Parents for HelgaButtercup
Arnold x Helga x Parents
He is looking through photo albums in the study when he finds it. It's bright pink and glossy, the cover is filled with butterflies and flowers. His eyes go wide, his heart beats a little faster and he chokes on his next breath of air.
Is Helga... pregnant?
It's not like him to jump to conclusions but his wife is confusingly secretive sometimes, even after all these years, and he is currently staring at a baby name book. A baby name book in her favourite shade of pink, that just so happened to be hidden in her favourite room of the house.
He finds it a little hard to settle on one thought pattern, because a million things are whirring through his mind. He has questions. He needs answers. They're too young. It's too soon. He needs more evidence. He needs to calm down.
He spends the rest of the day flipping through the book, searching all the cupboards in the house and double-checking their internet browser history. She's circled names in the book: Eva, Kate, Paige, Sasha. She has a torn piece of paper scribbled with Doctor Parkin – Paediatrician (Ravenshill) in the top drawer in her study. She has Googled countless parenting articles over the past two weeks; the most frequently visited being a site called Mother & Daughter.
Helga is definitely pregnant, and it's a girl.
She comes home later that afternoon a little stressed; looking unusually flustered, and is on the phone to Phoebe before he can think of a way to tactfully broach the subject. He manages to bite his tongue until dinner time when she asks:
"Do you think... for a baby with brown hair, would 'Eva' or 'Paige' be a better name?"
"Brown hair?"
"Yup, I think that's what I've decided, it makes the most sense – don't you think?"
"Err... No, not really?"
"I think so. I mean, Ingrid has brown hair – just because Martin's hair is black doesn't necessarily mean he's going to tromp the genetic pool. Besides, I established in the second chapter of Ingrid of Ravenshill that his parents are brunettes, so I think it makes perfect sense, Football Head."
Oh, right, he married an author. He's an idiot.
A/N: I am working on the last chapter of Angela on the Couch and the next chapter of Curly's Love Potion and I will have them out sooooon! Promise. :)