Author note:

Hello everyone! There is the first chapter of this fic. I post it now because today it's monday and also because the prologue was very short.

Tell me what you think of it.

Enjoy your reading!


My daughter-in-law is very punctual contrary to my son, so I suppose that she's the one who drive the car until they arrive at my place. I'm in front of the TV when I hear the bell ring and I stand up to open the door. I happily great the three members of my family and let them enter right after. Cassandra put my grandson on the floor and he come to me then he draw on my pants to attract my attention. I plunge my eyes into his and he stretch out his little arms to me, so I kneel down to take him and once he his well hang to my neck he kiss me on my cheeks. I gently pass my hand in his thin curly red hair, then I kiss his forehead and stand up, wrapping my arms around him to be sure he wouldn't fall. While I hug him, my son look at me, a bright expression on his face and say:

- I see that you have the situation under control. Until we reach your home he was very excited and I couldn't manage to keep him calm. He have scream a lot during our trip with the car.

I laugh while I'm imagining the scene and tell my him:

- I think I will handle him until he start to miss you. I will try to keep him occupied to avoid that.

- I trust you for that Lancelot. But, if something happen...

- Yes Cassandra I will call you in the instant. Oh! One question before you go.

- What's the matter?

- Does he have start to speak since the last time I have seen him?

- No, sadly not yet. I start to worry a little.

- There is nothing to fear my son. I was a bit late with this learning as well, it's not a dramatic thing. Children are very different from one to an other.

Both of them look at me, surprise by my knowledge and I smile, so glad that the books I read about children finally be of use to me. Then I release my grip on Henry and put him on the floor to let him kiss his parents before they leave. We go outside to see the car going away, then I bring Henry to the living room and we start to play with his toys.

I can see that my son pay attention to give his son every single representation of animals who live on Earth and the ones who, technically, didn't exist anymore, like dragons, unicorns, dinosaurs, which are only a few examples. The little boy intend to reproduce the sounds of the animals. I help him a lot because I turn the TV on to choose a TV program, which is of course adapt to children of his age, and which present the living creatures of our world.

At the end of the documentary I switch the channel to put some music and Henry show me his mythical animal toys which he haven't see on the screen. His interrogative look while he is doing this make me understand what he want and I stand up to look for a book about mythological creatures I buy recently. Then I come back and seat at the left of my grandson and show him one creature after the other, making the same sound I hear they do when I meet them a long time ago. That's make him laugh a lot and he applause me truly happy by what I just do in front of him. Of course, time pass very fast while I take care of him and it's almost 11 am when I start to prepare lunch while he his still calmly playing with his toys. I call him when the food his ready and I make him seat in his high chair before I help him to eat it. His eyes, identical to mine are light gray and I can see pleasure in them.

That make me happy because I wasn't sure if I had correctly follow the recipe for this mash. After I have wash his hands, mouths and teeth we play a little more, then, when I see him close his eyes on the sofa, I bring him in his room to change him into his pyjamas. When that's done he get in his bed with his favorite book: The dragon who fears his own shadow, and give it to me so I can read it. I only finish two pages when I see that he is sleeping, so I kiss him on his forehead and get out of the bedroom furtively. I watch a movie, even if I keep an eye on the baby phone which have a screen integrate in it to let me see how well he is wrap in his blanket.

Suddenly, just one hour after, I awake on the sofa because I hear him scream in his sleep. I rush in his bedroom and I immediately understand that he got a nightmare so I hug him and I whisper reassuring words to his ear. When he finally fall asleep again, still in my arms, I haven't the heart to let him alone so comfortably install myself on the bed and wait until it's the time to awake him. I program my clock to make it ring at four. When that time arrive, little Henry, who is now full of energy, jump out of the bed and rush to reach the fridge before me, but I have anticipate this action and place his favorite desserts on the highest shelves of the fridge.

When I arrive in the kitchen, I find him have a sulk in a corner of the room and I start to laugh until I calm myself to comfort him with a hug and give him his snack. Then, I decide to go at the park with him and I'm glad that he enjoy to get some fresh air and run in every direction. I watch him carefully, my daughter-in-law will probably kill me if I give her Henry back with some bruises. Sometimes he run to me and climb on my knee to rest and some others he just run after those poor pigeons which never have deserve such a terror.

I turn my head only a few second before I can see him playing with children of his age and older ones too. I leave my bench to come closer to them to watch my grandson and I'm hail by one of the mothers of those children:

- Hey mister! Is this little one your grandson?

I look in the direction the woman is pointed and smile when I notice that is truly grandson and he is gently playing with a girl a bit older than him.

- Yes he is. Why are you asking?

- I'm just curious sir, that's all. I think he is cute.

- His mother and father would be glad to hear you but they are in holidays for now. I must take care of him and it seem that he needed to get out after his big nap.

- He is lucky to have you. Most of those children who are under my care didn't have a family.

- Does that mean you are the one who is in charge of the orphanage which is near by?

- Yes I do. It's a lot of work you know.

- I haven't a doubt on that.

I continue to talk to that woman during a short time before I see the hour. I say goodbyes to my interlocutor, take Henry with me and return home. After dinner while I seat on the sofa, reading a book, he pass under one of my arms to seat on my knee and comfortably put his head on my chest. There is where he fall asleep and I didn't get the faith to awake him, he need to rest even more than this morning because of how long he has play in the park. I stand up as slowly as I can and I manage to put it into his pyjamas without awake him but he soon get up after one more nightmare while I was asleep in my own bed. But, this time, he don't scream. He get out of his bed and come on mine then he softly wake me up.

I get out of my bed with Henry in my arms and I install him on the sofa. Then I realize that I forget to give him the dragon cuddle toy and get in my room to bring it to my grandson. I ask him to close his eyes, and because he is a smart boy, I think he understand that I have a surprise and obey without any protestations. I kneel down in front of him and take his hands to give him the dragon. When he got it he suddenly open his eyes and start to scream of joy, jumping around me with his new friend. Now that he have a protector to put away his bad dreams, I'm sure that he could manage to sleep well. So, I decide to take him to bed one more time and he fall asleep immediately. I wish that he will be ok now. I stay up a short time to be sure that I would be able to help him if he get one more nightmare but fortunately, nothing happen, so I can get some sleep as well.