Little Glyndwr William Emrys-Pendragon was born on a sunny day, surrounded by plenty of doctors and nurses and his rather excited father jumping around, making everyone regret letting him in at all. Pacing back and forth in the waiting room, was his whole family: his grandparents sitting calmly on a bench, both having been through labour's anxiety in the old days; his aunt Morgan, sporting a great tan after rushing back home from her honeymoon to assist to the joyous arrival, and his newly-acquired uncle Leon; and then his uncle Arthur holding hands with his girlfriend Gwen. Some distant relatives (which were not at all, but were considered part of the family), namely Gwaine and Vivian, were currently too busy having a child on their own and couldn't possibly attend the meeting with the first Pendragon grandchild.
When Marlin, the lucky father, appeared from his wife's room holding a small bundle protected by a thins layer of blue, everyone stood up and smiled coming near the two boys.
"He's beautiful!-Gwen said hugging her friend as good as she could- I wanted to see him before leaving. Elyan texted me saying that our brother fainted and he needs my help! Tell Freya I'm proud of her and that I'll be back soon" she looked once more down at her nephew(being with Arthur allowed her to call little William that) and kissed her boyfriend on the lips before heading to her sister-in-law's delivery room.
"He has your eyes" Hunith said taking her grandson from her son's arm and sitting back on her chair next to her husband to see the new addition of the family in a better way. Morgan and Leon followed and the girl and her father started giving opinions upon the boy's feature.
"Good work, brother" Arthur said hugging his brother, smiling happily.
"Freya did all the hard work" Marlin said exhausted " Isn't he beautiful? I can't believe he his mine"
"Well, you have a son now, my dear brother. Deal with it" Arthur said starting to head for his nephew to rescue him from his sister and father's current fight about his nose" By the way: you know I'm going to spoil him rotten"
"Just as much as I'll spoil your child, brother"
"Isn't he gorgeous?" Elaine cooed holding up her son " Perfect, just like his daddy"
Lance looked at the pair with distant eyes, a spark of love coming through only when he let his stare linger for a few seconds on his son. Galahad, they named him: it was Lance's grandfather's name and he had wanted to honour him by calling his first born after him. Elaine got to pick the second name, Michael... he was to be a great man with such a banal name. But he couldn't stop her, she had, after all, carried him for the whole nine months.
He had heard Marlin and his wife had recently had a baby with his wife and also Gwaine and Vivi had had another addition to the family, another boy. Those two were never able to keep their hands off each other and it didn't surprise him at all when he heard.
Lance also knew that things were going steady between Arthur and his Gwen, Elaine made sure to tell him that she had moved on from time to time, just to be sure that he knew he was stuck with her and their son from now on. He hated when she did that, he regretted every single moment of his new life: he loved Galahad, he was the only good thing that came out from his cheating.
"I need to get Gwen back" was all he could think about.
THREE MONTHS LATER
Life in the household was going back to normal after Morgan and Leon had moved out to their new flat in Liverpool: her father had decided to open a new office there and she had volunteered to go and set it all up. The truth was, Leon wanted to get away from London and have a chance to enjoy his wife for a while without having to share her with her family and she had agreed after some arguing and some extra-steamy make-up sex.
Marlin and Freya had started to settle some sort of routine with new-born Glyndwr, now able to sleep at least four hours per night without waking his parents. They had gently refused his parents' offers for helping them and focused on raising their child as normally as a child with Arthur and Uther as relatives could.
It was all normal to Arthur and Gwen, even the now-rare fights Elyan and Elena had about their new home a few blocks away from them. Their lives were now peacefully uneventful: they would wake up in the morning, snuggling together for around ten minutes until one of the two (usually Gwen) decided they did indeed have to wake up and left to shower. These were usually interrupted by a morning make up session when Arthur would join her and help her wash her hair, Head for work and give their best for it, send some texts to check on the other and sometime meet for lunch.
Then there was dinner time, Gwen's perfect cooking skills showing all around on the table Arthur would lay after changing into his house clothes (shorts and his Arsenal signed t-shirt). Dinner would be spent talking about their day and planning the week-end: they sometimes decided on a little trip in France or an excursion to the seaside house Arthur's mother had bought before leaving. And, other times, they would discuss about their future, their nephews and the fact that, after Morgan and Gwen, no girl was born on either families: although neither Morgan or Elyan or Arthur were married yet, the three members of their group already married all had only boys. They had also found out that even Lance and Elaine had recently welcomed a baby boy. And the fact that all these boys had names starting with the letter G was a curious fact indeed.
"Think about it: first Gaheris and Gareth. Then Glindwr, Gwil and Galahd" Gwen pointed out once" Now we'll have to name ours with a G, too. And we'll be left with George because your sister already played dibs on Gregory when we were ten"
"Who says we're going to have a boy!" Arthur said smiling kissing the top of nose "Plus, I don't think Gregory Pendragon would sound good, so let's leave it to Leon and Morgan"
"Fine" she said "But if all the sex we're having does decide to pay off, then we'll seriously have to think about something"
"Ok. Do you want to decide now? You pick boys, I pick girls, both first and second name" when Gwen left to get some paper and a pencil, he added "And I thought you loved having sex with me"
She came back and winked. They sat down and started writing down all the names they knew and paired them up with the surname to make sure it had the perfect sound. They spent the next hour doing so and then she threw away the pen happily, yelling "Done"
"Finally. I've been waiting for more than forty minutes" he said getting some water "I thought you'd never make it"
"Forty? I hope our child doesn't come out named Emerald Pearl"
"Ew" was all the response she got "Come on: ladies first"
"Perfect. I decided to go for something without a G, if it's ok with you" she waited for him to nod in response and continued " Ok, my names are Lleuch Duran"
"Lleuch Duran Pendragon...it does have a certain sound" Arthur said" Ready for my little princess?"
Gwen smiled at his face, he sounded so convinced they would eventually end up with a girl that he would defy genetics to get what he wanted.
"What about Llyr Emlys?"
"I love it"
"How long do you think it would take?"
"Not long: you're going to have your fiancée back in less than a month, Mr. DuLac"
"Thank you! I'm sure you'll make it happen fast"
