#am i emotionally ready to write the b******g kink that i know in my heart is a part of this?

[bropunzeling]

when the rat baby ficlet comes (this is me manifesting it) I WILL CRY so HARD girl leon is soooooo important to me i just think!!! look there's living proof of how much leon and matthew love each other!!! love is stored in the rat baby!!! love is stored in the lower body injury!!!

love IS stored in the lower body injury!!!!!!

the thing is i think if i DO tackle rat baby (big if. big big big if. not sure im ready to tackle kid/pregnancy fic quite yet!) there is so much interesting and meaty stuff there: building a life together together instead of always slightly apart because now theyre on the same team! deciding that now is when you want to have kids instead of later - and boy could they get into some fights about that. matthew not wanting to impose his desires because like. leon is the one who will (a) be literally growing a baby and (b) have to contend with missing some of the last few seasons of skating in her prime and he doesnt want to be the reason that happens even if he also wants to have kids. versus leon being like, no you have to decide too, you have to say you want this too, the whole point of being married is not making these decisions on my own. the scary adventure of figuring out if you really are ready for having a kid in the first place. leon as the crankiest most annoying pregnant person alive. (sandra comes to help out and is like you are my child and i love you and i AM gonna shunt you off on your husband as soon as he gets back from this road trip). leon perhaps going into labor while matthew is on a road trip for the drama? the actual cup run itself! balancing having a new baby and the sports high of your life! all culminating in going public because fuck it, you have a cup, secret marriage and secret baby not so secret anymore.

and, of course, all the horny shit they get up to to facilitate having said lower body injury in the first place. they get freaky with it.

big if!!!!!! but. i Think about it.