A few months later, Gray had just come back from one of his jobs and was bone tired. He had stopped at the infirmary to have Wendy and Mira clean up his wounds from the job, but he knew he still looked a little beat up. He jogged into the house to give Juvia a quick kiss and hello on the couch before saying he needed to take a quick shower. The warm water fell over his shoulders and he scrubbed shampoo into his hair and tried to rub the dirt off of his arms. He couldn't get rid of the little cuts and bruises though. He would have to come up with something to tell Juvia about those. He didn't want her worrying right now. He had heard that it was bad for the baby to have her stress and maybe he could jus-
"Gray-sama!"
Gray damn near fell out of the shower at the yell. He didn't turn off the water, but grabbed a towel as he stumbled and slipped out of the bathroom. He tucked it around his waist before he got to the living room where Juvia had been laying on the couch. He grabbed onto the back of a chair to steady himself when he got to the room and saw Juvia sitting up a bit more with her hands on her stomach.
"What happened? Are you okay? What's wrong? Should I call Wendy and Mira? Juvia?" he stammered out in rapid sentences, a bit of shampoo dribbling over his ear.
Juvia looked up at him curiously and put out a hand to him. "Come here."
"Juvia, what's wrong?" he asked again, a little more urgently, but took her hand and stepped a bit closer.
She shook her head. "I'm fine."
"Well then what did you yell for? I thought something was wrong. Juvia, you can't just scare me like that. I mean, I almost cracked my skull open on the-"
"Shh…" she murmured, guiding his hand to rest on her stomach with hers holding his fingers still.
Gray thought she had lost her mind. That's it. She's crazy. he thought, looking at her concentrating features as she watched his hand.
Then, he felt a gentle nudging under his palm and his eyes shot up to meet Juvia's. She had a goofy smile on her face and he knew he did too. He let out a breath he didn't know he'd been holding.
"Was… was that…?"
"Juvia thinks it was a foot, but… she can't be sure," Juvia responded, letting go of his hand, but he didn't move it.
He laughed gently, sitting near her feet on the couch. "That was… really…"
"Juvia knows."
"I mean… how does it feel on your end?" he asked curiously, putting his other hand on her round stomach. "How did you even get it to start moving?"
She giggled. "Juvia was just reading out loud (Mira says that's very good to do) and it just sort of started. It feels… really weird from the inside."
Gray smiled lightly. "Cool. I'm gonna have to start talking more around you two."
Juvia smiled, putting her hands over his. "Well, get started, Gray-sama."
He pressed a kiss to her hands and nodded. "Sure."
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About an hour later, Gray lay with Juvia's back to his chest and both hands around her significantly bigger waist. He put his chin on her shoulder and gave a little smile.
"You picked a name yet, Juvia?" he asked.
She looked up at him and shook her head. "No. Juvia wanted to wait. She thought Gray-sama would want to help pick one."
He smiled widely. "Yeah."
"So, has Gray-sama thought of anything?" she asked.
"I've been thinking if it's a boy, I like Urian."
"Urian?" she asked curiously.
"I was thinking of Ur, I mean she did a lot for me, and it was the first thing that sounded right to me," he explained.
Juvia smiled. "Okay. I like that."
Gray nodded. "I couldn't think of any girl names, though." He pouted slightly. "Besides Summer."
"Summer? Summer Fullbuster," Juvia said slowly, looking at the ceiling. "Hmm… Juvia likes that, Gray-sama."
He raised an eyebrow. "Really? I didn't think you'd like it."
Juvia shook her head and smiled. "Juvia likes it very much."
"Really?" he asked, a little eagerly.
"Yes," she said with a smile.
"Well, are we agreed then?"
She nodded. "Summer for a girl," she said, running a hand over her stomach, "and Urian for a boy."
Gray smiled, pressing a kiss to her temple. "Perfect."
Name all picked out and ready to go. It's all going by so fast, huh?
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