Fake It Until You Make It Real

Eighteen

This took forever because I kept coming back on whether to publish or not due to the somewhat debatable parenting that happens in here. I just think this particular Harry as a doctor and as someone who is compensating for a horrible mother may be a bit too honest with his daughter but also have a good reason to be so here it is.

Harry woke in the middle of the night in a dark room disoriented as he looked at Louis who directed his head to Maddie standing beside the bed for too innocently.

"Yes Maddie?" Harry asked rubbing his face tiredly.

"Daddy I've thought about and I've decided I want a baby sister. I already have a brother with Freddie now, so I want a sister. I had a dream about it." Louis started laughing behind him and Harry just groaned burying his face into the pillow.

"Okay baby. I'll try my best." Harry mumbled.

"You better daddy because I don't want another brother. If I have a sister, I can help LouLou dress her up and I can stay home some days with her since LouLou won't work."

"Sounds good." Harry said, "wait what."

"Maddison sweetheart when I said you can come talk to me any time, I didn't actually think you would make three AM our deep conversation time." Louis said pushing himself to sit up and look at her, "also I will still work, not right away, but I will."

"But my mom doesn't work, and you'll be a mommy."

"I'm already a mommy. I've got Freddie."

"Yes, but daddy is the breadwinner." Harry burst out laughing, his shoulders shaking as Louis pinched his side, "you can stay home and be a stay-at-home mom and live off my Daddy's paycheck like my mom does." Harry tried really hard to cover his laughter but by the pinching and twisting at his side he knew he failed.

"I'm not anything like your mother sweetie. I actually like to work; I went to university for a reason not to sit around. Also, she doesn't live off his paycheck, she lives off his child support check and trust me she won't be living off it for long. Once that new amount hits her, she'll be living off Daniel's paycheck."

"But who will watch the baby?"

"Maddie is now really the time to have this conversation. We haven't even had this conversation yet." Harry said looking over at Maddison, "Louis isn't pregnant and won't be pregnant for at least a year. We have time to discuss this and when he is pregnant, we will still have nine months to talk it over."

"But I have so many questions daddy. Like how are babies even made? How does a whole baby get crested inside a person? It's crazy."

"A baby is created when a person who can carry a baby ovulates which means the ovaries releases a mature egg carrying an x chromosome. A man's sperm will enter a tube and it will have a race with all of the other sperms and it will fertilize the egg which over a nine-month process will create a baby." Harry said sleepily making Louis stare wide eyed at him though he didn't notice.

"How does the sperm get inside the tube?"

"Well technically after sex the race begins and all the sperms race towards the tube to the egg though most of the sperm doesn't make it very far."

"Is sex the only way to have a baby?"

"No there are many different ways however sex is the more traditional way."

"It sounds gross."

"Okay. Anything else?"

"Yes. How fast is your sperm?"