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crmsnmth · 16 days

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September Sky Chapter Five, part 8

The place was busy. Blacks and reds and whites floated around the bar and dance floor. At the moment, Mike Shinoda's remix of "Enjoy The Silence' was pumping through the carefully hidden speakers. The dance floor was crowded with people flowing and ebbing, and not always in time with the song's beat. That's the greatness of the goth dance. All you have to do is flow. That is, unless you were a cyber-goth. Three of them stood off with their neon and black straps, standing against the wall. The strange and hypnotic that was industrial dance was almost hypnotizing when it's done well. These three looked as if they were pretty serious in it.

A bartender dressed in a black shirt and black jeans came up to us. Anyone who looked at him could probably tell he was not a happy person. I don't think he wanted to be here on goth night. Hence why he wore the bare minimum look. I handed over my card before Addison could even slightly protest. I even but the first round for everyone. I'd been a third wheel for so long, that I felt like being generous.

Once we got our drinks, Addison and Kayla started having some quiet conversation I couldn't hear. I looked around, taking in my surroundings. Basically looking for the exits. I always look for the exits.

"How's things been?" I loudly asked Conner.

"Good. Finally got a job at the distribution center." Conner was talking about a Target distribution center that sat on the outskirts of Oconomowoc. The place paid really well and the job's were extremely easy.

"Ah nice. Actually making something?" I promise you, he was making more than I was.

"Enough that one check can pay our rent plus go grocery shopping."

"You guys moved in together?"

"Two months ago. Nobody told you?"

"No. I'll have to get you guys a potted cactus as a housewarming gift. I guess it's official, I'm out of the loop." I laughed. I was never in the loop. You have to pay attention to be in the loop, and even before my head broke, I had a very short attention span.

"Nah, not yet. You're like Pluto. Way out on the edges of the loop."

I may have not been a very social person, but I truly enjoyed the time I spent with the friends I'd managed to have latched on. These moments had been far and few in between, but I wouldn't trade them for anything.

"So how is that working out?" I asked.

"Great. really good. She keeps me in check."

"That's awesome, man. I'm really happy for you guys."

"What about you? What've you been up to?" Conner looked around quick, his eyes scanning the room.

"Work. Home. Repeat. Dropped out. For real this time."

"Just couldn't do it anymore?"

I laughed slightly as I sipped a very strong whiskey sour. I grimaced and swallowed it down. Maybe I'd have to ask him to make mine light. I didn't feel like getting wasted tonight. Not here. Not now.

"You know, there are other places you can go." Conner had met me before Emily, and he got to see a side most of my friends forgot. The teenage anarchist. Loud, obnoxious and fearless. Now I was in fear all the time. Fear of my own head.

"I go other places sometimes."

"Name one."

"I went to Dimes last week."

"Last week."

"What's wrong with that? Once a week is pretty good."

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redhairedwolfwitch · 3 years

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Baby Shepherd - Part 3 - Jo Wilson x Shepherd!Sister!Reader

Summary: Because Nancy, Kathleen and your mother visiting you and Amelia wasn't enough, they want to have dinner with you both... and Jo. A dinner that both you and Amelia know, is going to be hellish.

/// Flashback ///

"So, Baby Shepherd went out on a date?" Addison enquired as she spoke on the phone to Amelia.

"Ugh, it's more than just dates, I walked in on them on the couch, I walked in on my baby sister and Jo Wilson, making out on the couch, naked-"

"Wait, rewind, Jo Wilson. Who's she? What's she like?" Addison enquired, her protectiveness over you obvious as Amelia let out a noise.

"Nah, don't worry, she's chill. I gave her the shovel talk already. Honestly think I scared her a bit, but that's what she gets after she talks about 'screwing her girl's brains out' when I am standing right next to her. Of course, I didn't know at the time she was talking about my baby sister." Amelia rambled, Addison's jaw dropping slightly as she listened.

"That girl had the balls to say that, in front of you?"

"I don't think she knew I was there when she said it, but... oh my god! They've been ogling each other for months now!" Amelia exclaimed, leaving Addison to pause.

"How long did they say they've been dating?"

"They... did not say. And I forgot to ask. Because they were naked on the couch and I had just walked in on them and discovered they were a thing!" Amelia realised, shivering as she recalled walking in on you and Jo.

"Oh my god! Edwards said it was Richard and Catherine doing it like energiser bunnies on caffeine... but she was on about Wilson and Baby Shep! God, I don't know whether to be disgusted or jealous... disgusted, definitely disgusted!"

/// Night of the dinner ///

"So Kathleen is the psychiatrist and Nancy is an OB/GYN, and your mother was a navy nurse." Jo rambled as the two of you began to walk up to the porch.

"Any family events where Amelia and I attend usually result in Amelia getting berated and me get ignored. Liz, Derek and Amelia were the only ones who really noticed me growing up, but Mark was over with Derek all the time, and then there was Addison, so..." You explained, letting out a breath as the two of you stood at the front door.

"You're going to be fine, I've got your back and so does Amelia, I love you, Jo." You comforted your girlfriend, smiling softly as she rested her forehead against yours.

"I love you too-" Jo whispered back, her eyes widening as the door opened to reveal Kathleen.

"So, you two are actually serious then? You should enjoy it, because it's adorable you two actually think it's going to last. You both act like teenagers in love for the first time... which- you know, first loves always end, and they never end well." Kathleen smirked, shocking you whilst Jo opened her mouth to retort, only falling silent as you grasped her lower arm to pull her back.

Maybe now Kathleen had decided that she was actually going to acknowledge you, instead of ignoring your existence.

"Oh, thank god, you two are here!" Amelia interrupted, all but pulling you into the house as Jo followed, her arm moving to around your waist as Kathleen watched you both with an inquisitively raised eyebrow.

///

"So, I need you two to help me take this stuff out to the table. What's that?" Amelia frowned, pausing in grabbing the oven gloves as she spotted the gift bag on your wrist.

"Finally got those photos framed." You explained, holding out the bag for her to take.

Amelia smiled as she took out the framed photos, revealing photos of her, you and Derek at Grey Sloan Memorial, and the photo that Jo had sneakily taken of you and Amelia too.

"Um, can you two take these out to the table whilst I go put these somewhere?" Amelia's voice crackled, looking up to meet your worried eyes before she smiled and walked away.

"Do you think she's okay?" Jo asked, about to pick up the salad as you sighed, exhausted already.

"I don't want to leave her alone after they've left, I don't... I don't trust that this isn't going to go to shit." You whispered, about to explain more when you heard footsteps.

"Need any help in here?"

Your eyes widened as your mother walked in, gesturing to the food.

"Uh..." You grabbed the oven gloves, picking up the vegetables as Jo carried the salad.

"I think there's just the potatoes and whatever Amelia had cooking." Jo explained, answering for you when she saw your panic.

///

Jo was able to throw on a fake smile as she followed you into the dining room, ignoring how Nancy and Kathleen were sat on the couch in the living room, talking between each other.

She gave you a look as you put the vegetables down, shrugging as to where to put the salad as she put it down carefully.

Stepping back to get out of your mother's way as she brought the potatoes through, Jo's hand lingered on the small of your back, not going unnoticed by your sisters until Amelia came through with the roast chicken.

"I wasn't aware that you could cook, Amy." Nancy admitted, as everyone began to sit down.

"There's a lot of things about me you don't know..." Amelia sighed, sipping her glass of water as you tried not to snort.

"I suppose that goes for both of you, doesn't it?" Nancy replied, glancing up between you, Amelia and Jo.

"How long have you two been together?" Carolyn Shepherd enquired, preventing Kathleen from digging any more holes at the given moment.

"It's... uh... coming up to..." You paused, glancing at Jo before you realised the bomb you were about to drop, "it's coming up to three years."

Amelia's eyes widened momentarily as Nancy and Kathleen both stared at you and Jo in shock, whilst your mother still had an unreadable expression on her face as she nodded to herself.

"Three years? You two have been together for three years, and the honeymoon phase hasn't ended? Wow... so, you two are serious..." Kathleen concluded as Nancy put down her glass.

"Have the two of you thought much about the future? Marriage, children?"

"Wow, that's straight to the point, isn't it?" Amelia interjected, spotting how uncomfortable the two of you were with the spotlight on you both.

"Well, there's nothing straight about them. Hang on, what about Bobby the goalie? Or Charlie, when you were in New York?" Kathleen realised, counting on her fingers as you rolled your eyes.

"Charlie was a girl, yeah."

"Charlie, the ex who broke the snowglobe Derek got you?" Jo questioned, leaving you to grimace as your sisters immediately broke out in shock.

"Broke the snowglobe Derek got you?"

"Oh my god!"

"It was an accident. We were bickering because she didn't want to accept me moving to Seattle after my cardio fellowship. She was helping me pack up my stuff, but it fell off the bed when I was in the bathroom packing my toiletries." You explained, rubbing at your forehead as Jo took your other hand.

"Also, Bobby. Bobby was short for Barbara." You winced as you added that on, chewing your lip as Nancy and Kathleen looked shocked.

"Was any of it real?" Kathleen asked, slightly outraged, whilst your face fell.

"What, what do you mean?" Your voice trembled, confusion laced in your tone as Kathleen just gave you an incredulous look.

"Was any of you real whilst growing up, or did you just keep secrets and lie?" Kathleen snarked, Amelia's eyes widening as Nancy gave her a warning look.

"Because I liked girls instead of guys? Derek knew, Amelia knew. I was too terrified to tell any of you, because all you've ever seen is a messy six year old who wanted to share her chicken dinosaurs with you, or the thirteen year old who accidently sent a football through your bedroom window." You retorted, looking between Kathleen to Nancy as you recalled the memories.

"You never gave me a chance to feel comfortable to be me, and when I finally tell you, this is your reaction. Interrogations, judgement, speculation, disbelief, or, you can't even look at me, but, then again, you never have been able to." You finally looked at your mother, before letting out a breath and standing up.

"Excuse me." You whispered, hurrying out to sit in the garden as Jo followed you out.

"She takes after you, you know, Amy." Nancy admitted, a soft sigh on her lips as Amelia stood up.

"She didn't really have anyone else growing up, so what did you expect?" Amelia retorted before she exited to find you and Jo.

"Houdini. Both of them." Kathleen remarked, picking up the bottle of sparkling water, before grimacing that it wasn't alcohol.

///

"I'm sorry." You whimpered, head aching as you tried to fight back the tears in your eyes.

"Don't apologise, you have nothing to be sorry for... your family on the other hand, wow. They're worse than what you told me." Jo admitted, sitting on the swing bench next to you.

"That's the most attention Nancy and Kathleen have given me since I was eight. Liz, Derek and Amelia were the ones who were actually nice to me growing up. Fuck, the only good thing about that dinner was the food and you being there. We should be glad Amelia interjected before Kathleen started asking very personal questions about the future." You chuckled, swiping away the tears on your face before Jo took over, gently wiping them away with her thumb.

"Baby Shepherd's right... that would have gone way worse if you weren't there. I'm just lucky they didn't bring up Owen." Amelia admitted as she scooted over to sit on the other side of you.

"True, that would have been a recipe for disaster, knowing our darling sisters, they've put bets on us both." You added, resting your head on Jo's shoulder as she took your hands in hers.

"I don't think they betted on you being in a 3 year relationship with a woman though, so I think we win that one." Jo chuckled, pressing a kiss to your forehead as you looked up at her with a smile.

"Ugh, we have to go back in there, don't we?" Amelia realised, shuffling in her spot as the swinging bench creaked under the weight of the three of you.

"Before Meredith gets back? Yeah, I don't think she'd appreciate the leftover food left on the table. Or getting ambushed by her other sisters-in-law, y'know. No, wait, Mer once said Kathleen and her children seemed sane, but she wouldn't want to hang out with her often." You recalled, groaning as Amelia stood up, the cold air hitting your side.

"Wish me luck." Amelia fakely chuckled before she headed back inside, leaving you and Jo to cuddle on the bench.

"You still wanna adopt, right?" Jo whispered, breaking the comforable silence with that was on her mind.

"Yeah, I want to adopt with you." You smiled, about to kiss Jo when you spotted movement from the corner of your eye.

"Hi, mom."

Jo shifted slightly as she realised that Carolyn Shepherd was coming over.

"I remember, when you were small, anything could make you laugh, drove your sisters insane, but Amelia, she loved it and laughed along, Liz and Derek would smile too, but, you and Amelia, the house would light up with your laughter. You two weren't afraid to fail either, watching you play those soccer games, you'd get up, every time. You and Amelia, the two of you were, are the most like your father." Your mother paused, her face scrunching up in pain at the memory of her late husband.

"After he died, it was hard to be around anything that reminded me of him. He was so excited for you to arrive, he chose your name, you know. That's why I struggled to say it, he also prepared Amelia to be a big sister, that's why, that's why I like to think the two of you were so close." Carolyn admitted, her voice strained as she began to explain why she struggled so much with you and Amelia.

"Derek said he would watch out for Amelia, and he did his best, but he wasn't the mother. They both said they'd watch out for you, Liz checks in too, I know. But you weren't happy in New York, I can see you're happy now, despite your sisters trying to pull that apart by coming here."

You smiled as your mother smiled at you and Jo, glancing up at Jo as she smiled too.

"I am happy, in Seattle, and with Jo." You affirmed, biting your lip as your mother had a sad look on her face.

"I'm sorry I didn't realise how unhappy you were, especially when your sisters kept talking about boys." Your mother apologised, chuckling as you playfully rolled your eyes.

"Yeah, that doesn't sound fun, especially if they were anything like that dinner, no offense Mrs Shepherd." Jo replied, wincing as she realised how bad what she said sounded.

"Despite what those two said, I could see the love between the two of you from a mile away, how ever you two managed to keep it quiet for 3 years is beyond me, but you deserve happiness, Y/n. That's what your father would want for you, and it's what I want for you." Carolyn smiled, looking between you and Jo before she stood up.

"I should make sure the other three aren't tearing each other apart inside." Carolyn concluded, heading back inside as you curled further into Jo.

"Oh my god." Jo gasped, wiping away stray tears from her face as a smile took over her features.

"Well, I think she likes you." You giggled, side-hugging Jo on the bench as she leaned into you, "now the only one left to meet is Liz, oh, and Addison... but I am not emotionally prepared for any family reunions any time soon." You admitted, sighing as you rested your head on top of Jo's.

///

A breath of relief left your system as you landed on your stomach on the mattress, curling up under the covers as Jo slid in next to you, not even raising an eyebrow as Amelia slipped in the other side.

Jo had been told the stories of you and Amelia being attached at the hip, and how you had crashed with Amelia when you first moved to Seattle from New York, even if you were in LA for a bit before that, on Addison's request.

///

Waking up the next morning, you repressed a chuckle as you detangled yourself from Amelia, smiling as you realised Jo had somehow rotated to be upside down in her sleep. Your fingers gently brushed the lock of hair behind Jo's ear, before you slipped on your slippers and headed out to the kitchen to make breakfast.

///

A whine escaped Jo's lips as she rolled her body, reaching around for you, and tugging you closer to her.

It was only when she opened her eyes slightly that she realised she wasn't holding you, she was holding your sister.

"Argh!" Jo yelped, jumping out of bed and pulling the duvet around herself before hurrying out of the bedroom to find you.

"What the-" Amelia groaned as the duvet was tugged away from her, leaving her laying in an empty bed.

///

You were greeted by the sleepy smile on Jo's face as you finished building a stack of waffles from the waffle maker.

"Good morning." You smiled, leaning into Jo as she wrapped her arms around your waist, duvet wrapping around you two as you shuffled over to the couch to sit.

"Mm, these waffles taste nearly as good as you." Jo moaned as she began to eat one, smirking as you stared at her with wide eyes before the two of you began to giggle.

"Good morning." Amelia smiled, stretching her arms over her head as she walked into the living room.

"There's waffles in the kitchen for you." You explained, whining as Amelia lazily ruffled your hair as she passed by the couch.

Jo grinned as you offered her a piece of waffle, holding it up to her lips as she bit it, nose crinkling up like a happy puppy as she chewed, eyes sparkling as she met your gaze.

"Wow, I love you." You breathed, smiling as Jo's eyes lit up, like it was the first time you were saying 'I love you', despite it not being.

"I love you too." Jo smiled, leaning into kiss you.

Amelia sighed as she plopped down on the chair, watching the two of you.

"God, you two make me feel single." Amelia grumbled, eating her waffle sadly as you and Jo pulled apart from your kiss.

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