Dad Elijah Hcs (ft. Uncle Stack)
☘︎Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Gn Reader
☘︎summary ; brief hcs and silly things of dad elijah. following from infancy to early childhood stages
☘︎ warnings ; reader is vaguely brought up, but said baby (unnamed-- referred to as "his girl" "baby" "baby girl") is of course. the option of if she was biologically from Smoke and you or adopted is left vague, too. no descriptors of her or you physically. and yes, its a girl. girldad Elijah for the win
Dad!Elijah who never really complains. Everyone has a right to complain about babies— they're stinky and loud and the poor things are just as frightened as you are. But he never complains, not once. Silently wakes up to go hush her when she wails in the dead of night, changes her bottom when its that time of the day, has gotten the motions of bottle feeding her down to muscle memory. He uses the rocking chair in the nursery more than you do
Dad!Elijah who even if he does love you and her he does still have work. Risky business. Leaves for a few days sometimes and comes back, visibly worn down, but all he does is pull you close and gently bounce your girl on his knee.
Dad!Elijah who lets his “strong and silent” facade slip with his baby. Poking his tongue out at her, and she mimics it. Lets her grab his nose and pat her little fingers on his close crop haircut. Oddly enough shes a quiet thing too, only making sounds when need be (like Smoke) and Smoke always tries to get her to make sounds. Pulling silly faces or tickling her just to hear her giggle or make those silly baby sounds. Its not an everyday thing, but it happens, and you figure those are always the highlights of your week
Dad!Elijah who honest to god you had to yank him from sleeping beside the cradle. You let it slip the first few times when you two put your girl in her own nursery a few weeks after she was born. But you had enough of him sitting in that rocking chair, legs crossed over the knee, just looking at her in awe. He can ogle her in the morning when hes had a good nights rest
Dad!Elijah who's so, so so gentle with her. He doesn't jostle her much, he's not the dad to toss her as a toddler in the sky, no no no. I can see him even pulling a face at that. You toss your kid in the air? Really? That type of look. She's always on his hip or sitting in the crook of his strong arm.
Dad!Elijah who despite wanting to show his baby off to the world, he doesn't. A lot of folk probably do a double take when he briefly mutters something of “needa get her new shoes ….” When hes flipping through bills and setting two dollars in his breast pocket for said shoes later.
Dad!Elijah whose baby is always best dressed even as a teensy thing. She's in frilly white blouses, or premium clothing, soft on her skin. She's got her teensy baby hairs combed softly. But he always says to her as either you or him are dressing her, “you could wear a burlap sack, but as long as you wear that little smile, you're the prettiest girl.”
Dad!Elijah who when he disciplines, its stern but never harsh. When she's old enough to act out, not knowing right from wrong, he’ll pull her aside and tell her what she did wrong. I can't see him baby-talking her even as a baby. He treats her as she is— a growing girl. So he sternly tells her what she did wrong, why to not do it, and what to do instead. She never feels punished for anything, either.
Dad!Elijah who if she goes to a school that has plays, is always sat in the front row. He had his bowler hat pulled low, but he’s always there. If you can't make it, expect an earful from him about how amazing she was up there.
Bonus Uncle!Stack being the uncle who lowk spoils her. I don't think Smoke would ‘spoil’ her, but she never feels like shes without. But with Stack? She’s getting candy and beef jerky and once when she was maybe 5, she came back with a puppy and Smoke had to yank Stack outside to give him a talking to. They kept the puppy anyways.
Bonus Uncle!Stack who I feel like teaches her to drive first. Driving on a back road, and he just says “c’mere. Don't tell your daddy” and puts her on his knee and she goes to town. Ripping around and he's laughing his ass off. They pass a car on the road, and Stack catches a glimpse of Smoke’s wide eyed expression in the other car. Sees the car do a sharp U turn and then he’s going “Shit!! Move, move, you don’t even gotta tell your daddy, he's right here!” And Smoke’s girl giggling her ass off.