MONDAY: Babies
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arnica and I'll be your ridiculously excited guest host for this week. It's Monday and your theme for the day is Babies! Human babies, alien babies, babies on doorsteps, and babies at home. Give me grumpy babies, laughing babies, and babies that won't stop crying.
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arnica and I'll be your ridiculously excited guest host for this week. It's Monday and your theme for the day is Babies! Human babies, alien babies, babies on doorsteps, and babies at home. Give me grumpy babies, laughing babies, and babies that won't stop crying.As always, please follow the rules:
• No more than one prompt per post, three prompts per fandom, and no more than five total. If one of your prompts is filled, you may post another.
• No spoilers in the prompts for new shows/seasons until at least one week after airing.
• If your fill contains spoilers, please label it clearly with the fandom/show and leave enough space for people to pass by.
• Feel free to fill a prompt even if it is already filled, the more fic the merrier!
Be kind to our codemonkeys and format your prompt properly:
- Torchwood, Ianto Jones, His niece had him wrapped around her finger from that very first slow blink up at him.
- Harry Potter, Remus/Sirius + James/Lily+Peter Harry's first birthday
- Doctor who, Rory, He spends the time that they are gathering their forces thinking about his new child.
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Remus finds Lily on the back porch.
She’s sitting in a rocking chair, curled in her grandmother’s crocheted blanket. Her fingers are picking mindlessly at the holes, her eyes looking out over the horizon. She doesn’t turn when he pulls up one of the wooden footrests – a wedding gift from her father – to her chair.
“I’m not ready for him to grow up, I don’t think,” she says after a few moments. She brushes the hair from her face and rests her cheek in the palm of her hand.
Remus glances back behind him, where Sirius and James are crashing through the kitchen, chasing Harry around on his toy broomstick. Sirius trips over a Matchbox car and goes flying into the stove; this does not faze him, though. He disappears from view.
“Harry or James?”
She laughs quietly, then sighs. “He’s only a year old. Aren’t I supposed to go through this when he turns eleven? When he goes off to Hogwarts?”
He rubs his hand over her arm soothingly. “Everyone goes through this. Every mother, every father – even grandparents. Godfathers. Sirius almost had a breakdown last night. Scared to death about the future.” He looks out over the small backyard, gazing out into the woods surrounding the house. “He nearly started crying.”
“Oh, Sirius,” Lily says fondly. They sit in a peaceful silence for a while, listening to the sounds of the night. Owls hooting in the trees; the soft breeze ruffling the grass; Sirius, James and Harry laughing, laughing, laughing – “You love him a lot, don’t you?”
“Sirius?” Remus ducks his head to hide the grin threatening to curl across his mouth. “I suppose.”
She laughs, sudden and loud and quite like a schoolgirl – Remus jumps a bit in his seat, but grins. “He was mad about you for years. I can’t believe it took you this long to get together.”
“For years? This long? Hypocritical, I should say, Mrs. Potter.”
She slides his hand into hers and squeezes. “And poor Mr. Pettigrew? Think he’ll ever find a girl?”
Sirius swings, quite suddenly, through the doorway. “Peter?” He laughs. “Christ, no. Not unless she is covered in frosting and chocolate like a pastry.” He squints at the ceiling for a moment before raising an eyebrow at Remus.
“Oh, God,” he responds, and covers his face with his hands.
“Why is everyone out here?” James appears behind Sirius, breathless, his glasses askew. “Harry Potter is one year old, and he’s going to break every goddamn vase in this house and you are missing every second of it. Now excuse me, but I am going to go inside to watch my son follow in his father’s footsteps and become the best goddamn Chaser Hogwarts ever had.”
He goes back into the house. Sirius leans down and kisses the side of Remus’ mouth, quick, before following.
“I think he’s grown up,” Remus says, and she smiles.
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Date: 2011-06-28 10:04 am (UTC)This little girl is the reason her parents died and she'd never be safe with all the creatures that'll be after a baby seer. Not with a family who doesn't know what him and Sammy know.
Still... She's so small and he doesn't know how to protect her from everything he knows is out there. Not just the regular monsters but the more terrifying ones who work in offices, then prowl around nightclubs with roofies and knives.
"Hello Mary-Ellen." He murmurs as he holds her tucked into his jacket.
Sammy glances over at him with a frown but he doesn't say anything about Dean changing her name.
"Uncle Sammy, Uncle Cas and I will take good care of you. I promise." Dean says.
There will be close calls and fights both with and about her but Dean knows it'll be worth it to save this one little girl.
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Date: 2011-06-27 12:07 pm (UTC)The first days are the hardest
Date: 2011-06-28 09:23 am (UTC)Harry smiles on the seventh day. That makes it even easier.
Dumbledore stops by again a week after Harry starts laughing again and tries once more to convince him to let Harry go live with Lily's sister. Remus refuses, as he's done every time since he and Hagrid picked Harry out of the rubble, and makes tea instead.
On the full moons, Harry stays with various order members, but mostly Arthur and Molly Weasley. They have a little boy the same age and Harry is opening up more with every month.
Christmas is harder and easier. It's harder because it's so lonely, and easier because keeping Harry from climbing the tree, putting fairies in his mouth, pulling down ornaments, and making cookies with him keeps him from feeling how alone they are. Molly invites them for Christmas dinner.
Harry has stopped waking up screaming every night by the time Remus turns twenty-two, and stopped asking for his parents, for Sirius, before his second birthday. They're living off the Potter estate. He wouldn't do it for himself, but Harry needs him at home. Needs a lifestyle better than temp and part-time jobs can provide.
Some time around Harry's third year he realizes they're happy and they've been happy for longer than he thought. It's a pleasant surprise.
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Date: 2011-06-27 12:59 pm (UTC)Appetizer of Destruction - Despicable Me, Gru and family, PG
Date: 2011-07-22 02:26 am (UTC)In time, Agnes took over Super Silly Fun Land, with special day passes given to girls from Miss Hattie's. Edith, who hadn't met an act of villainy she didn't like, led teams of minions on heists. And smart Margo took over from Dr. Nefario, learning everything she could from the old man before he'd gone. Gru hadn't had such an excellent selection of weapons as he had under Margo's direction since old Nefario had been in his fifties.
Each of the girl's boyfriends had, in turn, gone through the full gauntlet of Gru's most stringent tests of sincerity. Any boy able to get through Kyle's "greeting," constant pranks from the minions, and Gru not-so-subtly threatening him with every weapon in a not-inconsiderable arsenal was able to pay court to the girls.
And no one had been stupid enough to go after Gru's family in all that time. Vector may have been a punk, but he'd been a skilled villain, and Gru had taken him apart for touching the girls. Most had taken the lesson to heart and confined their schemes to less dangerous targets.
So when a new villain, Hadron, had felt the need to draw Gru out by kidnapping Carrie, Margo's oldest, Gru needed to make another example out of the fool.
Edith and the minions tunneled into Hadron's fortress, and gleefully proceeded to use every experimental weapon Margo had to turn his defense systems into mulch. That was only the beginning. A bare appetizer of destruction.
By the time Hadron realized what was happening, he didn't realize that he was also going to have to face Agnes' pleading (something no one, villain or no, was immune to. Gru suspected her tears had supernatural weakening powers), Margo's latest and greatest version of the shrink ray, and Gru himself.
And Gru was not happy. When his girls were upset, so was everyone else, until he fixed the problem.
Hadron found himself shrunk to the size of a mouse and used as a target in one of the games at Super Silly Fun World. After watching Gru walk away, Carrie's hand in his as he guided the toddler back to her waiting mother and aunts, he realized he was the luckiest of men. He could have been given to Kyle as a chew toy!
Then Gru tossed him an evil grin over his shoulder, and waved at Edith. Hadron felt his eyes grow wide as an endless stream of minions poured around the game, each of them waving tickets to shoot at him over, and over, and over again...
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Date: 2011-06-27 01:01 pm (UTC)from the moment I first saw you
the second that you were born
I knew that you were the love of my life
quite simply, the love of my life
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Date: 2011-06-28 02:04 am (UTC)"Someone left her in a brown mailing box outside the door!" The thin insistent cry is coming from something very small swaddled securely in the still body warm wrappings of Ianto's suit jacket. "She's blue, Owen! Some speed would be appreciated!"
"What's blue? What is that, is that a fucking baby?" Owen shoves his way past Jack on the stairs, snatching a stethoscope from the wall and slinging it on as he crosses the autopsy bay floor.
"Of course it's a bloody baby! What else would I be carrying around like this?" Ignoring the scowling welshman Owen flips back the edge of the pinstriped jacket. The tiny face hidden inside is scrunched up in an indignant scream and is the whitish-blue of skim milk, topped off with a thick shock of hair so black it reflects blue in the harsh light.
"For all I knew you'd brought home another fucking dinosaur! Shh, it's okay sweetling. Ignore the large loud man jiggling you. He's Welsh, it's not completely his fault."
"If you don't think I can punch you while holding a baby, you sadly underestimate my skill set." The tiny body is the same bluish-white all over as Owen peels back the rest of the heavy cloth covering it, listening quickly to heart and lungs.
"Yes, yes, heard it all before. Jack, hand me a scanner, I don't like what I'm hearing here. I'd like to take a quick look."
"Got it. Tosh, go see if you can find out when our package was delivered. Gwen, we're gonna need some things. Baby things; at least enough to get her diapered and dressed to drop off at social services."
"I love how you assume I'm the one who'll be best at that Jack. I have never shopped for a baby in my life. Give me list of exactly what I'll need in what sizes..."
"New plan. Gwen, you're on call. I'm going shopping." Jack presses a small scanner into Owens' hand as he jogs up the stairs two at a time. "Call me if you need me."
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He hasn't been shopping for baby things in years. Decades in fact, but things aren't too different really. He's got a couple fuzzy sleepers, a package of diapers and wipes, formula, bottles, and even a bright green stuffed pteradon that he thinks will make Ianto laugh as they get the baby bundled up to go to the proper authorities.
He's on his way to the checkout when his com beeps.
"Harkness."
"Whatever you bought, we're gonna need a lot more of it." Owen's voice is a low croon that suggests he's holding their foundling as he speaks. "I did a blood test when the scanner results looked wonky and her color didn't pink back up. She's only got 50% human DNA." Jack looks down at the little basket not even filled and sighs.
"I'm gonna need a lot more than I can get at Boots then."
"Yeah, Tea boy is on the way now with the truck and the list. Warning, the list is huge and he swears it's all necessary."
"And he's probably correct." Jack sets the shopping basket on a coke display and snags out the green stuffed dinosaur. He still thinks it will be cute.
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