Realistic or Modern The Orange Touches All Things Around

[Forever6A7X]

Aemond sighed heavily as he sat with Carmen at their son's funeral doing his best to try and not show how weak he was. Today was not a good day for him physically. He almost didn't remember that today was the funeral.

Max smiled happily and kissed him gently before she finished plating their food "Mmm is that so?" She teased before pulling away from him. They'd come back home to complete chaos, but she would rather be there in that chaos then what was up north.

 

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He nodded and smiled. “I’m going to see Tony this morning. I’d like you to come with me. It’s a meeting about what happened over there.” He told her. “And you know that family and you were there for the whole thing. This is the last I will ask of you though.” He promised.

Carmen frowned, helping him to stand when it was getting time to leave and go to eat. She wasn’t blind to how sick he had gotten in the past week but she could hardly stand to admit it out loud. She had him leaning on her all the way out to the cars, frowning when he stopped. “Aemond… darling.” She didn’t have time to react when he suddenly became a dead weight and it was all she could do to not end up squished beneath him as he collapsed. “Ubbe!” She yelled across the lot

 

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Max sighed heavily and nodded some going to sit with him at the breakfast area "Alright, but I'm not dealing with Tony if he starts mouthing off." She muttered before starting to eat.

Ubbe turned sharply when he heard his sister's yell for help. He rushed when he saw Aemond's figure on her and quickly helped pick her up "Shit Aemond!" He muttered getting him into his arms "Come on to the car."

 

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He chuckled a little. “Tony is not involved in the meeting. Tony is on house arrest.” He told her, taking a plate and tucking in. “After that we can go do whatever you like.” He told her smiling.

She nodded quickly, getting the door open for them, getting in to sit next to aemond for the drive to the hospital, seeing Erik running over. “Erik go with your sister. Please. I will call you soon as I can.” She promised him.

 

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Max nodded and gave a small smirk "Good." She murmured before sipping her juice "I think I found a dog I may want."

Ubbe got them to the hospital as quickly as possible. He helped them get a gurney for him taking a deep breath holding Carmen as they rushed him back but made them go to the waiting room.

 

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She was shaking by this point, managing to sit in a chair, burying her face in her hands. “I don’t … the grief has made him so much worse so quickly.” She told him, swallowing back tears and took the cup of water he brought over to her, waiting impatiently for an hour before they finally called his name and she stood to go find out what was going on.

He nodded, leaning back. “Oh yeah? You told Maria yet?” He asked after having told her that whatever she wanted anytime to just talk to his assistant and she would sort it out. “I was thinking that tomorrow we go down to the court house.” He told her. “Get married. Just us.” He smiled at her

 

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Ubbe followed her back to his room quickly and frowned deeply when the nurse wouldn't tell them why they had Aemond sedated. He gave a heavy sigh and held his sister close to him "Just try stay as calm as you can okay? Getting pissed and yelling at everyone will give you no favors." he told her calmly.

Max nodded and continued to eat but soon went wide-eyed when he said they should get married "I'd love that. I'll need to pick out a nice dress then." she said sweetly before kissing him gently "I love you so much Jon."

 

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He smiled, digging into his back pocket and pulling his wallet out, sifting through it until he found the credit card he was looking for. “Here. After the meeting go pick what you like. I’ll hitch a ride with Angelo and you can have Daniel take you wherever you wanna go.” He told her smiling. He liked this. It felt like things were getting back to normal for them finally. Or at least his kind of normal

She took a seat slowly, taking his hand in hers tightly. “We should have had another thirty years at least. Forty preferably. It’s not fair.” She told him quietly, waiting impatiently until a doctor walked into the room. “I need answers. What is happening? Is… is this it? I can’t… what’s wrong with him?” She asked, choked up.

 

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Max smiled widely as she took his card and kissed him gently "I promise not to get anything too outrageous." She teased before getting up to clean off her plate "You think this meeting is going to okay?"

The doctor came in and gave a deep frown as he looked over at Carmen "Its not time yet....but I would say he hasn't got more than three years left. The tumor has grown and is pressing further on his brain. We're thinking thats what caused the episode today. With your permission, I'd like to try surgery. It won't get rid of the tumor completely, but I think we can cut it down in size at least. This could give you more time with him if we are successful." He explained to her

 

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She frowned and gave his hand a squeeze. “When will he wake up?” She asked, not wanting to go above aemonds own decisions no matter how bad she wanted him to stay around longer. “Because this is his decision. Not mine.” She explained.

He smiled and watched her, “you think my family is gonna be calm about this? Probably not. But they trust my judgment.” He told her. “I’ve heard a couple concerning rumours as well so I need to get those dealt with after the meeting is over. I’ll let you know if we need to be concerned.”

 

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The doctor frowned some and gave a small sigh "Most likely a few hours to possibly tomorrow. If you wait I won't be able to do this today." He explained.

Max gave him a nod before kissing his temple gently "I'm gonna go get ready okay?" She murmured before heading upstairs to get dressed

 

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She frowned and shook her head. “No sir what you’re not going to do is force me to make a decision for my husband when up until now he has made it very clear that he doesn’t want anything invasive.” She told him, “I will wait for him to make the decision. Thank you.” She turned back to face aemond, squeezing his hand and sighed. “Ubbe would you mind telling the kids. They can come down if they like.”

He nodded and watched her go, smiling to himself before getting up to go out back for a smoke. He knew things were going to cha he for him. He knew the others wanted him to take the lead from Tony after this latest fuck up but he wasn’t sure that he wanted it.

 

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Ubbe gave a heavy sigh and nodded softly "I'll give them a call." He murmured kissing the top of her head before stepping out to give a call. He came back in a few moments later and sat down with her "I'll stay with you alright?"

Max walked out smiling softly at him "Hey handsome, you ready to go?" She asked before kissing his cheek gently

 

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She nodded and thanked him quietly. “And to think that when Ragnar told me they had arranged a marriage for me I threatened to disappear and refused to even meet him.” She sighed a little. “Erik reminds me a lot of father. He has the lothbrok eyes. The same curiousitg as him.” She smiled.

He nodded, stubbing out his cigarette and heading out to the car with her to get going. “We should probably do groceries today considering opening the fridge this morning there was nothing. But I was thinking we could go out tonight.”

 

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Ubbe gave a small nod and frowned softly "Yeah he does....he could do well in the business should he choose to go down that path." He murmured as he sat down beside her again.

Max nodded and smiled happily "That sounds fine." She murmured as she gave his hand a squeeze. Her mood had done almost an entire turn around since they got home and she felt it was for the better for both of them.

 

[decadent-rider]

She nodded and just watched aemond in silence after that until she heard the bickering coming down the hall, sighing a little as both the children appeared in the door. “If you’re going to argue then you can come in one at a time.” She told them, thanking ubbe as he stood to leave and watched Erik quickly take his seat.

He nodded. “So I expect you to choose what you want to eat later on.” He smiled and kissed her cheek, teasingly.

 

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Erik had been bickering with his sister the entire ride over. He was tired from the funeral and now with his dad collapsing it was all becoming too much. He needed her support just as much as she needed his but all she seemed to be caring about was herself and how she didn't want to deal with their mother. He stopped as they got into the room though, immediately going to his mother's side "What have the doctors said?"

Max laughed some and nodded "I'll be thinking." She murmured before getting in the car with him. As they arrived to the meeting she made her way to the kitchen so that she was out of the way while the men discussed their business.

 

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She frowned and reached over, gently pulling him close to her side in a hug. “Hey baby. He’s okay. They haven’t said too much but they want to do surgery to remove some of it. They can’t get it all anyway but-“ she got cut off with Rhaena chirping in about just agreeing to it then. “If you would let me finish. Your father doesn’t want surgery. He’s tired Rhaena. This is going to kill him whatever we do anyway and he would rather not be cut open just to prolong it.” She told her. “But he can choose when he wakes up whether he says yes or not. It’s not our decision to make.”

Jon sighed a little as he sat down, going over the general stuff for a little while before moving onto the topic of Tony. “Yes I was shot. Yes I almost died but it wasn’t a decision made by the family it was a decision made by Ivar on his own. Made his nephew do the job and now Tony has acted out on his own and ordered the killing of Eivor Targaryen.” He told them. “He’s the son of aemond and of Carmen. She’s currently not acted out against us for it yet but we should be on our toes.” He warned them

 

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Erik gave a nod and frowned more when his sister went to protest "Rhaena shut up! This is their decision so respect it!" He shouted staring her down to make sure she didn't say another word.

Antonio listened to Jon and gave a heavy sigh shaking his head some "I don't want a war Jon, and Tony is running us straight towards it if we don't get a handle on him now. Listen....while you were gone Martin and Andriana got hit, they're dead and their son is about to hit the system if someone doesn't step in."

 

[decadent-rider]

She sighed a little and gave his arm a gentle squeeze about to tell Rhaena to either sit down and stop arguing or leave when she heard her husband groaning, scooting hee chair closer. “Aemond… easy love, it’s just us.” She coaxed gently.

Jon stared at him in shock, feeling his stomach drop. “Why is this the first I’m hearing about it?! My sister is killed and no one mentions it to me?!” He snapped at them all. “Where is Marcus right now? He has a massive family and none of you were willing to take him in?!” He spat. “Where is my nephew?” He questioned Antonio.

 

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Aemond groaned quietly as he woke up and looked around trying to find a familiar face. He gave Carmen a small smile when his eye landed on her "What has happened?" He asked quietly

Antonio gave a heavy sigh "Wasn't my first decision to not tell you. But they didn't need you more stressed while away, we're still trying to figure out if it had anything to do with what happened out there. He's been bouncing from house to house Jon, he's not settling well. We all understand his situation but he is starting to self destruct and we don't know what to do."

 

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He frowned and shook his head, getting up. “Where is he? I’m taking him home with me if the rest of you aren’t willing to put the effort in.” He snapped again, hearing that he was staying in Antonio’s house anyway so was in one of the bedrooms upstairs. He headed straight up there, bypassing a confused max while he called for his nephew, finally opening the door and seeing the teenager sat on a bed. “Marcus… shit…. Come on bud, you’re coming home with me and max alright? For good. No more moving around I swear.”

Carmen frowned and moved a little closer, brushing his hair back. “It’s getting bigger darling. It’s starting to make it harder for you to breathe as well. Listen aemond…. They can slow this down a little. Maybe. But that would mean surgery. And I told them it was up to you and you alone. You want to try then I’m with you. If you don’t want it then that’s okay too. I just want you comfortable.” She told him gently, holding his hands tightly.

 

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Marcus looked up and frowned deeply seeing his uncle stood infront of him "Huh? What do you mean? I thought you were up north." He said as he stood up and went to grab his bag. He was only 13 and right now all he really wanted was to be at home with his parents.

Aemond frowned deeply and took a deep breath giving a small nod "Can I have a minute with just you?" He asked quietly not wanting the kids in there while he spoke with her about this.

 

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She nodded, turning to Erik and handed him her wallet. “Go get yourselves something to eat or drink. And grab me a soda please. I’ll text you when you can come back in alright?” She told them, watching them go before turning back to him and gave his hands a squeeze, “you’re done huh?” She mumbled, swallowing the lump in her throat.

“No bud, we got back a few days ago… no one told me what happened til today… you’re coming home with us. This all the stuff you have right now? Alright, we’re gonna get the rest of your things when we can… let’s get you home. Your mother would haunt my ass if I let you get moved around anymore.” He told him

 

[Forever6A7X]

Aemond gave her hand a tight squeeze before taking a deep breath "Would you want me to do the surgery?" He asked quietly as he looked at her bringing her hand to his lips and giving a gentle kiss to her knuckles "I'll do it, if its what you want. So we can have a little more time at least." He murmured softly

Marcus nodded quickly and gathered the few things he had unpacked, chucking them into his bag without a care "Yes sir." He said quickly before following him out and down to the front seeing Max standing there looking confused.

Max gave Jon a puzzled look when she saw Marcus come downstairs with him. She had met the boy a handful of times at functions but he was a teen who kept to himself most of the time. She gave him a small smile and waved while he went out to the car "Is he coming home with us?" She asked in a genuinely curious tone.