Thread by @itsmzladybird

#ThisThirstday meets #ReyloSpiritWeek!

CW // Unplanned pregnancy, slightly NSFW

It happened at a work party.

https://twitter.com/itsmzladybird/status/1504432433529241602

Well, it happened /after/ the party, if Ben was being specific. Somewhere between cups of spiked punch and a blunt shared in the alley between buildings, they’d gone from making eyes to lingering touches to Ben holding her against the grimy bricks under a heavy midnight fog.

She’d laced their fingers and whispered in that magnetic rasp.

“Come home with me.”

So he did. He came home with her, he came /inside/ of her, and that’s how this all started.

Ben looked back down at his phone. When he told his family—“I’m having a baby with my boss’s secretary”—he’d expected reproach. Shock. A good dose of shame. What he had /not/ anticipated was…all of this.

The excitement. The fawning. The demands to “meet her, we want to meet her, what did you say her name was again?”

Rey. Her name was Rey. Like a sunbeam.

Ben pinched his forefinger and thumb over the screen, zooming in on Luke’s instagram post. He glared at the caption.

– Please welcome…the newest Skywalker! Oh, and this is Rey 😎 –

“The fuck?” Ben mumbled, scowl deepening.

It was his mom’s idea to take Rey out for lunch, do the whole “get to know you” thing. Of course she’d invited Ben’s uncle, and of course /this/ was Luke’s idea of bonding. Why was he even surprised?

Ben locked his phone. Set it on the bar counter. Opened it five seconds later, right back on the Instagram photo—

Ben snorted despite himself.

God, that couldn’t be good for the baby. (The end!)