Chapter 25
“Bucky’s pregnant ?” Chris asks, considerably shocked to hear that from his boss, considering the fact that they already have seven kids, and Steve and Bucky are both in their early forties. He honestly thought they’d be done having kids now, especially when they already have a grandson.
Steve laughs a little on the other line, but Chris can’t tell if it’s fear fuling it, or joy. “Yeah, turns out he was .” He says. “He had the baby last night.”
Now that surprises Chris even more. He doesn’t recall Steve ever mentioning to him - or anyone in fact - that Bucky was pregnant. Though maybe he didn’t feel the need to tell anyone? Chris rather doubts it, Steve has always been proud to talk about Bucky and their kids, so it’s rather out of character for him to not mention that Bucky’s pregnant.
“He’s already had it?” He asks, even more surprised to hear that.
“Yeah. A little girl, a beta, named Juliet.” Steve says. “And the both of us had no idea he was even pregnant at all till our son Nathaniel called me.” He sighs. “He didn’t even show any signs of being pregnant at all. You’d think that after seven and now eight kids he’d show some type of sign.” He stops. “Though now that I think about it, he had been eating an insane amount of peanuts, much like he had done when he was pregnant for the first time.”
“Jeez.” Chris breathes, shaking his head. He’s heard of people who’ve not known they were pregnant until they’ve gone into labour, but he still finds it a strange occurrence, especially for someone like Bucky who had been pregnant seven previous times. Though he and Sebastian didn’t know about Emma until Sebastian was six months pregnant with her. “Is he and the baby okay?”
“They’re both fine.” Steve says, causing Chris to let out a sigh in relief. “Though, Bucky won’t stop complaining about how disgusting the hospital food is, and that they’re wanting to keep him and the baby in for a week for observation, considering he just gave birth at 43. The fact that he hates hospitals doesn’t help either”
Chris hums in agreement. He’s not so fond of hospitals, neither is Sebastian, and the hospital food there is utter shit. He’s had to listen to Sebastian complain about the food plenty of times before. He’s even had to have it himself a a few times, and it just looks and tastes like crap. The food in the hospital cafes however, aren’t that bad, the only problem is how expensive they are. It’s a lot cheaper to just sneak in food from the grocery store.
“So you need some new born baby girl clothes?” Chris asks.
“Yeah, we don’t have any back at home anymore, seeing as we got rid of them all as we had no use for them as our three youngest kids are all boys, and we also weren’t expecting to have another kid.” He says. “We would’ve asked our daughter Harvey if she had any, but she had a boy, and most other people we know are done having kids. You and Sebastian were the only people we could think of to ask at such short notice. We would’ve asked one of Bucky’s sisters, but Bucky is having some personal issues with them right now.”
Chris nods, even though Steve can’t even see him nod. “Alright. I’ll have to talk with Sebastian about what we can part with, but there’s a slight problem….” He laughs a little. “Sebastian is pregnant right now. I only just found out today, and knowing our luck, the baby would probably be a girl.”
He may very much hope that their next kid will be a boy, but he can’t deny the fact that with their luck, it would more than likely be a girl. He and Sebastian also don’t quite believe those old wives tales that if you do something, have cravings for a certain type of food, or whatever other things there are that determine if you’re having a boy or a girl. They just don’t see how that is even possible to predict what gender you’re having.
“He is?” Steve asks, and Chris can hear the shock in his voice.
“Yeah, and unfortunately it’s already been pretty rough on him.” Chris sighs, shaking his head. “He’s Anthony staying with him to help out around the house while I was away though.”
“Well, congratulations then.” Steve says, sounding happy for Chris and Sebastian. “And I hope the pregnancy starts treating Sebastian better.”
Chris nods in agreement. “Yeah. I hope so too. I hate seeing him when he’s in pain or feeling like shit.”.
He really doesn’t like seeing Sebastian when he’s in pain and feeling as crappy as he has been this past week. But it’s even worse knowing that he wasn’t here while Sebastian was feeling like that, and more than likely still is. He’s honestly glad that Anthony was here to help out, but also a little hurt that Anthony knew about the pregnancy before he did.
“Yeah, that’s never…” Steve starts, but is cut off, by Chris is assuming something Bucky’s done. “Bucky, you can’t just get up and leave the hospital cause you don’t want to be here.” Chris only just manages to hear what Steve had said, and from the sound of things, Bucky really doesn’t want to have to stay in a hospital for much longer. He also only just hears Bucky say something back, but doesn’t quite pick up on what he had said. “Sorry.” Steve apologizes. “I should probably get back to Bucky before he somehow hurts himself.”
“That’s fine.” Chris says, completely understanding what Steve is saying. He’s also got an omega that really doesn’t like hospitals after all. “You get back to Bucky, and I’ll go talk to Seb and see if we’ve got any spare newborn girl clothes we can spare.”
“Thank you so much, Chris.” Steve sighs in relief, though Chris notes that he still sounds rather stressed.
“I’ll send you a text if we’ve got anything.” Chris promises him. “Now, I’ll let you get back to Bucky.”
They both bid each other farewell and good luck, as they’ll both definitely be needing it, before they’re ending the call.
Chris lingers outside for a few minutes longer, just enjoying the cool breeze, and trying to ignore the two cats that are staring at him from in the garden on the other side of the backyard, before he heads on back inside. He’s got to not forget to talk with Sebastian as soon as he wakes about seeing if they’ve got any newborn baby girl clothes that they no longer need and can give to Steve and Bucky.
He’s almost positive that they’ve got some that they can easily part with, seeing as they’ve never actually thrown any out. They’ve never had the need to get rid of any before, especially after three girls. Though technically only two of the girls wore the newborn clothes, Sabrina was a little too big for a lot of newborn clothes when she was born. He’s also sure that Sebastian won’t mind giving some away to Bucky for his newborn daughter.
“Everything alright?” Anthony asks as soon as Chris walks into the kitchen from where he stood leaning against the wall keeping an eye on the girls as they play with Dodger and Nala as he sips away at his coffee.
“Yeah. Well… I guess?” Chris nods. “Steve’s husband just gave birth to a baby girl last night.”
“Really?” Anthony asks, surprised to hear that. “Doesn’t he have like, seven kids already? And aren’t they in their forties?” He mostly knows this because he had worked for Steve for about two years before resigning as he decided that being an architect wasn’t for him. Now he works as a painter.
Chris nods. “Yeah, and the both of them didn’t even know about it till Bucky went into labour.”
“Damn.” Anthony sighs, shaking his head. “They okay?”
“Steve said they’re okay, apart from Bucky not wanting to stay in the hospital for a week.” Chris says. “He called asking if Seb and I have any new born baby girl clothes that we don’t need.”
Anthony laughs a little at that, before sipping at his coffee. “Well you both have plenty of that, don’t you?”
Chris nods. They definitely have a lot of that, but they can’t give away too much of it, seeing as their next kid may be a girl. “Yeah. I’ll have to talk with Sebastian once he wakes up and see if there’s anything that we can part with.” He says. “Sebastian isn’t one to not help a fellow omega out, so I’m guessing he’ll find something for us to give them.”
Anthony nods in agreement, knowing exactly what Chris is on about. Though Sebastian never liked the fact that he was an omega during high school - by adulthood he had grown to accept it - he was never one to just ignore it whenever another omega in the school needed help. He’d be right there if one needed help with anything. It’s almost like he had a radar for any and every hurt omega in the school.
“The girls really like the puppy.” Anthony comments, as he watches the girls and Dodger. Nala seems to have retreated off outside for now.
“I had a feeling they would.” Chris nods, he too watching the girls and Dodger, before frowning. “I don’t quite think Sebastian really does though.”
Anthony looks up at Chris. “Dude, I’m sure he doesn’t hate the puppy at all.” He assures him. “It’s probably just the timing, on account of him being pregnant an’ all. A puppy and a tough pregnancy at the same time probably isn’t the greatest idea.” He says. “Just give it some time, and I’m sure that everything will be fine.”
Chris knows that within time Sebastian will be more okay with the puppy. It’s not like he had outright said that he hated the puppy, he just isn’t very pleased that they now have a puppy, and it’s mainly just because of the timing. Which, Chris does agree that it’s not a very good time, but it’s not like he’s just going to get rid of the puppy, nor would Sebastian make him get rid of it, he’s just not that type of person.
“I know.” He sighs, going to say more, but is interrupted by Sebastian walking into the room and straight over to the fridge.
“Aren’t you supposed to be resting?” Anthony asks, he and Chris turning their attention to Sebastian, who is currently rummaging through the fridge for something to eat.
“Hungry.” Is all Sebastian replies, as he moves away from the fridge and to the pantry after not having much luck finding something to eat.
As Chris watches Sebastian look for food, he contemplates telling him about what happened to Bucky now, or let him rest up a bit more before telling him. Sebastian does need his rest after all, but he kind of wants to tell Sebastian as soon as possible so they can figure out what they can give Steve and Bucky for their newborn daughter.
“Hey, Seb. while you’re up, Steve called me.” He starts, guessing he might as well tell Sebastian now while he has the chance. Though, before he can continue, Sebastian cuts him off.
“Did he say what happened to Bucky?” He asks, turning around to face Chris, who glances down at the bag of chips, the bag of salted peanuts, and the large block of chocolate in Sebastian’s arms.
“Uh, yeah. He did.” Chris shakes his head a little, being not entirely surprised by the junk food Sebastian has. “And uh, they want to know if we have any newborn baby girl clothes that we don’t need.”
Sebastian stares at Chris, confused on what he just told him. Though part of the confusion may be caused by how tired he is. “Bucky’s pregnant ?” He wasn’t expecting to hear that at all, and he honestly thought that Steve and Bucky were done having kids.
Chris nods. “Well, sorta. Steve said that he already had the baby last night.” He explains. “Neither of them had any idea about the pregnancy.”
Sebastian nods slowly at that. “Huh, weird.” He shakes his head a little. “I’ll see what we can spare for them.” He says, starting to walk back off into the living room. “Just, we’ll have to make sure we still have some left over in case…” He trails off, looking over towards the girls. He doesn’t quite want them knowing yet that he’s having another baby, nor is he sure how they’d react to the news. “ You know… ”
Chris nods, knowing exactly what Sebastian is referring to. There’s a likely chance that they’re having another girl, so they don’t want to give away too much of the newborn clothes they’ve got. It’s not like Steve and Bucky would expect them to give them everything they’ve got, just enough to last them a while till they go and buy some themselves.
At that, Sebastian is retreating off upstairs with the food, where both Chris and Anthony assume he’s going to eat and sleep for the next few hours while they’re left to watch the girls. Not that they’re complaining at all, they’d both gladly watch the girls while Sebastian rests. Obviously Chris would kind of have to not complain about having to watch the girls, they’re his daughters after all. He’s not just going to say no to watching and playing with them.
Anthony definitely doesn’t mind looking after the girls either, and it’s a very good thing that the girls enjoy it when he’s around. They’d probably have a problem here if the girls didn’t like Anthony. But they do very much like him, so there’s thankfully no issue.
The only issue that they actually have here right now, is how and when they’re going to tell the girls that their mother is pregnant. They’ve not yet figured out how they’re going to tell them. Though Chris only just found out about it this very day, so of course they haven’t figured out how they’re going to tell them. They also have no idea how they’re going to react to the news.
They’re not going to worry about that right now though. Chris isn’t even sure if Sebastian has even thought about it, nor does he know if he wants to discuss that just yet. They’ll tell the girls when they’re ready to tell them.
Though right now, after Sebastian has finished resting, they’re going to have to figure out if they have any spare newborn clothes that they can give to Steve and Bucky. They’re sure they’ve got quite a bit, but they’re not sure on exactly how much. They’ll figure that out later.
For now though, Chris is just going to let Sebastian get some well needed rest, while he and Anthony watch the girls.
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The next day Sebastian and Chris leave Anthony to watch the girls for them while they go to the hospital to give a bag of newborn baby girl clothes to Steve and Bucky. Luckily they had enough to spare for them while still being able to still keep quite a lot just in case their next child will be a girl. They didn’t want to give away too much, but they’ve managed to pile together a decent enough amount to give to them.
“Man, I hate hospitals.” Sebastian mutters, getting out of the car as soon as they’ve found a park and Chris has shut the car off.
He squints a little from the sun as he stares up at the large hospital building. He’s never been very fond of hospitals, there’s just something about them that makes his skin crawl. Maybe it’s the smell of sanitizer or all the needles. Luckily he rarely has to go into them, or at least very far from the maternity ward when he does have to go to them. Even then though, he’s still really not fond of them.
“It’s alright, honey.” Chris says, coming around to Sebastian’s side after grabbing the bag of newborn clothes from the backseat of the car and locking up the car. “If it makes you feel any better, we don’t have to be here long, on account of you being pregnant and having bad morning sickness an’ all.”
“I’m sure I’ll be fine.” Sebastian says, turning to Chris. He’s not sure if he’s trying to assure Chris, or himself , as he really isn’t sure if he’ll be fine. He just hopes the smell of the hospital won’t kick start any morning sickness.
They make their way inside the hospital and over to the receptionist, asking for what room James Rogers is staying in. Once the receptionist has given them the room number, it doesn’t take them too long to make their way to the maternity ward and look for the room Bucky is staying in.
As they walk through the halls, Sebastian has to mentally keep himself from vomiting. It’s as if being pregnant and having rather rough morning sickness has caused the smell of the hospital to double, and Sebastian really doesn’t like it one bit. He’s hoping that the smell will be mostly gone in Bucky’s room.
“You alright?” Chris asks, looking over at Sebastian, who looks as though he’s trying not to throw up.
Sebastian nods. “I’m fine, it’s just the stench of sanitizer seems to be worse while pregnant.”
Chris sighs, pulling Sebastian close to his side as they walk down the hallway. “If I could, I’d fix that for you, but….” Chris trails off. “Anyway, we’re here.”
They stop at the door to the room Bucky’s staying in, and Chris knocks. It takes a few minutes for someone to open the door, but they stand back as the door opens, revealing Steve and Bucky’s ten year old son, Desmond.
“Dad!” Desmond calls. “There’s people here!”
Within seconds, Steve is walking over to the door. “Alright, Des.” Steve says, ruffling up his son’s hair. “You can go back and sit with your brothers.”
Desmond nods at that, before running back into the room, both Chris and Sebastian spotting Steve and Bucky’s thirteen year old son, Reese, and their seven year old son Charlie sitting on the other side of the room together. There doesn’t seem to be any sign of their four older kids though. Sebastian is guessing that they must be at work or busy with something else.
“Des, no running!” They hear Bucky say from where he sat in the hospital bed. “Steve, I really hope you’ve talked with the doctors about letting me go home soon, cause I really hate it here.”
Steve sighs, giving Chris and Sebastian an apologetic look, before he’s turning around. “Bucky, you’ve got to stay in here for a few more days.” He’s then turning back to Chris and Sebastian and letting them into the room.
Chris hands Steve the bag of newborn clothes. “This should be enough.” He says. “We looked through everything we had stored away, and we actually had a lot more than we first thought.”
Steve takes the bag from him gratefully. “Thank you so much, Chris.” He says. “This is perfect. You’re a lifesaver.” He sets the bag down on the chair closest to the hospital bed where Bucky is sitting feeding their newborn daughter.
“Just what we need.” Bucky sighs gratefully as he looks over at the bag that Steve has set down on the chair next to him. “Once I’m finished feeding her we’ll have to look through it.” He says, looking over at Steve.
“And by we you mean me don’t you?” Steve questions.
Bucky smiles. “Of course.” He says. “I just had a baby that I didn’t even know that I was pregnant with in the first place. The least you can do is look through the bag of clothes for something we can put her in.”
As Chris starts talking with Steve, Sebastian makes his way over to Bucky. “She’s gorgeous.” He says, looking over at the baby girl in Bucky’s arms. “What’s her name?”
“Steve and I decided on Juliet.” Bucky says, smiling down at her. “I always loved the name, but Steve never agreed on that name for our older girls, till now.” He frowns a little. “You know, I’m a little upset that I never knew that I was pregnant with her, I never had time to prepare, but I love her so much already.”
Sebastian nods, moving the bag off the chair and onto the end of the bed so he can sit down. “I guess one good thing about not knowing about her until you gave birth is that you didn’t have to deal with any pregnancy symptoms.”
Bucky huffs out a laugh at that, shaking his head a little. “You’re not wrong there.” He says. “I’ve had some pretty bad pregnancy symptoms before.” He then looks up at Sebastian. “And I hear tell that you are expecting now, correct?”
At that, Sebastian looks at him in confusion, before glancing over at Chris. He guess that Chris told Steve, who in turn, probably told Bucky.
“Yeah.” He nods. “Around two months along I think. And the morning sickness has been absolutely terrible.”
Bucky frowns. “You poor thing.” He sighs, rubbing a hand comfortingly up and down Sebastian’s arm, which surprisingly for Sebastian, it kinda helps, but he’s going to put that down to omega comfort or something along those lines. “I hope that it gets better for you.” Bucky says. “You know, having your alpha home does manage to help a lot. ”
Sebastian isn’t sure whether to take that last part as referring to something sexual, or the fact that alphas being home around their pregnant omegas genuinely does help. He’s just going to take it as both, cause there’s a chance that Bucky was meaning it in both ways.
“Yeah.” Sebastian nods in agreement, despite not truly knowing in what way Bucky was referring to. “It really does.”
He glances over at Chris, who’s still talking with Steve. He must admit, he’s felt a bit better now that Chris has been home, though the morning sickness has still been a bitch, which he’s hoping will subside the further he gets into the pregnancy. Other than that though, he has felt better.
Also, now that Chris is home, he can help out more around the house and with the kids while Sebastian rests. Thankfully for Sebastian though, Chris really doesn’t mind being placed on mommy duties. In fact, Sebastian thinks that Chris secretly likes it. Or at least the part where he gets to look after the girls. Chris has never been really good at tidying up, Sebastian usually always has to go back and clean up the mess that Chris had attempted to clean. It’s just a good thing that Sebastian isn’t an absolute clean freak, where everything has to be spotless. He just likes it tidy enough to not be classed as too messy. In their house, with three kids, three cats, Chris, and now a dog, it’s just impossible to keep the house spotless. Sebastian can only imagine what it’s going to be like adding a fourth child to it all.
A fourth child. One that they weren’t planning on having just yet, but are having now anyway.
“So, you’re older kids at work right now?” Sebastian asks, trying to make conversation.
Bucky looks up at Sebastian from looking down at his daughter. “Laura, Nathaniel, and Abigail are.” He nods. “Harvey is back at home with her son Caleb.” He says. “They all had said that they’d come in and visit later.”
“How’d they take to you having another baby?” Sebastian asks, knowing that it must’ve came as a shock to them that their mother has had yet another baby, especially without even knowing about it himself.
Bucky shrugs. “Surprisingly well.” He says. “Yet rather shocked, obviously, on account of me being in my forties.” He seems to visibly shudder at that. “And they weren’t expecting another sibling, nor were Steve and I expecting to have anymore kids, but here we are.” He looks down at Juliet in his arms, smiling to himself. “I don’t regret having her one bit though.”
Sebastian can’t help but smile at him. He’s truly happy for the older omega, hough he also feels bad for him having to stay in the hospital for awhile longer. Maybe also a little bad because well, he’s got eight kids now after all, that’s surely going to be a lot of work, albeit most of them already being grown.
Though really, Sebastian can’t talk. He’d love to have a lot of kids, but he and Chris haven’t decided on a number. Sebastian is thinking maybe five or six is a good number, and hopefully at least one of them will be a boy.
As Sebastian talks with Bucky, Chris stands on the other side of the room opposite the two omegas with Steve, who he barely notices looks rather stressed. Chris doesn’t blame him. His omega just gave birth to a baby that they weren’t planning on having or even knew about.
“I’m still in shock over this.” Steve sighs, managing to catch Chris’s attention. “I don’t know how we never even realized he was pregnant. Especially after seven kids.”
“It’s not uncommon for that to happen.” Chris shrugs. “I mean, Seb and I never knew about Emma till he was six months along with her, possibly nearly seven months even.”
Steve looks over at him. “I know, it’s just… strange when it actually happens to you.” He says. “We weren’t prepared at all. Not like we’ve ever really been prepared for parenthood in the first place honestly.”
Chris nods, knowing exactly what Steve is on about. He and Sebastian have never really truly been prepared for parenthood despite wanting to have kids. He also doesn’t think that they ever will be prepared, but they seem to be doing the right thing in raising their daughters, and that’s the main thing.
They talk together for about another half hour, Bucky calling Steve over during that time to find some clothes for Juliet so he can get her dressed in them. Luckily all the clothes that Chris and Sebastian had brought for them is the correct size, and they manage to fit the newborn well. Steve and Bucky’s three younger boys mostly stay on the other side of the room playing cards amongst themselves away from the adults.
Chris and Sebastian don’t get going till another ten minutes after that, with Sebastian beginning to get rather hungry and telling Chris that they need to stop off somewhere and get food before they head on home. He also doesn’t want to stay in the hospital for much longer, and Chris knows it.
So they say their goodbyes to Steve, Bucky, and their sons - who just wave their goodbye - before they’re off out of the hospital to go buy food. Unfortunately for Chris though, Sebastian turns out to be a little bit indecisive of what he wants to eat….