Forever and Always
Chapter 2
Sorry guys but we're just going to sort of glide past Amelia's pregnancy so it doesn't get too boring. Sorry if you're disappointed.
The next week passed slowly. Amelia spent most of her time in the hospital with Arthur. Arthur was getting grumpy from sitting/laying there for so long. At the end of the second week he was finally able to go home.
It was night now, Amelia and Arthur were lying sprawled out on their bed while staring up at the dark ceiling.
"Where are we going to put the baby room? We can't use your office, you need that" Amelia asked and turned her head to look at him.
"We could change that extra room we use for storage into the baby room" he said and wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
She curled up next to him and hummed in thought. "That could work. We would have to get rid of a lot of that stuff."
"It's worth it" Arthur said and ran a hand through her hair. "When do you want to start?"
She chuckled softly. "There's no need to rush, we've got nine months."
"Yeah" he smiled and moved his hand to her stomach. "It's going to be the longest nine months of my life."
She smiled and then there was silence between them again.
"Hey" she said and rolled on to her side.
"Hey" Arthur said and turned his head to look at her.
"Can you promise me something?" she asked and propped herself up on her elbow. "If something happens to me when the baby is born and I die, do you promise to still love the baby?"
"W-what brought this on all of a sudden?" Arthur asked and blinked.
"It's just something I've been thinking about. So do you promise?"
He nodded and kissed her gently. "Yes, I promise."
Amelia's morning sickness began shortly after that, and of course she wasn't too pleased with 'morning sickness' lasting all day pretty much. Arthur increasingly got better and soon was back to good health.
Time passed and Amelia began to get bigger. Arthur teased her that she was getting fat but he soon stopped that when she had a meltdown and locked him out of the house and he had to sleep in his car that night. Of course the next morning she let him back in and cried about how she was so sorry.
She went through the routine checkups and as she had ultrasounds she always got a sonogram and those were pinned up on the refrigerator in a line showing the progress of their baby.
This time when she came home from her appointment she had news to tell. "Arthur!" she said as she came through the door. "I'm home."
"Welcome home" Arthur said and put down his needle work. He went over and kissed her. "How was the appointment?" he asked and smiled and held up the picture.
He took it and looked at it. "I can't wait till it's born" he said and put a hand on Amelia's five month belly.
"He" Amelia said and smiled.
"He?" Arthur asked and Amelia nodded. Realization hit him and he smiled widely. "It's a boy?" he asked and Amelia's smile matched his as she nodded again.
He hugged her. "We need to start thinking of names." He was practically jumping up and down.
"Calm down" she said and laughed. "We've still got the rest of this month and four more months to think of a name."
"Oh!" Arthur said and dragged her upstairs to the room designated to the baby's room. Arthur took charge of the project and wanted it to be a surprise for Amelia so he hasn't let her seen anything yet.
"You finished it?" she asked and smiled.
He nodded. "It needs a few more things but other than that it's finished." He put a hand over her eyes as he led her into the room. He took his hand away when he had her standing in the middle of the room.
She opened her eyes and smiled. "Wow" she said and turned, looking at everything. The walls were painted like a scene straight out of Neverland from Peter Pan, with everything to fill a child's imagination. There was the furniture that they had picked out and it flowed with the room nicely. She hugged Arthur. "You're the most amazing person ever." She began crying out of happiness and was on the verge of having a break down. "You worked too hard on this."
He shook his head. It was true that he was staying up late and painting since his work took up most of his time in the day. "No I didn't. You're carrying the baby and protecting it, this is the least I can do." He kneeled down and put her hands on her protruding belly and lightly kissed it.
Arthur felt something hit against his hand and he looked up at Amelia. "What was that?" he asked and looked back down at her stomach.
"The baby was kicking" she said and threaded her fingers through Arthur's hair. "It was the first time we could feel it kick."
Arthur smiled and rubbed where the baby had kicked. "He's going to be strong then" he said and felt him kick again. "Alfred."
"Alfred?" Amelia asked and raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, Alfred." He looked up at her. "A good strong name for a good strong baby."
Amelia smiled. "I love it. My two boys, Arthur and Alfred."
I hope I gave you all cavities from how sweet and fluffy this thing is! I'm sorry it's so short but the chapters are probably going to be about this length so I'm sorry but I'll try to update more quickly. I'm also sorry it took me so long to update. Please review and hope I can get the next chapter done soon.
