30 days of drabbles: Bringing Home Baby Temple
Title: Bringing Home Baby Temple
(day 11: prepared - 7/30/12)
Fandom: Primeval
Characters: Connor/Abby [Temple], Niki Hope Temple (OC)
About: Post S5. sometimes, you don't need to be prepared for everything. Like pure happiness. FLUFFYYYYY :3
He thought he was ready for anything. Dinosaurs, mutated bat-things from the future, Helen Cutter, even Clones had been enountered before. They'd dealt with them. What he’d not been prepared for, despite months of, well, preparing in every sense of the word, was this moment: bringing their daughter home for the first time. Painting the nursery, buying everything imaginable, up to and including baby bath, diapers, and stuffed dinosaur toys. He'd enjoyed that, it made it feel more eral, just as Abby's growing baby bump had. And now the baby was home.
Connor was dazzled, completely in love with both his wife and their new baby. Rosy cheeks, dark brown, unruly hair, and the bluest of blue eyes gazed happily up at him from his arms, the 2-day-old infant already aware of her surroundings as much as a baby that age can be, and with a shock of thick hair as well. It was mind-blowing that this was their daughter, when just a year ago he'd considered never returning through that anomaly.
But the part he hadn’t prepared for was how deeply he fell, the feeling of holding his daughter - his and Abby’s daughter, he spoke the words in his mind in awe as Abby Temple settled in on the couch next to him, kissing him on the lips gently. They both gazed back at Niki Hope Temple. The feelign of that moment was so beyond any words he could form that al lhe could think was how relatively unprepared he’d been for this moment. He was the happiest man in the world, right at that moment. Sometimes, you don’t need to be prepared for everything.