A/N: For daseyloverwholived. Spite the fact that I don't really ship them, I am super excited for this fic; hope you enjoy :)
Prompt: my idea is Denley fic where Henley is pregnant.
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Epilogue
-Five months later..-
"I think Jack's in love," Merritt states, leaning against the door leading into the Henley and Daniel's bedroom, watching Jack stroll through the room, cooing at baby Stella, who giggles a toothless grin up at him.
Her bright mauve eyes glint in the sunlight as the young magician spins her around in the air. When she's complete playing airplane, she smiles and smacks his jaw with her chubby hand, giggling at his mock-surprise.
A new laugh, a semblance of Henley's, falls from her mouth, when the redhead magician sneaks up behind them and plucks the baby from the younger, who pouts as Henley bounces the baby girl on her hip.
Stella reaches up and tugs at the end of her mother's riglets, similar to the russet-blond fuzz on her head, with her crystal-violet eyes. The mother smiles taking the baby's chubby hand and swaying with her in a little dance.
Merritt punches Daniel in the arm, snapping the scruffy magician from his reverie. The man was so engrossed in seeing his wife and daughter, his most important people in his life, second to the rest of the Four Horsemen.
"She's beautiful," Jack whispers, and Daniel wonders which he's talking about, so he turns and smiles at the young man before saying,
"Yeah, they are."
Jack smiles, a light chuckle falling from his lips as he and Merritt watch the magician skip across the room, his arms encircling his wife's waist and poking his head over her shoulder to peer at Stella.
Stella Renae Atlas.
He remembers when her name came to be.
It was a late autumn day, the second of October, a few days after Stella was born, when they were venturing through a baby names book. Jack and Merritt were down in the cafeteria, and it was just the two of them, their untitled daughter in Henley's lap on the bed, her head leaning back on the redhead magician's lean stomach.
Daniel was amusing the darling girl by pulling a quarter from her ear, which seemed to make an ecstatic giggle from his daughter's mouth, when she snatched the quarter from his hand and hid her chubby fist behind his ear, pulling it into his view with complete giddiness when he said,
"Good job, Stella."
It took him a minute to realize that he'd said it, and looked up to find Henley looking back with a soft smile. Their daughter giggled and looked down at the quarter, folding it around in her fingers with a concentrated expression. Then, she went to put in her mouth.
"No, Stella," Henley whispers, placing a clip of her fingers aroud the silver coin, whisking it around and tossing it back at Danny. As the father did the quarter trick again, Henley ventured, "Stella Atlas." The mother looked down at the small diamond encased on her finger.
They shared a smile, confirming their daughter's christened name.
Renae was Merritt's doing.
It was a few days after Stella was officially upgraded from Untitled, and they were crowded in their hospital room, eating junky takeout food that Henley was groaning about, when they fell upon one of Merritt's infamous tales.
The older man was telling a story of a girlfriend named Aviana Renae, whom he met through his assistant at the time, Alyssa, when Henley said, "Stella Renae Atlas."
They all turned to look at her, when Merritt laughed, "Okay."
At that moment, they called to the nurse, who scribbled the name over Stella's small footprints inked on her birth certificate.
"Congratulations," the nurse smiled, and the Four Horsemen fawned over the certificate.
"So, we're the Five Horsemen now?" Jack proposes, and a gentle laugh sprinkled around the room. He was leaning over to peer at the certificate, when two chubby hands clawed his shirt.
They all looked down to see Stella pawing at him, so he lifted her, muttering, "Hello, precious," and danced her around her room, much to her enjoyment.
And that was the moment they also realized that Jack was in love with the newborn.
Now, as the linked family stood there, dancing silently around the room, Henley looked out the window. Sunlight poured on them, making Stella's hair sparkle and her eyes glow. Beautiful.
"Same," Henley mutters, and Daniel slows kissing her neck, to peer around into her eyes.
"Huh?" he asks, and the baby coos.
"I love you to the moon and back, also," Henley replies, and they kiss, smooth lips to her ruby ones, when Stella scrambles out of her mother's arms and uses her mother's body as a ladder to the floor, where she coddles on her mother's calf a long moment, before army-crawling off toward the door.
A few seconds later, just as the baby reached the door, she rolled over and tugged her torso up, giving her family a look as if saying, aren't you coming?
Smiling, Daniel looked at his grinning wife, who immediately untangled herself from him and went to grab the baby's right hand.
Daniel grinned, grabbing her left hand, and together, they swung back in to the rest of their family, who were waiting for them.
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A/N: Ta-daa! I hope you enjoyed this journey as much as I did! Shout-outs to Alyssa, aka daseyloverwholived who I praise for this prompt! Go check out her page! And Aviana was her idea! Thanks, for your support, and please check out my other stories! I may write another fic similar to this; I dunno! But thanks guys!