daphne is not who you think (greenmum) wrote in afic,
His reaction was why she told him, as he sat across from her giving her the support she could not ask of anyone else, she knew he of all would understand. With a quiet laugh Daphne shook her head. "Neither did I. It seems almost cruel, for it to be--of all things--my secret. Anything else I could have handled." Any other man being the father she could have dealt with; but he was different; had always been, from the moment she'd met him.
For half a moment she wished to be as they had just described; back so many years ago just to move, sit and lean on him. Pride stopped her, pride and the knowledge that they were not those people any longer. Instead she smiled and after another moment of vulnerability she would only ever show Blaise (and possibly her sister), Daphne sat up straight and dignified, refusing to let her own fear show. "He doesn't. The father. I haven't told him, or anyone, besides you and my family."