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Selective Memory
by @iolausian-fields
Young Hercules - Iolaus
Try Therapy - Part 4
by @blairsanne
The Brokenwood Mysteries - Barnaby Buchanan
DarkHawk - A Star Trek AU
by @silvermoon-scrolls
Jim Hawkins and Ross Poldark in an AU
Pretend to be Nice - Part 5- Nothing Will Come of That
by @blairsanne
The Almighty Johnsons - Anders Johnson
Snacker Bar Commercial Fanfic
by @silvermoon-scrolls
Alignment Chart
by @silvermoon-scrolls
Various characters/series
Road Trip
by @silvermoon-scrolls
Spot the Difference
by @blairsanne
The Almighty Johnsons - Anders Johnson
Whose Shirt is That Anyway
by @blairsanne
Various characters/series
Love The Hair - Poll Series
by @silvermoon-scrolls
Various characters/series
Deano Bingo Wordsearch
by @blairsanne
Various characters/series
Screen Partner Quiz
by @gayles55
Various characters/series
Fili Fire Gif
by @silvermoon-scrolls
The Hobbit - Fili
Name That Screen Partner Pt 2
by @gayles55
Various characters/series
Deano Mood Board
by @gayles55
The Mummy starring Mitchell and Anders
by @silvermoon-scrolls
The Almighty Johnsons - Anders Johnson
(and Being Human - John Mitchell played by Aidan Turner)
Erebor Revisited
by i-am-still-bb
The Johnson Identity
by i-am-still-bb
Civil War
by i-am-still-bb
Noble Characters
by @gayles55
Just Human Characters
by @gayles55
Whose Shirt is that Anyway - Round 2
by @blairsanne
Whose Chest is that Anyway
by @blairsanne
Bad Guys
by @gayles55
Guardians of the Galaxy AU
by @silvermoon-scrolls
What do these guys have in common?
by @gayles55
Dean through the years
by @gayles55
Ruun Gifset
by @iolausian-fields
Hercules The Legendary Journeys - Ruun
This little fic was written for the Deano Bingo, unfortunately, I didn’t get it done by the end of April, but I’m putting it out there anyway. For clarification, I refer to Mitchell in this story most of the time as John, because Anders calls him John, but the rest of the family still call him Mitchell. I hope you like this little fic that turned out way longer than I first anticipated it would be, and has not been seen by a beta.
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The scene looked like it was something from a Lucille Ball movie - a waiting room in a maternity ward of a nondescript hospital with the typical baby colours and decorations and signs giving advice to new parents. Various chairs are arranged along the walls of the room with white cubes in the middle of the room holding various magazines such as ‘Parent Life,’ ‘First Time Parents,’ ‘Working Mother,’ ‘Autism Parenting,’ and ‘Green Parenting’. Along one wall was a large coffee maker to assist in those long nights of labour.
On this particular day, the waiting room started out quiet and empty. The nursing staff was enjoying a slow day. But soon the Johnson family would be descending upon the room like a battalion storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. There were going to be various uncles pacing the waiting room like the expectant fathers they weren’t.
Ty and Dawn had waited to start a family until the Norse gods had ascended from their human vessels, leaving them behind to lead normal human lives, whatever that may be. To Mitchell’s surprise, Bragi had granted Anders' wish of John becoming a mortal once again. The former vampire could now see his reflection in mirrors, and his eyes no longer turned black and he could now have a normal toothache without fangs! So the Kiwi and the Irishman had taken the plunge and married in a nice civil ceremony at the courthouse. After John had graduated from nursing school and was now working as an RN at the hospital, the couple had finally left Anders’s bachelor flat and bought a home with a large back garden where their two rescue dogs ran around. They weren’t sure of their breeds but the small grey one looked like the combination of a weiner dog and a poodle, so of course they named him Tank, and the larger brown and black dog could have been a mix between a great dane and a labrador retriever. So his name had to be Tiny.
Throughout Dawn’s pregnancy, Anders always put on the cocky front that this was going to be an ugly baby just like the billion other babies out in the world. But of course when nobody was watching, he doted on Dawn in the office whenever he could. He often made her recline on the sofa and put her feet up on pillows.
John was thrilled about Dawn’s pregnancy. He had always wanted to be a father, but his previous circumstance of being a vampire had snuffed out that dream. For the most part, Anders had gone along with John’s constant talk about babies, but occasionally felt he had to reign John in a wee bit. He really didn’t want to hear about his sister-in-law’s birth canal and the stages that it went through, sore nipples, nor did he care to hear about something called a placenta. John started reading baby books and whenever he found something that he thought Ty and Dawn should know, he immediately called them or went over to their home to tell them about it. It really was quite sweet, and secretly Dawn enjoyed all of the attention. Ty hadn’t minded it until the day after Mitchell had read the chapter on breastfeeding. It was on that day that Anders and Mitchell had actually showed up at their house with multiple nursing bras, nursing nightgowns, a breast pump and various essentials including breast pump wipes, hot and cold breast pads, nipple shields, and of course nipple cream. At first Ty thought they had brought all of this over as a joke, until Dawn pulled him aside and explained to him that it was done out of love.
So it was no surprise that Anders and John had been the first uncles to show up at the waiting room after Ty called them at 8 o’clock in the evening with the news that Dawn was having contractions and they were on their way! The couple had tried to wait at home for news from Ty, but after they had both bitten off all their fingernails, they grabbed the hospital bag that they had packed for themselves (uncles need their own hospital bag?) and headed to the hospital. Once they had arrived at the waiting room, they had set up camp in the corner of the waiting room closest to the coffee maker. For a while they kept their wits about them, watching the staff go about their duties. Every once in a while a nurse that John knew, would stop and chat with him.
One nurse that John had gotten to know from his clinicals in the labour and delivery unit tried to talk him into coming to work for the labour and delivery department, “John, I was really surprised that you didn’t try for a position here. You were such a natural during your clinicals, and worked really well with the moms.” Anders watched John closely when she mentioned this.
John shook his head, “Aw, Julie you’re sweet. Have you met my husband Anders? Anders this is Julie, she’s the charge nurse for labour and delivery.” Julie and Anders exchanged pleasantries. Anders was impressed that this nurse was so impressed by John’s skills and spoke so highly of him. He hadn’t met very many of John’s coworkers so he enjoyed this exchange. John had his trademark smile on his face, “I did enjoy working here, but I think that it would be really hard working here and not being able to have one of my own.”
“I get it. Well you and Anders could always hire a surrogate or adopt! Where there’s a will there’s a way! Well, I better get going. It was nice seeing you again.”
Anders noticed the large sigh that John let out as Julie walked away, and the smile disappeared. “Um, I’ll be right back, going to the loo,” Mitchell mumbled as he left Anders behind. It broke Anders’ heart a little to see John's gorgeous smile disappear. He knew how much he wanted children. Anders had always discouraged the idea because he knew he would be a shit dad. As much as they loved their dogs, sometimes it didn’t seem like quite enough for John.
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At one point Ty took a break from the birthing room and came out for a cup of coffee and some reassurance from his brother and brother-in-law.
Anders noticed that his brother looked worn out, “Ty, are you alright? Would you like one of us to go in with Dawn for a while?”
Mitchell and Ty both looked shocked at what Anders was offering.
“I appreciate that Anders, but I don’t think you realise what goes on in that room. And I don’t know if Dawn would want you in there, no offence.”
“None taken. Well, if you change your mind, the offer still stands.”
Mitchell was interested in how the new mother was doing, “So Ty, how’s Dawn doing? How far is she dilated?”
Ty sighed, “She’s tired, but she’s doing really well. I’m so amazed by her strength. She’s still dilated at six, so hopefully she starts progressing soon.”
Mitchell was shaking his head in agreement, “She will mate, don’t worry. Don’t forget that since this is her first bairn, the labour can take longer.”
Ty finished his coffee, “I’ll keep that in mind. I better get back in there. Thanks for being here guys.”
Anders and John got up to give Ty a big hug. With tears in his eyes, Anders clasped Ty’s face, “We’re here for you baby brother.”
After Ty left the waiting room, Mitchell looked at Anders, “You know, I’m totally shocked that you offered to go into the birthing room to help Dawn out. I’m actually pretty impressed, Anders.”
“Nah, I care about Dawn. I’ve seen her at her worst, and she’s seen me at mine. What’s a few contractions between friends? People forget that I’ve known Dawn longer than Ty has.”
Mitchell smiled at Anders and gave him a quick kiss.
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Later on, Mike, Michelle and Axl carrying an extremely large teddy bear, came strolling in at just about the time Dawn’s screams went up a decibel or two.
Axl was standing around with his hands in his pockets while the rest of the Johnsons were chatting. Finally he asks, “Who is that screaming?” They all stop talking and turn around and look at Axl in disbelief and yell, “Dawn!”
Axl came to the realization, “Are you fucking kidding me? That’s Dawn screaming? Holy shit!”
“Axl! If you get us kicked out of here, I’m going to shove that bear up your arse!” Anders threatened his brother. John put his hand on Anders’s shoulder to try to calm him down, “C’mon love, lets go sit down.” The other three followed suit and sat down.
Mike looked at his watch, “So Anders, how long has Dawn been screaming like that?”
Anders looked at John, “I don’t know, what do you think John? About a half hour?”
“Yeah, her contractions have really started getting closer and harder. I’m sure that Ty’s losing the feeling in his hands by now,” John replied.
“Better him than me!” Michelle was her typical supportive self.
Axl was holding the teddy bear looking pale, “I thought that was only in the movies that women screamed like that when having babies.”
Mitchell smiled at his young brother-in-law, “Every mum is different, Axl. And it also depends on if it’s the mum’s first bairn or not.”
Axl nodded his head like he understood what Mitchell just said.
There were the typical overhead pages for a hospital going off. Mitchell and Michelle listened to them instinctually but didn’t react to them since they weren’t working. At one point there was a Code Blue called that raised Mitchell’s attention. Anders looked at Mitchell, “Isn’t that where you work, babe?” Mitchell nodded his head, “Yep, sure is. I don’t know who it would be though, there wasn’t a patient in that bed yesterday when I worked.”
“Well, do we know if this new Johnson is a boy or a girl?” Michelle asked.
Anders chuckled at Michelle’s coldness when asking about the baby, “No we don’t know. Ty and Dawn decided not to tell anyone the sex of the baby. Michelle, weren’t you there at the baby shower?”
“God no. I can’t stand those things and all of those stupid games they play. And then some mother starts talking about how long her contractions were when they were in labour and where she was when her waters broke.”
Some more screaming came from the birthing room, which made Michelle clinch her legs together.
Axl stood up all of a sudden, “Oh shit, more screaming!”
Michelle stood up now, “Of course she’s screaming Axl, she’s pushing a watermelon through her vagina!”
Anders huffed at Michelle, “Well Michelle, nobody can accuse you of being overly maternal.”
Mike stood up and steered Axl away from Michelle, “Why don’t you just have a seat Axl, this could take a long time.”
The main doors to the unit opened and everyone looked to see who it was. It turned out to be someone from environmental services riding the floor cleaner that looked like a little zamboni.
“Jeezus, the fumes that thing leaves behind is almost as bad as a real zamboni,” Mike observed.
John looked at his watch and got up and made more coffee for everyone since it seemed like it could be a long night ahead. He was starting to feel a little nervous on the inside but he didn’t let anyone else know how he was feeling. It had been five hours since he and Anders had arrived at the hospital, and another six or seven hours that Dawn had contractions while at home, and while 10-12 hours wasn’t a horribly long time for labour, it was enough that it was making him nervous. The nurse in him wished that he was in the birthing room and knew how dilated Dawn was and what the baby’s heart rate was. He found himself staring out a window at the dark night and the street lights lighting the way for those drivers who happened to be out at this time of night. He heard a voice beside him, “She’s going to be fine.” John turned his head to find Michelle standing next to him. “Sometimes being a nurse or a doctor is harder when you know what can go wrong in a situation. But she’ll be fine,” John was surprised by Michelle’s soothing voice.
He let out a big sigh, “Yeah, I just wish that I was in there and knew what was going on. I don’t like being on this side of the waiting room.” John turned around and noticed that Mike and Anders were pacing, and Axl was pouting in the corner holding on to the large bear with a face like a little boy. The scene made Mitchell smile.
The double doors to the birthing rooms opened causing everyone to turn and see Ty come through wearing scrubs. He sat down exhausted rubbing his face with his hands, “The nurses are changing Dawn’s bed so I came out here for a break.”
Everyone spoke at once asking for the latest news on Baby Johnson. Ty raised his hands to get them to quiet down, “The nurses say they don’t think it will be much longer, maybe another hour or so. I feel so bad for her. She’s getting tired. I wish that I could take the pain away from her.”
John sat down next to Ty and put his hand on his shoulder, “Aw, it’ll be over soon, mate. Just keep rubbin’ her back for her.”
“I feel so helpless, like I’m not doing enough for her…”
Michelle interjected, “I’m sure you’re doing everything you can Ty. Mitchell’s right, just keep rubbing her back. Fall back on what you learned in the birthing classes.”
One of the ward nurses came back out to get Ty, so he went back in with Dawn.
Michelle’s personality changed as soon as he walked out of the room. She turned and looked at Mike, “Don’t ever think of getting me pregnant!” Mike’s eyes got big as saucers and raised his hands to let her pass through.
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Two pots of coffee and two hours later, the Johnson brigade was back to pacing in the waiting room, although Axl had managed to fall asleep in his chair still holding the gargantuan teddy bear. Throughout the night the brothers had managed to move the teddy bear in different poses and took several pictures of Axl holding it!
Mitchell suddenly noticed the nurses in the nursing station got busier and left the station to go back towards the birthing rooms. Then the scream from Dawn got lower. John turned to look at Michelle but she was already looking at him.
Then there was silence and everyone stopped in their tracks.
Then there was a tiny cry! Everyone let out a sigh of relief and laughter. One of the nurses that Mitchell knew came back out quickly and gave a thumbs up to the family and went back in. That was a huge relief to everyone, in particular to John. Anders looked for his husband and finally found him sitting on a chair with his face in his hands crying. Anders kneeled in front of him and put his hands on John’s, “Hey Babe, it’s okay. It’s over… Love?” He moved to sit in the chair next to him and started running his hand through John’s hair to try and comfort him. Anders let John take a moment to get himself together. When John dried his eyes he raised his head and Anders gave him a big hug and kiss. He placed his hands on Mitchell’s face, “I’ve been watching you all night. You’ve been worried about Dawn this whole time, haven’t ya?”
John had a few tears roll down his face and nodded his head, “Yes, I have to admit it. I’ve been worried off and on. I’ve been going nutter not being in there to make sure Dawn was alright.” Anders gave John another hug.
“What the hell is going on?” Axl’s voice coming from the corner. Everyone looked at him and laughed.
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As soon as Dawn was cleaned up and moved to her room, and all of the measurements of the newborn were done, four uncles, one aunt and one bear were gowned and allowed to go meet the newest Johnson. The door slowly opened and three heads stuck through the door to find a pink cheeked Dawn sitting up in bed holding a bundle of joy with Ty standing next to her with the biggest smile anyone has ever seen on his face!
A smiling Ty waved everyone in, “Come on in, come in!” And they all pushed through, including the giant bear.
Dawn was laughing at all of the family, and everyone was asking “What is it! Is it a boy or a girl”
Dawn couldn’t stop smiling, “Look what we made! This is Miss Johnson!”
Everyone was oohing and aahing at finally having a baby girl in the family to spoil! Even Mike was smiling at the baby.
“Dawn, you look amazing! How do you feel?” Michelle asked the new mother.
“I feel great! Kind of numb, but very happy! Mike, would you like to hold her first?” Dawn asked the eldest brother.
Mike looked shocked, “Me! Why me?”
Anders laughed at his brother, “Because you’re the old man, bro!”
Ty gingerly handed the baby to Mike, “It’s been a long time since anyone in this family has held a baby.” Mike started cooing at her and looking at her tiny hand. “She’s so tiny! Aren’t you a beauty! You like your mum, thank goodness!” Everyone chuckled at that. Mike looked up at Axl, “Axl do you want to hold her?”
Axl looked pensive at the thought and rubbed his hands on his pants. He looked at Dawn, “I don’t know how, I don’t want to drop her.”
Ty looked at his baby brother, “Go ahead Axl, you’ll be fine.” Mike carefully handed her to Axl and showed him how to support her head. Axl got a grin on his face and just stared at her for a moment, and then she fussed a bit, “Here you better take her back Mike.”
“Hang on you egg, it’s my turn,” Anders walked over to Axl and took the baby from him like an old pro. “I used to hold you when you were this young Axl. Look at you gorgeous! Look at that beautiful blonde hair just like your favourite uncle’s. You are certainly a beauty, and we are going to beat off any man that looks at you twice.”
Mitchell stood behind Anders with his hands on his arms while he held their new niece. He had tears in his eyes watching Anders hold their new niece. He was definitely a natural at it. Anders looked up at Michell, “Are you crying again? You are such a sap!”
Mitchell shrugged his shoulders, “I can’t help it! I love babies, especially this one. Here, hand her over to me now.” Mitchell took her from Anders. Instead of holding her in his arms like everyone else did, he held her up close to his shoulder so he could smell her. “I love that new baby smell. Dawn and Ty looked at each other briefly and then smiled at Mitchell. He lowered her to his arms so that he could stare at her some more.
Michelle spoke up, “So you never said…what did you name her?”
“Well, it was a hard decision. We couldn’t agree on a name that we both liked,” Dawn said.
“So then we thought of family names…” Ty said with an unsure voice.
Mike cringed, “Oh don’t tell me that you named her Agnetha.”
Dawn was still smiling, “No of course not. Well none of us have mothers that we loved enough that we would want to name her after except… Mitchell!” Mitchell was still in awe of the baby and didn’t catch on to what was being said around him. “Mitchell loved his mother very much, so we named her Mary Elizabeth.” Finally Mitchell heard something to make him pay attention, “What? You named her after… my mum?!”
Dawn looked at Mitchell a little more seriously, “Is that alright? I know we didn’t ask you. If you don’t want us to, we can always change it.”
Anders was watching the shocked look on John’s face, “Oh fuck he’s going to start crying again!”
“I can’t believe that you… what an honour. Thank you so much! That means the world to me!” Mitchell leaned down to kiss Mary Elizabeth on the head. Anders wrapped an arm around John’s waist and leaned in to his husband, and smiled.
Anders cleared his throat and looked at the new parents, “That’s really lovely. Thank you.”
The door opened and a nurse stepped in the room, “Alright everyone. It’s late and this new mum and babe need their rest. You can visit them tomorrow.”
Mike spoke up, “Alright guys, you all heard the lovely lady, time to go. Congratulations Ty and Dawn, you have a beautiful daughter.” They all said their goodbyes to the baby still in Mitchell’s arms on their way out the door. Anders and John were still standing, staring at Mary Elizabeth.
“Babe, I think it’s time to go,” Anders patted John on the shoulder.
“I guess,” John walked over to give the baby back to Dawn, “Here ya go all safe and sound. Thank you so much for naming her for my mum. It’s really special for me.”
“You’re welcome, Mitchell,” Dawn said.
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Anders and John shuffled into their house dead tired. It had been a long night at the hospital and they were just ready to go to bed but Tank and Tiny came running over to greet their parents with a high pitch, yappy bark and a deep ferocious bark. If one didn’t really know Tiny’s personality, you would think he was going to swallow you whole, but he was just a teddy bear.
"Oh fuck I forgot about you two,” Mitchell’s voice was tired and a little hoarse. “Come on you two wankers, I’ll let you outside.” This was one of the times that he was very grateful that the back garden was fenced in and all they had to do was open the back door to let the beasts out.
Anders had already started to strip, “John do you want anything to drink or eat?”
John sat at the kitchen table waiting for the dogs to come back inside, “Something cold. Do we have any bottled water in the icebox?”
Anders smiled at John calling it an icebox, a reference to his childhood days in Ireland. He opened the fridge door, “Uh yes, yes we do. You want that?”
“Yes please. I can’t believe how exhausted I am. I’m more tired than if I had worked a normal 12 hour shift,” John saw that the dogs were just playing around now so he whistled for them to come inside. He followed Anders’s lead and started taking his clothes off. He chugged one bottle of water down right away and grabbed another to take upstairs.
Anders wrapped his arm around John’s naked waist and kissed his neck, “C’mon babe, let’s go to bed.” He locked the back door and turned off the kitchen light and pulled John to go upstairs with him, the dogs following right behind them.
Tank and Tiny jumped up on the king-size bed and took their place waiting for their masters. Anders had tried to train them to not sleep on the bed, but eventually gave up when he caught John several times allowing the dogs on the bed.
“Are you going into the office tomorrow?”
Anders sighed, “Fuck no, at least not right away. I do have some afternoon appointments that I have to attend to. What about you?” Anders finished stripping and climbed into bed.
“Umm what’s today?”
Anders looked at his phone, “It is now officially Thursday the 10th.”
John looked at his work scheduled on his phone, “I guess I’m off today. Well, Miss Mary Elizabeth has great timing!” The smile had returned to John’s face as he crawled into Anders’s arms.
“Yes, I guess she does! She’s such a beautiful baby isn’t she?”
John raised up, “Wait a minute, I thought you said that all babies are ugly?”
“Well, all babies are ugly except for Mary Elizabeth. No other baby can compare to her.”
John gave Anders a long kiss, “Mmm I agree, love. I still can’t get over that they named her after my mum. I didn’t want to give her back to Dawn. And YOU mister ‘I don’t want to have any kids’… YOU were a natural when you were holding her!”
“Hold on, hold on, you’re forgetting that I helped raise Ty and Axl from when they were born. Holding a baby doesn’t scare me, being a father scares me. And can we please stop talking so you can start kissing me!”
Mitchell’s laugh lit up his face, “I love you Anders Mitchell-Johnson.”
In the final showdown Jon's good track record wasn't enough. Iolaus only took the win by 55% to 45%, so Jon did put on a very good fight.
But let's not forget all the other characters that were left out of the tournament because they have a very similar hairstyle. They are all winners, too.
A big thank you to all who have voted, reblogged and shared your opinions during this poll tournament. It has been both fun, exciting and very interesting!
