Summary: Virgil and Logan have friends come for a visit (the same friends that set them up) but they have some secret news they haven't shared. Well, until now.
This is kind of a prequel to 'Working' but it's not a necessity to read that one.
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Virgil adored having days off - and he didn't often as a massage therapist. He and his husband were quite quiet and introverted people so often kept to different rooms unless they wanted to cuddle. Logan was reading in the bedroom while Virgil was in the living room watching Netflix and surfing the web on his phone. This may be the third time today he had searched baby onesies and it was only noon. He couldn't help it - he just couldn't believe he will be a father.
The couple's surrogate had just reached 20 weeks and three days ago Virgil and Logan were invited to the second trimester scan. They got to see their baby for the first time and they found out he would be born a boy. Since Logan knew he was having a baby he had been creating a mind-map of baby names in the study and after lots of discussion the two of them had finally landed on the name Toby. It just suited their new little life so well. Anyway, because the two men were so excited to be welcoming Toby they may have gone overboard with preparations. In just the living room there were already a few toys scattered on the ground and a playmat on the floor, and Logan had even bought a bassinet that followed the living room colour scheme since it was on sale and that contraption sat right next to the TV. And Virgil couldn't stop staring at it in disbelief.
"It's too quiet in here." Logan appeared behind Virgil and spoke softly, also looking at the simple black bassinet. Unlike normal parents both Logan and Virgil were excited to hear their baby's cries and coos when it was finally time for them to become a small family.
Logan sat next to his husband and leant into him, also looking at his phone and smiling to himself. The two scrolled on their respective screens in silence until Logan's phone beeped an ASAP-Science song - indicating he received a text. "Wait... Shit." He said, sitting up slightly but still making sure Virgil's arm was around him. "I forgot Patton and Roman are coming to visit in 20 minutes."
Of course this was the first time Logan wasn't strict on his daily schedule. Patton and Roman were Logan's coworkers and great friends of the couple - they were the one to set them up actually when they finally managed to drag high strung Logan to a spa to destress. They were thankful the two friends were so extroverted but at the same time they could only handle a visit once a week. But because they were so loud, especially at exciting news, the two husbands had yet to tell them that they were going to be fathers - they didn't even know Virgil and Logan were thinking about it. All they knew was that Logan and Virgil were a newly married couple that loved each other so much.
So almost immediately the pair knew they had to clean all the baby things around the house. Like dogs Roman and Patton would escape anywhere in the house so nowhere was safe. The search history was cleared on all devices (including the TV where they often put baby shows in the background to get used to the noise), the toys were stashed in any drawer they could find and the drawers were locked... And lastly they looked back at the bassinet.
"Mmm... I don't feel like unscrewing all that again..." Logan whispered, bringing his arms around his husband's waist and examining any place in the room they could place the small box. "We might have to improvise something..."
It was silent for a few seconds as Virgil leant his head into his husband's chest, imagining the bassinet in different areas to see how it could be hidden. The bassinet had a square bottom, slightly raised for ease of the parents, but apart from that the bottom was flat. So it could be turned around. "How much weight can it withstand?"
"Something ridiculous like 200 pounds. Ridiculous but useful, I wanted the best for little Tob." The rush had seemed to be forgotten by the tough scheduling man, he spent time kissing Virgil's cheek and swaying a little. It was almost too tempting to lean in and spend the limited time they had to hide everything to instead cuddle and kiss his husband until they were blessed with the baby boy they'd wanted for eons. "Why do you ask my cloud?"
"Could it be a seat?" Logan raised an eyebrow at that and untangled himself from Virgil's waist to run towards the bassinet and experiment. He turned it over with Virgil's help and grabbed some blankets to cover the mesh shaping with (both Logan and Virgil were the type to cover themselves in blankets even in Florida's summers). After covering the box in blankets it did look like a good, albeit weirdly designed, seat.
And just like that frantic knocking came from the door. It was most definitely Roman and Patton. With a last kiss of good luck Logan ran to the door to answer his friends while Virgil looked occupied making some coffees for the guests. As soon as Logan opened the door he was bombarded with hugs as if the two cheery men hadn't seen their friend for years - even though they all saw each other at work yesterday. "Where's that anxious emo gone? Oh, Virgil!" Roman called, the soft laughs of Logan and Patton in the background as Virgil finally appeared with a hot cocoa, a mocha, a watermelon iced tea and a cup of decaf (he was magic when it came to quickly making drinks).
"You summoned me Ro, come sit." Virgil laughed as he placed the beverages on the coffee table on the number-themed coasters Logan insisted on buying (they were for Toby but they fit the theme so were allowed to be kept out). After each person grabbed their drinks Virgil disappeared into the kitchen for a moment to clean up some dishes that were abandoned last night.
"Is this a new seat Logie?" Patton chirped, placing himself on the blanket covered bassinet as Logan's heart was beating faster wondering when he'd hear a crack. "It's comfy! Just doesn't look like your usual style."
Virgil shouted from the kitchen a good excuse to get Patton (who usually jumped while sat mid-conversation if he was even content) to avoid the 'new seat'. "It's just loaned from my grandma's while she moves into a retirement home. I'd advice leaving it as we don't know how durable it is." Immediately Patton stood up hearing that and wondered over to the sofa the other two men were sat on. Disaster avoided.
"So..." Patton started, jumping already. "What have you guys been up to this week? You've been quite preoccupied for our usual visits and hang outs..."
"And Logan left work early on Monday." Roman finished, a smirk on his face as he seemingly challenged Logan to reveal what he was hiding. Logan remained calm though and brushed a finger through his hair - he tried not to smile thinking about the ultrasound meeting he went to on Monday as he remembered the soft little smile on his husband's face when he saw the little blue shape in the blackness. "You never leave work early Lo! What were you up to?"
Virgil appeared in the living room again. "I felt under the weather at work so Logan collected me." Virgil whispered, walking past Logan and giving him a kiss on the cheek while stroking his shoulder. "I feel all better now after he nursed me back to health."
"Aww..." Patton had a hand on his chest watching the young couple make the limited amount of physical contact they felt comfortable to do when with others. "He's so sweet to you, I swear he used to be a robot until he found you."
"Falsehood. I always had emotions, I just feel comfortable showing them in this setting." Logan finished his mocha just as Virgil curled up to him sitting on the arm of the sofa. A hand drifted through Virgil's hair as he swirled the limited froth left in his cup for a moment. He couldn't stop thinking about looking down into a happy baby face that was a mix of him and his soulmate.
"I'll get you another mocha Calculator Watch." The cup was taken out of Logan's hands without another word and the confident red-wearing PR manager strolled into the kitchen nonchalantly. The married couple didn't give it a second thought, Virgil beginning a conversation with Patton about cookie recipes until they heard a loud screech from the kitchen. "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? PATTON COME HERE!"
Patton quickly stood and ran to the kitchen thinking Roman must have tripped and hurt himself. He hadn't, he was stood silently carrying the empty mug and staring at the fridge. On the fridge were three little black and blue pictures that looked like a baby ultrasound. Patton started screaming too.
At first Logan and Virgil looked towards the kitchen confused and even Virgil perked up a bit until they both heard words between Patton's screams. "Why's there a baby ultrasound on the fridge?"
Of course the lovers forgot to hide the one thing that revealed everything about their plan. They immediately ran into the kitchen to see their two close friends crowding around the fridge and looking at the three photos just like Logan and Virgil looked at the photos when they first got them. When the husbands first got the photos they hung them up on the fridge by Doctor Who and Sherlock fridge magnets just so they could stare at their son when they made coffees for each other in the morning. But now it revealed everything.
"It's our son." Virgil softly chuckled, leaning into Logan's chest. Logan brought an arm around him and smiled too as Patton and Roman screamed more. "He's called Toby."
"He's freaking adorable!" Logan and Virgil were choked in one of Patton's hugs before they could speak some more, and soon Roman joined too. They wanted all the story of when they decided to have a baby, why they chose their specific surrogate, and what they were excited about. And Virgil and Logan were happy to talk about everything.