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A loud wail interrupts the peaceful night. Horus sighs where he is curled around Seth. Seth shifts deeper into the bedding.
“It’s your turn,” Seth murmurs, barely heard where his face is buried in the pillow.
Horus arm tightens around Seth for a moment and gives a deeper sigh. The wail continues uninterrupted.
Seth shifts, turning his face, frown evident in his tone, “Horus.”
Horus makes to get up, arm shifting downward, when he feels it. He frowns, shifting his hand over Seth’s belly. He snaps up, staring down at Seth’s protruding belly. His mouth opens in awe, a grin splitting through it. He scoops Seth into his arms with a laugh, making Seth yelp. He rains kisses across his shoulders.
“Horus!” Anger in his voice now.
Seth reaches over and shoves Horus face away.
“Go!” He snaps.
Horus pauses, a broad grin still curving his mouth.
“Alright,” he chuckles. He slowly extracts himself, unable to resist giving one more kiss into Seth’s red hair. Seth grumbles, and shifts back into his spot when Horus leaves the bed.
Horus heads towards Imsety’s cries. He finds his daughter in the middle of her room, picking at her small gown. She looks up when he walks in, red eyes huge on her small face.
“Pap Pap!” She holds her hands up to be picked up. Horus smiles and leans down, and notices a huge wet spot growing on her dress.
“I pee!”
Horus straightens back up but his smile doesn’t dampen, “I see.”
He glances over at the window to see the sun peeking over the horizon and mentally shrugs, “What does Imsety want to wear today?”
Her little face lights up, “I wear red! Red!”
Horus nods, “Red it is.”
With Imsety dry and safely tucked into her father’s arms, Horus makes his way over to his study. He settles her into his lap as he sits at the desk, reaching into a small toy box to the side, handing her current favorite, a small stuffed dog. He smiles, unusually happy to be starting on the paperwork for the day. Imsety starts making barking noises, running the toy up Horus’s arm and chest. Horus tunes it out with long accustomed ease, trying to get something done before the chaos of the day starts.
A few minutes later, Imsety runs the dog across Horus’s shoulders, pausing when she notices his happy hum and his small smile.
She lowers the dog and cocks her head, “Pap happy?”
He glances over to see her large red eyes, Seth’s eyes, blinking at him. His grin widens, scooping a squealing Imsety up.
“Yes,” he nuzzles at her temple, “Pap very happy.”
Imsety giggles and wiggles away, “Why?”
Horus hums at her curiosity, “Well…you’re going to be a big sister.”
Imsety frowns, “Sister? Imsety?”
“Yes.”
“What sister?”
Horus blinks at her confusion, he shifts her on his lap.
“Well its….. you…” He flounders for a moment before blurting, “Seth is pregnant.”
She stares at him, “Pegnat?”
“No.. it’s.. a baby, it’s a baby.”
“Sister is baby?”
“No,” Horus pauses and sighs, “You are going to be a big sister, because Yt is pregnant with a baby.”
“Oh..” She looks down in thought, Horus sweats at her small thoughtful expression, “Yt has baby.”
“Yes.”
She nods, “I udersand.”
“Do you?” Horus couldn’t help but ask.
She nods very seriously, “Sister udersands.”
Horus has a very ominous feeling, “Do-“
A loud curse interrupts him, followed by a larger crash. Seems Seth had made it out of bed.
Imsety blinks at the door, long accustomed to Seth’s outburst to be afraid.
She looks up at Horus, “Yt mad?”
Horus winces, not sure how he is going to explain it, “Yes.”
“Why?” Horus winces again.
“Because… Yt doesn’t like carrying babies..”
She stares at him, Horus smiles sadly,
“I would carry the baby for him if I could, but it’s impossible.” Her eyes start to tear up. Horus’s eyes widen, “It’s okay! Once the baby is born, Yt will love it utterly. Like he loves you! He’ll just be a little grumpy for a while.”
Imsety lower lip wobbles, “Yt says Imsety is baby.”
Horus eyes widen in horror, realizing what is about to happen, “No-!”
Seth slams into the office, “HORUS! YOU BASTARD-!”
Imsety wails stopping Seth mid curse, he takes in the scene before him. Imsety nestling into Horus arms and Horus almost frantically stroking her black hair. Horus looks over at Seth, opening and closing his mouth a few times. Taking that as a cry for help Seth comes closer. He squats down next to them stroking her back next to Horus hand. She blinks at him with watery eyes.
He gives her a soothing smile, “Yt is sorry. He didn’t mean to startle you.”
She leans out of Horus’s arms and reaches for him. Seth scoops her up, soothing a hand down her back. She burrows into her shoulder and wails.
“Yt doesn’t like to carry Imsety!”
Seth pauses and looks at Horus in confusion. Horus puts his head in his hand. Seth looks down at Imsety, stroking her back again.
“I love to carry you. Who told you that?”
She blinks up at him with watery eyes, “Pap!”
Seth shots Horus a glare, Horus jolts and shakes his head rapidly.
“No! I said you don’t like to carry babies!”
Seth glare worsens by several million degrees. Horus flounders,
“Pregnant! You don’t like to be pregnant!”
Seth stares for a few seconds more before he sighs, he glances down at his daughter and tucks her hair behind her ear. He nestles her close, till their faces were level.
“Yt loves to carry Imsety. He means, I don’t like to carry the baby in my belly.”
“In belly?”
Seth smiles tenderly as she pocks at her own belly in confusion. Then she seemed to notice something, her eyes widened.
“Yt big!”
Seth eye twitches, and he sends Horus another glare.
Horus clears his throat, “Imsety.” Imsety looks over at him, “Yt is big because a baby is in his belly.”
Her mouth opens in shock, “Oh.”
Then it seems to click, “Imsety is sister because baby in Yt belly!”
Horus nods rapidly, he nearly cheers out loud.
She looks back at Seth, “Yt doesn’t like baby?”
Seth sighs, “I like the baby fine, I just don’t like it in my belly.”
“Oh…” She purses her lips in thought, she nods, “Pap says he want to carry baby.”
Seth stares at her before raising an eyebrow at Horus who sits frozen at the desk. Imsety nods like the problem is solved, and wiggles out of Seth’s arms. She toddles over to Horus reaching up,
“Dog dog.”
Horus mindlessly reaches down and hands her the toy. She goes to the floor and starts racing it against the desk leg.
Seth stares at Horus, something intense had made its home in his eyes, Horus swallows. Seth strides forward startling Horus. Seth leans over him, grabbing both armrests.
“You want to be pregnant?”
Horus blushes hard, “I just.. I said that because.. It’s not possible anyway.”
Seth cocks his head, eyes contemplative, “I think it is possible to transfer a pregnancy.”
“…..It is?”
Seth sets one of his hands on his mouth, deep in thought.
“I think you need..” Seth trails off and he is up and out of the room in the next moment.
Horus is left staring after him in shock, only the sounds of Imsety’s barks are heard for the next few minutes.
Seth comes in again with a plant, and walks right in between Horus’s legs. Shoving the plant into his hand,
“Here, it has some of mine but it needs some of your power too.”
Horus stares at the offering in blank shock. When enough time goes by, Seth frowns at him.
“Do you not want to?”
Horus blinks, “I …I don’t know how to carry a child.”
Seth tilts his head, “I did it, you’ll be fine.”
Horus still doesn’t take the plant.
“Horus.” Seth snaps.
“Why?” Horus glances up at Seth, “Why don’t you like carrying our child?”
Seth flinches, and backs away. His hand closes over the plant, and turns toward the door. Horus hand closes over his wrist, before he can walk away.
“Seth,” Horus repeats softly, “Why don’t you like carrying our child?”
Seth shudders, before glancing toward Imsety who had wondered near the wall.
He glances away, “Its embarrassing, it’s stupid, a God of War pregnant? How embarrassing.”
Horus flinches back, releasing his arm. Seth shudders again, before putting both hands to his face,
“No not that’s not the reason, I…. I am a black rotting thing, a tarnished broken-“
Horus pulls him into his lap, and shakes his head against Seth neck.
“No no-“
“I am!” Seth is actively crying now, “Anything that comes from me will be tarnished and broken.”
“She is not tarnished, nor broken.”
“I know!”
Imsety is staring at them, she walks closer.
Seth breaks down further as she reaches up for him, “Because of you! You protected her! You… you are good! How could any of your children be tarnished if you are the father?”
Imsety reaches up more insistently, “No cry no cry.”
Horus reaches over and places Imsety in Seth’s lap. She immediately buries herself in his chest,
“It okay, it okay.”
Seth curls around her, sobbing. Horus shifts Seth to the side so he could and cup his face. Seth leans into hand, glancing up at Horus
“How could any of your children be tarnished if you’re the father?” Horus repeats softly. Seth makes a broken sound, and buries his face into Horus’s neck.
Horus strokes Seth’s back for the next few minutes, until Seth’s breath soothes out and he lifts his head. Imsety starts wiggling to be free, now that Seth had stopped crying, she wanted to play. Horus was honestly surprised she had lasted as long as she did. Seth lets her down, a small smile gracing his lips. Horus catches his eyes,
“You are not broken, nor tarnished, nor rotting. You are good and so so beautiful inside and out.”
Seth shakes his head and glances away. Horus sighs and cups Seth’s hand, and concentrates his power onto the plant. Seth glances down in surprise.
“And I am not doing this because I want to save them from you, but because I want too.”
Horus cups Seth swollen belly, “I want to be pregnant with your child.”
He hears Seth swallow, and suddenly Seth takes the plant and starts chewing it.
Horus frowns, “Okay what’s next-“
Seth takes the back of his neck and kisses him. Horus gasps and Seth takes opportunity to shove his tongue down his throat. Horus moans as Seth starts feeding him the plant.
“Swallow,” Seth murmurs against his lips, Horus swallows. “Kiss kiss.” Horus hears somewhere off to the side as something heavy starts to trickle into his stomach. Seth keeps kissing him through it all, as that something grows heavier and heavier. Seth moans when he cups Horus’s belly, Horus breaks the kiss to look down.
Horus’s stomach had expanded a few inches.
Horus was pregnant.