So Happy New Year. I don't know where this came from, but I wanted to write it. I have a few other extra chapters for this story that are almost done, but I am trying to finish the next chapter for my other story at the moment, and I wanted to have it out by Christmas. However work has been hectic, so this is coming out first.

Enjoy.

Extra Chapter 2 - Birthday Baby

Marco's POV

He sighed as he finally walked down the hallway towards his and Ace's shared room. The party for Aiden's second birthday had been a resounding success and now that it was over he could finally get some sleep. It was a rare night off from child raising and he intended to enjoy himself just a little. He had even stolen a second beer, from which he took a sip every few seconds as he thought back on the day.

Shanks and his crew and many of their allies had all shown up to shower the young boy in attention and gifts for the day and Aiden had willingly taken the attention from those he only rarely got to visit with.

Said child was currently asleep on the Red Force and being watched in turns by Shanks crew, as his son had decided he wanted to sleep on the other ship for the night and after much pleading he had been allowed by his father with the express instructions to behave himself.

Sabo had shown up with his own twin and gifts from himself and Dragon. To no ones surprise the toddlers had been promptly stolen by Whitebeard, their self-declared grandfather, when he had ushered the blonde revolutionary away to enjoy his night without worry. No one complained, everyone knew Whitebeard just wanted to spend time with the twins while they were on the ship.

And thankfully Garp had not made an appearance, but he had sent a large box containing toys and a child sized marine uniform for Aiden. He was incredibly happy his son had shown absolutely zero interest in the uniform, but Whitebeard had declared that they should at least sent Garp a picture of his great-grandson wearing the outfit once, least the older marine decide to make an unexpected appearance. He was of the opinion to just burn the clothes, and Ace had agreed with him, but they both had conceded their Captains point.

Thinking on it now they may have spoiled his son a bit too much, but he supposed it was to be expected.

Aiden was the first child on the crew, and the only child that they, their allies and Shanks crew got to regularly see. That was a lot of people and a lot of attention to be given to one kid.

He let out another sigh as he reached his room, opening the door and entering as quietly as possible, just in case Ace was asleep.

Surprisingly Ace was not asleep. He was in fact simply sitting on the bed staring at the wall.

"Ace?" He asked as he made his way over to the bed.

The other startled a little then turned to look at the blonde, "Oh hey, sorry I was thinking and didn't notice you. Aiden in bed?"

"He is spending the night on the Red Force yoi. I may dislike the man, but Shanks and his crew won't let anything happen to him and it is his birthday. Though I'm afraid we may be spoiling him too much."

Ace smiled and moved to cuddle into the his side, Marco pulling the brunette even closer a minute later. "Well you only turn two once. I also doubt anyone would be crazy enough to attack two Yonko's at once, not to mention our allies. It's not often we get a guaranteed whole uninterrupted night to ourselves."

He nodded, they honestly hadn't had a true full uninterrupted night of sleep in months. Not since their son had decided that there was a monster under his bed, courtesy of one of their brothers mentioning something within earshot. He loved his son, but some days he wondered when he would be allowed to sleep again.

"Marco?" Ace questioned, to which he replied with a grunt to show he was listening as he took another swig from his bottle. Already half asleep, he was considering just not finishing the bottle.

"I want another baby." Ace declared, and he felt his eyes go wide and then he was choking on his beer. It took him a minute to compose himself before he could look towards the other, "What yoi?"

Ace looked mildly unimpressed with him, but he finally replied after meeting the blondes eyes, "I want another baby."

"Ace.." He started, only to be cut short by his lover.

"You said it yourself. You think we're spoiling Aiden too much. If we had two kids, the attention would be cut in half. Also if you think about it, he's alone on a ship of adults, a little sibling would give him someone to play with. You know Oyaji wouldn't mind, in fact the old man would be ecstatic. I just…. I just…"

The brunette's words trailed off and he looked to the side, unwilling to meet his lovers eyes anymore.

He let himself sigh, setting his drink down and then pulling the other back towards him and lifting the younger's face to meet his, he was surprised to find tears.

"Ace what is this really about yoi?"

The other startled, then lowered his face back down, blushing and pouting heavily. He watched the blush grow as the brunette obviously wrested with himself. Then, "I took Aiden for his yearly check up yesterday."

He nodded as Ace look up to meet his eyes again, then the younger continued, "He's fine of course. But Brandon said something that surprised me. Did you know that by two most kids are roughly half the height they will be as an adult. Boy normally grow to be a little more than that and Aiden's just over three feet."

Marco smiled, "He's going to be taller than you then yoi."

Ace only glared at his teasing, pouting then continued his point. "I knew he was getting big, last week I had to put away more of his old clothes in storage. I pulled some of his clothes from when he was a newborn and it kinda startling. Then it hit me, Marco he doesn't want my help getting dressed anymore. Today he didn't want to even stay on the ship. He's growing up to fast."

Then he watched as Ace's face fell, "I know I sound like a women, but Marco I miss my baby. Soon he's going to want to go away and live his own life and I can't deal with it."

He felt his eyes widen at the others rant, but finally making sense of where his lover was coming from. He pulled the other into a hug, smiling as he understood. "Ace he isn't going anywhere anytime soon. We have him for at least another 15 years, more if he decides to stay with us as a pirate and by then you'll be ready for him to leave ok?"

Ace's tears had slowed and he pouted up the older man, "No, I'm never going to be ready. Why can't he stay cute and small forever?"

He laughed, "You want to change diapers for the rest of your life yoi?"

Ace's pout deepened, "Maybe…"

He sighed again, but couldn't help his smile widening. "Well I suppose we'll have to see if you still feel that way after a second baby…."

Ace's head shot up so fast he almost cracked the blonde in the chin, "Really?"

He smiled, "Ah," and looked the other in the eye, "But I have some conditions before we try for another ok?"

Ace nodded his head.

"One. If you think your pregnant, no more missions and you take it easy. And no complaining about being bored."

Ace nodded his head, though they'd have to see if he remembered his promise late on.

"Two. No getting captured by the marines this time around. I think one prison break in a lifetime is enough."

Ace only smiled nodding again, so he continued smiling himself.

"Three." He turned to fully look at the brunette, "Marry me yoi?"

He grinned as he watched the other start to nod, only for his words to reach the fire user's brain. Ace's eyes widened comically as he look up, "What?"

He wanted to laugh, but choose instead to elaborate, "A surprise pregnancy between lovers is one thing, but we have been together almost 3 years and planning a baby is a different sort of game yoi."

He watched as Ace' face transformed from surprise to pure joy and then he lunged, pulling the blonde into a hug and the two of them falling back onto the bed

"I take it, its safe to assume that is a yes yoi?"

Ace didn't lift his head, but the furious nods were more than enough for him to understand. Leaning down to kiss the other the two enjoyed the shared moment of bliss. Slowly the kiss was becoming more heated when a small noise had Ace pulling back, a hand on the others mouth to silence him. Listening for a second he was about to ask what Ace was listening for when he heard it too.

A small knock.

He let his head fall back to hit the pillows with a groan as he felt Ace get up to answer the door, both of them already knowing who it was. He lifted his head to watch as Ace opened the door.

There was Shanks holding a crying Aiden, and as annoyed as he wanted to be for the ruined night with his lover, now fiancé he corrected himself mentally, even he felt a little bad when he noticed how upset their son was.

"Hey Shanks. Aiden have a nightmare?"

Said child only held out his arms to be taken from his one armed uncle with a pitiful cry of "Mommy."

He watched Ace take the two year-old into his arms and he moved to join them.

"I think so, though he said something about monsters. I swear I checked everywhere in the room, but they must be very good at hiding, because I couldn't seem to find them."

He laughed as he listened to the other pirate talk, "They are very good at hiding, a ship full of haki trained pirates and not one of us can seem to find them yoi. So don't feel bad, only Oyaji and Ace seems to be able to scare them off properly."

The red-haired pirate tried to look affronted at the subtle jab he had made, but even he could tell the man was more upset that he couldn't settle Aiden than anything about his monster hunting skills. "Well I will have to practice, maybe you can give me some pointers tomorrow before we leave."

He nodded and they both watched as Ace turned to settle Aiden into bed, then Shanks spoke again, "Sorry bout that Marco."

He let out a small laugh, "It's alright yoi. He probably heard something and woke and didn't remember where he was. Probably scared him pretty bad, he normally only uses the 'mommy' title when he's really upset."

Shanks only nodded at his explanation, and smiled in obvious amusement at Ace being called 'mom.'

They spoke for a few more minutes before the red-haired captain excuse himself.

Turning he wasn't surprised to find both brunettes in the bed sound asleep, and as silently as he could he moved to join them.

Normal POV

-Eight Months Later-

Jozu and Vista shared a glance as they entered the storeroom, looking for the source of the happy whistling they could hear from the room. The two men and their divisions had been charged with taking stock and cleaning the two large rooms in the bottom of the Moby for some new years cleaning, and no one else was supposed to be down there yet, most still at breakfast.

The dark head of hair that popped up from behind a stack of boxes informed them of the source of the tune before they could get much further into their investigation.

Ace startled when he turned and noticed the two men, "Ah, oh hey guys. Sorry I just wanted to grab something before you all started down here. Just a bit easier to grab it now."

The two men shared a look, then Vista asked, "Grab what? You could have told us you wanted something and we could have brought it up when we started sorting."

Ace only smiled and showed off the box he had dragged out, then opening it to reveal the contents.

The two peered down at the contents, Jozu basically bent in half to get a better look was next to speak, "Aiden's baby things? Why would you need to get those out?"

The question hung in the air for a second before both men's heads shot up so they could stare a the younger commander, who for all intent now looked rather bashful scratching the back of his head.

Ace laughed, "Heh, just found out today. Guess that honeymoon was good for something, right? Oh, and only Marco, Oyaji and the doc know, so no peeping yet ok?"

Despite Ace's words to the two commanders, it took less than half a day for the rest of the crew to find out.

And of course neither commander had let the fire user carry anything upstairs that day.

All said to Ace it was one of his best birthdays ever.

I hope you enjoyed it, I really, really wanted to write this. Not my best work, but I do have an idea for a possible chapter concerning their honeymoon, maybe the wedding. Will update again as soon as I can (on both stories).

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