A Bounty Hunter's Bundle

The Doctor

"I want you to examine his lower stomach, we will start with that," Valkyrie ordered the doctor, and Lincoln rolled his eye's at his mate's dramatic-ness.

"I'm looking for what?"

"He think's I'm pregnant," Lincoln cackled, " so please prove it to him that I'm not." Though he laughed a pit of worry was crawling through his stomach. The way the female looked at him, and twitched her nose. He didn't like that one bit, nor the fact she didn't reply to either of them.

"Just one minute I need to get a potion for later." She was out in a second and popped back in almost immediately. She set a bubbling  blue tonic on the counter then looked to Lincoln.

"Shirt off please." Lincoln did like wise, and crossed his muscled biceps  as he sat on the table then lay back.

"Exactly how far along would you be?"

"Five days, week at max," Valkyrie responded, desperately wanting Lincoln to be further along. To be sporting a baby belly. To have even just a slight little pudge, anything to give him a reason to defy the king.

Lincoln rolled his eyes, "Please stop supporting him, I'm a guy. Even if I was pregnant how the hell would I get the damn thing out? And how did it...get in?"

She placed her cool hands on his lower stomach, which lately had been rather heated, and slightly bloated. She frowned, then took a strange looking wooden object like a chess peace, and pressed it against his stomach to listen. Her frown grew, "I'm going to need you to pee into that, you too, Valkyrie. "

"You're not serious," Lincoln spit as he got to his feet. She ignored him though and poured half of the bubbly serum into another beaker. Afterward she left to give them privacy.

With a swear Lincoln did what she asked just for shits and giggles. Just when he had finished adjusting his pants again, she came back in. He looked to his mate glowering. He should never had let Valkyrie get so close to him. The brute was nothing but trouble.

She took the beakers from them, before bustling to a different cabinet. "Pink is positive, blue is negative."

"For?"

"A pregnancy," she replied smoothly, and then Lincoln noted her ever so slightly pointed ears, just like the king's, and just like his mates, and even his. He swore. Why had she even done the tests? If she was anything like his dumb mate she already knew if he was supposedly knocked up.

She added a few drops to the mixture none the less and instantly one turned pink, while the other did not. The doctor turned to them slowly, not having to explain anything. Lincoln clutched his chest, a doctor was fucking confirming him--he, a male,--was pregnant.

Lincoln feinted for the first time in his life.

*****

When his mate awoke, he found himself back in his bed with confusion blazing in his brown eyes. "Valkyrie...."

"Yes, my love?"

"Don't call me that," the Bounty Hunter snarled, placing a hand on his lower abdomen, "You knocked me up."

"I didn't mean to, I'm sorry."

"So the king knows?"

"Yes...."

"And wants us to kill it?" Lincoln asked calmly though his mind was screaming at him. He was pregnant! How as this possible! Was there really a baby inside of him!?

Valkyrie nodded sadly, as he sat down next to Lincoln and placed a hand on his finely toned stomach. The smaller man didn't even flinch just sighed.

"I don't want you to listen. I don't want that tonic. I'm not ready for kids, but it's already inside me...." Lincoln squirmed awkwardly at that thought. "I don't want to know I killed my first baby, my first child, my first offspring, especially when he or she is so little and defensless." The warrior's heart was aching at the Bounty Hunter's soft tone. He yearned to kill the king, to save his baby , to do anything to stop himself from having to get that tonic.

"Valkyrie....You are not to get that tonic. Do you hear me? I will not kill...I will not...kill...kill my baby...You hear me?" The Bounty Hunter's eyes filled with tears. Valkyrie leaned in and kissed his stomach, before straighten up to then kiss Lincoln's perspiring forehead.

"I promise you I won't. I don't care that the king says, I will keep you and that baby safe. You two are my everything."