masanari | [Futurelandia] An Eventful Valentines and beyond (happy new year)

[Good job. So proud of you, mate.]

Technically eight or nine weeks.

[They'd met a little before Christmas, and then there was all of January, and the current half of February. Her math might be a little off, but.]

So it probably happened during one of the first times we had sex.

[ Okay so it would be beyond lame for him to ask how does she know it's his, right? Totally like way more than beyond lame. So he doesn't say it even if he's thinking it really hard right now to the point that he's pretty sure it's telepathically broadcasting.

But also like.

What the fuck? ]

Right. [ A beat ] Why're you keeping it?

[ That was probably something not meant to be sad. But he asks his anyway because that plan she just outlined was weird and insane and what was their future now??? Is it their future??? or hers??? or what?????? ]

[She wasn't fucking anyone but Koji nine weeks ago! Hell, she didn't really sleep around now, either! But as if that logical possibility wasn't enough to contend with his actual question is so much worse.]

Why wouldn't I?!

[She sounds as outraged as she feels at the mere suggestion. And to be fair, it's not as if she hadn't considered the possibility, so it has nothing to do with a moral or even religious standing. She just couldn't imagine actually doing it, it didn't feel right so she wasn't going to get rid of her own child like it was trash to be thrown away.]

Look, your life isn't the one that has to change because of this, what are you even freaking out about?

[ Why indeed?

... and man, this had been a good day. Koji groans, and more or less not sure how to respond to either of those he covers his face in his hands and flops to lay on his back on the bed next to her. His hands remain over his eyes, but he shifts them so he can speak without his hands covering his mouth. Seriously...

Why indeed?

About the kid and about the freaking out? What even were him and Veronica? It feels like it would be lame to ask that too. Did she know and he was ignorant or were they both in the dark? ]

I'm not freaking out.

[... His vocabulary solely consisted of 'what the fuck' for at least five minutes.]

Mmhm.

[It's not a point she'll bother arguing.]

I'm so not.

[ Said the petulant teenager with his hands over his eyes groaning there and ignoring that judging look he knows that you have there mate, he can see it in his mind's eye.

In a way, he wishes she would bother arguing, or shift the dynamic here... but he'll need to, won't he? After all, she's more fucked up than he is ]

[He deserves the judging look. She will never apologize for it. Veronica will be that 89-year-old version of Rose from the Titantic and she will not apologize for the look he feels on her face without seeing it.

... But even though she hadn't even vaguely hoped that Koji would be happy or excited about this, she can't keep up this faux strength either.]

Koji.

[He's not good with emotions, and neither is she. What an awful set of people to be parents.]

I don't want anything to change between us.

[But it will, won't it? He's not going to be interested in her when she's huge and probably uncomfortable and depressed all the time. There's no arranging, cleaning, or sorting that she can do to fix that.]

[ He groans, and perhaps ironically for how they normally operate his choice of words as he sits up, trying t regain his composure is, ]

Oh fuck me.

[ But it's not an order, more an epitaph for how much of an ass he is and how much of an ass he's being here and how he really needs to step it up but at the same time it was such a good day?! He was going to come home and fuck her and kick off a new and glorious chapter in his life. And now there's this and he's mildly afraid Jasmine will call his phone instead of texting it and just make all of this way more stupid. Or Junko will come in and make it more stupid. Or both.

He's just- ]

Are you at the point where you feel sick all the time yet? [ He groans and shakes his head.

... What the fuck is between them? She knows, right? Right? So why doesn't he? ] I could do... something.

[Hey, he's free to go along with the first part of that if he can recover from the awkward mood, and if the idea of a tiny, eventual human in her doesn't make his dick wilt! Right about now it'd be a comfort to know that he's still into her.

She sniffles at his question, and shows him a set of big, watery eyes.] What?

[What????]

N-No, I'm fine! I mean, just sometimes in the morning but it goes away.

[So he's not going to ignore her? Or start dating his sister?!] Koji ...

[She's so relieved that it's almost pathetic. Her mate doesn't hate her!!]

[ How is he supposed to think anything negative with those eyes. Honestly, it just makes him feel more like an ass and ... and he doesn't know what to say here other than he should try to turn this around into being happy, or at least acceptable after she just went and blindsided him. It would help if he knew what they were. Were they even mates? Junko seemed to think so and he figured maybe but.

Did Veronica know?

Well okay, let's put a smirk on his lips and, ]

In a way, it's pretty awesome I knocked you up first. Plus I did it before anyone else did in the house.

[ His father was in the midst of a painful reversal of a vasectomy because he wanted to do that himself, and he beat him? Bad...ass??? ]

[It had been very easy to keep from crying out of fear or sadness but it's very difficult to keep from crying from relief! What girl wants her mate to be upset with her?! Which is to say: Of course she knows. But she doubts he wants to hear it so ... She'll just keep it to herself like usual!

When he actually frames it in a proud sort of manner she goes back to her usual, beaming self.]

Exactly! And it's not like Yamato's even done it! And isn't it important for a pack to have kids?

[Is it wrong of her to use their brotherly-ish rivalry to her own advantage? Maybe. But anything that keeps this going is her goal.]

[ Koji's not very dense, in a way he knows he's being exploited here, but even as he's aware of it, it's impossible for his emotions to feel anything but proud when she points it out, is eyes betraying him in particular in how they sparkle. But he quickly shakes his head, exhales hard through his nose, and then leans up and forward to wrap both his arms around her, a move too affectionate to be purely sexual.

Was he the stupid one here? Or were they both stupid?]

Right? Right. His fucking seed didn't even catch for you, it was too late then.

[ She probably meant in general. But all the same, even if it's stupid his heart can't help but sing that out ]

[For what it's worth she knows he isn't that dense either, this is very much an angle they can both relate to in order to make the situation better. Because even if it's sort of bullshit she can't help adoring the excitement he's showing her. Is it really so wrong to want to produce those sorts of reactions in him? The answer is no.]

Nope, you'd already laid claim there, so no one else stood a chance. I bet your dad couldn't have even done it.

[That feels like an incredibly bold, verging on wrong sort of thing to say considering she takes her loyalty to her Alpha quite seriously. But she's relieved and Koji's holding her and she's happy, so just this once she'll speak out of turn and squeeze him back a little. He probably has no idea how scared she was of being left behind again.]

[ It is, but at the same time he sort of wants to say something sweet to her, kind and out of character... but he can't pull it off right now, not yet. Maybe he will after they run this around a little more. He squeezes her tight, burying his face not in her boobs but more in her neck so that she can't see his face.

... But that was, ]

Holy shit, babe.

[ That was incredibly un-artful on his part but still ] ... Still, true.

[ still un-artful, but the laugh he has afterwards, a bit strained at first but then going into genuinely mirthful and happy but on the verge of insanity did show it made an impact ]

[She's not trying to look at his face anyway, so he's safe!]

Definitely true.

[When he laughs she just smiles stupidly, but then ends up laughing along with him so they're both just giggling limbs and she has to move her face from his hair to actually take in air. He might be on the verge of insanity but she doesn't know what to do with her own relief. She'd really been so terrified of bringing this up to him and now it's over and done with and everything is going to be fine. She doesn't know how, but it will be.]

Koji.

[There's an 'I love you' that fits here, but she doesn't say it.] Can we kiss now?

[ Can they kiss now?

Please. She just said that his seed would beat out his dad's, that's more than enough reason to be all over her even if he's not quite sure how to handle this new information or what this means for his life. He tilts his head so he can look at her out of the side of his eyes, smirks, and then pulls back from her shoulder to get an arm behind her head, tilt his, and then connect with her lips, lingering there in...

What's admittedly a soft, affectionate kiss for his standards. Mean to silently reassure her more that he wasn't going to trash her. To say I love you even if he didn't know the words himself yet. ]

[Considering that he's been off banging his ~~slut~~ sister that's not the sort of kiss she'd planned for. But it's ... Nice. Really nice. She sighs indulgently and finally relaxes whatever little bits of tension might have remained and squeezes him as if Koji were trying to run away from her.

And while she's perfectly happy to indulge in all this gentility but! Veronica's quick to flip them around so that she's on top.]

Are you done [She talks around kissing.] humoring Junko?

[Who is jealous of that irritating, pompous, needy little bitch? No one. Clearly.]

[ Wow, that is a reversal. The young man isn't necessarily surprised though, and he also isn't necessarily guilty either, because this was something he had always planned to toy with her over, to see where it went. Or at least a personal stake he had in all this. He should really...

feel worse than he does?

But as he's pinned a little with her on top of him, he smirks against her lips, opening then wider as it gets a bit more heated. They both enjoyed that soft kiss so he could be a little harder ]

Well she's not here, right?

[ That doesn't answer her much but... that's also the point a little bit ]

[He should feel awful, she just doesn't expect him to because, well, it's Koji.]

Even if she is here don't you think you've comforted her enough?

[She's smiling faintly, but there's a tempered sort of threat in her voice, like she'd never dare to be aggressive to Koji outright, but her universal love for everything and everyone is beginning to crack around the edges.]

She's got her own mate to deal with her, you know.

[And Rin's still here so there's really no excuse. Do you even know how long you were gone, Koji? Over four hours. Four. Hours. It was awful. And now all your dumb clothes are clean, as a result.]

[ He suspected that she would get back at hime somehow or another. That was a budding dynamic they had, really? Him and Veronica had more than one dynamic, but that was one of them - and he's not sure if that's a good or bad thing, if they should just settle on one.

... He's not sure of a lot ]

I can't help it if she's needy.

[ He was tempted to point out that she invited him, but he dosn't ]

[But it would be too easy to simply get back at him for this, to her that's an almost friendly tit-for-tat, there isn't even any real aggression in it. This is a little more serious.]

When exactly did you grow a heart of gold?

[That tone of hers is getting worse.]

Or rather, why does anyone else get even a part of that?

[........ She sort of wants to punch his sister.]

[ Is this a good or a bad thing?

He's not sure where his feelings fall now with the added mental burden of her pregnancy and her mounted on top of him. He considers for a long moment, and... ]

Are you saying you've not been considerate here and there?

[ He experiments with a reversal here, suggesting that while it's not a big thing with her, it's not like they are exclusive to each other, per se. He decides to put on a somewhat impish look ]

[She pouts.]

It's not the same!

[It's not even vaguely the same at that! It's like if she went and banged Yamato and became as infatuated with him as Nariko was!]

You'd be bothered too if I started drooling over your dad.

[This is a bad example since she actually, uh, does sort of do that?? She's just restrained about it, is all.]

[ And, unlike his idiot brother, Koji is perceptive, probably too perceptive for his own good given his famous dearth of (at least visible) empathy. And as such, he gives her a look.

As if to cast doubt on that ]

[...]

You're right. [She can't even maintain the idea, that's how flimsy it apparently is.] ... You'd probably just watch, now that I really think about it.

[That or join in. Augh. This is what makes Koji so difficult!]

he's just usually such a little shit I think this temporary change in dynamic is amazing

It's a struggle for him to be anything less than "sweet" to her he's so mush

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But the chain of pregnancies tho so sentimental here

reacharound kindness

It's so sentimental tough it's funny to imagine how the ideas we had before go but hey there's time

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