Wintumn- The Baby Bundle

Baby Mine

Prompt: Autumn and Winter find out they're expecting and have a tough conversation
TW: mentions of throwing up
Words:1708

For the last two weeks both Winter and Autumn hadn't spent much time outside of the bathroom due to having food poisoning from their last date night. As soon as one was done the other was in with their head down the toilet. They both were feeling sorry for themselves and neither had the energy to even comfort one another. Much to their dismay Marjorie had rang multiple times to talk about the current nursery drama disturbing the sick pair from their slumber (Autumn sent a threatening text which put an end to the calls).

Over the past few days Winter seemed to be doing much better, he could eat again, he wasn't being sick nearly as often and most importantly, he was able to take better care of his lovely girlfriend who was still feeling very under the weather. "I don't understand Winter!" She complained as she came out of the bathroom for what felt like the one millionth time that morning. "We ate the same thing, got sick at the same time, why have you gotten over it so much quicker than I have, I'm so exhausted and fed up with basically living in that bathroom". She climbed back into bed and snuggled close to her boy. He bent over and gave her a kiss on the head and felt her relax under his touch "I'm not sure darling, how about I run to the shop and get you some stronger medicines, maybe the ones your using have stopped working". Autumn considered this and nodded letting Winter get up and get dressed to leave the house.

The house was empty without him, they had been stuck to each other's hip since getting sick and she felt a bit lost without him being there. She was back in the bathroom with her head down the toilet again when she remembered something. She rummaged the bathroom cabinet and found it way at the back. She had a scare a few months back and begged Winter to get her a couple, just to be safe. She looked at the box nervously, surely she couldn't be. Her time of the month was irregular enough as it is and she couldn't even think back to the last time it had came, her brain became hazy due to being sick so she couldn't think straight enough to count back. She weighed up her options, it was 50/50 it was either positive or negative and the curiosity was killing her. She sat in the bathroom debating with herself before biting the bullet and taking the all important test.

It was the longest two minutes of Aut's life and it felt like Winter had been gone for hours despite it only being 10 minutes. She was pacing the floors waiting for the alarm on her phone to go off, after what felt like years it finally did and now that it had Autumn didn't even want to look. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath and flipped the test over. There in front of her were two dark red lines. She couldn't believe it, okay sure they hadn't exactly been the most careful when it came down to it but Autumn swears they were being safe enough to prevent this, they had to have been. Tears came to her eyes, she wasn't ready for this. She never really had a mother growing up, she got up and left one day leaving her father in charge of her and Reece. She remembers very little about her, everything she learnt about being a woman she had to learn by herself or with the support of her big brother. How could she raise a child when she has no one to mirror. Another thought came to her, Winter, how is he going to react, will he be mad, upset, annoyed, will he still want to be with her?

Her thoughts were interrupted by the door opening and the smooth voice of her love echoing through the house "I'm home my sweet!" Autumn couldn't reply, she quickly dried her eyes and walked back out into the bedroom. "I got you some more medicines my love the doctor said these-" he was cut off by seeing her sitting at the edge of the bed. "What's wrong my sweet? Were you sick again? The things I got you will help a lot I promise" she just stared at him, scared to move, scared to speak. A tear ran down her face and she quickly wiped it away.

"Autumn you're scaring me, what's wrong?" He placed her hands in his and she looked everywhere but at him. "You're going to hate me" she whimpered, feeling so guilty that she could have let this happen, why couldn't they have been more careful. "My love I could never hate you, what has happened in the 20 minutes I was gone, are you hurt? Did something happen in work?" She shook her head and handed him the test, he stared at it and his jaw dropped, his breath hitched and he didn't say a word, "I'm so sorry" Autumn cried, terrified of what his next move would be, she had lost a lot in her life, she couldn't lose her Winter.

"Your-we're-you" he stuttered out, not really knowing what to ask first. "Wait, what do you mean Sorry? Why are you sorry" he hadn't taken his eyes off the positive test still staring at the test. "I'm sorry because you probably don't want this just yet and it's probably too soon" she couldn't look at him. "Aut, we're gonna be parents ". She looked up at that, and he made eye contact with her "Are you okay about all this, you know you have options on what you want to do, as much as I would love to start a family with you, I want you to know that it's completely your choice on how you want to go about this". She was in shock "you're not mad?" He shook his head "mad! No why would I be mad, I'm shocked more than anything, but this could be so exciting for us if you're 100% wanting to have this baby".

The tears came to her eyes again "I'm scared Wint, I don't know if I'm ready for this yet, I don't know how to be a mother, mine left when I was 7 for gods sake I had no women in my life to teach me anything, what if I can't provide for this baby, I've gone my whole life hating what my own mother did to myself and Reece, what if our baby hates me too!" Winter stared at her in shock, letting her pace around and get all her frustration out, she calmed down a bit before he spoke. " Darling I-" she cut him off "Can I be alone for a moment, I'm not mad at you I just need to think" He nodded, walked over to her and gave her a kiss "I'll be in the living room when you need me okay?" Another kiss and I whispered I love you and he left.

She lay on the bed, the test had been abandoned beside her. She thought about everything, really thought about it. She knows Winter would make an incredible father, she's seen him in work and the children adore him, she loves watching him with kids and there's no doubt in her mind that he would be the most amazing person to have a child with. On the other hand, she has a lot of healing to do and a baby is a big deal, she lives with the fear of not being good enough to provide for her little family, she knows she could be a good mother but her insecurities were screaming at her. However, her mind constantly wandered back to Winter and seeing their child grow up with the most amazing man as their dad. She was alone for a long while before she made a decision she rubbed her hands over her stomach "okay baby, let's do this"

She met Winter in the living room who was researching something on his laptop, when he saw her walk in he jumped up to show her what he had found. "Autumn, I know you were nervous but I found all these other options that you could go down, it's really your choice at the end of the day, I found some really good web-". "I'm keeping it" she stopped him mid ramble. He stopped dead in his tracks and looked at her, setting his laptop down "what?" "I'm keeping it, I want to have your baby Winter". He wrapped his arms around her "Your 100% on this, please don't do this to make me happy this is definitely what you want to do?" "It is my sweet, I kept thinking about how good you are with the children at work and I just know your gonna be the most amazing dad to our little one"

Winter beamed at her, he bent down and started giving kisses all over Autumns stomach "I. love. you." He said over and over. He stood up straight again and gave her a long, passionate kiss "and I love you more" he said to her, she moved in for a hug and he kissed her head "At least you know it wasn't food poisoning you had" she laughed at his comment "I think this is the longest I've went without being sick in about two weeks"

The rest of their night was spent talking about what the future would hold, they talked about Autumns insecurities of becoming a parent and Winter gave her constant reassurance that she was going to be the best mother to their baby and he would be there every step of the way. They talked into the late hours of the night, just before they both drifted off winter laughed to himself "what's so funny?" Aut asked. "I bet you ten pounds Marjorie cries when we tell her" Autumn considered this and stuck her hand out for him to shake "make it twenty and we have a deal" he reached over and shook her hand.

"Deal"