Darling, sweet lover

Dr. Elliot Karlsson. 30. Resident Haverford Veterinarian. Actual North End resident. I probably love animals more than I'd ever love you. Currently: stupidly pregnant.

[summer-rrose]

“That sounds like a reasonable reaction to it all.” Summer assured the blonde with a gentle squeeze of her hand and a small smile. “Is he alright? Did he cry? Was he a big baby when he saw this gorgeous little thing?” She asked wanting to know how Quinn had taken it all. Summer quickly waved off the girl’s thank you’s and simply shrugged. “You don’t have to thank me. I’m just glad that it’s going to be useful to another baby, especially this baby. I only hope the story and the blanket itself becomes something that gets passed down through generations and different families. I’m just glad this Audrey has a piece of the other Audrey and my grandma with her.” 

[elliotkarlsson]

“Oh he was great,” she says with a smile, in the event that she asked him, she’d let him explain how he felt. “I wasn’t really paying attention. I was tired. It’s been a blurry few hours.” She looked at the blanket in Summer’s with a tightness in her chest as Audrey made a soft little cooing noise. She missed Audrey, she thought as her arms held tight around her own, and sniffled. “Yeah, yeah, she will always know who they are, I’ll make sure of that.”

[adam-sterling]

Adam chuckled softly, every movement and thing he said now was gentle, afraid that if it wasn’t, he would startle the little girl in Elliot’s arms. “Yes, that sounds good actually. But… just not too fast, okay? I’m not— I’m not really comfortable around babies when they’re so small. I’m scared I’ll break them or something.”

[elliotkarlsson]

“Adam,” she chided, “I trust you more than anyone. It’s not like I’d have every stranger hold her. Even right now I kind of just wanna protect her and keep her away from anyone, because yes, she is little, and she’s too small to get vaccinated for anything right now, but I trust you. You take your time but I’ll still push you.”

[erinxsawyer-deactivated20160405]

“Hey, you don’t need scare me like that, my mom already do it all the time.”

[elliotkarlsson]

“...mine’s fresh though. Still smells like the hospital. Her memories are old, darling. But you’ll be fine.”

[summer-rrose]

Summer laughed softly at Elliot’s command, the motherly role already coming into play and it couldn’t fit Elliot better. Summer took a seat, her fingers instantly reaching for Audrey’s leg and giving it a small squeeze, telling herself to not tear up at the sight. “Nah, I think it’s mostly all from you.” Summer teased still smiling. “Speaking of, where’s the proud new dad?” She asked frowning as she looked around the room. “You must be tired. Was it as bad as we were guessing? It’s so worth it though. I mean look at her. She’s perfect.” Summer mumbled feeling herself tearing up. She quickly looked up to the ceiling to keep the tears at bay and took a few breaths. “So I have another gift, this one I was keeping especially for this moment.” She told the blonde as she pulled the box up and put it on the bed next to Elliot. “It’s the blanket I had when I was a baby. My grandma knitted it for me, to always keep me warm. I was attached to that thing for a long time. Audrey knew that and she put her own imprint on it. She spent a whole week sowing that quote on the back. She always told me to shoot for the moon and stars and I want this little Audrey to grow up with that and have a little part of Audrey from me.” 

[elliotkarlsson]

With a free hand, she waves it off, “Everything hurts, hurts still, but I was drugged up and I wanted  to punch everyone. But Quinn, he uh... he’s I think by his sister, I wanna say. I made him leave. He needed that away time for now.” Her next words leave Elliot stunned, mouth agape as she tells her story about Audrey, and her grandmother, “Oh Summer,” she says, voice breaking as she shifts her hold to wipe at eyes. “That’s too nice, so incredibly sweet, I don’t have words for that. I ju-just.. thank you so much.”

[erinxsawyer-deactivated20160405]

“Are you okay? You look so tired.” The blonde asked, tilting her head and staring with concern at the other. “You don’t slept well last night?”

[elliotkarlsson]

“Sweetheart, you’ll look like this soon enough too.”

[elliotkarlsson]

» INSTAGRAM: drellkarlsson uploaded a new photo:

@drellkarlsson: What’s not seen is the cat passed out 2 feet away from her. 

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[elliotkarlsson]

Text | Elliot

Rebecca: Drugged to hell. Won't feel a thing. Maybe they'll have invented something even better seven months from now.

Rebecca: You're never too old for your first fort, okay.

Elliot: Blood just... everywhere. Boobs leaking, everything leaking.

Elliot: Safety. Don't.

[elliotkarlsson]

Text | Elliot

Rebecca: I have requested to be drugged to the seventh level of hell when the time comes but I know with my luck I will need to be knocked out.

Rebecca: Even if its a box fort? I don't have a cat, I have a plant. It's dead.

Rebecca: You're welcome.

Elliot: Wait until what happens after.

Elliot: Maybe when she's older. But she's not even a week old, don't be hasty.

[elliotkarlsson]

Text | Elliot

Rebecca: I have it on good authority that babies and toddlers loves boxes so - I win.

Rebecca: I don't know what I win but I felt it worth a text.

Rebecca: Also congratulations.

Elliot: I almost didn't reply to this because everything hurts and I'm tired. how women did this two hundred years ago, or hell- anytime before pain medicine is beyond me.

Elliot: Any box on my doorstep is going to my cat, I swear.

Elliot: also, thank you.

[adam-sterling]

“But I don’t want to hold her… I mean, can you hold her, and then I just watch? I don’t think it’s good for me to hold someone so tiny and so…fragile. And of course she’s a daddy’s girl, I’m not even surprised.”

[elliotkarlsson]

“Sounds like a challenge,” Elliot said with a smirk, stepping away for a moment to appear mere seconds later with a bundle. “I will break you of this. So that when you and Toni give Quinn, and subsequently me, nieces and nephews, this?” She says, gesturing at a mostly asleep baby in her arms, “Will feel like old news.” She chuckles, “Hell, by that time I suspect she’ll want to help.”

[elliotkarlsson]

“Yes, I know you will.” He laughed.

[TIME SKIP CAUSE BB IS HEREEEE]

“Oh my god— is she— can I— no…wait… Is she asleep?”

“You want attention from her, help yourself. I don’t think she’s asleep, she’s a stubborn little one. Daddy’s girl though, so you might have a fight, Uncle.”

[elliotkarlsson]

+ @elliotkarlsson

Summer had thrown on the first pair of pants nearest her and pulled out a jumped from her cupboard after she’d gotten the call from Quinn that Elliot was in labour. She grabbed the present she’d kept for this moment and managed to grab her keys on her rushed way out of her apartment. She drove like a maniac, wanting to be there for both Quinn and Elliot and little baby Audrey. Once parked she rushed through the hospital doors and stopped by the gift shop to buy some balloons. 

She cursed herself as she remembered that she’d left the bouquet she’d made for this occasion at the shop, but kept going until she reached the front desk and was pointed in the right direction. She reached Elliot’s door with a halt, her chest puffing from the run, thinking how bad it was that she was so out of breath. Knocking on the door lightly she poked her head around the corner and tears instantly began to fill her eyes as she saw the little baby in Elliot’s arms. “Hi.” She breathed out closing the door behind her and walking over to the blonde and the tiny baby in her arms. “Oh my god Ell she’s absolutely gorgeous, just like her momma.” She whispered as she gazed down at Audrey. She leaned down and pressed a kiss to Elliot’s cheek and smiled, reaching for one of her hands and giving it a quick squeeze. “How are you?” 

God.. the last few hours were such an event for her, and by some miraculous feat, Audrey was sound asleep, and had been so calm. Which Elliot knew was going to change any day now, probably after they could take her home and she’d wake them up in the middle of the night, wanting something from either one. But for now she relished in it. She’d spaced out for some time, fingers grazing soft skin and humming some lullaby periodically that her grandma had taught her, but it was quickly broken when Summer stepped through the threshold of the hospital door. “Hey you,” she said, smile at her lips and voice soft and tired, “Sit,” she orders, eyes at the empty chair near her. “She is, but we also have Quinn to thank for that,” Elliot says with a coy smirk. “I’m good. Tired, but that’s to be expected. Still in a little bit of a shock though.”

[adam-sterling]

“You have plenty of time to plan it, don’t worry— I’m sure you’ll be surrounded by cute kids in a decade.”

[elliotkarlsson]

“You really think I’ll let myself pop that many kids out?”

[elliotkarlsson]

March 20th, around 6pm.

Really, she expected it.

Every morning the past week she woke up and shot accusatory looks at her stomach, and pep talks in her showers. All out of eyesight of Quinn, at least the cat can’t run off an tattle. Even thought she found him curling up against her stomach lately, not even flinching when little feet would stretch out and press against her body, the cat would barely bat a whisker. She still waited.

It was hours more than she had hoped, hours from when she had rushed to the hospital, @quinngold in tow. Hours spent laying in a bed, cursing everything she could think of until there was a cry that shattered the tense air of the room. If they were there, she didn’t notice @tonigold, @adam-sterling, and @summer-rrose in the room. Not as a small human was placed at her chest, a human with a tuft of brown hair and the galaxy in her eyes.

The room fell silent as Elliot’s eyes gazed down and she paid no attention to the voices, the doctors, her friends and family were nothing compared to Audrey finally staring up at her. 

And nothing else mattered after that.

[quinngold-deactivated20170314]

Quinn nodded in agreement. The pregnancy made Elliot tired, and it definitely could give him cause to be weary sometimes too. A nap seemed in order. He pulled the sheets up over their bodies, wrapping his arms tight around the woman. “I think I feel her sometimes, my mom. Though I wish she could give me clarity on how to help my dad. I…talked to Toni about an intervention like I told you I wanted to. But god talking and doing are two different things.”

[elliotkarlsson]

There was a content noise out of her when she curled up against him as much as she could as the blankets wrapped around them. “I wouldn’t doubt that. She’s all around.” Elliot sighs, eyes closed, “Seems I didn’t make any difference when I yelled at him.”

[adam-sterling]

“I’m sure you will end up having more, and I’m even more sure you’ll be a great mom, so seriously- don’t worry.”

[elliotkarlsson]

“I wouldn’t mind another, but I guess the rest of them should be planned. But I’m already freaking out over this one.”

[liaaburke]

“Ooh excellent choice!”

[elliotkarlsson]

“I can’t help but be weak against a face that is pretty, but can also kick my ass and out-curse me.”