[ Hey, why no kisses? Mako stifles a soft whine, because he's deliberately not wanting to give her kisses until she capitulates, and that's not fair. ]
I can handle it, Raleigh. You don't have to worry about me. [ says the chronic workaholic. ]
[ Mako frowns -- it's unfair, to use the three of them as leverage; but then again, it's true, isn't it? Now, she has more people to think about, not just herself. It always is a struggle and a change, but she finally nods. But: ]
[Raleigh feels like he's won a major victory, when she nods in agreement and he smiles at her widely. Good, baby steps. He figured that he'd have to wheedle at her all night to get her to agree to coming home earlier than she usually does.]
[ It's hard, you know -- Mako's got a lot of changes to make, and she's frowning at that, contemplating and calculating how much more work she can get done at the office with these new measures in place. But Raleigh has a point -- work can never be done, can it? But this, their baby, Mako doesn't want to do a thing to endanger the viability. ]
All right. [ She tugs him closer for a cuddle. ] I'm thinking of visiting the gynaecologist next week. Just to check that everything's all right.
[In all honesty, Raleigh's going to talk to Hercules too, and get him on board with keeping Mako from working too much. It's because he loves her and the baby, honest.]
[ Mako blinks, surprised. Oh, she loves you too, baby, although she wouldn't appreciate knowing that you and the Marshal Hansen are about to gang up on her. ] I thought you didn't like hospitals.
[He doesn't just 'not like hospitals'. Hospitals make his skin crawl and remind him of too many awful times, of his mom and his brother and his own painful recovery and Raleigh does avoid them every chance he gets.
[ Mako finds that adorable -- that he would come to see the ultrasound with her despite his... extreme preferences. So she kisses him for it, sweet and slow, because he's going to be a daddy to the baby that's growing inside her, and she knows that he's going to be the best.
Nuzzling into him, she muses. ]
I'll take you along if you promise not to tear up.
[The ultrasound's a good thing. This one's a good thing, it's going to show them their baby, not how far the cancer's spread in his mom's body. Or how the nerves in his arm are fucked.]
Fuck that, I'm bringing a box of tissues for both of us.
[They're going to be parents again. Sophia is wonderful but this is different. It's just different.]
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I can handle it, Raleigh. You don't have to worry about me. [ says the chronic workaholic. ]
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Tough. I am anyway. You and this little one. Promise me you'll be home by five every day.
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Home by five?
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Yeah. Home by five.
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But Raleigh, I have work --
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It can wait. Come on, please. For me and Sophia and this little one.
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...Can I bring some work home?
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If you don't do it until after Sophia's in bed.
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During her nightly bottles! I'd like to spend some time on you too, you know. If I start too late, I'll be too tired.
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Alright. But when she's in bed, I want the work put away too. For serious.
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All right. [ She tugs him closer for a cuddle. ] I'm thinking of visiting the gynaecologist next week. Just to check that everything's all right.
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Can I come with you?
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[ Mako blinks, surprised. Oh, she loves you too, baby, although she wouldn't appreciate knowing that you and the Marshal Hansen are about to gang up on her. ] I thought you didn't like hospitals.
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But this is Mako and his baby. It's different.]
I'm sure. I wanna be there for all of it.
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Nuzzling into him, she muses. ]
I'll take you along if you promise not to tear up.
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Fuck that, I'm bringing a box of tissues for both of us.
[They're going to be parents again. Sophia is wonderful but this is different. It's just different.]
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For you, you mean? [ Because Mako is not nearly as much of a crier as Raleigh is, and they both know it. ]
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[He's not ashamed to be the crier, or to even acknowledge that he's going to cry when he sees the ultrasound.]
Give you something to do while I get myself together.