Sooo just like the first one I rewrote this like four or five times going back and forth with whether doing a classmate thing or try writing out my frat boy!Shiro idea, but yeah those didn't work. Then my sister told me that I was going to be an aunt and BAM! INSPIRATION! But then I got a cold and started my rounds of family Christmas's and just now got to write it... Anyway, I still have my cold so that's why it's so short and I'm really sorry about that. But, I really hope you like it!

"Alright gentlemen, everything looks in order. Just give me a few minutes and I'll be right back. And again congratulations."

The woman left them alone in the room. The ticking from the clock on the was becoming deafening and the anticipation was killing them.

Adam and Shiro were both sitting next to each other in a waiting room that had toys and other brightly colored things scattered all over the place. Adam was seated back in his seat; his ankle resting on his knee and rested his head against the wall as he counted the taunting ticks. Shiro on the other was the image of stress. He was bent forward with his elbows on his knees and bouncing one of his feet, his shoulders tensing with every tick he hears.

The sudden touch on his back made Shiro jump and snap his head up. Adam started scratching his back between his shoulder blades, not seeming to be surprised by Shiro's reaction.

"Calm down Takashi," Adam said calmly while still silently counting the ticks from the clock.

"She's been gone forever. What if something went wrong? What if she doesn't want to see us?"

"Takashi," Adam breathed out as a way to calm his husband. "The caseworker's only been gone for three minutes. She has to file our paperwork first and then she'll come back. Don't worry."

"But I am worrying." Shiro sat and turned in his seat to face Adam. "What if something happens? We've been trying to make this happen for years and it just seems a little too good to be true that nothing has gone wrong yet."

"That's because it's finally going to happen this time."

Adam reached over to grab Shiro's left hand and started playing the gold band around his finger.

Adam chuckled to himself. "I'm actually surprised that you're nervous about this. I would've thought that I would be the nervous wreck since you've had experience with all this with practically raising Keith."

"Wait, you're not nervous?"

"I'm terrified."

Adam terrified, now that was a first for Shiro. He was usually the rock in the relationship who would always rationalized everything whenever Shiro started to stress.

"I've never done something like this before. I'm scared that even with all our planning something is going to go wrong. But I'm ready for when that happens and know that we're just going to have to roll with it and see what tomorrow brings. Kind of like how I felt when we got married." Adam looked at the ring around Shiro's finger and continued to spin it around his finger to help distract him from his own worries. "I wasn't sure that we were going to be allowed to make it official, hell I wasn't even sure if we would be able to find a venue and everything to make the ceremony happen. But we did and it all worked out and here we are starting our next chapter together."

Shiro looked at him, his eyes and shoulders seeming to soften. Then his true fears started to creep to the front of his mind and he started to worry again.

"What if I scare her?"

Even though he wore a prosthetic most of the time, Shiro still saw the looks he got when passing observant people on the street. It had been three years since his accident and being medically discharged from the military and he was finally able to say that his missing arm didn't bother him anymore, but that was until he saw that it made others look at him differently. Those times would make him self-confidence.

Adam cupped the back of Shiro's neck and pulled him forward so that their foreheads could touch.

"You're not going to scare her. She's going to see you as someone with so much love to give and give that love right back."

Shiro took a deep breath and tried to settle himself and his fears.

"I love you Adam. What would I do without you?"

Adam chuckled softly to himself. "You would worry yourself to death." He then gave Shiro a quick peck on his forehead. "We got this and as long as we're together we can do anything."

The click from the door knob snapped the two apart.

"Are you two ready to meet your new addition?" The caseworker that they had spoken with before and had left them for what felt like forever asked as she poked her head through the door.

Both Adam and Shiro stood up from their seats, Adam still holding on to Shiro's hand and squeezing it for dear life now, showing his nerves a bit so that Shiro wouldn't feel so alone.

The woman opened the door all the way and walked back into the waiting room. Behind her walked in another woman in scrub like clothing and carrying a small infant, about 1-year-old give or take, on her hip. The child had big green eyes and thin curly brown hair that was tied up in pigtails. Her cheeks were rosy red, and her eyes were puffy, a sign that she had been recently crying. She was wearing a pair of black leggings with white polka-dots on them and a red t-shirt. She rested her head on the caretaker's shoulder and just looked around the room while chewing on her fingers to help calm herself down.

"Adam, Shiro, meet your daughter. Emma Shirogane-Ward."

They were speechless. The woman had called the child their daughter. Their daughter. Their daughter! After years of trying to get approval from numerous adoption agencies, they were finally parents. Their clasp hands were basically going numb at this point from both squeezing each other's hand so hard.

The caretaker stepped closer and bounced Emma lightly in her arms so that she would pick up her head. "She just woke up so she's a little clingy right now. Do either of you want to hold her?"

She instantly looked over at Shiro and motioned for him to take Emma out of her arms.

"Oh! I uh, I don't know if I should," Shiro panicked. He really didn't want to upset her. Or scare her with his prosthetic. "I don't want to rush her."

"Nonsense. We played the videos you sent us for her every day. She knows you two."

The care taker then pulled the infant off her hip and held her out for Shiro, basically not giving him a choice to not grab her. Shiro took his daughter form the caretaker and instinctively let her sit on his good arm and braced her with his prosthetic hand. She looked at him for what felt like forever, it was the first time that a child's stare terrified Shiro to his bone. She then turned around to see what was touching her back, and then pulled Shiro's prosthetic hand off her to look at hit. The plastic and metal combination were cold and foreign to her and Shiro started to worry that she wouldn't like it. In an instant, his suspicions were cut when Emma grabbed at one of the fingers of the prosthetic, put her fingers back in her mouth, and laid her head on Shiro's shoulder so she could go back to sleep.

A hand lightly squeezed Shiro's shoulder and he looked over at Adam.

"Told you she wouldn't be scared." He then kissed Shiro's cheek and then their daughters head.

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