"She did ... but I don't think she ever really stopped worrying." He never wanted to cause his mother such concern simply by being who he was, who he is, but such was not for either of them to choose.
Rory's head tilts and his brow furrows, but his hand remains snug in Pippa's. "And for that your family rejected you? That's -- my own aunt, my mother's sister, got pregnant at an even younger age, but Mam never turned her back on her. Even though they hadn't always gotten along that well, and even though such things were considered far more of a scandal back then, my parents helped her through the pregnancy and took the baby in to be raised as my older sister. This was years before I came along, of course."
If anything, the sympathy in his eyes has only deepened. "What you must have gone through, on your own like that ..."
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2008-10-02 06:53 pm (UTC)Rory's head tilts and his brow furrows, but his hand remains snug in Pippa's. "And for that your family rejected you? That's -- my own aunt, my mother's sister, got pregnant at an even younger age, but Mam never turned her back on her. Even though they hadn't always gotten along that well, and even though such things were considered far more of a scandal back then, my parents helped her through the pregnancy and took the baby in to be raised as my older sister. This was years before I came along, of course."
If anything, the sympathy in his eyes has only deepened. "What you must have gone through, on your own like that ..."