#gotta finish IS quickly so I can have a peaceful date with RA later

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New Life With the Mad King- Part 4

Summary: Mad King goes to the bar with his younger brother, Rimmy Tim, in their civilian identities. A drunken MK gets intimate with a man who looks like his guilty crush. Turns out the man actually was his crush, and their actions lead to unforeseen consequences. Perhaps the consequences will be what permanently defeats the Mad King.

Part: 4 of 6?

Word Count: 2,493

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As the next month went by, Gavin and Ryan fell easily into their new relationship. Not much changed from their prior domesticity, but now cuddles and gentle kisses were shared, as well. It was pure bliss for the two of them. The biggest focus for the pair was now just getting through the rest of the pregnancy.

One day after about a month of dating, Ryan came back to the penthouse after a day’s work. He saw Gavin lounging on the couch in one of his t-shirts. “Gavin, we need to talk about something,” he said as he walked over to him.

Gavin muted the TV and turned towards hm. “What is it, luv?”

“It’s just that… well… as much as I like seeing you wear nothing but my t-shirts, I think that you need to get dressed in more than that,” he said.

Gavin rolled his eyes. “Psh! It’s not like I’m going anywhere.”

“Actually, you’re eighteen-week check up is in a few days, and you’re going to need to get dressed to go to that.”

“Oh… Well, all I have with me are my civilian clothes and my super suit.”

“But, it’s not like you’re going to fit into either of those, right now.”

Gavin scowled. “What are you trying to say.”

“Hm?” Ryan asked and raised an eyebrow?

“Are you saying I look fat?!”

“What? No! Gavin, you’re eighteen weeks pregnant and you LOOK very pregnant.”

“I’m not fat!”

“No sweetheart, you’re not fat…” Ryan started.

“And I’ll put on my super suit to prove it!” Gavin shouted as he stood up. He hurried to the room where he was keeping his suit, wobbling slightly on the way.

Ryan sighed and sat down, he knew the suit wouldn’t fit. So, he figured he’d wait for Gavin to come back so they could discuss dinner for the evening. “I BLOODY TOLD YOU IT WOULD FIT! NOW I’M GONNA SHOW YOU!” Gavin shouted from the other room, ten minutes later. Ryan raised and eyebrow, curious if the suit was able to stretch over Gavin’s rounded tummy, when he heard a faint ripping noise. After the rip, Gavin let out a loud wail.

Ryan quickly got up and rushed to where Gavin was. He was on his knees, on the floor, sobbing.  “Oh, what happened?” Ryan asked as he joined Gavin on the floor.

“It ripped!” Gavin croaked through the tears.

“Oh, honey,” he said as he pulled Gavin close. He cradled Gavin in his arms, shushing him and rubbing his back. “Is there anything I can do to make you feel better?”

“I want tea.”

“Okay, I can brew you some of our caffeine-free tea.”

“Want grape tea.”

“Oh.” Ryan said in surprise. “Well, we don’t have grape tea at the moment-” he was interrupted by Gavin’s whimpering. “BUT,” he continued. “I can make sure we have grape tea ready to brew by tomorrow afternoon. Okay?” Gavin softly nodded to answer. Ryan leaned down and kissed him on the forehead. “You’re going to be okay.”

The next morning, Ryan went down to the lab to put together caffeine-free grape tea for brewing, telling Gavin he’d be ready by around one pm. Mixed grape leaves with grape extract and added a few other herbs the would be beneficial during pregnancy.

He finished brewing Gavin’s tea around 12:50. He poured himself a cup so he could make sure it was safe before Gavin drank it. When he finished pouring the cup. He heard something loud fall on the floor. He set the cup down so he could turn to see what fell when he heard a “FREEZE ASSHOLE!”

Ryan quickly pivoted and saw X-Ray standing there in a fighting stance. “X-Ray?! What are you doing here?! I wasn’t plotting some nefarious-”

“I know you have Vav captured here and are hurting him, Mad King!”

“Captured?” Ryan asked in confusion.

“Yeah, our suits have damage counters and there was a giant tear down the spine of his suit and Hilda was able to track that the tear happened at Monarch Labs. So, I know you’re keeping him somewhere!”

“Hm, I’m genuinely impressed that What’s-her-face can keep you on such a tight leash. But this is all a big misunderstanding. Gavin ripped the suit on accident because he didn’t listen when I said he wouldn’t fit. And he’s allowed to leave whenever he wants. He’s just not all that comfortable being seen by the public, right now.”

“I don’t know how you disfigured him and found out his real name, but the bullshit stops now!” X-Ray growled. He yelled as he ran at Ryan and began throwing punches. Ryan was able to block most of the punches, but he was a bit out of practice. Ryan tried to subdue X-Ray, but he didn’t actually want to hurt him for Gavin’s sake.

In the middle of the fight, at 1 o’clock, Gavin paced into the lab, groggily. He was too focus on getting his grape tea to even notice that the fight was happening. He got over to the cup of tea and took a sip. “Mm, this is perfect!” he paused when he felt a small flutter below his ribs. He rested his hand on his stomach and smiled. “I do feel better, now. And it seems that everyone else liked it, too. Thanks, luv,” he said with a smile.

X-Ray paused mid-swing and looked over to see Gavin. “VAV?!”

Startled, Gavin dropped the cup. “X…X-Ray?” he asked, slowly, as he turned.

X-Ray immediately ran over to Gavin. Ryan tried to catch him first, but tripped and fell on the ground. “Vav, you were able to escape!” then he glanced down at Gavin’s protruding stomach. “Now, we need to get you out of here and to a doctor so we can get that bomb out of you!” X-Ray exclaimed.

“I…” Gavin stuttered.

Ryan looked up from of the floor and raised his eyebrow in confusion. “Bomb? That’s not a bomb.” The he glanced over at Gavin. “You didn’t tell your best friend?”

X-Ray narrowed his eyebrows. “Tell me what?” he asked, skeptically.

“I don’t have a bomb in my tummy,” Gavin started to explain. Then he took a deep breath and rested his hand on his stomach. “I have a baby in my tummy?”

“What?”

“X-Ray… I’m pregnant.”

“WHAT?”

“Ya… I’m going to be a dad…”

“Shit Vav, then we gotta get you out of here! We gotta find whoever that guy you fucked during you’re gay-wakening and tell him that he knocked you up! Then we figure out what to do with the kid.”

“I already know I knocked him up… and we already decided we’re keeping it…” Ryan said as he got up off of the floor.

“No, you didn’t get his pregnant!”

“Yes X-Ray, he did,” Gavin said. Ryan walked over to Gavin and put his arm around his waist to comfort him. “You know I went to a bar after Ash dumped me. I ran into an attractive bloke, got drunk with him, and shagged him. I didn’t realize that he was the Mad King until the morning after. When I told him I was pregnant, he said what happens to the little sprog was my choice and I chose to keep ‘em. And we’re going to parent ’em in our civilian identities, Gavin and Ryan, not Vav and Mad King,” Gavin explained.

“Wow… you’re actually going to raise the Mad King’s spawn?” X-Ray asked, skeptically.

“Ee’s just as much mine, as ee’s his.”

“I’m not planning on starting any more conflict with you, so can we just leave this at peace?” Ryan asked

X-Ray took a deep breath. “Fine,” he relented with a sigh. “Can you at least tell me what kind of kid you’re having?”

“We don’t actually find out the sex until tomorrow.”

“Can’t you just figure it out here?”

“Ryan’s letting professionals handle it,” Gavin replied.

“Oh… I think I’m just gonna go now, then… I need a Coke after all this…” X-Ray murmured and he dragged himself out of the lab.

Ryan sighed. “I really want to make peace with your friends…” Ryan said.

“And you’ll figure out what to do. Let’s just focus on tomorrow, yah? I’m gonna go microwave that grape tea because it was really good,” Gavin replied as he walked away. Ryan knew he had to come up with something.

The next day came and the eighteen-week checkup occurred. Gavin and Ryan were very excited to find out sex of their baby in the ultrasound, but were absolutely shocked with what they learned. Ryan was very disturbed by what was revealed, but Gavin knew he had to take it in stride.

They both arrived back in the penthouse and Ryan was pretty peeved. “I mean, how the fuck do you miss something as big as that during the initial ultrasound?!” he growled.

“To be fair, the first ultrasound was at a cheap, walk-in clinic,” Gavin replied.

Ryan walked over to the couch and flopped down, his face fell in his hands. “It’s just… I felt horrible for getting you pregnant in the first place. Now, I feel even worse…”

“You didn’t do this to me on purpose. And yeah, this is going to be bloody terrifying, but it’s also really exciting!” Gavin said as he joined Ryan on the couch.

“This is going to drive us both mad.”

“You’re already mad, luv. I’ll just be joining you in the madness,” Gavin joked. Ryan smiled and looked fondly at Gavin. he leaned over and kissed him on the lips. “We just have to take the whole thing one step at a time.”

“Right. and the next step is figuring out how to make peace with your friends…”

“Hm.. you’re not really in a good enough mood for ideas for that right now, are you?” Gavin asked, Ryan shook his head to answer. “You know, maybe eating some sweets, like cake, would put you in a better mood.”

“Cake? Cake… parties…” Then, Ryan thought of the best idea. “A sex reveal party!”

“Huh?”

“No, listen. X-Ray wanted to know what type of kid we’re having, so throw a party as a show of peace. Reveal the sex, everybody wins!”

“That’s brilliant!”

“How does next Friday sound for the party?”

“Wonderful! Ooh, I’m so excited!”

“I hope this works.”

“You’ll do fine, luv,” Gavin reassured him. Now the two of them had their party to plan for.

The following Friday came quicker than Ryan had anticipated. Gavin decorated their penthouse for the party while Ryan made lots of his southern comfort foods for the party. Ryan was still very nervous when the party started. X-Ray immediately hung around Gavin when he arrived. Gavin and X-Ray’s homeless friend, Rusty immediately went for the southern fried chicken. Hilda and her orbicular robotic friend, ORF, stayed off to the side because they were a bit skeptical about the purpose of the party. Ryan attempted to have a civil conversation with Hilda, but she didn’t trust him.

A couple hours into the party, Ryan caught up with Gavin, who was up at the food table getting more food. “So, I tried to offer Hinda, her job back,” he started.

“Hilda, luv, her name is Hilda.”

“Dammit. I think she was happy that I at least tried.”

“Well, did she take her job back?”

“No… she doesn’t trust me, yet.”

“Well, you have fired her twice for no good reason.”

“I fired her because she was helping my enemies, you and X-Ray. But she is undeniably a good inventor.  It would be nice to have a skilled inventor like her working for me, again.”

“So, you can use her inventions for evil?” Gavin asked as he took a bite of sweet potato casserole.

“Yeah… evil…” Ryan paused and rubbed the back of his head. “If I’m being honest, that’s actually kinda-”

“I SMELL HAYWOOD’S FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN!” a new voice yelled as the door slammed open.

Ryan immediately rushed to the door to find Jeremy, walking in. “Jeremy! What are you doing here?!” he quietly scolded.

“I wanted to find out if I’m having a niece of a nephew.”

“We could have told you another time, this is so I can make peace with Gavin’s friends and allies!”

“Yeah, but I could smell your chicken all the way up in Boston, And, you know I’ll never miss an opportunity to have some of that.”

“You crashed this party… because you could smell my fried chicken… all the way in Boston?” Ryan asked in disbelief.

“Yep!”

Ryan double facepalmed. He slid his hands down his face. “Fine. Go get your chicken and leave.”

“Got it,” Jeremy replied. He walked past Ryan and went over to the food table. “Hey, Gavin,” he greeted Gavin as he got over to the table and started picking up pieces of chicken.

What the fuck?!” X-Ray yelled.

“Oh, hey Jeremy,” Gavin greeted back with a wave.

“Vav, do you not know who that is?!”

“Yeah, it’s Jeremy, Ryan’s younger brother.”

“Infamous mobster of Boston, Rimmy Tim, is Mad King’s little brother?!” X-Ray yelped in disbelief.

Everyone stared at Jeremy. He took a bite of his chicken and waved, awkwardly. Then everybody stared at Ryan. “Shit…” he said to himself.

Gavin knew that they were in trouble, he had to save this, fast. He quickly came up with an idea. “WHO WANT’S CAKE? RYAN, HELP ME CUT THE CAKE!” he called out as he walked the caked covered in plain white frosting.

Ryan gulped, Gavin was calling for the sex reveal. He rushed over to Gavin. “Know where to cut it?”

“Of course, luv,” he replied as he cut in the center of the outside of the cake.

“Guy’s it’s time for the sex reveal,” Ryan announced to the party. Everyone gathered around the table. “You ready, sweetheart?” Ryan asked Gavin.

“Absolutely, luv.” Then he pulled the center piece of the cake out, half of the piece, light pink, and the other half, dark pink.

Everyone started clapping. “Dude, it’s really cool that you’re gonna have a daughter,” X-Ray said as congratulations.

“I can’t believe I’m gonna have a niece,” Jeremy said.

Ryan and Gavin smiled and shared a sneaky look. “Well…” Ryan started.

“…not exactly,” Gavin finished.

“Wait, does the fact that the piece is half light pink, half dark pink, have something to do with it?” Rusty asked.

Ryan chuckled and Gavin grinned and held up a peace sign. Hilda’s eye’s widened when she figured out what they were saying. “Oh my god, you’re having twins!” she exclaimed.

Ryan smiled and nodded. Gavin placed a hand on each side of his tummy. “I got two beautiful little girls growing inside of me!” he cheered. Everyone started clapping again, even louder. Gavin and Ryan were very excited that they were making a crazy little family, and that they had a wonderful support system to share it with.