rock a bye baby; remi & simba
Since the twins had woken them up a few hours ago, Simba hadn’t really fallen back to sleep. He’d been in and out of a light sleep since then, so the sound of the twins crying through the baby monitor didn’t startle him as much as he’d expected. What did startle him, however, was the kick to his leg that he received from his husband. “Be gentle,” Simba grumbled as he opened his eyes when Remi started to shake his shoulder. “I’m your loving husband, you’re supposed to be nice to me.” It took him a moment before he pushed himself up into a sitting position. Simba looked at Remi quietly for a moment before he offered him a sleepy smile and ran his fingers through Remi’s hair. “I’ve got it, but you’re welcome to join me because it sounds like they’re both awake now.”
Remi considered letting Simba endure two crying babies at once, but the fingers in his hair and the sleepy smile had his heart melting. Silently he cursed the effect his husband still had on him. Pushing himself up, he let out a yawn before dropping his head on Simba’s shoulder. “We had to have two of them. The world wasn’t nice enough to us just to give us one.” He was cranky. Usually he was all about their babies, the maternal side of him kicking in as soon as they were born, but he was tired. Slipping from the bed, he held out a hand to Simba and laced their fingers together as he led them two the nursery. Sure enough, the twins were wailing. He went to Roial and lifted the crying baby in his arms, getting a whiff of her soiled nappy. When they decided on surrogacy, Remi figured they would end up with one baby or at least twins who were biologically one of theirs. Somehow, they were granted with two, one of each their own biological baby. As he stared down at Roial, noting her features that clearly matched Simba’s, she didn’t feel any less like his child than Yezi did. “I have the smelly one,” He laughed sleepily before placing her on the changing table.












