“Friendship is also important though… Friends make mistakes…” Arthur gave her a meaningful look and Poppy’s eyes dropped to her sandwhich, not feeling very hungry anymore.

To Poppy’s great relief, Clary and Baptista ended up taking a walk past their house just a few days later. With all that had been going on Poppy hadn’t seen her friend for awhile and was anxious to talk to her. She’d greeted Baptista first and if her hunch was anything to go by, he knew something she didn’t. Clary didn’t seem different though, in fact she was grinning like a fool in love… Wait, Clary is a fool in love. Poppy forced down the tingle of jealousy that she felt in her belly and invited them in.

When Clary had found her seat Arthur was quick to pounce on her, talking about old times. Baptista wasn’t very happy to talk about “old times” especially not when Arthur’s memories all seemed to include him and Clary wrapped up in some romantic moment. Clary had only smiled, her eyes on Baptista the entire time.

No one had any idea what made Arthur do what he did. Before anyone could even blink he’d gotten down on one knee before Clary and began professing his love for her. Although Clary did try to move back, it was clear to all that Baptista that he wasn’t liking it very much.

Poppy wasn’t sure what to do, she watched as Clary looked upwards, her eyes teary and she could’ve sworn she heard Arthur mutter a soft “fuck” though she couldn’t be certain. What she was certain of though was that any friendship between Baptista and Arthur was clearly over.

But Arthur being Arthur he just had to try. He tried to joke about old times, back when he and Baptista had been friends, but Baptista wanted to hear nothing about it. Clary could only watch in silence as Baptista drew back from his old friend.

Arthur tried again, but recieved only a cold glare from Baptista who pushed him away. Arthur watched him for a moment, his smile slowly fading. “I’m sorry…” he muttered, not even looking at Clary.

Clary moved away from both men and found Pomona who’d been sleeping quite heavily. She felt bad but she’d woken Pomona up anyway. “Of course you can stay the night, let Baptista cool himself off,” was all Pomona had said after Clary had explained everything. Clary had settled herself in for the night and Poppy had eventually gotten both Arthur and Baptista to leave.

Sometime during the night, Pomona woke up with horrible pains and after some panicking Clary and Poppy managed to get her out the door and to the hospital. When they got back Poppy headed straight for bed while Clary went home, Pomona on the other hand brought Regina with her to the fridge and fed her before cuddling her.

To Pomona’s great relief, there was nothing of Socrates to be seen in Regina at all, and it was obvious that Arthur had to be the dad. Still, Pomona knew she’d have to fess up and tell Poppy soon, before things got messed up further.

I gaped when Arthur pulled that trick, I really did. It was just after I’d installed the beta ACR, so that’s probably part of the reason, but both Pomona and Clary need to learn what “consequence” means so I’m rolling with it.

Poppy really did mope around and Arthur really did bring up those subjects whenever he talked to Pomona and Poppy. The same goes for Celia Garnet, who, if you haven’t already guessed, is a friend of Raiden’s. If you don’t remember Raiden is Clary’s ex, the father of her second son; Jaden and Pomona’s first son; Marius.

This is also how I knew who Regina’s dad was even before Monique’s child support mod got to work;

This is from when Pomona was pregnant with Marius, she rolled that fear just seconds after she’d puked for the first time.

The same thing happened when she got pregnant with Regina, she puked and tada! Fear of marrying Arthur popped up. Clary did the same thing when she was pregnant with Jared.

I realise this might get a little confusing (considering that I keep getting confused) so I’m going to try and be clear as to who’s who’s daddy etc.

Clary has two sons. Her firstborn is Jared and his dad is Geraint. Her second son is Jaden and his dad is Raiden. Clary married Baptista.

Pomona has one boy and one girl. Her firstborn is Marius and his dad is Raiden. Her second child, Regina is the daughter of Arthur Mungo. Pomona had an affair with Socrates Sweet.

Poppy is engaged to Socrates Sweet. And unlike everyone else has not been with anyone romantically other than Socrates (the exception being the one hug she had with Arthur).

I’m hoping it won’t be too confusing, I should probably make a family tree or something xD

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2 Responses to “Rocking the Boat pt. 2”

1. Carla says:

   June 28, 2009 at 1:06 am

   I’m glad you included that little rundown at the end because I was getting a *touch* confused!

   Poor Poppy. She’s caught in the middle of all this and it seems like she might know something is up but she isn’t sure what.

   

   Valneanne Reply:
   June 28th, 2009 at 6:11 pm

   I figured that if I started to find things a little confusing, someone else was bound to be even more confused I have a note with the exact same thing on it next to my computer, though I’m starting to get it now ^^

   Yeah, I feel bad for Poppy, but I feel even worse for Baptista who’s completely innocent (he’s never been involved with either Poppy or Pomona). But Poppy is clearly sensing that something is up yes.