So like, I can't stop writing these?

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"William Solace - di Angelo!" Nico exclaimed, laughing. "Paint goes on the walls, not my face!"

"Oops?" Will shrugged innocently. "It's just, they look so similar I got confused." He walked over to his husband, pulling him into his arms and tilting his head up.

Nico leaned down for a kiss before pulling away suddenly and swiping his paintbrush across Will's face, laughing hysterically.

"I feel so betrayed right now." Will fell to his knees slowly, grasping his heart. "You wound me." He fell onto his back and closed his eyes, seizing dramatically.

"Oh no, whatever shall I do?" Nico rolled his eyes, sarcasm dripping from his lips before going back to painting the walls.

Will slowly shuffled his body over to where Nico was standing and tapped his husband's leg softly. "Psst. You're supposed to wake me with true love's kiss." And then pretended to be dead again.

"Oh my gods, why did I ever agree to marry such a dork?" But he put his paintbrush down and straddled his lap anyway, leaning forward and connecting their lips together, arms braced against the floor on either side of Will's head.

Will attempted to deepen the kiss, but Nico pulled away. "Wake up Prince Charming." He kissed Will's pout away for another minute before standing up and getting back to work. "Her due date was literally yesterday, we have to get the nursery painted."

"Fine." He sighed dramatically, flailing his arms before standing up and grabbing his paintbrush and standing directly behind Nico, wrapping one arm around his husband and using the other to paint the wall.

"Will?"

"Yes, darling?"

"You know this is probably the least productive way to paint a wall, right?"

"But the most fun, am I right?" He nuzzled into Nico's neck, peppering soft kisses.

"Save it, Romeo, or you'll be painting the room all by yourself. We could literally have our daughter tonight, is it so bad that I want her to have a nursery put together and ready for when she comes home? I just-"

"Shh, I know, love. Why don't you get started on dinner and I'll have this room done faster than you can say vaffunculo."

"Umm, Will, honey?" Nico tried his best to contain his laughter. "I don't think you understand what that means?"

"It means 'you're my favourite person' doesn't it?"

"Go fuck yourself."

"Nico! We've talked about this. No swearing because we don't want our daughter picking up your horrible habits."

"No, that's what it means!" He burst out laughing.

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"We should be sleeping, who knows when the next time we will be able to have a decent amount of sleep will be?"

The nursery was all painted, the house was baby-proofed, and now they were waiting.

"I know, I'm just so excited and terrified, and what if I'm not ready to be a dad? You're around kids every day, I don't even remember the last time I held a baby." Nico finally confessed his insecurities. "I'm the one who will be home all day with her, what if I drop her, or mess up, or-"

"Shh."

"But-"

"No ifs, ands, or buts. I have a month off work, we will figure this out together. I'm scared to, okay? But that's okay, we have each other, and we will just take it one day at a time." Will pulled Nico against his chest, wrapping his arms around him. "We love her, that's what matters. Everything else we can learn along the way."

"Okay."

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"Will!" Nico shouted, racing quickly to the bedroom.

"Is it time?" Will slipped on a shirt, running his fingers through his hair.

"It's time." Nico couldn't stop smiling as he leaned down and kissed Will.

"Well let's go!"

"Cuore mio?" Nico looked at Will. "Pants might be a good idea."

"Oh. Yeah." Will threw on the closest pair of jeans before grabbing Nico's hand and dragging him out to the car.

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Alicia didn't want them in the room while she gave birth, which was understandable, but it was making Will incredibly anxious, not being able to see what was happening.

"Love, sit down, you're putting everyone on edge."

Will stopped his pacing and noticed all the other people in the waiting room sending him glances. "Sorry." He took the seat beside his husband and they sat quietly, grasping onto each other for hours.

Finally, Alicia's mom came into the waiting room, walking towards them. They got up and met her half way. "Is she healthy?" Will asked.

"I'm sorry, but Alicia decided she can't go through with this. She's keeping her."

Nico felt his heart break. A tear slipped down his cheek. He heard Will send her away with a tight voice and he managed to lead Nico to his office in the floor above before breaking down. They held onto each other like their lives depended on it, bodies wracked with sobs.

Deep down they knew that this was always a possibility, they had heard stories of it happening to other couples. But Alicia was only seventeen, she had seemed so sure that this was what she had wanted. They didn't think it would happen to them.

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Will finally went back to work today, it had been a week since that day in the hospital. Nico was sitting on the floor of the nursery. He felt ridiculous mourning the loss of someone who he had never met, who never belonged to him. But that hole in his gut was still present.

That morning he had made the mistake of going through Alicia's profile, through the photos she had posted of her little girl, Samantha. Before he knew it he was tearing the nursery apart. All the toys they had purchased were thrown into a box and taped up shoved into the closet. He was angry.

Angry at the system, at the inequality of the whole system, at Alicia. It had taken them a year to find her, and the months of waiting for the birth, and they were left with nothing. It wasn't fair.

Will found Nico asleep on the floor of the nursery when he go back from his shift at the hospital. He simply layed down beside him, holding him close.

"Will?" Nico's voice cracked.

"Shh, just get some rest." He breathed in Nico's scent, hand running through his husband's hair, as they both drifted off to sleep.

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A/N:

Please don't hate me just look at the pictures of my puppy being a brat and making it hard for me to type instead.

Also, this is clearly before Casslin joins their family, when they first start trying to obtain small humans.