And here comes the (hopefully the first of more) M-Preg chapter. I have nothing more to say.

Disclaimer: Anybody that you recognize is not mine. Everyone else is up for grabs.
Pairing(s): Balthazar/Dave
Summary: Dave gets worried about body changes and goes to Balthazar for help. Balthazar gives him the wrong answer. Cora gets a case of the "aww" sickness. And you people wonder why you like this stuff.

3. BABY - "Balthazar." Though it was unusual to hear Dave so early in the morning (or at least, what he was pretty sure was early in the morning), Balthazar was quite sure he wasn't dreaming.

In response to Dave saying his name, Balthazar shifted and pulled the covers up a little bit more. "Balthazar, get. Up. Now." At Dave's insistent tone (which was unusual for him, since he and Dave actually agreed on the matter of sleep), Balthazar rose up and rubbed his eyes, looking at Dave with as little sleep in his eyes as possible. He saw Dave looking at him quite seriously, but there was no hint of anger-just confusion and a little bit of fear. Immediately, Balthazar pulled Dave forward by a bicep while using his other hand to cup Dave's cheek. The physics geek brought up one hand to cover the one of his cheek, pushing his face into the touch for comfort.

"Dave, what's wrong? Why do you look so scared?" Oh please, please don't let it be rape or some sort of death threat towards him or Dave; he didn't want Dave to read about the person causing him pain in the newspaper tomorrow and give him a 'You MURDERED them? Couldn't you just scare them into the next country!' look. When Dave didn't answer, Balthazar drew him in closer and kissed him. He felt the younger male slump into him, and gladly held Dave closer. A couple of moments passed, and Dave pulled back just enough to look at Balthazar.

"Balthazar...I woke up, a-and felt a little sick, so I...I went to the bathroom and threw up." Dave's breath became shaky at that point, and the elder sorcerer gently, repeatedly, ran his fingers through Dave's hair, doing what he thought would calm the young man down.

"It's alright, Dave...take your time. There's no hurry." Dave nodded, gulping a couple of times before continuing.

"A-anyway, I-i-I thought I was just coming down with something, but...but when I looked in the mirror, I noticed that I looked different. I-I...my stomach was bigger, a-a-and it's not, like, just weight gain, y'know? It's, like..." Sighing, Dave pulled his shirt up and placed Balthazar's hand on his stomach. Balthazar felt the slight bulge, noticing that it was stiffer than just weight gain from food. "And then...then there's my hips, which should NOT look like a girl's hips AT ALL." This time, Dave moved both of Balthazar's hands to his waist and ran them over his hips. Balthazar did indeed notice that Dave's hips were no longer straight like they usually were, but instead were curvy, like a girl just starting puberty. "And then it...it hurt...between my legs, like...like something's shifting, a-and skin felt like it was tearing, but it's stopped now, and I just..." Dave's face showed fear again, and he looked at Balthazar with that pitiful look again. "Balthazar, what's happening to me? Is this some sort of wizard's disease or something?"

Balthazar looked at Dave, a small smile coming to his face. Dave made to speak again, made to spout off on how Balthazar was finding amusement in his pain, when Balthazar pulled him in for a passionate kiss. It was enough to shut Dave up enough for Balthazar to explain what was going on without getting interrupted. "Dave, do you remember that time a couple of months ago when you told me that you'd like to start a family some day?" Dave nodded, remembering that day. "And do you remember how I told you that we should get started on that right away because I knew how to make that wish come true?" Dave blushed right then, remembering EXACTLY how that had ended and exactly how Balthazar seemed more like a Morganian than a Merlinian with that tongue of his. "What's happening is that you're pregnant and your body is shifting and changing to make itself ready for the baby, thanks to a metamorph spell. Now some things may become permanent, like your hips and your ability to have kids, but they might not. All in all, whatever DOES become permanent is something that anyone who's gone through this spell has liked and gotten used to, and their partner has liked it, too."

Dave looked at Balthazar, all his fear gone and with a disbelieving look on his face. Balthazar just sat there, a small smile on his face and a hand on Dave's cheek. The sorcerer had seen this happen in the past with magical couples before, and they had always been fine with it, and impulse had told him that Dave would have been, too. The two just sat there for a while, both looking at each other with different expressions of happiness and incredulity.

When Becky came down to the lab to get physics help from Dave, she was confused as to why she saw Dave stalking away from the makeshift bedroom, muttering something about idiotic boyfriend sorcerers and not asking for permission, and why Balthazar had a hand print on his face when she looked in to check on him before looking out again. 'Did Balthazar try the rope trick I told him about on Dave without asking his permission? But Dave shouldn't be mad about that...' Whatever it was, Becky didn't worry about what was making the "imperfectly perfect couple" has a slight tiff; it was probably nothing, just Dave being moody and stiff in the way of Balthazar's own calm and flowing self. Besides, it couldn't POSSIBLY be anything as big as her's and Drake's argument about her pregnancy before he stopped freaking out in the bad way and basically told EVERYONE he was going to be a father...right?

END.

Babies...Dave and Balthazar would make cute ones. Too bad I see them all taking after their Uncle Drake on crack/sugar high instead of their Mommy and Daddy in personality, and thus end up being little terrors to their parents. But it works.

Too bad Balthazar decided to listen to impulse this one time and not logic. Yes, it made him OOC...but it worked. Everyone's allowed to be stupid at times, eh?

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