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"What do you think of the name Aries?"
Rose turned to look at her fiancé who looked slightly flushed and was staring at him fingers.
"Hmm?"
"The name Aries, do you like it?"
"Why?"
The corners of his lips twitched and he cleared his throat.
"Just wondering." He got up from the gray couch in their flat and walked towards the kitchen, mumbling something along the lines of 'felt so much braver in my head…' Rose frowned and grabbed her mug of chai, following him quietly and setting the cup on the marble counter.
"Scorp, is everything okay?" She reached out for him and wrapped her arms around his broad shoulders, leaning into his back. He let out a small sigh and turned in her grasp to face her, kissing her lightly on the lips and nose before leaning back and taking in her dazed expression, smirking.
"I'm going out for a walk, is that alright?" She nodded and pulled her hands back, stuffing them in her pockets. He let out another sigh and grabbed his coat off the hanger, shrugging it on before slipping out of their home. Rose stood in the middle on the kitchen for a moment, rocking back and forth on her heels before she let out a soft sigh and meandered to their bedroom. She had just finished brushing her teeth and changing into a pair of cotton shorts and a tanktop, when something on the edge of the bed caught her eye. She sat down on the green and gold (a combination of their houses) comforter and picked up the navy journal she presumed was Scorpius'. After all, it wasn't hers. Flipping the first page open, she stifled a gasp and leaned in, eyes widening when she saw the content.
She didn't know Scorpius could draw. And not just stick figures either. They were good enough to get him into a muggle art school, at least. Most of them were just unfinished sketches; trees, a flower, a bird sitting in the middle of the page. But she kept flipping through them, smiling to herself whenever she came across a picture of herself. Most of them were of her sleeping, and the bit back a chuckle, trying to picture her fiancé studying her cryptically in her sleep before drawing a few lines and repeating the process.
It was well past the time she had intended to go to bed, and she was starting to get slightly worried about Scorpius, but pushed most of her anxiety down. He was a full-grown man- wizard for Merlin's sake- and her had a wand. He was fine. Rose flipped to the last page of the journal, yawning and covering her mouth, and nearly choked when she saw the picture on the page, fingering it as softly as she could as if it might float off the page in she wasn't careful.
It was a baby.
But not just any baby. It was a perfectly Rose-and-Scorpius-combined baby, with her bright eyes and his high cheek bones. Her fingers flitted across it's face, it's arms, chest… basically anywhere she could touch it, and for that one moment, Rose wanted nothing more in the world than for that baby to be real. Her eyes drifted to the bottom of the page where she saw Scorpius' messy scrawl littering the open space, nearly illegible due to the amount of words he had crossed out. She could see him clearly in her mind, his eyes knitting together as they always did when her was frustrated, as he hunched over this exact page. The only last three words were in a patch of unmarked page, and the studied them, her cheeks flushing when she saw what they were.
Names.
So that's what her had been on about earlier. She felt a sudden rush of affection for her soon-to-be husband.
In a list, they read;
Aries - aam
Corvus – archer
Orion – hunter
"Constellations." She whispered, mostly to herself, as she remembered his family's tradition of naming the first born after as cluster of stars.
Felling bold, she grabbed a pen off the dresser and circled the top on, scribbling a note next to it that said
Aries,
Definitely Aries.
Before laying the book face up on his cold pillow, so that he would see it when he returned. She crawled under the covers and curled up on her side, an affectionate smile resting on her lips and she drifted off.
They would talk more tomorrow.
So… how'd you like it? Reviews please! Do you think it's good as a one shot, or should I continue?
Thanks,
-agt