caroline | jimercury

caroline.

A/N: Hello lovies! This is my second jimercury oneshot and I'm really excited about it. It's nothing special but I really tried to do something fluffy again. This is about Freddie and Jim adopting a child. Maybe it's going to have a lot of factual mistakes, I don't know how adoptions really work all around the world, so have that in mind. This is just me trying to do a cute thing. I hope you enjoy it! x

caroline

"Freddie, you need to calm yourself down." Jim started, while reaching his hand. He squeezed her a bit, trying to comfort his partner. "It's going to be just fine."

"Nobody likes me at first sight, you know that." Freddie let go of Jim's hand and continued on taping his fingers on his knee. "They pretend to like me because I'm Freddie Mercury but that's that."

"That's not true!" Jim looked at Freddie, trying to distract him. However, he kept taping and taping.

"Right, says the man who told me to fuck off when we first met!" Freddie said and then he laughed gently. Jim laughed too and then squeezed his hand again. This time Freddie didn't remove it.

Jim and Freddie were sitting at the couch waiting for Mrs. Pierce from the institution. She had called them the day before and Freddie was having a constant panic attack since then. When he and Jim decided that they wanted to adopt a child, they always knew that it wasn't going to be an easy process. They decided to know some institutions and they soon understood that they had to adopt a child older than a new-born baby. They were fine with that, they just wanted to share their love with someone.

Freddie applied alone because he had to be like that and they went back home. And now, a week later, they had a child. Freddie was shocked, he never taught that the process would be so fast. And he was terrible mad about not building a decent room for the kid. Jim was trying to play cool for his boyfriend but he was also terrified.

"She's going to hate that boring room and I don't blame her! She's going to be taken away from us after the first month of experiment, mark my words!"

"Freddie..." Jim softened his tone. He was the one purposing the idea on the first place and now he was scared that Freddie didn't want any of that. "If you don't want do this we still have time to walk away."

"What?" Freddie gasped and turned his body to face Jim. He was clearly shocked with what he had heard. "I want this too! I never thought that I would want this because I have never met someone like you. Someone that could give me the urge to be a parent of a real child and not just a thousand of pets!"

"Are you sure?" Jim gently asked while looking Freddie in the eyes. His eyes were beautiful, Jim was always marvelled when he looked at them. "I don't want to pressure you into doing something that doesn't make you comfortable."

"Darling, it was your idea but that doesn't mean that I don't want it. I just..." Freddie stopped for a while and rolled up his eyes. "I care about what she's going to think about me. I want to be her father and not her funny uncle, we already have Roger for that. And I know that something like that is going to take time but I'm afraid that her first reaction... You know! I could use a cigarette right now."

"Me too but we can't. She must be arriving soon Freddie."

"I didn't tell them." Freddie said, biting his inferior lip gently. He was very nervous and couldn't let go of Jim's hand. Now he was the one squeezing it. "They have no idea and I don't know how to tell them. Maybe if it all fails we don't need to tell them, right?"