Just the little things

Sirius wasn't prepared for the full impact of hearing those words. As she transitioned almost seamlessly from calling him Seer to calling him Dad. Choking up as he swallowed back the emotions so she wouldn't see how it hit him like a sucker punch to the chest. He fumbled with the clasp of her braclet, a delicate feline like claw extended as he got it open and put it gently over her paw. Fastening it there.

The little charmes snuggled into the coat of her paw, and he lifted her paw up, kissing it. Words still being beyond him. And then she was off like a summer breeze, brushing past him and gone. He swallowed. He wasn't tearing up, he wasn't.

She was long gone by the time he was able to raise a paw in parting in the direction she had vanished. "Love you too, kiddo."


"Speech"