chapter 7: fish and fitness (taylor)

That did not work for him at all. AT ALL. Even with being in therapy he still had a lot of work to do but if he let her hide it was the wrong decision. As much as he understood why, they could not hide. So as he entered the hospital he found the room number that Cami had been in before her heart surgery and crawled through the space until he reached her cavern. He was honestly getting pretty good at using that secret passage.

His words however, still not so much as he looked at her now. What to say that they had no already written about he did not know but he knew he simply had to see her. "Then," he said as he noticed her clothing. So covered up, which was her right. He started to say then I will come in but seeing her he felt like that was the last thing that she needed to hear. The problem was he did not know what that was. "You're wearing yellow," he said as he slightly smiled. Her having on yellow like a baby duck did not go over his head. "I mean hi."

Dr. Cami Q.- Carter

"Right," he said as he nodded and then there she was telling him things that he knew, things that he had played over and over in his head. "I know," he said. He wanted to be able to let her be angry but it hurt and he was done being hurt. He was done with them being hurt and only half healing.

"Cami we should go fishing today." Time apart didn't make their souls hurt as much but being right here in the same space was too much. He took a second and traced her forehead where that star seemed to often appear and shatter. It took him a minute to realize it but he had it now as he traced that star, again and spoke. "I vow to take you fishing." How someone who talked about stars had missed that stars seemed to be the key to making his marriage work was beyond the definition of not listening to your wife at all. "I also vow that once my retraining my body for sex is up, to take every inch of that body that you hate and devour it."


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"We're going to catch them with our hands," he said. Water. It was their thing. Stars. It was their thing too, and fishing, well fishing was his thing but what it represented was her thing so they had to do it together. Once he had lead her down to the pier, he took his shoes off. "Take your shoes off Cami." Ugh. "Take your shoes off please, wife?" He shook his head. "You can't get in the water with shoes on."

He then turned to her and sighed. "Actually you know what?" he said as he looked at her. "I'm going to throw you, you'll be okay." He stepped to her as he placed his hands on her waist. It did not matter to him what she looked like but she needed to be reassured he supposed which made sense. "Four babies later and I am still going to throw you into this water. Ready?" He paused. "Oh wait I almost forgot."

He tapped her head again and watched that star appear as he traced it again. "I vow to equally split my time." He was doing bad things but it was okay. "I was right wasn't I?" he asked as he went to go toss her into the water.

Dr. Cami Q.- Carter

Deliriously happy was the only phrase that came to mind as he felt his body hit the water. "Not fair," he said as he smiled. The amount of happiness that came over his body was unreal but at the moment he did not mind it. She seemed happy and more than that she felt happy which made him even happier.

He slightly swam towards her and then stopped. "I don't even know if there are any goldfish here but maybe," he said as he finally finished his swimming towards her. His hands immersed in the water felt nice even as he traced the star on her forehead again. "I can feel how happy it makes you when I touch it though," he said as he looked at it. "I like happy you, confident you."

Dr. Cami Q.- Carter

He looked at her and then he spoke. "No we don't, look Cami whatever it is I do not care. Baby I have so much on my plate that I want us to be good and solid so that when I do have to go with the other kids you will be good. I don't want to ruin our moments and you have been through enough." He was so damn gone as he touched her star again. He seriously wanted to lick it. "What's it taste like?" he asked. "Oh yeah that reminds me I need to talk to you about the harem again." The boy was in la la land however. "Can I lick it or is that against the rules of however you are keeping that on your forehead?"

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Score. He took a few minutes to sit down and he thought. "I feel it Cami, the secret that we share." Marriage had secrets and now they could talk about it. "When I was off with the harem, when I am out with everyone else, I feel the loss. I feel you losing yourself still to the anger but I have a plan. I feel the pull of reworking our marriage and more than that I feel the height of your fear when the star breaks."

"I felt you in the water and I felt change and I know that you are protecting me so I am not going to stop you. I don't feel like I need too, I feel like I just need to let you be you and if no one understands that then I do and that is all that matters. They are not in our marriage, they do not know what it is like."

He could also their daughter Star. He constant stillness and their daughter Skylar, her constant movements. "I find that Skylar moves more than Star because she feels it too but I am not sure. He turned towards Cami and pressed her forehead. "Little help please, duckling."

Dr. Cami Q.- Carter

Their fate and destiny was to end up together though at the moment it was hard to tell who was pulling the strings. They had both been emotional and craved things beyond touch, children had been put into the picture but the small moments would eventually show who was in charge, in due time for now it was anyone's control. He ran his tongue across the shattering star pieces as he felt them pulling together. Also she was touching him, score.

"There we go," he said as he looked at her. "Tastes like coconuts," he said as he laughed. "Alright come on duckling, let's go fishing," he said as he grabbed her hand. "You know I love coconuts, right?"

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