You sat a small cafe off campus, a cup of hot chocolate in your hand, and your laptop in front of you. You had to write final term papers before the Christmas break, and then final exams.
After your final term exams were done, you'd be off for Christmas break, and then a new term would begin. And that term, would bring a new class that Thorin was teaching, and you were attending.
"I need to write this." You spoke softly to yourself, but you were distracted by the question he had asked, almost two months ago.
"Will you move in with me?" You didn't know how to answer, or how to begin to answer.
Sure if you moved in with him you'd save on rent, but you'd be off campus. Which had its own positives and negatives, but living off campus meant relying on either Thorin, or taking a cab.
"Or I could get my own vehicle.." You frowned and slammed your laptop shut, and focused on your hot chocolate.
Thorin asked you two months ago to move in with him, and you still hadn't given him an answer. Anytime he asked for an answer, or asked if you'd thought of it more, you changed the subject.
It wasn't that you were opposed to moving in with Thorin, the thought was actually very pleasing. But it would change things, and change the relationship.
Right now, the dating and the sex, while amazing, was also semi-casual. You were soulmates, and eventually you'd have to get married and be married, but you wanted it to remain relaxed for now.
Moving in with Thorin, would propel the relationship to a new, and scarier level. It would be like the one step below engagement and marriage.
"And you..." She placed her hand on her belly and smiled softly. 8 weeks has passed since you told Thorin, and you were now 13 weeks pregnant.
"Y/N..." You lifted your eyes from the table in front of you and smiled at Thorin.
"I could've picked you up outside of your dorm building. We didn't need to meet here." As nervous as you were about possibly moving in with Thorin, you were excited about the baby.
"I had to come here and try and work on end term papers." You stood and placed your laptop back into your bag, and then grabbed your hot chocolate.
"You could've come to my place." You rolled your eyes and stepped around the table.
"I told you Thorin, you can't help with these papers. It's an unfair advantage." You followed him out of the cafe, and towards his car.
"So...I'm 13 weeks pregnant, which means that I get an ultrasound and find out my due date. And I'm out of the first trimester which means I should be done my morning sickness." You leaned against the car and smiled up at him.
"And we're going to the ultrasound now?" You smiled and nodded at him.
His hands moved to the side of your head as he trapped your against his black car, and pressed a soft kiss to your lips and then your forehead.
"We finally get to see her." Her? You raised an eyebrow and gave him and incredulous look.
"I feel like our baby will be a her." You flushed as his hand came to rest against your small bump, pride clearly written on his face.
"The baby gets to be seen today." You leaned into him and pressed a chaste kiss to his lips, before the pair of you pulled away.
You opened his car door and got into the warm vehicle, your body relaxing against the leather seats. From the corner of your eye, you could see Thorin hesitating, his hands shoved in his pockets, and then he smiled and got in after you.
"You okay?" You placed your hand on his and gave it a squeeze.
"I'm fine. Thought I lost my phone." You pulled away and smiled at him, excited more than ever to see your baby.
"We should officially tell people, well your family, after we get the ultrasound." You bit your lip and felt the excitement being replaced with nerves.
"People will find out I'm sleeping with you, even as your soulmate, and then pregnant. Won't that raise some questions with the university?" It certainly would with your classmates.
"If you think I didn't clear it with the dean the day I met you, and knew you were mine, than you don't know me as well as you thought." Although, on that note, he shouldn't have been able to grade you.
"But my grades.." You flushed as Thorin placed his hand on your inner thigh, and began rubbing.
"The dean marks all of your assignments and grades all of your papers. Do you think I'm the first professor who had a soulmate who was his student?" You felt more at ease as he spoke. It was good to know that your bases were covered.
"If we are going to tell people, I need to tell my sister first." You nodded and looked out the window as Thorin pulled away from the cafe, towards the hospital downtown.
"We could tell her over the break. That is, if you'd like to join my family for Christmas?" Your head snapped back to Arda Thorin.
"You want me to join you for Christmas?" You knew it probably wasn't a surprise that he would ask. You had no family, and bilbo would be with Bofur, so you'd be alone
"Of course I do! Why wouldn't I? Your my soulmate, and I am yours. Why wouldn't I want to spend Christmas with you? And it's beautiful back home at Christmas. The snow is thick and stretches for miles along the forest, and the stove is always lit." You bit your lip and riddled with the seam of your leggings.
"You're part of my family." You felt emotional as the hormones wreaked havoc on your body.
You sniffled and wiped stray tears, finding yourself much more emotional when you were pregnant. You nodded your head, and squeezed his hand.
"Yes of course! I would love to join you!" The thought of spending Christmas with your soulmate, instead of you and bilbo huddled in your dorm, was a nice thought.
"I'll book tickets when we get back." You nodded and smiled widely.
"Thank you, Thorin."
You lay back against the small bed, your shirt pulled up to your bra, and your pants hanging very low off of your hips. The ultrasound tech had come in, gave you instructions and then left for a moment.
"I'm exited." Thorin was clearly excited for this baby, and it made your heart swell. It was so sweet and wonderful to see him so excited, instead of rejecting it like you'd thought he would.
"Sorry, Miss Y/N." The tech came back into the room and smiled before sitting in front of the monitor once more, a bottle of gel in her hand.
"We try and keep it warm, so I hope it isn't cool." She shook the bottle twice and then squirted the gel onto your belly.
"It's quite warm, I like to." You spared a glance at Thorin and then looked back at the tech.
"Let's see what he have here..." She turned the screen so both you and Thorin could see, and then she placed the wand against your belly.
"See here? The head?" Your eyes widened as the screen showed a little human, with the baby's head, legs and arms on display.
"That's our baby?" You turned your head and stared at Thorin. His eyes were glued to the screen, eyes wandering the image of the bay on screen.
"That's the little arms, and the legs. See?" You smiled at the grin that grew on Thorin's face. He looked so proud of the small little human on the screen, and even though you weren't sure, you swore you saw some bushes tears.
"The baby is perfect and perfectly healthy. I just have to check for some things alright?" You nodded and smiled at the tech.
"What's the due date?" The ultrasound tech focused on the ultrasound, the only sound in the room was the whirring on the machine, and the sounds of her clicks.
"The approximate date is June 28th." The tech smiled at the pair of you, before He's took off her gloves and tossed them in the garbage.
"Your baby is growing well and is very healthy. Strong and healthy. Your due date is approximately June 28th, although most go over or are under. You can request a picture from the front." You nodded and once she was gone, you cleaned up the gel with a cloth she had given you, and then redressed yourself.
"Our baby..." You have Thorin a quick and chaste kiss and then climbed off of the small bed.
"We need a picture." You rolled your eyes and followed him out of the room to the front.
"Yes Thorin, we'll get a picture."
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