Cardan & Jude oneshots

Stinkiest baby

Is there anyone here who watches HOTD? I can't handle these episodes. I think I've lost count of how many times I've watched the second season.

This is a continuation of "Crystal Balls of Parenting"

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Jude's POV

"How are my beautiful wife and my lovely little daughter?" Cardan's voice echoes through our room, and his footsteps grow louder, indicating he is approaching.

When he comes into my view, his wide smile makes an equally enthusiastic one spread across my lips.

I adjust Alice, our baby, against my breast, and Cardan kisses my forehead.

"Your lovely daughter is fine, but your beautiful wife is tired, and it's not even lunchtime yet," I reply and rest my head on Cardan's shoulder as he sits beside me, his arm draped over my shoulders, pulling me close.

His curious dark eyes observe the baby strapped to my chest. Her two pale little hands search for support on my breast while her tiny mouth sucks as much as it can, her eyes closed, long lashes brushing against her rosy cheeks.

I smile at the sight, and Cardan uses a finger to play with Alice's brown hair as she makes a small sound of satisfaction while nursing.

"I'll give her the bottle," Cardan replies, gesturing with both hands for me to hand him the baby.

Exhausted from both of us staying up all night with Alice crying, her first tooth threatening to break through her gums and causing her constant pain. Sometimes she would calm down, play, sleep, and eat, but other times she would just cry.

Orianna and Taryn gave me various tips for when this phase started, and some of them worked, like teethers and gum massages.

But when Alice was playing, we couldn't take our eyes off her for even a second because she would already have a stone or a flower in her mouth, sometimes even a stick, and toys she would throw into the mud.

Cardan nestles the baby against his chest while I clean myself up and cover my breast. He rocks her gently, looking at me.

"Get some sleep before lunch. You need to rest." he grabs a thin blanket from beside me on the bed and drapes it over Alice to keep her from getting too cold. "I'll come get you when it's time to go down."

His eyebrows are raised, showing the calmness in his voice. "Ugh, thank you!" I throw myself back and rub my eyes.

"But sit up straight, Jude. Or you'll end up with back pain like an eight-hundred-year-old granny." he laughs, using one hand to hold Alice and the other to give my thigh a playful slap, urging me to sit up properly in bed.

"Humans only live to about 80 years on average, Cardan, not eight hundred." I laugh.

Cardan tends to mix things up quite a bit, but he has made significant progress in learning human things, especially baby-related ones. When I say he has put in much more effort than I have into this parenting thing, I'm telling the truth.

Cardan sent a note to Vivi a few days after I found out I was pregnant, asking her to look for books on human pregnancy in the libraries. He read them all. He also read books on fae pregnancy.

"I want to be informed about our beautiful baby. I need to know everything about humans," he explained when I asked him to put out the candles at night.

He would put them out but then go read elsewhere, letting me sleep in peace. In the early morning, he would sneak back into the bedroom, slide under the covers next to me, his hand gliding over my belly and his tail caressing my legs.