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Post by Devastation on Jul 30, 2010 18:43:52 GMT
Walking over she handed him his coffee and sat down next to him all cuddled up nicely. "Take a nap, then maybe don my swim suit and try and get a tan by the lake." She said sweetly. "Then maybe this evening we can go hiking?"
Kendra was usually never pegged for an out doors type of girl, but most of her happiest child hood memories were camping trips. She loved sleeping out side under the stars, and cooking over a camp fire, though these days she needed more protection for her clothing to go tenting.
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Post by Primarch on Jul 30, 2010 18:51:18 GMT
"Sure....I think I'll take a look around while you nap. Get the lay of the land. I'll ask around for the good hiking spots." he informed, he didn't generally like to nap after coffee, that and he had no major urge to nap, he just didn't want to jump straight into things after the drive. He could only imagine how regular humans felt after such a drive....in fact he had forgotten how he coped at all before his powers manifested.
Alexander wrapped an arm around his wife, pulling her in so she could snuggle up to his shoulder, taking a moment to examine her petite frame next to his powerful muscles. He was so masculine.
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Post by Devastation on Jul 30, 2010 19:06:30 GMT
Kendra took a deep breath, and then before she even realized it, the words that had been in the back of her mind for a few weeks now came out.
"Do you ever think about children?"
It left a strange taste in her mouth to say it out loud, so strange that she even had the privacy to say it, much less that her guard came down enough to actually let him know what she was really thinking.
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Post by Primarch on Jul 30, 2010 19:14:43 GMT
"I don't know what you saw on my laptop but they were all eighteen, I'm sure of it." he replied quickly and flatly, knowing full well what she actually was talking about, but deciding to feign ignorance for the time being. Alex had concerns about his very ability to have children, considering his entire body had mutated to run on gamma radiation, and while Kendra's tongue didn't turn green after foreplay or a long drive at night or an empty road, that didn't mean his sperm wasn't in some way.....modified by the his mutation.
If was possible....one might even call it a touchy subject for Alexander, a secret insecurity for a man who was, perhaps otherwise without such things.
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Post by Devastation on Jul 30, 2010 19:18:54 GMT
Kendra rose up and looked up at him. "You know that's not what I meant... and you had better not be looking at things like that, not after the shows I've given you." She dug her finger into his chest, her super strength would have caused her to poke a hole in another man's chest but with him he wouldn't even have to worry about bruising.
"I mean... I know it sounds odd, but... I've been thinking about what'd be like to be a parent, and it's starting to sound really fulfilling."
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Post by Primarch on Jul 30, 2010 19:27:07 GMT
"Of course I don't look up porn." he lied, he was just really good at deleting his history. "But do we have to have this talk now? I mean....there's a time and a place....the start of our vacation doesn't seem like the best one to me." Of course she had opened the flood gates now, it would be in his head that she wanted to start trying for a child, and even if he was able to distract himself with their vacation plans, he knew she'd be mulling it over or thinking about it constantly, so it was a futile effort at best. "I'm sure you've just been spending too much time around Marie and Adele, the new baby smell is like...well a new car smell to women." He informed with his teacher voice, before taking a sip from his coffee.
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Post by Devastation on Jul 30, 2010 19:35:02 GMT
She felt her self welling up inside. "I'm almost thirty Alex!" She said her voice coming out more forceful than she'd meant it to. "I'm not one of your students who is doesn't understand the weight of what having a child means!"
Kendra hadn't realized how bad she'd wanted this until she'd gotten opposition on it. "Don't you want to start a family?" Her voice was suddenly much softer, like she was afraid that he'd confirm her fears.
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Post by Primarch on Jul 30, 2010 19:46:42 GMT
He tried to stay calm as she got....emotional, after all, him getting defensive wasn't going to solve anything. "Tell me Kendra....what do you think will happen to your womb when we put my gamma radiated sperm into your ovaries? Even if you got pregnant, if the child has any degree of my physiology in it....it could be bombarding your womb with radiation every day, you could get cancer, if you're not outright killed...you could get internal radiation burns. On the off-chance its safe for you, which is a long shot...you might not be able to provide the nutrition the baby runs on....more gamma radiation...." That being said...they had been involved with each other for over five years, and after the countless occasions she had performed the kind of foreplay he so thoroughly enjoyed to date, she had yet to get cancer. It could be safe.....but he'd need to be tested. "We could be taking a very big risk."
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Post by Devastation on Jul 30, 2010 19:50:22 GMT
Kendra looked down at the floor, well that was a short conversation. She really couldn't argue with that. But it still hurt, and it didn't take the idea out of her head that she wanted children. "That could be true...." she said her eyebrows furrowing.
She turned her legs around so that she was sitting flat footed on the ground, the took a lung full of air and realized her throat was tight.
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Post by Primarch on Jul 30, 2010 20:04:00 GMT
"I'm sorry.....but children might not be in our future." Alex informed while putting a supportive hand on her thigh, while turning away for a moment to have out of those deep breathes to suppress a show of emotion. It was a tough subject for Alex that he might not be able to father children and even if he could it could be at great risk. Deciding it wasn't appropriate to say anything else, he just took a sip from his now very unsatisfying coffee while the tension rammed its way into the room.
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Post by Devastation on Jul 30, 2010 20:06:51 GMT
"I'm sorry I brought it up." Kendra said apologetically, standing up not wanting to be touched right then. "I'm going to go for a walk and clear my head." She said heading towards small closet she'd stowed her things in. She slipped off her sandals and grabbed her tennis shoes and slipped them on, making sure the laces were still tied from the last time she'd worn them.
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Post by Primarch on Jul 30, 2010 20:12:55 GMT
"Sure..." It was in a tone of voice that suggested he wasn't really so confident in what he was saying, that he wasn't really sure. After all, with her going on a walk to clear her head, what was he going to do? Sit their and ponder over what a failure of a husband he was? Aside from bringing home the bacon, giving his wife a baby or even babies was one the expected duties of a husband. Most husbands were aware that the things that happened in the bedroom for their sole benefit were only provided until the Wife had something they wanted that was likely to not go away....like a baby, that was assuming they didn't stop after getting that golden band on their finger.
Of course, what happened in the bedroom was very far from his mind right now, he was more so worrying about what a crushing emotional and life changing blow he had just dealt with loving wife.
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Post by Devastation on Jul 30, 2010 20:25:13 GMT
Kendra reached the door and stopped for a moment. She opened her mouth as if say something, then decided against it walking out the door and shutting it softly behind her.
When she got past the jeep she took off in a run towards one of the nearer trails by the river. Running always cleared her head, and that's really what she needed right now.
==Two hours later==
Sweat drenched and cried out, Kendra opened the door to their little trailer, head no clearer but a speech prepared so that he wouldn't feel so bad. It wasn't like he was denying her children, he simply couldn't conceive them, it wasn't fair for him that she was getting this upset.
Though as much as she told her self that she still felt upset.
"Hey..." She said as she walked in. "Sorry I was out so long... I just needed to do some thinking."
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Post by Primarch on Jul 30, 2010 20:38:41 GMT
"Hey....." he started, looking up to her, it had taken him about an hour to stop staring at the cup still half full coffee, or the surrounding features of the trailer, before just putting the coffee down the drain and washing the cup. Then he did some very serious thinking, the kind he had avoided for quite some time.
"I've been doing some thinking too...." he started, before taking in a deep breath and looking up to her with fresh eyes, his beautiful, loving wife. "If we want to have a baby....and I think we do....there's no reason we can't consult a doctor and get....checked, to see if its safe.....but we should be prepared for the possibility of it not being possible...." There....he had put it out there...and if all else failed, there was adoption.
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Post by Devastation on Jul 30, 2010 20:44:55 GMT
Kendra exhaled a breath she hadn't been holding. "Alex..." She couldn't think of anything to say, her whole 'I don't think we're ready for kids' speech flooded out of her mind. "Thank you." Was all she could manage before walking towards him.
"I'm so sorry to bring this up so soon into our vacation." She squeezed his arm lovingly, happily. "It's just... i wasn't expecting your answer... and I'm sorry I didn't think about your feelings in this... I do want children... but more than that, I just want to be with you."
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