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She was proud of him. Merlin, she was proud of him. Jaxon had been working on this for a while now, and she knew that it was something that he believed in. A meeting with Beckett Graves was a step in the right direction. A step towards everything that he believed in and wanted to fight for. And she knew that he could do it. She knew that he had been spending plenty of time working for this, and she wanted him to succeed. She wanted it for him, and she wanted it for the no-maj born, and she wanted it for werewolves.

There were so many reasons that he needed to take this meeting and getting in to see Graves was just a start. She knew that nothing was going to happen overnight, but it was a start. It was a start towards safety measures, and equality, and everything else. Tess couldn’t say that she knew a whole lot about quidditch before she had started seeing Jaxon, but she had learned. She had made a point to learn. To try and ask intelligent enough questions that he didn’t think that she was dense, but that still let her learn. She wanted to learn.

She had wanted to learn what he loved, what he didn’t love. What was going to make him passionate, and animated. What he loved. And that was part of the reason for her trip to London this afternoon. She had had errands to run anyway, and a few things that she had needed to drop off at the apothecary. But her main mission had been to pick up Jaxon’s son. Getting to meet the little boy had been a big step for them, and she knew that, but she also knew how important to her it was to have a positive relationship with both him, and his mother.

The last thing that she wanted was for Aphrodite not to like her, and she hoped that the woman didn’t. She was important to Jaxon, and Tess had nothing but respect for that. They had a child together. That was a bond that she was going to avoid messing up at all costs. But she knew that he was in the Ministry, and it was just as easy for her to pick him up if that was okay with the both of them. Stepping on toes was not her intention, but she had offered to help out. It was easier than Affy having to go all the way up to the cabin when she was in the city and going up there anyway.

With the season getting set to start again, she knew that things were always going to be prioritized, and she wanted them to go well. She wanted to help out, if they needed it. Having a relationship with his son was important but making sure that Affy was okay with that was important to her as well. She had been raised in a matriarchal society. She knew how important a mother’s connection with their child was, and respect was a crucial part of her life.

In everything that she did, not just this. She thought that she would always consider respect paramount. It was the only thing that she could count on, that she was going to be respectful, and let other people act how they would. But she didn’t think that it was going to change her. Not if she could help it. Everything that she preached to her pack reflected in her own actions. Peace. And sincerity. And respect. They were all things that she hoped to bestow on all of them.

Knocking on the door to the loft apartment, she waited patiently for the door to open. The woman was here, she knew that she was expecting her, but that didn’t mean that Tess wasn’t the slightest bit nervous. She liked Renzo, and she liked Affy, but she hadn’t done anything like this before. And Jax would be home sooner rather than later, but he hadn’t known how long his meeting was going to go, and rather than leave Affy waiting on him, this had been an acceptable solution. Tugging lightly at the end of her braid, Tess flipped her long hair over her shoulder as the door opened in front of her, and she offered a warm smile to the blonde. “Hey.”

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There was just a week until her son would be three years old and Affy was torn between laughing because she was so excited or sobbing because of how sad she was about it. She didn't know what else to do. How could her baby grow up so damned fast?! She didn't know how this had happened so quickly but he was all grown up now. He was a little man and it was all that she could do to hold it together for a few days. She wished she could keep him this small forever, that he didn’t have to grow up so fast. If it was up to her she would keep him this small for the rest of her life, but there was something about watching him grow too that made it hard for her to handle.

She was stress eating again, or at least she thought that she was. She was gaining wait and it bothered her, she wanted nothing more than to stop eating but it was all she wanted and she had no idea as to the reasons that she couldn’t. Well, she did but she was due any day so it could just be that. The stress of Renny’s birthday and the bar. Not to mention father’s day was just around the corner, and yet again she found herself missing her brother. Jamie would have been amazing to have around at times like these, times when she could have used another hand or someone to help guide her other than just Jaxon.

Oh, yes, she had Astrid who doted and loved on her son; spoiling him beyond all recognition but it wasn’t the same and they were all fully aware of just how taken her son was with the ballerina. He was a flirt much like his father and it made her laugh just to see how much the small child could imitate the older Cole male. She had connections to a family now that could bring her love and affection, she knew this. She was fine with the isolation though, and more than sure that it was the best thing for her son, given the way that her own parents had treated her. She knew that she had other family; aunts, uncles and cousins that she had never met before. Those that she had only met a few times when she was younger, maybe she could seek them out again. She only worried that her parents would use it as a way to try and get a foot in the door.

They had been contacting her more and more over the last year; funny considering they had kicked her out because she chose to have a child and not be married. Perhaps they saw that she was doing better on her own. Better without her parents and their judgments on every single thing that she had ever done; she was doing good for herself and she didn’t want things to change just because they found out that she wasn’t poor and living on the streets or on her back. Her son was a blessing that she never would have thought she needed when she had met Jaxon at that party, something she had never considered that she needed.

She was sitting on the couch with Renny sitting in her lap, lounging and watching one of his favorite animated movies, snuggled under a blanket. It was her favorite time of day when they did things like this and honestly she couldn’t think of any other way that she would want to spend with her little man. Tess was coming by to pick up Ren to go off for a few days with his dad and, like always, she hated to see him go. She hated to think that he would one day go to school and not come back for months at a time, and then one day he would leave her and go off to be something, someone. The idea that he could be like his father pleased her, but she would sell everything he ever had to keep him this small forever.

The knock came to the door and she stopped the film and kissed her son’s head before telling him to go and get his shoes and bag from his room while she stood and stretched before walking to the door with a small smile on her lips as she opened the door. ”Tessa, hello. Do come in.”

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