Daybreak [Persephone]

[jonas oliver avery]

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There was a new baby Fawn in the world and, though Jonas had not yet met the healthy little girl, he knew already that he would do anything for her.

Jonas had been waiting (admittedly impatiently) in the waiting room of St. Mungo's since he'd received Felix's patronus message that Sephie had gone into labor, pacing the long room and doing whatever he could to stay busy. He'd stacked and reorganized the pile of dated Witch Weeklys on the side table easily a dozen times and had walked probably a kilometer in laps around the waiting room. Anna Elise was with her mother for the weekend, and Jonas had nowhere else he would rather be. 

But, at last, Felix entered, a wide smile stretching his face as he told Jonas that he was, once again, a father. A beautiful baby girl, welcomed into the new world left in the wake of Death's downfall. It seemed a fitting start to the new era. 

It didn't take long for Jonas to make his way through the corridor and to Sephie's room, though he lingered in the doorway for a long moment. It was a touching sight, a quiet moment between mother and child. Even after so many hours of what was surely hard work and pain, Sephie looked as beautiful as ever. 

At long last, though, Jonas knocked on the doorframe, stepping into the room and moving to the bed so that he could peer into the little pink bundle nestled in his lover's arms.

"Merlin, Seph, she's beautiful," He breathed, grin splitting his face in two. No matter how many times he was witness to something as joyous as welcoming a child into the world, he would forever be in awe of it. Especially when it involved people he held so close to his heart. 

persephone dimitra fawn ● january 2023 ● 304 words ● n/a

Jonas Oliver
Avery★

dandy ♫

[persephone dimitra fawn]

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sephie
fawn

New beginnings tended to have a way of being bittersweet, but this one was especially so. Sephie had wanted this baby for so long, but the timing had been less than ideal. There was still a gaping hole in her heart where Lavender should have been, and while the babe in her arms could never replace them, nor would she even try, the youngest Fawn daughter was something of a balm to her pain. They had lost so much, so many things, but even amongst that loss, new things could bloom.

There was still much uncertainty to the world, even with Death defeated, her job was still gone with the shuttering of the school, but employment was the furthest thing from her mind as she looked down at her daughter. Those things would be figured out in time, for now, Sephie was going to focus on the family she still had. A rapping of knuckles at the doorframe made her tear her eyes away from Nimue, managing a sleepy smile up at Jonas. She’d labored with Nimue nearly a full twenty-four hours, her exhaustion showed, but she couldn’t possibly sleep yet.

"Merlin, Seph, she's beautiful,"

Sephie smiled again, tilting her arms slightly so Jonas could have a better look at the baby. “I’d like you to meet Nimue Oceane,” Sephie said, quietly so as not to disturb Nimue who’d only just shut her eyes. The name, once she and Felix had settled on it, had been kept under tight wraps, even from Jonas, to keep it a surprise. Honoring one of the fallen of their family had been only natural, one of the few things that felt right about all of this. “She’s been agreeable thus far, if you’d like to hold her,” Sephie added, offering the infant to her lover.

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