Dream Like New York

Rose Gresham is now known as Rose Shaw

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"It's OK 'cause I know
You shine even on a rainy day and
I can find your halo
Guides me to wherever you fall
If you need a hand to hold
I'll come running, because
You and I won't part till we die
You should know
We see eye to eye, heart to heart."
• Heart to Heart, James Blunt

There had to have been other brides somewhere, sometimes, that pretty much cried through their entire wedding. It wasn't the best look in the world, but in the future, looking back at all the amazing photos and video, Rose would emphatically blame residual hormones. She had cried a lot, on and off, for almost a week but these tears were different. These were tears when she was literally speechless with shocked surprise, knowing once she arrived at Jane's Carousel with her dad and Daisy in her arms that Angel, in all of four days, had pulled off this entire event just to make it special for her.

( Confusion had been the first thing she was feeling. The car was driving them in a completely different direction from City Hall... )

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"When did the rain become a storm?
When did the clouds begin to form?
Yeah, we got knocked off course by a natural force
And we'll, we'll be swimming when it's gone."
• Beautiful Goodbye, Maroon 5

Rose knew she was one of the luckiest chicks in the whole world. She didn't just have an amazing fiancé who was gorgeous, talented, and treated her like she was a princess, but she also had two honorary brothers in Beau and Austin, who shared the massive loft apartment with her, Angel, and their baby daughter, Daisy. Maybe it was a bit of a crazy, unconventional family construction, but she wouldn't have it any other way. Which is exactly why she knew deep within her heart that she had to be Austin and Beau's surrogate when they wanted to have a baby. They would make just as amazing fathers as Angel was.

( What it culminated in was a surprise first Mother's Day party for her, under the guise of being a birthday party for Daisy... )

Who: Rose Gresham, Angel Shaw, Beau Watson-Shaw and Austin Watson-Shaw
What: Let's talk about... babies
Where: @ home
When: Friday evening

Rose had spent the day shopping her heart out with her sisters to try to finish her Christmas shopping. It was Daisy's first Christmas, and the baby girl was going to be spoiled to the max, without a shadow of a doubt. Rose came from a huge family, and Daisy was the first grandchild, though their parents had adopted little Ciaran as one too because it was uncertain whether Julie and Euan would be able to have any of his own. He had frozen his sperm before he started chemo, but with Julie having had a bad miscarriage, nothing was certain. Life was never certain. They had all learned that the very hard way, but they were more than welcoming a lovely, celebratory Christmas now that Beau had gone into remission and he was back home with them.

Beau, however, had never had the chance to freeze his sperm. He had just been a boy the first time he fell ill with leukemia, so it was never a consideration. Recently, though, it had come to light that he wanted children and Austin wanted them too once he knew Beau wanted them. It had lead to Rose valiantly offering her uterus to them as a surrogate with a donor egg (Austin was Angel's brother, so they didn't want to complicate anything by Beau and Austin's child being Daisy's biological sibling). Nothing had been set in stone, and things had gotten hectic when Angel was studying and rehearsing for the charity Christmas show which turned out to be a nightmare with what happened to Lance.

They had finished dinner, and Jesse, who had been here for the duration of the afternoon helping Beau with showering, medication, feeding, had left for the day to go back home to Jace and his family. Daisy had been fussy so they ordered takeout instead of worrying about cooking. She was now bathed and dressed for bed, but it was a little too early to put her down when she was fussy like this because she wouldn't settle. Beau was sat in one of the recliner seats of the sofa in his pyjamas wrapped in blankets while Austin and Angel argued back and forth about what movie to watch.

Rose came into the living room nursing Daisy, who was in her new jammies after spending the day in Uncle Beau's choice of outfit. She handed her to Angel, who wrapped his arms around her and gave her a kiss. "I have a better idea. Let's talk about babies," she said, taking the remote off Austin and turning the volume on the TV down a little. "All cards on the table, or Daisy will be in her graduation robes before it comes up again and I'm not getting preggo when I'm fifty."

Angel's CFS has kicked him hardcore in the butt today and he's barely functioning, so time to get my Supermommy outfit on. If anyone is feeling charitable, I could really use a hand with a few things today. I'm looking at you, billion and one brothers and sisters I have who live in the same city.