it’s going but sloooooowly!! i’ve been trying to do a little bit of writing in the evenings. got a few paragraphs down last night, jonny still isn’t processing... basically anything haha
He's still caught up in discovering that there might be news so monumental it can eclipse the importance of the baby's okay. He has to feel out the shape of each word slowly. I lied. Okay. It's yours. That means something titanic. It's almost too big to grasp. Jonny, you're the father.
"I'm the father," Jonny says.
"You are."
"The baby's mine?" Jonny says. He tries it again: "Your baby's mine."
i live in fear that you’ll update bower out of the blue one day, and i’ll be working or something and MISS THE UPDATE. so i’ve taken to checking your tumblr like it’s the news every morning haha
i dont say this to pressure you at all, just to let you know this fic, and your writing, has me in a chokehold, it’s that good!!
i PROMISE i will let you know a few days in advance! i actually sat down and made myself a schedule but i don't want to publicly commit at this point and let you guys down, but i will definitely post a heads-up when the chapter is finished and headed to beta!!
Is the 'homeland' fic still happening?? I just read through the tag for it and you have me PUMPED
YES it is ABSOLUTELY still happening!! it's... clearly taking me longer to finish bower than i anticipated. but that (or maybe a vmars au) are my solo project priorities after bower!!
Okay spoilery question regarding Bower, as the fic is forever and always living rent free in my mind:
When Jonny finds out the baby is his (my heart is literally fluttering in anticipation of his reaction), will his feeling for Pat be revealed during that? So through his reaction or Pat getting confused like wait why is my very straight, definitely-not-into-me-or-the-idea-of-him-impregrating-me-during-the-first-and-(sadly)-only-time-we-fucked, FRIEND thrilled about the baby being his??
Does Jonny have to sit Patrick down (gently, he is pregrant with JONATHAN’S CHILD WHAT) and explain that there is nothing in this world that would make him happier then Pat having his children (well, Pat /wanting/ to have his children).
Basically this is a very long winded way of asking will they OPENLY LOVE EACH OTHER SOON OR WILL IT TAKE TIME BE STILL MY WEAK, BEATING HEART?
more spoilers!!! (this is a lot of spoilers. some serious spoilage!)
okay so jonny is not going to simultaneously find out that the baby is his and that patrick’s in love with him BUT those things are going to happen very closely together, like, within a two or three day span
basically the sequence of events is
patrick tells jonny the baby is his and they talk about it
patrick gets lightheaded, briefly passes out, and smacks his wrist against the counter on the way down (neither he nor the baby are in danger, he’s just having some issues with weaning off his medication that are making him lightheaded)
jonny drags patrick to the hospital, patrick gets his wrist doctored and ends up on The Good Stuff for pain (”YOUR EYES ARE SO PRETTY, I HOPE THE BABY GETS THEM” he loudly and somewhat incoherently announces to jonny), and jonny meets dr. sievers again
jonny takes patrick home to sleep it off
patrick wakes up the next day and finishes casually upending jonny’s world by openly confessing his love and adoration and is somehow STUNNED to find out the love and adoration is mutual
which should take us through about chapter 11, i think? i know that’s a long time with how slowly i’ve been writing :( but in story it’s seriously like a thirty-hour span. so jonny has to wait a little bit, but not a lot!!
Hiiiii!! Obviously you don’t need to answer if you don’t want to, but I was wondering if you could tell us anything about the next bower chapter? Do you think it will be out this month? Again, I’m not trying to pressure you, just very very excited!!! Thank you so much for writing it 🧡
THE NEXT BOWER CHAPTER
my guys i am gonna get it done this month if it kills me, because it’s going to kill me even harder to go another month without posting a new chapter. please ask me as often as you want for a status update!! because right now here’s what i’ve got
wordcount: 2334
scenes: 1.5 (of 5 or 6 total)
a fun fact: one of the last things i wrote was a list of patrick’s search history:
best food to eat after going off suppressants
stop taking omega suppressants fatigue
do babies have tails
hockey scores
illinois custody laws
canadian custody laws
where is winnipeg
manitoba custody laws
does baby with canadian parent automatically canadian
do you have any idea when the next bower chapter might be done? i just did a whole reread last night and god you are just so talented
holy crap thank you SO much!!! so i do have the chapter finished BUT i want to do some pretty heavy rewrites and edits to polish it up. i don’t normally bother with drafts (lol lazy) but i think this chapter’s important enough to the story that i’ll regret not spending the time on it. and then it’s off to the beta and after that my final sweep and then i’ll be ready to post! and... i still don’t have an ETA on it i guess :( but hopefully within the next week or two!!
