AN: Sorry been lacking muse for any stories so I haven't been writing much... but have been getting some muse so yay...
Also, I forgot to mention last chapter about the whole blood thing that aren has. She in my world is rh-negative. It means her blood type is different from most people and likely she will have a lot of miscarriages if she isn't careful and gets a shot as soon as she can when she gets pregnant to keep her blood from thinking the baby is foreign and kill it...its a real thing... I have the same issue to look forward to in my future...
"Oh I'm so excited!" Aren practically squealed wanting to jump up and down but she wasn't so sure that was good to do at six months pregnant. Currently the couple was back in London staying at Aren's family's house since everyone there wanted to see Aren after hearing she was pregnant. Though even at six months pregnant Aren still wasn't show too much but there was a subtle baby bump going on. Right now Aren's family was throwing a baby shower for Aren with friends and family. To make the party more fun they turned it into a gender reveal party to surprise most of the family and them as well. Adam, Aren's grandfather, was the only one who knew the gender and had set up the party and the whole gender reveal thing. Adam had actually been the one to suggest it when he heard that Aren was pregnant the day after Aren had told Cross so he had also attended the doctor appointment and the doctor had only told him the gender.
"I really need to smoke..." Cross groaned a little as he stood near his wife watching everyone socialize and bet on what gender the baby was and what they thought the baby should be named. Aren looked at her husband sympathetically. Cross had been trying to quit smoking since he found out Aren was pregnant but was struggling clearly since he had been smoking for so long.
"So go take a smoke break love... I won't hold it against you. There isn't much going on right..." Aren was cut off when suddenly there was a rather confused man she hadn't seen in a long time came into the room.
"Um...What's going on?" Aren's uncle Nea asked looking at all of his family and Aren's friends. Nea had been missing in a sense since Aren was about 14 years old. He had been venturing around the world without so much as writing a letter back to anyone so of course he knew nothing of what had transpired. Even if Cross had planned to take Aren up on her offer of going out to smoke he couldn't as his wife was very tightly gripping his sleeve. Well this seemed to be a very awkward situation even if Cross didn't know what was going on.
"Nea...if you had warned us you were finally coming home we would have warned you..." Adam said as he led Nea out of the room to talk with Nea rather displeased with his estranged son. Well there went Aren's baby shower for the most part...
"Who is that?" Cross asked as he and Aren sat down on a couch. Carefully Cross wrapped his arm around Aren's waist holding her close noting her rather somber mood.
"He's my uncle...He's been gone since I was 14...He left one day very shortly after my foster father died..." Aren explained softly as everyone else was trying to bring back the mood of the party. Of course everyone else but Cross had known who Nea was since they were family or Aren's friends since she was a child. After they party continued and Aren had opened all the gifts and found out the gender of the baby by the colored center of cup cakes. Aren was apparently going to have a baby girl but somehow Aren couldn't even be happy about it.
"Wait so you seriously mean to tell me that some Irish old man married and knocked up my niece!?" Nea demanded as he walked back to the room walking right up to Aren and Cross. Aren looked up at Nea rather worried but Cross simply glared up at Nea still holding Aren close.
"Uncle I don't really think you have much say in what has happened in my life. Be nice to Marian. He's my husband and father of m child... And I care deeply for him so leave him alone..." Aren said placing a hand on Cross' chest of course defending her dear husband who she had come to love. Link who was at the party partly to celebrate and to keep an eye on everything was inching his was closer sensing the hostility and was ready to defend Cross if he needed to. But Link took a step back when both his bosses, Cross and Aren, held up a hand a little to signal hi to either wait or back off.
"Mana didn't want this for you...He wanted you to have nothing to do with this side of the family work..." Nea's expression went from pissed to pained. Aren stood up so she was more eye level with her uncle.
"Mana is gone... I've gotten past that... I don't think he would really mind since I am happy and safe with Marian. My husband who I am very happy I agreed to marry would never let anything happen to me...or our baby. All Mana cared about was me being happy so I don't see the problem." Aren retorted as she placed a hand on her hand rather annoyed with her uncle who came back after so meany years acting all high and mighty. "And by the way... you're going to be having a great niece." Aren said before she walked away with Cross and Link who followed behind her.
"You kinda are a dick for showing up and ruining her baby shower... This was supposed to be a happy day for her..." Tyki said to Nea before he also opted to leave. Pretty much everyone left since they were all pretty mad at Nea since he had left and showed back up with no warning. Most of them had actually figured Nea was dead after all these years.
"I want to go home..." Aren said as she sat on her old bed upstairs. Cross was standing by the door inside the room as Link was standing outside the door in the hall guarding the room as his bosses talked. Even though Cross was his official boss who paid him he still had to listen to Aren since she was Cross' wife and had just as much power as Cross really and all of Cross' staff knew it. Not in a disrespectful manner of course but that Cross tended to treat Aren as an equal and let her actually take control over certain aspects of his business when he needed help. Though he never let her handle the illegal manners so she would stay out of trouble.
"So lets go then I guess?" Cross replied with a shrug. Really either way Cross didn't care what they did so long as that Aren was calm. Calm was important so that Aren was safe with the pregnancy.
"So help me pack." Aren retorted as she stood up and started packing her clothes. Of course Aren and Cross actually planned to stay for the rest of Aren's pregnancy but if Aren wanted to leave then they would leave. Though Cross would feel a little better if Aren stayed in London with her family and friends. Last month Aren had seemed rather down and was rather reclusive most of the time but since they had come back to London Aren had seemed happier and was going out more since she had friends and family here. Cross was worried that Aren still seemed to struggle with adjusting to her life in Ireland even though she had been there for about a year and hadn't really made friends other than Link...sort of...
Rather than argue with his pregnant wife about anything Cross simply started to pack as said pregnant wife had ordered. Lately Aren had been rather moody and it was hard to know if the wrong thing would turn her into basically a demon or make her cry for an hour straight. To be truth Cross preferred the demon over the crying since calming Aren when she was mad was easy while calming her when she was crying was impossible.
"Aren where are you going?" Adam asked as he saw Aren, Cross and Link heading for the door with their bags. He hadn't expected Aren't to flee the house just because Nea came back.
"Im going home with Marian... It doesn't feel right here... besides we still have work to do on the nursery before the baby is born." Aren said stopping in the door when her grandfather had called out to her.
"Aren please don't leave..." Adam almost begged but Aren really just wanted to go home to Ireland. Despite his efforts Adam couldn't convince Aren to stay so he just had to stand on the step and watch Aren leave with her husband and body guard.
"She's really mad isn't she...?" Nea asked watching over Adam's shoulder as Link drove away with Aren and Cross in the back seat.
"She's an emotional pregnant woman who's rude uncle just showed up after 8 years and tried to threaten her husband! You idiot! How exactly did you expect her to react!?" Adam snapped at Nea before pushing himself past Nea all the more annoyed with his son. This reunion was not going at all how Nea had planned. Well...he had expected them to be mad but he really hadn't expected to find that Aren had gotten married and pregnant.
When they finally made it home to Ireland Aren went straight up to their room deciding to go to sleep since it was late and Aren was exhausted from the busy day. After Cross tidied up some work he joined Aren in bed holding his wife close. He could feel that Aren wasn't doing so well emotionally right now but he didn't know what to say to help her so he would just hold her close. Truthfully Cross holding Aren cloe and protectively did help Aren some degree. As tired as Cross was he refused to fall asleep until he knew for sure Aren was sound asleep since he needed to make sure she didn't need him. When it was clear Aren was fast asleep in his arms Cross eventually gave in to sleep as well.
