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Max was awoken by a sound of heavy sighing, he chuckled inwardly. He would awake anyway, he was even more in tune with his husband since Charles got pregnant, he always felt when the other was awake. The dramatic sighing was just his adorably obnoxious partner’s way to get his attention.
As he opened his eyes, Max was greeted with adorable, but also scary sight. Charles was lying on his back, wide awake, his face combination of pouting, endless suffering and always the underlying cuteness. Sassy was curled around his protruding belly and was staring accusingly at Max. Ready to scratch him or worse if he didn’t obey Charles’ every whim.
Cats warmed to Charles extremely fast after their first meeting, and they adored each other ever since, but after he got pregnant it went to another level. They turned into feral, wild beasts around him, protecting him from any perceived threat. That threat often being Max not reacting fast enough to some of Charles’ requests.
Max smiled fully and softly kissed Charles’ cheek. “Hey schatje, are you OK? Do you need anything?”
Charles’ face transformed into pure suffering, he sighed deeply and replied in a soft, small voice, “No, it is fine, mon amour. I am so sorry I am such a nuisance, and I woke you up. Go back to sleep, I don’t need anything”. Sassy intensified her staring.
Max actually chuckled, his beloved princess of course lied. He snuggled closer and gently caressed Charles’ cheek, “Oh come on baby, you are never a nuisance. I love you and you are taking so many burdens on yourself to bring our little ones to the world, the least I can do is to help you any way I can. So please tell me what you need my love. You know it makes me happy to do anything for you”. He wanted to kiss his belly, but didn’t dare with Sassy there. Although, she seemed to approve of his reply, the stare diminished somewhat and she meowed shortly.
Charles’ eyes watered, “Oh I don’t deserve you Maxie, mon coeur. But if you insist, maybe you could get me something… I just woke up with an unbearable need for wafers, but it has to be Loacker ones, dark chocolate thins and the ones with lemon. I am feeling like I am going insane just thinking about it, I am so sorry you have to put up with this craziness…”
He was absolutely not sorry. Charles had made that quite clear in those moments when his mood swings hit the worst end of the spectrum. When he complained, bemoaning his deep suffering and sacrifices while Max couldn’t indulge even the smallest things for him. Which usually meant grave insults like being home 5 minutes later than agreed (‘I could have died and you wouldn’t know or care’), or not cooking the food he liked (‘yes I did ask for this, but you should have known better, you should have known I don’t really like it at all!’) and so on…
Max though couldn’t get annoyed or angry, he was so infused with such a ridiculous amount of absolute happiness that nothing Charles did could be too much. He didn’t think he could fall any harder in love with him, but after they found out they were expecting a baby he was just over the moon. He never felt such fierce love or over protectiveness in his heart ever before. It would be the happiest, most loved child in the world, and Max would do absolutely everything to achieve that. He will be the best father that ever lived. Once they found out they were having twins, he actually screamed from joy.
Max’s face beamed with warmth, “Some wafers coming up as soon as possible. Anything else my love?”. He kissed Charles softly, then dared to kiss his belly finally, Sassy giving him a look of approval and even a slight head rub. “Non, mon amour, thank you”, Charles replied in most angelic voice, smiling sweetly.
He was dressed and in the car in less than 5 minutes. He bought several pieces of each desired wafer flavors, just to be safe, as well as some other treats Charles loved. He hurried back and was proud to be in their apartment some 20 minutes later. Only to find Charles sobbing. He sighed and kneeled next to the bed.
“Hey, what’s up? I was as fast as I could. Here are the wafers, you want me to open it for you, you want some milk also?”, he gently stroked Charles’ tousled hair.
Charles looked at him with teary eyes, and oh God was there anything more beautiful, saying through sobs, “I am so sorry mon amour, I am the worst person ever… but I can’t eat it, I just… I don’t know… I can’t imagine eating anything sweet anymore. I swear Max I didn’t do it on purpose, it is just this stupid body…”.
Max sighed, “I know baby, I know… it is fine, you know I will do anything you need. I love you, OK?” Sobs almost stopped and Charles nodded. Max gently wiped the tears from his cheeks with his thumbs, then he added softly, “Can I get you anything else or do you just want to cuddle?”
Charles smiled and replied happily, “Cuddle, please”.
Max changed back into his sleepwear and lay down behind Charles. He hugged him from behind, spooning him tightly, their hands intertwining on his belly. Max gently nuzzled Charles’ neck and kissed him over and over, whispering sweet words in his ear.
Charles felt new tears coming, from the happiness and content and absolute joy of having the perfection that was Max Verstappen as a partner. He murmured sweetly, “I don’t deserve you mon cheri”.
Max chuckled as he answered, “Yes you do, you deserve the world Charles Leclerc”. The babies decided to kick at that moment, obviously agreeing with their parents. Sassy looked up from her position, curled at the foot of the bed, and meowed approvingly.