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“How about ‘Jafar’?”

Terri suppresses the urge to sigh. Abby is taking her role as co-name chooser very seriously and has brought her Disney Encyclopaedia over as source material. Quinn took great pleasure in informing Terri of this as she was dropping her off. Abby is currently sprawled on the carpet with the book while Emma and Terri occupy the couch.

“I don’t think we want to name the baby after an evil wizard, honey,” Emma explains, gently. “And she’s a girl.”

Abby nods, deep in thought. Terri rests her head on Emma’s shoulder, her hand cradling Emma’s baby bump protectively. They’ve been through a number of villains, fairies and woodland creatures, finding gentle excuses to say no to each of them.

Abby sighs.

“Maybe we should call my Uncle Finn, he’s a great namer,” she muses as she flips through the pages of the book.

Terri and Emma exchange a look. Finn helped Abby name her goldfish. The goldfish is called Fisherella.

“Yeah, maybe…if we can’t come up with a name by ourselves we’ll call Uncle Finn,” Emma agrees, leaning her head against Terri’s and bringing her hand up to cover the one on her belly.

Abby looks up at them sharply.

“You two haven’t had any ideas yet, I’ve had lots of ideas and all you’re doing is cuddling,” she huffs, clearly annoyed at having to do all the work.

“You’re right, sweetie,” Terri says, turning to Emma with raised eyebrows. “So, any ideas?”

Emma sighs. They’ve discussed this on a few occasions and it usually leads to a disagreement and one of them deciding that they should talk about it later. But time is moving on, as evidenced by her very prominent bump, and they can’t put it off forever. She shrugs.

“I still like Alexandra,” she says, waiting for the inevitable rebuttal.

“Nope,” Terri says, jovially. “Casey?”

“Absolutely not,” Emma retorts, equally happily.

Those are the first two they always disagree on.

“Rose?”

“New rule, no naming the baby after people from stupid movies,” Terri says.

“Fine,” Emma agrees. “Then don’t even bother suggesting ‘Gracie’ again.”

Terri rolls her eyes.

“I guess that’s fair,” she says.

Abby is watching them and shaking her head.

“You guys don’t have very good ideas,” she decides, going back to her book.

Terri sighs and pouts at Emma.

“We’re just gonna have to call her ‘The baby’,” she says, quietly. “Because we’re never gonna agree on anything.”

Emma bites her lip.

“There’s always the list of suggestions Rachel sent over,” she reminds Terri. “We never did finish reading it.”

“Emma, the first two names on that list were Elphaba and Galinda,” Terri says, her face incredulous. “We didn’t need to read any further.”

Emma nods. In fairness, she had glanced through the list before Terri folded it back up and the majority of the names were from Broadway musicals or Barbra Streisand movies. She glances down at Abby, still flicking through the pages of her book.

“Maybe we should just go with whatever name Abby picks out next?” she suggests quietly to Terri. “Leave it completely to chance?”

“It’s rude to whisper, Memma,” Abby says without looking up from the book.

Terri stifles a laugh at Emma being scolded for her manners, while Emma blushes.

“You’re right sweetie, I’m sorry,” Emma says, nudging Terri.

Terri looks between Abby and Emma a few times before coming to a decision.

“Okay, but this isn’t legally binding,” she says, pointedly. “Okay Abby, we’re not having a lot of luck with our ideas. It’s your turn again.”

A grin splits Abby’s face.

“Good, cuz I have the bestest name ever this time.”

Both Terri and Emma draw in a breath in a mixture of dread and anticipation. Abby turns the book around, it’s on the page for ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Terri’s mouth drops open.

“We’re not calling the baby ‘Beast’!”

Abby frowns.

“No, silly! You should call her ‘Belle’.”

“Belle?”

Emma and Terri speak the name in unison, and find themselves smiling. Emma turns to Terri, taking her hand.

“I’ve always loved the name ‘Isabelle’” she admits, quietly.

“That was my Nana’s name,” Terri says, rubbing her thumb over the back of Emma’s hand.

“I know,” Emma says, looking into Terri’s eyes.

“Isabelle,” Terri says, testing the name out. “Yeah, I like it. I really like it.”

“But you’ll call her ‘Belle’, right?” Abby asks, obviously not as taken with the formal name as she is with the contraction.

Emma smiles down at her.

“Yes, we’ll call her Belle,” she assures the child. “Thank you, Abby. You really helped us out today.”

Abby nods seriously.

“That’s okay,” she says, turning back to her book, continuing to talk to herself. “I think maybe I’m a better namer than my Uncle Finn!”

Emma and Terri chuckle, their hands linking on Emma’s stomach again.

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