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fearlessechoes · 7 months ago

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Ummagumma (1969)

Here are my thoughts on ummagumma! I also wrote my thoughts on atom heart mother but will be posting it a bit later today (I listened to both albums in the same day while on a flight)

1. Astronomy Domine - Live

The intro is very different but still sounds very awesome! I love the sound of the keyboard and guitar here as well! The wah-wah really adds a lot to this version. I also really like the improvisations here, but I still like the original more honestly.

2. Careful With That Axe Eugene - Live

I’ve never heard this song in full before! The keyboards and spooky groove at the beginning is really cool! Also the background vocals as well. Every instrument in this song is very very great (I especially love the use of cymbals here, and the keyboard, and the guitar, and the bass)! And once the scary/heavy beat drop hits this song becomes even better! I was legitimately head banging! The screams are really scary and make the song all that better (they made a shiver run up my spine)! How is this song spooky and really groovy and cool at the same time??? The improvisations are also really good. This song perfectly encapsulates a horror movie in my opinion.

3. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun - Live

This version is pretty good as well, but the studio version is a little bit better in my opinion since the sound/music effects in the original version are very good and really contribute to the feelings/vibes of this song, and this version is really missing them. I really like the addition of the guitar and the keyboard improvising though.

4. A Saucerful Of Secrets - Live

Oooo I love how the bass plays part of the original synth intro here, it sounds very good and cool! The intro here sounds way cooler than the original. This version overall has a very different vibe from the original; and in this case I like this live version a lot more than the original! The church organ/choir part here is even better than in the original, and the song just sounds better generally on this album. I don’t know why I like this version more, probably maybe because it’s a lot more melodic than the original! I think the original is good, but sometimes the chaotic part in there gets tiring to listen to

5. Sisyphus part 1

Very ominous! I like the drums and cello here!

6. Sisyphus part 2

The piano here is great and beautiful! God Rick can play so well… this is making me realize even more how talented he was!! And then it suddenly gets very chaotic��

7. Sisyphus part 3

The chaos from the last part continues here! This part is honestly kind of really bad, but I think it has major meme potential! I can just imagine this playing in a shitpost, or it just kind of sounds like a shitpost itself.

8. Sisyphus part 4

Pretty ominous, but relaxing! OMG then suddenly the organ comes! So much for relaxing! After that it kind of gets pretty creepy and weird… I do not like it :( honestly sounds worse than the most dissonant/chaotic parts from a saucerful of secrets. The orchestra though at the end is really cool and badass!

9. Grantchester Meadows:

The bird sounds and guitar intro is very lovely. The vocal harmonies are also very lovely and relaxing! This song honestly reminds me a lot of Simon and Garfunkel. This feels like a major breather from the chaos that was Sisyphus… I really like this song! Feels especially relaxing as I’m in an airplane right now listening to this album.. Also what was up with the ending where someone just straight up slaps/kills a fly?? That was so random

10. Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave Grooving with a Pict

Well that was…. a song. Very very bizarre! What were they even on to think of this??? The song kind of makes me laugh and uncomfortable at the same time… the second song that has major meme/shitpost potential/vibes.

11. The Narrow Way part 1

Very folky! I like this composition so far… the guitar here is lovely!

12. The Narrow Way part 2

Oooh, pretty heavy and ominous! I like it I like it, the melody here is especially cool.. so far this song with multiple parts is so much better than Sisyphus. This part honestly feels like you’re in a sci fi haunted house.

13. The Narrow Way part 3

I love the reverb guitar effect here!! This is the best part of them all! The reverb guitar and the entirety of the song honestly reminds me of later albums. The singing here is also very lovely. This part sounds very much like While my Guitar Gently Weeps.. probably because it is in the same key and used a similar melody to George Harrison’s song. The whole narrow way song with all its parts is really good and an underrated gem imo. So far one of my favorite songs on this album along with Careful with that Axe Eugene live and Grantchester Meadows. An absolute banger of a song!

14. The Grand Vizier’s Garden part 1

Feels like lord of the rings, very whimsical!

15. The Grand Vizier’s Garden part 2

Pretty ominous and weird sounding so far. Honestly feels like somebody is performing magic tricks. The melody after that intro is pretty relaxing though. When the windy melody started skipping I thought my phone was glitching. The drums being cut off and skipping feels like a sound collage almost… the drum groove/solo by Nick at the end though goes really hard!

16. The Grand Vizier’s Garden part 3

The beautiful orchestra ending the album is very fitting, but kind of underwhelming.

In general, I think the live sides of the album are very very different from the 2 other experimental sides, and I honestly liked the live sides better… because the experimental sides just weren’t my cup of tea most of the time. Except for Grantchester Meadows and The Narrow Way I didn’t really like the experimental tracks. I am also mixed on this album… I have to say this is my second least favorite album so far. More is only worse in my opinion because it is very forgettable except the underrated gems I like from that album (The Nile Song, Cymbaline, Green is The Colour). At least I’ll forever remember this bizarre album, and the fact that it is so bizarre and memorable makes it much better than More. It is also better than More because of the live sides alone (they are very very good). What I take away from this is that Ummagumma just has major shitpost vibes (including the album name itself) and that it was pretty tedious to listen to at times, but I felt it was definitely worth it for some underrated gems!

#Pink Floyd #ummagumma #album review #60s #60s rock #60s albums #60s music #progressive rock #1969 #my thoughts #roger waters #david gilmour #nick mason #Rick wright #Richard Wright

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rogeriswater · 1 year ago

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Don't Leave Me Now

This work contains fictionalized versions of real events and people. Most details won’t be accurate to real life.

tags for this chapter: some sexually explicit content (lactation kink, oral sex (m receiving) ), roger being a sweet daddy <3

~m.r~

October came around soon enough, and that meant Roger was back home. With his return home from tour, that meant he wanted me in the studio to do some work with him. It was for our next album, which was doubling as a live album and a studio album. For the studio portion, we were all supposed to create a solo work. David, Nick, and Rick had already done theirs way back in April. Now, because of me being tired with a combination of my pregnancy and doing shows, I didn't get the chance to do my contribution yet, and Roger didn't do his yet either, well because he refused to work without me. I was something much more intimate than a lover or a wife to Roger. I was his songwriting and music partner, and he refused to do any work on music without me.

I met up with Roger at EMI Studios, bringing Victoria with me. Of course, I made sure it was okay with Roger first if I brought her, and he was more than happy with seeing her. She is his daughter after all, and this was possibly going to be one of those rare times where we could be mother, father, and child together. I entered studio three where Roger was already waiting.

"Sunshine." His eyes lit up when he saw me. He walked over to me, cupping me face and kissing me sweetly. "Finally, some time alone."

I smiled at him. "Well, not quite."

Roger reached into the bassinet and carefully took Victoria into his arms. "There's my little one." He cooed to her, kissing the top of her head. She looked so tiny in his arms. He started making little animal like noises at Victoria, which caused her to smile and giggle at him. "Daddy loves you!"

"And she loves you too." I said, my heart melting at the sight in front of me.

"Daddy has to put you down now." Roger says, putting Victoria back in her bassinet. "Mummy and daddy have some work to do." As soon as she was all cozied up in her bassinet, she was fast asleep. "Won't we wake her up?" Roger asked me.

"All this girl does is sleep when she's not eating, crying, or pooping." I told him. "A siren could be going off and she would sleep right through it."

Roger chuckled. "We sure she's mine? Mum said I was a very fussy baby."

"She's definitely yours." I said. "I look into her eyes and I just know."

Roger smiled and kissed me again. "How good are your animal noises, darling?"

I raise an eyebrow at him. "My animal noises?"

"Yeah"

I shrugged. "I do pretty decent bird calls"

"What about squirrels and chipmunks?" He asked me.

"Roger, what kind of song are we making?" I questioned him. Roger always had a unique way of making music.

"It's called Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict."

"Wow, that's quite the mouthful." I said. Nothing could ever be simple with this man, but that's part of the reason why I loved him so much. "What do you need me to do then?"

"Let me hear your bird call." Roger asked of me. I whistled for him, just like a bird would. He seemed quite pleased with it. "Now make a rodent sound." I did what he asked, doing my best impression of a chipmunk, and Roger seemed happy with that as well. "Great! You just need to make those sounds while tapping at the microphone."

"And what are you going to do?" I asked him.

Roger caught me off guard when he started speaking nonsense in a Scottish burr. "Aye an a bit o' mackerel, fiddler, rack and fear. And I rutted down by the hade and the furrow. Well, I slipped me in a flop and hit down and I shied. And I cried, cried, cried"

"What the hell was that?" I asked him, not being able to hold back my laughter.

Roger started laughing with me. "Do you like it?" He asked me.

"It's oddly hot hearing you speak like that"

Now that sparked Roger's interest. "Really?" He raised his eyebrow and smirked. He started speaking in the Scottish burr again. "After we're finished I'd love to bend you over and give you a good pounding"

Hearing him speak like that in that ridiculously hot accent sent a heat across my face. "Roger, you know I'm not allowed to have sex for a few weeks." I remind him.

"Aye, we can find ways to work around it" Roger winks at me before lightly smacking my ass. "Maybe you could give my cock some attention with that lovely mouth of yours"

"We are not doing anything of that nature while Victoria is with us" I said.

"Speaking of Victoria, mum would like us to bring her over so she can meet her" Roger mentioned, going back to his normal voice. Hearing him say that made me wonder if Roger told Mary that Victoria is his child, or if he left that out for now. "I didn't tell her that she's mine, but she's going to know as soon as she sees her"

"How can you be so sure?" I asked.

"Sunshine, looking at Victoria is like looking at my baby pictures"

"Well I wouldn't know. I've never seen your baby pictures"

"Just ask my mum to show them to you next time you see her. She's always looking for a reason to show me off as a baby"

....

Roger and I worked on recording Several Species first before we moved on to recording Grantchester Meadows. I sang the verses by myself but I insisted that Roger sang the hooks with me. He was against the idea at first, saying it was my voice that people wanted to hear, but I insisted that he sang with me. We argued a bit back and forth about it, but I ultimately won the argument. I thought our voices worked rather well together and they created a perfect harmony. We only needed one take of the song to be pleased with what we did. And it was perfect timing too as Victoria had just woken up crying from her nap.

I was about go get her when Roger beat me to it. "Daddy's got you." He cooed to her as he picked her up. Victoria stopped crying as soon as Roger took her into his arms. Roger grinned at her and leaned down, nuzzling his nose against the soft skin of her face. The sight of the two of them was very heartwarming. It's like the fatherly instincts just came naturally to Roger. "Sunshine, I think she needs to be changed" By instinct, I tried to take Victoria from him, since every time Billy would tell me that, he would refuse to change her, leaving me the task of changing her nappy. "I can do it" Roger insisted, taking me by surprise. "Just pass me a nappy and I'll go change her"

I reached into the bag that I brought with me which had all of Victoria's things in it. I grabbed a fresh nappy out of it and passed it to Roger. "Are you sure you don't want me to do it?" I asked him.

"I'm her father. I need to be able to take care of her too" Roger told me. "That includes changing her nappies" With that, Roger took Victoria into the nearest bathroom so that he could change her. I waited patiently for him to finish and come back with her. "All done!" Roger announced when he returned with Victoria. "She had left quite a mess but I got her all cleaned up"

"You're amazing, Roger" I told him.

Roger shrugs. "I'm just being a father"

I smile, walking up to Roger and put my hand on his arm. "You'd be amazed at how many men expect the mother to do everything for the baby"

"Then those men are fucking idiots for not wanting to experience the bond with their child then" Roger said. Victoria drifted off to sleep once more and Roger put her back in her bassinet.

I walked up behind Roger, placing my arms around him. He places his hands over top of mine. "It's a real turn on seeing you be such a dad" I whisper to him. Since Victoria was fast asleep, I decided that Roger deserved a real special treat for being such a good daddy. I take Roger's hand and bring him into the booth. It's soundproof so Victoria won't be able to hear us, and it lets us keep an eye on her due to the window. "You deserve something real special for being a good daddy." I purr to him.

"And what's daddy's special treat, hmm?" Roger asks in the same purr. "Do I get more of your delicious milk?" He asks, cupping my tits and giving them a squeeze, which made a wet patch appear on my shirt due to the milk leaking out.

"You just have to make sure you leave enough for Victoria" I said.

Roger was already lifting up my shirt, revealing my tits to him. Milk was already dripping from my nipples. "Which one?" He asked me.

"Right" I answered. "Victoria usually feeds from the left one" Roger nods and leans in, latching his mouth onto my right nipple. He suckles away at my nipple, moaning every time my milk hits his tongue. As he suckles, he keeps squeezing my breast to encourage more of the milk to come out.

"So fucking good." Roger says once he's satisfied with his last taste of my milk. "Now it's your turn"

"My turn for what?" I ask.

"For you to suck on something until you get your special milk" Roger says with a naughty smirk. He hands go to his belt and he begins to unbuckle it. "Only the milk you get is thick and creamy, and you look good when it's all over your face and tits"

Roger pulls his pants down, letting his thick hard cock spring up. I don't even need to be told to get down on my knees and start sucking. At this point, it's an instinct I have whenever I see his beautiful cock. I take him into my mouth and begin sucking. While I do so, Roger speaks in that hot Scottish burr again. "Look at you, sucking on my cock" He says. "Just keep sucking like that until I shoot my load down your throat"

Hearing him talk to me like that only encouraged me to suck him harder and faster. Roger was groaning and pulling on my hair and I knew he was close. Before I knew it, I could feel the warmth of his cum hitting my throat. I made sure to swallow all of it. He pulled himself out of my mouth and tucked himself back into his pants. "You give the best fucking blowjobs"

I smirk at him as I stand back up. "That's because you have a very appetizing cock"

Roger caresses my face before leaning in to kiss me. When his lips part from mine, he touches his forehead to mine. "Let's finish up here, yeah?" He suggests.

...

Roger and I only had some little touch ups to do before we were done. As we were leaving the studio and got into his car, I thought Roger was taking me home. But as he was driving, I realized he was going in a completely different direction. "Roger, where are we going?" I asked him.

"We have an important visit to make" Roger answers.

"Visiting who?" I asked him. Roger didn't answer me. He just smiled, keeping his eyes on the road while he reached over to brush his fingers against my cheek. It wasn't until we pulled up to his mother's house that I realized what the important visit was. "Roger, I didn't think we'd be visiting your mother today" I said.

"I wanted to keep it as a surprise" He explained. "Mother has been hounding me on when she can see you again, and I thought today was perfect. And plus, she can meet Victoria"

"Roger, my own mother hasn't even met her yet"

"It's not my fault your own mother hasn't asked to see her yet" Roger said. He was right. I've told mum about Victoria and I kept asking her when she could come see Victoria. Let's face it, I don't want my daughter in that house while the monster is there. But mum always said the same thing. Some other time. It made me question if my mum truly did care about her granddaughter or not.

Roger and I get out of the car. I grab Victoria's bassinet from the back seat. We walk up to Mary's front door. Roger knocks on the door and we await for the answer. The door opens and the first thing Mary does is greet me. "Maggie! Oh my dear, it's so good to see you again!"

"Nice to see you too, mother" Roger says with a chuckle, clearly amused by the fact that Mary seemed more interested in seeing me than her own son.

"Oh George, you know I'm happy to see you too" Mary says. I try not to laugh at Roger's mum calling him by his birth name. It will always be amusing to me that Roger's first name is George. He just doesn't fit that name so it's funny to hear him be called as such. Mary invites us inside. As soon as we settle in the living room, that's when Mary puts her attention to the bassinet. I had a blanket covering it so Victoria could sleep. "May I see her, my dear?" Mary asks me.

I lift the blanket, revealing my daughter to Mary. "This is Victoria" I say to her.

"She's absolutely precious" Mary coos. She gently picks up Victoria. "Quite the spitting image of George when he was only a baby"

"So you know" I said.

Mary looks towards Roger. "George, you know where I keep the photo albums don't you? Can you go get the one that has the baby photos please?" Roger nods and leaves to go get the photo album that Mary was talking about. When Roger comes back with the photo album, he opens it to the very front page. Front and center of the page was a very lovely family photo. It was of Roger's father and mother and the two children. The baby was Roger, but I was curious as to who the other boy was.

"Who is this Mary?" I asked, pointing to the boy.

"That's John" Mary answers. "George's older brother"

I look to Roger, surprised to hear that he even has a brother. "Roger, how come you never told me you have a brother?" I ask.

Roger shrugs. "Just never came up, I suppose. And it's not like I see him often. Only for holidays and family events"

"You should call your brother" Mary tells Roger. "He'll be quite happy to hear that he has a niece"

"As far as John knows, I'm still with Judy" Roger says, causing Mary to roll her eyes. "John doesn't know a thing about Maggie probably other than that she's a member of the band"

"Are you two still going to spend the night?" Mary asks suddenly.

My eyes widen and I turn to look at Roger. "You told her we're spending the night?" I ask.

"Mum, can you keep an eye on Victoria while I talk to Maggie?" Roger asks. Mary nods and she brings Victoria with her into the kitchen. "Okay, I know I should have discussed it with you first but I know what you were going to say"

"Roger, Billy will be wondering why I'm not home" I said.

"See? That's exactly why I didn't want to tell you! I knew you'd use Billy as an excuse!" Roger says, raising his voice a little. He grimaces, once he realizes he's yelling at me. "Sorry, sunshine, I'm not angry at you. "I just could hear the two of you arguing again last night and I think you need a bit of a break"

"Billy will freak out if I don't at least bring Victoria home" I said.

"Let me ask you something, sunshine" Roger says. He takes my hands into his. "Has he done anything to help you with Victoria?"

"Well, no, not really" I say. Whenever Victoria started crying, Billy would always tell me to go get her. He just expected me to do everything. He hasn't even held her since I was in the hospital for God's sake!

"Just one night at my mother's house" Roger begs. "If not for me, then do it for her. My mum cares a lot about you. She tells me how you're like the daughter she never had"

My eyes light up at that. "She does?"

Roger smiles. "She really does. Keeps pestering me about when I'm going to marry you" He puts his hands on my arms, and rubs them up and down. "And I want to. Very soon, my darling"

I return his loving smile. "And I want to marry you too, Roger. I'll be your wife forever"

"Forever" Roger repeats, a dreamy tone to his wife. "I really like the sound of that" With that, he leans in to kiss me gently.

...

Roger and I settle in his childhood bedroom for the night. Mary decided that she wanted Victoria to sleep in her room tonight. I trusted Mary, I really did, but I still felt a little anxious not sleeping in the same room as my baby tonight. I know Roger could sense how anxious I felt about it. He was intuitive like that. "Sunshine," He says, putting his hand to my back. "Victoria will be in safe hands with my mother tonight. Believe me"

"I know" I sighed. I take a seat on the bed. Roger's childhood bed. It was quite small but it could fit both Roger and I. It was the perfect size for us to cuddle. "How many girls have you had on this bed, Roger?" I ask him with a teasing smile.

Roger chuckles. "Only you, sunshine"

"Really?" I asked him with amusement. "I'm the only girl who's shared this bed with you?"

Roger gets into the bed with me. "Do you think I was going to have sex with girls while my mother was just down the hall?"

I laughed at that. "Good point. And with the way you make a girl feel, she would've been screaming all night"

Roger wraps his arms around me as we both lay down and get under the covers. "I wasn't always so good at sex, you know"

"Could've fooled me" I say, putting my head on his chest. "Do you remember who you lost your virginity to?"

Roger shrugs. "I can't remember her name. She was a few years older than me though. It wasn't until I first slept with Judy that sex actually felt like more than just sex"

"What does sex feel like with me?" I couldn't help but ask him.

"It's the most amazing thing in the world" Roger confesses. "No other feeling could possibly compare to when our bodies are connected together" I smile when Roger tells me that. I can feel his fingers brushing against my arm, tracing shapes on it. His gentle touch lulls me into a sleep. "I love you, my darling" Is the last thing I hear before sleep overtakes me for the night.

...

I wake up before Roger that morning. I make my way downstairs to the kitchen, where Mary is already making breakfast. She already has Victoria seated in a high chair. "Morning Mary" I greet her.

"Morning, my dear" She greets me back.

I walk to my daughter and brush my finger against her soft cheek. Victoria giggles as she reaches with her tiny hand to grab my finger. "Was Victoria much trouble for you last night?" I asked.

"She was a perfect little angel. Only woke me up once" Mary told me. She brought a bowl of some sort of mush over to Victoria. It smelled of apples. "Hard to believe she's George's. He was a fussy baby. I couldn't tell you how many times he woke me up in the night"

I help myself to the food that Mary prepared while she sits in front of Victoria and starts feeding it to her. Victoria really seemed to like it. "What are you feeding her?" I ask as I sit down with my plate of food at the table.

"Mushed apples" Mary explains. "George loved it when he was a baby"

"What was Roger like as a boy?" I ask her.

"He was a troublemaker at school. Always getting in trouble with the teachers and getting sent to the schoolmaster's office. It probably had a lot to do with his father being gone" Mary tells me as she sighs sadly. "But still, he was a sweet boy too"

"Did he have a lot of girlfriends?" I couldn't help but ask Mary.

"He knew Judith since childhood but he had a number of girlfriends before the two of them got together" Mary frowns as she recalls the memories of his girlfriends. "Poor George got his heart broken by everyone of them. Cheated on him, every single one of them. And I knew when he got with Judy, that she will break his heart the same"

"What made me so different then?"

Mary smiles at me and tucks her fingers under my chin. "Mother's intuition, my dear. I can see it when I look at you. You're a sweet girl who would never break his heart. You two are meant for each other" I smiled at her. Mary treats me in a way I wish my own mother had treated me. I knew that my own mother loved me, but I've been depraved of motherly affection for most of my childhood. Especially after she married Steve. Mary takes my hands in her own and rubs them. "I never asked. How's your relationship with your mother?"

"She wasn't really an affectionate person" I said. "It made me think that she didn't love any of us. She does, but she just never really showed it"

Mary's eyes are full of sympathy and love as she looks at me. "Come here, my dear" She says, wrapping her arms around me as she hugs me tightly. "Every child needs affection from their mother. And if your own mother won't provide it, I'm more than happy to" She coos into my ear. My eyes begin to water as I hold onto Mary tightly. So this what a mother's embrace felt like. It felt really nice. It made me feel safe. A different kind of safe than the one I felt when Roger held me. "I'm your mother now, my dear. There's no need for you to call me Mary anymore, okay? You can call me mum"

"Thank you, mum" I cry into her shoulder.

"Mum!" Roger exclaims as he walks into the kitchen. "You didn't do anything to upset her, did you?"

"Don't be silly, George!" Mary tells Roger. "She just needed a hug" She smiles at me as she puts her hand on my face. I have finally found the mother I've been neglected of having. And I found her in Mary Waters.

...

After breakfast, Roger and I went back to our neighbouring homes. Once he realized that Judy wasn't home, he decided to invite himself over to my home. The two of us walked into my house. As soon as I closed the door, I could hear footsteps stomping down the stairs. I rolled my eyes. It was probably Billy coming to harass me as to why I was gone all night. To my relief though, it was Olivia, but she didn't look too pleased either. "Where have you been, Maggie!?" She asked me. "You didn't come home last night and I was worried sick!"

"I'm fine, Olivia" I assured her. "Roger and I just got so busy, we had to pull an all nighter at the studio" There was no way I was gonna tell Olivia that we actually spent the night at Roger's mother's house. Then she would sense something was up between us. "Where's Billy?" I asked. As I asked that, I could feel Roger tensing beside me.

"Oh" Olivia mutter and she started rubbing the back of her neck. "He's actually not home. Once he realized you weren't coming home last night, he decided to spend the night with some of his friends" That didn't surprise me one bit.

"Did he seem worried at all that I wasn't coming home without word?"

"I'm sorry, Maggie" Olivia sighed. "He didn't. That didn't sit right with me" And that didn't surprise me either.

"Maggie and Victoria were in good hands with me, Olivia" Roger told the younger girl. I saw Olivia look between Roger and I as we stood so close to each other. I could practically see the gears turning in her head.

The sound of Victoria giggling broke through the momentary silence. Then we heard her gurgling followed by a sound that sounded very much like her spitting up on herself. Olivia went over to Victoria and picked her up. "Someone needs a bath" She cooed to Victoria. Olivia took Victoria upstairs to go and bathe her, leaving Roger and I downstairs by our lonesome.

"If I were Billy, I would be quite worried that my wife and daughter hadn't returned home without a single phone call" Roger said, making himself comfortable on the couch. He pulled out his carton of cigarettes and looked at me, silently asking if it was okay for him to smoke in the house. I let him know it was okay. Roger put a cigarette in his mouth and lit it. "Billy doesn't appreciate you the way I do, and I will keep saying that to you"

"I know, lover" I said. I approached him from behind, wrapping my arms over his chest as I kissed his cheek. My affectionate gesture was interrupted by the phone ringing. I sat beside Roger in the couch, and reached over to answer the phone. "Hello?"

"I was hoping you wouldn't be the one to answer" I heard the snobby voice of my mother-in-law.

"What do you want, Gertrude?" I asked.

"Word is that we have a granddaughter we have yet to meet" Gertrude said. "Why haven't we met her yet?"

"I didn't realize you were even interested in meeting Victoria"

"Really? That's what you named her? I was hoping you'd go with something a little more sophisticated like Evangeline or Cordelia"

"I named her after my father" I don't even know why I tried defending the reasoning of naming my daughter what I did to someone like Gertrude.

"No matter. Where is my son? I would like to talk to him"

I'm sure Roger was able to sense the tension I had while talking to Gertrude, as he put my hand on my thigh and rubbed it as a way to comfort me and calm me down. "Billy isn't here, Gertrude, but whatever you have to say to Billy, you can say to me"

"Fine. Winston and I would like to meet our granddaughter. We're even willing to throw a party in her honour. Consider it a gift from us"

"Wow. Thank you, Gertrude. That's really nice of you to offer"

"Victoria is my granddaughter. No matter how I feel about you, she is my son's flesh and blood" It was rather heartwarming to hear Gertrude say something like this. Perhaps now with Victoria in the picture, it would give us a chance to try to work things out between us.

"I accept your offer of a party for Victoria. I just ask that you don't invite anyone that doesn't even know who Victoria is. You invite your family and I'll invite mine. Deal?"

I heard silence on Gertrude's end for a good moment. I knew that's not what she wanted to hear. "Fine. If that's what it takes to meet my granddaughter. I will call again later with details" With that, Gertrude hung up in her usual fashion. Abruptly without a word of gratitude or love.

"I thought you didn't like any of Gertrude's parties" Roger said, taking a drag from his cigarette with his hand still on my thigh. "Remember what happened at the New Year's party?"

I winced as the memory flooded my brain. "Don't remind me. I can practically still feel her slap"

"Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"I'm not doing this for me. I'm doing this for Victoria. She deserves a relationship with her grandmother"

"But Gertrude isn't her grandmother"

"I know. I meant just until everything is how it's supposed to be. With you, me and our little angel together as a happy family"

Roger smiled at me and moved his hand from my thigh to cup my face. "We're already a happy family, even if we aren't always together"

I grin as I lean in to kiss him softly. "If only you knew how incredible you are, Roger"

"Well, of course I know" Roger joked with a chuckle. "But I'm only that way because you make it so" He watched curiously as the expression on my face changed from one of happiness, to one of sorrow. "What's wrong, sunshine?" He asked.

"My mother-in-law asked to see my baby before my own mother did"

"Of course your mother wants to meet Victoria" Roger assured me. "The asshole she's married to just makes it difficult for her. If you're gonna be mad at any one, be mad at him and not your mother"

Roger was right. I'm sure my mother really did want to meet Victoria, but Steve wasn't letting her. I wasn't surprised. My step-father wants nothing to do with any of his step-kids. I was wondering if my mum would accept the invitation to Gertrude's party. My mum and Gertrude only met once and that was at mine and Billy's impromptu wedding. That day my mother showed up the wedding with a black eye and Gertrude kept making snide comments about it all day. My mother heard her and she snapped, punching Gertrude square in the face. I always remember that day as the day my mother grew a backbone. Too bad it wasn't towards the right person. Still, it was quite the amusing thing to witness. I just hoped this party Gertrude was planning will go smoothly and without incident.

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