Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2016 16:29:41 GMT -5
What To Expect When You're Expecting
The sound of brisk footfalls echoed along the forest floor. Jason was doing his routine morning jog and he had started going through the forest. He use to jog all the time, especially when he was a Praetor he did the morning jog. It helped keep him in shape from his days in the second cohort, that and his physique had always been important to him. But now he was retired. Clare told him he didn't have to but honestly, he wasn't planning on staying in the legion forever, that was never the plan. Sure, he left his mark beautifully on the place. Rising through the ranks, being a centurion and running the infirmary and then ultimately taking the role of Praetor. When he found out Clare was pregnant well, the time lined up perfectly, he would have finished up his service right before she was due. So once a replacement was found and he was sure things would be okay he retired.
Jason stopped to catch his breath, it coming out visibly against the cold morning air. He looked at his forearm with the ten lines, he couldn't believe time went by that fast. Seemed like just the other day he had found his way in here after passing Lupa's test. He was such a different person from who he was then. He changed for the better, he at least knew that bit. But he couldn't shake that he could still change for the better, that there was so much out there that he could still do. But hell, by this time next month he was going to be a dad. He was only twenty, not to say he wasn't excited but he was terrified as well. Would he be a good dad? Remus and Clare kept telling him he would be but he had his doubts, he didn't have a good father figure growing up and didn't really have a family either and now he was getting one way earlier than he thought he would when he was younger. Part of him wanted to go back out into the real world and give his acting career another chance. His agent knew he was curious about it, sending him offers to auditions, some of them sounded really good but he couldn't just go right now. Let the kid be born first and such. Which, the kid, a girl, gods... that girl was going to have him wrapped around her little finger, he knew it already. Maybe he would be okay, but he couldn't help but feel that his time to make mistakes was running out. He had always done good and followed the rules, maybe he should have let Ethan drag him out to have fun more often, maybe he shouldn't have been such a stick in the mud these past few years. Was his life really about to come to a close at the young age of twenty?
Jason stopped to catch his breath, it coming out visibly against the cold morning air. He looked at his forearm with the ten lines, he couldn't believe time went by that fast. Seemed like just the other day he had found his way in here after passing Lupa's test. He was such a different person from who he was then. He changed for the better, he at least knew that bit. But he couldn't shake that he could still change for the better, that there was so much out there that he could still do. But hell, by this time next month he was going to be a dad. He was only twenty, not to say he wasn't excited but he was terrified as well. Would he be a good dad? Remus and Clare kept telling him he would be but he had his doubts, he didn't have a good father figure growing up and didn't really have a family either and now he was getting one way earlier than he thought he would when he was younger. Part of him wanted to go back out into the real world and give his acting career another chance. His agent knew he was curious about it, sending him offers to auditions, some of them sounded really good but he couldn't just go right now. Let the kid be born first and such. Which, the kid, a girl, gods... that girl was going to have him wrapped around her little finger, he knew it already. Maybe he would be okay, but he couldn't help but feel that his time to make mistakes was running out. He had always done good and followed the rules, maybe he should have let Ethan drag him out to have fun more often, maybe he shouldn't have been such a stick in the mud these past few years. Was his life really about to come to a close at the young age of twenty?
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By: Jackie
By: Jackie