Pairing - Cho/Oliver
Prompt - Like Father like Son
Word Count - 363
A Better Place
Cho smiled as she watched Oliver playing with their son in the garden. He seemed so happy, so excited to be teaching their three year old to fly on a training broom. She laughed when Cody squealed and giggled. Like father like son, huh? She was happy, happier than she had any right to be. She thought back to the mess she had been in when Oliver found her.
After the war, she had sunk into depression. She missed Cedric, and when she lost him, she didn't know how to grieve for him. Sure she spent much of the following year in tears at the very mention of him, but she had been a spoilt teenager, one that didn't have to deal with anything bad. When things went wrong in her life, a quick owl to her father fixed everything.
She had started drinking, and she found it helped. At least it did until she woke up, with the pain back in her chest and a pain in her head to match. The drinking got worse, as did her behavior. She thought that if she found someone to love her, the pain of losing her first boyfriend would disappear. It hadn't taken long for her to get a reputation, and not a good one.
Oliver was her savior. He looked after her when she had no one else. He rejected her drunken advances, instead taking her home and putting her to bed, sitting in the chair beside all night long in case she needed anything. He took her to therapy, he got her the potions she needed to beat her alcoholism. He listened, and he was there.
She had been in a better place since she met him. Five years after he found her, he proposed. Two years later, she gave birth to Cody. While she still missed Cedric, and probably always would, she was glad Oliver had found her. He had shown her how good love could be.
As Cho called the most important people in her life through the door, she run a hand gently over her stomach. She couldn't wait to tell Oliver the good news.