New arrival (prudence)

[prudence]

Prudence took a larger bite than she normally would have, perhaps to quell the tears, or maybe because at this point it was the best thing that she had ever tasted. She hadn't even realized that she had been craving pastries until she caught the enticing aroma walking in through the front door. She chewed and forcefully swallowed the overlarge bite, though the pastry was delightful, it did little to improve her mood other than satisfy the craving she hadn't known she had. Prudence placed the half-finished pastry on her plate so she could dab at her eyes with the side of her finger.

When she looked up at Nix again after a brief pause where neither of them spoke, she was surprised to see tears in her friend's eyes at well. Oh the joys of both a difficult life and an extra heaping of hormones... "Oh, we are a mess, aren't we?" said Prudence in a would-be cheerful tone, though her voice was unsteady because of the tears that she was holding back. She sniffed, gaze falling onto her unfinished pastry. She sighed quietly in defeat before going back for more.

[nixnight]

Nix lifted her head as she heard prudence speak and she smiled softly ,"the hormones stay around for a couple of months supposedly so I'm putting it down to that, not because I'm a weak-eye" she said with a small smile as she tried to find a way to avoid admitting she was really crying. She saw james's eyes begin to grow smaller and she smiled and lifted her hands to reach over and then nodded towards James ,"I'll take him back now, I feel better having him sleep with me. It's less issues for anyone else" she said with a little smile as she felt her face grow a little warm, she was always going to be protective of James due to the life she'd had to live

[prudence]

"I think we'll go with that," said Prudence, her voice still shaking slightly as she blinked away tears. Thankfully, she was able to avoid them spilling over. She really did spend too much of her time crying. She cried when she had nightmares of the event that had caused her pregnancy, she cried when her father looked at her in that disappointed way, and sometimes Prudence cried for no reason at all. It was all just so... Difficult. "Oh, of course," said Prudence gingerly handing the infant back to his mother. He looked very near falling asleep- she hoped that the transition wouldn't rouse him, though he looked the pleasant kind of drowsy she had not felt in a very long time.

[nixnight]

Nix gently took her son back and his eyes fluttered open to see her holding him again and his wide smile was back over his face and nix chuckled down at him before he closed his eyes and then rested his head against her chest before snuggling in to her side and going to sleep. "he seems to like you, more than most people. He seems to already have a thing against guys which i find rather funny" nix said as she lifted her gaze from her son and moved it to prudence again and she smiled. "he'll be wonderful fun if i ever had a little girl, i can see him be a great big brother" she said with a small chuckle as she thought of james leading a small redheaded girl across the threshold of the school hall and in to the main hall with a sigh

[prudence]

Prudence smiled unsteadily when Nix commented that James seemed to like her more than most people. Though she had always had a feeling that babies were better able to sense things than older people. She hadn't encountered many recently, though those that she did always behaved more calmly around her. Perhaps Prudence just gave off a calming aura, though she didn't quite think that was the entire equation. She took in a deep breath and dabbed her eyes one last time and the tears were gone just as quickly as they had come. "I see that too," Prudence agreed in a soft tone, and then finished off the last of her pastry. Her baby gave forth a gentle kick of what could only be approval, causing her hands to migrate down to her belly.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled as she saw prudence seem to cheer up a little and found herself wishing there was something more she could do to help her freind, she had only met the girl in a corridor and stood up for her to bullies and then it seemed to be only luck the two met when they were both expecting. Nix thought it showed she was meant to be there for this younger girl and help her out when she needed a hand or a shoulder to cry on, but maybe that was just what nix wanted to see.

"did you ever decide on a name?" nix asked as her thoughts snapped back to the real world when she saw prudences hands shift downwards and she remembered her own issues of trying to hide the fact her baby was kicking and yet wanting to feel it and feel the comfort of it at the same time.

[prudence]

The all-too-familiar emotional cocktail began stirring up within Prudence as her baby girl began to get more active. Happiness and excitement, though at the same time fear, desperation, depression. Prudence fought hard to keep this all hidden beneath a rather stoic exterior, however, she didn't need everyone in the hall to see all her emotions. She rubbed her belly in hopes that it might calm her unborn daughter to no avail. Once the little girl had made up her mind that she was going to be moving there wasn't any stopping her until she had exhausted herself. She could only hope the girl would be a little more easygoing outside the womb.

Prudence looked back at Nix when she asked if she had picked out a name. Yes, yes she had picked out a name. To Prudence it couldn't be any more perfect. It was slightly old-fashioned, though not ridiculously outdated like her own was. And the middle name had been her mother's first name, and was also her own middle name. She nodded. "Hazel Rosemary," said Prudence, smiling lightly.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled and them chuckled a little at her friends words ,"if only we had both had girls, we would have had to little flower girls" she said with a little smirk. James was a name she liked and it was her real fathers name and then jark wasn't a lot different from it so she had both her real birth father and her adoptive father included in her sons name. Cyan was a name she had come up with herself and she liked it, it was an odd name that no one else would have heard on any other child so it made James all the more special. "still, our two could be very good friends, when they are both born" nix said with a friendly smile in her friends direction

[prudence]

Prudence now could not help but smile, for whatever reason she felt extremely cheered up now. She didn't exactly feel happy, per se, she hadn't felt that in a long time, though the desperation and depression had faded into the background. Perhaps this was what typical pregnant women were supposed to feel, excitement for motherhood, and a sense of satisfaction in the approval of someone else in the name she had chosen. Prudence hadn't gotten much feedback, simply because her father was acting more indifferent than anything else lately. Though at this point his approval meant more to her than anyone else's. "I think they'll get along famously," said Prudence, absently rubbing her belly again. Little baby Hazel kicked at her hand, as if acknowledging her mother.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled and then a thought hit her and she gasped before turning to prudence with a wide smile over her face ,"they would come here in the same year, imagine if they were in the same house together. They'd be such good friends" nix said with her smile so wide her face was aching slightly. The idea that James and Hazel could be friends from childhood and then go in to hogwarts at the same time and share classes and maybe even share a house name just made her overjoyed, her son had a freind before he could even speak to introduce himself.

She knew the feeling all first years had when they came to the school and knew no one and nothing about it and purebloods barely ever kept up a lead on them for long, having friends always made it easier. Nix had been one of those who hadn't ever known, add to the fact that she was actually a pureblood and her first year hadn't gone very well in freind making terms

[prudence]

Prudence continued to smile, she hadn't really ever allowed herself to think much on what Hazel's future. Partly because it was frightening, and partly because she did not want to predetermine her daughter's future like her own had been. Prudence wanted Hazel to be whoever she wanted, not who she decided for her to be. Though all the same she would love to see her daughter and Nix's son become friends. There wasn't a doubt in her mind that they would grow up together, Prudence wanted to stay friends with Nix. She poured herself a glass of water, in hoping it might distract her from the remaining pastries.

"Regardless I think they will be good friends anyway," said Prudence after draining half her glass. She was supposed to be drinking a great deal of water, though she found that she never did drink quite enough to make the healers happy. So she had tried to make a habit of pouring herself a glass of water whenever she was sitting at a table.

[nixnight]

Nix smiled and then thought for a moment before dipping a hand in to her school bag and taking out a leaflet she had, "me and James and my new boyfriend are all moving in to a house here, once school is over. I think we should keep in touch and have the kids meet up and such one they are old enough, then we get to stay friends and so do they" nix said with a wide smile as she passed the ivory cliffs leaflet over to the old ravenclaw. "it'll be expensive but I've earned a little from broom designs and I'm currently being looked over for a captain of a qudditch team once I'm done with school, add that to my families savings I've never touched and it seems well set really" nix said as she explained her plan to fund her new family home and she smiled again at the idea. She had the house she wanted picked out and it was even highlighted in the leaflet, it was a two storey house with a small pond and a long garden for qudditch that was a little away from the cliffs so James could be safe. It had 3 bedrooms which nix found rather fitting and then a leave country styled kitchen and 3 bathrooms too, a very nice house overall

[prudence]

Prudence was fairly surprised when Nix handed her a flier describing a magical community, announcing that she, her son, and her boyfriend would be moving there together. She hadn't known that Nix had a boyfriend, Prudence figured it was a recent thing, though at any rate it wasn't her business. She wished that she could only be so lucky as the redhead described her financial situation- Prudence had only what her father was willing to share, and because she was quite reluctant to ask him for any money, it left her in a very tight situation indeed. "It looks lovely," Prudence said in approval, it looked like the kind of place that she might pick out if she had the resources. Of course, the old Victorian home inhabited by her and her father would be more than enough space for the three of them, she had a feeling Hazel would enjoy the acres of land surrounding the property once she got older... She smiled softly, it felt good to have a friend. "We'll have to stay in touch definitely," said Prudence, thrilled to have already established a social outlet for not only herself, but her daughter as well.

[nixnight]

Nix chuckled as prudence replied to her comments and then she nodded and took the leaflet back before taking out a bit of parchment and a quill and then she wrote down the name of the house she wanted to buy and would be writing to the land-owners about some time soon and she then laid her quill down and handed the parchment over towards prudence. "this'll be me in a few weeks, so you can just apparate over once you and the little flower girl are strong enough" nix said with a smile before a gurgle told her that James was awake again and had seen something he liked.

Nix turned her head ti look down at him and she smiled as she followed his eyes to her quill and she then reached and picked it up again and then flicked it against her sons nose and he giggled up at her and nix smiled widely down at her son again. "you are so silly" nix said with a chuckle in her voice before she flicked the feather behind his ears and then against his nose again and he laughed out loud properly making nix laugh herself

[prudence]

Prudence shifted the position of her hands so they were cradling her stomach instead of resting atop it. Really, she was getting tired of being punched and kicked from the inside all the time, but on the other hand she wasn't sure if she was ready to care for a baby on her own. Feelings of fear began making themselves known once again, though she was able to keep herself calm, there was no reason for her to cave to her anxiety at that moment. Prudence mentally reminded herself that if Nix could raise a child on her own then there was no reason that she could not. It would be difficult, but she would manage... Somehow...

She smiled and nodded as Nix passed her the address. She would definitely have to arrange a visit with Nix and her son once Hazel (and herself) would be strong enough for travel. Truthfully, Prudence was very anxious about actually giving birth. She had nearly died when her mother had birthed her, some sort of complication, it was scary to think the same might happen to her. Prudence smiled as Nix tickled her son with the end of her quill, really it was adorable.