Fear Controls You {Birthing}

[Aedan]

aedan --

He’d thought they had more time, but ah, time is such a funny thing. It never behaves quite the way you expect. Or maybe he’d just been lying to himself that there was more time, because some part of him isn’t sure he’s ready to be a dad. It’s not that he doesn’t want to - quite the opposite, in fact - but rather that he fears he just won’t be good at it. It’s not like there’s a manual for this sort of thing, just his own experience with his own father. He’d had good enough parents, though perhaps they had not been as present as he might have liked. A thing he planned to change.

He is indeed on the island when she calls. His name and her voice (pained and fearful) during the day makes him panic. They hadn’t been supposed to meet up until later, and he’d let her know what he’d found. But something is wrong in the way she calls for him, in the fact that she is here, and he leaves behind the spot he’d been standing at a gallop.

He doesn’t know where to find her, but he knows to look for some sort of cover. There’s a number of places she could have gone as he looks around, and he does his best to follow where her voice had come from, pairing that with logical places she might be.

It does not take long for him to find her, though despite this, there is a child at her side. Their child. Aedan, though not careless, slows only slightly when he sees them and does not stop until he’s nearly upon them both, careful not to startle either or go crashing into them, but unable to keep himself from their side for longer than necessary.

He makes his way to her, dropping his nose to Vita’s neck, though his eyes never leave the boy. He is a beautiful thing, made so clearly of both of them, and he finds himself overwhelmed at the sight. ”He is beautiful,” he breathes into her neck, the smile on his lips wide and evident. ”Did you have a name in mind?”

@[Vita]