Hmm. Been a while. A LONG while. Mostly because your gross and problematic comments about my OTP last chapter which just left a really bitter taste in my mouth. Y'all just could not wait for Desmond and Lucy to break up and frankly, it was disgusting reading how excited y'all were my OTP 'hated' each other and weren't together anymore. Stop with the problematic, toxic, patriarchal viewpoint and actually read what's written as it's written and hyperfocus on something else jfc. AND I don't want a bunch of your groveling apologizes in the comments either. Cause I don't wanna read the excuses. I'll just be deleting comments that are nothing but a long apology. Don't say sorry, just don't keep doing it cause it's really pretty disgusting and I've really had e-fucking-nough of it. Desmond and Lucy love each other: end of the story idk why I need to spell this out for you.
ANYWAY
I like Jacob. He deserves better than what he's got to do to help the world not suck so much lols
2020, Atlantis, Atlantis
It didn't surprise the humans how quickly humanity was able to bounce back from a tragedy. It did surprise the proeathans. It had only been a few years but already there were a ton of people on Atlantis and they were doing what people did best after a stressful situation; fuck. Which led to a lot of new little babies that had Jacob quietly losing his mind.
Funnily enough, Jacob was one of the better human doctors left. A lot of the real ones had been killed outright by the proeathans or hadn't survived the winters or still hadn't made it to Atlantis yet. Jacob had a lot of, practical, medical training. He'd never taken a single class in it and even when he'd gotten his degree the prospect of premed was daunting to say the least. He'd considered it briefly because one of his moms was a nurse but really he wasn't into it. Hawk had thought it a good idea to Bleed train him for medicine and healing and now he had a lot of knowledge about medicine and how to treat people and how to look at people to see what needed to be helped with them.
There were proeathan doctors of course but it had only been a few years. There was still a lot to forgive and no matter how fantastical proeathan healing was humans didn't want anything to do with proeathan doctors. So the humans with any sort of medical knowledge had been shoe horned into being doctors and nurses for the entirety of the human population on Atlantis that was growing bigger and bigger every day.
And that was how Jacob found himself being a part time pediatric doctor to a bunch of pregnant ladies. The rest of the time he acted as a head surgeon since he was one of the few who could do it and would actually use proeathan procedures or instruments that were better at saving lives than just cutting someone open and sewing them back up. He was in his office, hating everything about his life, and going over files on some new patients. They were just humans who'd been brought over by numia from the east coast of America and needed to be checked out for diseases and given any vaccines or medical attention. He was given five new patients. They were all pregnant because Jacob was that guy who got those patients because the other doctors didn't like being pediatrics either.
Jacob officially hated being a doctor. When things caught up or humans were more okay with proeathan doctors or actual human doctors showed up on the shores of Atlantis he was never wearing the white coat again. Ever. He wanted to go back to working in food. Or a barista like the last job he'd held while mortal. He'd liked that job.
He immediately started day dreaming about opening a coffee shop and not focusing on the files he was supposed to be reading. He'd wanted to do that before the end of the world and now maybe he could? Sure the end of the world thing sucked but people liked coffee shops.
Stop thinking about things you shouldn't be focused on, Malik said. I'm taking a break, leave me alone. You're on call. I'm always on call, and Jacob sighed aloud. You're need to focus.
"I just wanna drink a latte or something," Jacob groaned and slouched in his chair.
"Tough shit," he really hated when Malik used his mouth while he was driving without asking. "This is my body too," he reminded Jacob.
"I'm sharing this body. It ain't yours," Jacob huffed. He got up from his desk. Jacob, where are you going? You have work to do still! Malik tried to drag his feet but it was still Jacob's body. I'm done for the day unless someone needs an operation, Jacob said and shrugged a little. You're so irresponsible! Well one of us has to make sure we have fun, Jacob said. Malik said nothing, he just sulked. Jacob let him sulk.
Jacob hung up his coat and put on a different shirt before he left the hospital. It was a big building next to the largest building in Atlantis and probably the third or so most important. Of course, nothing was bigger than the Embrace, Desmond had made sure of it. He walked down the block to the park that sat in the arms of the Embrace. There were kids down here, playing. Kids from the plantations they'd saved. They were eight or so now and were under the watchful eye of a dozen adults. Jacob stopped and watched them run across the big field dotted with perfect trees and manicured grass. He didn't know how but Desmond had made the park within the Embrace forever perfect. The trees never lost their leaves, the grass never became worn, even the sunlight didn't seem as intense inside the park. Of course, he'd stopped trying to figure out how Desmond did stuff a long time ago.
They're cute, Malik said casually. Yeah, Jacob agreed.
A good chunk of the plantation kids had been adopted. Mostly by parents who'd lost their children during the Dark Age. But there were still so many that needed to be taken in. The ones who weren't were given places to live and be taught within the Embrace by holograms. Ones who were lived with their new families and got to go to the handful of schools around Atlantis.
He glanced up when several of the kids stopped what they were doing and pointed up at the sky. It was a numia coming in low over the Embrace and dropped down lightly on top of the building. That looks like Tommy's numia, Malik said mildly. What? Jacob hadn't been paying too close attention to it and focused on it a bit more. It had that white stripe on the nose- that's what I thought, and Malik laughed at him when Jacob made a b-line across the park to the Embrace.
Inside it was sleek and modern but not tacky and he impatiently called a lift, jamming his finger into the button a couple of times. Calm down, Malik laughed. Nah, I'm good staying excited here thanks, Jacob said. Finally, the lift came and Jacob dialed it up to Desmond's floor, the top floor. He put the code in needed to access that floor and the lift rose quickly while Jacob tapped his toe on the floor.
Just like he knew he found the twins right outside Desmond's door, talking. When the lift opened Desmond looked at his watch. "That took you four minutes," he said idly.
"You're getting slow, babe," Tommy smirked.
"I had to go across the park avoiding all the little munchkins in the way," Jacob complained. He felt Malik sort of click off in his brain. He wasn't annoyed by Jacob's 'betrayal' anymore but he also didn't like Tommy like that. Mainly because Malik couldn't separate Altair as Desmond's father figure and he got all grossed out kissing his old as ball's boyfriend's 'son'. So now he just went to sleep unless Jacob needed him, like at work, or when he had to break up a fight, or he was tired of getting his ass handed to him in some physical activity.
"You know if you just let us see what sort of ability you have it might elevate that," Tommy said.
"Yeah I-
"Got enough going on in your brain. Yeah, we know," Desmond completed for him with a roll of his eyes. "Doesn't mean you aren't stubborn as hell."
"Yeah but that's part of my charm," Jacob said with a grin and Desmond looked away with a roll of his eyes when Jacob finally kissed Tommy. "What's that?" he looked down, Tommy was holding a big burrito.
"Oh, yeah, you don't ever read the missives Des sends you so you wouldn't know," Tommy said.
"I have so much reading to do already," Jacob whined. "You think I wanna read his crap too?" he jerked his thumb at Desmond who snickered.
"There was an incident with the people we picked up," Tommy frowned. "Long story short, I got kinda stuck with this," and he moved his arm to show Jacob the front of the burrito.
"Why do you have a baby?" Jacob demanded.
"I told you-
"Yeah but that doesn't explain shit," Jacob was not happy about this. He was already up to his eyeballs with babies, especially with the new cases he just got. He didn't need any more babies in his life to deal with.
Tommy rolled his eyes. "Fine. I'll explain downstairs. I just need to finish up with Des and I'll meet you down there."
"You knew about this?" he demanded of Desmond.
"Uh, yeah bro and if you read my messages you would have known too," Desmond wasn't impressed. "Shoo, this isn't your jurisdiction."
Grumbling, Jacob went back to the lift and took it down a few floors to where he and Tommy lived. It had a thumb lock like the rooms back in Demeter did and it opened right up for him. He flopped down on their couch and waited. He didn't have to wait long and wasn't thrilled Tommy still had the baby. "Don't look like that or your face is gonna get stuck like that," Tommy said to his deep frown. That was one thing Jacob wasn't so happy about because of sharing a body with Malik, he was able to frown… better. Probably not a good thing. Tommy just rolled his eyes when Jacob's face didn't change and he sat down in the arm chair.
"Why do you have a baby?" Jacob asked again.
"So… Hmm, how do I put this?" he paused and looked thoughtful. "Right, I'm an empathetic human being who felt bad for a baby and now I like them."
"The fuck?" Jacob sort of sputtered. "That, once again, explains nothing."
"Well, so we went to the west coast and found some people there. There was one lady who was really pregnant. Like ready to pop any moment. And you know how we stay out there for a week after a broadcast is sent out so anyone else nearby has a chance to show up. Well while we were waiting she had the baby."
"And why do you have some lady's baby?"
"Well, did you look at him?" and Tommy showed them to him again. It wasn't that Jacob didn't like babies. He just didn't want to deal with them. He already had to monitor the health of several hundred of them, not to mention all the plantation kids still needed pediatric care too and that was his wheel house too. They were mixed race by the looks of it. Asian and black from what Jacob could see by the shape of their closed eyes and darker skin.
"Okay? You said there was an incident?"
"Lady who had the baby was with a black guy. She wasn't Asian," Tommy grimaced and Jacob sort of saw where this was going. "Her boyfriend? found out she was having sex with another guy," and Jacob still thought it was super cute Tommy's ears turned pink even mentioning anything about sex. Not in a childish way but just he was 'young' and awkward about it still. Jacob thought it was adorable as hell. "Got real mad and attacked the Asian guy with a knife. Lady tried to break them up but ended up getting stabbed. Black guy was so mad he killed the guy for 'making him do that' and then killed himself. We didn't find out about it until nearly sunrise because the baby started crying."
"What the fuck?" Jacob rubbed his forehead with a sigh. "I thought Desmond helped everyone be nicer to each other, what the fuck?"
"Yeah," Tommy nodded but was frowning. "But love makes you do crazy things. So now… baby," he gave them a little squeeze in their swaddling.
"You're not keeping it are you?"
"They're a he, Jacob, not an it," Tommy scowled at him. "And… yeah, I guess? He's grown on me," he looked down at the sleeping baby with a smile Jacob had never seen before on him. He knew immediately that there was no way he'd convince Tommy otherwise about this without a big fight and maybe a break up. Jacob had spent a long time helping Tommy figure out being a human being with 'amnesia' and he was invested and didn't want that. He knew it'd end up with him being the asshole in this situation too and he couldn't take Desmond, Tommy, Lucy, and Altair all giving him dirty looks for saying he didn't want to adopt a baby who had already gone through some shit. Tommy was already attached and Jacob didn't want to be that asshole. He wasn't even sure he could be even if he wanted to.
Jacob just sighed deeply and used his hand to hold up his head. "So… I'm guessing you wanna keep him?" Tommy just gave him some flirty eyes that was like a shot to the gut. God damn, he hated the twins for both being able to do that effortlessly. It was just unfair! And Desmond did it to him too which was extra bullshit. He'd complained to Lucy about it and she just went 'that's rough buddy, when he does that to me I just fuck him' which wasn't helpful at all. Jacob thumped back against the couch and folded his arms. "Does he have a name?" he was being moody but he didn't care.
"I didn't catch it," Tommy admitted. "I was mostly dealing with the amplifier for most of our stay and not interacting with the humans then next thing any of us knew there was just a orphan baby. I suggested we wait until he was taken by someone so they could name him," he gave Jacob a significant look.
"Tom, I don't-" he sighed. "Why are you like this?" he asked.
"Because I'm a nice boy, like you always tell me," he said with a cute smile.
"You're a little devil is what you are," Jacob said and that made Tommy laugh. "Well, if nothing else my moms would have been thrilled I'm adopted a mixed race baby with another dude." Tommy laughed again which woke the infant and Tommy tried to shush them but they just started crying. Tommy looked immediately out of his depth.
With another sigh, Jacob heaved himself up from the couch and went over to the armchair and took the infant out of Tommy's arm. He gave their skin the gentlest pinch and saw they were probably a bit dehydrated from how the skin didn't instantly bounce back and if they were thirsty they were probably hungry. "Cmon, we need to get down to the nursery and get him some food, he's hungry," Jacob said and gave Tommy's boot a nudge with his shoe. Tommy beamed and got up from the chair. "Did you tell Desmond about what happened?"
"Yeah. He's pretty upset," Tommy frowned. "I'm sure having a nephew will cheer him up," he added with one of his cheesy grins Jacob couldn't help but find endearing.
"You're so lucky you're cute, you know that?" Jacob asked. "Food first and then… the rest. Fucking god damnit," he muttered to himself in Arabic at the end. So not how he expected to have a kid but plenty of people didn't expect kids either. "Let's go," and he motioned for Tommy to follow him to the lift so they could take their new blubbering son to get a bottle in his mouth.
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