February 12th 1999, Early Morning...
Mina Arc sat on the counter of her bathroom to keep herself from pacing around her bathroom as she had just got out of the shower and had yet to get fully dressed. Although she had the day off and it was still hours away from her date with Alan she couldn't help but feel uneasy. As she sat in her spot tapping her fingers on the counter impatiently she glanced over at the pregnancy test sitting on the counter a couple feet away.
"Come on Mina stop panicking over this, your turning 36 in five days, you did a good enough job with Jaune when it was just you." Mina said as she leaned her back against her bathroom mirror "I mean it will suck if Alan breaks up with me if I am pregnant, but I'd have Jaune's help this time. We can handle a new kid in the house."
Mina rested a hand on her belly and felt her nerves tear her apart. "Oh lordy Robert... if you could see me now... 13 years older and still fretting over every little thing..." Mina sighed out as she started up to the sky. "I sometimes wonder if your proud of the man Jaune had become... I think he still misses you..."
Mina looked over at the test, she saw from a distance that something had changed on it. she picked it up and looked closely at it. Right dead smack on the test. She saw a plus sign on it. Mina put a hand over her face and fought back a shocked sob knowing that the small pink plus sign on it means she was pregnant after all...
"Well... I guess I better start thinking of name for you little one..." She said with a teary eyed smile as she put a hand on her stomach.
It was later on that Mina arrived at the restaurant that she and Alan had agreed on meeting at for their date, she was pretty impressed right away at howl frankly fancy the whole place was. She passed by a few nice restaurants enough times back on the west coast to know what a good looking restaurant was supposed to look like, but this took the cake.
As she walked to the door she saw the Schnee's walking in ahead of her. "Oh my god, Alan can you even afford this place?" Mina thought as she almost literally walked into the door. She had managed to stop herself in time of course but she felt a bit silly for having almost done it. After she gathered her wits about her and looked at the purse as she feeling the weight of the small positive test she had sitting inside of it. She sighed and stepped inside.
After she waited for a moment for the Schnee's to be helped, the greeter called her over "Ma'am do you have a reservation?"
Mina put on her winning confident smile and said "I'm meeting my date here. Has an Alan Ozpin arrived already?"
"Ah yes he arrived about 10 minutes ago, I'll show you to your table Ms Arc." The waiter smiled and led her to her table where Alan waited.
As she came into sight of the table, Mina raised an eyebrow at the changed man she saw before her. Gone was the long hippy locks, not even tied back into a ponytail as he had in the past. But actually cut clean off. She also noted that he was wearing quite the nice suit to go with his cleaned up look. Mina caught her blushing in embarrassment as she somehow felt out of her own boyfriends league.
"Hey good lookin" Alan said with a smile as he stood up and gave her a small kiss on the cheek. Mina took in a certain scent around him and thought "Holy crap Alan, did you wear cologne to this as well?!" and for a second she was worried that he had secretly took the night off and let his identical swave twin brother take over for the night.
"I uh... yeah hi..." Mina said trying to fight back the schoolgirl level blush that she had been suddenly cursed with. Eventually she settled on the least dopey smile she could muster as Alan held out a chair for her.
"I take it you like the haircut?" Alan said as he pushed her chair in and sat down at their shared table himself.
"Well Alan, I will say it's a bit different for you." Mina smiled and leaned forward letting Alan get a decent look at her cleavage.
"You look beautiful as always Mina" Alan said with his familiar dopey love-struck smile.
After they ordered their meals and Ozpin surprised them wine, Alan brought up a subject that had been on his mind as of late.
"Mina, I kinda realized this morning when I was shaving that I never asked about your late husband." Ozpin said with a hint of nerves as the waiter poured him a glass of wine.
"You never showed an interest in him before, what brought this on?" Mina said as she put a hand over her glass before the waiter could pour her a glass of wine as well, the waiter nodded at her refusal and left the bottle on the table for them.
Ozpin not being a heavy drinker took a small sip of his glass noticing Mina's empty glass curiously. "I guess I found myself wondering what kind of man your late husband was."
Mina looked at her purse before she answered "Well, Robert was a good man." Mina said with a slight smile "He was also a troubled and flawed soul. he loved me dearly, but he was a child of the 60's and 70's. Total hippy."
Alan chuckled "That sounds familiar."
"Well, he also loved Jaune with his whole heart. But he had his flaws, he had a drinking problem that did put a strain on us..." Mina's smile dropped off "That drinking problem got him killed."
"The accident that robbed Jaune of his voice." Alan said with a slightly saddened tone.
"Yeah. It took a long time to dig out the pit losing him threw me into, but Jaune helped out more than even he realizes." Mina mused.
"Jaune is a great kid, your both very lucky to have each other." Alan said with a smile that caused Mina to blush with a hint of guilt as she thought "I mean it won't be just the two of us for much longer though."
"Okay Mr Ozpin, let's hear about the infamous Salem then since were dredging up the exes" Mina said with a playful smile.
Alan shrugged and declared "Well that's only fair, but I need to warn you it might bring down the mood of the whole evening."
Mina smiled and spoke out "You'd have to try rather hard to ruin this night."
Alan spoke out reminiscing "Well Salem was not always the child crippling bitch we know her as now. Once upon a time she was even a pretty decent person. We married rather young like you and your late husband had, almost a couple weeks out of high-school." Ozpin said with a hint of sarcasm "You know how it is, you fall in love in high-school and you think it'll be forever right?"
"Sounds like a familiar story" Mina said with a smirk.
"Well we got married in July of 1970, only a few weeks after high school, and just before I got called up in the draft." Ozpin said.
"Well okay, so I was seven at the time. You never mentioned you did a tour in Vietnam though. Any reason for that one?" Mina said.
"It's not a story worth telling, I did my two years in the jungle and came home without ever looking back." Ozpin said. "Honestly I choose not to think often of that time, except to be thankful that we don't live in times like those now."
"Sorry for bringing it up." Mina said with a slight frown.
"Not at all." Alan said waving it off. "So when I got back home I started college to become a teacher. While also trying to support my wife with a part time job. We struggled quite a bit during that time but I'd like to think we were happy.." Alan said with a shrug.
"So i'm not hearing what ended your marriage." Mina said as she fidgeted with her hands
"Well I'll skip to that part then" Ozpin said as he took another sip of his wineglass. "I could say easily say we drifted apart. But the truth is we had strong differences when it came to children."
"R-Really?" Mina said with a waiver in her voice.
"Well, I wanted children for most of my life. It had been a life dream of mine that I had given up on to have a child someday." Alan swirled his glass as his tone turned bitter "Salem saw to it that we never had a chance to have a child."
"What happened?" Mina said as her nerves calmed down quite a bit.
"She hid a pregnancy from me, I didn't learn about it until after she terminated it. I never even got a say in what would have been my child." Ozpin said. "After that, I made it clear that I wanted her out of my life... I had not heard anything from her since the divorce. That was until a few months ago when crippled one of my students and also almost murdered my girlfriends son."
"So do you still want kids?" Mina asked with a hopeful tone.
Ozpin smiled "I think it would be something I would want someday. But I'm far too old now to have kids." Ozpin said "Actually I was asking about your late husband for a reason of course. I wanted to talk to you about something."
"Alan... I need to get something off my chest first, and I think I feel a lot better about this now." Mina said as she slipped a hand into her purse and fingered the cloth covered pregnancy test.
She didn't notice Ozpin slip a hand into a pocket for a second. "Alan... Uh..." Mina said as she pulled out the clothed wrapped test and placed it in his hand. "I don't think your going to have to wait nearly as long as you think to get your wish."
Alan's eyes got wide as he looked at the object in his hand. "Mina is this..." Ozpin's hands shook as he unwrapped it and saw the small pink plus on the test. "Mina, your pregnant?" he stammered out with a look of pure shock and joy on his face.
Mina's eyes teared up and couldn't get the words out as she nodded yes to Alan. Ozpin smiled the biggest smile he ever had smiled in his life. "I... I have to be honest I don't have the words to express how much joy I feel right now."
"Well I'm just kinda glad your not dumping me right now to be honest." Mina said with a relieved giggle as the pent of stress fell off of her.
Alan shook his head "Actually... I guess this is the best time to ask this as I'm going to get..." Ozpin said as he stood up and walked next to her before he took a knee and slipped a hand into his pocket.
Mina blinked for a second before she realized what was happening "Oh my god, is he really doing this right now? Do I say yes or what? Think Mina think! I got like five seconds to make a decision here!"
"Mina, I know we haven't been together long, and honestly, I think now more than anything I know I'm making the right choice here... so if you don't mind me asking you." Ozpin pulled a small box out of his pocket and opened it up to reveal a simple engagement ring. "Will you marry me?"
Mina felt the tears well up in her eyes as she emotion of the whole day came crashing down on her. "Your god damn idiot Alan" She said with a smile. She finished her thought by almost shouting "Do you really think I was going to say anything but yes?" as she threw her arms around him ignoring all the looks they were receiving from the crowd around them.
It was later in the evening when Mina arrived home, she decided the not have the conversation with Jaune about both her engagement to Ozpin and her pregnancy with him present. She is going to drop a pair of major life changes on the poor boy in one sitting after all.
Jaune and Ruby sat on the couch looking at her while she spoke to her son As she spoke she also signed for Ruby's benefit.
"Jaune... " Mins said before pausing. "I got a couple bits of news I need to talk to you about buddy."
[Well spit it out mom.] Jaune signed at her with a nervous shake in his leg.
Mina looked at the concerned look on the faces of the pair of young lovebirds sitting in front of him. "Well first off, Alan asked me to marry him tonight." she held out the ring on her finger "I said yes to that."
Ruby looked frantically and excitedly between Jaune and Mina practically bouncing in her seat signing [Oh wow congratulations! I'm so happy for you and Ozpin!]
Jaune just smiled and nodded in approval before giving her a thumbs up, honestly feeling a bit overwhelmed by the news.
[What's the second thing you wanted to talk about] Ruby signed eagerly.
"That's a bit more of a thing, I mean marrying Alan won't change that much... but..." Mina paused "How do I put this one. Jaune... your going to be an older brother in a few months."
Jaune's eyes shot wide at that news. Even Ruby's face turned red at the realization. Neither of them said anything to it for a few moments before he answered [Good lord I can't leave you alone for ten minutes.] He said with a smile.
"So your okay with this?" Mina asked.
[Well, I mean it'll take some getting used to. But I honestly can't wait to meet this baby now.] Jaune said as he wiped his eyes. [I'll try to be the best brother I can be okay!?]
Ruby hugged her boyfriend as Mina joined them for a group hug. "It's going to be okay, Our little family just ain't going to be so little now is all."
They all stayed like that for a while before Tai finally arrived to collect Ruby for the night.
Well here's the long awaited answer to the question about Mina possible pregnancy! I hope this was the answer you all wanted to see. Honestly since all the questions in the comments from last chapter were either about this one burning question or Ruby Rose Arc gushing about the Lancaster that we all know and crave here. I don't have much to field in this AN block. So I'll leave at this and just say thanks again for reading, and I hope you enjoy Mina and Ozpin's arc as it unfolds from here. See you all next time.
