Ian's face was smashed into Mickey's chest collecting sweat when he woke up the next morning. They had stayed up a little past their bedtime cuddling, laughing, drinking non-alcoholic beer, listening to The Smiths ("I fuckin' love this, man." Mickey had proclaimed high on exhaustion. "Mick, you know that Morrissey has been known to have relations with both men and women and be an asexual?" Ian said as he smirked. "You gotta be shittin' me. Damn. He was pretty hot back in the 80s, not as hot as you of course." Mickey said as he kissed Ian's cheek. "I know." Ian said as he drove his hands into Mickey's hair.), and celebrating Mickey's acceptance into college. Even Yev had celebrated by giving them an almost full night a sleep finally.
Ian looked at the clock, it was nearing six o'clock, and Mickey was still out cold next to him.
Ian had the late shift at work that night (it would be his first night back at work since Yev had been born) meaning that he would eat dinner and help with Yev and then have to leave to save people's lives. He was probably going to have to take more late shifts now so that he could have time with Yev. It would probably be a combo of two days of night duty and two days of day duty a week. The pay would be good still and Mickey would still do his odd jobs around the apartment building, fixing broken things for a decrease in what they owed in rent, and sometimes (most times) a rather decent tip from the apartments tenant.
Ian slowly got up from the bed and threw on a shirt and went to go relieve himself in the restroom.
After relieving himself headed into the nursery where his son was wide awake with his face all scrunched up and he was practically choking his dinosaur lovey {A.N.: a lovey is a stuffed animal head that has a blanket attached at the end. I will attach a photo in the end notes.} while violently jerking his arm up and down making the rattle in the head go crazy.
Ian chuckled, "You are definitely a Milkovich." Yev smiled as Ian picked him up, "Time to change you."
Ian rested the small child on the changing table and changed him as the baby rattled choked the dinosaur while cooing in utter joy. Ian re-snapped his "I'm a tough guy" onesie as Yev cooed and then brought the three month old to his shoulder. "Shall we go wake, Daddy?"
Yev smiled at the word daddy, so Ian guessed that that was a good sign. Ian kissed his son's head and carried him to the master bedroom where Mickey was waking up.
"Good mornin', my boys." Mickey said as he ran his hand through his hair.
"Good morning. I woke up and went to our child and he was choking the dinosaur."
Mickey laughed, "What a Milkovich." He laid back down.
Ian slipped in next to him, "Hey, Mick?"
"Yeah, firecrotch?" Mickey asked as he closed his eyes, but turned to face his husband.
Ian put Yev between them, "I want to formally adopt Yev." He clutched Yev to his chest worried to hear Mickey's response.
Mickey's eyes opened and he smiled, "Really?" Ian nodded. "I think that it's potentially doable. We can talk to Svetlana next time she comes."
Ian smile beamed, "Okay. Sounds good. I just want to have ties to Yev."
Mickey nodded, "I understand that."
Yev cooed and choked his dinosaur as Mickey smoothed down the infants baby fine hair. Yev made a little squeal and Ian smiled and tickled his son, "Are you talkin', Yev? You talkin'?" Yev kicked his legs joyfully in response. Ian turned his attention to Mickey, "I work tonight, Mick".
"Till when?"
"Seven thirty till five thirty.
Ian said as he grabbed a pacifier from the bedside table.
"Jesus. That's gonna be like forever. I hope I can handle Yev by myself."
Ian pressed a kiss to the top of Mickey's head, "I wish I could stay home, but they gave me three months of paternity leave that was paid so long as I did some paperwork from home for the office. I gotta go back to my job now or else they won't hold it. I won't be working seven days a week, Mick." Ian said as he cupped Mickey's face in his hands. "And you won't be alone. If you need anything you can call Fi or Mandy or Lip or Deb or in an emergency me. It'll be okay. I promise."
Yev started to cry. "Someones hungry," Mickey said as he started getting out of bed to prep a bottle.
Yev was scooped up by Ian who clutched him close to his chest trying to calm him, "Yev, It'll be okay. Daddy's making you a bottle." He jostled the baby in his arms and tried to calm the crying infant.
Mickey returned with the bottle and gave Yev a quick feed.
"Mickey?"
"Yeah."
Ian played with his wedding ring, "We're going on a picnic today."
Thank you so much to LuckyShaz for suggesting the idea of the picnic. It'll come more into play in the next installment. I was very tempted to produce something for today though. I wrote this in the car XD (four hour drive to check out a new school).
