Leave Well Enough Alone or Seek the Impossible Better?-
A BMW/GMW slightly AU retconned fanfic.
A/N- Back from their Fiji honeymoon, Shawn and Katy get the biggest surprise of their lives but before they're ready to become parents, Katy suffers the loss of the only mother she knows and a shock about her own birth while Shawn refuses to consider anything good coming from seeking out his own but Maya has other ideas.
Chapter One: Half-Baked Plans
Kitchen of Topanga's Bakery, NYC- September,2016
"Here's the starter for our Extra Yeasty Gold Mine Sourdough!" 33-year-old Katy Hart Hunter grunted as she poured it into the dry mix and was ready to bring down the large mixer.
Then suddenly felt queezy.
"You, okay?" Topanga Lawrence Matthews asked.
"Sure, boss! Just let me mix in the water, flour and salt and. ..Oh, NO!" Katy exclaimed and ran to the tiny kitchen bathroom off the next to the handwashing sink.
"Katy, you're not feeling well! I'm sending you home," Topanga ordered as she heard the sound of Katy throwing up from the other side of the door.
"No, you can't! I just got back from my honeymoon last week and Maya's got school supplies and. ." Katy pleaded through the bathroom door.
"You've got Shawn helping to take care of your bills now- not to mention Maya. And the Board of Health would shut us down if I kept an employee here who just got sick!" Topanga insisted.
At that Katy exited the bathroom.
"'Panga, we had a wonderful honeymoon in Fiji - a phenomenal one, in fact. He's such an acrobat!"Katy swooned.
"So I've heard," Topanga sighed as she rolled her eyes.
"Sorry, got sidetracked," Katy giggled.
"It happens," Topanga shrugged.
" Anyway, I just got a whiff from that strange new starter. I'll be fine!" Katy scoffed.
"This starter has a 4.9 out of 5 star rating on that baking website and is homegrown on a farm not too far out of the Big Apple," Topanga scoffed as she smelled the container of starter and nodded.
"Yeah, I know Daffodil Hill. ." Katy sighed.
"Dandelion Field," Topanga corrected as she read the package.
"Whatever. So it was a bad starter," Katy argued.
"It's some of the best starter I've ever smelled. I'll bet I know what it is," Topanga exclaimed as she snapped her fingers then laughed in a sing-song voice then hugged Katy.
"No, it CAN'T be! I just got married again and. .." Katy pleaded.
"How long were you married when you and Kermit [snort] made Maya?" Topanga asked.
"Why do you do that when I mention my ex's name?" Katy asked.
" I just keep thinking frog," Topanga shrugged.
"We were hot and heavy teens and we didn't use any protection but Shawn and I are middl .. .er not teens and we. ." Katy protested.
"Neither were me and Cory when we had Auggie and, yes, all precautions weren't enough to keep him from happening! "Topanga laughed as she shook her head.
"Look, at least wait until I've done the pee sticks and the OB before you say anything to Shawn. .. or Cory!" Katy insisted.
"Come on! Can't I tell my own husband?" Topanga sputtered.
"No! You know he CAN'T keep it a secret from Shawn!" Katy sighed.
"You're right- and if I tell Riley, it'll be all over the 'Net even before she tells Maya," Topanga conceded.
"Let me get back to finishing the shift ," Katy pleaded.
"No go! You need to be getting those pee sticks and seeing if the OB can fit you in by tonight," Topanga insisted.
"But we still have the loaves for today," Katy sighed.
"It's a Tuesday. We're never that busy. I can handle this one on my own. Just go!" Topanga insisted as she grabbed Katy by the right arm.
"But. .." Katy scoffed as Topanga started pushing her out.
"Goodbye, Mommie!" Topanga laughed.
.
.
"So thanks for planning a slumber party for Maya and Riley at your place," Katy exclaimed on her Smartphone later that evening in the hallway while getting ready to walk into her and Shawn's apartment.
"Believe me, it's best you get to break this news to Shawn without any chance of distraction. Two seconds before I was ready to break the news about Auggie to Cory, Riley popped up in bed between us and spilled the beans," Topanga recalled.
"Awkward," Katy gulped- as she got her keys out of her clutch.
"Yeah, and she pressed the frequent caller conference call button so every single member of our families, my old law firm, clients,Cory's fellow teachers and all her class got to hear it,too- not to mention Cory having called me Panga Bear moments before! " Topanga groaned.
"That really sucked. Well, I'm at the door so wish me luck. Bye, Panga!" Katy exclaimed as she pressed the phone off and walked in the door.
"Gotta go,"Shawn was heard to say on the other side of the door as he put down his own Smartphone on the coffee table close to the front door.
"Hey, Babe! Got some news!" 34-year-old Shawn Hunter exclaimed as he hugged her.
"So do I! You go first!" Katy exclaimed while stroking his goatee.
" OK, Senator Eric said he wants me to do his website and profile pics!"Shawn exclaimed.
"Really, Eric came up with that?" Katy asked.
"Actually, T.J. A.K.A. Tommy thought of it but, however I got it, with all the hits I'd get, we could move to the Upper East Side in a few months!" Shawn gushed.
"Oh, that's wonderful, Gorgeous! " Katy gushed.
" So, what's your news, Babe?" Shawn asked as the two kissed.
"Remember Fiji?" Katy asked.
"Come on! How could I ever forget Fiji? It marked the last time we get to be totally nude all the time outside our bedroom until Maya leaves for college," Shawn laughed as he started to take off his shoes, socks and t-shirt.
"Shawn! I know we only get to do it without blasting heavy metal when Maya's not here but, before we get too hot, there's something I need to tell. ." Katy gulped as Shawn kissed her from her mouth to her neck and hugged her with his right hand while unbuckling his belt to remove his pants with his left.
"It can wait, Babe!" Shawn growled.
"That's exactly what you said in Fiji when I said I ran out of a certain pill there that one night and we needed to take the scooter from our hut to the convenience store," Katy pleaded as they hopped onto the couch while hugging each other.
"Yeah, Jack sure outdid himself giving us the Fiji honeymoon for our wedding present! " Shawn growled as he jumped up and did a cartwheel while only attired in his briefs.
"And remember how all those raincoats kept failing one after another and another?" Katy asked -as she stroked his goatee again while he was nuzzling her and unbuttoned the top two buttons of her red blouse.
"Raincoats? We were nude and I'm wishing you were that way NOW! My Jane of the Jungle! ROWRR!" Shawn growled.
"No, My Jungle Lord Shawn. I'm not talking about the kind of raincoat you wear on your torso!" Katy sighed as she stroked it.
" Good one! Yeah, I sure outdid myself in more ways than one that night!" Shawn laughed.
"Yes, and we're going to have to make some important decisions about the rest of our lives thanks to your . . .outdoing!" Katy sighed.
"Heh! Heh! Heh!Heh! Heh.. . .Oh, . .Feeny!" Shawn laughed then groaned as it hit him.
"Are you okay with ... it? Do you want . .?" Katy asked.
"Katy, I know we're just starting out and we weren't planning it and we've got bills. . but, yeah, I DO want it. I DO want a brother or sister for Maya and a baby for us to give a good life to. . .Do you. .?" Shawn asked.
"Even though this puts our empty nest plans back from Maya's college to another two decades and we'd have more bills than ever, I do, too," Katy exclaimed with a hug.
"AWESOME!" Cory and Topanga's disembodied voices were heard to say from the coffee table next to the couch.
"Oh,Man! I left the Smartphone on instead of hanging up after talking to Cory!" Shawn gasped as he immediately jumped over the couch to the floor behind the couch while Katy rebuttoned the top buttons of her blouse ,sat up and straightened her hair
"Hello, Cory, Topanga!" Katy groaned while Shawn kneeled behind the couch with only the top half of his face above the back of the couch while waving.
"Way to go, BRO! " Cody laughed as he and Topanga waved back from their end of the Smartphone.
" And Cody also said 'Oh, Feeny!' when Riley told him about Auggie! Nice briefs, Shawn, " Topanga laughed.
"Thanks," Shawn sheepishly groaned.
"Keep it to yourselves until we can break the news to Maya. ." Katy pleaded.
"Too late!" Maya yelled as she turned the Andrewses' end of the phone to focus on her image.
" We'll talk about this when you get back tomorrow morning," Katy gulped.
"There's nothing to talk about Mom. .. you,too, Daddy! " Maya Hunter proclaimed while Riley waved next to her.
"Hello, Maya, Riley," Shawn groaned while again poking his head from behind the couch.
"But we need to talk about how it makes you feel. .." Katy pleaded while Shawn nodded.
" Lord Uncle Shawn of the Jungle!" Riley and Auggie laughed together on their end.
"Guys, just no!" Maya was heard to shout before she cut off the signal.
"Why didn't you make sure your Smartphone was OFF OFF before I came inside?"Katy asked as she slapped Shawn on his left arm.
"Can I help it if I'm not used to those phones having no real buttons?" Shawn sputtered.
"Shawn," Katy groaned.
"Well?" Shawn asked.
"You think our daughter's okay with it?" Katy asked.
" You're her mother and you've known her a lot longer than I have!" Shawn protested.
"Yeah, but this is the very first time I've told her I'm pregnant," Katy sighed.
"Well, that makes two of us," Shawn replied.
" I really hope she doesn't feel displaced or . . Shawn, what are you doing?" Katy asked- as Shawn's briefs flew over her head from behind the coach.
"I thought I'd make myself more comfortable. I mean, we're all alone, I'm hotter than ever for you- and now there's zero chance I can get you pregnant for the next . .How long?" Shawn asked as he jumped back over it
" About seven and a half months. OK, why not?" Katy replied with a laugh as Shawn wrapped his arms and legs around her form
"Let's make this privacy as unforgettable as Fiji!" Shawn laughed as the downstairs neighbors started to wonder when the elephant stampede would end in the Hunter apartment.