everything was coming into place. yes their home was quiet now that all their children were not there. cade out doing her own thing, conor away in collage, chance out exploring the world the way she wanted to, and corey making her own little family right here in alaska. their place once loud with little feet running around, to teenagers grabbing food, or wanting to talk, was quiet. it was back to nyx and marley, and the quietness was beautiful, it was, but she knew marley missed the sounds of those children around them and nyx did too. she wasn’t ready to leave here yet, she loved her job very much so. if it weren’t for marley, nyx would work day and night with little to no sleep or food. but this, was by far more important than her work. work was always going to be there, but spencer and their granddaughter were not going to stay this small forever. time flew by so quickly, which was ironic considering they had plenty of time in their life, but not enough for children. they weren’t like humans, they didn’t stay small for months or years, they grew up fast. she didn’t want to miss out on spencer’s first words, or his first step. didn’t want to miss the moments where they had to change his diaper, and feed him. didn’t want to miss watching iris and corey loving on him. she didn’t want to miss a thing, and she knew marley didn’t either. they could go back to their place, take up work again, but nyx knew, they would always find themselves back here again, to see these little children, and their own. to watch them all grow. she had her arms around marley, and she was kissing her curls hearing her words.”not ready yet. i enjoy watching you be a grandmother, and a mom.” she says ,smiling softly on her curls.”fucking bastard.” she mutters, shaking her head softly, before she was breathing in her wife.”do you feel like being a gymnast? a full time clown?” she teases softly, though she knew her wife, knew that work was just an experience for her a hobby. something to do just do when she felt like doing something.”i think a full time nanny suits you. could come out here and just dote all over these babies. spend more time with all of them, before the littlest babies grow up.” she whispers, pressing her lips to marley’s cheek once more. didn’t matter what marley wanted to do, nyx was always going to support her in everything that she did. her wife was amazing at everything, but the one thing she loved watching most; was marley being a nanna and a mother. that was the job she wanted her to always have. she was smiling at marley, nodding her head and agreeing with her. there was so much pride for corey and iris, knowing without any doubts that they would be amazing parents and their children would be the most well mannered little punks. but marley was right, spencer was already precious, and he was going to be an amazing big brother, and she wanted them both here to witness that too. she felt marley’s arms resting on her own, and nyx’s chin found her shoulder, her eyes just taking in marley, just falling in love with her impossibly more. though she never fell, she always soared toward marley.”and the next will be just as amazing.” she whispers to her, kissing her cheek and her curls as she felt marley kissing her cheek and neck. then she was moving and amber hue looks into blue seeing the out stretched hand, nyx takes it, not before watching her stretch which had a smile pulling at her lips but she was also now closer to her wife, hearing her words, she was nodding her head.”definitely not going to sleep.” it was just too wiring, knowing their littlest granddaughter their only granddaughter was going to be born any moment now, and they were excited to meet her, and also wanting to make sure everything had gone alright also. though there had never been any problems at all, but you just never know, and it was worrisome, because this was their daughter, pregnant for the first time, you always prayed everything turned out right. but nyx had faith, and looking at marley now, she had a lot of faith. right now, she had a lot of marley her eyes taking her in, the sight of her as she took off her clothes, it had nyx nodding, swallowing, licking her lips, before she was pulling her own clothes off in a hurry, wanting to get to that swim.”yep, definitely all for swimming.” she tells her, smiling as marley comes back close to her, and nyx was wrapping her arms around her, kissing her, her arms pulling marley up off her feet to wrap her legs around her as nyx began to walk them over to the pool, lips not once breaking from marley’s, her hands gripping into her ass as she got closer and began to walk them into the water. it was cold, but marley was warmer, and nyx was not going to let her out of her arms, wanting her wife’s body heat always.
a lot had seemed to pass by them so quickly. it felt like yesterday that marley was crossing the bridge to chinatown following nothing but the scent of nyx’s blood and the sound of heartbeat because it was all that she had. she had sat on that fire escape outside of nyx’s apartment for hours watching her, watching her look so tired, so drained, and yet too wired to sleep, barely picking over a container of take-out. marley had been away from her for months and in that time so much in nyx had become tired. she could see it in her, watching her that night fall asleep on her couch or try to, only for marley to slip in through her window and right back into her arms as she slept because she just needed to hold her. nyx needed to love her too, and marley needed that the same. their lips had started timidly and unsure, nyx worried she was dreaming that she was there, marley flexing her strength on her to prove that she was really there and make her feel it. nyx slept that night, and every night since, once again, she slept right in her arms and soundly. after that came the surprise of cade, while her and nyx struggled and fought and succeeded in making things work, they got married, and came the surprise of chance, a normal and happy everyday kind of life that they’d always wanted together because all they wanted was each other. corey came soon after and their first son and now years passed and those children were grown. she knew why nyx muttered the words that she had, a hatred in marley’s chest for everything that ever tried tampering and toying with their life. she knew where they were, always together, and she knew where nyx wanted to be, always where she was, every second they could manage to be where their children were and now....their grandchildren. nothing was going to come between them or slow them down, nothing was going to make them miss a second of being where they wanted to be. she knew nyx loved their work and they found their nights of curling up with it together when the day had settled down, but she knew looking at nyx where she wanted to be and her eyes didn’t lose the tender smile she had on her. “i know. i’m not ready yet either.” she tells her, before her smile was spreading more. “no, think i’m just liking being here with you and then after this....i’m going to love being wherever in the world we choose to be.” she whispers, kissing her cheek softly and then her lips where she lingered a little longer just breathing her in. “i’m excited and we...have some time to enjoy because we’re not going to be able to sleep.” there was no way they’d be able to, not with the birth of their first granddaughter right upon them. marley got her shirt off and the sweatpants of nyx’s she was wearing, able to see the worry in her wife’s eyes that was so tenderly there. “she’d going to be fine, and iris....they’re going to do perfectly and if they need us, they will call for us.” if there was anything that went wrong enough for that, her and nyx would be there, but she soothed away the little worries in nyx’s eyes by kissing her lips and helping her out of her clothes and then she was smiling on her lips because nyx lifted her right up, still after that swim they both wanted. her hands covered nyx’s cheeks warmly and she stayed on her eyes as her wife carried her into the little pool, the water warm because it was heated enough, but nyx was so much warmer and her hand trailed beads of water against her skin, running her fingertips over nyx’s breast and up across her collarbone where her lips pressed to taste her skin and hum for her. “if i ever decide to be a full-time clown please don’t ever support that.” she chuckles.
