Time Away

"I can get it." AJ nodded, getting out of bed in their hotel room the next morning, putting on one of Punk's t-shirts over her naked body, which pretty much acted like a night dress on her.

They'd left yesterday afternoon and got out of town, finding a nice hotel to stay at where they had dinner and a very romantic night. It was a fresh of breath air for both of them that they desperately needed. Since AJ woke up hungry, they had decided to order breakfast to their room.

Punk smiled as he watched her head over to the door, sitting up in the bed against the headboard.

AJ opened up the door where a woman stood with a breakfast tray, "You ordered room service?" The woman asked.

"Oh, yeah. That smells so good." AJ smiled, taking the tray from her.

"Oh, you're pregnant." She smiled, "Can I feel your belly?" She asked as AJ raised her eyebrows.

"Uh…" AJ turned around to Punk who was shaking his head and mouthing no to her after overhearing the question, "Sure." AJ shrugged, sitting down the tray on the table behind her as Punk rolled his eyes.

"Has it been kicking?" The woman asked, placing her hand on AJ's bump as AJ looked at her.

"Yeah for a couple months now." AJ nodded.

"Oh, well congratulations." The woman smiled.

"Thank you." AJ nodded, watching the woman wander away down the corridor, closing the door over and turning around to Punk who had his arms folded like a child.

"I don't like that." Punk said.

"Yeah, neither do I but it's not hurting anybody." AJ shrugged, "She was nice."

"Why would anyone want to feel someone else's pregnant belly? It's nothing to do with them." Punk huffed as AJ walked over to the bed with the breakfast tray, sitting it on the bed before getting back in beside Punk.

"Because it's a really cool thing." AJ shrugged.

"It's my cool thing. It's my baby." Punk nodded as AJ smiled, "It's just weird." He shivered as AJ laughed.

"It is, I agree." AJ nodded, "This looks and smells amazing." AJ said, already tucking into the food as Punk smiled, "So what are we doing today?" She asked him.

"Anything you want." He smiled as AJ thought to herself.

"Maybe we could shop for the baby." AJ suggested, "We've barely got any clothes for it."

"Barely? We've got a whole dresser filled with clothes." Punk shook his head, "Plus we can't really buy anything since we don't know what we're having."

"And whose decision was that." AJ hummed, "We should just buy some dresses and little pink hats because I know it's a girl."

"Tell me how you know it's a girl?" Punk scoffed.

"It's a mom thing. Me and her… we got a connection." AJ nodded, "Which means we should really just discuss girls names whilst we're at it." She shrugged.

"And what happens when it's actually a boy and all we have is dresses and a girl's name waiting for him?" Punk asked her.

"Well… unisex names are becoming more popular." AJ shrugged as Punk just laughed to himself as she smiled, "You thought of names?"

"A little." Punk nodded, "You know I like Oscar for a boy."

"Oscar is really sweet actually." AJ nodded, "Also good for a cat, though." AJ turned to him as Punk rolled his eyes.

"There goes that name out the window." Punk nodded.

"You thought about any girl names?" AJ asked him.

"No, not really." Punk shrugged as AJ looked at him.

"Phil, are you… are you scared in case it's a girl?" AJ smiled a little as Punk looked at her.

"No." Punk scoffed, "No, of course I'm not scared." He laughed as AJ raised her eyebrows, "Ok, I'm scared." He nodded.

"Why?" AJ laughed.

"Well I'm scared anyway but… I don't know. I'd be her dad. I… I see a lot of stuff as cops, particularly crimes against women." He nodded as AJ looked at him, "The world is scary right now, for anyone." He said.

"Hey… boy or girl, you're gonna be amazing and this baby is gonna love you." She nodded, "So so much." She nodded as he smiled.

"You think your parents would be mad that you never told them?" Punk asked her, "I mean, they don't even know you got married."

"They didn't even know I was dating." AJ shook her head, "They wouldn't care." She said as Punk looked at her.

"That's gotta upset you." Punk said.

"Well sure, it doesn't make me feel good." AJ nodded, "But I've dealt with it my whole life. It's starting to feel normal, I guess." She said, "It's like you with your dad. They're not in our lives and we don't know any different."

"My dad was a legitimately bad person, though." Punk said.

"Do you wanna talk about all the horrible things my mom did to me when I was a kid?" AJ asked as Punk looked at her, "Abuse doesn't have to be just physical." She shrugged as Punk nodded.

"Right." He nodded.

"I don't mean it like that." AJ shook her head, "What your dad did to you was… the lowest of the low and-"

"We don't have to talk about it." Punk shook his head.

"You barely told me what actually happened." AJ said truthfully, "I remember you told me a little bit one night after sex about a year ago."

"Yeah and what I told you was enough." Punk nodded, "Seth doesn't know so… talking about it feels wrong."

"I'm your wife." AJ reminded him, "You're supposed to talk about things that no one else knows with me." AJ nodded, "He's in prison. You don't have to worry about him."

"I don't worry about him, trust me." Punk assured her, "Why are we even talking about this?" He laughed it off as AJ shrugged.

"Because it's sometimes good to talk about things that make us feel like shit." AJ shrugged.

"My dad has been gone for a lot of years. He's not my problem anymore." Punk nodded, "And neither should your mom or dad." He said.

"I know but they're still there, at the back of my mind." AJ nodded, "Cant do anything about it, I guess."

"Better off without them." Punk nodded.

"Yeah." AJ said.

"Do you have any names you like?" Punk asked, trying to change the subject as AJ nodded.

"A few, yeah." AJ nodded, "But I don't wanna say." She smiled.

"Uh… you do know that I have to know our child's name, right?" He teased.

"I feel like it might jinx it." AJ shrugged, "I'll tell you when I have the baby." She said.

"Remember, we don't want it to hate us." Punk nodded as AJ shoved him as he chuckled.

"Idiot." AJ scoffed.

"Are you still nervous about giving birth?" Punk asked.

"What do you think?" AJ turned to him as he nodded, "Of course I am." She said as Punk nodded, "So I'm gonna be sitting up on this bed, my legs open for a full team of nurses to look and…" She showed him, sitting up against the headboard, parting her legs as Punk raised a brow, "I cannot even imagine the feeling." AJ sighed, closing her legs back up with fear.

"Isn't it over really quickly?" Punk shrugged.

"Oh, what do you know? You have a penis." AJ shook her head.

"Maybe you should talk to someone who has given birth." Punk shrugged, "Like my mom." He nodded.

"I already have spoken to her." AJ sighed, "She didn't help." She shook her head.

"Well what did she say?" Punk asked.

"Well first of all, you were like nine pounds. That's just cruel." AJ shook her head, "She said once the head and shoulders are out it just… slips out." AJ groaned a little as Punk paused from eating, "Then she started talking about rips and stitches and I had to leave." AJ shook her head.

"Slips out?" Punk raised his eyebrows.

"Well apparently." AJ nodded.

"Slip." Punk nodded to himself, "If I haven't said it before, I am so glad that I am not giving birth."

"Don't rub it in." AJ huffed as Punk nodded to himself.

"Come on, women give birth all the time. It's a normal thing." Punk nodded.

"Oh, yeah. Well your mother informed to tell me that our second child will also just slip out because-"

"Ok, I get it. Please stop saying slip out." Punk said as AJ just nodded, "And also… second child? Can we get the first one out first?"

"Yeah. Your mom is definitely not the best to go to for advice." AJ nodded, "It's really hard to imagine it not just being the two of us anymore." She shook her head.

"Yeah, I know." Punk said, "But trust me. Baby or not. We're still having our nights away in the hotel. That's where grandma Nadine and Uncle Seth's roles come into play." He said as AJ nodded.

"Oh, I one hundred percent agree." She smiled, leaning over and kissing him, "Mmm, you know what I regret?" She pulled back from him.

"What?" He asked her.

"Not having a bachelorette." AJ nodded, "The girls wanted to throw me one the night before our wedding but I… I don't know, I felt bad because I knew you weren't having one."

"What?" Punk turned to her, "I-I had one." He nodded.

"What?" AJ shook her head.

"Yeah." Punk said worriedly, "Me and the boys went out the night before, to a few clubs." Punk shrugged innocently.

"What kind of clubs?" AJ folded her arms.

"Just… normal ones." Punk turned away from her.

"Strip clubs?!" AJ gasped, "You had a full blown bachelor party whilst I sat in my hotel room eating pizza with the girls? Wow. Phil Brooks you are the worst."

"We never said no bachelor parties." Punk said, "You should have had one."

"I didn't want to because I thought you weren't having one. Why didn't you tell me?" AJ asked.

"Because... it's weird." Punk shrugged.

"Oh God, what kind of stripper was it? Did she sit on you?" She questioned, trying not to imagine it.

"No. There were no strippers." Punk laughed, "It was just a few clubs. I don't even drink, it was just to get out with the guys. They were more into it than me."

"No strippers?" AJ asked him.

"Ok, so there was maybe one." Punk admitted as AJ gasped.

"I know why you didn't tell me. It's because you didn't want me to have a stripper." She figured, "Yeah, that's it."

"No, I really just didn't think it was a big deal." Punk shrugged.

"I could have had a stripper." AJ folded her arms.

"Oh, yeah. Because the image of a man stripping and grinding on your baby bump is so beautiful." He nodded.

"I'm not talking to you. Liar." AJ hissed at him as he laughed a little.

"Alright." Punk nodded, climbing off the bed as AJ watched him.

"What are you doing?" AJ raised a brow, watching as he put on his clothes rather quickly.

"You want a stripper." He nodded as she looked at him, turning some music on the TV as AJ looked at him curiously.

She watched him as he slowly began to take his t-shirt off, wiggling his hips slowly as AJ raised her eyebrows and smirked a little, unfolding her arms. He got his t-shirt off, putting his hands behind his head and moving his hips in circles as AJ's mouth gaped a little.

"Oh my God." AJ raised her eyebrows as he threw the t-shirt over at her, hitting her on the face as she chuckled.

She watched as he undone his jeans, turning around and pushing them down as she tilted her head with a smile.

"That ass." She smirked, "Never quits." She nodded as he got his jeans off, flicking the jeans up and catching them, turning back around and pulling the jeans between his legs, rubbing them back and forth as AJ laughed to herself.

"You've never looked sexier." AJ nodded as he smiled, tossing his jeans over and walking towards her. She could tell he was taking it very seriously which made her laugh even more.

He took her hands, running them up his chest as she raised her eyebrows, watching as he slowly inched his boxers down little by little as she watched with an anticipated smile.

"You waiting on something?" Punk smiled as she nodded, running her fingertips down his chest.

She watched as he finally pushed his boxers down as she cheered.

"Yes!" AJ cheered as he laughed, leaning down and kissing her, falling over onto the bed with her as she kissed him back.

"Ain't no stripper gonna do what I'm about to." He assured her, kissing her neck as she smirked.

"Hey, I've got my personal stripper." She smiled, wrapping her legs around his body.

"You should know I charge 200 per hour." Punk nodded as she chuckled and nodded.

"Oh, it's worth it for an ass like that." She smiled as Punk chuckled, leaning his forehead against hers as she smiled. There was never a dull moment and she was so glad she got to spend the rest of her life with her best friend, her partner, her soulmate.