Okay guys, hate to do this, but just gonna put this here 'cause apparently FF has made the decision (a poor decision, really) to not let authors block guest reviews and since a coward is refusing to put their name on their reviews, I'm going to have to respond to them here: I don't care if you hate my stories, although you haven't even given me a reason as to why you dislike them. I am a f*ing awesome writer, and I have many, many people in my life from all over the world and walks of life who agree with me. If you think you're going to stop me from posting, you're not. I'm going to keep writing because I love to do it and I'm going to keep posting because I know there are people who are enjoying my stories. So yep. F* you too. Have a lovely day. 3

And now, for the people I'm ACTUALLY here for, here's the first chapter of my new story! :)

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"Fred?"

"Mm?" Fred turns over in bed to look at his husband lying next to him, looking absolutely beautiful in the moonlight streaming in through their bedroom window. Of course, Tadashi really didn't look that much different from the day they'd met-toons, as the cartoon characters who came into the real world were called, didn't actually age, so both guys looked practically the same as they had since they had "appeared" (the toon equivalent of birth) in the Disney studios back in 2013. A lot had happened since then-honestly, it was a miracle that they were actually here, together, right now. Tadashi hadn't been supposed to fall in love with Fred-according to his character design, he was supposed to be in love with another character from their movie, Honey Lemon-and the fact that he'd chosen to follow his heart and actually start dating the man he truly wanted to be with had caused some definite consternation from the people in charge of their movie studio. Not wanting to raise controversy by having openly gay toons representing their "family" company and also not wanting to stand for two characters going completely off-script, they'd almost punished Tadashi with a "redesign", something that would have completely wiped his memory of everything he'd experienced in the human world and, the studio had hoped, would cause him to actually fall in love with the "right" person by adding further restrictions on his character. Fortunately, though, thanks to the timely intervention of the studio's most iconic and powerful character, Mickey Mouse, Tadashi had not only managed to escape what would have been a horrible fate for all of those involved, he was able to finally openly live his life with the man that he loved. And openly they did-as of two years ago, following the finale of the Big Hero 6 TV show that Disney had created based off of their original movie and the filming of the film's sequel, the two had actually gotten married, to much fan fare from both the toon community and the fans who had rallied together to support the couple. The couple had now settled down in a local toon community, in a house not far from where the rest of their family and friends lived and close enough that Fred could still get to the studio when and if they ever needed him for future projects. Still, the Big Hero 6 enterprise seemed to be on a hiatus as of late-even the character appearances in the parks had pretty much tapered off at this point, and, with no news of any new ventures in the near future, it seemed like they could safely plan on finally settling down for good. Disney took too good of care of their characters to let any of them end up homeless or worse, so it wasn't like the guys had to actually worry about working jobs, but both Tadashi and Fred were too active of characters to be willing to just sit around all day. As such, Fred had become a fantasy/sci fi novelist for young adults (his notoriety as a character making him pretty much an overnight success.) Tadashi, still finding the barriers to what society thought toons could and could not do preventing him and Hiro to open their dream company, Hamada Bros Inc, as of yet, had started classes at a local university to get an official robotics degree and, as of last May, had finally graduated with a doctorate degree as well as a professorship (something rarely, if ever, granted to a toon, and Fred couldn't have been prouder of him.) So now both men were happily married, working on careers that they loved, and, as far as Fred was concerned, everything was perfect.

Or… Almost perfect. Recently, the fanboy had the feeling that something was on Tadashi's mind. He didn't know what, exactly, and he'd almost been afraid to ask, wondering if, for some reason, his husband was becoming bored with him. He rationally knew that they both loved each other insanely much, but he still sometimes couldn't understand why Tadashi had chosen him, of all people, to fall in love with. He really didn't have anything to offer him-as far as he was concerned, he wasn't really all that attractive, and he'd been intentionally designed as a side character, the comic relief in what was otherwise a rather emotional story. And side characters didn't end up with the heroes of stories-well, not unless you were Ginny Weasley, in which case you ended up getting married to Harry Potter. But he wasn't even near as much of a bad ass as Ginny had turned out to be! Even as much as Tadashi reassured him over and over again that he loved him, he still felt so pathetic sometimes in comparison.

So when he heard Tadashi saying his name in that way, the way that meant he wanted to talk about something serious, Fred braced himself for the worst.

"Sweetheart, you look like you're expecting me to say I want a divorce or something," Tadashi says, frowning when he sees the look on his husband's face.

"What? No! Why would I say that!" Fred answers, forcing out a laugh.

Tadashi's frown deepens. "Fred, you know I'd never say something like that, right? I love you, and only you, and I will always love only you."

"I know," Fred answers, forcing himself to relax and reaching over to gently stroke Tadashi's cheek. "I'm sorry, it's just… Lately it seems like you have something on your mind that you're not telling me. Like, I'll see you randomly staring off into the distance with a look on your face like you're really sad or you're not… you're not completely happy…" This last part comes out in almost a whisper as the fanboy forces himself to finally voice the fear that had been nagging at him for the past couple months.

"Oh, Fred…" Tadashi says softly before leaning over to press a firm kiss to his husband's lips. "I am so, so happy with you," he tells him when he finally pulls away. "And, when it comes to romance and love, yes, I am completely satisfied with what we have-more than that, even. But… You're right. There is something I've wanted to talk to you about that's been… well, not just on my mind, but on my heart for a while now. I just… I've been kind of scared to tell you because I wasn't sure how you'd take it…"

"Dashi, you know you can tell me anything," Fred says gently, hating the fact that he could now plainly see that there had been an almost painful longing in his lover's eyes that he had either been missing or purposefully been ignoring. "I promise, I won't be mad, whatever it is," he adds, taking his husband's hands in his own and beginning to rub his thumbs in reassuring circles on the backs of them.

"Or laugh?" Tadashi asks, and it was clear that, whatever it was that was on his mind, it was something that was so dear to his heart that he couldn't stand the idea of Fred either hating it or not taking it seriously.

"Never," Fred says firmly.

"A-all right…" Tadashi closes his eyes and takes a deep breath before saying in a small voice, "I-I want a baby."

"Wait, what?" That had been the farthest thing from Fred's mind, and for a minute, he just stares at his husband in quiet shock.

"You-you hate me for this, don't you?" Tadashi says in a quiet, pained voice, starting to draw away from his husband.

"What? No!" Fred cries, instantly reaching over to draw his lover back to him. "Oh, Dashi, no! I don't hate you! I'm a little surprised, yes, but just because I honestly hadn't really thought about that before. But sweetheart, if you want to have a baby-yes, I am all for it!"

"Y-you are?" Tadashi asks, looking hopefully up at him.

"Of course I am!" Fred answers, the idea finally starting to actually settle in, and he finds a small glow beginning to fill his chest as he imagines what it would be like for them to have a little boy or girl running around the house, picturing him and Tadashi tucking them into bed or taking them to the park. But then the reality starts to set in on him and he says quietly, "But, sweetheart… You know that, even if we were human, you and I… We couldn't…"

"I know," Tadashi hurries to reassure him. Still, he didn't seem terribly upsets by this news-if anything, he seemed to be fighting a smile now.

"Okay…" Fred says slowly, trying to decide how to take his reaction. "Um… Have you thought of a way to get around that? Because you know that there really aren't any orphaned toons who aren't already in families, and so far no toon has ever been allowed to adopt a human because of the ridiculous concerns that we 'wouldn't know how to care for a human child'..."

"Yes, I know that," Tadashi agrees, his eyes sparkling slightly. "But… What if I told you that there was still a way for us to have a baby?"

"Like, us us? I don't even see how-"

"I called in a favor," Tadashi agrees, as if this was the missing piece that Fred needed to put the entire puzzle together. "You remember Christy?"

"Yes," Fred agrees slowly-Christy had been one of the artists on the team who had developed both his and Tadashi's characters, and one of the few who had been openly supportive of his and Tadashi's relationships (a part of him honestly wondered sometimes if she had been part of the reason his and Tadashi's characters had fallen in love, although he tried not to think about that too much. It was easier to believe that his and Tadashi's love had come about without any outside forces working on it.)

"Well…" Tadashi eagerly squeezes his husband's hands. "This would have to be off book-completely non-canon, you understand…"

"Yes?" Fred presses, wishing that he'd stop drawing this out.

"She's agreed to draw a baby for us!" Tadashi tells him, grinning."Well, only if you agreed, of course. But since you have-!"

"S-she what?" Fred gasps, trying to wrap his head around this new information. Licensed artists were few and far between-you had to go through extensive training and certification to be able to actually create characters who would come to life because you had to understand the consequences that could come about with bringing something from the imaginary world into the real world. Technically artists were only supposed to actually create characters under the supervision of a movie studio which could ensure that the design was not only flawless before it came about but was safe to be released into the real world. An artist going rogue, especially to create a character for a baby for a non-canon couple, meant that they were risking a lot, even possibly expulsion from the company or, worse, losing their artist's license. And as much as Fred knew Tadashi wanted to have a child, the idea that someone could lose a job-no, their livelihood and probably life long dream over it…

"If you're worried about what Disney might do, don't be," Tadashi says, reading his husband's worried expression. "Let's just say that they still kind of owe us after everything that happened, and Mr. Mouse said we could contact him if we ever needed anything, so I made a few phone calls, and pretty much got everything cleared!"

"And just when were you planning to tell us about this?" Fred asks, trying not to feel upset that his husband had technically been going behind his back on all of this.

"Once I knew that it was even possible," Tadashi answers, looking slightly taken aback by his husband's tone. "I-I didn't want to get your hopes up if you wanted this as much as I do, only to find out that it wasn't even possible. I knew how painful it was for me wanting a baby but thinking it could never happen, I didn't want you to have to go through that if you felt the same way."

"Oh, Dashi…" Fred pulls him closer. "I never, ever want you to have to walk through something like that alone… You should have told me, I could have been there for you…"

"I know, and I'm sorry if maybe it was selfish of me," Tadashi says quietly, nuzzling into him. "But the important thing right now is that we can actually have our baby, right?"

"Right," Fred agrees, lovingly kissing him before asking, "So, how long before…?"

"We can call Christy up first thing in the morning and set up a meeting with her," Tadashi answers with a slight smile. "Once we do that, then she'll start drawing up designs-she said we can have as little or as much input into the process as we want-and then it might take a few months before he's finally finished and can arrive."

"He?" Fred asks, raising a playful eyebrow.

"I-I'm sorry, I know we should both talk about this, I just-" Tadashi mumbles, blushing bright red.

"Sh-it's okay," Fred reassures him, pressing a gentle hand to his lips. "If you want a son, then we are having a son."

"R-really?" Tadashi asks, relief crossing his features.

"Yes, really," Fred answers, lovingly kissing him. "Now, c'mon, let's get some sleep in, 'kay? Tomorrow's going to be a pretty big day for us, starting getting ready for the baby-and, if anything I've heard about babies is true, we'd better enjoy our sleep while we can."

"That's true," Tadashi agrees with a slight smile, kissing him back. "I love you so much, Fred," he says softly as he nuzzles up against his husband.

"I love you too," Fred answers with a warm smile.

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"All right, so, let's get this started!" Christy says, gesturing for Tadashi and Fred to sit in the two chairs she had squeezed into her office just for the occasion. She seemed just as excited as the expectant parents, if not more so.

"Thank you," Tadashi says, giving her a warm smile as he takes the seat next to Fred,eagerly squeezing his husband's hand. "And thank you for being willing to do this, you have no idea how much it means to us!"

"I'm more than happy to do it!" Christy reassures him. "Honestly, I've been bubbling over with ideas, but before I actually started anything, I wanted to talk to you make sure what your preferences were so that I didn't design a kid that was completely wrong for you two!"

"Tadashi and I actually talked about that, and we decided that we'd honestly rather have as little a hand in that process as possible," Fred admits after trading a look with his husband. "We'd like final approval, of course, but we'd rather this be as close to the actual process of having a baby as possible."

"We don't want to have too many expectations for what the baby will be like, only for them to turn out completely different-not that we wouldn't love them either way, but we'd rather make this more organic, y'know?" Tadashi adds.

"That makes sense," Christy agrees. "Puts a little more pressure on me to make all the decisions, but it also gives me more freedom, so I can definitely work with that! You're sure there's not anything you really want, though?"

"Well…" Tadashi and Fred trade a look before Tadashi tells her, "We were kind of hoping for a son. Unless you already have plans for a girl, in which case, that is completely fine!"

"No, actually," Christy reassures him with a grin. "Call it artist's intuition, but I'd already started sketching ideas for a little boy."

"Really?" Tadashi gives her a relieved smile.

"Really," Christy answers warmly. "Now, there is one thing I want to talk with you two about before we go any much further with this."

"Okay," Fred agrees, sensing Tadashi stiffening next to him at the artist's words and reaching over to reassuring squeeze his husband's hand.

"I know you keep referring to your son as a 'baby', and if that's really how you wanted things, I could attempt that," Christy says, pressing her fingertips together. "But the truth is, I think it might be wiser for him to arrive as maybe a young child or a toddler-five or six years old, maybe. I only say this because, as you know, toons don't age unless their artist chooses to have them do so, and I've seen too many cases of a baby character who grows mentally and emotionally older but is trapped in an infant's body and greatly resents it. I'm not saying that I can't age your son as he matures! I'm just saying that I feel changing his physical age shouldn't happen more than is necessary since that's not how toons are designed-maybe once when he reaches adolescent maturity and again when he reaches adulthood, although he only has to age when and as far as he wants to. So yes, you can completely veto that, especially if you really want a baby to begin with, but that's my two cents on the matter."

"Wow, that is a lot to think about," Fred admits, not wanting to say too much before hearing what his husband had to say. "Um, Dashi, do you-?"

"Well," Tadashi says slowly, "as much as I'd like to think our son could grow up and mature like a normal child could, you're right, he can't. And you make a lot of really good points. So if you really think that it will be what's best for him-yes, let's do it."

"Great!" Christy beams at him. "Glad we can agree on that! Now all that's left is to get to work on finishing him! Do you want to see some of the sketches I've made so far?" '

Fred honestly was fine either way, seeing them or leaving it as a complete surprise, but Tadashi said "Yes!" so enthusiastically that he knew that, even if he hadn't wanted to, he was going to be seeing pictures of his son sooner rather than later. Son… That was still going to take some getting used to, but in a good way.

"Oh my gosh…" Tadashi presses a hand to his mouth the minute the sketches are in his hands, looking like he might start crying.

"You okay?" Fred asks, more concerned about his husband's well being than the pictures at the moment.

"If you really hate them that much, I can definitely start back over!" Christy adds in quickly.

"N-no!" Tadashi says, looking up at her. "Sorry, it's not that I'm upset, it's just-he's perfect."

Fred finally allowed himself to look down at the sketches, and with an instant he knew that his heart had been claimed by this little boy who undeniably belonged to him and the man he loved. The sketches were still rough, and there were little bits of scrawling text around the pictures with notes like, "Blue eyes? Tadashi's shape?" and "Hair color-black or brown?" Even though apparently a lot had yet to be decided, Fred couldn't be more in love with his as of yet unborn son, and one look over at Tadashi told him that his husband felt the exact same way.

"I'm glad you think so!" Christy says, beaming. "Well, it looks like I have my work cut out for me, but I'm excited to see how this little guy turns out!"

"Me too," Tadashi agrees, smiling back at her as Fred gently squeezes his hand. "Again, t-thank you for being willing to do this for us!"

"Oh, of course, it's my pleasure!" Christy reassures them, standing up, something that the two men took as a sign to do likewise.

"How long exactly can we expect before…?" Fred asks, not wanting to sound pushy but knowing that they needed to have some idea of how much time they had to prepare.

"Well, considering I'm still working on the studio's latest movie, I regrettably can't devote all of my time to this," Christy admits. "So it may still be another couple of months before he's ready to arrive…"

"That might actually be a good thing," Tadashi admits. "We'll need that long to get his room set up and everything!"

"Exactly!" Christy agrees with a relieved laugh. "This works out perfectly, then!"

"Um, just to make sure-I know that we told you that we didn't want to know too much ahead of time, but if you could give us some idea of what he might be interested in so that we can know what on Earth to put in his room….?" Fred says, realizing that they did need some idea of how to prepare for their son's arrival.

"He has two major nerds for dads-I think you can figure it out from there," Christ tells him with a slight smile.

"Right-so superheroes and Star Wars and Hogwarts it is!" Tadashi laughs.

"C'mon!" Fred starts eagerly tugging on his arm. "We need to get going!"

"Where, exactly?" Tadashi asks with a bemused smile.

"Where else? To go shopping for our son!" Fred answers with a grin.

"All right, all right, I get it!" Tadashi chuckles, wrapping his arms around his lover. "We'll get right on that-but I think there's one stop we need to make first."

"Really? Where?"

"A certain cafe comes to mind."

"Oh? Oh! Yeah!" Fred beams at him. "I guess we should let the family know, huh?"

"Exactly!"

"Then yes-that is definitely our first stop!"

About an hour later they pull up outside of the cafe, although it felt like much less time given they'd spent the entire time discussing ideas for their tyke's room. Fred wanted to paint the walls to make it look like a Hogwarts' dormitory, whereas Tadashi favored a Toy Story theme, with fluffy white clouds on a background of blue, saying that it would make the room more "open" and "lighter". Fred was honestly beginning to suspect that Tadashi had been planning this out for much longer than he'd admitted to, given he seemed to have exact ideas as to how everything should fit in the room. Still, he wasn't going to back down that easily.

"If Hogwarts was good enough for Harry when he was eleven-" he protests.

"But our son is only going to be five or six!" Tadashi counters. "I think it might be too dark if we made the room exactly like the dorms were in the movies, and it might give him nightmares at night if he thought that there might be monsters hiding behind the curtains and everything!"

"But there are no monsters in Hogwarts! If anything, he'd feel safer because he'd be in a school with magical protection around it!"

"...All right, you have a point…"

"See?"

"But I still think it might be a bit much-he's going to be just a kid, he needs lots of open space to play and run around in, not some really fancy room where he'll be afraid of accidentally breaking something!"

"He won't be afraid of breaking something!"

"Tell you what, compromise-we start out with the Andy's room base on the walls and add in a lot of other nerdy stuff, including Hogwarts, to begin with, and then when he gets older if he thinks he'd like a Hogwarts room or something like that, then we can change it. That work for you?"

"...I get the feeling that I'm not going to win this argument no matter what I say, am I?"

"Nope!"

"All right, tell you what, I'll see you the Toy Story walls and raise you a Firebolt and a Hogwarts canopy bed-because, don't lie, canopy beds are awesome for turning into secret forts or pretty much anything else you want!"

"Hm… Can the curtains be blue to match the rest of the room's color scheme?"

"I could be down with that. But wouldn't that make our son a Ravenclaw?"

"...You're right, I guess it would!"

"And here I had such high hopes that he'd be a Gryffindor like his dad!"

"Sorry, love, looks like he's taking after his papa," Tadashi answers, lovingly pecking him on the cheek.

"I thought you were Hufflepuff!"

"I straddle the border on that…"

"You took the Pottermore quiz, you are definitely Hufflepuff, you can't disavow that!"

"All right, fine, he takes after his uncle!"

"Thank you, that's better."

"And, speaking of uncles-think we should go in and actually tell the future uncle and great-aunt the good news?"

"Let's!" Fred agrees.

"All right then!" Tadashi beams and pecks him lovingly on the cheek before opening his door and climbing out. Fred does likewise, and his husband meets him around the front of the car, wrapping his arm around his waist before starting to lead him towards the door.

"Tadashi! Fred!" Aunt Cass cries, grinning as she sees the the two men walking in the door before hurrying over to them. She'd been lucky-Disney had let her keep the Lucky Cat Cafe set after they were done with it, moving it into the nearby Toon community for her, and she'd kept it up and running (very successfully) ever since then. It still had to used for filming on occasion, but mainly it was just their home. Or, it had been Tadashi and Fred's home for a year or two (Fred hadn't been lucky enough to actually have a family to go to after the movie, and so the Hamadas had taken him in once the filming was done), but then the two had finally gotten married and moved into their own place. So now it was just inhabited by Aunt Cass, Hiro, Baymax, and Mochi, which seemed to be working well for them (although Tadashi had to wonder how long it would be before Hiro and his boyfriend, Ezra Bridger from the Disney Channel show Star Wars Rebels, finally made things official and moved into a house or apartment of their own.) Fred and Tadashi tried to visit as frequently as possible, but even though they came over for dinner at least once a week, Aunt Cass always acted like it had been an eternity since she'd last seen them.

"Hey, Aunt Cass," Tadashi says, wrapping his arms around her in a tight hug. "How are you?"

"Good!" his aunt answers, smiling up at him. "Business is booming, and Hiro hasn't blown anything up in over a week or had one of his inventions go haywire and start attacking the customers, so that's a pretty successful week in my books!"

"In mine too," Tadashi chuckles-wow, their version of "successful" was kind of worrisome, but hey, they had to be grateful for whatever they could get.

"So, what do I owe this pleasure to?" Aunt Cass asks, giving her eldest nephew on last tight squeeze before finally releasing him. "Usually you two wouldn't come over in the middle of the day like this!"

"Well…" Tadashi grins over at his husband. "Fred and I actually have something we want to tell you and Hiro-is he here?"

"He is!" Aunt Cass agrees. "You actually have perfect timing-he's going out with Ezra this evening, but he hasn't left out yet, so you can definitely talk to him."

"Perfect!" Tadashi beams at that. "Is there somewhere that we can go that's more... private?"

"I suppose so-I think one of the girls can watch the shop for me for a few minutes," Aunt Cass agrees, her brow furrowing. "I'd ask if something was wrong, but you seem too happy for that to be the case. You're certainly being mysterious, though."

"Sorry," Tadashi tells her with an apologetic smile. "I swear, we'll clear this up in just a minute, but Hiro would kill us if we told you before we told him."

"All righty then." Aunt Cass flashes them another curious look before heading over to the counter, speaking to the girl currently running the register-she seemed pretty young to be working in a cafe, but Tadashi recognized her as Crumbelina DiCarmello, one of the Sugar Rush racers from Wreck-It Ralph, and he knew that most of those characters were a lot more mature than their child-like appearances suggested (again, there was the physical versus mental/emotional age mismatch, something which he knew was slightly frustrating for the younger characters who felt that they weren't being taken seriously just because of their appearances-Tadashi was definitely beginning to understand why Christy had suggested starting his and Fred's son out as a young child instead of as a baby.)

After a brief conversation Crumbelina, Aunt Cass smiles over at Fred and Tadashi and motions for them to follow her into the back of the shop and up the steps that led into the main house. Soon the couple finds themselves seated on the comfortably worn couch while the older woman heads up to the bedroom that had originally shared by both Hiro and Tadashi to retrieve the youngest Hamada sibling. Approximately thirty seconds after her footsteps end, signaling that she'd reached the top of the stairs, there's a loud cry of happiness and, about thirty seconds after that, Tadashi barely has time to see his little brother tumbling down the last few stairs before launching himself onto him.

"Nii-chan!" Hiro cries, wrapping his arms around his beloved older sibling-somehow the fact that they no longer lived in the same house had made the younger boy even more physically affectionate than he'd used to be when they shared a room and saw each other every day. Not that they didn't still see each other regularly, both at the cafe and on campus (Hiro had also started taking classes at the local university, but when he'd been told that he was "too young" to become a professor once he'd finished his robotics degree-another unfortunate stereotype that came from being a teenager physically but an adult mentally-he'd stubbornly started a degree to become an artist. Most people didn't believe that he'd ever actually get certified and were just "humoring" him, but Tadashi had faith that, if any toon could break the barriers and become an actual artist, it was Hiro.)

"Hey, otouto," Tadashi says, lovingly ruffling his younger sibling's hair. "How's my favorite little bro doing?"

"Good!" Hiro answers, grinning up at him. "But what about you? Aunt Cass said that you had news-what is it?"

"Someone's eager," Tadashi chuckles.

"Duh! Now tell me before my brain explodes!" Hiro huffs.

"Well, if you're going to be rude about it," Tadashi teases, "maybe I shouldn't tell you until you remember your manners!"

"Ugh, fine!" Hiro groans. "Please tell me your apparently amazing news!"

"Better," Tadashi chuckles before smiling over at Fred. "Do you want to tell them, or should I?"

"It's up to you, love," Fred answers, pecking him on the cheek.

"Gah, no getting lovey-dovey when I'm right here!" Hiro protests, quickly springing back and out of proximity.

"All right, all right," Tadashi laughs, in too good a mood to even tease his younger sibling about it. "I guess I'll tell it. You guys ready for this?"

"I've been ready!" Hiro answers, rolling his eyes.

"Of course, sweetie," Aunt Cass agrees warmly.

"Well then, in that case…" Tadashi feels Fred squeezing his hand eagerly for support before blurting out, "We're having a baby!"

There was dead silence for a full minute.

"You're… You're what?" Hiro finally manages to get out. "I-How is that even physically possible? Unless there's something you haven't been telling me, Dashi!"

"Sorry, that came out wrong," Tadashi says with an embarrassed smile. "I don't meant that either of us is pregnant-that would just be weird, even for toons! What I meant is, one of the artists at Disney has gotten permission to and currently is designing a baby for us!"

"O-oh my goodness... T-Tadashi, Fred…" Aunt Cass' eyes are as wide as the saucers she serves tea on. "You two-you're actually…?"

"Yep!" Fred agrees with a grin. "We went to go see Christy today, and she's already working on sketches! We don't know that many details, and we're leaving most of it up to her to keep it a surprise, but we can tell you that it's going to be a boy!"

"And he's actually going to be coming as a young child instead of as a baby because Christy thought it would be safer," Tadashi adds. "But yeah-we can expect him to arrive in a couple months, if we're lucky!"

"Oh, Tadashi…" Aunt Cass looks like she's about to cry, and then, moments later, she's across the room, pulling both men into a tight hug. "I'm so, so happy for both of you! T-this is such a miracle, I can hardly believe it!"

"I can!" Hiro cries, his grin so wide that it looked like it was going to split his face right in half. "I'm going to be an uncle! This is SICK!"

"We wanted both of you to be the first to know since you're going to be his immediate family," Tadashi says, hugging Aunt Cass back and pulling his younger sibling into the embrace as well when the teen comes over to join them.

"And we were also hoping that maybe you'd be willing to help us with the preparations," Fred adds. "There's a lot to be done before he gets here, and we want it all to be perfect!"

"Of course we'll help!" Aunt Cass says, as if unable to believe that they'd doubt for even a second that she'd say otherwise. "We want only the best for my future grandson!"

"Thank you," Tadashi says, grinning up at her. "You have no idea how much we appreciate this!"

"We're your family, bro-it's kind of mandatory," Hiro answers with a playful smirk. "But, even if it weren't… I'd still definitely help out nonetheless 'cause my nii-chan is probably going to need some major help keeping up with the little squirt once he actually gets here!"

"I don't know whether or not to take that as a compliment, so I think I'll just say 'thank you'," Tadashi tells him with a bemused smile.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Aunt Cass cries, finally letting go of them.

"What do you mean?" Fred asks, thinking that the most important part was already over.

"You said you needed help getting ready, so help you're getting! Let me just go ask Di if she'll look after the cafe for me for the rest of the afternoon and grab my purse, and then we're going shopping!"

"Ugh, count me out," Hiro groans, making a face. "No offense, but I really don't think I'll be that much help in picking out curtains and all that other boring stuff…"

"Maybe not in picking out curtains," Fred answers, "but what about helping make sure that your future nephew has the most epic supply of toys ever?"

Hiro's eyes light up at that. "Okay, toy shopping? That's something I could actually be down with! Hm… I wonder if Ezra would mind rescheduling our date and coming with to help… Guess it never hurts to ask, right?" he says, pulling out his phone and starting to text.

"Somehow I get the feeling that poor Ez is going to be taking the back seat to this kiddo for the next couple of months," Tadashi observes with a wry smile as he watches the rest of his family already beginning to rearrange their lives and schedules just to accommodate his not even born yet son.

"He's a special kid, he deserves a little spoiling," Fred answers with a playful grin.

"As much as I don't approve of spoiling children too much… As soon as the rest of our friends find out, this little guy is going to get majorly spoiled by all of his 'aunts' and 'uncles' plus his grandma whether we like it or not, isn't he?" Tadashi sighs.

"Yeah, I can almost guarantee it," Fred agrees with a laugh. "But hey, if he's anything like his papa, he's going to turn out just fine regardless."

"You think so?" Tadashi asks with a relieved smile.

"Definitely," Fred agrees, lovingly pecking him on the cheek.

"I still can't believe it-two months, and then we'll be parents! It seems like both way too long to wait and not near enough time to prepare!"

"I know exactly how you feel." Fred reaches over to gently squeeze his hand. "But we'll get through this together, okay?"

"Together," Tadashi agrees, squeezing gently back.