The Slash Stories

Nothing Like Family (Baby Daddy FtM)

He loved his life. He was free to do what he wanted. His brother didn't remember when he had a sister, and Riley was just as young as he was when it happened. Ben was happy though. 

He was probably three when the "phase" as his parents had originally called it started. He asked his mother to stop buying him dresses and skirts, and if he could have shorter hair. She frowned at first, but Ray had assured her that he was just looking up to his older brother, so she complied. When he was four, he asked if they could stop calling him Beverly. Ray complied by calling him Benji instead, and his mother called him Ben. 

When they went shopping for school clothes when he was almost five, Bonnie tried to get him to go to the girls clothing section. He refused and had a huge tantrum in the middle of the store. To shut him up, Bonnie dragged him over to the boy's section instead.

Danny and Riley would occasionally slip up, and call him Beverly, but it didn't happen after a few months. His parents met with the principal and worked out an agreement where the teachers called him Ben instead of Bev. So his life was nice. From ages 3 to 12 he had been a boy. His own brother didn't even know that he had a girls body. 

Once he hit twelve, things started to change. He had woken up one day and noticed that his underwear had blood on them. He had screamed, and his mother had barged in, wondering what had caused him to make the noise. She saw and explained that it happened to every girl when they were becoming a woman. He broke into tears after that, repeating a mantra of "But I'm a boy," over and over again. Bonnie had scheduled an appointment with the doctor the next day.

The doctor had done a good job explaining what was happening. She said that he was transgender, and recommended puberty blockers, and hormone treatment. His mother looked slightly saddened after that, but she went along with it anyway. She said that his dad's insurance partially covered for the expenses of the hormones, but she always came home later after that.

He was fifteen when he started binding. He had researched, and the best option he could come up with was wrapping an ace bandage around his chest. It worked for some time, but then his chest started hurting, and his parents started to notice that he was short of breath. They demanded that he take his shirt off, and they told him that he'd have to take it off until they found a better option.

His parents bought him his first binder, and it came in the mail. There weren't many hitches in his high school career after that. The teachers were supportive (or they didn't comment on it at least), and his classmates never knew any different. 

Eventually, he met Tucker Dobbs. Tucker was a great roommate and a better friend. He never told him about his situation, and Tucker never asked. He convinced his friend to follow his dreams, and it seemed to deepen their friendship.

 A few years later, his brother moved in. The doorbell rang, and there was a baby on his doorstep.

"Whose baby is it?" 

"The note says that she's yours, bro," Danny responded, holding the letter out for him to read.

"You had a kid with Angela?!" Tucker screeched. 

"N-" he was cut off by a knock on the door. "It's mom isn't it?! How'd she even find out?!"

"Nah, it's probably just Riley," Danny responded.

He never did get to explain that Emma wasn't his kid. No matter how adorable she was. His mother showed up an hour later. 

"Why is there a girl saying that you got her pregnant?" She shouted as she barged into the apartment.

"Because there's a baby, and they fooled around this is what happens without birth control," Tucker explained, waving his arms about. 

"It's not possible for you to have children!"

"I️ know that," Ben responded, staring at the baby in Riley's arms. 

"How is not possible?" Danny's gruff voice called out.

"I️ don't have a dick!" Ben shouted, feeling his chest tighten as his voice went up two or three octaves (like Ben Platt to Sandra (from Baby Daddy) but not as high). He sat on the couch and put his head in his hands in embarrassment. His voice hadn't gone that high since he was twelve.
(A/N according to my research this isn't something that would happen, but it sort of adds, so sorry)

"Benji, how long has it been since you've had your hormone shots?" Bonnie asked, throwing her arms around him. "You know how you get when your off them. The thing starts, and you start yelling, and the other thing that happened."

He knows what she means. The last time he had his period, he had fallen deep into what he likes to call, "deep dark Ben." He had scars to remind him. Danny's voice rang out, "What's a hormone shot? OW!"

"I️ haven't been getting enough money from my tips, so I️ haven't been able to afford them for about six months. I️ didn't think it would unravel this fast." Ben sighed into his mother's shoulder. He faced his friends. He could feel eyes on him, and it was uncomfortable. None of them had ever known him as Beverly, and he had wanted to keep it that way.

"Were you Beverly?" Riley asked in a soft tone, obviously trying to keep from upsetting him. 

"I️ was never Beverly. It was always Ben." He replied, voice shaky.

"I️ still don't know what a hormone shot is. And whose Beverly?" Danny asked, face frowning in confusion. 

"A hormone shot is what I️ take once every two-ish weeks. I️ take testosterone so that my appearance stays male. I️ don't want my body to switch back to an estrogen dominant system." Ben told his older brother, rolling his eyes at his obliviousness.

They went out and bought stuff for Emma, and then Ben went back to work. Danny called him and said that Angela would appreciate if Ben would pretend to be the father of the baby. When asked why she responded that the actual father was recently imprisoned for serial rape. 

Ben agreed, and he somehow ended up spending the night alone with the child. She had grown on him by the next day, and he asked if they thought he should keep her. Riley had responded with an excited yes, and Tucker looked like he knew it was going to happen all along.

No one talked about how he was trans after that. It was like they had made a silent agreement to not talk about it. His mom helped him get enough money for his hormone shots. 

Riley and he started dating at one point (Riley was more skilled than he thought). The relationship had fallen apart many times, and he realized that Riley was in love with his brother. He hadn't felt that good about what he had done, but it was worth seeing Riley happy when she started dating Ross.

He hadn't liked Ross though. Ross acted like he was better than everyone else, and smirked at him whenever he had the chance. It was like he knew that Ben was different, but that couldn't be possible. His birth certificate read Benjamin instead of Beverly, and he put "male" on everything he could get away with (his doctor requested that he put "female" on his sign in sheet when he came into the office).

"Riley tried the girl, but now she has the man." Ross sheared at him, eyes feeling like ice against warm skin. "Isn't that right, Beverly?"

"My name is Ben, and you should leave now. We don't tolerate harassment at Bar B on B." Ben responded, pointing to an agreement sheet next to the door. "Every customer agrees to it when they walk in. We can call the cops and have you taken out for doing that."

Ross smirked, and stood up, "until next time, Bev!"

Ben felt his chest constrict. No one had called him Beverly in years, and then in comes Riley's boyfriend, and suddenly he was reminded of when his best friend had found out. He had asked why his chest was jiggling, and Ben had told him that he couldn't bind for a little while. His friend had called him a freak after that, and they never spoke again. 

Ben had later gotten into a fight with the other man. They took it out into the hallway, and he accidentally punched Ross. Ross punched him back, saying, "Too much of a girl to fight back, Beverly?"

Riley had gone to punch the older man after that, but Danny beat her to it. Ross was knocked unconscious.

"Thanks, Danny," Ben said as he let out a breath that he didn't know he was holding in.

"Anytime, lil' bro," Danny smiled back at him.