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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[haolehothead]

"Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't let him live without having a couple intellectual surprises up his sleeve," Danny promises with an easy grin, and considering the kid's parents, there's no way he won't be a genius. "He'll be taking over Council before you know it."

[notsocommon]

"This is entirely mother's bias but I think he'll be brilliant at anything, if he puts his mind to it. Every mother thinks that about her child, though, and it's been so long since I had a baby. I feel like it's the first time all over again."

In some ways it was, the differences in Ashley's rearing to how Gregory's would be, but in others, Helen hoped to drift into familiar habits once again.

[haolehothead]

"I'm glad you're getting the second chance," Danny says, as much as it pains him to say to someone else -- and to believe it, given that he's still filled with doubt after Esther and what she did to him. "You deserve it. You both do."