Helios's Secret Child

Summary: Cedric finds an abandoned infant in the woods in the beginning of winter, taking in the child unaware that the child is a demigod, but he now faces a new challenge: Fatherhood!

Chapter 1

It was a dark and cool winter's night as jack frost made his presence known by making the winds colder and leaves off the trees and die, only to be covered by a light blanket of snow. But the silence of the night was disturbed by a cloaked figure running in the wood with a bundle in its arms, only for it to trip on an exposed root, quickly making sure to twist to its side to protect the now crying bundle from injury.

"Hush little one, Mama's here, shh!" The hood had fallen off to reveal a girl of 16 years with light brown hair with a white streak of hair and light blues eyes, a heart shaped face with freckles along her cheeks and nose as she smiled sadly at the crying babe in her arms as she limped over to a clearing with a falling log in the middle of it, as she quickly sits down, making sure to pull the hood back on and puts the squirming infant down onto the cool ground and just started to cry heavily as everything caught with her these last few months as she was reminded of the man who started all this, Helios a man with fiery red hair and a handsome face, who reveal to her that he was once a Titan god of Fire, before he left and disappeared, unaware that Anna was pregnant with his child, a demigod.

'I can't let my sister know that I had a child, I am sorry, but I have to forget you, my little one.' The teen thought sadly as she cried, only to freeze when she heard a voice coming from behind her.

A few moments earlier…

Cedric was walking through the woods of royal grounds to help clear his head as he was having trouble sleep these past few days as he dreamt of a child with fiery red hair calling for him so he decided that he would bundle up and go for a walk to help make him tired, when he heard a faint sound not to far from him and it sounded like someone was crying, so he went to find out who or what was making it and hopefully help the pitiful creature.

After a moment of avoiding roots and cutting through brush, he spotted a hooded figure dressed in a dark brown cloak, sitting on a fallen log in the middle of a clearing and from the shaking shoulders and sound coming from it, he found the source of the crying.

"Everything alright?" Cedric said softly as the hooded figure froze for a moment, but it took off into the woods disappearing into the darkness.

"Wait! Oh merlin mushrooms!"

Cedric smacks himself on the forehead before starting he heard a whimpering sound coming from behind the log, curious Cedric went over the log and saw a bundle of purple blankets.

With a gentleness Cedric pulled away the blanket to reveal newborn babe, making him gape in shock at its appearance.

The child had bright icy blue eyes with the reddest hair he has ever seen, along with skin as pale as freshly fallen snow.

"Let's get you inside, little one." Cedric said as he rewrapped the cooing babe as he made his way towards the castle he called home.

Because it was late in the night, Cedric decided to let King and Queen know the morning about this, so he quickly walks straight up to his tower and quickly warms up his cold quarters with a flick of his wand and quickly conjurors up an old cradle that King and Queen's children once used a few years ago for the child to sleep in and then quickly lays the child on to his now clear table to check it over for any injury or illness and to see if it is a girl or boy.

After a quick change of it's diaper, he finds out that it's a boy and then he quickly summons the baby clothes that Castlisa used to wear when she was a newborn baby and quickly puts on the child, before conjuring a bottle filled with warm goats milk and feeds it to the hungry boy, smiling at the cuteness and tenderness of this moment as he was reminded of the times when his niece was tiny.

"I guess, I should give you a name at least, I can't go around calling you boy now can't I?" Cedric said as he firmly pats the babe's back, earning a loud burp, a bit of spit up which he cleans away quickly, before cradling the child once more in his arms.

"What should I call you? Hmm?" The baby coo's at him as he looks Cedric in the eye deeply, his icy blue eyes shining brightly near the warm fire, like diamonds.

The first name to come to Cedric's mind was "Blaise." the baby cooed happily at the name, Cedric smiled softly at him.

"You like that don't you, Blaise, it suits you, somehow." The baby started to yawn, which in turn had Cedric yawning as well as the event of tonight caught up with him, after quickly make sure the boy was comfortable in the cradle, he conjurors up his cot to sleep on, so that he could be nearby in case, Blaise needed him during the night.

Cedric dozed lightly throughout the night as he got up every 2 hours to change or feed the child as it cried, eventually he ended up sleeping with the child in his arms on the small cot, exhausted.

When he didn't answer his door later that morning, Baileywick quickly tells the King that something is wrong and that he was worried about Cedric, so both the King and Stewart quickly open the door to Cedric's home to find an odd sight of, baby items and the sorcerer with a baby in his arms, clearly exhausted.

"Cedric!" Roland said startling the baby in the sleeping man's arms awake as it let out a ear piercing wail, which had Cedric awake in seconds as he tried to comfort the upset infant, oblivious to the other three adults in the room, until a loud clearing of the throat was heard and he turns to see the King, Queen and the Stewart all standing in his rooms.

"Sire and Baileywick." Cedric said clearly still out of it as he rocked the whimpering babe in his arms.

"Cedric what is going on and where did you get that child?" Roland demanded gently as he saw how the baby reacted to him so he tried to have a gentler tone of voice, just like he would when his twins were small.

"I *yawn* found him in the woods,*yawn*last night, mother abandoned him and now I am taking care of him until I could see you in the morning about adopting him." Cedric said clearly as he became more awake, while getting some goats milk warmed up and into a bottle before feeding the baby in his arms.

"Adopting a child? Are you sure? A baby is a lot of work and they need a lot of love and attention." Roland pointed out, earning a mild glare from the Sorcerer.

"Yes I am sure as Merlin himself is the greatest wizard of all time." Cedric said he held the child over his shoulder to burp him, earning a loud blench.

"I will get the adoption papers for you to read and sign, but if you need any help or advice or even a babysitter, all you have to do is asked and Baileywick and I will glad to help." Roland said smiling when the baby looked at him for brief moment, before looking at Cedric once more.

"Really? Sire I don't want to impose." Cedric said but Baileywick was quick to say. "It is really no trouble, Cedric and I will glad to help raise the child with the Princess and Prince as if they were siblings or cousins."

Cedric smiles widely at the older man, who he always banters with sometimes even though some people think that they don't like each other that was far from true.

"Thank you, do you want to hold him?" Cedric asked as he holds out the infant for the Stewart to take, at first Baileywick was unsure, but quickly he remembers how he held the prince and princess when they were small and soon the babe was comfortably cradled into the older man's arms.

"He certainly adorable." Baileywick said as the babe looked up at him with his icy blue eyes as he sucked on his hand, perfectly content to held by a strange man as Cedric ran a light finger over the thick fuzz of bright red hair.

"Yes he will a little charmer when he is older." Cedric said with pride as the babe started to sleep in Baileywick's arms and then Cedric had him put Blaise down in the cradle for a nap.

Just when Blaise was settle down, Roland comes in and whispers into Cedric's ear and they both leave Baileywick with the baby to head towards his office.

Once they both inside the office, Roland pulls a stack of paper with the word Adoption written on top of it. "Here are the adoption forms that you need to fill out as much as you can and then I will sign off on it." Cedric nods and carefully reads the forms and signing where he needed too, it took about an hour and by that time, Cedric was done and Roland was quick to sign and seal the document, officially making Cedric the father of Blaise.

After thanking the King for his help, he went back to his rooms and relieved Baileywick, who congratulated him on becoming a father, before leaving the man to take the still sleep infant into his arms and say...

"Welcome to the family, Blaise."