" I never thought naming a baby would be so hard." Alois said adding another name to his list. Beside him, Naveen looked carefully through the book.
Alois was now three months pregnant, tired and at times ill tempered. Naveen loved him all the same. He understood his mate was in pain and worried.
"We will find a perfect name, I promise you that. Cousin Ciel is coming to help, he will be here shortly."
"Yes, he's bringing Rachel, Vincent, Evian and the babies." Alois smiled, he enjoyed their company.
"I hope they can come up with some advice or something because I don't have much faith in my ability as someone who can name our baby." Naveen confessed.
"What happened to what you said a few minutes ago about finding the perfect name?"
"We will, even if it means we have to enlist help and borrow one of their suggestions."
"What if It's some kind of sign, I mean if we can't find something as important as this, am I even going to be able to-"Naveen moved closer and held him.
"Precious, many parents have trouble naming their children, it doesn't make them bad parents. In my opinion, some shouldn't be permitted to, they could be the best parents to ever live and give them strange or truly terrible names.. my point is that our ability to come up with something does not indicate what we are capable of as parents." Alois rested his head on his mate.
"It's not like we have nothing though, would you like to hear my list so far?' Naveen pulled out his paper.
"Since we start with girls I have found a few, the first is Rose." He paused for his mate's opinion.
"Rose is nice, we can put that on our list of names to consider." Naveen smiled.
"We have already made progress. Evelyn.
"It's beautiful, there's just so many E's already."
"Bess." Alois looked at him pointedly.
"I'm having a baby, not a cow."
"You should know that Bess is more than a name for livestock, why just the other day-"
"No." Alois said sternly.
"Very well, Olivia."
"I don't know."
"Penelope?" Alois sighed.
"I think we should take a break."
"Alright. We don't have to figure it out all in one day precious." Naveen kissed Alois' head.
"I know but It's-"
"Shh, It's going to be alright. Our child will have a beautiful name, just relax, the healer says stress will add to your pains and only make you ill. Would you like to eat, I can bring you anything you like."
"I would like something sweet, maybe some cake or something."
"Then as soon as cousin Ciel arrives, I will get it for you." Alois smiled.
"You're the best mate ever." The blonde boy stated looking into Naveen's eyes lovingly.
"I'd argue that." Ciel said entering the house.
"I suppose you're going to tell me you have the best mate?" Alois asked. Ciel smirked.
"No, I was going to tell you that Sebastian has the best mate." Alois shook his head.
"Mommy, what does that mean?" Rachel asked helping to push the stroller which held the twin girls.
"Never mind Rachel." The children walked in behind their mother and waited quietly.
"Go on, It's alright."
"Hello Alois and Naveen." They said happily.
"Hello children."
"Well, I need to excuse myself for a while, but I should be back soon." He kissed Alois.
"I love you precious one." He said softly.
"Love you too." Alois replied watching him leave.
"What are you doing Alois?"Vincent couldn't resist peeking at the papers.
"I'm trying to name the baby."
"I like babies, we have two new ones, they are girls." The young demon explained.
"Yes I know, I was there the day they were born."
"We take good care of our babies." Rachel grinned proudly.
"I bet you do, you're all such good helpers." Rachel turned to her mother.
"That is what you tell us mommy,Alois thinks so too, I am very proud of us."
"We are very good brother and sisters, mama and dad love us so much!"
"Our babies lived in mommy, daddy said they would not grow if mommy did not let them."
"That's true, babies need a mother to let them grow."
"Our mama loved us enough to let us live in his tummy, you must really love your baby." Evian said walking over and hugging Alois.
"Do not be afraid." The small demon whispered.
"What would I be Afraid of?"
"The thing that makes you scared the most, it will not happen, you will have the baby and it will be okay, it already loves you. You will be a very good mama for it."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I have not been wrong about babies. It will be okay, Naveen will be happy and you will too. Your baby wants you to be happy."
"Thank you Evian. I trust what you're telling me."
"I am happy to know that because I will not lie."
"Evian, can you tell me if the baby is a boy or girl?" The child shook his head.
"I do not want to tell you everything, you will not be surprised. Silly Alois." Evian giggled. Alois couldn't stop smiling.
"Evian's really good with things like this." Ciel confirmed.
"Anyway, I brought the lists you asked for, you know which names I picked, my children's names are theirs, don't get any ideas."
"I understand. Thank you for coming over. I have some girl names already in mind but I just-"
"If you have a baby girl you can call her Rachel!" Rachel offered, Ciel put a hand on her shoulder.
"Not every little girl can be Rachel, It's very nice of you to share though."
"What names do you like Alois?" Vincent sat down next to him.
"Well, I like Wynter, Echo is pretty and I adore the name Lenora."
"It's a beautiful name, if Sebastian hadn't gotten me to name Rachel after my mother, it would have been her name."
"Really?" Alois was surprised that Ciel was also fond of it.
"It's on those papers, I also considered calling her Renee very briefly. Did you tell Naveen you like Lenora?" Alois shook his head.
"It's the first time he'll be a father, shouldn't it be for him to decide?"
"No, you're the baby's mother. You have to give birth to The child, you have the deciding word."
"You let Sebastian help with your children."
"Yes, he helped, if I didn't like it, we weren't going to use it." Alois chuckled.
"Still pulling the strings then?"
"Always."
"Mommy is the boss, Daddy does whatever mommy tells him."
"I'm sure he does, your daddy would be in trouble if he didn't, wouldn't he?"
"Oh yes, mommy would be very upset with him."
"When mama gets angry at dad, he does not talk ro him, dad gets upset and tries to get him to, he hates when Mama won't talk to him."
"That's enough children."
"Okay." The children replied in unison.
"Anyway, talk to Naveen and let him know what you think, the baby is yours as much as it is his."
"You're right, I'll talk to him when he comes home."
'Is everything alright?" Naveen asked as he entered, in his hands he carried the cake Alois had mentioned as well as a bouquet of Bluebells. Alois stood and greeted him with a kiss.
"Everything's fine, I just want to talk to you about the name, I wanted you to pick it because its the first time you'll be a father and I want this to be-"
"Alois, precious one, what would you like to call the baby if It's a girl?" Naveen asked gently setting the cake box down.
"Lenora, I know you had other ideas so I don't-"
"Lenora is a lovely name, I see in your eyes that you are very fond of you're happy with it, so am I, I was hoping to suggest something as well."
"What?"
"Lucille, it has the first three letters as your brother and I thought maybe after all he gave us, It's a nice tribute to him." Alois was touched.
"Naveen, I-"
"It's a good compromise." Ciel said.
"Lenora Lucille, I like that, but are you sure?" Alois searched his mate's emerald eyes and found his answer.
"My darling Alois, did I not say we would find the prefect name for the baby?"
"Yes."
"I believe we have. A beautiful name for a beautiful little girl."