Erik has wanted to be a father for as long as he can remember -- but now that the day is finally here, he's terrified. Surely a ham-fisted Viking of a man like Erik shouldn't be allowed to handle things as tiny and delicate as his new baby girl?<br><br>But it's not just his daughter that's come into Erik's world. His partner has finally returned too. After nine months of watching Andreas struggle with the mental and physical toll of being a man and being pregnant at the same time, the birth of their daughter is both a beginning and an ending.<br><br>Erik is a father for the first time -- but not everything that comes next is new.

Erik the Pink

Still, he smiled at Beatriz when she fixed him with a beady stare, and blew on her nose when she blinked owlishly at the new expression. She wasn’t quite smiling yet. Her manner seemed to brighten up when they smiled at her, and she was definitely happier when they were happy, but she wasn’t quite sure of what her own face was yet and how to manipulate it to copy them. Her attempts were quite sweet, but he was eagerly anticipating her first smile.


“Going to have your daddy’s smile,” he told her in Spanish, and she butted her head clumsily against his shoulder. He chuckled, shifting her to lie down in his arms, and trailed the soft dressing gown cord over her so she could play with it. She scrunched her fingers into the fabric, but snuggled sleepily into his chest rather than played. “Erik!”


Chapter 24