happy thanksgiving

[notsocommon]

Thanksgiving was not a holiday that Helen really celebrated outside of food and drink with close friends and this year, she'd been with just Will when the labor pains had started up in earnest. She'd ignored them for a while, considering it was common enough this late in pregnancy to have some false labor but when the pain seemed to get sharp and real and the contractions worryingly close, she and Will made the trek to the clinic and luckily found Dr. McCoy, who was happy enough to deliver a baby (for a given description of happy, anyway).

It was only after the hard part was done (and they'd both slept a handful of hours, to boot) that she felt comfortable enough sending Will out to tell everyone the baby had come and felt up to entertaining company.

[[OOC: This is timed anywhere from morning to afternoon on November 23rd in the clinic.]]

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[inabmovie]

"Oh no, I can do it," Will says quickly. "You just... you know. Supervise." He really wants to do it because he's discovered in just these few hours of being a father that he loves holding and touching Greg, looking at his little fingers and toes and round little belly. He stretches the neck of the shirt a little so it will go more easily over Greg's head, and as he puts it on him he marvels how the baby's head fits neatly into his palm, how his tiny fingers already are trying to grasp his, and how Will can see his breathing and feel his pulse beneath impossibly smooth, impossibly thin skin. There's a whole other brand new person now, and they made him.

Will's mind's a little blown.

[notsocommon]

"You look so natural with him," Helen said, grinning when she saw Gregory in the little outfit. It was so perfectly Will to think of something like this and it just warmed her heart more than she ever thought possible.

"You're already an amazing father."

[inabmovie]

"If by 'amazing' you mean 'so far has not managed to scar him for life' then I think I've done okay." He tucks Greg into his arm but he's turned so Magnus can see him, and Greg curls his hand around Will's finger. Will wiggles that finger up and down a little, like a wave, at Magnus. "Hey, Mom."

[notsocommon]

Helen waved back with a few fingers, grinning all the while. "Hello, darling. Both of my darlings, at that. I'm a lucky woman to be surrounded by so many fine men."

Flattery, certainly, but Will had been amazing throughout her pregnancy and just in general. She'd never had such a generous partner before.

[inabmovie]

"Look at your Mommy, kiddo," Will says. "Isn't she beautiful? Yes. Yes she is. You have the prettiest Mommy in the whole world. And the smartest, and the most kick-ass... you remember that, okay?" He kisses the top of Greg's head and breathes in the scent of soft, clean, brand-new baby. He can't describe it, but it's amazing. Greg, of course, has no idea what Will's saying but that's okay. He'll have plenty of chances to understand later.

[notsocommon]

Oh, come now, you're filling his head with nonsense," Helen said, coloring a bit and dipping her head down. "Though I am glad to know you think I'm lovely in spite of the state I'm in right now."

She felt like a complete troll and she knew she couldn't look as horrible as she felt. It simply wasn't possible.

[inabmovie]

Will shifts a little closer on the bed, which is pretty hard considering he doesn't want to jostle her or the baby at all, but he gets close enough to lean over and kiss her lightly on the lips. "You, Mrs. Dr. Zimmerman," he says, and kisses her again, "are the most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on and there is absolutely no way I could possibly love you any more than I do right now."

Overkill? Um, probably. But he's on a ridiculous high of adrenaline and love and exhaustion and holy crap, I'm a dad, and so it just falls right out of his mouth.

[notsocommon]

Helen laughed softly and shook her head but her eyes were sparkling all the same. Will was good at flattery, mostly because it was sincere, and she could see just how much in love with her he was at the moment.

"I love you both. I have a thing for Zimmermans."