The Years Between || G.W

2000- Walter's POV

***A/N*** Hello! A shorter chapter for today. I'm going to try and upload a longer one tomorrow to make up for it though! See you then xx

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"We're going to need to get another roommate,"

Lee hops up onto the kitchen counter and looks at me, "Once Emma's gone."

I flip the pancake in the pan and shrug my shoulders, "Or we could just live here by ourselves."

"You're not trying to domesticate me are you?" Lee says with a big smile on his face.

"You've already been domesticated. You know how to piss in the litter box and everything."

He snorts and swings his legs back and forth, "But seriously, are we going to need a new roommate?"

"Don't think so," I say to him, "Our jobs pay us enough so we can cover rent by ourselves."

Emma comes into the kitchen with a big cardboard box in her hands, "You know half this kitchen stuff is mine right?"

"Is not," I say to her, "This was my flat before it was yours."

"Okay, like one-third of this kitchen stuff is mine," she puts the box down on the floor and starts searching through the drawers for her things.

"You don't leave for another month. Why are you packing everything you have ever owned in your entire life?" Lee asks.

"Cause," she says as she pulls a bright pink ladle out of the drawer and tosses it in her box, "I want all of my stuff moved into my parent's estate so when I get back everything I need is right there."

"Do you think you're ever coming back?" I ask her, "Lee be a dear and hand me a plate."

Lee hops off the counter and gets me a plate from the other side of the kitchen and Emma sighs, "Yeah. England is my home, I don't want to leave it."

"What if you and Frenchie fall in love?" Lee asks.

Emma glances to the floor so we don't see her smile, "Then hopefully he'll come back here with me. It's not like he doesn't have friends here."

"The only friend he has here is Fleur," Lee points out.

"And me!" Emma laughs. She pulls out a can opener from a drawer, "Is this yours or mine?"

"Mine," I say as I put the finished pancake on the plate, "S'not going to be the same without you around to bitch at us."

"S'not going to be the same without you around to bitch at," she says.

By the time I've made enough pancakes for the three of us, Emma has given up on packing her kitchen things and we are all huddled around the telly to watch reruns of Coronation Street.

"I don't understand how you two like this show," I groan as Emma and Lee start shouting at the telly.

"How are you not interested in this!?" Lee laughs as he pushes me over playfully, "Raquel just came back after four years!"

I scrunch up my nose, "Who?"

Emma laughs, "Next time you date someone, find a man with taste?"

I put my arm around Lee's shoulders and pull him into me, "There's no more next time you date someone. He's all mine."

Emma groans as Lee kisses me on the lips, "All yours baby," he says with a smirk as he pulls away from me.

"You two are making it so easy for me to pack up and leave you know that?" Emma flicks her fork at the telly and screams something that I don't care about and Lee laughs at her.