I will love again

Part 51 - Bonding

While Adrien was still feeling awkward, Marinette had sat down next to Nathalie and with fascination she watched the newborn girl suck almost angrily on her mother's breast.

The young woman, despite being exhausted from the birth, was wide awake and just as Marinette, she couldn't take her eyes of her beautiful daughter. After cautiously placing the baby in her other arm, so she would be stimulating both breasts to start producing milk, through her sucking, she smiled at the teenage girl.

"Would you like to hold her? You look just as if you can't wait for it", she asked her.

"I don't know! I would love to hold her, but I am so scared. What if I hurt her?"

Nathalie giggled with an understanding expression. "Well, at least come and sit up here where you can have a closer look!", she suggested.

Scooting even closer, to then take a seat from where she could see the girl much better and would be able to touch her, if she dared, she enthusiastically blurted out:

"Her eyes are so blue! I know that most babies have blue eyes, but this... And she has your hair, Nath. Without the red of course, but still. What are you doing....oh my... Hi, my little BFF. Nice to finally meet you in person!", she cooed, after Nathalie had just put the baby into her arms.

"Come over here, Chaton and say hello to your little sister!", she then whisper-yelled. Turning back to Nathalie, she asked:

"What did you name her? Have you eventually found a name, you both like?"

The couple looked at each other and their smiles turned into frowns.

Gabriel, who was nudging Adrien closer towards Nathalie, crouched down next to his wife and said calmly:

"Well, I have thought about this for quite some time and there is that one name I would really like her to have. I just would change it to the French spelling. So it's only two accents, we'd have to add!"

He cupped his daughter's head with his hand and whispered to her:

"Do you like the name Hélène, mon coeur?"

Then he brushed slightly along her cheek, to what the little girl instantly smiled.

"See", he mused with a smirk, "she likes that name. Nathalie, are you alright?"

She nodded, though her face had turned a whiter shade of pale, when she heard her own mother's name.

"I was just, well, it's all a little....I couldn't even imagine, to ever feel so much love for one human being. She...I....you...."

Tears started to run down her cheeks now, and Gabriel hugged her quickly and held her tight.

After she had calmed down a little bit, she looked up at him and pecked his lips tenderly. Then she uttered:

"As she really seems to like that name, I saw you brush along her cheek, to make her smile by the way", she said with a grin, "what would you think and you too, Adrien, if her second name, or her first, we'll have to speak it out loud, to know which order, if that other name would be, well.....uhm....in memory of...your...mum...Adrien..."

"While Adrien could barely mutter an: "Emilie", his father had smashed his lips into Nathalie's and was kissing her so passionately, that the boy looked sheepishly into the other direction and Marinette jokingly covered the baby's eyes with her hand.

As Gabriel finally parted his lips from his wife's, the young mother was scarlet red and Gabriel looked as if he had been crying, while he kissed her.

Adrien had turned back to them now and couldn't help it, but he had to tease his father a little bit:

"Honestly, father, give Nathalie a bit of a break, before you start trying for another one!"