I Am Not Yours

Dinner Is Served

A/N: Hello, readers. This is where I start to add my own flare to what I WISH happened on the show with Henry and Abigail had Lori not had to leave. Let me know what you think in the comments/reviews please :)

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April 1916

"Bye, Mom!" Cody waved to Abigail as he headed outside the back door of the cafe with Robert.

The boys had had a sleepover planned for the night so Abigail thought it worked out well when Rosemary and Lee asked her over for dinner. She finished cleaning up the kitchen in the cafe before heading upstairs to get washed up, chuckling at herself as she saw the dusts of flour patted on her cheeks. She had placed an apple pie in the oven downstairs just before going up to her bedroom and she hadn't realized just how much of a mess she makes sometimes.

She quickly bathed before putting on a nice white blouse and one of her lavender skirts. She had begun to put her hair up into a nice bun with a shining hair clip when she suddenly remembered that her hair was a bit too short to fit it all up together. She watched as chunks of her hair fell back down around her neck and she sighed before pausing and looking at herself in the mirror like that. Half of her hair up and half of her hair down actually looked quite nice and she smiled a bit at herself before releasing the clip to hold just the top half of her hair up. She fixed the bottom half to look less of a mess and pulled a few strands at her temples down over her ears. With another smile she knew she found a new way to wear her hair from time to time and decided to wear it like that to dinner tonight.

Once she had finished with her hair and her outfit, she placed a thin line of eyeliner on and some natural colored lipstick. Smoothing down her skirt with one last look in the mirror, she nodded with approval and headed downstairs to grab her light jacket and removed the pie from the oven.

"Elizabeth. Hello." Abigail said with surprise when the brunette opened the Coulters' door following Abigail's knock. "I didn't know you would be here."

"Yes, come on in." Elizabeth smiled and stepped aside for her to enter. "I will take your coat." The teacher said before helping Abigail out of it and hanging it up with her own on Lee's coat rack.

"Oh, Abigail, don't you look lovely!" Rosemary exclaimed from her kitchen.

"Thank you. Dinner smells wonderful." The mayor said as she took a few steps further inside. Elizabeth then gently took the apple pie from Abigail and brought it over to the kitchen.

"I know." Rosemary said confidently.

"This worked out quite well actually. Cody is having dinner with Robert and his family before having a sleepover."

"Oh, I know." The actress smiled and sent her husband a knowing look.

"You do?" Abigail asked, a bit confused.

"Mhm." The other blonde nodded before they all heard the second knock on the door.

"I will get that." Lee said, rushing passed Abigail to open the door. "Hi there, Henry."

Abigail spun around to see for herself if it was truly Henry Gowen standing in the doorway. It was.

"I hope I'm not late." Henry's voice carried through the rowhouse as he stepped inside, a bouquet of flowers displayed in his hand.

"No, not at all." Lee closed the door.

"I, uh...brought some flowers." Henry told him, feeling a bit awkward considering he hadn't been to a 'friend's' house for dinner before....Let alone his boss' house.