Juniper

Forty Nine

"Raphael go away," Juniper pointed to the door.

"Why the fuck should I?" he crossed his beefy arms tightly while narrowing his eyes down at her. She glared right back up at him.

"I want to pee in peace!" she stomped her foot.

"I already know the little fuckers in there," he pointed to her womb. "I can smell him!"

"If I had to pee in front of you, I would. But if I have the choice between the options I choose no." Juniper gripped the tests given to them by the witches on the island.

"Can't I just sit-"

"No."

"I can hear you when you pee anyway-!"

"Ugh! Raphael why do you listen?"

"That's besides the point I can hear when the dog shits outside it's not a god damn choice."

Juniper glowered, pointing to the corner of the bathroom. "Stand there."

Standing begrudgingly in the corner, it took a mere five minutes before the tests were set out.

Sitting in the now closed toilet, the berserker pulled his mate into his lap. She sat sideways and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"How romantic."

Raphael snorted quietly while staring at the main event of the night.

"Can we watch a movie with popcorn?"

"How can you even think of a movie tonight? I'm shitting myself right now." Juniper could feel his anxiousness, especially with his knee jumping beneath her.

"Good thing we're on the toilet," she giggled wildly at her own joke. Raphael rose a brow at his normally sarcastic and dry mate, of whom which he loved just how she was, but he surely got a kick out of her wide smile.

Her smile fell a bit as she looked at him expectantly. "But seriously, movie marathon with popcorn."

Raphael gruffed lowly, then Juniper's face softened and she held his cheek. "Why're you so nervous?" her head tilted curiously. Her blue curls were wild today, falling over both of their shoulders. Raphael found himself hoping their children inherited that feature.

"It's just... it's actually happening," he muttered. "It's nerve wracking I don't know how you sat on this for even longer than me."

Juniper observed her male, gray eyes flickering over his worrisome face. Lifting his chin a bit, she pecked his lips gently.

"You've calmed all my nerves that I've had for months now, Raph. You have to be forgetting all of that if you think I'm not freaking out?" she smiled down at him. "I think we were so wrapped up about him being a thing that you forgot about the steps we take to get him here. I've thought about the pregnancy, I know more about it and what to expect so it's okay to be nervous, handsome."

Shoulder slumping, his sighed a little while nodding.

"You have to tell me everything, need to know how to take care of you," Raphael grumbled. Juniper pinched his cheek, "Okay I will but let's worry about this part first, you want to do the honors?"

She checked his watch to make sure the ten minutes had passed.

Raphael inhaled sharply, nodding in response while looking at the three tests in front of them.

Holding his breath, he gripped them. Juniper turned her head away, eyes shut tightly to wait for him.

Raphael made a strangled noise from the back of his throat.