Chapter 9 - Finally the kid gets a name!

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A/N - Yes it's that chapter you've all been waiting for. The kid gets a name. Woohoo!
This took some serious thought mind you seeing as my muse was out until the wee
hours last night and has a serious hangover.

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Hilarity and Jareth peered around the door doing their best not to make a sound. Sarah
lay on the bed looking thoroughly exhausted.

"Never again!" she moaned "I refuse to do that again. Not in a million years."

"That's quite all right, my darling." said Jareth as the midwife handed him the baby.
"This one's more than I could ever have wished for."

"Oh, he's lovely!" whispered Hilarity but quickly realised that she's never seen a
human new-born before or a fae for that matter and added "Is he supposed to look like
that?"

"Yes."

"OK then."

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"They called him what?!" exclaimed Trin when his cousin returned.

"Caradoc. I think it means beloved in some fae language." Hilarity repeated. "Anyway,
what do you care?"

"Just curious. Caradoc's a bit of a mouthful isn't it? What's wrong with Humphrey?"

"Hmmm...I agree." said Hilarity "So do you want to come to the Naming Ceremony?
We might have to stay for a few days before. You know, to do some
godmother/godchild bonding."

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"They called him what?!" said the Prince of Darkness after the news was delivered to
him.

"Caradoc, your evilness." said Darren patiently.

"What a ****ing poncy name!"

"We can change it when he gets here to something more suitable for a destroyer of
worlds." said Darren.

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A few weeks passed and preparations for the Naming Ceremony were well underway.
Hilarity, Trin and Thomas arrived with luggage in tow and were met with a friendly
reception but unusually there were very few guests.

"Where are all the weird people?" said Trin with surprise. Weird they may have been
but at least the women put out.

"Oh, it's close friends and family only." said Hilarity "And Sarah doesn't want her son
to be exposed to those kinds of people."

"They seemed all right to me."

"Come off it, Trin. They make you look like a bloody angel!"

"What about the sneeze guy?"

"Who? Oh Knossos!"

"Gesundheit."

"He refused to come. Can't figure out why?" she grinned evilly and for a split second
her eyes changed from pale lavender to an arrogant mismatched stare.

"Christ! Don't do that! It's creepy. No wonder the troll dude got frightened off." This
conversation was cut off when a voice behind them cried:

"Miss Dvorak!" Hilarity spun around and came face to face with Sarah's family, her
previous employers. She had forgotten to tell them her real name, or the fact that she
was an alien. The subject had just never come up.

"Mr Williams! Hi."

"What brings you here?"

"I am the kids *ahem* official godmother."

"Really!" said Toby (now nine) excitedly "That's great because I'm the godfather!"

"Hey! That's great, kiddo."

"So what are we supposed to do?"

"Well from what I've heard, I'm supposed to grant wishes and you're supposed to order
the deaths of gangsters." Hilarity joked.