Steven had never felt so busy in all his life until he became a stay at home dad. Constantly looking after his little daughter's needs, waiting for his wife to get home so they could have family time with their baby, it was all so perfect to him. He and Connie were overjoyed with their bundle of joy, as was everyone else.

Garnet had been the first to hold Stevie when they introduced her to the Crystal Gems, much to Pearl's annoyance.

The tall gem smiled down at the baby in her arms, who was only two weeks old and very fragile. "She's very healthy and strong. You two did a good job making her."

The parents blushed profusely at that, watching Garnet carefully hand the baby over to Pearl, who was waiting anxiously.

"Oh look at her...she looks so much like you, Steven...so tiny and precious…" She cradled Stevie close, nuzzling her gently.

Steven smiled at the sight. "You look like a true grandma, Pearl."

"A grandma? I suppose she is my granddaughter, isn't she...sweet little Stevie Constan-"

"It's my turn!" Amethyst made grabby hands, becoming impatient. Pearl gave her a frown, reluctantly setting her in Amethyst's arms.

"Fine, but be caref-"

"Hiiiiii Stevie!" Amethyst immediately swung the baby around slightly, tickling her and tossing her in the air a bit, making the new parents worried and on edge immediately, but especially Pearl.

"Amethyst! Put her down this instant and hold her properly!"

The purple gem decided to cool it after seeing Steven and Connie's worried faces, cradling her properly. "Sorry...she's just so cute. I used to do that when you were a baby, Steven."

"Amethyst she's only two weeks old...you can do that stuff when she's older, like three or four months...but for right now please just hold her the right way…"

Introducing her to Peridot, Lapis, and Bismuth had been interesting. Peridot was the only one who wanted to hold the baby, although Steven managed to convince Lapis and Bismuth to at least hold his tiny child. They'd all gathered at the barn for the meeting place, where Peridot and Lapis now lived together as life partners non-romantically.

"She's...cute." Lapis commented, smiling at the baby in her arms. She was still afraid of hurting Steven's tiny offspring, but if he trusted her…

"You're doing fine, Lapis. I promise. You're holding her just like Peridot did."

Peridot smiled at her partner as she held the baby. "See? I told you this would all be okay." She turned to Steven, chuckling. "We took turns holding Pumpkin to prepare for this."

Steven laughed. "I'm so happy you guys love her. You and Lapis are like her aunts since I see you as like my sisters, and Bismuth since you're dating Pearl I guess that makes you an honorary grandma."

Bismuth smiled and nervously took Stevie from Lapis. "She's so small...I've never seen a human this small before. Except from a distance."

"Well...someday she'll be as big as me. Maybe even taller if she turns out like Connie." Steven chuckled at his own joke, but in his head he wanted his baby to stay tiny forever.

"She really is something, Steven...and I'm going to protect her with my life." Bismuth smiled at Stevie. "You hear that, little Stevie? You're protected by the one and only Bismuth of the Crystal Gems."

"And the Peridot!"

"And the Lapis!"

Steven smiled at his gem family already loving his little girl as much as him. This was everything he could ever want and hope for...his own child being loved unconditionally by the gems that raised him and the ones he befriended and made into his family. He knew his daughter was safe in their hands, and that one day she would be old enough to understand the history and properly interact with them. For now though, he was perfectly fine if she wanted to stay a baby forever…

…

"STEVEN!"

Steven jumped up immediately from the couch, panic in his eyes as he rushed to his wife who had screamed upstairs for him. He saw her looking all over the nursery frantically, and only then did he notice the empty crib.

"S-stevie?!"

Both parents were immediately in a frantic panicked search all over the nursery. Stevie was too young to crawl and get out of her crib by herself! What if she'd been kidnapped by a rogue gem? Or she had fallen out of the crib? They searched the room to no avail, running all over the house.

As Steven ran down to the couple's bedroom, he opened the door and all the panic vanished immediately, making him take a few big breaths to calm himself before calling for his wife.

"Connie...Connie, babe, it's alright, come here." He heard her frantic footsteps, and she too breathed in relief and the panic vanished at the sight in front of her.

Lion was curled up in his big pink pet bed like usual, but curled up safe and sound in his paws was Stevie, fast asleep in the lion's soft fluffy fur.

Connie leaned against Steven at the cute sight as her husband pulled out his phone and took a picture. "He must have taken her from her crib...that darn cat. He scared us…"

"Yeah we'll have to teach him that it's definitely not okay to remove our baby when she's trying to sleep...but that's so cute that I can't stay mad at him…"

They gently awoke Lion, who allowed them to take Stevie back to her crib and keep her sleeping, but they had absolutely no problems with moving Lion's pet bed into Stevie's room so at least he could cuddle the little baby without any hassle or worry about scaring her parents half to death again.

"That's so cute…" Connie cooed at the sight.

"You know who's also cute? You." Steven kissed his wife's cheek, making her blush.

"Oh you, stop that." She giggled.

"Soooo...now that we're alone…"

"Sounds good to me…"

…

Stevie was only a year old when Connie and Steven found themselves at the hospital, being looked at by Connie's mother Priyanka.

"I don't know what's wrong with me, Mom. I've been feeling sick for two weeks now and I don't think it's anything life threatening but Steven insisted I come see you at the two week mark."

Priyanka looked over her daughter's symptoms on the chart, a certain result rolling around in her head the most. Nausea, swollen feet, headaches, feeling dizzy, they all pointed to one thing.

"Well honey I'm going to tell you what I think it is and then we'll run a test. If you two want my honest opinion, I think you're pregnant, Connie."

"Pregnant? A-are you sure, Mom? Steven and I have been careful…"

Priyanka listened to her daughter's heartbeat. "It's extremely easy to get pregnant again during the first year of the body's recovery of a woman's first birth. Even the couples who are as careful as can be sometimes end up expecting another baby because of one teeny slip-up. But we won't know until we test you for it."

She took a small sample of her daughter's blood and left the room to test it in the lab, leaving the shocked couple alone.

Steven was the first to speak. "A-another baby…?"

"Are you upset…?"

"Upset? Connie why in the world would I ever be upset about that? Having another child with you sounds amazing…"

"But Stevie is so young...we're so young...are you sure you won't have your hands full…?"

"Babe, listen to me." He held her hand and squeezed it. "Raising Stevie...has made me feel like I have a purpose again. For the first time in my life it feels like I'm doing what I'm supposed to do and I haven't been happier...and if giving our first child all our love and me spending all my time raising her gives me such a sense of purpose and pure joy...adding another child to that equation will only double my happiness...and not just with the baby, with you…"

Connie smiled lovingly at her husband, kissing his cheek. "Yeah...you're right. Having another baby would be really wonderful…"

Priyanka returned a few minutes later. "The test results are back. You are definitely pregnant."

Steven squeezed his wife's hand and the couple smiled at each other with pure love. They were about to bring a second baby into their lives...and if having the first one brought so much joy, this one would only double that love…

…

Connie's second pregnancy was rough. She suffered severe morning sickness to the point she couldn't even go to work for several days, and she constantly felt ill with this child. But it didn't falter her happiness for the second baby, it only made her nervous there was something wrong. Steven took her for regular visits to the doctor to make sure his wife was alright, and everything always came up fine. This baby was just doing a number on Connie's body unlike Stevie.

The most exciting part of Connie's pregnancy was definitely the baby shower. It was even bigger than her first baby shower with Stevie because everyone was aware of how rough this pregnancy had been for Connie. They planned out party games, invited nearly everyone in Beach City, and everyone absolutely piled Connie with gifts this time around. Steven spent the whole day making sure that everything was perfect, just wanting his wife to enjoy herself which thankfully she did very much. When it came time for the gender reveal cake, Steven let Connie cut it herself this time, filming on his phone instead.

"Ok babe, go for it!"

Connie sliced the knife down into the cake, getting a piece. To her joy, she saw the blue cake inside. "It's a boy!"

Everyone cheered loudly, clapping and whooping and hollering. A boy! The Maheswaran-Universes were going to have one of each baby!

As everyone congratulated them, Steven rubbed his wife's shoulders as she held Stevie and carried her around greeting everyone who came to the shower. As they got to Greg, Steven ran up to give his dad a huge hug.

"Dad! I'm so happy to see you!" It had been many months since Steven had seen his father, as he had been managing Sadie and Shep's farewell tour after the birth of their daughter, Krystal, wanting to settle down together away from touring while still making music at home.

"Schtu-ball! It's so good to see you!" Greg squeezed his son tight, giving Connie a soft hug while being careful of her belly. "A boy! That's so great, son, I'm so happy for you two!"

Connie smiled at her father-in-law, bouncing Stevie in her arms. "We're completely elated, that's for sure. It's so great to see you, Greg."

Steven was rambling excitedly, so Connie stepped in to take over for her hyper husband. "We wanted to tell you the name we picked out for a boy first since Steven was really hoping for a boy this time around."

Greg gave them a worried look. "Oh please tell me you don't want to name the kid Greg."

Steven shook his head. "Nope. Something even better. Comet Gregory Maheswaran-Universe. We want to name him Comet after the song you were playing when you met Mom...without that song I wouldn't even exist. And of course if we give him the song's name, we have to give him the singer's name too."

Greg began to tear up at both the memory and the sentiment of the name. "Oh schtu-ball...that's so sweet. I can't believe you'd do that, that's...that's so amazing…"

"We love you, Dad." He wrapped up his father in another hug, Connie joining with one hand and Stevie stretching her little arms over too to try and hug. It was a sweet moment, and it only made everyone even more excited to meet the second Maheswaran-Universe, little Comet.

Greg chuckled. "That kid is gonna be out of this world."

…

During Connie's labor on April 9th she suffered quite the horrible painful kicks, as if the baby was getting impatient and wanted out. She was two weeks early, but Priyanka assured the frantic couple that the baby would be just fine most likely. She delivered her grandson personally this time, as she had been out of town on conference when Stevie had been born. Connie had definitely felt more comfortable with this, but somehow this birth had hurt even worse than the last. But in the end...it had all been worth it.

Connie was the first to cradle the wailing boy in her arms, stroking her newborn son's head to calm him. "Hey there little one...it's okay my little love, there's no need to cry. You're safe with me now…"

Steven watched with love as Connie calmed their son, tears in his eyes as he stayed by her side. Their son was beautiful...with slightly darker skin like his mother but his father's fluffy dark brown almost black hair and a dash of freckles at 8.3 lbs and 20 inches long...he was perfect. Truly out of this world.

As Priyanka wrote down his name for the birth certificate she smiled with pride at her daughter and the little family she had created. How was it possible that only 22 years ago she had been the one in a hospital bed cradling her newborn daughter?

Steven nuzzled his nose with Connie's. "Can I hold him…?"

"Of course you can...he's your son."

Steven held his son close for the first time ever, smiling down at him. "Hey buddy...it's Daddy. You don't know me very well yet but someday we're going to be the best of friends...and your mommy and daddy love you forever, buddy...we always will…"

"That's right…" Connie chipped in tiredly, the biggest tearful smile on her face. "You and your big sister are our entire lives...and you two always will be…"

As the two admired their newborn child, they thought about just how lucky they were to have such a beautiful family. A daughter and a son...and who knows how many more. The two were on their way to having a large family, especially with the happiness their family brought to each other and how Steven finally had a purpose to care for his children and wife. Perhaps someday they would have a whole brood of 4-6 children, which is what Steven hoped for most.

...if only he knew what was in store for him and his wife in the next two years.

...

Meet Comet! The secondborn of Steven and Connie. I hope you guys are all enjoying this so far and please, leave a review so I know I'm doing alright! I'll try and have the next chapter up by this weekend and all I can say is...bring your tissues. It's gonna get sad.

- Rosewater