This took me so long to write guys,like a week. Legit. It caused it so much stress I'm glad it's over. You know the drill, I don't own anything..wish I did..blah blah. Also there are like two swears in here that's why it has a T Rating. Anyway enjoy loves!
Prompt: Braeden has been under the weather a lot lately, Derek is about to find out why.
"Babe!" Derek pleaded as he banged on the door. "Let me in. Are you ok?" he said again in desperation.
She was in the bathroom again. A place she had gravitated to a lot recently. He could hear her sharp intake heaving and the rapid beating of her heart. Derek knew that she was panicking,in pain, and he could do nothing to help.
"Babe." He cautioned lowering his tone, halting the knock on the door. He pressed his ear to the surface and listened for her response.
She was emptying the contents of last night's dinner so violently, Derek wanted to hunt down the delivery guy and rip out his throat…with his teeth. He knew that after this, her sore throat would be back.
The toilet flushed and her heart rate returned to normal and he stepped away from the door when he could decipher that she had finished washing up.
"Brae..are yo-"
The bathroom door swung open with a slow breeze and Braeden slogged past him in a daze, patting his chest twice as she made her way back to bed.
Derek watched her, hunched over in pain shuffling her bare feet across the loft. He wanted so badly to pick her up and walk for her but he had been through this before. He knew not to touch her, especially not her breasts, because she was sore. He knew not to expose her to harsh light or loud noises because her migraines flared up when this happened. He knew that she wouldn't feel like eating anything that looked like food at all, and that he was going to have an extremely long day fighting with her to eat. This was Derek's life and had been for the last month.
On his way to the bed he grabbed a washcloth, ran it under the kitchen faucet and brought it to her.
"Braeden." Derek whispered as softly as he could, dabbing her forehead with the cloth. She was the palest he had ever seen, skin a grayish hue. Her eyes closed, deep circles underneath them appearing darker by the second. "You have to go the doctor. You've been sick for a while and I have no idea how to help you or what's wrong. Braeden… Please. Go." He insisted removing the cloth pressing a feathered kiss to her forehead.
She took a shaky breath and pulled the blanket tighter around her aching body.
"Ok." She strangled out weakly, eyes still closed. She could feel Derek staring at her, sighing in relief but she didn't have the energy to open them as she drifted off into sleep.
When she woke up, he was gone and she was met with the emptiness of the spacious loft with too many windows and too much floorspace.
Sitting up, she noticed she felt a little better. Her head wasn't pounding much anymore and her dizziness was gone even though the lights were still on. Swinging her heavy legs out of bed she jumped at the sound of the front door creaking open but relaxed when she recognized the familiar bounce of strawberry blonde curls.
"Hey B." Lydia greeted affectionately, tiptoeing through the door as she set the grocery bags on the kitchen table. She moved a chair,stood on it and unscrewed one light bulb from the overhead ceiling fan gracefully in one fell swoop.
Braeden didn't get the chance to ask her why she was here before she answered in true Lydia fashion. "Derek called me during my study period and since I have a perfect 5.0GPA despite my erratic extra-curricular schedule of banshee duties, I figured I could skip it and sublimate by taking a trip to China Town Market instead." She finished beaming with pride,placing the bulb next to the bags.
Braeden gave her a questioning look and pulled her robe a little tighter. Confusion still marring her tired face.
Lydia rolled her green eyes. "You know, for those extremely hard to find soy sauce crackers you love so much." She said playfully, pulling out a chair for Braeden.
"You didn't have to do that."
"Of course I did. I know it's the only thing you can keep down."
And she was right,everything Braeden tried to consume over the past month eventually made a reappearance which is what she always had such a hard time explaining to Derek, who forced her to eat daily.
Derek, who called Lydia, who went to the market for crackers he couldn't find in the local grocery store. Derek, who phoned the only person that could rationalize the importance of nutrition to Braeden without frustrating her. Derek Hale, the werewolf, who was much smarter than he let on.
It was all starting to make sense.
"Well, Thank you." Braeden yawned even though she tried to stifle it. She was still tired but happy that Lydia was here for company. They'd had a rocky start as reluctant acquaintances but now they were pretty close, very close actually, and they both fully understood that no one could ever take Allison Argent's place. Lydia never requested it. Braeden never tried.
"How was school?" she inquired, wiping her eyes watching the banshee unpack and shelve the boxes of crackers and bottles of ginger ale from the bags, expertly gliding around the kitchen like it was an ice rink.
"Nothing terribly supernatural happened, if that's what you mean." She closed a cabinet.
"It was actually a quiet day in Beacon Hills." Lydia went on, pouring soda into a glass. "Probably won't last though, knowing our reputation." she said with a hint of sarcasm, putting the soda away and closing the refrigerator door.
"Sounds…boring." Braeden countered, amused that Lydia was so comfortable in Derek's kitchen. But with the amount of late night cooking experiments these two had conducted,failed attempts that turned into memories that became inside jokes,in this very space. It made perfect sense.
With glass in hand, Lydia sat down across from Braeden. "It was." She laughed sliding her the cup of ginger ale. "But the real question is how are you feeling?"
For a second she contemplated lying but knew that her friend could read her like a book. She hadn't looked in the mirror all day but could probably guess that she looked about as good as she felt. Terrible.
Breaden took a sip before answering, letting the crisp liquid find her voice for her. She told Lydia what happened that morning and listened as the green-eyed beauty queen lectured her about making a doctor's appointment.
" I know! I know! I'm going tomorrow." she confessed, rolling her sunken brown eyes. She really didn't want to go. She had a feeling they were going to tell her the one thing she didn't want to hear.
"Good, because you already know what I think." Lydia sing-songed, her big green eyes boring into dark chestnut orbs while a slow secret smile played at the corners of her flawlessly glossed lips.
"Lydia, don't start." Braeden warned, staring her head-on.
"I'm just saying all the signs are there!" she quipped throwing up her arms in the air, her earlier smile vanishing.
"No. They aren't! " Braeden argued, growing frustrated.
"Let's see…" Lydia started counting her perfectly manicured fingers "for starters there's the constant nausea and dizziness…"
"Lydia."
"the severe migraines and extreme fatigue…"
"Lydia stop."
"and last the sore-"
"Lydia! STOP!" Braeden barked at her, slamming the glass on the table sending rivulets of liquid down the cup.
As soon as she did it, she regretted it.
Lydia sat back,crossed her arms and sighed. She knew Braeden didn't want to think about this, let alone talk about it but as her best friend Lydia knew she needed to be the one to say it. However, as she looked across the table and saw Braeden's resolve crumbling, she started to think better of her direct approach.
Deep down, Braeden knew Lydia was right. All the symptoms were in line with a diagnosis she wasn't ready to receive. She didn't know if she could handle the news. More importantly, she didn't know if her relationship with Derek could handle the news. Regardless of her thoughts though, Lydia was just trying to help and didn't deserve to be yelled at.
They stared at each other for while, silently wishing they could redo this conversation.
"I'm sorry." they simultaneously admitted to each other. Braeden flashed an empathetic smile.
Their instant laughter broke the silence and Lydia reached for Braeden's hand.
"B, I know you're scared" Braeden looked down scrutinizing the shine on the stainless steel table. "but just remember that you're a badass mercenary with a werewolf for a boyfriend. You can handle more than most. You're not alone. You have Derek…and me."
Braeden turned her gaze toward Lydia, who was smiling at her in a way that could bring color back to Braeden's pale balmy skin.
She squeezed Lydia's hand in quiet response and fought back the sudden wave of tears in her eyes.
"You hungry?" Lydia said pulling her hand away, standing. "How about soy crackers? I hear they're pretty good." she winked.
Braeden wasn't the least bit in the mood but for Lydia she would try.
"Sure."
Derek and Scott were meeting for the third time this week at Viniccio's Pizzaria to talk defense strategies for a particular evil they knew they would have to battle in the coming weeks. One that, for now, was between only the werewolves of Beacon Hills. These casual meet ups started with them choosing their favorite booth in the back by the kitchen door so Scott could watch the pizzas being made. They ordered the same two pies they always did and made sure that they never changed their drink choices. It was business as usual until the conversation took a left turn into personal territory. Scott asked if everything was ok with him & Braeden and Derek had never lied to him before. He wasn't going to start now.
Letting the straw fall into the cup, Scott asked while making bubbles into the glass. "What do you mean she's acting weird? Weird how?"
Ignoring the splashes of root beer on the table from Scott's cup,Derek picked up a slice of pizza to distract him from the sticky mess before him. "She's been sick a lot lately." he answered succinctly,folding the slice in half.
"And that's weird?" asked the occupied werewolf whose blowing now appeared less effectual before fizzling out completely.
Scott frowned, took a breath, inhaled again and continued playing in his soda glass.
"For her." Derek said with finality, taking a huge bite of pizza. He wiped his sauce covered lips with a napkin and noticed that the sound of bubbles popping furiously across from him was gone. He looked over to find that Scott was staring intently, seemingly considering his words.
"What's wrong with her?"
"I don't know. I don't think she knows."
Derek passed Scott a hand full of napkins and watched as he cleaned the root beer pool on the table, admitting he was bored.
"Well that's what happens after you eat an entire pizza in five minutes. You have to sit and talk the rest of the time." Derek teased with a straight face in a way that only he could pull off. "Now, we need to figure out what we're going to do about the Death Dwellers." he finished sliding away his plate. "We need a plan."
Beacon Hills Hospital was just how Braeden remembered it, choke full of cold sterility. Not a color outside of white to be found inside its walls. The air smelled of antibacterial and sanitizer. There was furniture here that hurt more than the afflictions patients needed treatment for and smiles on the faces of every nurse that were faker than artificial snow. Every nurse except for Melissa DelGato McCall.
"Hi, Braeden." She said picking up a clipboard. "What brings you in today?" she inquired with a bright smile.
"I haven't been feeling too well." Braeden reported, sliding onto the examination table. The parchment dressing underneath her crinkling from the disturbance.
"For how long?" the concerned nurse probed.
"About a month now, I guess."
Melissa shot her a questioning look but continued with her assessment. "Describe your symptoms for me."
"There are a lot. To be honest, I don't even know where to start." Braeden explained running a hand over her face.
"You said you've been experiencing these symptoms for a month?"
Braeden nodded. She watched Melissa pluck a pen from her shirt pocket and write on the sheet in front of her. "Has this been constant or off-and-on?" she continued without leaving the clipboard.
"Pretty constant."
"Ok. I'm going to read some off particular symptoms and you just tell me if you've experienced them. How does that sound? Good?"
"Yes."
"Nausea?" Braeden nodded. Melissa checked it off the list.
"Sore throat?" Another click of the pen.
"Heightened sensitivity to light and sound?" The song of ink and paper continued.
"Extreme fatigue?" "Decrease in appetite?" "Sore or enlarged breasts?"
As she proceeded down the list Braeden was helpless to deny that she had, indeed suffered from every single symptom on the page. The list got longer but here answers never changed. They were always a resounding yes. The more she said it, the greater her anxiety toward a certain diagnosis increased.
If Braeden ever wished there was a time she could evaporate from life completely to avoid everything- it was right now.
Melissa was still asking questions in the background but her voice was muffled against all the thoughts in the forefront of Braeden's mind. She was scared of getting an answer, angry that she would probably get the one she didn't want, terrified of explaining her situation to anyone, disappointed that she was in this situation at all. She had only two choices, to grow up or shut up.
Having made her decision, Braeden removed her jacket when Melissa requested it to take her blood pressure. The needle in her arm next didn't bother her as much as the needling question about her future.
After the doting nurse capped the vial of B Positive, she urged Braeden to indicate where most of her discomfort was located and she quickly planted a firm hand on her stomach.
"Okay. Well let's take a look, shall we? I need you to lie back and raise your shirt."
Braeden did as instructed and watched as Melissa unveiled a bulky rolling machine with a wand attachment from the small room closet. Turning on the monitor, she reached underneath taking out latex gloves and a tube of lubricant before giving her attention back to her patient. "This is going to be cold but it will help us see what's going on in there." the nurse informed before slathering the gel on her lower abdomen.
Braeden cringed past the shock and watched the screen as Melissa placed the wand on her skin moving it slowly along the seam of her jeans for a while before stopping.
"Ahh. I think I found your problem." Melissa announced, pointing to the image on the monitor,smiling. "Congratulations Braeden, you're p-"
"Don't." she pleaded. "Don't say it please."
Forming her lips into a thin line, Melissa curtly nodded and granted her request. Turning her gaze back to the machine, she turned it off removed the wand from Braeden's belly and stated. "I'm going to clean this up and then the doctor will be in to speak to you in a moment, okay?"
"Thank you." she replied gratefully, pulling down her tank top.
"You're welcome." Melissa smiled on her way out of the room, closing the door behind her.
This was exactly what Braeden was afraid of, the very instance of her fear had just happened. Going to see a doctor didn't help like Derek said it would. It had the opposite effect. Her carefree days now gone, she needed to sort some things out. Walking to the car outside of the hospital, Braeden had the overwhelming impulse to seek advice. She needed to talk to her best friend.
Unlocking the car door, she slipped in and pulled out her cell phone. She pressed one character and stuck the keys in the ignition while it rang. As of right now, Braeden wasn't sure of much but what she did know was that Lydia Martin was too smart for her own good.
"Hey!" she answered.
"You were right." Braeden huffed defeatedly into the receiver, buckling her seatbelt. It took a full minute before Lydia responded.
"Come over. I'll see you when you get here."
"On my way."
After she hung up the phone, Braeden sat in the driver's seat of Derek's jeep staring off into the distance, trying to grasp how her life had just changed. The only thought in her mind was that things would never be the same between her & Derek again.
The echoing doorbell at the sprawling residence rang twice before it was answered by someone in a purple silk pajama set, hair in a messy top bun and a pencil in the crevice of their ear. "Hey,come in." Lydia stepped aside letting Braeden walk through.
"I actually thought you'd be here earlier. You called two hours ago." she said locking the door, taking Braeden's leather jacket.
"I could come back if you're busy." the young woman hesitated, self-consciously covering her stomach.
"Stop it. I finished my research paper on Chemically Inclined Molecular Influxes thirty minutes after we talked and thought I'd learn another language." She gestured to the book on the coffee table Braeden hadn't noticed until now. "Sanskrit." Lydia nonchalantly shrugged her shoulders. "Never know when it might be useful." She smiled.
Lydia outstretched outstretched her hand and Braeden took it while they ascended the stairs to her bedroom.
"Alright,sit and spill." Lydia patted the spot next to her. "Tell me everything and start from beginning. "
So that's exactly what Braeden did and by the time she was finished, she realized she was shaking. Her skin felt flushed and her hands clammy as she thought about her werewolf boyfriend and whether or not their relationship could survive the end of the day.
"What am I gonna tell him?" she stammered, staring off into the distance.
"Tell him that you're pregnant." Lydia answered matter-of-factly, placing a pale hand over Braeden's.
"I'm think I'm gonna wait." she countered.
"For what? The child to pop out and start calling him Daddy? I think that the dumbest decision you've ever made for three reasons. 1) Derek deserves to know 2) You're only contemplating not telling him because you're scared of his reaction but 3) You have no way of knowing how he'll react unless you tell him. So tell him,Braeden."
Braeden chocked back her tears at the cutting truth behind those words. Lydia knew her like the back of her hand. She was in deep trouble if she thought she could squirrel away from Lydia Martin's scope of intelligence. As she laid her head on her best friend's sturdy shoulder, she was grateful that she didn't have to say it out loud. That there was someone in her life who loved her enough to speak them when they were too uncomfortable for her. Too heartbreaking, too devastating.
As they sat on her bed,Lydia stroked her hair and rubbed her shoulder and Braeden desperately wished that someone could tell those dreaded words to Derek,for her.
"Where have you been?" was the greeting that met her at the door of Derek's loft. He gave her a chaste kiss and returned to his previous activity. "I didn't know you left."
She dropped the keys on the table and shrugged out of her jacket as she replied. "Yeah. I decided to go see the doctor today instead of tomorrow."
Derek abandoned the blueprints on his desk and devoted his attention to his girlfriend. "What did he say?"
Leisurely taking off her left boot, she replied. "He gave me an answer." and easily dislodged the other shoe.
"What was the answer?"
Derek continued to look fixedly at Braeden, following her gait as she came closer to him. He crossed his arms, calmly standing in the middle of his living room and waited for her to get within reaching distance.
Circling her outstanding anatomy in his strong arms when she was less than four feet away, he asked once more. "What was the answer, Brae?"
Derek's face was dangerously close to hers and she could feel every inch of him as he wrapped her in his arms. Every one of his slight growls of satisfaction reverberated right through her chest. The longer they made heated eye contact, the more the temperature rose in the room. Derek could feel it to by the smug look on his face and the dark glint in his eyes. He knew what he was doing.
Braeden knew that if she stood there with him, like that anymore they would end up doing what got her into this mess. She couldn't lose focus. It was now or never she thought as she took a shuddering breath to compose herself and broke his embrace.
This was it.
With trembling hands,she reached into the pocket of her jeans and pulled out a small square piece of paper. She flipped it over clumsily, running a shaky thumb across the image before nervously handing it to Derek.
Derek Hale had seen a lot of unexplainable things in his life and he prided himself on his repose when it pertained to deciphering the answers he needed but looking at what lie in his hands, he could feel the confusion ebb into anxiety. He was freaking out. He couldn't tell what he was supposed to see and the longer he stared at the grainy, black and white photo the more his panic rose in his throat. A throng of questions forming in his mind.
After seconds of silently observing Derek's unreadable expression, Braeden reluctantly swallowed down the fact that she was petrified he hadn't responded. She stared back at the picture and then at Derek.
Closing her eyes and pushing a strand of her dark curls behind her ear, she took a step closer to him on legs quaking legs she was surprised she was even able to move. Her slender chestnut fingers reached around his hand and pointed to a gray dot in the center of the photo.
"That's um- that's reason I've been" a pause "uh harder to live with lately." she explained keeping her eyes glued to the photo.
Derek looked up from the picture, hazel glow in his orbs barely visible against the harsh squint caused by his utter bewilderment.
"What is this Braeden? What am I looking at?"
"Your baby."
He had to grip the photo tighter to makes sure he was holding it as his eyebrows dissolved into his forehead, his vision blurred for a couple of seconds and the room started to spin. "My ba-"
"Yes. Baby."
His eyes broke away from the picture and he looked at his girlfriend. Actually saw her for the first time that day.
He noticed her standing in the room and began to see her in a different light. Scanning his view up and down her hourglass frame, he could tell certain things were different about her. The curve of her jeans were deeper, hips wider to house a more round ass. The skin flirting with his eyes underneath her tank top had returned to it's normal warm hue and the swell of her chest was bigger than he'd remembered. They were huge to be honest and he quietly berated himself for not paying closer attention to all of this before.
Before she told she was pregnant.
Before he saw his child for the first time.
Breaden weakly smiled at him and it was then that he realized, he had been standing there speechless, absorbed in his own thoughts for a while. Returning her smile with a shaky one of his own, he finally spoke.
"You're pregnant?" It was more of a statement than a question he was willing himself to believe. He peered down at the picture in his hands again before she could answer.
"You're pregnant?" Derek said again, a little more convinced this time.
He turned away from her,his attention rapt on the image, the muscles in his back protruding through his tight shirt. Braeden held her breath, waiting for the explosion. The part where he yelled so loud his eyes shifted and he'd ultimately accuse her of trapping him with an unwanted addition. Who knows maybe she could do this on her own, she convinced herself silently, anticipating a bitter end to a sweet partnership. She would have to pick up the pieces herself but she could carry the baby in her other arm.
Breaking her thoughts, Derek did something that completely floored Braeden. He swung around seemingly floated on air towards her wearing a smile that rivaled every sun in the universe. He gazed at her so longingly that she had to squelch the wave of pure love stirring inside her.
With unshed tears in his eyes, he cupped her face. "We're having a baby." Derek whispered in awe.
She smiled a watery smile and nodded, wiping her sweaty palms nervously on her jeans.
"We are having a baby, but.."
"but what?" he let go of her instantly face and took a step back.
He had a feeling he wasn't ready for anything that came after what Braeden had to say next. Derek found that he was excited about the news but by the sound of her voice she was anything but.
"Braeden?" Derek pressed, keeping his searing gaze on her as he bent to pick up the photo that slipped out of his hands. "Why do I get the feeling you have something else to tell me?"
"Because I do." he watched in silence as a tear slipped from her eye and she reached for the picture. His first instinct was to pull it out of her hands, tell her that portrait had his kid in it, his child. But then he remembered,this was her baby too.
He relaxed as much as he could in the moment and resisted the urge to wipe away her was an emptiness in his hands where the similitude of a new life used to be. Derek hoped his worst fear hadn't happened, that Braeden had not decided to take away his opportunity to have a family before he was aware they had one. He didn't consciously think that Braeden was the type of woman to do that, but the still chill in the air by her delayed response did little to debunk his suspicions.
She stood there, tears streaming down her smooth complexion, mouth searching for the perfect way to tell him the news. Everytime she tried, the little voice in the back of her head would scream that Derek wasn't going to react well to it. The other voice that sounded a lot like Lydia, telling her that she didn't know unless she told him everything could barely be heard above the frantic beating of her heart.
Taking a deep breath, she mumbled. "We'rehavingababybutthere'smoreit'stwins." Breaden exhaled in one short breathe.
"What?" Derek scrunched his features, straining to hear her. "Brae." He closed the gap between them and titled her chin up with his finger. "What did you say?"
Closing her eyes she repeated softly. "I said" a pause. "We're having a baby but there's more…there are uh..we're not just having one baby."
"Wh-what?"
Braeden opened her shining eyes only to have them penetrated by the unparalleled light in Derek's. His face was full of pure astonishment. She wasn't sure if he actually heard anything she just told him, so she said it again.
"We're not having just one baby Derek, we're having twins."
Derek flew at her so fast she would have been knocked on her ass if he wasn't cupping it so tightly. Braeden wrapped her legs around his waist and looped her hands around his neck as she spun her around. He put her down and kissed her so gently her insides melted from his affection.
"So you're not upset?" She asked huskily when she could see straight again. Derek cupped her round face, wiped her tears with his thumbs and poured every emotion he owned into his answering kiss.
"Why would I be upset with the woman who is giving me a family?" he declared, taking his time with each word.
"I just thought th-"
"Shh" he slid his left hand to her waist "we're having a baby Braeden" placed his heavy palm to her stomach. "two of them." and kissed her forehead.
"Two babies." He repeated.
She smiled and nodded. "Two babies."
"Thank you." his said leaning in,eyes starting to cloud with unshed tears. "Brae, thank you for giving me this." he took the sonogram out of her hands and shook it in the air. "Them."
All the words in the world couldn't be more perfect than this moment so she didn't say anything for fear that she would ruin it, she just fell into his open arms and stood with him in the middle of his living room until he released her. He kissed her nose and she giggled.
"I love you."
"I love you." Braeden insisted, musing as she rubbed his arms reveling in the way they responded to her touch.
"And I love you guys too." He said crouching down on his knees, kissing her flat stomach.
Braeden looked skyward to keep her tears at bay as Derek continued talking to her belly.
"Hey guys, I'm your dad and I can't wait to meet you. For a long time I was wishing for you and didn't even know it until your mom showed me your picture." He beamed up at Braeden,who put her hands on his shoulders. "Your mom is the best in the entire world. She's beautiful,smart and stronger than me in so many ways it still surprises me that she was ever attracted to a guy like me. She's one of a kind. We're lucky to have her."
Derek squeezed her hips gently and let a tear slip when she mouthed she loved him without a hint of regret. Her nimble fingers found his hair as he caressed her tummy,showering his family with the softest kisses he could give. Raising up her shirt, the proud father placed his head gently on her stomach.
"You guys have no idea how much she's gone through for you so take it easy on her in there, ok? Try not to make her miserable or she will make me miserable." Braeden rolled her eyes. "She loves you. And I love you. And we want to protect you guys because we do so stay in there and grow for as long as you can. Be brave and determined like you mother, kind like your Aunt Laura and wise like your grandmother. Pfft,I don't even know if you can hear me yet but I have to tell you that you're the best things that have ever happened to me and you always will be. We're a family. We're Hales. We're in this together." he pecked Braeden's supple skin one last time before replacing her shirt.
Derek stood up and melted into the kiss his girlfriend met him with. It was full of everything she wanted to say and even things she didn't have to. She ravaged his mouth like she would die without it and he returned the favor with equal fervor, almost bruising her lips with his passion. He stopped when she needed air. She was panting and perfect just the way he loved her. Picking her up bridal style, he sauntered over to the bed holding his most prized possessions in his arms. Derek pulled back the blankets and slid both of them in between.
"We're having twins." he murmured excitedly, spooning Braeden from behind. She didn't have to turn around to know that a grin was currently eating his face. He was going to be a dad, she was going to be a mom to two babies who would be perfect blends of both. Derek kissed her temple and held her.
"Ours." he heard Braeden whisper contentedly as she slipped into a much needed slumber. He watched her sleeping peacefully is his arms, their contrasting skin tones seeming indistinguishable as he rubbed protective circles over his growing family. He never knew how much he loved her until this moment and he would gladly spend the rest of his life making sure he cherished her. This was the mother of his unborn children and he couldn't have picked a better one. All his earlier relationships had failed because he was created for someone like her. And secretly he hoped that pretty soon he would get to hold two tinier versions of her in his arms,happy and healthy,as he pushed a stray strand of curly dark brown hair out of her face. She scrunched her nose and kept dreaming.
Eventually,Derek fell asleep listening to the rhythmic thud of Braeden's heartbeat, waiting for the day when he could finally hear two more.
Draeden babies! Woo-woop! Can you imagine Braeden with a big belly? Me and my feels can! What did you guys think? Did you like it? Review so I don't feel like a failure. Til next time loves!