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Intoxic/arnangela : I'm glad you're enjoying it :)Chapter 4:
"I hear congratulations are in order."
Magnus frowned as he answered the phone on the kitchen counter. "Congratulations for what?" he asked.
"You're carrying, Catarina told me," Ragnor answered.
"It was supposed to be a secret," Magnus pouted slightly unconsciously rubbing his abdomen. There was a small hardly noticeable bump but he could feel the life force now that he was aware of the child. It was quite comforting for some reason.
"I take it Alec is the father yes?" Ragnor asked.
"Obviously," Magnus rolled his eyes at his friends teasing tone. "You know this makes you uncle Ragnor now right?"
"As long as it's the child calling me that and not you it's perfectly acceptable," he replied. "I have to hang up now though. I'm supposed to be calling Raphael."
"Ugh you two have the weirdest relationship," Magnus shook his head. "Just don't tell him okay? I don't want word getting back to Alec family. We haven't even discussed how we're going to tell them."
"I won't. Give my best to the soon to be father," Ragnor said before hanging up.
"Who was that?" Alec asked closing the front door and dropping his keys into the dish. He had a few bags of groceries from the farmers market in his hands as he walked over.
"Ragnor sending his congratulations. Catarina spilled the beans," Magnus went to pour himself a cup of coffee only to be stopped by the shadow hunter.
"No more coffee. It's not good for the baby," he said dumping the contents of the cup into the sink.
Magnus stared at him as he was crazy. "Please tell me you're kidding..."
"Nope. Completely serious," Alec answered putting the groceries away. "The lady at the market said that this was a better alternative."
He handed Magnus an innocent looking canister which the warlock opened and sniffed only to gag and shove the thing away.
"That smells terrible," he covered his mouth his stomach still doing flip flops. "And baby agrees."
He watched him unpack all the food seeing mostly fruits and vegetables and some mysterious looking grains. He got queasy again and resisted the urge to grimace.
"I'm going to go shower," he shook his head and made his way to the bathroom. "Your father has gone crazy," he muttered to his belly.
"What is that?" Alec asked watching Magnus sit down on the couch with a bowl of ice cream and some oreo's.
"Ice cream and Oreo's," he answered. "Why...?"
Alec shook his head and held out his hand. "Hand it over."
"You're not being serious," Magnus frowned.
"I will wrestle it from if I have to," Alec told him. "I'd rather not but if I have to..."
Magnus muttered under his breath and handed over the dessert and in return was handed a fruit salad concoction. He winced hearing the treats being dumped into the trashcan and looked down at the fruit and ate it while sulking.
Alec leaned down and kissed his cheek. "You'll get used to it."
"You're not the one who has to eat it," Magnus pouted.
"Think about the baby," Alec added.
"The baby wanted the ice cream and Oreo's," he whined semi playfully throwing a grape at Alec's face.
Alec rolled his eyes and caught the grape and throwing it in the trash. "You want a healthy baby don't you?"
"Yes…" Magnu sighed.
"Good," Alec smiled. "Now be a good boy and eat your fruit."
Magnus gave him a look and Alec just smiled. "Love you too Mag's."
"I swear to god I am going to kill him," Magnus grumbled under his breath raiding the institute's kitchen for Isabelle's not so secret stash of junk food. "Ah ha!" he grabbed a bag of oreo's and grabbed a few cookies.
"Magnus. Put the Oreo's down," Alec ordered following after him.
"No." Magnus promptly shoved one in his mouth letting out a small moan. "I missed these so much," he purred.
Alec went to grab the rest out of his hand only to have Magnus dart around the corner cookies in hand and eat another one.
"I can do this all day," Alec said watching him closely. He tried not to let Magnus licking the crumbs off his lips get to him.
Alec lunged at him and Magnus managed to get away amused as Alec tripped over his own feet and had to grab the counter to keep from falling.
"I'm not hurting anyone," Magnus ate another cookie almost purring.
"Junk food is not healthy for the baby," Alec ground out.
"What baby?"
Warlock and shadow hunter turned and saw Jace leaning in the door way eyebrow raised. Alec used this momentary lapse to snatch the cookies from Magnus and grin triumphantly. The warlock pouted and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Hello? You two were talking about a baby," Jace asked again.
"Well if you must know," Magnus started. "We're having a baby."
Alec gave Magnus a look of displeasure. "I thought we were going to wait to tell people."
"You've taken my junk food. This is the next best thing," Magnus shrugged.
"You two are having a baby...? I mean...is that even possible?" Jace was looking Alec over.
"He's not carrying," Magnus chuckled. "Your darling brother got me pregnant."
Jace blinked then swore. "Damn it...Now I owe Izzy twenty bucks."
"Come again?" Alec asked.
"Izzy and I had a bet as to which one of you was the top...I was rooting for you," he pointed to Magnus. "But apparently I was wrong," Jace answered.
"You thought I bottomed?" Alec looked at his 'brother' shocked.
"Well...I mean...you do seem like-"
"Asshole," Alec huffed and flipped Jace off.
Jace rolled his eyes. "So...how does it work?" now he looked at Magnus. "I mean...you're a male..."
"I'm also half demon, not that I go around parading the fact," Magnus sighed and leaned against the counter trying to sneak a cookie. "Male and female demons are able to have babies, even half's like myself. Course for males it's only when we're in heat and I must've been when your brother decided to have his way with me," he grinned at the weird face Jace made. "And voila we have a baby."
He pouted with Alec smacked his hand away. "I told you. No junk food. It's not healthy."
"Damnit Alec! Gimme the cookies or I will turn you into a toad."
"You're bluffing Magnus. You said that twice a few hours ago," Alec rolled his eyes.
"What's wrong with the cookies? I thought people who were pregnant were allowed to eat junk food and other crap," Jace said raising an eyebrow at the assumed empty threat.
"They aren't healthy for the baby," Alec replied. "All the baby books say that eating healthy is a must."
"I'm going to burn those books," Magnus muttered.
"Yeah...But I don't think eating a little junk food is going to necessarily kill the child," Jace pointed out.
"See? He understands," Magnus nodded in Jace's direction.
Alec huffed. "Fine..." he handed him the oreo's. "You win this round."
Magnus grinned and ate the cookies kissing Alec's cheek. "Aw don't feel bad love. I'll still eat your fruit salads and drink your smoothies just stop throwing out my ice cream."
"You two are like the model couple...it's creepy," Jace made a face grabbed a bottle of water and walked out.
