#abiona

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"Lavender Louis is an honor student who tries to stay out of conflict and maintain an ordinary life pursuing a degree in Biology. In the sleepy town of Briarwood, strange things happen, and when Lavender meets a mysterious drifter, her idea of ordinary changes forever."

https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/abiona-monster-hunter/list?title_no=533895

Pairing: T’ Challa x Black!Reader

Warning(s): None

Word Count: 2720

Link to ABIONA by @writingmarvellousimagines

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Author’s Note: I am so excited to be able to share this with you and to be able to do with such an amazing soul like @writingmarvellousimagines is truly an honour. I hope you all love it as much as we do, and please don’t hesitate to share you thoughts now and as the story progresses. Enjoy!

Part 1

It had been 20 minutes of T’Challa pacing up and down the hallway trying to gain the courage to finally knock on Alixandre’s doorstep. Ayo and Okoye watched as the crowned prince nervously wore his legs out with no hope of actually doing what he sought out to do. T’Challa was betting so much of his life by being here. If he had stayed in Wakanda, he was supposed to have been marrying Nakia in a month. Instead he chose to listen to his beating heart and confront his father. It was one of the hardest things he had had to do. He will never forget the look of anger and disappointment written on his father’s face as he told him he would not be marrying Nakia.

“If you follow that girl you are letting down this country and failing your duty as heir to Wakanda. Why would you do all this for an outsider?”

With all the conviction that he could muster, T’Challa responded.

“I am aware of my duties as prince and heir of the throne. Believe me Baba, it is what has stopped me from doing this since we left Kampala. I do not care if Alix is from Wakanda or not. All I know is that since we left Uganda I felt as though there is a piece of me missing and I have been washed with a sense of guilt. If I don’t do this I will never be able to serve my country with a sound mind. I know you do not agree, and that is okay, but as my own man I have to do what is right for me.”

As T’Challa remembered what he promised himself by coming here, he finally turned to face the Doras.

“I can do this. I am a prince. I have had harder discussions with world leaders than this. I am the Black Panther. I hold a very important mantle. I can and will knock on that door!”

“Will it be soon my prince,” Ayo asked. T’Challa stopped to frown. Before he could answer the door swung open to reveal Alix. She had heard the pacing and chatting and assumed it was her elderly neighbour and wanted to help. Instead she was met with a man that she had tried her hardest to forget existed.  She dropped the ice cream cone she was snacking on. T’Challa’s eyes followed the cone before going up to meet Alix’s face. His eyes again travelled to land on Alix’s mid section. Though not very round, her slender form allowed for her bump to protrude more.  His eyes continued to pass from her bump to her face as his own expression filled with shock.  T’Challa finally broke out of his trance to speak with a shaking voice.

“... Hello… How have you been?"

Finally breaking out of her own shock Alix replied in the only way she knew how.

"Clearly my time has been a bit occupied." She nervously tried to laugh but T'Challa was still in shock.  “Maybe you should come in and tell me why you are outside my door.”

T’Challa slowly nodded and followed, leaving Ayo and Okoye outside. T’Challa entered but moved around Alix’s space awkwardly.

“How about you sit while I clean up the ice cream?”

T’Challa moved towards the sitting area but again awkwardly shuffled on the couch going through a timeline of his time in Uganda. They had been careful right? Well, she had told him she had an IUD so he never thought to bring condoms. In hindsight, that seemed a little careless for a crowned prince. How was he supposed to explain this to his father who already disapproved of him being here?  Alix returned with hot water and some tea. He couldn’t help but notice how the pregnancy made her glow and enhanced her beauty in a way he never imagined.

“It is chamomile. I think we both need to be calm for whatever is said.”

They awkwardly sipped avoiding each others eye contact.

“I guess I should start,” T’Challa said as he put his cup on the table. “I was, correction, I am here because, because Alix, my life has been meaningless without you. I was ashamed with the way I left you in Kampala. It left me feeling as though I had left a piece of myself there. I tried to get rid of the feeling. My father tried very hard to get rid of the feeling. He arranged for me to marry another, and I could not go through with it because all I could think about was the opportunity I could be missing with you. I have been pacing outside your door trying to gain the courage to say this to you. I know in the past I had quickly chosen my duty as prince over this relationship, but I was not the man I am today. I hope you can forgive me and be willing to possibly give this another chance. And I want to be clear that I am not saying this because of our child-”

“Who said it was yours?” T’Challa looked at her hurt and stunned. “I mean it is yours but it was quite presumptuous don’t you think?”

T’Challa took a relieved breath.

“It is good to know the snarky Alix I fell in love with is still there.” Alix’s heart felt as though it was going a mile a minute as he continued. “I am serious Alix, and you may not want to make this choice today. I understand that it is quite a bit of information I have thrown at you. But despite what you feel about us, evidently there is a child involved. It would be my greatest honour to be involved in their life. I know this was not apart of your life plan, nor was it mine, but I am fully ready to go on this journey with you.”

Alix had forgotten what a charmer he was. How easily she could be enveloped by his words and convinced to bend to his every will. Her heart was shouting yes, but she immediately switched it off and listened to all the worries and fears her brain had created.  

“That all sounds nice, T’Challa. I will never tell you that you cannot be a part of your child’s life. I can’t really say anything else about us though. I am in a hormonal period and what I want today is not what I will want tomorrow. The only constant is the baby’s love of ice cream.”

The two laughed.

“I first went to Vienna looking for you. A few UN officers I knew helped me track you down. Just because I know it is weird for me to show up at your door like this. But why didn’t you try and contact me?”

“Yes, I asked to be transferred back home so I could be closer to my parents and Jules too, so I could have support. I didn’t contact you because I was scared because of your title and how it would affect me and the baby, and everything was changing so fast. To be honest I haven’t even come to terms with the fact that I am going to be a mom. You are right, this was not part of my plan and I am taking it day by day so forgive me if I wasn’t sure how you would fit into that.”

T’Challa shook his head taken aback by everything that was being said. He slowly moved seats to rub Alix’s back.

“Have no fear Alixandre, I am here.”

She laughed into her hands. Their natural banter had returned as though it was only a minute long pause.

“Would you like to come to my 5 month scan next week. It isn’t that big of a deal but you can come if you would like?”

T’Challa’s whole face lit up so bright in a way Alix had never seen.

“Of course. Just tell me when and where and I will be there. I am truly grateful and couldn’t think of nothing better to do than to finally meet my baby.”

They nodded in agreement and T'Challa hugged her goodbye promising to call later for the details of the scan. Though the hug was short, Alix felt a sense of comfort in being in his arms. She couldn’t explain it but it made her feel more at home.

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The day of the scan arrived and Alix was nervous but no one was as nervous as T'Challa. He had fought all sorts of villains in all parts of the world while being the new protector of Wakanda. Yet, somehow he had never felt fear and doubt as the one he was experiencing going into the scan. Everything was happening so fast and, although he wanted to be in his child's life and wanted to be with Alix, he didn’t know if he was enough for either Alix or the baby.  He wanted to be able to provide all the love and support that they could take. He knew that Alix didn’t need him, but he needed her. The last few months had been dark for him. He always felt like he had left a piece of him somewhere else and he had to find it. He searched for it in Nakia and realised it wasn’t there. He knew searching anywhere else would be useless. His missing piece was in a smart, sarcastic, strong willed independent polyglot.

He met with Alix at the doctor's office and she could physically see his nervousness. As much as she found it humorous, she also found it a bit cute while also feeling a little bad for him, but she would never tell him that. After being taken to the back, the nurse came to get everything ready and happily greeted T'Challa since it was the first time she was able to see Alix come in with neither her brother or mother. The doctor came and applied the gel on Alix's belly and the sonogram lit up. T'Challa was already thinking of a way to get Alix to Wakanda so her and the baby could get better care.

T’Challa was immediately mesmerized by the image, and he was certain that he had never seen anything as beautiful as his child, their child, a child made of love. Yes, things are complicated right now,  but he wouldn’t change a thing . The sound of the heartbeat not only shook T’Challa out of his thoughts, but it also confirmed that there was nothing more that he had ever wanted in his life and no matter their relationship status he was happy that he was able to do this with Alix. And he told her when the nurse left. As she heard the words “there is no one else I could ever imagine having my child with, and it only increased the emotions I have for you,” Alix's heart jumped as she stared deeply into T’Challa’s eyes looking for a lie only to find none. She was convinced the little flutter she felt was the baby giving her heartburn. As she tried to pat her chest, T’Challa asked.

“Are you alright?”

“Yeah, just heartburn, one of  my recurring symptoms. They say that means the baby is going to have a lot of hair ”

She told him to run down to the pharmacy for antacids and more prenatal medicine while she signed out. Her head was spinning with so many thoughts but she felt as though if she opened her mouth she would vomit. Not to mention this heartburn like feeling had refused to leave.

The ride home was silent, a comfortable silence that was filled with deep thought. When they had reached the apartment, T’Challa walked Alix up and before she closed the door to say goodbye, she heard T’Challa say his first words in what felt like forever.

“Alix, you know you don’t have to do this alone. I can and will be there with you every step of the rest of this journey, no questions asked.”

Alix wanted to believe, she really did but he needed his words to match his actions. She would not be fooled twice. There was only one way to know if he was serious.

“That all sounds amazing, T’Challa, but I will only be comfortable moving forward with this relationship if you tell your father about the baby and get his approval. I don’t want me or the baby to be something you are ashamed of.”

T’Challa nodded taking in everything that was said.

“And you are not, neither of you are a shame I carry. In fact I am never been more proud of anything I have done before the creation of this child.”

Alix’s heart fluttered again. She told T’challa it was time for him to go, because she was afraid if he kept saying all those sweet things, he might end up in her bed and her brain would not allow that.

Of course, T’Chaka was furious and disappointed stating that he did not want to see Alix set a foot in Wakanda.  But that did not stop T’Challa. He continued to make plans about his future while considering Alix as part of his new normal.  Alix finally began to agree with the idea of going to Wakanda though she feared it would never happen with how T'chaka felt. It put an obvious strain on her and T'Challa’s fragile relationship, but he did what he could to prove to Alix that he was willing to do anything for her and the baby. And so she asked him one day.

"Even give up your right to the throne?" Completely thrown off by the question, T'Challa couldn’t answer and truthfully he didn’t want to because the answer would always be yes but he didn’t want to say something he could not promise. Alix finally rolled her eyes.  "That is what I thought."

Even with the drama, T'Challa continued to try and keep to his promise by being at every appointment, meeting Alix's family, helping her rambunctious brother Jules as much as he could, even when Alix told him not to. He introduced his mother and sister to Alix despite his father's reluctance and they attended her baby shower in France. She looked as elegant as she felt. She thought about what she could have been missing out on. All the moments they could have had. She stopped regretting and instead chose to enjoy the moments right in front of her. She looked around at all the loving faces that were there for her. She focused in on T’Challa and remembered his excitement the first time he felt the baby kick. She didn’t even realise she was smiling so hard until Jules rudely interrupted her thoughts.

When T’challa couldn’t be by Alix’s side he asked Ayo to stay with her even though Alix always protested.

A protest that was lost on deaf ears.

And he called her stubborn.

Unfortunately, T'Chaka died at the UN summit in Geneva a month before the baby was set to arrive which had depressed T'Challa.  His transition to Kingship was not as smooth as he had hoped. Between mourning his father, dealing with  new family members and the council, he ended each day drained. But through it all Alix's voice, videos and pictures that she would send kept him going. Though he was excited to meet his baby, he couldn't get over how beautiful Alix looked pregnant. With his child, their child, a child made of love. He hoped they would be able to work things out because his little bundle of joy would eventually need a sibling and he couldn’t imagine growing his family with anyone but Alix. He stopped thinking and decided that he was ready to hold on tight to the moment right in front of him. As he, for the third time that day went through all of the pictures of Alix at different months, some of which he took when she wasn't looking, he planned his next trip to France. This would be a long one. The baby would be here at any moment and he didn't want to miss a single thing.  He just wanted to be in the moment.

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