[ It's two years to the day since they've made this arrangement official -- they don't quite put a name to it because it defies the trappings of labels, and Natasha's never been impressed with the whole traditional relationship paradigm.
So they are what they are, close and knitted together, her and her precious boy (he still gets feisty when she says this, but she knows he enjoys it), and they're currently celebrating their anniversary in one hell of an expensive hotel suite in the middle of the deep blue sea, with a massive glass dome above their heads where they could see all the sea creatures that swim past and over them. And oh, there are many; shimmering fish of all shapes and sizes, eels and squid and octopuses with a few rays here and there.
But what's most breathtaking, she thinks, is looking up at the belly of a great white shark as it lazily swims overhead, a much smaller shark -- its offspring -- swimming along. ]
That's beautiful. [ Witnessing the wonder and majesty of nature right here is a culmination of all the things that they had worked on together; getting Andyr acclimatised to society, to the extent that he could go to the other side of the world with her without a problem. That had taken a long time, baby steps and regressions and everything in between, but it's all worth it. She's curled up against him, her head tucked in the crook of his shoulder, his arm around her. ] Didn't you tell me before that shark babies ate each other in the womb?
anniversary.
So they are what they are, close and knitted together, her and her precious boy (he still gets feisty when she says this, but she knows he enjoys it), and they're currently celebrating their anniversary in one hell of an expensive hotel suite in the middle of the deep blue sea, with a massive glass dome above their heads where they could see all the sea creatures that swim past and over them. And oh, there are many; shimmering fish of all shapes and sizes, eels and squid and octopuses with a few rays here and there.
But what's most breathtaking, she thinks, is looking up at the belly of a great white shark as it lazily swims overhead, a much smaller shark -- its offspring -- swimming along. ]
That's beautiful. [ Witnessing the wonder and majesty of nature right here is a culmination of all the things that they had worked on together; getting Andyr acclimatised to society, to the extent that he could go to the other side of the world with her without a problem. That had taken a long time, baby steps and regressions and everything in between, but it's all worth it. She's curled up against him, her head tucked in the crook of his shoulder, his arm around her. ] Didn't you tell me before that shark babies ate each other in the womb?