This was not what he had expected her to say. (This was not a logical reason for her to be cross with him... Was it?)
"That's —" Surprising. Sudden. And to think that at one point he'd been consoling her because she wasn't sure she'd ever be pregnant. Orion wasn't even one yet. They hadn't managed to plan his first birthday. The arc of this conversation was beginning to make more sense. "— great," he concluded, with a smile that was genuine despite its delay in arriving. It had taken half a second for her words to sink in, and another for her meaning, and still another for her tone. When the last registered, his expression turned to one of concern and he continued, "... Isn't it?"
"That's —" Surprising. Sudden. And to think that at one point he'd been consoling her because she wasn't sure she'd ever be pregnant. Orion wasn't even one yet. They hadn't managed to plan his first birthday. The arc of this conversation was beginning to make more sense. "— great," he concluded, with a smile that was genuine despite its delay in arriving. It had taken half a second for her words to sink in, and another for her meaning, and still another for her tone. When the last registered, his expression turned to one of concern and he continued, "... Isn't it?"
MJ made the most Alfredy of sets and then two years later she made it EVEN BETTER