Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:51 pm
~Liz~
“So if he’s your one and only, and you get married, and start a family…he’ll be willing to raise a child who may be magical…?”
Serena may not realise it, but she’s quoting my dream there… To be married to Max, to have a family with him… Of course we don’t know if that is possible – the child part I mean. Max is different, and that may mean that questions about children are academic…
I do hope not though…I know that it won’t be easy, and even without the possible magical powers I would imagine that it would be far from straightforward, but I think that Max would be willing to face it, just as I would be any possible alien powers…
“And you’ll be able to handle worrying about a human husband and then a child who is more than that…?”
If only Serena knew… Max is far from human…
"I'd be thrilled to raise a magical child," Max responds softly. "If she were mine and Liz's."
I look up at him and right at that moment he looks down, our gazes meeting. I think that we both know that if something like that happened, there would be more than just magic to deal with… We each bring our own complication to this relationship, but if it comes to it, we’ll deal… I smile softly at Max’s words and mouth ‘I love you’ silently before looking back at Serena.
Apparently she hasn’t finished, and now she goes on to mention the complication of demons and them attacking Max or our theoretical child.
“How do you know for sure that everythign will be ok. Liz, every day we fight demons, just barely make it with our lives sometimes, and now you've brought him into this, is he prepared to see demons day in and day out, especially if they attack him for being in the way of us?"
I bite my lip, not wanting to think about this. I don’t want to put Max in danger…it’s the one reason I can think of why I shouldn’t be with him, but yet even that can’t make me give him up… I love Max, the last thing that I want is to make his life any more perilous than it already is… The fact is that Serena is right though…if he is with me, he’s going to have to face them, and that’s another of the reasons I told him the truth today as I did… He’s already in danger, he deserves to know the truth about why…
"I'll face anything to be with Liz…I think it's wonderful that you're using your abilities to help people. Maybe there will be ways that I can help her. Or you and Ms. Brennan, too. I don't have to be an extra burden to you."
I smile softly at his words as I hear their deep emotion. I take a breath and look back at Serena. “Maybe I’m being selfish bringing him into this Serena, but I believe what Max says…” I trail off a moment, searching for the words I need to find. “You asked me about being married, being a mother, well yes, those are things I want. I know that it won’t be simple, or easy, but our lives are far from that anyway… Given the craziness of our lives, I want some normal too… I want be loved and to love, to be married and have a family…and I want those things with Max…” I fall silent again then, feeling that I have said enough.
“So if he’s your one and only, and you get married, and start a family…he’ll be willing to raise a child who may be magical…?”
Serena may not realise it, but she’s quoting my dream there… To be married to Max, to have a family with him… Of course we don’t know if that is possible – the child part I mean. Max is different, and that may mean that questions about children are academic…
I do hope not though…I know that it won’t be easy, and even without the possible magical powers I would imagine that it would be far from straightforward, but I think that Max would be willing to face it, just as I would be any possible alien powers…
“And you’ll be able to handle worrying about a human husband and then a child who is more than that…?”
If only Serena knew… Max is far from human…
"I'd be thrilled to raise a magical child," Max responds softly. "If she were mine and Liz's."
I look up at him and right at that moment he looks down, our gazes meeting. I think that we both know that if something like that happened, there would be more than just magic to deal with… We each bring our own complication to this relationship, but if it comes to it, we’ll deal… I smile softly at Max’s words and mouth ‘I love you’ silently before looking back at Serena.
Apparently she hasn’t finished, and now she goes on to mention the complication of demons and them attacking Max or our theoretical child.
“How do you know for sure that everythign will be ok. Liz, every day we fight demons, just barely make it with our lives sometimes, and now you've brought him into this, is he prepared to see demons day in and day out, especially if they attack him for being in the way of us?"
I bite my lip, not wanting to think about this. I don’t want to put Max in danger…it’s the one reason I can think of why I shouldn’t be with him, but yet even that can’t make me give him up… I love Max, the last thing that I want is to make his life any more perilous than it already is… The fact is that Serena is right though…if he is with me, he’s going to have to face them, and that’s another of the reasons I told him the truth today as I did… He’s already in danger, he deserves to know the truth about why…
"I'll face anything to be with Liz…I think it's wonderful that you're using your abilities to help people. Maybe there will be ways that I can help her. Or you and Ms. Brennan, too. I don't have to be an extra burden to you."
I smile softly at his words as I hear their deep emotion. I take a breath and look back at Serena. “Maybe I’m being selfish bringing him into this Serena, but I believe what Max says…” I trail off a moment, searching for the words I need to find. “You asked me about being married, being a mother, well yes, those are things I want. I know that it won’t be simple, or easy, but our lives are far from that anyway… Given the craziness of our lives, I want some normal too… I want be loved and to love, to be married and have a family…and I want those things with Max…” I fall silent again then, feeling that I have said enough.