Title: Scrubs - Chapter 4
Pairing: Aizawa/Shiraishi
Summary: Kosaku could not manage to wake Megumi up for her shift and decided to just make the most out of it.
Notes: This takes before chapter 3, or so to say, the two days our favorite doctors were absent from the hospital because of...certain things and revelation.
The rays of sunlight penetrating the room's window and the peaceful sound of birds chirping outside woke Kosaku up. He didn't set up his alarm as it was his day off, but his body clock proved to be as sharp as usual thus waking him up early in the morning. The coziness of the bed seemed to hypnotized him to sleep in and add to that the warmth of Megumi's body next to him, he could really throw his rational thinking and do just that but when he remembered that his wife was supposed to have the morning shift, he sat up on his bed and tried to wake her up. He learnt his lessons the hard way from before when he just wanted to be a good husband and let her sleep some more, to take care of her more as she wouldn't do it for herself, but the after-effect was so traumatizing for him he didn't want to experience any more of that.
Megumi was usually not a heavy sleeper. As a doctor, she could sleep anywhere really, as soon as her head hit the pillow she would be fast asleep, but she would always woke up even with the slightest nudge on her shoulders or a call of her name. However, these past few days, Kosaku noticed the change in her. She would be a little harder to wake up in the morning, and all her alarm did was to only wake him up, and leave the wake-Megumi-up duty to him. It was fine because he's not a heavy-sleeper anyways and their shift was almost identical, Megumi being in lifesaving sometimes required her staying late for emergencies or coming in earlier then she should but it was never a problem for them. Then she would wake up not quite looking refreshed but she still woke up. This morning though, even when Kosaku has shook her shoulder with enough force and nearly screamed in her ears, she didn't show any signs of waking up anytime soon.
Indeed, she was on a 18-hour shift the day before, and she would be a little tired (it's not like she never did those shifts, sometimes she even voluntarily covered someone else's duty, that's the kind of person Aizawa Megumi is) so Kosaku knew there must be some other reason this could have happened. He put his hands on her temples to feel her temperature but nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary...until he felt a slight rise of it but it was still in the normal range so he wasn't that worried. But then she let out a sound that reminded him of a soft snore and that was the moment he decided he would call in sick for her. He hoped she wouldn't be that angry when she woke up, though.
After he notified the lifesaving of Megumi's absence, he dressed himself for his routine morning jog around the complex. Before leaving the house he wrote a note, put it on his wife's bedside table, telling her his decision and why he did it, in case she woke up before he returned. With a final look, he left their bedroom and closed the door quietly.
Halfway through the run, passing through the mundane sceneries in the usual path he took, he felt a buzz in his pockets. His phone was ringing as he slowed down to the side of the road. He steadily took out his phones, and felt alarmed as he saw that his personal phone was the one ringing, and that could only mean one thing, something must have happened to his wife.
"Ah, I'm sorry I left you alone, what happened?" He answered the phone trying to be as cautious as possible with his intonation, at the same time reading between the lines of what could be happening. What his wife told him over the phone rendered him speechless as he stared blankly towards nothingness and felt his whole world froze. The phone call ended without another word spoken, he wordlessly put the phone back in his pockets. His brain was supposed to work better, so Kosaku shook all his worries aside and decided to head home, and dropped by the pharmacy near their place as per Megumi's request.
"I'm home," he called out with hints of uncertainty as he put his shoes neatly in their supposed spot. He found a confused, silent Megumi sitting on the sofa in their living room and all he could do was just to hand her the pregnancy test kits he bought (to really make sure of it, he bought at least 5 different brands, or was it more? He forgot as he couldn't stop thinking about what would have beens). She didn't show any signs of moving anytime soon, so he decided to guide her carefully to the bathroom.
The minutes Kosaku spent waiting for his wife outside the bathroom felt like ages. If Megumi would be pregnant, he would really be ecstatic and elated as they finally could start to be a real family, but at the back of his mind, he's already worried if it's going to be alright for them as they're both doctors and one thing or another would need to be sacrificed. Would Megumi really want this, were they ready? The sound of the bathroom door opening brought him back to earth as he met eye to eye with his wife.
All the worries his mind managed to uncharacteristically produce seemed to disappear in an instant as his wife's glassy eyes met his, a smile painted on her face as she slightly ran and finally buried herself in his embrace; "We're going to be parents, Kosaku," she tilted her face towards him and gave an earnest smile, one that spread a certain warmth he could only feel with her.
He gently stroke her soft hair, tighten his embrace on her before slightly separating their entangled bodies only to kiss her, long, full with passion and all the love he felt for her and their child. The need for air unfortunately forced them to let go, and all Kosaku could think of saying was "I felt so stupid for not noticing it, all the signs you showed," before he buried his face on her shoulders, embarrassed and berating himself.
"There, there, I myself didn't notice anything before this, so," Megumi stroked his back as he tightened his hold on her waist and she laughed to herself. They stayed in that position for so long as they find comfort in each other. Not long after Kosaku regained his composure, he told his wife in a commanding tone, "We're going to the ob-gyn today. Get ready," and Megumi shook her head in amusement and teased her husband, grinning, "Well, well, do you miss the hospital that bad, Kosaku?" And she kissed him, hard.
It was not until the day after they finally could visit the ob-gyn, though.
Notes: Hello! I'm terribly sorry for the late update as I was so caught up in my studies. I'm also working on my Four Seasons series (I kinda had writer's block but HELLO MOVIE TEASER THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME) so do anticipate. I really can't wait for July to came and the movieeeeeee! Ugh okay let me just say thank you for reading this, reviews and prompts are very welcome. Have a nice day, fandom! Long live Aishira!