The Beach, Sunday Afternoon

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah and K-Mart had decided that taking the kidlets outside for awhile would be a very good idea.

They gathered up everyone and headed out to the beach. The way the girls thought, the beach would give plenty of room for running and playing...

...and maybe Storm and Alice-Claire would burn off some of that energy that they seemed to have an unending supply of.

"Can we call Daddy?" Storm demanded.

"In a little bit," Savannah promised. "He's probably not awake yet."

Unlike Savannah and K-Mart, who had been awake since four a.m. Johnny should be very grateful that Savannah loved him too much to wake him up at that ungodly hour.

"Storm, no magic in the water!"

She doubted that either of the girls would listen to her on that. She sighed and looked at LJ. "LJ?"

He grinned, already moving after the two girls. "Don't worry, Aunt Savannah. I'll keep an eye on my sisters."

Savannah and K-Mart collapsed on the sand after spreading out towels and blankets. It was probably going to be a very long day.


[[OOC: For the rest of the intermingled family brood and open to any one else, too.]]

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[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

After playing in the park for awhile, Gwynn called Eve who said she would be booking a portal to come to Fandom. She called K-Mart to find out where LJ was as Mairin had decreed that she had been away from him for long enough today.

Finding out that K-Mart and Savannah were at the beach, Gwynn had talked to Tim and that would be why they were now making their way across the sand with their three girls.

Ok, so only Marion belonged to Tim, but really. She doubted that right now the semantics of who belonged to which father (or mother) really mattered right now.

The other good thing about bringing the kids to the beach? More sets of parents to watch the girls so she and Tim could talk. She felt the need to tell him just who Telyn's father was.

Oh such fun.

[orbingarcher.livejournal.com]

After Mairin ran off to see Eve and LJ, Telyn decided that she was going investigate each of the other people here in case they were out to hurt her Mommy or her Daddy. She had her bow and arrow and she would make the bad guys know that nobody tried to hurt her Mommy.

When she started wandering off, she heard a sigh from behind her. "Telyn, where are you going?"

"I'm going to make that bad guys realize that they had better not try to hurt my Mommy, Marion."

Marion turned to look at Gwynn. "Don't worry, Mom. I'll keep an eye on her."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim snickered. "How's it feel to be the older kid for once Marion?" Marion had explained that Neil's son, and most of Teleri's kids were all older than her.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"So this happens every year?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn nodded. "Every year after Prom. Every year I say I'm going to ready for anything that happens... every year I'm proven very wrong."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"If I stick around I should try to get a supply of toys or something. I uh...I haven't asked her much about, about us. Though I do detect just a bit of an accent when she talks so maybe she's lived in England a fair amount."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

She smiled faintly, watching the kids playing.

"We should. It never hurts to know what's going on in your life no matter where that life is."

She shook her head, sounding both confused (not a new thing for Gwynn) and sad (which very much was a new thing.)

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah I guess so." he said thoughtfully. Though he wasn't sure he wanted to know. What if someone was dead? "Clearly she's on good terms with Neil. Who, uh, who are the other kids' folks?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"I like Marion a great deal," she said quietly. "Mairin belongs to me and my best friend, Eve. She showed up to surprise us last year." She swallowed, turning her head to look at him. "Telyn told me that her father is Phillip... and that he must never know about her."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim frowned. "Why not? You don't think he's dangerous?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn gave him a look of shock and then shook her head.

"No. Phillip would never hurt me. He would never hurt a child." Part of it was possibly because he knew she could beat him in a fight. "However, his enemies would." She looked over at the girls and then looked back at Tim. "If his enemies were to find out that Phillip loved a woman and that he had an illegitimate child they would be used as ways to hurt him or..."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim hadn't seriously thought Philip might hurt Gwynn or her daughter. "Okay I can see not letting anyone else know, but why not him? Does the Philip in her world know about her?"

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

It was obvious that this whole thing was painful for Gwynn, but it was also obvious that she felt comfortable talking to Tim about it. Hell, even if they hadn't had a child together show up, she still would have sought him out to talk.

"No," she finally said softly. "Her Phillip doesn't know. He can't ever be told." She was quiet for a long moment before looking back at Tim. "He would want to claim her as his, show the entire realm that he has a daughter and a woman that he loves. Doing so would threaten his throne and perhaps all of Briton as well."

She brushed her hair back. "And Tim, my Phillip can't know that such a world or child exists, either."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim took a deep breath. He still didn't quite understand. Philip was eventually going to have to deal with that eventually anyway wouldn't he? Even if it wasn't this kid or Gwynn.

"Well next time I talk to him I promise not to tell him." he said with an ironic grin. Since it wasn't too likely he'd be in a position to talk to Philip all that often.

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Yes, but that woman would be a royal noble and the country would accept her a lot more readily than they would Gwynn.

She gave him a smile. "He doesn't need to get any more ideas where he and I are concerned." She shook her head. "This Gwynn is not that Gwynn and I have no interest in being that version of me at all."

Oh alternate universes, how you do like giving headaches.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Oh so he has some ideas where you're concerned?" he teased.

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

The words in Gaelic that she mumbled sounded nasty.

"He's an idiot that cannot see the truth even when it hits him in the face."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"I can relate to that." Tim sighed. "At least according to some of my friends."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

"Do want someone you can't have? Even when she says that it is impossible and reckless and that she doesn't love him in that way he continues to push?

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"To not seeing the truth even when it's staring me in the face. Ironic since the Fae chose me cause I could see them when most people couldn't."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn looked down at the ground for a long moment.

"I'm not the same girl that I was four years ago. The love I have for my King is not the love of a woman for a man. He is my best friend and my King and I have pledged my weapons to him in time of battle... but I do not love him." She shook her head. "My heart lies elsewhere."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim shifted uncomfortably, staring off at the water pensively. "It's funny how feelings can change like that."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn sighed. "Sorry. I shouldn't be unburdening myself on you." She turned her head to look off in the distance. "It's just that it is so easy to talk to you that I sometimes forget myself or boundaries that are put up between friends."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim reached out and wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "Hey I think unburdening yourself is part of what friends are for."

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn allowed herself to lean into him.

"Too many thoughts over the last few weeks. This weekend just adds to it."