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"Pregnant?!" Aster yelled as he sat in Bastion's room with Jaden and Bastion the next morning. "I can't be pregnant! I just can't be!"
"Aster, will you please-"
"Stop shouting!" Jaden yelled, cutting Bastion off.
"Yeah... that'll do a lot of good." Bastion said as he sweatdropped, then looked back at Aster. "Think about it, Aster. The sudden mood swings, the weird cravings, the sickness... what else could it be?"
"I don't know, but I can't be. I'm a guy. Guys aren't supposed to get pregnant. That's a girl's job."
"Well, you are a lot like a girl..." Jaden said.
"Aw, go to hell!" Aster yelled.
"I've been to hell once. Not as bad as everyone says. It is pretty warm there though." Jaden said, making Bastion and Aster sweatdrop. "What? It's in the Caribbean. ...At least I think that's what those group of islands are called." He said.
(A/N: There really is a store called Hell in the Caribbean! I've went there when me and my family went to the Caribbean for Christmas vacation! Not a bad place at all actually... that's where I got my Pirates coffee cup!)
"I think he meant a different hell when he said that, Jaden." Bastion explained.
"How do you even put up with this guy?" Aster asked.
"I sometimes wonder that myself. All I know is how we got together."
"Yeah! Bastion-baby was helping me study one day when I asked him if he wanted to go out with me!"
"You're missing an important detail, Jaden." Bastion said. "We had accidently kissed, remember?"
"Oh! Yeah!"
"Look, I don't care about your people's fuckin' love life! What I wanna know is how in the hell I got pregnant!" Aster yelled.
"Well, when a boy and boy, boy and girl, or girl and girl love each other very much-" Jaden started.
"I know how it fuckin' happened, you retard!"
"Then, why did you ask?" Jaden asked.
Aster glared. "I can't take this idiot anymore! I'm outta here!" He said as he walked towards the door, but stopped in his tracks when Bastion said something else.
"You have to tell Satorious." Bastion said, and Aster looked at him. "Please tell me you knew that."
"Well, of course I knew that!" Aster said, and started pacing back and forth. "But what the hell am I supposed to say to him? Satori-kun, I love you. By the way, you're gonna be a father." Aster said, then paused before slapping himself across the face. "Nah, that's stupid."
"Why did Aster slap himself?" Jaden whispered to Bastion, but Aster still heard it.
"I'm outta here... for real!" Aster said, and marched out of the room to head back to his own.
-- That night --
Aster was talking to himself, trying to figure out what to tell his fiance about their soon-to-be-born child.
"What about: Satorious... there's something important I need to tell you. I'm..."
"You're what?" Satorious asked as he walked into the room.
Aster eeped. "Nothing. I was just talking to myself." He said, quickly.
"Are you sure you're alright, koi? You've been acting sorta odd lately."
"I'm fine, Satori-kun." He said, and felt his koi kiss his neck.
"Well... if you're sure."
"Can you do me a favor?"
"Sure. What is it?"
"Could you start a bath for me?"
"Whatever you want."
"And..."
"And?"
"Help me take it?"
"Help you take it? You want me to be in the bathtub with you?"
"Well, you don't have to be in the bathtub. Just in the room... helping me wash?"
"Sure, if you want me to." Satorious said, then picked Aster up and walked into the bathroom, closing the door behind them.
He sat Aster down on the toilet before going over to the tub and turning the water on. He tested the water to make sure it wasn't too hot or too cold, then waited a couple minutes for the tub to fill up before turning the water off. Then, walked back over to Aster and helped him take off his clothes. Then, picked his koi up again, gently placing him in the tub, making sure that Aster got used to the water.
"So, you want me to help you wash up?" He asked as he grabbed a bar of soap and a sponge.
Aster simply nodded, and sat up a little bit so his lover could reach his back.
Satorious sat on the railing of the tub as he made the sponge become covered with suds. He placed the sponge against Aster's back and began scrubbing, gently.
This made Aster moan quietly, and a couple minutes later he said something. "Satorious, go lower." He whispered.
Satorious did what he was told and went lower, his hands going under the water to reach Aster's lower back.
Aster moaned again, then waited a couple minutes before saying what else he'd been wanting to. "Use you bare hands." He whispered.
"What?" Satorious asked, shocked at what Aster had just said. 'Am I helping him take a bath, or are we having sex? I'm getting confused!' He thought.
"Never mind. I'll do it myself." Aster said as he took the sponge away and started scrubbing himself.
"Wait... I didn't mean it like-"
"Just go." Aster said.
Satorious sighed before getting up and leaving the room. Then, a minute later, he heard Aster scream and he ran back in the bathroom. "What? What is it?"
"S-s-spider..." Aster said as he pointed to the wall, and sure enough, there was a small black spider crawling up the wall next to the door.
"You're scared of this little thing?" Satorious said as he had the spider crawl onto his hand.
"How can you touch that?"
"It's just a spider. A harmless creature."
"Harmless? Those things could kill you."
"Not this kind of spider." He said. "This kind of spider doesn't have any venom."
"Whatever. Even if they couldn't kill you, I'd still hate 'em. They're creepy, little things that have eight freakin' legs! We're talkin' freaks of nature!"
"Aster Phoenix, don't say such things! What have spiders ever done to you?!" Satorious asked.
'He sounds like the father type alright.' Aster thought to himself. "Just get that thing outta here." Aster said, and Satorious turned around and exited the room, still holding the spider in his hand.
-- 5 minutes later --
Aster had gotten dressed and now exited the bathroom to see Satorious sitting at the windowsill with has back turned to him, obviously not knowing that Aster was out of the bathroom.
Satorious was talking to the little spider that he was still holding. "Don't listen to Aster. He doesn't know what he's talking about. You never hurt him before, have you? So, why should he say those kind of things to you? He shouldn't say that you're a freak of nature, because you're not. You're just a harmless creature who was just trying to find a place to get comfortable." He said. "Since when does he think that he can judge things by what they look like? You can't help what you look like. It's kinda like him being racist or something. Well... if he comes out and sees you still here, he's probably gonna get upset like he has gotten a lot lately. Be safe." He said as he placed the spider on a leaf and watched it crawl away.
Then, he heard the bathroom door slam shut, and he turned around to see Aster not standing there. He walked over to the bathroom to knock on the door lightly. He could hear Aster crying, softly.
"Aster...?"
"Why, Satorious? Why did you have to say such things, huh? I wasn't trying to judge anything by what it looked like or any of those ridiculous things you just said. I'm not that kind of person." Aster said between sobs, then got up and opened the door. "And if that's who you think I am, then this is never going to work." He said, and walked towards the door that led to outside.
But before he could get there, Satorious got in his way. "Aster, please... just sit down and we can talk about this."
"No! Get out of the way!"
"No, I'm not letting you leave until we talk about this."
"I don't wanna talk about it! How could you just say those kind of things?!" Aster yelled as he pushed Satorious out of the way. Then, opened the door and stomped out, slamming the door behind him. He stayed on the other side of the door to listen to what Satorious would do.
"Aster..." Satorious said as tears started spilling from his eyes. He fell on the floor and punched the ground. "Dammit! Aster! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to say such things about you!" He yelled.
Then, a minute later, the door opened and Aster walked back in.
"Aster?"
"Are you really sorry?"
"Yes, yes! I'm really, really, really, really sorry." He said as he grabbed Aster hands in his while still standing on his knees. "I don't know what came over me to make me say such things about you. You're the one that I love, and I never even wanna come close to losing you again."
"I love you too."
Satorious stood up and wrapped his arms around Aster's waist to pull him into a tight hug. "Do you want me to even prove it?"
"No, that's okay. I believe you."
-- Later --
Satorious woke up in Aster's room on his bed with his koi sleeping peacefully next to him. He smiled, then snuggled even closer to his lover. He was surprised, yet relieved, when Aster didn't wake up. Then, he felt something that felt almost like a kick come from Aster's stomach. His eyes widened, and he sat up a little to place a hand on Aster's stomach, then pressed a little bit to feel another kick.
'What the hell?! He's pregnant?! He didn't tell me anything! Wait a sec...'
-- Brief flashback --
"What about: Satorious... there's something important I need to tell you. I'm..."
"You're what?" Satorious asked as he walked into the room.
Aster eeped. "Nothing. I was just talking to myself." He said, quickly.
-- End brief flashback --
'He was trying to find a way to tell me. It all makes sense now. Why he's been acting strange and why he was talking to himself like that.' He thought.
'But you can't let him know that you know.' Part of his mind told him.
'Why not?' He asked.
'Because he's most likely trying to find a special way to tell you about your future child. I'm sure he wouldn't want it to go wrong by you telling him that you already know.' His mind answered him.
Satorious stayed quiet for a minute before looking down at his koi just as Aster wrapped his arms around one of his and smiled.
"Satori-kun..." Aster whispered in his sleep, and Satorious smiled as he laid down in his earlier position.
'Alright. I won't tell him I know, and I won't try to get him to tell me either. He can tell me when he's ready.' Satorious thought before falling back asleep.
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The part with the spider, I got the idea for last night when I was taking a bath and there was a spider on the wall. I don't really like spiders either. I mean... I can look at them if they're in cages, dead, or on TV or something. I also wouldn't go as far as calling them "freaks of nature", but they are kinda creepy!
Anywho... what did you think?
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