Spencer
Quinnly is one month old today, we spent the first two weeks in the NICU with her, Clara promised me that she'd be fine if we went home but I couldn't leave our daughter there all by herself. She is perfectly healthy, still in her tiny little preemie clothes. Her eyes are hazel, like mine, but she has Clara's dark her, and a lot of it.
"Hello baby genius!" Penelope is holding Quinnly and talking to her in a high pitched abt voice, I never really got why people did that until I had a baby of my own. It makes sense now.
"Quinnly is so smart, she's practically ready to start kindergarten." I sit down next to Clara, who's been in the same tank top for two days and has dark circles under her eyes, they match my natural ones now.
"I know, what's MC squared?" Penelope cradles her in her arms, it makes me anxious when someone other than Clara and myself are holding her but Clara told me it's normal for that feeling to be there. When the baby starts to fuse she's always handed back to us though, thankfully we have a very fussy baby.
"I'm going to go hang this sign up," Penelope hands me the baby and as soon as she hits my arms her fussy stops, a trait that I carry which makes Clara extremely jealous.
"God, I could have like 100 babies just seeing you holding her." She sighs and I look up from the view our little baby with a smile that's lined in concern. Clara laughs and holds her arms out telling me to hand over our daughter.
I pass Quinnly into Clara's waiting arms, relived to see her settle into her mother's chest and Clara begins to sway her arms slowly. It's werid to think about the breakdown Clara had about being a mother, she's such a natural care giver. As soon Quinnly was placed her arms for the first time it's like she became a whole new person, who I love even more than I did before.
"I can't believe she's already a month old," Clara mumbles placing a kiss to the baby's head. "It feels like yesterday that we were in the hospital scared and praying for the best."
"Yeah," I sit down next to her and kiss her forehead. "And you've been amazing through it all," She smiles at me, her gummy smile which I hope our daughter inherits.
Quinnly stirs in Clara's arm as her big hazel eyes open to stare at us, reaching for Clara's hair to pull on, I give her my finger instead.
"I think she knows how lucky she is," Clara chuckles as do I.
Clara places Quinnly back into my arms so she can change the position she was stuck sitting in, her head leans against my shoulder.
"I love you both so much," She whispers, her voice pounding in layers of emotion.
"I love you too," I turn my head to her and kiss her cheek, "More than words can say."
We sit together in comfortable silence, basking in the moment of peace. Despite all the challenges we've faced, we're exactly where we're meant to be.
Eventually, Penelope returns, hammer in her right hand, "Now this place is officially a home!" She beams, she just hung up Quinnly's name sign in her nursery.
Clara smiles gratefully at her, her exhaustion momentarily forgotten. "Thank you everything Penelope, really."
"Anytime my lovelies," Penelope replies, her voice tender. "I'll let you get some rest to the best of your abilities, if you need anything, anything at all, i'm just a phone call away."
As Penelope winds us a goodnight and leaves, Clara and settle into the couch together, Quinnly cradled safe between us. The soft glow of the lamp cast a gentle shadow across the room, and for the first time in week, I feel a sense of peace settle in me.
"I think she's finally asleep," Clara murmurs next to me, half asleep herself. When she evidently does pass out I stand up and take Quinnly to her bassinet in our room, where she'll sleep for a few months.
I come back for Clara and carefully carry her upstairs to our bed, she does open her eyes until I cover her up with a blanket, in which she smiles at me and falls back asleep.
Thank god I got shot two years ago.
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AN: SUPER SHORT chapter I know, just a cute little filler before the FINAL CHAPTER.
i'm crying.
Anyway, the next chapter will be the final (and much longer) however, i'm considering adding bonus chapters in the future or maybe an epilogue. So make sure you follow for updates on that!!
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