[Brody] Opening and shutting cupboards. "I need something to drink"
[Marley] I’ll fix you a Hot Toddy
there's like an open bottle of Jack, wine, and a glass of water all untouched because Brody can't figure out what he's doing
[Marley] grabs him, and pull him to her. "Hey, calm down. You're really freaking me out."
[Brody] "No-- no reason to freak out. We're fine"
[Brody] "Everything's fine"
[Marley] "Stop lying"
[Brody] "...everything's fine..." trying to convince her the world's not ending. "Just...I was talking to my mom today...and you might have come up."
Marley assumed he told his mom ages ago
that was one of the first things he told her to do-- tell her family
So she assumed his mom knew and wasn't involved
[Marley] blinks. "You mentioned me to your mom?" asks slowly. "Why are you freaking out over that?"
[Brody] "Um...because...and everything's fine-- I'm going to fix this...she might have figured out that you're pregnant"
[Marley] Blinks “What do you mean she figured out? I thought she knew. Your mother didn't know??”
[Brody] "Well...I was going to mention it eventually"..."you know-- when it came up"
[Marley] “Eventually?! So she doesn't know?!”
[Brody] "...she does now?"..."But seriously-- everything's fine. I'm going to fix this-- you don't have to worry about anything."
[Marley] "Brody, I'm half way through my pregnancy, and your mom just found out? How are you fixing this?? Why are you packing things??"
Sebastian fixes Brody's drink for him and one for himself
That's his way of helping. Alcohol is the answer.
[Brody] "Well, I might be...I'm working on that. She...heavily implied...it would be in my best interest...to come home for break."..."But I'm working on it-- we don't have to go anywhere. It'll be fine"..."I just, you know...got started...just in case."
[Marley] "Wait she wants us to visit her?? Baby we have to visit her.. She's your mother. I mean how are you going to work it out?!
[Brody] "What? Work what out? There's nothing to work out-- everything's fine. I just...don't think we should be traveling...now."... "Oh, hey look-- a drink."
[Sebastian] : "I think you've said the word fine one too many times, Brodes"
[Brody] "Shut up you're not helping"
Sebastian shrugs, downing his drink and purposely avoiding the conversation
[Marley] presses her lips together "I don't know, Brody.. You don't seem fine. Just tell us."
[Brody] Fidget, fidget...
[Marley] Brody Steven Weston
[Brody] "Okay...you remember that one time I told you that story about how I sort of slept with my roommate's boyfriend in college and his brothers beat the ever-loving shit out of me?"
[Marley] Sawyer Grace: ... Yeah, I remember that."
[Brody] "...Yeah, I kind of left out this teeny, //tiny// little detail..."
[Marley] Which is..
[Brody] "...Jeffy was my roommate back at Sonoma State."
[Marley] "Your brother?!?
[Brody] "It was an accident!"... "Sort of"
[Marley] And the boyfriend was .... Ohh..OH"
Brody starts fidgeting with the scar on his eyebrwo
And Sebastian's drink gets drained in one gulp.
[Marley] "Stop that." Marley scolds.
[Brody] "So...yeah-- I may have been dancing a bit when you asked when I saw my family last"
[Marley] "So you haven't seen them since you moved?"
[Brody] "Since before Sparks"... "Which has worked fine for the last decade, I think"... "No one's sleeping with other people's significant others, no one's in the hospital...all good things"
[Marley] "You aren't making sense."
[Brody] "Which part?"
Sebastian would be more understanding, because he's screwed up like that before - not quite in the same way, but he'd be a hypocrite if he were to judge about shit from Brody's past.
[Brody] Sigh "Look-- this was my mistake. I messed up. Badly. I fucking ripped out Jeffy's heart and...it was better this way. Nobody had to take sides or-- it's fine. Mom just...she's just stubborn. I'll figure out a way out of this.”..."It's fine"
[Sebastian] "Do you want to go, Brodes? Because I get avoiding family, but it sounds like you care a hell of a lot more about yours than I do about mine."[Marley] "So you haven't seen your family in ten years?" looks over at Bas, and nods her head. "They can't force you to visit.. I mean.. Its on you."
[Brody] "...She may sort of have an address though, if I don't show"
[Marley] "It's not fine, but if you want to pretend it is, we can.. I mean its been 10 years. Surely.. I mean surely things have changed?" She bites her lip. "I support you no matter what.." She wraps her arms around him, and presses a kiss to his neck. "So basically she'd come to us?"
[Brody] "Changed? Marls, in ten years my youngest brother been married, my oldest had a third kid, and god knows what Bob's apparently gotten up to." He stomps over to his whatnot drawer, and pulls out a decades worth of Christmas cards. "Ten years-- and one person in my family has bothered to call. To keep me up to date... I've missed everything..." Shakes his head. "It's obvious that I don't belong there anymore, and Mom can't come out here. So the point of the story is that I've got to come up with a third option."
[Marley] Marley's heart would completely break. Like literally, she'd pull him to her, but look over the Christmas cards. "Brody.." She whispers, biting down on her lip because she cries over everything and doesn't want to cry right now. "Then we can come up with a third option.."
so what makes him decide he has to go
Brody's completely lost.
Marley would end up pushing him into it
[Marley] lets him calm down a bit. "You know.. maye we should go?" And she places his hand on her belly, because she is manipulative like that. "She'd have a chance at having more than just my mom as a grandparent.."
[Brody] Loud sigh, "And my Dad? My brothers? You want her to know that her dad's a fucking homewrecker right out of the womb?"
[Marley] "They're your family, Baby.." She places her hands on his cheek. "No, she'd know her dad was brave for facing his past, no matter what. She loves you so much. You know that, right?"
[Brody] "Moms are evil, manipulative things"
Because of course he //wants// to go home
[Marley] She holds back a smile. "She does though.. When you and Bas talk, I can feel her move. I know it might be me imagining things, but she loves you, and I mean.. she has a chance to have family. Cousins too, right?"
[Brody] "God Stephanie's sixteen now-- Connor's fourteen...Jimmy'd be ten, I guess... I've never met him... and now with Bob's..."
[Marley] "You can be there now, baby.. I mean you can be there.."
Also, Sebastian assumes that it'd just be Brody and Marley going
[Brody] “Hell no-- if I'm going, you're going"
[Sebastian] "And introduce me as what, Brodes? The guy you're both fucking? I'm sure that'll go down great."... "You don't need to make this more complicated for yourself"
[Marley] "Our 'close friend'?" She giggles at that
[Brody] "You're Bas-- how is that difficult? You're not going to have to provide some sort of relationship status."
[Brody] "They're going to hate me"
[Sebastian] "You were young, Brodes. You made a mistake and you paid the price. You don't need to keep punishing yourself for it."
[Marley] "They won't hate you. You have ten years of cards there. Clearly they lovey you."
[Brody] "My mom loves me-- she's a mom, she has to. There are rules." Cringes "Sorry Bas"
[Marley] Baby.. We can go, and if it doesn't work out, we can enjoy a nice California vacation."
[Brody] "We'll be in the middle of wine country and you can't drink"
[Marley] "I can enjoy myself without drinking. They make sparkling wine."
[Sebastian] Sebastian shrugs. "Your mom's clearly a better one than mine. All the more reason you should go." Because he's totally not bitter at all about his parents or lack thereof [/sarcasm]
[Brody] "Yeah...I mean...Martinelli's is up there..."
[Marley] "See, I'll be fine."
[Brody] "If I end up in the hospital again, I'm blaming both of you and the kid's gonna be Mariah"
[Marley] "You won't end up in the hospital, but fine. If that happens her name is Mariah."
[Brody] "Damn straight
