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Chapter 4-Fears Of Fatherhood

Prompted by a Guest-Upon learning Anastasia is pregnant Will begins to have doubts about his abilities as a father.

Will had been with Robin when he staggered back around lunchtime his boots covered in mud. Regina had showed up at the camp where Will occasionally hung out and Will knew from example that that meant to scarper quickly. With Roland and Henry in school the looks that Robin and Regina were throwing each other made him feel slightly sick.

He had been halfway from home when his phone had buzzed. The text was from Anastasia which was strange (Ana never texted) he paused noting the lack of emoticons which she generally sent when she did text. "We need to talk" was written in blazing tones and Will blinked a horrible sense of foreboding shadowing him.

He knew what 'We need to talk' meant.

She had had enough of him. It was like Wonderland all over again and no amount of ripping his heart out was going to eradicate this feeling.

He staggered into the apartment gripping his heart but he wondered briefly what the hell had gone wrong in their relationship-other than Anastasia stupidly eating some of Ruby's home cooked recipes and bearing the brunt of it and throwing up hysterically at all hours of the morning but other than that they had been fine.

It was the story of his life really. The minute Will Scarlet was happy it all fell to shit.

"Ana" he exclaimed in surprise unable to form words as he took in Ana's appearance.

She looked dreadful. She was wearing his shirt and pretty much nothing else and Will bit his lip because now, was not the time to gaze at the long expanse of Anastasia's legs. Her hair was a mess and her eyes were puffy but other than that she was still so beautiful.

"Will" she whispered before biting her lip and choking on her sobs. "Hey" he said softly the need to comfort her more dominant than anything else. He crossed the living room in three steps and pulled her into a hug.

"Now what's happened?" he asked his heart thumping in a steady rhythmic feeling of dread.

He pulled back cupping her face in his hands "What's wrong?"

Ana paused before wiping her eyes "I was feeling sick so I told Ruby" she began "And she referred me to her boyfriend Doctor Whale"

Will paused before something much more horrible than dread gripped his heart. "Ana" he began but she shushed him. "I'm sorry" she whimpered and Will felt his heart constrict. She reached behind him a pulled a thin plastic stick.

"You're pregnant" he said smiling. There was a part of him and Anastasia coming into the world. He slowly placed a hand on the still flat shape of her belly and Ana watched him with weary eyes. "I love you" he confessed before suddenly spinning her up into his arms. "I love you" he confessed again at Ana's rather watery laugh. He bent down before pressing his lips into Ana's stomach "And I love you to"

It wasn't until much later that it sunk in. And by much later he meant Ana being four months along, her stomach rounded beautifully and there was a print out on the fridge of their baby from that son-o-gram thing that Will didn't like the look of.

Will didn't know when he had started to panic about being a father. He had never known his. Had never really had a family having spent most of his time either in an orphanage or on the streets. With what little he knew about fatherhood what gave him the right to be one? How could he avoid screwing up this baby's life?

Ana had been thrilled in her own way. She had painted the nursery and when the news had eventually come out she and Snow and Belle and Ruby had been happy discussing pregnancy and craving and God only knows what else and Will had been left in the cold feeling utterly inadequate if it hadn't been for Robin and Hook pouring and buying him round after round of whisky.

And even then he didn't feel much better.

The spiral of doubt had managed to drag him so far under he could tell it was taking its toll on Ana. She hid it and she hid it well but even then he still managed to hate himself more for placing more worry on her.

Then it changed.

Anastasia woke up one night in the fifth month with a small scream that had Will half leaping out of bed.

"What?" he demanded covering her body with his own eyes still scanning desperate for protection. "Will" she said breaking into a grin her eyes filling with tears. "What?" he all but howled but she smiled again reaching out to detach one of his hands from her face and pressed it against her belly.

"What?" he asked again before he felt it. Something pressing against his hand. Something kicking.

"Is that?" he asked and Ana nodded her eyes shining brightly "He's kicking" she said and Will let out a watery laugh kissing her softly.

"I love you" he muttered and Ana grinned "I love you to" she said gently cupping his face.

And there and then on the bed, one hand around his girlfriend's shoulders and the other gently cradling his unborn child Will Scarlet smiled the first real smile in a long time.

He could do this.

Next Chapter-Keith Nottingham returns to Storybrooke and starts to flirt with both Anastasia and Regina-Will and Robin are not amused. (Jealous Will and Robin-Outlaw Queen included)