#statplay

Look at this turkey.

Sophia James

“It’s going too fast...” Frowns.

J Edward Khrist

Finger to her bottom lip to negotiate the tier into talking. "I'm still little, Mama."

Sophia James

Watching as he helped her talk, she came to take a seat beside him, leaning into his arm. “You’re not though. Look at how big you are…"

J Edward Khrist

"I'm not that big, Mama." They continued as he reached to scoop her up and hold her up to her mother. "'Cause she can still lay a mean stinkie."

Sophia James

As Eden was held up, Soph was shaking her head no, plugging her nose. “No way. That’s your turn. All you, Judas,” she offered, no longer playing the talking baby game as she spoke directly to her husband on this one.

J Edward Khrist

"She doesn't have one...yet." Smelling her butt, he shook his head as he had just been handing her the baby.

Sophia James

Cutting her eyes to him, she reached out a moment later, taking the baby into her hold. “You sure this chunk is still a baby though? Sitting up all big with daddy. I don’t know if this is a baby or a big girl...”

J Edward Khrist

"Her neck is strong." He pointed out. "All that tummy time." He'd tease as he watched the handoff. Standing up as he gently rubbed her tummy. Stealing a kiss to her temple before his wife's.

Sophia James

Watching as he offered the kiss to Eden and then the same to her, Soph smiled instantly as it was impossible not to under the power of the man's love showing itself in such an innocent form there before them. "You stole my kisses," she accused of the little girl now resting against her mother's thigh. "Those used to be mine first before," she went on, teasing the little one who couldn't defend herself.

J Edward Khrist

"You get different kisses." He reminded her with a playful smirk, leaning into steal one at her lips. "Down there kisses."

Sophia James

Humming as his lips found hers, she'd hear that reminder that had her tensing slightly under the weight of such promises. "That, I do," she agreed, one hand steadying the little one at her lap as the other lifted to the side of his face, stealing his lips for her own for a brief moment before her hand drew down to support Eden once again.

Sophia James “Not I."

J Edward Khrist "It's me."

Sophia James “All legs, but I’ve never seen you fall…"

Sophia James

“You forgot the curled up with your wife part."

J Edward Khrist

"Or did I?"

Sophia James

“You did."

J Edward Khrist

Bites the plastic off of a candy cane with a hum.

Sophia James

Frowns.

Sophia James

“I think I could have compiled this on my own."

J Edward Khrist

"I don't get what you see, Soph."

Sophia James

“You don’t have to. What you need to know is that your wife loves you very, very much and counts herself the luckiest woman in the world to be here in your arms and have the pleasure of receiving your affections."

J Edward Khrist

A shake of his head as he'd never get it. "I feel so fucking sick today, baby..." he stated, never one to complain but there it was. In his glossy eyes and sunken cheeks as he was all out of sleep.

Sophia James

Hearing his response, her hand was to his side as she looked up at him, sympathy in her eyes as it seemed to be happening more and more often in recent days. “What can I do to help?” she asked, never feeling as though she knew how, but now that he had started letting her, she was going to try with all she had in her.

J Edward Khrist

A shake of his head. There was nothing anyone could do for him. "Just hold me." He'd state weakly, as that was his favorite remedy.

Sophia James

Nodding her head gently, it was a task she could easily agree to as such a thing was never an inconvenience for the woman. Her hand found his as she lead him to their bed where she waited for him to find his place before she would be right there at his side.

J Edward Khrist

Letting her guide him to the bed as he reached for his shorts. Pulling them down as his boxers were of the batman variety that day. Always shirtless as he slipped into the warmth of the bed.

Sophia James

As he made himself comfortable, she checked the baby monitor to be sure it was on and charged before she would find her place there at his side. Bringing her arms there around him, she drew him into her, guiding his head to her chest. "C'mere," she whispered, urging him to her.

J Edward Khrist

Chasing away the chill under the blanket though he was freezing as he heard her speak. Jaw clenching as he allowed himself closer into her as his head found her chest.

Sophia James

Feeling him there against her, she was drawing the blanket up his back as her cheek found his forehead. "Is there anything else I can do for you?" she asked softly, genuinely wanting to help him in any way she could.

J Edward Khrist

Feeling the chills creep up his spine, he shook his head as he laid his head to her. "Tell me something."

Sophia James

"What would you like to know?" she asked softly, her fingertips stroking the back of his neck in her attempt to relax him.

J Edward Khrist

"Anything." He offered, trying to get his mind off the fever, the bodyaches and that brutal stomach ache. Hallow muscle contractions as his ribs strained under each breath.

Sophia James

Drawing a slow breath, she pressed her lips to his forehead, hating to see him this way, but glad he was at least letting her be there for him. "This morning, I took Eden for a walk," she began, knowing how deeply he had been suffering as it had kept him unable to engage with their daughter as he normally had. "I promise you she gave the finger to every person that passed by, with this little grin on her face all the while."

J Edward Khrist

"That's your kid." He noted, thinking Soph taught her all she knew about the middle finger. "You see her eyes are changing color?" He'd ask, as they slowly seemed to transition to the hue of her mother's.

Sophia James

"Your kid," she reminded him as she had not taught her any such thing, but recalled her father being quite proud the first time she had done it. "They are," she agreed, surprised by it just as he had been without doubt. "She's going to wind up a mini me. So long as she doesn't get this nose, it'll be alright."

J Edward Khrist

"I love that nose." He'd remind her, a lot more than his own as his hand lifted. Drawing his index finger down the bridge of her nose.

Sophia James

Feeling his fingertip find her nose, she couldn't help but love the way he loved the imperfection as she hated it, finding it something that screamed to her in mirrors. "I love the way you love me, my love," she confessed, as it was such a pure love that she'd never known to be possible before him.

J Edward Khrist

Trailing over the bone he felt there, hearing her confession as he knew no other way as she captured and kept him. "Tell me something else?"

Sophia James

Humming softly to his question, she'd fall silent for a moment as she thought, trying to come up with something he might not already know and offer him something that would be of interest. "I've been doing some drawings while Eden is sleeping and you are resting. Some baby clothes ideas," she confessed, having been nervous about the idea of it previously, but finding herself more and more invested in the potential business venture as the months went on.

J Edward Khrist

Pressing his face up into the side of her neck as she continued on about the baby clothing. "Anything good?" He continued, only able to wonder if she knew how to sew so this could be a true grassroots movement as his attempts were difficult at best.

Sophia James

“Maybe,” she confessed, thinking there was quite a bit there that she would have certainly purchased for their own daughter if it was on the market. “I’ve thought about names for it too,” she went on to admit, never feeling that anything she said was without his interest as her fingers remained stroking through the back of his hair line.

"You sure you feelin' alright?"

Sophia James

“Yes, my love... of course I’m alright. Are you alright?”

#singlefolife

Eliana DuPres

#exceptthatyouarent

J Edward Khrist

#Iam

Sophia James

"Excuse me...?"

J Edward Khrist

You heard it here.

Sophia James

"Judas..." Eyes him. "This isn't funny."

J Edward Khrist

"Sure it is."

Sophia James

"You are not single for life. You are /mine/ for life," she reminds him, determination there in her voice.

J Edward Khrist

"Mmn."

Sophia James

With her eyes set to his, her intensity would remain as both of her hands found either side of his face. "Tell me that you are mine for life," she requested, needing to hear it from him.

J Edward Khrist

Thinking intensity was a good look on her but he couldn't make her sweat it out. Smirking softly as she already knew the answer to that.

Sophia James

As he offered her no verbal confirmation, she found that smirk to his lips as her hands remained there to either side of his face. "Judas..." she warned, feeling that intensity throughout her body. "Tell me you are mine for life," she repeated, wanting to hear those words on his lips.

J Edward Khrist

"I'm yours for life." He answered without another ounce of hesitation, as she could really get what she wanted out of him. This much was absolutely evident.

Sophia James

It wasn't but a moment beyond those words leaving him lips that her own were there, pressing to his, in an intensity that matched the level of the conversation at hand, kissing him with all of the proof in the world that the same was true and would continue to be, from this day until her last.

J Edward Khrist

Never doubting her as she had left him no cause to, feeling her lips to his as he formed to her own bottom lip. Humming low once more.

Sophia James

As his kiss met her own, her hands drew to the back of his neck as she drew her small frame into him, pressing against his hold as the conviction within her on the matter would always remain just as thick and true as it did in this moment as she kissed her husband without need to withhold anything from him now or ever.

J Edward Khrist

Thinking the woman grew twice her normal strength in times such as these. Allowing his arms around her as she held to his neck.

Sophia James

Feeling his arms find their way around her, she would press in closer to him both of her own free will and of the pressure of his hands against her. A soft hum stole her lips as she remained within that kiss, one hand drifting up into his lower hairline, fingers separated by strands of hair before she was gripping those same strands just as her teeth found his lower tier.