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Christmas eve, Louis woke up when he heard a door slamming shut and seconds later the door to the still dark bedroom opened and in walked Harry. He had Ian on his baby sling and was holding a small cake with a number two and seven candles and as soon as he noticed Louis was awake, he started singing happy birthday. Louis sat up smiling so big hearing Ian babbling and continuing when Harry finished letting Louis blow out the candles.

"Happy birthday babe!" Harry put the cake on the bedside table leaning down to kiss Louis almost squeezing Ian in between them, "It's daddy's birthday, peanut."

"My first birthday I get to spend with you, pumpkin! Come here." Louis gave Harry a kiss before he grabbed Ian to hold him close to him seeing he was still in his Captain America pajamas.

"Pretty cool, huh? Tomorrow it will be his very first christmas too then new year's eve, my birthday and then his birthday." Harry happily said watching his two loves.

"Yeah! Now how about we cuddle for a bit and then make breakfast." Louis suggested letting Harry take Ian so he could get up and freshen up a bit.

When he got back, Harry was on the side of his bed with Ian finally sitting on his own right in the middle of the bed playing with Harry's fingers. He would let out little screams whenever Harry would try to pull his hand away finding his father's rings rather fascinating. When Harry pulled them away to reply to a text from his dad, Ian looked up at him before he started crying and let himself fall to his side while they watched him with raised brows.

"Ian." Louis started as he made his way there sitting next to him, "Baby don't be so dramatic." He said without even bothering to pick him up just watching him laying there.

He was still crying while Louis wanted to laugh seeing he didn't even have tears until Harry was done texting then reached for him dragging him back to him by his little feet. Ian's cries suddenly turned into a giggle when Harry grabbed him and lifted him up into the air once again playing airplane with him knowing how much his son loved to play it.

"You little liar! Yes you're a liar!" Harry put him down on his chest to tickle his sides laughing along with his son.

"And little liars don't get christmas presents from Santa." Louis said out of nowhere managing to get Harry to stop laughing.

"What?! No! It's peanuts very first christmas!" Harry exclaimed.

"Too late." Louis shook his head trying not to laugh.

"Too bad." Harry sighed lifting Ian again to kiss his cheek then placed him back down on the bed in between Louis and himself.

Louis laid down intending to go back to sleep for a little bit more but couldn't when Ian rolled onto his tummy then got up on all fours seeing Harry quickly grabbing his phone. They watched how he rocked himself back and forth before stopping and staying there just looking at Louis' tummy until he lifted his little arm up but before he could even move, he lost his balance and face planted on the mattress

"At least he tried, that was progress." Harry proudly said grabbing the remote to turn the tv on leaving it on MTV now that they were actually playing music videos, not some of their shitty tv shows, "You did a wonderful job! I'm very proud of you, peanut."

They laughed when Bad Reputation came on and Ian sat up on his own facing the tv and stared at it until he lightly started bouncing up and down. He would stop to take a break whenever he would get tired then continue until the song was over and Harry was so proud of himself for having caught everything on video. When it was over, he finally turned around on his tummy then dragged himself until he was next to Louis nuzzling his little face on Louis' stomach making Louis run his fingers through his curls hearing Ian sighing in content.

"I think he misses his old place." Harry cooed, "Too bad you had to kick him out."

"He owed me rent, nine months Harreh!" Louis joked just as Pour Some Sugar On Me came on and Ian lifted his head up before resting it again on its old spot and sucked on his thumb pouting when Louis replaced it with his pacifier.

They stayed in bed for thirty more minutes listening to music loving that they were showing the classics until Ian started getting fussy. That's when Louis decided it was time to get up to make him a bottle then fed him while Harry made breakfast and when he was done, Louis placed Ian in his high chair putting gerber puffs on his tray. Ian stared at them until Louis grabbed one putting it in his mouth and that's when Ian did the same.

His eyes widened then swallowed letting Louis know the puff had dissolved in his mouth then watched him pop another one in his mouth. When they were done eating, Harry changed Ian out of his pajamas then himself before going outside to shovel snow out of his driveway. When he walked back inside, Louis had Ian in front of their christmas tree wearing a red onesie with the words My First Christmas and white and red striped pants. He was taking picture after picture while Ian happily posed for the camera.

"How many outfits do you have?" Harry asked making Ian squeal as soon as he saw his father still wearing his thick jacket.

"A few, I am going to take pictures of him wearing all of them. They were gifts from everybody and I'm going to give them pictures. I got him this one." Louis answered without even bothering to look at him.

"Oh! So that means I can change him into the one I bought him!?" Harry suddenly exclaimed then ran to their bedroom coming back with a white onesie and a shirt for himself.

"Let me see." Louis got up extending his arm and as soon as he looked at them he burst out laughing, "Nut Cracker, Son Of A Nut Cracker. This is hilarious! Put your shirt on and let me change him." Louis gave him the shirt back then picked Ian up to change him into the onesie.

As soon as they were dressed, Louis took a few pictures of them and when Harry pulled out matching sweaters for all of them, Louis' whole face brightened and gladly put it on to take pictures. When they were done, Louis dressed Ian into the onesie Des had given them that said Who Needs Santa When You Have Grandpa knowing Des was going to love it getting a picture.

When he was done they took a shower and after Louis dressed Ian in his first outfit, they finally got in the car and left heading towards Anne's house. They had piled up all the presents in the back of the car and some near Ian making sure he couldn't reach them or he would ruin the wrapping paper. While doing so Louis couldn't help but feel like someone was watching him and when he looked around he didn't see anybody wondering if it was just his imagination. They finally got in the car passing a shiny black SUV that was always parked there assuming it was the neighbors.

As soon as they walked into the house, Ian smiled when he saw Des and extended his little arms wanting to go to him while his grandfather was hugging and wishing Louis a happy birthday. Des hugged Harry rubbing his back then took Ian giving him a kiss on the forehead taking him to the kitchen followed by Louis and Harry.

"Is that my baby boy? Yes he is!" Anne exclaimed as soon as she saw Ian quickly moving to take him then started tickling him making the baby laugh the looked at Louis reaching to hug him, "Happy birthday, sweetheart."

"Thank you, Anne." Louis hugged her back letting her kiss his cheek frowning when Ian grabbed a chunk of her hair, "Ian be nice to nana."

"Oh let him! He's just a baby, my sweet sweet baby." Anne kissed his chubby cheek.

"Don't let that cuteness fool you, I don't want him to think it's okay to pull on people's hair much less Gemma's kids." Louis gently told her seeing her nodding in agreement.

"You're right, Chase could get a bit aggressive towards him and he's just a baby." Anne sighed hugging Ian closer to her.

"He's still with those violent spurs?" Louis asked remembering Gemma telling him about Chase's sudden aggressive outbursts towards his siblings and parents, especially Melissa who was younger, smaller and overall defenseless against her older brother.

"Yeah, they don't know what else to do. They've tried everything but so far nothing has worked." Anne said just when they heard the loud chattering of Gemma's kids followed by Louis' side of the family.

"They're here." Louis smiled heading to the living room followed by Anne seeing Harry and Des already there.

"Uncle Lou! 'appy birfay!" Melissa shouted running over to him holding a gift bag in her small hand then latched onto his leg letting Louis pick her up.

"Thank you princess! You look really pretty." Louis smiled then kissed her cheek getting one too.

"Uncle Lou, happy birthday!" Mason hugged him around the waist smiling when Louis crouched down to hug him and thank him never seeing Chase throwing himself into the hug fest until it was too late and Louis fell back on his bum.

"Chase!" Gemma scolded him getting ready to pull him away.

"It's fine Gems, he's just excited." Louis said then looked at Chase poking his side, "You're just an excited boy, aren't ya!"

"Happy birthday...and tomorrow is christmas! Santa's coming!" Chase shouted right on Louis' ear and that's when Christian pulled him away.

"You're going to make Uncle Louis go deaf if you keep shouting like that right on his ear." Christian chuckled then picked him up seeing Gemma with Ian already in her arms.

Louis got up letting the kids play then was immediately hugged by his sisters then Gemma wishing him a happy birthday, Christian hugged him as well then felt his mum's warm arms wrapping around him making him feel safe.

"Happy birthday love! Gosh you just keep getting older and older, already twenty seven!" Jay gushed.

"Mum! I'm not that old." Louis exclaimed feeling her tightening her grip around him.

"I'm so proud of you and no matter how old you get, you're always going to be my baby." Jay finally pulled back and Louis could see she had tears in her eyes.

"Don't cry okay. Its supposed to be a happy day." Louis said then seeing everybody had gone back to the kitchen he finally asked the much dreaded question, "Did you talk to dad?"

"We did and all I can tell you is that I feel like a heavy weight was lifted off my shoulders. We agreed on visitation days for the girls and he'll see them only if the girls want to see him. He told me all of you really liked his son, that baby is your brother after all." Jay gave him a small smile.

"At first I didn't consider him my brother but with time I realized that Aaron is my father and he's my brother too even if we're not related by blood." Louis shrugged then smiled, "He called me earlier and sang happy birthday to me, it was pretty embarrassing but I loved it."

"That's the only thing I admire about him, how he never stopped loving you and considering you his son. Not everybody does that." Jay said making Louis feel the urge to just come clean about what he had gone through while pregnant with Ian.

"Harry would have done the same thing." Louis said before he could chicken out not wanting to keep keeping it a secret from his mum.

"When you first found out you were pregnant." Jay nodded remembering that day as if it had been only yesterday.

"No...I- please don't get angry at us okay?" Louis nervously said grabbing his mum's hand to go and sit on the couch.

"Sweetheart, what's going on?" Jay asked starting to get nervous.

"I wasn't sure who Ian's father was until after he was born, I told you he was Harry's because Harry convinced me to. He told me he would raise Ian as his own even if he wasn't his and that he wanted to try and be a family. When Ian was born Collin showed up in the hospital and demanded a DNA test, he then tried to lie to us by bribing the lab technician but we had already registered Ian as Harry's son and they had a DNA test done too." Louis explained seeing his mother getting angrier by the second.

"That...that son of a bitch. How dare he!" Jay said holding her son's hand in hers, "Oh love, I can't imagine what you must have gone through."

"He told me Ian was his and I- I don't know, I wanted to die but Harry cleared everything up and turns out the asshole had been sterile all along and that's why his ex husband divorced him. He- He wanted to use my baby so his father would leave everything to him. Thank god he's now in jail for fraud." Louis sighed in relief when he finished explaining.

"Oh love, I'm glad everything turned out good for you and Harry. He's such a wonderful young man and I couldn't ask for anyone else for you, he's just perfect for you." Jay smiled.

"He was annoying at first but you're right, he is wonderful." Louis blushed seeing his mother smiling.

They ended up having dinner later that night then stayed to open all the presents they had brought, that christmas was when the tree had looked smaller with the amount of presents surrounding it. Harry had gone crazy taking pictures of everybody opening their presents with the camera Louis had gotten him. Louis had Ian on his lap while the pile of presents for his son kept growing around them and when he had tried to get him to open one, Ian had only banged on the top of the box as he babbled gibberish then blew spit bubbles with his tiny lips.

Harry had ended up helping him open them while Gemma took pictures of the happy family wanting them to have memories of Ian's very first christmas. Mason and Chase had tackled Harry down when they opened their WWE ring inflatable bouncer begging every adult to set it up for them until Des cave in taking it from them. They had spent the rest of their time there jumping on it and trying to wrestle while Christian watched them to make sure they weren't hurting each other.

Louis' sisters had thanked them over and over again making Louis roll his eyes hearing Lottie and Fizz already making plans to go to Sephora and now even more when their dad had also given them money for christmas. They were still having a great time sitting in the living room and talking about anything until Louis and Harry absolutely had to leave when Ian fell asleep right in Jay's arms and the rest of the kids were upstairs.

When they got home Louis quickly changed Ian into his pajamas then placed him in his crib making sure to cover him with his blanket before helping Harry bring all the presents inside. The living room looked like a toy store after they finished bringing all of them inside and without saying anything, turned the light off and went to bed already exhausted from the long day.

The following morning was spent all day in bed too lazy to get up and by New Year's eve, they were forced to stay home when a snowstorm had hit the night before burying everything in snow. Louis was just glad they had gone grocery shopping two days before and had enough stuff for Ian not wanting to run out of diapers much less formula.

The very first day of the year, Louis was sprawled on the couch watching a random SpongeBob episode while Harry was taking a nap on the other couch and Ian was asleep in his playpen. It wasn't long before Ian started to slowly wake up and once he did, he sat up on his own and looked around in confusion.

A few seconds passed by where he couldn't see any of his daddies or anybody feeling abandoned before he burst out crying and rubbed his left eye with his tiny fist. Louis quickly got up to pick him up as he checked if he needed a new diaper then walked straight to his bedroom to change him leaving Harry still passed out on the couch with his mouth wide open.

"It's okay, pumpkin. Daddy's here." Louis cooed as he rubbed his tiny and sweaty back letting him rest his head on his shoulder.

He grabbed a new onesie then set him down on the changing table quickly changing him then struggled to put his new clothes on when he wouldn't stop squirming. He went as far as trying to sit up only to have Louis put him back down in the same position again making him let out angry cries and try and roll over onto his tummy. Louis barely had time to hold on to him keeping him from falling off the changing table making Louis feel dizzy from the scare.

"Stop it!" Louis scolded him finally snapping then felt bad when Ian startled and stopped moving looking up at him with wet eyes and a trembling tiny bottom lip before he finally burst out crying.

"I'm sorry baby." Louis sighed finally zipping the onesie up all the way then picked him up to cuddle him, "You scared daddy, he got so scared. I thought you were going to get hurt, I'm sorry."

Ian immediately stopped crying and snuggled up against Louis as he rubbed his back and when he was calm again, Louis went back to the living room seeing Harry was still asleep. He took a seat on the couch with his son on his lap then grabbed one of Ian's books called Guess How Much I Love You smiling when Ian's attention was immediately on the book.

"Big Nutbrown Hare settled Little Nutbrown Hare into his bed of leaves. He leaned over and kissed him good night. Then he lay down close by and whispered with a smile, "I love you right up to the moon - AND BACK." " Louis finished reading as he kissed his son's cheek then let him play with the book then looked up seeing Harry awake and staring at him.

"Morning." Harry grumbled as he changed positions so he was facing them.

"Good evening." Louis smirked hearing Harry groaning then watched him getting up and sitting next to him where Ian looked at him before going back to chewing on the upper left corner of the book.

"How long was I asleep?" Harry asked feeling a bit disoriented.

"About three hours, Ian took a two hour nap too." Louis informed him before giving him to Harry then kissed his husband's forehead before getting up to make a bottle for Ian.

When he got back, Harry was laying on his back with his legs bent at the knee and Ian was resting against them with the book still in his hands. He was tickling his sides making Ian squirm and laugh then out of nowhere, he threw the book at Harry's face making Louis flinch when it hit him on the forehead then landed on his chest. It was quiet for a few seconds where Harry stared at Ian with a blank expression yet his face was getting redder by the second.

"Ow! You little shit." Harry closed his eyes taking deep breaths letting Louis take their son, "I think I'm bleeding! Your son is a demon!" Harry rubbed on the spot while Louis tried not to laugh.

"He didn't mean to do it, my pumpkin is an angel." Louis hugged his son tight against his chest never loosening his grip even though Ian was squirming trying to set himself free. "And you're not bleeding, you just have a red mark where the book hit you."

"Which will be a bruise by tomorrow. It hurt like hell...still hurts." Harry kept complaining then dried the unshed tears from his eyes when Louis wasn't looking.

"And he's very sorry." Louis knelt down next to Harry putting Ian closer to Harry while Ian babbled away, "See? He says he's very sorry and he loves your frog face so so much."

"I do not look like a frog...and he doesn't look sorry at all." Harry grumbled seeing Ian staring at him with two fingers in his mouth then took them out giving Harry a bright smile, "Aww peanut, come here." Harry took him in his arms again kissing his cheek.

Harry grabbed his son then the bottle to feed him then smiled when Ian placed his tiny hands on the side and held it himself making his parents proud of him. After Ian was fed, they let him on the carpet so he could play while they had a quick dinner that Louis put together in record time.

They were keeping an eye on Ian now that he could move and would get into everything then out of nowhere they stopped eating him seeing him getting up on all fours. Louis set his plate on the side table getting ready to get up in case Ian knocked his head on the floor but it wasn't necessary when his son finally crawled. They were slow but steady and after what felt like forever, their son finally made it to where they were sitting and sat down in front of them just watching them.

"Don't worry, I got it on video!" Harry shouted next to him.

Ian only stared at Harry as if he was crazy then crawled away towards the side table and before Louis could stop him, the baby grabbed the lamp cord and pulled on it making the lamp fall right next to him. Harry almost dropped his plate wanting to get up and see if Ian was hurt but when he only heard his giggles, he relaxed seeing Louis looking at their son.

"Ian, what the hell!" Louis shouted getting up to pick him up and get him away from the broken lamp, his beautiful lamp that matched the other one but now he only had one.

"See? Demon." Harry laughed then immediately stopped when Louis glared at him then gave him the baby so he could clean up.

"We need to do something about these cords, I don't want him to get hurt or something." Louis sighed watching Harry holding their son before he got up and put him in his playpen where he focused his attention on all the toys he had in there.

"I think it's best if we get rid of the lamps, we have a perfectly working lamp in every room." Harry said pointing at the ceiling.

"Okay, but not the ones in our bedroom, he can't get to those." Louis said smiling when Harry agreed with him.

A few days later they had baby proofed the whole house again when Ian managed to unplug a scent freshener then Louis' laptop while he was finishing his work and Harry was supposed to be watching him. Louis had shot up from his spot just as his son was about to put the charger plug in his mouth managing to take it away, Ian had startled before he burst out crying out of anger.

They couldn't even keep their eyes off of him for longer than a minute since that was enough time for Ian to find something to put in his mouth no matter what. Now the glass doors of their tv stand were filled with Ian's tiny handprints as well as the body length mirror they had in their bathroom where Ian liked to look at himself and lick it. He would sometimes disappear from their sight then they would find him in their bathroom in front of the mirror banging on it and giggling to himself making faces at it.

To them it seemed like the months were quickly passing by when Harry's birthday got there faster than usual and Des had organized a big dinner for him that had Harry all excited. He had gotten many gifts from everybody including Liam. Niall and Zayn who teased him about getting old.

Anne had made the biggest cake for him while Des had cooked his favorite meals, Harry had had a hard time trying to contain all his happiness. Later that night, Louis had given him the best blowjob ever then had let him fuck him until Harry was so sure his dick was going to fall off at any moment.

By mid february Louis had gone into panic mode when he realized the wedding was seven months away and he had done absolutely nothing to plan it except picking their honeymoon destination. He had relaxed when Harry had suggested he hire a wedding planner knowing they were going to be too busy with work and would barely have time to plan a whole wedding.

Once that was done they were able to focus back on their work and raising their son who was too handsy for his own good and always kept getting into trouble. He had broken Jay's favorite lamp then Anne's kids with solar fireflies figurine from her garden that she was so in love with. Both Louis and Harry had apologized many times and offered to replace them but their mothers had shrugged it off telling them it was okay.

The day Ian decided to stand up on his own was when Harry had been sitting on the couch with his legs propped up on the coffee table now that Louis was out with Zayn. He hated it whenever Harry put his feet near it and now that he wasn't home he saw that as his chance never seeing Ian making his way to him. He only noticed him when Ian held onto his legs and with shaky legs stood up babbling gibberish as a form of greeting to his daddy.

"Hello peanut." Harry gave him a lazy smile trying not to move his legs and ignore the way his son was pulling on the hair rather harsh causing a bit of pain. "How are you this fine afternoon, son?

"A-da!" Ian babbled then smiled at Harry before shoving his fist in his mouth.

"Now how the hell do you do that..." Harry wondered fighting the urge to put his own fist in his mouth but didn't knowing it wasn't going to fit.

"Da!" Ian lightly bounced up and down almost losing his balance but Harry steadied him again with his leg.

"I don't think daddy's gonna be too happy when he finds out you're finally standing up and he wasn't here to see it. Why don't we keep it secret and you do it again when he gets here." Harry blew Ian a kiss then wiggled his toes making the baby laugh and reach for them with no success.

When Ian finally got tired of standing up he let himself fall back on his bum then crawled away as soon as he saw his giraffe by his playpen. He sat down and started chewing on the ear then both father and son looked up as soon as they heard the door to the garage opening, one of them quickly scrambling to sit down like a normal human being. Harry smiled when Ian let out a squeal as soon as he saw Louis then dropped his giraffe and crawled towards Louis who was already crouched down with his arms open waiting for Ian to get there.

"Hi pumpkin! Did you miss me? Daddy missed you so so much!" Louis picked him up and kissed his cheeks over and over again until Ian was pushing his face away, "Hey babe! How was he?" Louis got up to sit next to Harry giving him a kiss on the lips.

"He was great." Harry said eyeing his son when Louis placed him back on the floor.

Ian looked around before he held onto Louis' pant leg then slowly stood up making Louis gasp out loud and watch him until his son was standing right in front of him. They wanted to laugh seeing how tiny and cute he looked all on his own then out of nowhere Louis started feeling an ache in his chest.

He realized his son was four months away from turning a year old and the thought that soon his baby will start being more independent and will need him less and less caused him to feel sad. He burrowed against Harry who wrapped his arm around him remembering when Ian was just a newborn and all he did was cry, poop and eat.

He couldn't even move anything but his head and only to the sides then his little limbs that would just wave around when he still didn't know the hang of it. Now he was actually standing there in front of them, still with help but he was standing nonetheless and that made Louis feel so proud yet so sad.

"Why can't he stay a baby forever?" Louis heavily sighed.

"I don't know but I wish he would." Harry answered watching Ian looking around with curiosity in his bright green eyes.

Louis then smiled as he reached for a plastic bag wanting his Reese's pieces moving his legs in the process and before Harry could stop him, Ian had already lost his balance falling to the side and hitting his head on the coffee table. The baby whimpered putting a small hand over the spot then his tiny face scrunched up letting out the loudest wail they had ever heard.

"Oh baby, I am so sorry!" Louis quickly picked him up and held him close as he rubbed on the tender spot, the baby's cries getting muffled by the fabric of his sweater.

Ian kept crying inconsolably wrapping his tiny arms around Louis' neck while his father rubbed his tiny back, tears pooling in his blue eyes feeling more than guilty for having hurt his baby boy. He kept mumbling I'm sorry's while Harry watched at the same time he was rubbing the spot on Ian's head until his cries reduced to hiccups. Louis pulled him back kissing his forehead then with frantic yet soft movements, he wiped the tears away with his thumbs ignoring Ian pushing his hands away.

"Hey...babe, it wasn't your fault." Harry scooted closer to them wrapping an arm around his husband.

"Yes it was. I shouldn't have moved my legs." Louis looked down then at Ian who was now playing with his fingers completely fascinated at how much bigger they were than his own.

"No it wasn't and see, he's already over it. Don't beat yourself over it, love." Harry leaned forward to kiss his cheek then tickle Ian's side making him squirm and let out a giggle making Louis smile.

"I still feel bad though." Louis said.

"He already forgave you." Harry gave him the sweetest smile he only reserved for Louis.

Louis returned the smile before leaning forward to kiss him again before pulling back to hold Ian closer. He let Harry fully hold them in his warm hold where they spent the rest of the afternoon until they got too hungry and got up to eat something.

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