FIC: Seahorsies
Title: Seahorsies
Pair: Clex
Includes: Mpreg! and deadly cuteness
Summary: Lex explains seahorses to Kon.
Prequel to Batfan and Daddy’s Mommy’s Day
and it all started from jh_july001’s Crazily Adorable Clex Family picture
Word Count: 436
Prompt: second child/pregnancy
Seahorse Daddy
“When seahorses mate, they first court one another for some time. Swimming side by side, curling their tails together, dancing. Eventually they court more intensely, dancing with one another. Then during the dance, one seahorse deposits eggs into the other seahorse, and once he has the eggs inside of him, his pouch will fertilize them. There he’ll keep them, protecting them as they grow, until they are ready to come out and meet the world.”
Kon twisted his fingers and blinked up at Lex, who smiled at him softly. The young boy reached over and touched the front of Lex’s shirt. “A pouch?”
“Sort of. Inside.” Lex lifted his shirt, where his lower abdomen was beginning to swell very gently, and allowed Kon to explore with his fingers.
“There’s babies in you?” The boy’s voice went high with astonishment.
“Yep. Two of them. Papa put them in there. Like he did with you.”
Kon pressed both of his hands to his daddy’s tummy and tilted his head to the side. “They must be so tiny!”
“They are,” Lex confirmed. “Right now they are, but they’ll get much bigger. And so will I, as they grow.”
Solemnly, Kon nodded, and then scooted closer and hugged his daddy’s middle. Lex put his hand on Kon’s soft black hair and petted gently. He had meant to wait and to tell Kon about the twins with Clark, but the boy had seen him getting ill, and Lex could not allow the boy to worry about him. At only two and a half, Kon was observant and very attached to his parents.
Lex wrapped his arms around his son, and held Kon close to him, rocking him a little. This second pregnancy was starting out much harder than the first, but he had Clark, and he also had Kon, who reminded him what the reward would be when it was all over. When pregnant with Kon, Lex hadn’t believed that he could love his baby any more than he did. And then Kon was born, and placed in his arms, and he discovered that he had been so very wrong. Now he had Clark, and Kon, and the two little ones inside them, and whatever darkness had passed before paled and disappeared in the light of the close-knit family that Lex had always wanted.
Maybe it wasn’t how he would have, or could have, imagined it would come. But come it did, and after the surprise of Kon, he and Clark had chosen to have these twins, and open their family to two new little lives, and even more love.
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Pair: Clex
Includes: Mpreg! and deadly cuteness
Summary: Lex explains seahorses to Kon.
Prequel to Batfan and Daddy’s Mommy’s Day
and it all started from jh_july001’s Crazily Adorable Clex Family picture
Word Count: 436
Prompt: second child/pregnancy
Seahorse Daddy
“When seahorses mate, they first court one another for some time. Swimming side by side, curling their tails together, dancing. Eventually they court more intensely, dancing with one another. Then during the dance, one seahorse deposits eggs into the other seahorse, and once he has the eggs inside of him, his pouch will fertilize them. There he’ll keep them, protecting them as they grow, until they are ready to come out and meet the world.”
Kon twisted his fingers and blinked up at Lex, who smiled at him softly. The young boy reached over and touched the front of Lex’s shirt. “A pouch?”
“Sort of. Inside.” Lex lifted his shirt, where his lower abdomen was beginning to swell very gently, and allowed Kon to explore with his fingers.
“There’s babies in you?” The boy’s voice went high with astonishment.
“Yep. Two of them. Papa put them in there. Like he did with you.”
Kon pressed both of his hands to his daddy’s tummy and tilted his head to the side. “They must be so tiny!”
“They are,” Lex confirmed. “Right now they are, but they’ll get much bigger. And so will I, as they grow.”
Solemnly, Kon nodded, and then scooted closer and hugged his daddy’s middle. Lex put his hand on Kon’s soft black hair and petted gently. He had meant to wait and to tell Kon about the twins with Clark, but the boy had seen him getting ill, and Lex could not allow the boy to worry about him. At only two and a half, Kon was observant and very attached to his parents.
Lex wrapped his arms around his son, and held Kon close to him, rocking him a little. This second pregnancy was starting out much harder than the first, but he had Clark, and he also had Kon, who reminded him what the reward would be when it was all over. When pregnant with Kon, Lex hadn’t believed that he could love his baby any more than he did. And then Kon was born, and placed in his arms, and he discovered that he had been so very wrong. Now he had Clark, and Kon, and the two little ones inside them, and whatever darkness had passed before paled and disappeared in the light of the close-knit family that Lex had always wanted.
Maybe it wasn’t how he would have, or could have, imagined it would come. But come it did, and after the surprise of Kon, he and Clark had chosen to have these twins, and open their family to two new little lives, and even more love.
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