#ourstartingpoints

Roses are red. Violets are blue. @ourstartingpoints, this one’s for you!

Summary: Ginny and Mike have an unexpected surprise happen at the beginning of Spring Training the season after Mike retires.

Rating: General Word Count: 2979 Relationships: Ginny Baker/Mike Lawson Characters: Ginny Baker, Mike Lawson, Livan Duarte, Evelyn Sanders, Blip Sanders Additional Tags: Unplanned Pregnancy, Domestic Fluff, Pregnancy

Things that make me happy:

1. My pocket friends (you know who you are)

2. My cat Runi

3. Dancing around my bedroom to loud music alone

4. Cooking food

13: “How can anyone not be afraid of love?”

“Spoken like a divorced guy in his 30′s, Lawson,” Blip says teasingly. 

Mike levels a glare at the baseball player beside him, not even acknowledging the comment. Blip is one of the lucky ones, he found the person he wanted to be with early in life and has never looked back or questioned his choice. He has two beautiful children and a partner that understands and supports him, he has no reason to fear love. It’s been nothing but good to him.

For Mike, and for many others, love makes him trepidatious, makes him nervous and antsy. It’s different when you’ve had it, then lost it. It makes the possibility of loosing it again so much more real. If it happened once, who’s to say it won’t happen again.

Looking across the clubhouse, he watches Ginny laugh uproariously at something Dusty said, throwing her head back and letting her joy shine through unashamedly. 

Mike wonders if he’ll get to a place where looking at Ginny’s doesn’t cause a sudden barrage of unshakable fear and blind hope to surge through him simultaneously. He thinks that’s what is actually terrifying him, that he’s feeling hope for the first time in a long time. 

Hope is just as dangerous and frightening as love, it sets you up for failure, for disappointment. He wants to think its not inevitable but all his personal experience would suggest otherwise. 

Ginny catches his eye and smiles at him, wide and friendly, gesturing to the gym where they’d planned to  go over the hitters. 

“It’s love you’re afraid of, huh?” Blip’s voice startles him just a little. When he glances over, his teammate has a knowing look on his face, telling Mike his few moments of pinning where observed by his friend.

Once again, Mike elects not to answer.

“Cause it seems to me like love sounds an awful lot like ‘Ginny’, wouldn’t you say?” Mike frissons at his Blip’s tone, astute and teasing.

Rather than argue uselessly, he just gets up and heads to the gym. He doesn’t let himself think about just how right Blip is, or that ‘Ginny’ and ‘love’ have become synonymous and undeniably linked for him for longer than he’d liked to admit. 

Absolutely! 

Now that we’ve revealed all the secret admirers, feel free to post your own creations on your blogs. 

We know some things didn’t end up in the tags because of how quickly our queue was working, and you all deserve as much credit and appreciation as you can get. You all worked so hard and we couldn’t be happier with the way this turned out. We’d also like to thank everyone for keeping to the secret part of the exchange to make sure everyone got to experience a little mystery yesterday!

And thank you! We’re glad that everyone seemed to have a good time!

Hoping @ourstartingpoints is having a wonderful Valentine’s Day!

Summary: Flashes of Mike and Ginny's lives told through coffee shop pastries and receipts.

Rating: General Word Count: 7302 Additional Tags: Coffeeshop AU, College Student/Barista Ginny, Cocky Mike, Ginny's Not in the Majors Yet, Plenty of Padres Interaction

You dirty tease. I like that in a person.

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