i tried to make love not hate what was i to do (milkyway) wrote,
@ 2008-08-23 19:40:00

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Tilden Toots

20. PATERNAL LOVE
Tilden stared at the small bundle of blankets in his arm and the red, scrunched-up little face wailing in his arms, utter bewilderment on his beautiful face.

He and his wife has just returned from St. Mungo's, where she had give finished giving birth to his firstborn daughter. Daisy had been so absolutely exhausted that she had fallen asleep immediately in their bedroom, leaving Tilden and the baby alone in the nursery that Daisy and Tilden had just finished decorating the week before. Tilden gazed around the nursery - it was so pretty, all greens and pinks, with lots of flowers painted on the walls and -

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

For a second, he forgot that the baby was crying. He peered at her, still a bit supiciously. She did not look the least bit like a girl! Daisy and the Healer (as well as the two other Healers they had to bring in, as Tilden was not convinced) that all babies started out life looking, well, like this! She was resting on his lap, waving her hands around, her mouth still open wide in that dreadful wail. How could Daisy sleep though this?!

Tilden picked the wailing baby up and held her close to his face. "HELLO?" he said loudly, hoping that the baby could hear him over her wailing. "HELLOOO?" He frowned, puzzled. Maybe he wasn't loud enough. "HELLO, IT'S MEEEEEEE!"

That didn't work either! Maybe he was wrong. He had thought that this fatherhood thing was a piece of cake, Gilderoy had said that being a dad would be the easiest thing in the world! And Gilderoy should know, he was his best friend and the smartest person that he knew! But this baby was proving to be hard! He resisted the urge to run into their bedroom and waking Daisy, for her to take this screaming baby and calm her down while he ran to one of his greenhouses.

While he pondered about all the fatherhood tips Gilderoy had told him, he noticed that his ears weren't ringing anymore. The baby was staring at him, face still red but noticibly more calm. For the first time, he noticed that her eyes were blue, just like Daisy's.

"Er," he said quietly. "Hi Azalea Summer Dolphina Toots. It's meeeeee! Your daddy. It's me!"

He could do this after all; the little smile on baby Azalea's was matched by Tilden's big goofy, happy grin.

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