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Entry tags:

loki,
uriel

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Time: September 28, 2000
Place: Loki's Room
Status: Private (Uriel, Loki)
Summary: Confronting and comforting.

Uriel was quite happy as she made her way back from yet another check-up. Everything was going perfectly well, she had been assured. Both she and little Bran were doing well, and things seemed to be developing at a normal pace. Activity, weight gain, everything matched her current stage.

Loki should be happy to hear this, she suspected. At the very least he might be interested in knowing what she was going to call her child.

With this in mind, she headed towards Loki's room. Knocking on the door, she asked, "May I come in?"

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"You spoiled the surprise for yourself, though," Loki commented, but was paying much more attention to her belly than to her words.

He hoped that Bast had told the truth. Not because he wanted the baby to be a boy, no. Girls were fine with him, too. He wanted to know the baby, though and he most likely never would. It didn't seem so much longer until it was born, but he doubted that he'd live that long.

"No, I didn't. It was a surprise to me when Bast told me," Uriel said. "And in my life most surprises have been bad ones, so it was nice for a chance to be surprised by something that would be fine either way. And besides," she added quietly, swallowing, "if Bast hadn't told me, I might have never got the chance to let you know that I am indeed going to use your name suggestion."

Loki looked up in surprise at that.

"Are you really?" He'd thought she'd been merely teasing. He was very aware that Bran was an outdated and very much not Judeo-Christian name. It was the very things that appealed to him about the name that Uriel was supposed to dislike.

"Of course I am!" Uriel said, surprised that Loki might have even doubted that. "Why would I have told you I'm going to call him Bran if it wasn't true? I think it's a sweet name, myself, in both how it sounds and what it means. Why on Earth wouldn't I use it? It's definitely better than anything I could come up with. All I can think of are artists' names and Michael, and the former would be too obvious and the latter would hardly be appreciated nowadays."

"Well, I thought you'd want something that goes with your pantheon," Loki admitted. "So how is little Bran today? He seems pretty quiet in there."

Somehow he was glad that the baby wasn't kicking all the time. He knew what that felt like. On the other hand he liked to feel the kicks when he touched Uriel's belly. It was the only way he had to interact with Bran.

"Why would I want something going with my pantheon if he isn't going to be an angel?" asked Uriel, confused. "And if he does turn out to be an angel, somebody will sooner or later start calling him Braniel or something equally silly."

Then, she started to smile. "Actually, I just had a check-up, and little Bran is doing perfectly well," she told him. "Everything is about as well as it can be!"

As though to confirm this, Bran chose this very moment to kick enthusiastically.

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