Eva glanced around the apartment that she was sharing with her husband on the Imperial Center. It seemed like it had been weeks since she had truly seen him and spoken to him. It pained her to be leaving but this was no place for their son to be at the moment. Eva was tired of being alone with the boy, it was very much just the two of them. She was isolated from her family and now from Ronny. She would sigh softly as she pulled the last pair of curtains closed over the window and moved to get her and Kethios’ bags. She had sent Ronsard a letter, hoping he would check his messages at some point during the day or night. She knew if she had left it on their bed, he would never have seen it. “Come little one…time to go visit Grandpa and your aunts!” she would put on a cheerful smile the little boy as she moved to lift him up into her arms. She had arranged to take a civilian shuttle to Corellia but her father had refused to allow that to happen, so he had sent one of his private ships to pick up his daughter and his only grandchild. Eva would hold onto Kethios tightly as she moved out of the door of the apartment, glancing back for a moment. When she first came, she had, had so many hopes and dreams of a future with Ronsard there, but they had been quickly torn apart.
She would close her eyes for a moment, hoping that Ronsard would find his way back to her, though it was unlikely to happen while she was staying with her father. The two men had never truly gotten along and her father believed she could have done much better than Ronsard, yet Ronsard’s parents felt the same way and had many objections to Eva’s family. The pair would walk up to the lift, Eva having a duffle bag with a few of her belongings, knowing she and Kethios had things at her father’s to wear and play with.
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The journey home to Corellia seemed so much longer than it had on previous trips. Even the trip to tell her father that she would be marrying Ronsard seemed much shorter. Perhaps that was because Ronsard had been with her, but that was not true this time. Her arms would remain wrapped around Kethios the whole trip, the pair of them drifting to sleep half way there.
The pilot was a family friend, a man who had flown the Medicis’ for years across the known galaxy and had often been employed to help the girls get out of difficult situations, to save the day one could say. That was the case this time, at least in Giovanni’s eyes. Eva needed to be rescued, she needed to be taken care of and like he had told her years again, Ronsard was not a man to have a family with, but the girl never listened to him. Not one bit. How could she listen to him when her heart had belonged to Ronsard from the moment they met. They were opposites. Eva was tall, thin, and at one point had been a super model, at least on Corellia, Ronsard was everything she was not and that was why she loved him, why he had stolen her breath away. It didn’t matter now. He needed to find himself again and until that happened she would be waiting for him on Corellia.
The shuttle would gently set down outside of the Medici Family Complex, a large estate rising over the tree tops. Raistlin, the pilot old man Medici trusted with his daughters, rose from his seat as he moved to gently shake Eva away “Miss Eva we have arrived.”
A small groan would come from her as her eyes fluttered up and she looked into the man’s piercing lavender eyes, a small smile touching her lips “Thank you Raist” she wishpers softly as she moves to stand up, gently waking Kethios up, as he had been sleeping in her arms. “Wake up little one.” The boy was well behaved, having the best of both of his parents qualities in him. He would smile “Grandpa!” as he rubbed his eyes. Eva could only smile as she shook her head “Not yet darling, we need to walk to the house first.” She would glance back to Raist “Do you mind getting our bags?” she asked softly as she moved towards the ramp of the ship. There was always something special about coming home, even though it was bittersweet. She wished that Ronsard had been there to share with her the news she had to tell her old man, but Ronsard didn’t even know. He had been a phantom coming in and out at odd hours, when she was either out or sound asleep. She had actually started to sleep in Kethios’ room, dreading the long lonely nights of waiting on Ronny to come to her. She had given up on that. Maybe he would change, maybe he would come to her there, but she doubted that. He was too involved with his work to worry about his family. A family he knew would be taken care of whether or not he took care of them himself or not.
Eva moved down the ramp, walking across the green lawn towards the manor home. Giovanni was an older man in his late 40s with far too many daughters to count at times and probably more he had no idea about. But he loved them all and provided the best life possible for the 17 that lived with him. Giovanni had a large smile on his lips as he saw his second oldest walking down the path with his only grandchild, “Eva!” he would move to engulf the both of them into a tight hug. Eva would hug him with one arm before pulling back though Gio held his arms out for the little boy “come here my big boy! You have gotten so big since the last time your mommy brought you here!” Kethios would jump into Giovanni’s arms with a laugh, “I’m still little Grandpa!”
Giovanni would smile “Well, you seem like you are getting very big to me, you will be taller than I am pretty soon. I think you are going to be able to take over my job when I get all old and retire.” Giovanni would flash a smile to Eva.
Eva would just shake her head, they both knew that Ronsard would never allow Kethios to go into the family business, not that it was bad, but it was the one of the reasons why Eva’s in-laws disliked her so much. “We will see about that.”
Kethios would shake his head “But I wanna be a senator like daddy!”
Giovanni would frown a bit “Bah! Senators are boring, you should be something exciting, like a pirate.”
Kethios would smile “oh! A pirate?! I like that idea! I like ships!”
Gio would smile again “Me too, how about you inside and see if Electra is up in her room so you two can play” he would set Kethios down onto the ground and soon the boy would run inside the house, looking for his Auntie Electra would was only a year older than himself. Giovanni would move to wrap his arm around Eva as the two of them walked slowly inside “Now, what is going on my darling?”
Eva would let out a soft little sigh “Far too much. Ronsard has thrown himself into his work, I knew that it was going to happen. I just didn’t think it would be this bad dad. I really miss him and I cannot run the household and take care of Kethios on my own right now.” She would look off towards the extensive grounds “He needs to run, to have fresh air. The Imperial Center is no place for a growing boy and for me to be alone.”
Giovanni would hold Eva close to him as they walked into the kitchen “I see, you are right, Kethios needs to be able to run and play but Eva, you can take care of that apartment on your own. I have seen it, it is tiny, and Kethios is not difficult to watch, he plays by himself mostly.”
Eva would glance to him for a moment before looking away “I wanted to tell Ronsard first, but I haven’t seen him. You know I had a hard time when I was pregnant with Kethios, that I was put on bed rest fairly early, I am afraid that will happen again and I will be alone in the apartment, the Kethios will need something and I will be unable to care for him.”
That was all that Giovanni needed as he smiled brightly, “I am going to be a grandfather again, aren’t I?” He would give Eva a little squeeze. “We will get through this and I promise if he shows up, I will be civil with him, for your sake, as well as Kethios’ and this child’s.”
