The Tears Kept Flowing
Piper's eyes were full of love as she and Alex looked to the screen and watched their little Bean moving around on the screen. They were about 10 weeks into their journey as mothers and despite Piper being an older first time mom at 37, everything looked healthy and was going as planned. Alex flexed her brows and squinted a bit as she looked to the screen.
"Everything okay babe?" Piper questioned as she spotted the look of confusion on Alex's face.
"Mmmm." She uttered back.
"Alex? What are you looking at?"
"I'm just making sure there's only one there. Since, you know we implanted two..." Piper shot a quick look at the doctor and then darted her eyes to their midwife. They were quickly re-assured that only one baby was showing up on the monitor. The brunette's mind filled with wonder about who's egg had taken residence in her wife.
"Hey, when can we know if it's a boy or a girl?" Alex said directing her question at the doctor.
"What the fuck Alex? We don't want to know. Oh, shit sorry pardon my mouth..." Piper looked at the floor visibly embarrassed.
Alex chocked down a laugh at her wife's inherited potty mouth. "You know we really ought to work on our potty mouths over the coming months...Haha!"
"It's so not funny Alex... I don't want a repeat of what's happening to Finn's vocabulary..." The Doctor and midwife excused themselves leaving the women to discuss their disagreements over whether or not to find out the baby's gender at their 18 week scan.
After a lot of back and forth they finally decided to wait.
"Just think of how perfect it will be Al, you'll catch her and lift her onto my chest and for a moment only you'll know if its a boy or girl and you can deliver the biggest surprise of our lives to me. And for that moment it will be ours and ours alone." Piper's eyes welled up a little at the thought, but it was Alex who shed the first true tears.
"Fuck, look at me..." Alex scoffed as she wiped her eyes. Piper chuckled a bit before pulling her in for a tight lipped kiss.
"Kubra's not gonna let you recruit his girls anymore if you lose your tough shit exterior you know." Piper teased.
"Ha ha. Asshole." Alex spat as she slugged Piper in the arm. "Okay, you win... we'll wait until I pull her out of the water."
"You think it's a girl too eh... Wait the water? You want it to be in water too?" They held each other's glance for a moment too long.
"Yes." Alex breathed out. "I do... Shit now we're agreeing on stuff?" She held her tongue between her teeth playfully. Piper just smiled in her direction. "Okay I need a coffee and a fag. I'll be back."
"What are you British now? It's a cigarette you knob you're the fag here in America."
"Fuck off! " Alex chirped as she swept herself into the hallway. Piper lay on the hospital bed smiling and patting her tiny baby bump.
"I hope you get your Mama's eyes baby Vause, I just know I'd fall in love all over..."