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Pearl Took, by Kaylee Arafinwiel
B2MeM Challenge: Family Traditions
Format: Double drabble
Genre: Family
Rating: PG
Warnings: Vague mention of prior death.
Characters: Paladin II, Eglantine Took, Pearl Took, Fortinbras II, Adalgrim Took, OCs
Pairings: Paladin/Eglantine
Creators' Notes (optional): For Dreamflower, inspired very much by her hobbits!
Summary: The Naming Day of Paladin Took's first child does not go quite as expected. (This will make far more sense if you have read Dreamflower's "The Dwarf Dagger", "Eleventy-One Years", and, from "Dreamflower's Mathoms III" "An Evening at Whitwell" and/or know her (and my) headcanon for Paladin's family. But it can, I hope, be enjoyed even if you don't know those fics. Highly recommend them, though! :) )
“We’ll name her Pearl, Father.” Paladin cradled his month-old daughter, and Adalgrim stilled, exchanging uncertain glances with Cousin Fortinbras.
Fortinbras II looked sharply at Paladin; at not even forty-two, Adalgrim’s son was quite young still to Fortinbras’ eyes. “Are you sure about that, lad?” he asked.
“It is, after all, Took tradition to repeat names.” Periwinkle lay a hand on Adalgrim’s arm, understanding what her husband’s misgivings were, and Fortinbras II, for his part, refused to look at his wife. Instead, he looked at the month-old babe.
“Pearl, is she,” the Thain said. He’d brought out Old Yellowskin. “Is there anyone who disagrees?”
Paladin’s older sisters, standing back with Eglantine, had exchanged concerned looks, but they said nothing. Eglantine, too, was silent. “Adalgrim? Periwinkle?”
They shook their heads.
Fortinbras nodded. “You are, of course, correct, Periwinkle,” he said to his cousin’s wife. “Pearl Took, then – it is, after all, family tradition.”
Pearl Took, Daughter of Paladin and Eglantine – 1 Astron, 1375 S.R., he wrote in red ink under her parents’ names. As he lifted his eyes, he saw the other Pearl Took’s inscription, and turned his head away sharply.
He hoped that would not become family tradition.
Format: Double drabble
Genre: Family
Rating: PG
Warnings: Vague mention of prior death.
Characters: Paladin II, Eglantine Took, Pearl Took, Fortinbras II, Adalgrim Took, OCs
Pairings: Paladin/Eglantine
Creators' Notes (optional): For Dreamflower, inspired very much by her hobbits!
Summary: The Naming Day of Paladin Took's first child does not go quite as expected. (This will make far more sense if you have read Dreamflower's "The Dwarf Dagger", "Eleventy-One Years", and, from "Dreamflower's Mathoms III" "An Evening at Whitwell" and/or know her (and my) headcanon for Paladin's family. But it can, I hope, be enjoyed even if you don't know those fics. Highly recommend them, though! :) )
“We’ll name her Pearl, Father.” Paladin cradled his month-old daughter, and Adalgrim stilled, exchanging uncertain glances with Cousin Fortinbras.
Fortinbras II looked sharply at Paladin; at not even forty-two, Adalgrim’s son was quite young still to Fortinbras’ eyes. “Are you sure about that, lad?” he asked.
“It is, after all, Took tradition to repeat names.” Periwinkle lay a hand on Adalgrim’s arm, understanding what her husband’s misgivings were, and Fortinbras II, for his part, refused to look at his wife. Instead, he looked at the month-old babe.
“Pearl, is she,” the Thain said. He’d brought out Old Yellowskin. “Is there anyone who disagrees?”
Paladin’s older sisters, standing back with Eglantine, had exchanged concerned looks, but they said nothing. Eglantine, too, was silent. “Adalgrim? Periwinkle?”
They shook their heads.
Fortinbras nodded. “You are, of course, correct, Periwinkle,” he said to his cousin’s wife. “Pearl Took, then – it is, after all, family tradition.”
Pearl Took, Daughter of Paladin and Eglantine – 1 Astron, 1375 S.R., he wrote in red ink under her parents’ names. As he lifted his eyes, he saw the other Pearl Took’s inscription, and turned his head away sharply.
He hoped that would not become family tradition.
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