❛ alexander, MY LOVE, please just leave it be. ❜ her voice was much more WEAK than usual, as she was starting to fall ill. eliza was pregnant with her FIRST child ( who they later were planning on naming PHILIP ), and there was a sickness going around. she thought that she would take heed and pray that she would not get sick, but sometimes, the big man upstairs just DOESN’T listen to you. now, her husband does not open much about his past life, and does that bother her? NO, because she understands. the dark haired woman just doesn’t know about his mother.
he needed to, however, get back to work–––– that’s all he did ANYWAYS. ❛ i’m not sick, i PROMISE, i wouldn’t lie to you. ❜ however, that is exactly what she is doing, and she knows that he is getting driven up the wall. she doesn’t like being sick, she doesn’t like the feeling, and she doesn’t like NOT taking care of food or the house. she just wants to be up and running. ❛ just go back to work, I’M FINE. ❜
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--- She was beginning to FALL ILL, and Alexander could sense it from miles out ;; sickness was a COMMON THEME within his own cruel narrative, after all, and the trend has taken one life from him already ( he recalls dreary flashes of his mother, weak and frail, so unlike her usual demeanor — it shakes him to his very core, a NIGHTMARE threatening to reoccur ). For once, his work has been set aside, his lover’s health and well-being taken precedence over any old and forgotten paperwork, any laws waiting to be instituted, thoughts awaiting solidification — he is worried, afraid of maladies stealing yet another piece of his life ;; just as he helped his mother until the day she was taken from this mortal ground, he will do the same with his beloved Betsey.
— “ Elizabeth, “ he starts, tone SMALLER than usual as he faces the only thing he would ever consider more important than his work ( it is his wife, his lover of so long now ). “ … let me help you ;; can I get you anything ? “













