Halex/McSummers Prompts

Chapter Twenty Two

A/N- I'm still alive! I know its been awhile... school life is hetic but the worst of it past and I'm back baby!

Hours after they have welcomed their first child. Of course, they're still at the hospital, Person A is asleep. Person B has some time alone with the baby and they didn't allow themselves to cry or become very "sappy" earlier, but now their partner is asleep, Person B doesn't care. B just lets it all out and Person A was awake the whole time and hears everything, but pretends they are asleep.

Chapter Twenty Two:

Jules was a surprise.

Don't get them wrong, she was a good surprise but still a surprise. They didn't know that Alex was able to get pregnant in the first place. It wasn't until Alex could barely keep his food down and was sleeping all hours of the day that they realized that he had a secondary mutation.

It took a while for Hank and Alex to even get together.

Hank was so insecure of himself, he would spend days in his lab not eating or sleeping. Alex didn't like the fact that he would try to lock himself away because he thought he was a monster so Alex did what he thought was the right thing to do in this situation. He made sure to bring him lunch and dinner everyday.

Hank didn't notice at first, he was so focused on his project that he didn't notice someone even entered the room and was surprised when he turned to find a tray of food sitting on the table beside him. He didn't know who was doing this until he purposely kept an ear out so he could find out who it was. It was probably Charles anyways but he just had to confirm who it was so he could thank them. He always looked forward to the meals and felt bad that he never showed his appreciation in the end. It was a like a punch to the gut when he heard the door open and he looked up to see Alex with the tray in his hands.

The blond had froze, clearly not expecting for him to catch him and he quickly placed it onto the table beside him. "What are you looking at bozo?" He snapped when Hank only continues to stare at him. "You, thank you for the food. You do care about others." He says with a smirk and Alex scowled at him but his cheeks were a bright red. "Whatever, just eat your damn sandwich." He snipes and flees the lab with Hank still smiling behind him. It was like a barrier fell down between them and they started to get together and talk. It got to the point where Alex spent all of his free time in the lab, talking and asking questions on what the brunet was doing.

Hank found out that Alex was a good listener even though at times he didn't understand he was saying, he still listened. Sometimes he would reply, sometimes he didn't and most of the time what the blond replied with was actually really helpful. Alex shrugged, his feet swinging back and forth as he was sitting on one of the tables when Hank finally asked him why he was so good at that. "My foster sister would usually complain when I was younger. I was forced to listen to her whine about stuff that she couldn't tell her parents and I started to comment back. If I was going to be forced into it, I might as well be helpful." He says.

"I would have never known." He says and the blond gave him a small smile. Alex didn't smile much at all, haunted by the memories in his past that dampen the spark to make him smile. Hank hopes that he will smile more, he remembers Sean saying that it was his goal to keep him smiling. "Why don't you ever let anyone know the real you?" He finally asked and he sees the smaller teen hesitate. "I don't know really. I guess I'm so used to people only wanting me for my looks that I just stopped trying to let people know the real me. They were never interested to know me." He finally says slowly as if he was convincing himself.

They both had their issues no doubt but they fell in love with each other.

Then Alex became pregnant.

He didn't react as bad as Hank thought he would. Matter in fact he accepted it pretty quickly, sure he still couldn't quite believe that there was another human being growing inside of him until they did the first ultrasound. Hank was so scared, he was big and blue. He really hopes that the child doesn't get any of his genes but he never voiced them to Alex, not wanting him to become even more stressed then he already was. Charles knew of course, how could he not? He was a telepath. He made sure to sit him down and tell him not to worry, that they still didn't know how mutants fully worked. For all they could know, the child might have completely different powers then from the parents.

And then she was born.

She was born on June twenty fourth at five in the morning. She was three days early from her due date but she was still amazingly healthy. Hank smiles at the memory of Alex reading books and making sure he was healthy as possible so she could be. Hank knew better than to say anything different other than he was going to be a great parent. Hank was worried about that they were teenagers, but they weren't alone. They had Sean and Raven, Charles and even Erik. The German apparently loves children to the surprise of everyone and made sure that the blond was comfortable as possible.

Right now Hank was sitting in the chair beside Alex's bedside with Jules in his arms. She was so tiny in his arms but she was sleeping soundly, finally. She had wanted to be in Alex's arms when she was born and Hank understood that. They had a closer bond right now, built over the nine months, but he still had plenty if time to create a bond with her. He looks up to see Alex sleeping, he wasn't surprise the birth took a lot of energy out of him.

Jules whimpers and he hums, bouncing her gently not wanting her to cry. "Shh baby girl, you need to let your daddy go to sleep. I know you just want to be in his arms but I'm here." He whispers, not wanting to wake the other. Tears prickle at his eyes and he smiles down at her, she was so beautiful. Hank can already tell that she mostly looks like Alex, but the looks in her eyes shows that she might be intelligent. "The world isn't kind. It doesn't accept people like us but we are out there. I know we won't be the perfect parents but we will try our hardest as you grow. We will most likely fight, hate each other at times, and you might feel like we don't understand you but just know that we will always love you no matter what."

Little did Hank know was that Alex was awake. His head was turned away from his boyfriend and he smiles as Hank whispers to their little girl. Alex knew he was going to be a great dad, Hank always doubted himself and worried about financial problems but Alex knew for a fact that they weren't going to regret having their daughter even though she was definitely not planned. Alex knew everything was going to be perfect in the end.

There was no doubt about that.