It's '93 and over breakfast Sarah says I don't want kids and Tom almost chokes on his coffee. Okay? Not really a problem he smiles and I'm already helping out raising a kid, so he uhm, even if it was a problem you not wanting kids, I already have one? Her day is already much better than she expected.
Than it's '98 and Nadia works two jobs for her three kids and her ex husband doesn't pay the alimony. She is a waitress at the diner Sarah stops after work sometimes and she makes Sarah feelings funny things. Like please come home with me, I have enough space for all of you and you could quit one of your jobs. Tom won't be back for another three months and then they should meet in San Diego for Bradley's birtday and maybe-maybe by then she will have find the courage to ask her out. Because she isn't going to ask her to move in before a asking her for a date, right? Right.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Sarah can't go to San Diego because a big case falls in to her hand so suddenly she misses Tom coming back home and the phone call back the deployment two week after. He kisses her forhead and says write me more about Nadia, okay? and he's out there fighting against an enemy Sarah doesn't know and having long phone calls with Maverick and her, when she has the time to pick up. The whole thing, the case, takes away almost an entire year of her life and a morning, it's 2 am?, Sarah is tired, misses Nadia and instead of asking her out for a date she says come to live with me. You and the kids, my house is big and Tom is going to love you. Nadia says no the first time but yes the second and the third because she likes Sarah and maybe her life style is a little unorthodox but it's okay with Nadia. Sarah says, over the phone to Tom, Nadia is going to move in and Tom answers okay, maybe when I'm back I could take Bradley go meet her kids? Yes, yes Sarah would like that very much.
Tom's back with Maverick, Bradley and Slider in the middle of June and Ron laughs in her face because you're almost as bad as him. She can't say he isn't right. It's a strange summer, particularly when she has to get used to sleep with someone else's in her bed and the kids wake them up at six in the morning because Sarah psss, the blond man is making pancake, do you want some? Oh, if is not going to murder Tom and his navy internal clock by the end of the week they're going to make her a saint. It's strange but she loves every second of it: she loves the house full of voices, Nadia and her cardigan forgotten against every chair, the probono case she has to work on, and the weekends where they take all for kids to the beach. Pete kisses Tom one of the mornings Sarah is already up and then looks at her like he's waiting for something but the something comes from Bradley and his gross, aunt Sarah why my dads have to be this gross? In front of my cereal too the boy commiserates and Sarah can't stop smiling at him and ruffling his hair. Aunt Sarah. She likes the sound of that.
Autumn comes around and Tom is out in deployment again, Ron with him and Pete takes Bradley back in San Diego for school. She has parents-teachers meetings now and she hates and loves them all together because the kids are great but the other moms are terrible. Then it's practice, dance and piano lesson, Sarah that's splits it all with Nadia and, when 2000 is around the corner she finally finds the courage to ask her out. Nadia laughs, why not?
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tom is literally like if you took a quintessential vintage rich san francisco queen, like one of those gay ppl/characters who straight up has a house full of gay erotica on the walls and penis statues and whatnot. every household item and appliance has got naked men carved into it somehow. like the guys from the birdcage. and then you made him inexplicably violently closeted
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ok, i鈥檝e seen people use polls to figure out the average age of tumblr users, the average join date, but now i wanna see how queer y鈥檃ll are. and which queer identity reigns supreme over tumblr. so vote
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They way his swim briefs are so tight around his bulge should be a crime
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