In the next three months, the clans females, and Roe, prepared for the birthing, picking spots in the rookery, setting up nests and obsessively cleaning. The females, after a long discussion, decided to raise their children the human way, with hatchlings knowing their parents. Roe would still be raising the kids, but it was cut down to half of the time. The dark haired gargoyle was completely miffed, but did understand, though he did warn them a head of time that if they messed up, their parental duties were gone. And that he'd be hovering over the babies and eggs obsessively. Out of all of the females, Elisa was the biggest and the crankiest, snapping at every one at the slightest provocation. Though she did always apologize later for it, though the guilt would take her to the edge of crying. The others understood. Angela was the calmest out of them, and what seemed the most excited. Ru and Lu were the bounciest and the crankiest next to Elisa. Clancey hovered over an excited Sarah, worried about her well being. He rubbed her feet and lower back constantly, and was the slight envy of the other females. Liottie and Rome argued the a lot throughout the whole of the pregnancy so far, but were content. Liottie also ate a lot of sweets and ended up gaining some unnecessary weight.
Lexington and Brooklyn felt the most left out, but were content within their relationship. Though, Lexington had begun to severely hover around four year old Alex and continuously 'mommy henned' him when he wasn't doing that with Roe. The sentinel mother was just glad his new family seemed to be happy with the current situation. Roe, Elisa and Angela were currently in the rookery, chatting about being moms and their hatchling's future.
"Oh, Elisa, I almost forgot, can ask you something?" Angela asked, rather abruptly.
"Yes, Angela?" Elisa replied with a motherly smile.
"What are 'godparents'? I heard the term when we visited Talon and Maggie," Angela asked. Roe perked up at the topic, rather curious himself. His village didn't have such things as "Godparents".
"Godparents are people a couple choose to be second parents, almost. In and event that something happens to you and your mate, for example, you would intrust a very good friend to raise your child in your place. Someone who'd you entrust completely, basically your extended family," Elisa replied easily.
"Oh, now I get it. Thank you Elisa," Angela replied.
"Yes, Eli, thank you," Roe said, echoing Angela's grateful thank you.
"Of course you two," Elisa replied. A few moments later, Brooklyn and Lexington came in, chatting with each other easily.
"Hmph, Fox didn't have to be so mean," Lex grumbled.
"She had some right, your mommy-ing her kid. 'Sides, it isn't like Roe wont let you do that to his kid," Brooklyn replied with a warm smile.
"I know, but she still said it very rudely. Hi guys," Lex said, still grumpy.
"Hi," The three pregnant people replied.
"Oh, Lexie, Brooklyn, I wanna make you my son's godparents. Is that okay?" Roe said, looking at them happily. Both gargoyles looked at Roe surprised, as did the two females.
"R-really?" Brooklyn asked, both gargoyles looked hopeful.
"Ja, of course." Roe replied smiling happily.
"Oh thank you Roe," Lex replied, going over to hug the sentinel mother tightly.
"Your welcome," Roe replied, returning the hug. Brooklyn thanked him with a big smile, decently happy with this prospect. The white haired gargoyle was just happy having to finally having Lex, after a thousand years to finally have him as his mate, to love him like he did. An egg with Lex would have been the cherry on top, but he had Lex and it was enough either way. Brooklyn was interrupted in his chain of thought when his mate began to talk to him.
"Hey Brook?" Lex asked, turning to his larger mate, a questioning look in his eyes.
"Yes, luv?" Brooklyn asked automatically, focusing completely on the webbed gargoyle. The other three snickered quietly at his snap to it focus. The thought that had gone through their minds was 'whipped much?'.
"Do you mind helping them with me? I also want to spend more time with you today," Lex asked, a begging pout forming on his lips. Brooklyn had somewhere to be, as second in command he helped Goliath with a lot of things that had to do with the clan. While in the midst of helping, he was being trained, at least somewhat. Tonight, he had set up some training exercises for the males, who were more on guard now that females were carrying young. Lex knew Brooklyn had stuff to do, but the pouty look on the smaller gargoyles face made Brooklyn hesitate in saying 'no'. Lex did care if Brooklyn got in trouble, but wanted to see if he could get the elder to stay with him a little longer.
"All right," Brooklyn replied quickly, wanting Lex happy.
"Thank you Brook," Lex replied with a smile.
"Don't you have things to do tonight, Brooklyn?" Elisa asked, trying to hold back her snickers.
"Goliath will understand that I'm helping you guys with this stuff. Besides, Lex cant do all the heavy lifting by himself, and we don't want you guys to strain yourselves." Brooklyn responded with a grin.
"Right," Elisa responded, trying very hard not to laugh. Three hours later, Goliath came storming in demanding to know where Brooklyn was. Angela was the closest one to him, so she's the one who answered.
"He's been helping Elisa, Roe, and myself around the Rookery father. Him and Lexington have been helping move the stuff that's a might to heavy for us in our conditions," Angela replied with a gentle smile. Goliath's angered face softened considerable, understanding that the females, especially Elisa, needed to take precautions while being pregnant.