#laaaaaaaaa almost done with this scene

[bitletsanddrabbles]

WIP Wednesday: Three men wait for a baby

I figure it's been a good long time since I posted a snip from the Thomas-as-Heir fic. This scene is probably going to need some very heavy going over, although hopefully not another complete rewrite.

Have some well-to-do men sitting around a library waiting for a baby to be born.

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As predicted, Henry stood in the middle of the room, a glass of brandy in his hand. The man looked equal parts over the moon and utterly terrified. “There you are,” he greeted them as they entered. He looked at the drink in his hand. “I hope you don’t mind that I started without you.” “Not at all,” Tom chuckled, crossing the room to help himself. Thomas wondered if Carson had been notified, and if so if he was on site yet. “I assume you checked in on Mary before you came down?” “I did, yes,” the expectant father replied. “Then Edith came in and told me that outside of doctors, men had nothing to do with children being born, so out I went.” Thomas raised an eyebrow at that. “Nothing to with it, hm? Gracious, how do doctors manage to keep the population up and get their other work done?” It was only after he’d said it that he realized Tom was taking another drink. As he patted his sputtering brother-in-law on the back, he added a less low brow, “I’m fairly certain the father has something to do with the whole thing.”