Baby or Egg? - Hawks
“Do you think you’ll give birth to a baby, or to an egg?”
Keigo had been fussy all morning, or better to say he’s been fussy for the past few days. When it wasn’t him complaining about his feet, back or some other body part hurting. He was complaining about all the calls his hero agency was sending him. Even if he was on break due to pregnancy, everything still ran through him.
“What?” His brow twitched with irritation, he’d just gotten off the phone wanting to strangle someone and you asked that?
You glanced at him over the back of the couch and repeated. “Do you think you’ll give birth to a baby, or to an egg?” He turned away with a scoff and you couldn’t help but laugh and lean over the back of the couch. “Hey, it's a genuine question.”
“It’s a stupid question.” A crimson wig stretched out like a tired cat before returning to its original position. “You know just because I have wings and a few other bird-like features doesn’t automatically mean I’ll start poppin’ out eggs.”
“Really? That’s a shame, we could do with some free eggs. I think we’re running low.”
Keigo bit the inside of his cheek, refusing to smile or laugh at that shitty, albeit funny retort. “At the end of the day I’m still human.”
He brushed you off after that and it was quiet for a solid two minutes before you hatched an idea. Aha, hatched. Shaking your head with a chuckle you got up and lazily slid yourself between his wings, peppering kisses to the top of his head.
“Whatever it is, no.” Your hands slid around his torso and he gave the hand on his stomach a weak slap before returning to his writing.
The omega ignored your childish whine and rolled his eyes. “I don’t want anything, can’t I just want to hold my pregnant mate?”
He rolled his eyes again and pinched the bridge of his nose before looking up at you. “Look baby, I think we both know that’s suspicious. Now I’ll ask again. What,” he paused, “do,” again, “you” and again, “want?”
“No fun..” you mumbled. He scoffed hearing your mumble before smacking you with a wing, not hard enough to knock you away but to make you stumble a tad. “Ouch, what crawled in your ass and died?”
Keigo shot you a cold, blank stare.
You rubbed at your cheek before looking away, the heat of his stare too much. “Well.. okay so I didn’t crawl in you per say.. And I sure as hell didn’t die..” Making another joke was a gamble, and one that you hoped paid off.
The blonde continued to stare at you long and hard before the corner of his mouth twitched ever so slightly. A win! “Your so dumb.. How did I fall for you again?”
With a grin you wormed your way back between his wings, hands softly rubbing over his tummy. “You know you love me, stupid or not. I add an extra spice to our relationship, you never know what I’ll say.”
“Ain’t that the truth..” he mumbled.
“Hm?”
“I love you.” he chuckled.
You chuckled and Keigo shuddered at the warmth on his neck. Lips ghosted his bond mark before you finally placed a few kisses on it. “I love you.” Your thumb stroked roughly where the pup rested in his tummy. “And I love them too.”
Files forgotten, Keigo leaned his head on your shoulder, blowing some of your hair from your face. “I’m tired.. I don’t wanna look at any more files..” Keigo childishly buried his face into your neck, turning himself slightly to get more comfortable.
You gave a few coos before slipping your arms around to pick him up with ease. “We can look at them later, for now I think a certain chickadee needs some rest.”
Keigo grumbled in protest but didn’t really put up much of a fight as you carried him back to the nest. “Can you at least bring the files here for me to look at them?”
You shook your head. “No can do chickadee, you’ve been a grumpy mess and looking at case files isn’t going to help that. You said it yourself that you're tired, what you need is rest.”
Despite you being within clear view Keigo couldn’t help but whimper and whine as you left the nest. Normally he’d be a bit embarrassed at his actions but right now he didn’t care, he just blamed it on the pregnancy. “Where are you going?”
You plucked up a file and glanced over at him when he whined. How precious. “If the files are that important I’ll look them over, and if someone calls I’ll answer.”
“You know you're not supposed to.. You're not even supposed to know those files exist..”
“There’s a lot of things we aren’t supposed to do, a lot of things I’m not supposed to know. And I do,” closing the file you threw him a wink. “Keigo~”
“Ugh, don’t remind me..” he buried his face into the nearest item, which just so happened to be one of your shirts. “Mm..” Keigo peeked up from the nest to inspect your back. A few more noises came from his throat, and when you didn’t turn to look at him he let out a loud whine from his throat.
“You should be resting~” you sang, not glancing up from the files.
“Can’t you do that in the nest?” One of his feathers slid up beside you, slipping under a small stack of files while another one moved on top to keep it from falling.
“Keigo.”
Despite the scolding tone, the feathers carried the stack to lie just outside the nest. Easily within reach if you sat beside him. “Alpha..”
“Omega..” he was being disgustingly cute, but the whole purpose of doing the work for him was so he could rest. “If I come over there and work, it’ll keep you awake.”
Keigo let out a big yawn before sending a few more feathers out. The feathers slipped to your back and gave you a moderate nudge causing you to stumble a bit. “It won’t bother me, I promise.. Just.. stay with me?”
“You hardly leave me a choice.” You laughed, his feathers firmly guiding you to the edge of the nest. “Fine, but if I don’t think you're getting enough rest I’m moving back to the kitchen table.”
“Deal.” he grinned and shuffled to give you just a hair of space to get comfortable beside him before practically laying on you. His wings stretched out and hung over you and off the nest, again reminding you like a cat or dog stretching out across their owners lap.
The files sat untouched for a while, the two of you simply lying there in silence. The occasional sleepy chirp coming from him, and the purr you’d give in return to lull him to sleep.
Despite seeming comfortable and being plenty exhausted, the omega found it hard to stay asleep for longer than thirty minutes. When he started to fidget, you set the file you were looking over aside, your free hand still tangled loosely in his hair. “Can’t sleep? Am I distracting you?”
“What? No, of course not..” he yawned, clearly tired.
“The pup acting up again?”
Keigo nodded. You gently pushed away the wing that had blanketed itself on you and helped him roll comfortably onto his back. He whined at the loss of warmth but quickly got over it when you moved down to his stomach.
“Is someone being a fussy pup and keeping mommy awake?”
Keigo would never get over how you talked to the pup. You never use that whiny baby voice that grated on his nerves, he had no clue how anyone could tolerate listening to that. Instead you spoke calmly, softly to the pup, voice low and rough that it reminded him of your morning voice when you were just waking up.
He felt your hands rub at the sides of his tummy as if trying to sooth the energetic pup. “It’s nap time for mommy, and nap time for you little one. Can you be good and take a nap with mommy?”
“I think they favour you over me, their own mother.” he lied an arm over his eyes tiredly, but also for dramatic effect. Your laugh made his stomach do flips, years together and his stupid heart still got butterflies when you laughed. “You laugh but it’s true, they never listen to me.”
“Mm, I think I read somewhere that it’s usually easier for alpha’s to sooth them since our voices and purr’s are naturally low.”
“I’m a man, my purr is low.”
Your eyes rolled. “It’s not so much about being male or female, there’s just.. Something about an alpha’s purr and tone that’s just more relaxing for pups apparently.” His shirt had ridden up, taking advantage of this you pushed it up further and peppered kisses across his tummy causing him to shudder. “Though I feel like the connection between mother and pup is stronger, I feel like even if I wasn’t here they’d still listen to you.”
He hummed again, his free hand coming down to lie on your head. “You callin’ me lazy?”
“Mm,” you paused in thought for dramatic effect. “Maybe, but I love talking to our lil pup, so I’ll do it any chance I get.” He gave a snort and gently slapped you on the head before slipping his fingers into your hair.
The two of you fell into a comfortable silence. Keigo watched you trace your finger tips over various spots on his stomach, at first he didn't notice a pattern of where you touched. It dawned on him afterwards that you were touching only where the pup was, not his literally rearranged guts.
A low croon happily escaped him at the realization. Your eyes flicked up to look at the state of content on your mate. It was a shame you were going to say something intentionally stupid, he looked so beautiful and absolutely glowing.
“Do you think they’ll look more like me, or you?” Keigo hummed in thought, it was a good thing his arm was still blocking his eyes, hiding the shit eating grin you wore. “I personally hope they take after you.”
“Why’s that?”
You bit your lip to prevent yourself from laughing. “Cause then I can call the bathtub a bird bath..”
It took a second for Keigo to register the joke, he let out a hiss and slapped the back of your head again, this time not as gently. “Are you fuckin serious?”
“Aha! For real though, just picture it, cute lil bird pup with wings flapping away in the tub. Have you never watched videos on baby birds bathing for the first time? Cutest shit, I spent like a solid hour watching bird videos the other day.”
His irritation quickly vanished the more you spoke, his arm moved behind his head to prop it up better. The hand he slapped you with simply lied on your upper back, gently playing with the neck of your shirt. The picture of you lying in bed looking at bird videos made his chest flutter again for whatever weird reason.
“Thinking about it actually made me think about when you were little.” The smile on his face quickly fell, hand stilling. “I pictured you as a menace during bath time, making a bit ol’ mess with water everywhere. It made me wonder if our tub was big enough for that.”
You hadn’t even noticed his change in mood as you rambled. “Even if they make a mess though, I don’t care, I’ll clean up after them.”
Keigo watched you pepper more kisses to a particular spot on his stomach. Any discomfort he had was washed away by the amount of love your eyes held. You genuinely meant it, he’d never known you as the type to raise your voice at anyone when they made a mess, big or small. “Yeah?” He hoped you didn’t hear the slight crack in his voice.
“Mhm, it’s just water. As long as they get clean and have fun. Maybe during the summer we can set up a little pool at my parents and let you two have a little bird bath bash.”
His eyes watered at the image, he loved your parents, loved how tightly knit your family was. How accepting they were of him despite his vast amount of secrets.
A soft sniffle caught your attention, drawing yourself away from his tummy, you spotted the tears threatening to spill at the corners of his eyes. Panic quickly filled you. “Wh-what’s wrong? Are you in pain? Was I heavy? I didn’t mean to put so much weight on--”
“Shut up, it’s not that.” Keigo gave a wet laugh but didn’t attempt to explain what was wrong.
Chalking it up to pregnancy hormones you simply lied back down beside him and wrapped him up against you. His face smushed into your neck, deeply inhaling your natural scent. If Keigo didn’t wanna talk about it, you’d simply ask later, hopefully it wasn’t anything too serious.
His crying calmed down after several minutes of simply crying it out, mixed with your scent he fell into a relaxed, floating like state. “Sorry..”
“Shh, don’t be sorry. There’s nothing wrong with letting it out.” Keigo let out a tired chirp and you simply replied with a low purr. “Was it something I said?”
He shook his head slightly. “Not exactly.. I’ll talk about it later..”
“Okay baby.” Careful of his tummy you gave him a gentle squeeze. “Hmm..”
“Ugh, what is it now?”
“Hm?”
“What stupid thing do you have to say now? Just say it..” he sighed.
Saying dumb things was your forte, especially if there was the high chance of distracting your mate and making him laugh. “Just.. back to the egg thing..”
“Ugh.. get away from me.” He gave you a nudge, a weak and lazy attempt at trying to get away from you.
Knowing he didn’t actually want to push you away, you simply held him closer. “No hear me out. What if it’s eggs?” He heard you gasp. “What if it's one big egg!?” His body shook with a silent laugh. “That’s gonna be one big egg poop.”
“Oh my god.” He gagged in playful disgust and slapped at your shoulder. “You're so disgusting, I’m not laying eggs let alone one huge ass egg.”
“Why not? I think it would be cute watching you leg eggs. Well okay the process itself wouldn’t be cute, but just picturing you laying in the nest with a bunch of eggs is adorable.”
“Woah why a bunch of eggs? How many do you think we’re having?”
Keigo watched your expression change as you thought. “A whole carton?” He choked.
“A whole carton? We talkin pups or the grocery list now?”
At this point it was impossible for either of you to keep a straight face anymore, both belting out into laughter.
“Pups! Though I think even this big ass condo would be too small for twelve little chickadee’s runnin around..”
“Christ, don’t make me picture that..”
“You don’t wanna have a bunch of lil chickens with me?”
“Stop calling them chickens, I’m starting to second guess if you actually have brain damage now from that last mission you went on.” Keigo buried his face back into your neck as if that would shut you up.
“Mm you love me.” You gave him a gentle squeeze again, playfully nipping at his jaw and ear. “But your right, it’s not chickens--”
“--thank you--”
“--It’s a bunch of Hawks.”
He grabbed the nearest article of clothing from the nest and slapped it over your face to silence you. “It’s nap time now, mommy, pup and daddy nap time.”
Tossing the item off your face you snickered. “Alright alright, enough silly talk.” The two of you shifted to get comfortable, pulling a blanket up, you placed one hand on his tummy as if trying to lull the potentially active pup inside. “Daddy’s mistake for getting you all excited again, but it's nap time for real my chickadee.”
Keigo drifted on and off to you rubbing his stomach, occasionally staying awake long enough to hear you humming a song until it became too much and he fell completely asleep. Worries of his pup experiencing his childhood were long lost on his mind after today’s current events.