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    "It's not every day your best friend becomes a father," Julia murmurs, resting her head against his shoulder, and something in his heart just- breaks.

    Repair of small objects, he thinks, like a lighthouse, like a lifeline. Just a minor mending.

    "Okay. If we're really doing this, then start back at the beginning," Julia says, simple as anything. "And tell me everything."

    &&&

    “Eliot,” Fen says, finally. “She’s already home."

    "Please tell me you don't mean," Eliot says, sounding desperate, a little strung out. "Fuck, Fen, if you mean what I think you mean, I can't-"

    "She's yours," Fen whispers, and Eliot's eyes turn wild with that fresh kind of love, startled and newborn, shaky on its legs. He gazes down at the child in his arms like she's his whole universe, like he always knew he would end up here, like he's scared out of his damn mind, like he never saw it coming.

     

    (or: eliot fosters a baby. quentin makes one. life is messy, but family is the thing you choose with your heart and build with your hands.)
    (eliot & quentin wind up in each other's orbits anyway- in this universe, just like any other.)

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