James, Maeve, and Daisy pose for a family photo.
Despite the fact that James and Maeve aren't a couple, their friendship remained strong after Maeve gave birth to Daisy. James wanted to make sure he was a proper part of Daisy's life, and they still shared a flat together while Maeve finished University, James being the stay at home dad while Maeve attended her classes.
After Maeve graduated (a year later than James after deferring a year for maternity reasons!), they moved back to Hazelford where, for the first few years of Daisy's life at least, they cohabited as friends - albeit friends with a toddler kid together!
It still took James some getting used to that Maeve didn't really have any romantic feelings towards him, but she didn't really have any romantic feelings towards anybody really. He took comfort in the knowledge that their friendship was a very strong one - so strong in fact that he wondered if that's what romance really was. Maybe they really would be together for their entire lives, just not as what most people would think of as a 'real' couple. It was confusing.
One of the few hybrid species around (most offspring of mixed-species parents took their species from one or the other of their parents), the little squirrelpuppy that was his daughter with Maeve was the apple of his eye, the light of his life. Sure, their family wasn't exactly a conventional one, but it was his.
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