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Jun. 15th, 2017 10:03 amOne of the very best things about working at Green Gardens, Demelza has discovered, is how good Simon and Baz are about her own children being present when it becomes necessary. For the most part, she and Ross are able to balance their care, and they still have Abby to help them, but she likes that Ross can come by Green Gardens and drop both children off for the last hour or so of her shift and that no one really minds.
Two additional children, after all, are hardly adding to the number. Jeremy is still small enough that he's content to stay strapped to Demelza as she goes about her final duties and Julia is big enough now, over two years already, that she loves to chase after other children her own age, laughing and shrieking in delight.
They're all out on the grounds now, Demelza assigned to watch a small group of the younger children for a little while longer and while she is particularly happy to do hard, physical work, having grown up in such a world, she has to admit, this is one of her favourite tasks. The children are so sweet and so happy and there's truly nothing better than watching them run to and fro, falling from time to time and looking at her to see if they should cry. She'd learned with her brothers that the best reaction to a fallen child is to simply urge them to have more fun instead of rushing forward to ask if they're alright, therefore inciting the tears to begin, and she avoids most fits this way.
"You're alright, love, just keep running," she encourages when Julia falls down in the grass. At the same time, Jeremy reaches for someone over her shoulder and she turns to find Grantaire approaching across the grounds. Lighting up in a smile, Demelza waves for him to join her, at least for a time.
Two additional children, after all, are hardly adding to the number. Jeremy is still small enough that he's content to stay strapped to Demelza as she goes about her final duties and Julia is big enough now, over two years already, that she loves to chase after other children her own age, laughing and shrieking in delight.
They're all out on the grounds now, Demelza assigned to watch a small group of the younger children for a little while longer and while she is particularly happy to do hard, physical work, having grown up in such a world, she has to admit, this is one of her favourite tasks. The children are so sweet and so happy and there's truly nothing better than watching them run to and fro, falling from time to time and looking at her to see if they should cry. She'd learned with her brothers that the best reaction to a fallen child is to simply urge them to have more fun instead of rushing forward to ask if they're alright, therefore inciting the tears to begin, and she avoids most fits this way.
"You're alright, love, just keep running," she encourages when Julia falls down in the grass. At the same time, Jeremy reaches for someone over her shoulder and she turns to find Grantaire approaching across the grounds. Lighting up in a smile, Demelza waves for him to join her, at least for a time.
