trace your roots back to the ground

His smile paused, held in place by confusion. Confusion that only grew as her stammered words continued. Confirming that yes, he had heard her correctly. They were the  other of them painfully awkward, which had lead to neither of them approaching the topic of what had happened. They had continued on, flatmates. Snuggly ones at that. He was still rather confused himself, pinning over Hika and slow and shy about untangling the confusing web of emotions he felt for Halo. But this… he felt his heartbeat pick up. Trepidation and… excitement? A part of him had always wanted kids, but it was complicated. His life was complicated.


"Are they mine?" He whisper-asked, but he felt like he already knew the answer. "Sirius…" he said, but he was thinking out loud. His thoughts weren't in a row yet, it was like his brain had short-circuited. "He told me to have kids, he never put a date in it, I can use that…" then he blinked, and properly focused on Halo for the first time. "Do you want this? Them?" He asked softly,