the only one like me;;

he’s lying and she doesn’t need to be a legilimens to know it. it’s obvious by his voice alone. almost instantly, all sorts of scenarios bubble up in her head ––– all worst-cases. ( but if he was going to break things off, he’d wait until after dinner. because there’s no way he could expect to stay for dinner after breaking things off. ) “ if you really want to, darling. ” she’d rather he jut got it over with. 

then he keeps on talking –––– and any scrap of worry she’d thought up in the past thirty seconds evaporates. in that moment, queenie swears she can feel her heart start to beat at a million miles a minute and the room narrows down to just the two of them. “ jacob, honey, are you ––– ” he’s down on one knee before she can even fully process his words. queenie goldstein, will you marry me?? she can’t breathe. this is why his thoughts have been strewn all over the place. he was trying to surprise her. it’s quite possibly one of the sweetest things anyones done for her ––––– everything he does, really. he cares about her so much and she loves him more than she can say. with a great amount of effort put into not shrieking and alerting mrs especito, her hands fly up to cover her mouth as she does nothing but nod furiously, eyes welling up.

“ jacob kowalski, i’d marry you in a heartbeat!! ” 

for a moment, he fears he’s made a mistake. queenie looks nervous, but he knows that’s just because she doesn’t know what’s going on. something he’s sure she’s not used to. as soon as she responds, his smile grows wider. “really?” he asks, as if he wasn’t expecting that answer. as if tina hadn’t told him that she would propose if he didn’t get a move on. standing up, he pulls her into a quick kiss. 

“ you’re hilarious, honey. truly. ” her tone is dry. of course she isn’t going to pass out. she knows he’s kidding, poking fun at how impatient she can be. she deserves it, honestly. but his sass doesn’t stop him from being an absolute dear and setting the table while the green beans finish. by the time he comes back for them, the meats nearly done and his thoughts turn to that question again. just like before, it’s gone before she can catch it completely. 

as soon as she’s sure the meat is ready, queenie makes quick work of placing it onto a serving platter and bringing it over to the table. “ you alright, honey?? your thoughts have been all over the place ever since you got here. ” she doesn’t voice it, but it’s almost like he’s trying to keep something from her. 

it’s not long before the rest of the meal is on the table. “of course i am, darling,” he says, though his voice is much higher than usual. a sign that everything is not, in fact, fine. she can always see right through him, and of course tonight is no different. “i was just wonderin’ if we could, uh, talk a little before we eat dinner,” he says, taking her hands into his own. it was now or never, right?

          “i listen to you!”

          “usually. i at least take your opinion into account if            i can’t take your advice altogether.” newt runs his            hand through his hair. “but if queenie’s been saying            things — oh, i don’t know. i have one day, jacob.            one day to somehow ask tina to leave her life, and            everything she’s worked to build here in new york,            and come with me. i can’t, jacob.”

         “is it easier, or are you just scared to ask? queenie’s been sayin...           never mind. why am i tryin’? you’ve never listened to me anyway.”

“ oh sugar i ain’t worried about the money. ” with tina back in the auror’s department ( where she belonged ) they weren’t living quite so precariously. they could make do with queenie bringing in a little less and there was no way tina would argue the change if it meant her sister was going to be happier. “ i’ll take whatever you can give at this point and we can always discuss a raise later on down the road, yeah?? ”

she doesn’t want him worrying about the wizarding world. what macusa doesn’t know won’t hurt them. and since she left her position with macusa in favor of working in the bakery with jacob, she’s hardly seen much of anyone from there. they weren’t going to find out. they can’t. she won’t lose jacob ( or now her growing family ) rappaport’s law be damned. 

“ honey, i’m so happy –––– ecstatic, really!! ” there’s nothing she’s ever wanted more than to have a family of her own and the fact that she was going to start that with jacob sent her over the moon. “ can you believe it –– parents!! ”

“good, that’s good to hear,” jacob said, pulling the blonde closer. it seemed too good to be true, and he knew there were a million and one things he could worry about later, but for now he planned on celebrating. “parents,” he repeated, before leaning in for a gentle kiss. his wife, his beautiful wife, would be a wonderful mother for their little one, of that he was sure. 

“ don’t even joke like that, jacob kowalski. ” with one last look to the heavens, queenie makes her way back to the bed, shedding her robe before slipping under the quilt and snuggling up to her husband. “ i might love the stars, but they’ll never compare to you. ”

the kisses being pressed against her neck are a welcome distraction from the painstakingly long wait required of cooking without magic. truly, it amazes her that jacob is able to spend a whole day waiting on pastries like this. magic has her a bit spoiled. she catches the briefest hint of a thought ––– having to ask a question ––– but it’s gone before she can make heads or tails of it.

“ you have the patience of a saint, baby. ” she’s not kidding. he has more patience than she does, but she’s learning and that’s what’s important. carefully, queenie takes the set of tongs in her hand and flips each piece of meat over and they sizzle away almost angrily. “ if you wanna get the table set and the vegetables ready, that’d be great, honey. ” we’re doing the dishes with magic.

“aw, not really. some of us had to get used to cooking without magic,” he says with a chuckle. though he knows this is an excruciatingly long wait for queenie, he didn’t mind. hell, his pastries often took longer to cook than this meal. “of course,” he says, pressing a kiss to her cheek before letting go of her completely. 

@creaturecase

she hums happily as he pulls her into his arms ––– his happiness infectious. a family. while being a mother is an idea that terrifies her as much as it excites her, there’s no one she would rather be experiencing this with than jacob. “ well, it’s a little early to tell for the little one, ” she says, winding her arms up around his neck – her fingers playing with the short hairs that brush against his collar. “ but she said i seemed to be in perfect health and that all signs point to an easy pregnancy. ” 

she doesn’t mention the small list of ingredients for some potions she’d been instructed to pick up from the apothecary down the street. all part of normal, magical medicine, of course. instead, she presses a kiss to her jacob’s cheek. 

“ are you happy, honey?? ”

he feels that it’s silly, but she still sent shivers down his spine whenever she was close. he felt her fingers brush against his neck and his smile only grew. “that’s good to hear,” he breathed, hoping that that it would truly turn out to be a healthy pregnancy. though his thoughts wander to macusa, about what the wizarding world would say about queenie having a baby with a no-maj, he doesn’t want to ruin the mood. he doesn’t even know what wizarding pregnancies involve, or what visits to the healers are like. but queenie seems confident that things will be alright. 

@fantasticbaker ( cont. )

“ sure, why not!! i’ve been thinking about leaving the office for a while now, anyways. ” it’s sweet of him to try and keep in mind that she’s already got a job, but she isn’t exactly happy with macusa, is she?? granted, she isn’t miserable, but she knows she can be so much happier. ( and she’s been practicing her no-maj baking too ) “ besides, you’ve been looking for help for ages, mister kowalski!! why shouldn’t i come to help! ”

         “ well,  i’ve found a splash of it in some hot cocoa to be  wonderful.  i thought it might do much better with a creative mind like your own, ”  she smiled,  but shook her head,  insisting it’s no issue.  “ all of my plants have to be harvested at some point or another,  and i have more of most ingredients than i know what to do with!  really,  i want you to have it.  i want my plants to be of the  best  use possible after life. ”

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