- Aurora at three months -
The only time Harry and Carrie-Ann ever got to hang out together was when Aurora slept, other than that it was go, go, go. Neither of them complained however, they loved having Aurora in their life and if anything it had brought them closer together. Their quality time meant 10x more now that it was limited.
"I wanted to talk to you about something," Harry started, he wasn't sure how the conversation would go.
The two were lying on the sofa cuddled together watching a film.
Carrie-Ann sat up. "Yeah? About what?"
"Well, I got an offer from British Vogue,"
"The joint shoot?" She asked. She too had been offered something from Vogue, they wanted her and Harry to be on the front cover. She hadn't read the email or anything, she simply handed it over to Tanya to look at it.
"Yeah," He licked his lips.
Carrie-Ann frowned, knowing there was more to it. "What is it Harry?"
He looked to the side before back at her. "They want to do a huge shoot with us, the both of us... And Rory,"
"No," Carrie-Ann shook her head immediately. "Absolutely not,"
He huffed knowing she would react like this. "Think first Caz, the photos will be done professionally and we can choose what we want in the magazine, we can control it all."
"I don't want my daughter in one of the most read magazines in the world, no way."
"It'll be great exposure-"
"I don't want exposure!" She bit back. "My whole life has been exposed, childhood and adolescence was full of avoiding paparazzi and seeing my parents in the media, she is not having that."
"And she won't if we choose not to, but this isn't some cheap deal,"
"The answers no Harry."
"You won't even consider it?"
"What is there to consider?" She shrugged. "We both agreed to keep her away from it, to keep her as normal as possible, why have you changed your mind?"
"I haven't," He frowned. "But I think for something like Vogue it's reasonable, plenty of people have done it."
"I'm not people, and I respect my daughter's privacy too much to sell it for a five figure deal."
Aurora began to cry, her baby monitor flashing as she announced she was ready for her 11pm feed. Carrie-Ann stood still angry from their conversation heading up to feed her.
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"How are you?" Gemma asked. Carrie-Ann had met her for lunch the following day with Aurora, now she was three months she was starting to stay awake a little longer and going three hours without feeding.
Carrie-Ann sighed. "Harry and I got into an argument,"
Gemma frowned, "What about? Where is he anyway?"
"Golf. Vogue has offered us a shoot, but they want Aurora in it too, but I'm refusing. I don't want her exposed that way. Am I be unfair?"
Gemma shook her head looking down at her beautiful niece, her hair was slowly but surely growing - Gemma was hopeful that it would go curly like Harry's but so far it was all straight and even changing colour a little.
"I understand completely and I'm a little surprised Harry would want to do it, he's obsessed with keeping her protected."
"Exactly, I think he thinks with Vogue we're safe, nothing can go wrong but things can still happen, someone there could sneak photos of her or anything. Just not comfortable with it, at all.
"Well, as long as he knows that, then I don't think he'd do something you weren't happy with," Gemma gently bounced Aurora on her knee. Carrie-Ann had looked around to check there wasn't any sneaky paps but it seemed okay, even if they did get photos she could sue big money for selling Aurora's photo - she had looked into it, she could get thousands.
"Yeah, we'll see. I think there's just a lot going on and we're both stressed."
Gemma nodded. "It's obviously going to happen every now and then, what couples don't argue?"
"Your mum and Robin?" Carrie-Ann joked.
Gemma laughed. "That's true, they're perfect for each other."
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When Carrie-Ann arrived back home Aurora had fallen asleep in the car so she carefully placed her in her cot. Harry stepped out of his office when he heard her leave Aurora's room, the two hadn't talked since the night before.
"Hi,"
Carrie-Ann gave a tired smile before heading down to the kitchen to make herself a tea, she missed regular tea but with breastfeeding she couldn't have it.
"How was Gemma?" He asked following her in.
"Good, really good." She nodded getting down a mug. "Tea?" She asked him.
He shook his head, "No thanks,I'm on a detox."
She bit her lip, eyes looking at his chest before back to her mug.
"I'm sorry about last night." He apologised, not wanting to stare at the back of her head any longer. "I told Vogue no, said we didn't feel happy with showing our daughter."
Carrie-Ann slowly turned around after stirring her tea. "I would do the shoot if it was just us two," She pointed between them. "But they don't want that, they want Aurora, they want to sell her face, that's why they offered only with her - don't you see how wrong that is? Why I want to protect her for as long as possible?"
He nodded like a scolded school boy. He didn't understand until he had time to clear his head and think it through at golf, would he really want his daughters face spread across the magazine? Especially when she has no say against it.
"Can we go back to you loving me again?" Harry asked hopefully.
Carrie-Ann scoffed placing her tea down and reaching for him. He walked into her arms, embracing her tight. "I'm always going to be in love with you, no matter how many fights we have you moron."
Harry pulled back, smiling. "You sounded really English when you said that. Am I rubbing off on you?" He laughed.
She pinched her fingers together, "Maybe just a little bit." She smiled kissing him.
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