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He's tuned to it - the baby wakes in the night and so does he. He's gotten into the habit of waking up every time Rachel needs to do a feed. He gets up and he gets her anything he needs and then he takes over things like winding and putting Jess back down so that Rachel can go back to sleep.

Only, tonight, he can't Jess to settle.
It hasn't been that long but it actually feels like he' been wailing for hours.

"Hey, man," says Raylan, softly. "C'mon, now..."

It takes a little while and it definitely won't last but, eventually, Jess goes down for a little while. He showered after the puking but he's still wearing the faded Iron Maiden t-shirt when he walks back into the room. He leaves the door wide open so that they can hear him if he stirs. They're home alone anyway.

"So, are you going to change your name when we get married?" he asks.

There's so much about this month that's pissing him off. The fact that he can't work on the house pisses him off. The clothes piss him off. The weather pisses him off. Abot the only thing that's good about this month is being around Rachel.

Coming in out of the cold, he shuts the door behind him and shrugs out of his coat.

"Rach?"