“Come on Zak, Chris, lets let auntie Spencer and Ashley get settled before we attack them again.”  Chelsea took her too children by the hand and led them back into the living room.  Smiling Ashley scooped the suitcases back into her arms and followed Spencer up towards her childhood bedroom with Chelsea beaming at them.  Turning to the husband, the artist quietly whispered, “They will make wonderful parents.”

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Ashley placed their suitcases by the door, as she turned around she found Spencer sprawled on her bed.  Arms thrown above her head.  Looking like a exhausted teenager back home from school on a Thursday. 

Ashley threw herself on the bed next to Spencer. 

“I smell like airplane.”  Ashley pouted.

Spencer giggled at her wife and the two laid their in comfortable silence until Paula called them down.

“Spencer!  There’s someone hear I’d like you to meet!”

“Nooo…”  The blonde quietly protested digging her pouting face into the brunette’s neck.  “I don’t wanna go see him.”

Ashley on the other hand was eager as a puppy, she had been thinking it over on the plane.  She had spent every year listening to Spencer’s thoughts on each year’s “contestant.”  And she was oh so ready to put this guy in his place.  And maybe Paula too but that would tend to have more of a long term effect on her.

Soaking in the moment with a beautiful woman snuggling against her she breathed in Spencer’s scent. 

“Come on let’s go.”  Slowly getting off the bed and offering her arms to help Spencer off the bed.  This was the thing about Ashley, one of the many things that Spencer loved.  She could be like a petulant child about things, but once she was there she always supported Spencer 100%.

“Babe I’m here right now.  If he so much as looks at you in the wrong way I will make this his worst Christmas ever.”

Spencer smiled, causing Ashley to smile.  Finally throwing her arms straight up in the air she waited for the brunette to take her hands.  Ashley paced backwards as Spencer let herself be lifted off the bed. 

“Come on.”  They held hands, Spencer behind Ashley as they walked down the stairs.