Ace woke to the smell of breakfast which was unusual, so with his dagger in one hand the other still rubbing the sleepiness from his body as he walked into the other room. Turning the corner with caution Ace thrust the dagger in front of him and lit it up with his fire, ready to impale the intruder with a flaming knife.
"Watch where you`re waving that. Gonna poke someone's eye out." Ace let his hands fall to his side as he stared at the marine captain in front of him. "Smoker…." The white turned to Ace when he heard his name being called. His eyes widened in shock as the freckled boy had tears running down his face. Putting the spatula on the counter he ran over to Ace to make sure the boy was okay. Smoker touched his face and wiped away the tears. "Hey, hey, hey. Its okay." Smoker had no clue if he was doing this right, calm and sweet was what he was going for. Ace sniffled and inside of stopping his tears it's as if a dam all of a sudden burst, wailing and hugging Smoker in a death like grip.
"Uh…I gotta go get the food," Smoker pushed Ace away from him "before it burns to a crisp." He walked back over and resumed cooking while Ace finished sobbing and sat down at the table.
A little over five minutes later Smoker brought the food and drinks to the table and sat down himself.
"Thank you for the meal!" The duo shouted in unison. And with that Ace began to dig in not wasting any time on devouring the food before him. Smoker ate in silence as he watched the teen devour his food like his last meal was weeks ago. Ace looked up at him when he realized Smoker had his eyes on him. Cheeks full and a little bit of rice on his cheek he asked for another helping, so Smoker pushed his plate in front of him. "Eat it. You're feeding our child also. Don`t forget it." Smoker picked up his coffee mug and took a sip as Ace nodded and began eating.
"So have you decided to keep it?" The marine questioned as he set down his empty mug. Ace swallowed and shoved the plate forward, it was cleaned of whatever was once on it. The boy nodded and looked down at his hands which were resting on his lap. "That's good. I want to make it clear that I do think this is something good for us…but we aren`t ready. You`re only nineteen and I`m in my early thirties we have plenty of time ahead of us."
Ace let the white haired officers words sink in and he inhaled and then exhaled. "That's understandable, but I decided to keep this child already. We gave it a life and we have no right to take it away. If you want to join me in raising this child you may I would be thrilled if you did as a matter of fact." Ace smiled and Smoker nodded, glancing down at his watch he noticed it was still early. "How far along are you?"
"About 19 weeks I believe it could be more or it could be less but that's a close estimate." Smoker hummed and sighed running his hand through his hair. "I`ve got some time left wanna take a nap?" Ace looked at the stoic man and a smile crept on his face. He quickly stood and grabbed the other man and dragged him to the bedroom. Falling into the rock hard bed Ace cuddled up to Smokers firm and now bare chest. All while Smoker draped his muscular arms around the lean boys waist and pulled him close, letting Aces warmth leak onto Smoker.
A couple minutes later Ace was snoring away and Smoker was drifting off thoughts of family in his head and thoughts of this logias arrest.