Requested by celestialspiritqueen
Imagine, nearly three years after the birth of Kierran, an announcement is sent to the Winter and Summer courts declaring the birth of Meghan and Ash’s second child: a daughter, named Selena.
Like her brother before her, Selena carries the power of all three courts, and, as a result, is just as admired and feared by the other courts. Unlike her brother, however, she inherited her father’s dark looks, and thus has a tendency—when she’s in one of her rare sulking moods—to look uncannily like her grandmother. This has been cause for many cases of mistaken identity, particularly at Elysium, when unwary fey have come to give their greetings to the Winter Queen, only to have the Princess raise an eyebrow and direct their attention to Mab, who is usually deep in conversation with Meghan or Oberon. Oddly, the only fey—aside from her own parents and brother—who seems able to tell the difference is Puck.
“Please,” he sniffs when Ash notices this and begins to have some lurking suspicions, “I practically raised her. Of course I can tell the difference.”
Ash isn’t convinced. Unfortunately for him, he has no idea that his daughter—when she isn’t attending her royal duties or being mistaken for her nightmare of a grandmother—has been slipping away on her own into the wyldwood to meet with the Summer Jester.
Meghan is privy to this, only because she noticed Kierran spending extra amounts of time and energy trying to distract Ash on the days when Selena would go missing for several hours. After interrogating her son and finding out what her daughter has been up to, she decides it is probably best to keep it to herself. Though she figures Ash will find out eventually. And she’s right.
Mere months after Selena and Puck have begun spending increasing amounts of time together, undisturbed in the wyldwood, Ash receives a surprise in the shape of the Summer Jester bounding up to him during a Summer hosted Elysium, beaming from ear to ear, and announcing grandly,
“So, as we’ve been such good friends for so so long, Ice-boy, I find great joy—and a little fear—in telling you that your daughter is not only an excellent kisser and quite possibly the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met, but we’re getting married in a week and you’re invited. Also, I was hoping you’d be my best man, but given the murderous look you’re giving me and the fact that you’re reaching for your sword tells me I might consider asking your son instead.”
Meghan and Selena watch this scene from a little ways away, with near-identical looks of exasperation and amusement on their faces. Kierran is pointedly avoiding looking at his father, because he’s already using all of his self-control to keep himself from bursting out laughing.
