Prompt - Something Lost, Something Found

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SONG OF THE SEA ( joshua, alecto ) A selkie far from home, searching for his coat. He meets a kind, lonely, young fisherman who tends the lighthouse near the sea.

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[singinthestorm]

"Not at all, dearest," he replies, reaching out a hand to ruffle a pouting Avery's hair in passing, smiing a little at the complicated expression that passes over their son's face - a mix of excitement and wriggling enjoyment of the contact from both his parents with annoyance at what he saw as too much gross affection between them. "I'll be happy to bring our son out after we finish eating." He steps in, quietly, extending his arm out to touch the back of Alecto's shoulders, reacting to his face even if he didn't know the exact meaning.

"And you'll behave properly for me, won't you, Avery?" He asks, his tone deceptively mild; there was no earthly possibility of Joshua being able to keep up physically with Avery - or anyone else on that side of the family - in the water no matter how good he was at swimming for a human, so he needed to establish these ground rules for behavior based on other factors, no matter how much it felt like he was trying to bottle lightning or leash the wind. It was simply the way they were.