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A/N: So happy to see you guys are liking this. Hope you guys are enjoying reading this as much as I am writing it. Here's another chapter, enjoy!
Like a Sucker Punch to the Gut-Chapter 3
"Can you please stop doing that," Mike says from the exam table.
So lost in his own thoughts Harvey doesn't initially hear his husband and continues his nervous pacing.
"Harvey!"
"What?" Harvey asks looking over at Mike but continues his pacing.
"Can you stop doing that?" Mike says motioning with his hand.
"Stop doing what?" Harvey asks confused.
"That! Stop the damn pacing! You're making me sick to my stomach." Mike says exasperated.
Harvey looks at Mike and can see that he is in fact a little green. "Sorry, babe." He softly pecks Mike on the cheek. He sees Mike shiver. "You cold?"
Mike shakes his head. "I'm fine. I just hate these things," he says referring to the thin gown he's wearing.
Before Harvey can say anything else a soft knock is heard.
"Come in, "Harvey says and Dr. Russo walks in giving the two a warm smile.
"It's been awhile, guys. Didn't think that I would see you guys again."
"Surprise to us too, Doc." Harvey says.
Mike gives him a sharp jab in the ribs.
"What?" Harvey mouths.
The doctor nods his head, looking over Mike's chart. "How old are the kids now?"
"Jamie's ten. AIslin is eight and Katie is gonna turn five next week." Mike says.
The doctor nods. "Okay then, let's see what's going on here. I already ran the blood work. Mike, you are in fact pregnant."
Harvey can't help but roll his eyes but stops himself from biting out 'no shit, doc.' Mike's morning routine of puking, raiding Donna's chocolate drawer, and his rebuttal of any somewhat sexual gesture by Harvey over the last week told him as much.
"How you feeling?" Dr. Russo asks.
Mike shrugs his shoulders. "The same as with my other three pregnancies. Tired. Nauseas."
Harvey can't help but snicker when Mike leaves out about how sensitive his nipples are. He changed his shirt three times this morning because everything he tried on bothered the oversensitive nubs. Mike throws a glare at his husband.
Hormonal. Harvey silently adds to Mike's list.
"Morning sickness is especially rough this time around," Mike adds.
"In your file it says that you think you conceived in early March, so that means you're almost through with your first trimester. Hopefully, the morning sickness will ease up when you hit your next trimester," The physician says reassuringly.
"Hopefully," Mike says.
"How does everything look?" Harvey asks referring to the lab work that the older man is looking at.
Dr. Russo gives them a small smile. "Mike's lab work looks good. No red herrings here."
"Even after what happened last time?" Harvey asks nervously, moving closer to his husband's side.
"Harv—" Mike says.
The doctor puts his hand up. "It's perfectly normal for him to be concerned, Mike. But based on what I see here," The doctor says holding up the lab report, "everything looks good. I'm gonna monitor you closely because of the placental abruption last go around, but as far as I can see as long as you listen to his body. Take it easy when your body says to, then I see no reason for this pregnancy to not go smoothly."
Harvey looks at the doctor and knows that he is telling the truth. He has always been brutally honest with them.
"Feel better now?" Mike asks his husband softly.
Harvey nods his head.
"Okay, good." The doctor says as he moves to the sink to wash his hands. "Lay down, Mike. I'm gonna exam you now."
With the doctor's back to them, Harvey nibbles on Mike's ear playfully. "Love you," he whispers into Mike's ear.
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"Who is the best aunt ever?!" Donna calls from his office doorway.
Harvey looks up from his laptop. "Depends on what said aunt bought my soon to be five year old for her birthday."
Donna waves off his comment as she comes further into his office. "Hey, Aislin loves the package of Broadway musical tickets I got her."
"She does," Harvey says nodding his head. "But, I might commit a felony if I have to sit through another showing of Mary Poppins."
Donna laughs as she takes a seat in front of Harvey's desk. "Oh the joys of fatherhood."
Harvey nods his head. And here he is gearing up for round four. What the hell is he and Mike thinking?
"So, I got Katie a field hockey stick. I know how much she loves hockey and with it being spring I thought it might be good to get her into a sport. You know interacting with other kids that are not part of that prissy preschool she goes to?"
Jesus. How are the kids going to take it? Katie is gonna be five and half by the time the kid is born. That's a big gap. Aislin. She'll be fine because a new brother and sister will broaden her audience. And Jamie. Cripes. He prays that the baby will be a bot. Even though the kid has the patient level of a saint, Harvey doesn't know if he can take having another sister.
"Hey! What is going on with you?" Donna says.
Harvey looks at her, "what?'
"I just said that I bought your youngest a field hockey stick basically giving her a blank check to hit others with it and you're not saying anything. You bit my head off when I bought Jamie a paintball gun last Christmas."
Shit. He has to think fast. He and Mike agreed not to tell anyone about the pregnancy until the second trimester. And a hormonal, pregnant Mike is the last thing he wants to deal with.
"A field hockey stick would mean that she's gonna have to stop sucking her thumb," Harvey explains. "That's a plus in my book."
Donna nods her head, "She's driving you nuts with that thumb sucking isn't she?"
"Tried everything. Painting her nails. Made her wear gloves. Even put that nasty tasting stuff on it. Nothing worked."
"What does Mike say about it?"
"Says she's gonna grow out of it."
Donna nods her head. "He's probably right."
"Yeah or she's gonna walk across the stage to get her high school diploma with her thumb in her mouth and a cross bite to boot."
Donna laughs.
She bought it. Crisis averted. He lets out a small sigh of relief. Mike won't be threatening to castrate him.
She goes to stand up to leave the office and just as she's about to reach the door, she turns around eyeing her boss. "That's not it."
"Not what?" Harvey feigns innocence.
"That look on your face…I've seen it before."
"Don't know what you're talking about. Don't you have work to do? Conversations to eavesdrop on?"
Harvey looks down at his laptop. He can't look at Donna. She knows him to well. Can read him like a book.
"Oh my God!" She screeches skipping back over to Harvey. "You little shit. You weren't gonna tell me!"
"Tell you what?"
"Don't play stupid with me. That look on your face. Half like you're ready to bust at the seams with excitement and the other half scared shitless. You only had that look three other times. When you first got with Mike." Donna counts on her hand. "Two. When Mike was pregnant with Aislin and three. When Mike was pregnant with Katie."
Fuck. The once conciliation is that he didn't tell her. She guessed.
Then like a kid who won the biggest prize at the carnival, Donna says smugly "Mike's pregnant."
Harvey's silence serves as her confirmation.
"Oh my god! Oh my god!" Donna says excitedly.
"Shhh," Harvey hisses. "He doesn't want anyone to know until he's done with the first trimester. And I don't need him pissed at me. He's more hormonal this time around than he was with Jamie and the girls combined."
She nods her head understanding. She has plenty of experience dealing with a hormonal Mike. "When is he due?" Donna asks, smiling.
"New Year's Day," Harvey answers.
"Ohhhh, a New Year's baby!" Donna coos.
Shit! This is gonna be a long ass pregnancy. Between Mike's moods and Donna and Rachel competing for favorite aunt.
"Okay, now that you got your dirt can you leave and at least try and look like you're doing work," Harvey says.
Donna goes to leave, "Sure! I gotta go restock my chocolate drawer. I was wondering how my stash got so low. Now it all makes sense. I saw the cutest outfit in this magazine."
Harvey shakes his head.
"Work, Donna. That doesn't mean shopping for baby clothes." Harvey says to the retreating redhead.
Donna waves his comment off as she sits down at her desk, smiling ear to ear.
Shit. He better tell Mike that Donna knows before she says something to him first and Harvey ends up in the doghouse. Or out on the couch. He picks up his phone and hits number one on his speed dial, "Hey, babe…."
Chapter 4 Preview: We didn't get to see Katie's birthday in this chapter but we will in the next one and Mike and Harvey tell the kids about their new brother/sister.