Warning – this story is nothing but a silly and a fluffy fic. There's no real plot, just sugary scenes (get your insulin ready).
I don't own Nick or Amanda or SVU.
"Dad" a small hand touched Nick's arm "daddy" he heard a whisper and felt the hand push him a bit harder.
Nick turned around and saw the little boy on his knees on the bed, his face very close to his. The boy poked his shoulder, just to make sure the older man was awake.
"What is it Ethan?" Nick asked quietly, not wanting to wake up Amanda, who's been sleeping next to him.
"It's tomorrow" Ethan said, his mouth by Nick's ear "the surprise"
"The surprise?" Ethan nodded excitedly and it took Nick a moment to remember what he was talking about "ok but it's still dark outside" he could see the sun has not yet risen.
"But I want to make the surprise!" he spoke a bit louder and Amanda stirred a little. When Ethan saw her move he placed his finger to his lips, adding a "shhh" to his father.
"We'll do it in the morning" Nick sat up "come on, I'll tuck you in"
Nick got up from the bed and picked the little boy, giving him a quick kiss.
"Go back to sleep" Nick moved the blanket and covered the boy with it.
"Don't forget dad" Ethan turned to his side, closing his eyes.
"I won't" Nick kissed him and lingered in the room, watching him falling asleep.
Nick noticed it was just after 3 am and returned to bed.
"He ok?" Amanda mumbled.
"Yeah, everything's fine" he kissed her shoulder "go back to sleep, birthday girl"
Amanda chuckled but gladly allowed herself to fall asleep. Nick knew she had a long day at work yesterday and when she got back home, after midnight, Nick greeted her with a happy birthday kiss, a happy birthday shower and a very happy birthday love making session. So he knew she was tired and wanted her to catch up on sleep. Specially since Ethan had planned a surprise for her.
It was all Frannie's fault.
Ethan was drawing something for Amanda as a birthday present while Nick was cleaning up after dinner. Ethan liked cartoons, but wasn't a big TV fan so he usually spend the evenings playing.
"I'm drawing mommy a cake" he called out, keeping Nick informed of the progress. It was a good thing, because the boy's drawing skills were less than average, many of the paintings actually looked the same, whether it was a dog, a human, a cake or the sun.
Frannie walked over to the boy and on her way there stepped on the remote, turning on the television.
"And the best way to start a morning" it was some cooking program "on a special day, is with breakfast it bed, it's such a nice surprise, for so many occasions, like anniversaries, birthdays… surprising someone with breakfast in bed is such a beautiful thing…if you love someone…"
The word birthday got the host Ethan's undivided attention, he let the crayon fall and moved closer to the screen, listening carefully.
"Dad" he rushed to Nick's side.
"Yeah kiddo" Nick dried his hands and looked at the boy.
"Can we make mommy a surprise for her birthday?"
"I thought you're drawing her something, she'd love that" Nick said.
"But I want to surprise her" he insisted.
"Ok, what do you have in mind?" Nick kneeled down, looking into Ethan's face.
"Breakfast in bed!" Ethan smiled that wide smile of his, the one he got from Amanda.
"What made you think about it?" Nick was confused.
"She said it" he pointed at the television "it's a birthday surprise if you love someone!"
"We do love your mommy" Nick smiled "I think it's a good idea, but it means you'll have to be very quiet and not to wake her up, or it won't be a surprise, ok?" Ethan nodded happily "what do you want to make?"
Ethan ran to the TV, hoping the woman on the show will give him an idea and Nick smiled at his son's enthusiasm. Even though the segment had ended and the show moved on to talk about something else, they decided to make Amanda pancakes served with fruits and juice, nothing too complicated.
Ever since he'd discovered the concept of presents Ethan would get thrilled whenever there was a holiday or a birthday. It was the surprise element that excited him most of all, looking at the wrapped box, unwrapping it to find out what was inside. Last Christmas he was running around in the house, searching for something after watching a cartoon about Santa.
"What are you looking for?" Amanda exchanged a look with Nick and asked after the third time he looked behind the TV.
"Where's our chimney?" he asked.
"We don't have one baby" Amanda's reply got her a frightened look.
"No" he walked to his parents "but we need to get one! We have to! For Santa!"
"What are you talking about?"
"How is Santa going to bring me a gift? He needs a chimney!"
Nick smiled at Amanda "don't worry about it, I promise Santa's gonna leave you a present, even without a chimney"
"Really?" his eyes moved from Amanda to Nick, not sure if they were telling him the truth.
"Promise" Amanda replied.
But he loved giving gifts as well, when someone else had a celebration he'd get happy for that person too. When Ethan found out about Amanda's birthday he got excited and told her he'd give her a gift.
"How old are you mommy?" he asked, looking at his fingers "I'm three" he raised three little fingers.
"I'm a little older than that" she smiled.
"Like this?" he raised both hands.
"Oh baby" she kissed each of his palms "mommy's older than that, we don't have enough fingers combined she placed his palms over his.
"And with daddy?" he asked.
"We won't have enough even with daddy" she said.
"That's a lot" his eyes widened and he tried to count the fingers.
"Yes it is" she smiled at him.
When Amanda found out she was pregnant it was quite a shock. They weren't planning to have a child, she was content with being whatever she was to Gil and Zara. She didn't like the use of step mother, but she was living with Nick for a long time and they were spending a lot of time there and she loved them, they were a family.
She got pregnant and she was scared. Gil and Zara were older, they weren't living there all of the time. This baby will be her child, it will grow inside of her, she will give birth to it, she will raise it. She was scared, horrified, worried. But Amanda didn't keep it to herself, she shared the thoughts with Nick and he told her that he's been feeling the same way. He told her it wasn't about how you grew up, about how your parents treated you, that's how any normal person feels. Having a baby is scary. But they will do it together.
As Amanda's belly grew and they found out it was a boy, as they looked at the ultrasound pictures, felt him move and kick. Amanda was feeling something towards this mysterious creature inside of her.
"What do you think he'll look like?" Nick asked.
"If I learned anything in biology" Amanda looked up into his eyes "he's gonna have your brown eyes and your brown hair" she was right, he had Nick's eyes and his dark hair, but he had Amanda's smile and sometimes when Ethan looked at him – Nick could see Amanda behind his expressions.
"Daddy" Nick opened his eyes, Ethan was shaking his shoulder.
"Yeah?"
"It's not dark outside anymore" the boy whispered and pointed at the window.
"Alright" it was already morning and Nick made a promise "let me get ready and I'll be right over"
Ethan nodded and walked out of the room happily.
"What's going on Nick?" Amanda turned to him, still half asleep.
"Don't worry about it, you should get more sleep" he kissed her "love you"
"Good" she mumbled.
Nick quickly got dressed and brushed his teeth. Ethan was eagerly waiting in his room, still wearing his red trucks pajama.
"Let's get you dressed" Nick smiled and helped him take off the shirt. It was getting a little small already, he was growing up so fast.
"You can't see me!" Ethan laughed, the shirt got stuck over his eyes and Nick tried to gently take it off.
"Yes I can" Nick tickled him, loving the sound of his son's laughter "ok, we made it!" he was able to take the shirt off his head and gave him a high five "we need to get you new pajamas"
"But not now, right? We need to make the surprise"
"And we will" Nick assured "I'll help you brush your teeth and then we'll take Frannie for a walk"
"And then we make mommy breakfast!"
"Yes we will make mommy the best breakfast in bed ever" Nick promised.
"Ever ever!" the boy beamed.
Nick helped Ethan get ready and made him something to eat before they took Frannie outside.
"Come on Frannie" he hurried her when he was done eating before the dog.
"A little patience" Nick smiled.
Ethan was such a cheerful boy sometimes Nick wasn't sure who he got that from, but Nick hoped he won't lose that trait.
"But what if she goes out of bed?" Ethan walked to the front door, waiting for Frannie and his dad.
"Don't worry, mommy's not gonna wake up early"
They got back home not a long time later, Ethan spend most of the walk talking about how much Amanda would be happy with her surprise. He couldn't wait to get back home and Nick had to cut the walk short due to all of the boy's jumping around. He was so cute Nick couldn't wait for the plan to be brought to life.
"First we wash our hands" Nick helped him with that and went to check up on Amanda, she was sound asleep, a fact that made Ethan extremely happy.
"You're in charge of stirring, ok?" Nick placed a chair by the counter and Ethan climbed on it taking a large wooden spoon.
Ethan took his job very seriously, stirring even without being asked,
"I'm stirring it" he let Nick know whenever Nick took something out of the fridge, or returned anything inside it, the boy would place the spoon inside the bowl and mix enthusiastically.
They had to let the batter sit for a few minutes and Nick cut the oranges for Ethan, he helped him squeeze the juice out of them.
"We forgot the flower!" Ethan dropped the orange he'd been holding "we need a flower"
"We don't have flowers, but I don't think mom's gonna care"
"But they had a flower" he insisted.
"You can draw one, ok?" Nick suggested, picking up the orange off the floor "I'll finish with the juice"
"I can draw a lot of flowers" he squealed happily and Nick lowered him down to the floor.
Nick quickly finished preparing the juice and cleaned up the kitchen. Ethan's eager stirring left evidence on the floor.
Ethan returned a few minutes later holding a colorful paper in his hands "look" he smiled proudly.
"Great job, mommy's gonna love it" Nick found the tray that was hidden in one of the cupboards, they never used it and Nick was glad he'd managed to find the thing, or else Ethan would be disappointed, he explained they must bring it on a tray to her room.
"Pancakes time" Nick let him know. Ethan wanted to look so Nick allowed him to stand back on the chair and look from a safe distance. Some of the pancakes turned out weird, but Nick wasn't the best cook so it would have to do.
"Ok, I think we're ready, what do you say?" Nick placed everything on the tray and showed it to Ethan for a final approval.
"I like it" he said and jumped off the stool.
"Hey!" Nick gave him a serious look, he though the stool was too high for Ethan to jump off of, but he didn't want to scold him, and the boy was too excited to notice anyway.
"Alright, let's go wake mom up, gently" He could already see the kid jumping on the bed and on Amanda.
Ethan ran into his parent's bedroom and walked to Amanda, giggling.
"Mommy" he tried to whisper, but the excitement took over his voice "mommy" he looked behind him to see Nick holding the tray.
"Yeah baby?" Amanda slowly opened her eyes.
"Happy birthday" he shouted and climbed on the bed and on top of her.
"Thank you kiddo" she hugged him tightly and kissed his cheeks a couple of times. She raised her eyes at Nick, smiling at him.
"We made you a surprise!" he loudly informed her "breakfast in bed" he pointed at Nick.
"Oh wow! Did daddy help you?"
"He sure did" Nick placed the tray on the bedside table and crawled into bed with them, giving Amanda a quick peck and ruffling up Ethan's dark hair.
"Eat it mom" Ethan ordered and Amanda reached for the tray, carefully placing in on the bed "we made you juice and pancakes and daddy cut the apples and I drew the flowers and a cake!" Ethan remembered the drawing he's been working on last night and got up, almost knocking over the tray.
'Be careful" Amanda helped him off the bed and he ran to his room "this is why he woke you up twice?" she turned to Nick.
"He saw it on TV and wanted to surprise you" he let her know "he took stirring very seriously"
Ethan got back to the room and handed Amanda the painting "it's a cake"
"This is beautiful" she kissed him "this is the best surprise ever, come here" she snuggled with him for a few moments until he wanted her to eat.
"It's so good" she took a sip of the juice and ate a pancake "did daddy mixed the batter?" she asked Ethan, who shook his head with a smile "no? It was you?" Ethan nodded "you did a wonderful job…here" she gave each of the guys a pancake.
They enjoyed the food and Amanda shared the fresh juice with the two of them.
"Abuela is going to pick you up soon" Nick told Ethan "and later we will have dinner together, with Zara and Gil"
"Really?" Ethan adored his siblings and was always happy when they came over or when Nick took him to visit them.
Nick's phone rang "it's grandma" he said before taking the call, Cesaria let him know she was on her way so Nick took the dishes back to the kitchen, wanting to give Amanda some time to get ready.
"Thank you so much" Amanda embraced Ethan, holding him close "I love you so much"
"I love you mommy, happy birthday"
"Come on" Nick picked the boy up.
"Can I have breakfast in bed for my birthday?" he asked his father.
Cesaria came by about fifteen minutes later and congratulated Amanda before leaving with Ethan and Frannie, to make the dog up for the short morning walk. It was Saturday and Nick wanted to spend a few hours alone with Amanda, she's been working hard lately and they haven't gotten much time just the two of them.
A couple of minutes after he closed the door behind his mother Nick walked to Amanda, a huge grin on his face.
"So we're alone…" he said.
"Oh yeah?" she gave him a daring look as he approached her.
"Just you and me…" he caressed her cheek "what do you want to do?"
"Mmm…I don't know…you have any ideas?"
"How about we continue what we started last night? Call it round one…I'd say it's time for round two" he suggested.
"I like that idea" she placed her hands around his waist and moved them under his shirt.
"It is your birthday" he shrugged "so if this is what you want…"
Amanda decided that talking was a waste of time and captured his lips with hers. He wrapped his hands around her, picking up a bit so he could take her to the bedroom.
They collapsed on the bed and his face hovered over hers, looking into her eyes with a smile "you're gorgeous" he whispered "I love you so much"
"You're already getting in my pants, no need for sweet talk" she kissed him.
"Maybe you should say something to me, or these pants will stay on" he teased and moved his mouth to the side of her neck, sucking on it a little in between kisses.
"It's my birthday…you should be nice" she was breathing heavier.
"So I'm not even nice?" he stopped the kissing and looked at her with a smile.
"You're terrible" she said and pushed him on his back, straddling him and helping him take his shirt off.
"You are" she placed a kiss on his chin "a very…" her lips moved to his neck "very…hot man"
Nick chuckled and Amanda continued her decent down his body.
"That's all you got?" he hissed as her lips reached his nipple.
"That's all you are going to get" she moved closer to his lips "can't let you find out how much I love you"
"Lucky me" he grinned ant turned them around again.
"You are very lucky" she nodded and kissed him "so am I"
The writers could have transferred Nick to a different squad and make Rollaro happen…they can't work together if they are in a relationship but he'd still exist in the SVU universe and in NY. That would have been a much better storyline.
I wouldn't really want to see Amanda and Nick have a baby on the show, but it's fun in fics.
This isn't a sequel to any o my fics, even though one of my first stories ended up with them having a boy named Ethan. In my Rollaro imagination that's the name of their kid. I love that name and it means strong, and you have to have strong nerves to ship Rollaro (even when the two of them were on the show).
Anyway, hope you liked it. If anyone's interested, maybe I'll write another chapter to this fic.