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[takecourage]

Mostly, what she does is stare. She holds Edie in her arms and she feeds her or she sleeps and she just...stares at her. Mostly, she's trying to figure out how something so utterly perfect can have come from her. Danny, she can believe it of, but her? What she do to deserve something like this. A few days after Edie is born, Alex lets Danny start texting people, letting them know that they can come and visit, if they want to. She installs herself in the sunroom with Edie wrapped in a blanket in her arms and she rocks, slowly, and she feels, for the first time in her life, like she's something entirely new.

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[takecourage]

"Pretty sure I could take you, bro," she says, grinning at him. "I'm scrappy." She shifts. "You want to take her while I'm eating?" Her stomach growls, embarrassingly loud and she winces. "I was waiting on Danny to come home and fix me something."

[mitsubishievo]

"We both are." He grinned as he put the food and coffee down, taking Edie from Alex without really acknowledging her question about taking her. He held her comfortably and easily in his arms, murmuring noise at her without any real language behind it.

"Lucky for you," he said, finger-gesturing at the food. "God, I'm so happy for you assholes."

[takecourage]

He takes the baby, a natural, and Alex immediately shifts, starting in on the food that he's brought for her. "Don't swear in front of little ears," she says, but she's smirking whne she says it. She does it as a half-hearted impression of Danny, knowing that Kavinsky will recognise him. "That suits you. Watch you don't get too broody, man."

[mitsubishievo]

He stuck out his tongue at her but didn't disagree or object to the correction. It probably wouldn't do anything in the long run. And it wasn't like Edie could understand English at this point, anyway.

"Oh, I've been broody," Kavinsy said, rolling his eyes. "It certainly wasn't Newt's idea for us to take on a ward. I mean, I was expecting someone a little younger, but it was good energy. It was nice to be a big brother again."

[takecourage]

Alex's mouth twisted with sympathy at the reminder that they'd lost Charlie, recently enough for it to still sting. "You think you guys will try again?" she asks. "Look for a kid this time?"

[mitsubishievo]

"Might be a while," Kavinsky said without too much thought. He'd love to have a kid, to have the noise in the house again. Rosie and Sabrina were still always welcome, and any of their friends, and would always be--but it was different without Charlie there. And Newt took these losses longer and more heavily than he did.

"Besides--" He cradled Edie close, gently rocking her and swaying back and forth. "--I think I make a better uncle and big brother than I make a dad, anyway."