Written for the Song Fic Boot Camp, The Legendary Gods and Goddesses Competition (category: Poseidon), and Get Your Prompts Here Challenge :)
Prompts: Christmas, cupcakes, pyjamas
Song: "Isn't she lovely?" – Stevie Wonder
Song Fic Boot Camp Prompt: Father
Beta: mew
Isn't she lovely
Isn't she wonderful
The first time he observed Claire Lovegood - laughing with the wind, singing with the rain, lost in life - he knew she came from another world. This girl just didn't belong in this world, harsh and bitter.
She belonged in fairytales, beautiful and perfect, glorious and happy.
"What are you looking at?" she asked, chewing on her Christmas cupcake happily. She was taking one bite at a time, enjoying it, devouring it, and Albus was almost - almost jealous of her happiness.
"How are you always happy?" he asked her, genuinely curious.
"I don't know," she answered, still smiling. "Grandpa always said I should enjoy everything in life, every minute, every second, and I do,"
"How?" Albus asked, astonished. "Isn't there anything in the world that makes you sad, unhappy?"
"Well," she considered, "I assume not knowing my dad does make me a little upset. I would like to know him - but then I have grandpa as my father so that brightens up things," she concluded, grinning.
"You don't know who your dad is?"
"Nope,"
"Why? Didn't you ever ask your mum?"
"Well, I hardly ever see her, so it's difficult to ask. She's always going on some expedition or another," Claire answered, a knowing look on her face.
"Wow," he muttered under his breath, almost angry at Claire's mother for neglecting her.
"Albus?" Claire asked him gently.
"Yeah?
"What do you think of my pyjamas? My grandpa got them for me when he went to search for Nargles in Cairo. Aren't they absolutely lovely? They make me look so pretty," she asked innocently, twirling around in her pink and green pyjamas to show him.
"They're lovely, Claire - absolutely lovely," he said and she beamed at him.