Gumball is eighteen weeks, which is five months!
"What do you think it'll be? Final chance to guess the gender!" Marshall chirped excitedly when Gumball grinned at the wide at the vampire who bounced on his toes just as excitedly as he'd spoken. He looked almost like a little kid waiting to tear into a present. They'd left and gotten to Doctor Prince's clinic and into an examination room but it was worth it to see Marshall so damn happy.
"Boy. I'm sticking with it!" Gumball replied grinning widely, hugely, still as he patted his stomach. The once soft little curve had groan into a rather large, impressive curve for five months and promised to only get bigger in the next four months but it wasn't as big as Fionna's had been. He rubbed the bump happily and slowly, rather happy with the little flutters he felt inside. He hadn't mentioned it to Marshall yet, as Doctor Prince called it quickening, not movements that were physically enough to be felt on the outside, but he felt a bit bad for not mentioning it but the flutters got more intense as if telling him to tell Marshall.
"I'm tellin' ya it'll be a girl!" Marshall replied then wiggled his fingers playfully, reaching out placing his hand on the middle of Gumball's stomach. "Daddy's Princess~!"
Gumball chuckled then he covered his hand. "Hey, did I ever tell you about quickening?" He finally got out bringing it up before Doctor Prince came in, if he ever did it felt, and decided to be the one to tell Marshall. He shook his head. "It's fluttering movements of the baby, fluttering or butterfly feelings. It's not strong enough to be felt but the first movements of the baby! I've been feeling them for the past two weeks now, since I hit seventeen weeks."
"Cool!" Marshall breathed his scarlet irises glowing brightly in response to this and Gumball smiled. Of course the vampire wouldn't get mad or anything of the sort, what the heck had he been thinking? Doctor Prince walked in then, the door clicking as it opened and he dragged the familiar sonogram machine with him.
"And how are we today?" He asked softly as he set the machine up and Gumball shifted pulling up his rather big shirt and revealed the extended stomach. He shivered at the cool air as the machine powered up and Doctor Prince turned squirting some hot gel on his stomach.
"Good." Gumball replied sighing out once more when the gel began to cool on his stomach and he shifted. "Same symptoms, heart burn, constipation, bleeding gums from time to time, and I've had a few bloody noses but nothing different other than the quickening."
"Good!" Doctor Prince chirped picking up the transducer. "Now, let's get this a-going and see that baby! Want me to see if I can tell the gender now?"
"Yes, please." Gumball nodded when the transducer was pressed to his stomach and rolled around spreading the jelly on his stomach. It took maybe three minutes before the screen revealed a small body lightly curled up, knees just barely bent but their hands tucked into their chest tightly though they looked a bit like a scrambled mess they looked perfect and developing perfectly.
"The baby seems to be developing just fine in the pseudo womb!" Doctor Prince noted as he continued rolling it around his stomach staring at the screen intently. Marshall held his breath, Gumball doing the same as he sought out Marshall's hand and held it tightly when he found it. The vampire held his hand in response, eagerly waiting for the verdict of the gender. "Now, let me copy a picture off for you right-y quick."
"Okay!" Marshall bounced staring at the screen, at his baby. Their baby. He bit his lip in excitement, while Doctor Prince printed the picture off, waiting almost impatiently now for the gender. "What's the gender?"
"Marshall!" Gumball lightly whacked him with his free hand when Doctor Prince chuckled softly. "I apologize for him, he's so eager to prove me wrong on the baby being a boy."
"Don't worry, Fionna and Phillip were the same way during this even if they didn't want the gender revealed." Doctor Prince assured him and, after a silent moment of him roving around with the transducer, he then smiled widely at the couple. "And you're completely sure you want to know?"
"Yes!" They both exclaimed, their hands subconsciously tightening on one an other's as two pairs of eyes, scarlet and violet, sparkled intently. Gumball held his breath and Marshall grinned excitedly when Doctor Prince pulled the transducer off his stomach and grabbed a small towel wiping the gel off.
He then cleared his throat, turning the machine off and then grinned at the couple. "Well it seems as thought you're having a-"
"Girl! Fi, it's a girl!" Marshall howled into the phone with pure joy, Gumball sitting back on the couch of the rec room just two rooms down from his bedroom. He rubbed his stomach, raising a brow at Marshall who laughed. "I know! I know! He was totally wrong, which proves Daddy's intuition beats Mommy's intuition!"
Gumball rolled his eyes while he flicked through the channels, keeping one hand on his stomach. While the child wasn't going to be the son of Gumball's imaginings a daughter was going to be just as amazing. Just as beautiful and worth this long pregnancy and he smiled gently just a bit to himself as he rubbed his belly up and down slowly, softly. He wondered, then, what the baby would look like when she came out. Would look like him? Or would she look like Marshall? While he'd imagined a son that looked like Marshall, a daughter that looked like himself...well, that couldn't be TOO bad now could it?
"Bubs! Fi, wants to talk to you!" Marshall held out the phone just bright with his excitement making Gumball smile with a soft breath escaping through his nose and held his hand out for the phone. He handed it over too easily and happily, beaming still, something he hadn't stopped doing since they got home from the doctors.
He lifted the phone to his ear only to be bombarded with the squeals of excitement on the other end. "A girl! You got a girl, PG! I told you so! Me and Marshall won the pool! We get sixty bucks each!" Fionna squealed jumping around it sounded with twins squealing with her in the background. "But a girl! That's amazing!"
"I know, I honestly thought it'd be a boy, I'm a little disappointed the baby isn't a boy!" Gumball admired rather cheerfully but moved his hand through his hair and smiled anew."But a daughter is just as good as a son at least! I guess now we gotta decide on baby names, huh?"
"Yes! Do it now, put me on speaker!" Fionna ordered making him laugh as he pressed the button, putting hero n speaker, and she took a breath. "Now, names! Spit'em out! I honestly think the name Akina or Christa or even Lila would be an awesome fit for your baby!"
Gumball went to open his mouth to speak when he caught sight of a nearly guilty sheepish look on Marshall's face and he raised his brow. "While those are beautiful, unique names I honestly thought of the name Cece." Gumball replied then looked at Marshall with his brow still raised. "But I think Marshall has a suggestion."
"Spit it out, Marsh!" Fionna ordered again over the phone but cheerfully, then spoke again. "Wait, Cece, like that Reese's candy?"
Gumball flushed guiltily almost when Marshall grinned at this, clearing his throat softly. "Um, I was actually kind of thinking of the name for a while now. Because I was so convinced I got hung up on two names at first but I'll let Bubs choose between all the names. I was thinking either Ivy or Lacey."
"Oh," Gumball blinked thinking the names over, stroking his belly softly, and then looked at Marshall smiling. "Okay, How about she has four names in a sense?"
"Four names?" Marshall and Fionna echoed him when Marshall then grinned like he was joking. "Baby, four names is like torturing the kid!"
"Yeah! I don't even know my middle name or anythin' but at least I was simply known as Fionna the Human for the longest time! Now I'm kinda Fionna Marie whatever Phillip's last name is." Fionna remarked over the phone making him smile when he shifted, lightly patting his belly just a bit in response to the quickening.
"Fine fine. Just as a suggestion, how does the name Lacey Akina Cece Lee? Too much of a mouthful?" Gumball asked a bit uncertainly when Marshall face seemed to go blank while he thought and Fionna went curiously silent on her end of the phone and he felt his cheeks flushing. "You know what? Just forget it! It's-It's a mouthful when it can just be something short and no-"
"It's perfect!" Marshall finally chirped grinning widely. "Just imagine that, instead of one middle name just imagine screaming 'Lacey Akina Cece Lee, you put that damn cookie down I said one and one only'!"
Fionna broke out in laughter before Gumball did and because she broke down he cracked up with her with Marshall following. They must have laughed for three, maybe five minutes, before Gumball hiccuped with laughter, rubbing the tears that had built and spilled down from the intensity. "That's sounds beautiful!"
"It truly does!" Fionna gasped hysterically from her end and he nearly broke down in laughter again. Marshall then came over sitting on the couch and wrapping an arm around Gumball's shoulders and rested his hand on his stomach like it was the most natural thing on the planet.
"Hey, you and Phillie, should bring the twins over to hang out for a while! Then you can coo, gush and do whatever it is you do over Bubs pregnancy~" Marshall suggested playfully when Fionna gasped like she'd been struck with the perfect idea and he grinned widely. "It's been a while since the twins were born and Bubs' bun in the oven have taken place, that we haven't hung out!"
"OhmiGlob! I'll be right over with Phillip and the twins!" Fionna exclaimed hanging up before Gumball could say anything and he scowled playfully at Marshall who kissed his nose lovingly. He then rubbed his cheek into his hair happily inhaling his sweet, sugary scent that he swore sent him on a sugar high every time.
"You know I'm always tired after the ultrasound, jerk!" Gumball replied when he was pulled close when he shifted to a slanting position and pressing his face into Marshall's neck closing his eyes happily. He loved Marshall's scent, it was musky and wild like adrenaline with the sharp scent of pine but the must of the cave.
"Oh well, baby~" Marshall replied when he stroked Gumball's belly softly and smiled softer, a complete one eighty of his wide infectious smiles. "So, Lacey Akina Cece Lee?"
"Lacey Akina Cece Lee." Gumball replied nodding then, eyes still shut, he laughed lightly."She's going to hate us for giving her four names when she's older."
"Maybe but then, if we have another baby, we just give that baby five names~" He replied laughing with the prince softly and moved his right hand up, his left still on Gumball's stomach, he lightly stroked his fingers against the soft pink hair. "Hey, Bubs, did you have a baby name picked out for if it was a boy?"
Gumball didn't answer but Marshall could surely feel the heat of his furious blush and his eyes opened staring into the light gray skin of the vampire's neck. "U-Um, yes?" He stuttered uncertainly when he pulled his legs up curling into Marshall's side, his knees almost cradling his belly.
"What would the name have been?" Marshall asked curiously when he continued stroking Gumball's hair softly, like that would lure the truth out of him. He moved his fingers into the locks and continued to stroke, almost like he was making his fingers limp on purpose as he stroked Gumball's stomach.
"I-I was playing with names then. I liked the idea of a son, one who looked like you, and when I would think of him looking like y-you, I kinda came up with the name I think you would've loved." The pink haired male stuttered out his blush hot in his cheeks when he curled an arm out across Marshall's stomach and gripping the shirt against his side. "It was thinking of the name Licorice Marshall Lee."
Marshall blinked in surprise when he paused in his hand movements taking that in. Licorice Marshall Lee. That was...strangely perfect but it was missing something. Lacking somewhere. He pulled back from Gumball, lifting his hands up, cupping his face looking at his wide violet eyes. "I love that name. A bit narcissistic of me but there's only one change I would do for that name."
"Change? What would you change?" Gumball questioned almost fiercely while he continued to blush but was genuinely curious about what Marshall would say next. What was wrong with that name? Was there something so bad with it?
"How about Licorice Marshall Bubba Lee?" Marshall suggested then raising a brow softly in question when Gumball stopped, thinking and then considered it. He felt silly, blushing still, considering baby names but it also felt right to be doing after all, right?
"That sounds nice," He replied smiling a little wider and reached out moving his fingers through Marshall's silky black locks of hair while he grinned like a little boy. "If we were to have two children both will have such long names~ They'll hate us so very much I would believe, Marshall Lee."
"They most certainly will hate us if we have two little monsters one day!" Marshall smiled widely then pressed a soft, loving kiss on his nose making it scrunch up lightly. "Now, my prince, should we get ready for Fionna's arrival?"
Gumball smiled then curling his arms around Marshall's shoulders happily, nuzzling his cheek to his and his smile widened. "Yes, we should most definitely prepare for Fionna and her five month old twin terrors, my King~"
"Awww, look at our babies~" Marshall cooed cupping one of his cheeks with his hands, one hand on his hip and Fionna stood in a similar way. The coffee table had been moved out of the rec room for the twins to do what they did on the floor, which was basically just them being tiny leaning towers of Pisa but adorable all the same. They'd squealed and shrieked until Gumball got on the floor with them and played with the tiny babies, more than once had they curled their pudgy arms around his neck holding onto him.
It was around four now, the twins, Fionna and Flame King had showed up around noon, just minutes after the ultrasound, so they have all hung out for a total of four hours. The three of them, Fionna, Flame King and Marshall that is, had gone downstairs to sneak a snack before dinner without Peppermint Maid seeing them, got coffee came back up to just this sight. Gumball was laying out on his back snoring delicately with drool rolling down his cheek from the corner of his mouth, the Asher was laying on his tummy sleeping with his cheek cushioned by his cheek, Kaitlynn was stretched out much like Gumball was. They all had an adorable, sleep flush to their cheeks too and it just made the moment so precious.
"Phillip, get the camera!" Fionna whispered breathlessly, almost a tight tone, and her husband did quick work to hand her the camera. She was turning it on, turning the flash off, steadying it on all three of them when Marshall floated behind her shoulder.
"You need to get that printed as soon as you get home and giving me a copy to put up!" Marshall whispered to her with wide eyes staring at the three sleepers happily, squeezing one of her upper arms which she smiled at. They all were so precious!
"No freaking doubt! It's going in their baby books! The inscription will be 'Nap time with Uncle Bubs!' or somethin' cute like that!" She whispered snapping two pictures mighty quick and they were rather clear too, perfect. "When we get home I'll print them out and give you one by tomorrow! Promise!"
"Thanks!" Marshall replied when she hugged him suddenly and he relaxed enough from his surprise to hug her back. They'd been friends long enough, close to five years now was it? It never got tiring to get a Fionna tight hug and he appreciated it. She pulled back when Flame King got their little carriers out and the buckles set out to get them in smoothly and buckle them up quick.
"I can't believe this is happening, some times. That I'm a married sixteen soon to be seventeen year old, a teen mom, and you knocked up Bubs! I mean, he's eighteen so that makes him an adult and you're what? Thousands of years old?" She joked nudging him and he nudged her back when Flame King picked up Asher who whined at the movement, his tiny brows and lashes scrunching before relaxing when Flame King got him in his carrier buckling him in.
"Shut up~" He teased under his breath when she smiled and he watched as Flame King picked up Kaitlynn, who squirmed and whined like her brother until she was put in her carrier and buckled in. "I'm honestly happy this is how it turned out, Fi."
She then smiled at him, taking one more look at the delicately snoring, drooling Gumball and then beamed up at Marshall brightly. She turned her attention to Flame King, who held his hand out, and she took it when she was tucked into his side. "I'm happy it all turned this way too, Marsh. Catch you later!"
"Catch you later!" Marshall replied when Cake seemed to conveniently appear for the couple to step out and settle on too before disappearing. Marshall then sighed out looking down at his sleeping boyfriend and a soft, genuinely gentle smile curved over his lips when he looked down at him. "What am I to do with you, Prince B. Gumball?"
Gumball made a soft whimpering noise reaching out for him, a soft mumble of his name, and Marshall closed the shades tight thankful they were thick and heavy, shut the door and laid on the floor the same soft genuine smile on his lips. He pulled Gumball to him, grabbing a pillow from the couch, and tucked it under their heads when he kissed Gumball's forehead softly."I love you, Marsh." Gumball mumbled sleepily, his eyes refusing to open and it made Marshall jerk lightly in surprise then hug him just a little tighter with the same smile again gracing his lips and he nuzzled him breathing in his sweet scent.