Alder's Grove

This takes place at least a year after the nano-book, and a bit after most of the other stories of this family. Each of the dates, except Gregor, have appeared before.

Winter:
"If it's too much, I'll understand." Encountering his family for the first time was certainly something to be ready for, entirely aside from the cultural connotations of "bringing a girl home to meet his mother." "But I would love to have your company, and my mother would love to meet Mila and Henry." He gave Marina his best charming smile. "For all of our oddities, we're a family of very good cooks."

"As long as you're certain it's no imposition, and as long as I can bring something," Marina decided, helped, he was sure, by the way her children were bouncing up and down and making puppy eyes at her.

"I'll be sure to find out what we're lacking this time. Thank you, Marina. I'm so glad you said yes."
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From my call for prompts and (LJ post); to flutterbychild's prompt "The members of a M-F-F triad come "out" to one of the women's parents'...and things get rather interesting."

Stranded World, Summer.

They had discussed it all beforehand. Summer’s mom was just an e-mail send. Bishop’s parents: “Dad’ll probably buy me a beer, and mom will swoon. No biggie, really.” So it was Melinda’s parents who would be tricky, and thus they managed to schedule that meeting earliest on Parents’ Weekend.

Mellie clung tight to Bishop’s hand and leaned into the arm Summer draped around her waist as they waited in the lounge. Other kids, other parents swarmed by, barely glancing their way. What was another college couple and their third wheel? Summer smirked, and traced good-luck charms into her girlfriend’s hip.

“There they are.” Her voice was a thin whisper; she raised it to call across the lobby. “Mom! Dad!”
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