie and diaper bag. I lost the pic of the jacket, sorry, but trust me, it was cute.