Luc/Maggie- WTF AU

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It was about 3 in the morning when a squawk like scream came from the bathroom of their flat that Lucian and Maggie had gotten. it even had a bedroom with no windows at all, up til that moment it was a perfect life they had made.

Maggie came out of the bathroom, the girl had no pants on what so ever and was sporting one of Luc's tee shirts. " Lucian!" panic and bewilderment was abound as she called for him holding a hand full of home tests. " Are you sure that you're type of vampires can't have children the traditional way?" This was fucked. Fucked to hell and back upside down and sideways.

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[light_in_darkness]

"Positive," he said absently, turning a page in the book he was reading, glancing at her briefly. "I've been dead for far too long. Anything resembling viable sperm is long gone."

He did a double take and frowned, finally taking note of her panic. "Why? What's wrong?" He set the book aside and sat up. "What do you have there?"

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She couldn't make herself sit down. If it were possible for Maggie to look any paler she did, in fact the witch looked like she was about to faint right on the spot. She held up the tests all showing various forms of a for sure positive result.

" I..." she couldn't even say it. What the hell was this going to mean for her? For them? She spent almost all of her time with Lucian. "...need a smoke and a hard drink."

[light_in_darkness]

In a blink he was at her side, taking the tests, frowning in confusion. "Pregnancy tests?" He looked up at her after examining them like he was going to be tested on them. "Positive pregnancy tests? What is this Maggie?"

It didn't occur to him in the slightest that he could be the father. Simply because he couldn't. The only vampire to have fathered a child had only managed it because he knocked up his girlfriend within hours after being turned. So what did that leave him to think?

[liveforthemoment]

Lucien pissing on a pregnancy test would have been hilarious to see, and the way he was investigating them might have been a little funny if they whole thing wasn't utterly fucked.

She didn't like that implication there, not in the least. " You're the only one I've been with." she said looking to him. " you're the only one I even want to be with.." it stung and she turned away from him.

[light_in_darkness]

It wasn't often that Lucien found himself on the back foot but the note in Maggie's voice certainly put him there. "Here now," he said leaning around her, trying to get her to look at him. "That's not what I meant to imply. I meant to suggest that they weren't yours?" Yeah he made it a question because he was scrabbling to come up with something logical here.

"Are you pregnant Maggie?" Perhaps it was better to just be straightforward with the questions. That way there could be no misunderstandings. Right?

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She did look to him, looking a little like a kicked puppy. " Like that's any better?" turning back away from him again her arms folding across her chest.

" According to those I am." she said still not looking to him, nothing about this made any sense at all. There was no explanation that she could offer, no reasoning in her normally pretty sensible mind.She could understand Lucien's confusion too and couldn't take it away, which drove her batshit nuts.

[light_in_darkness]

He stepped back and scrubbed a hand through his hair. He was fucking this up. But really, this wasn't a situation he thought he'd ever have to deal with. He chastised himself immediately following that thought. That was no excuse and he would do better.

Coming around to face her, he tried a reassuring expression. "Okay, not the best choice of words. Will you forgive me?" He ducked his head trying to meet her eyes. "Let's start over, yeah?"

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" It's fine." she said after a few moments. " What's done is done." she looked to him as he came around and ducked down to look at her.

" I can't offer anything different even if we did start over. I have no answers other than something is here." she said placing her hand over her stomach.

" I know how important trust is more so given that people you let in could hurt you really badly, so if you've found that you can't trust me anymore... I love you enough to leave, so that you feel safe in your own home." she swallowed hard and brought her hand up to brush tears from her eyes. No sense in beating around the bush now. It would be a bridge they would need to cross and she'd rather do it now before she got as big as a house and couldn't move her self as easily.

[light_in_darkness]

Panic blossomed in his chest. It wasn't a sensation he had dealt with in more years than he could count. Straightening, his expression hardened, arms folded across his chest. Was she really talking about leaving ... about trust? What in the actual fuck was this??

"Maggie," he began in a tight tone, his fear making him harsh and sharp. "There isn't a fucking question of trust here. It didn't occur to me at any time that you've stepped out on our relationship. And if you're asking if I want you to leave then the answer is abso-fucking-lutely not." Still frowning, he scrubbed his hand through his hair again.

He hated her tears and hated that he might be the reason for them. But this whole thing went off the rails in a quick hurry. "Alright," he sighed. "Come on. We're going to restart this entire fucking conversation because this has gone to shit." Scooping her up before she could protest, he carried her bridal style over to a comfortable overstuffed chair that had seen many hours of the pair of them snuggling together.

Sitting down, he kept her in his arms and held close. "Okay. So you're pregnant and I'm the dad. Great. That's been established. No, I don't think you broke trust with me and I don't want you to leave. That has also been established. What next?"

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Even though he didn't mean to sound harsh, it hit her poorly because of everything happening. Her head lowered and she just started crying harder. " I 'm...sorry." she said.

and Protest she would have done had he not scooped her up. It was oddly calming, and she laid her head against his chest.

" I don't know." she said trying not to tear up all over again. " I am scared, I don't know what to do, I don't know what is going to happen. I do know I love you so fucking much it is killing me that all of this is just...like it is.."

[light_in_darkness]

He kept her tucked in close, trying to be as soothing as he could manage despite the panic and uncertainty that was attempting to take over. "You don't have anything to apologize for. I fucked this up in every possible way." He brushed a kiss over her forehead. "Just do me a favor. Be gentle when you're telling the kid about this moment years from now."

While he tried to lighten the mood, his mind was racing. What did women do when they were pregnant? Fuck that. What did a witch do? And for a baby that was, somehow, half vampire? He didn't know the first damned place to start with any of this. And what kind of shitty start to father hood was that?

"We'll get this sorted out," he said quietly, as for for Maggie as for himself.

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Shit, that's right. The thing they thought was an issue to be boggled over right now, would grow into a child. The thought was enough that she did stop crying and stared for a second.

" No, the whole situation is fucked up." she said calmly, bringing the heel of her hand up to swip at her face. She'd need to look into the lore books to see if there was any sort of recorded event like this before. Surely, she wasn't the unicorn in the witch world.

She could sense that he was just as rattled about everything as she was. She tilted her head and kissed him on the chin.

" Regardless, we've got this. You don't have to try and make any worry lines in that beautiful face."