Echo Headcanon ~ Soon to be Dad!
A/N: I had a little "giggly and kicking feet under desk" chat with @bigbadbatch about Echo as an expecting father and feel morally obligated to share it with everyone ā”
ąŖāā“ Finding out you're pregnant
He comes back home later than normal, he is out with his vods
This gives you time to pick the most perfect way to tell Echo the news
You go to the store and buy a blue onesie, then hand stitch a patch with his signature "Rex's handprint" on the front
When he gets home, you are sitting on the bed, waiting for him with a small gift bag in your lap
He instantly panicks, thinking he might have forgotten an important date
He didn't - Echo never forgets what's important to you
Echo carefully picks the tissue paper out and pulled out the onesie
He goes still, holding the onesie like it might vanish if he moved too fast
"I-" he begins to say, but that was all that could come out, so you just nod your head, confirming
He immediately wraps his arms around you, lifting you from the bed, and spinning you around
He can't stop smile laughing, "You're going to be a mom! I'm going to be a dad!"
ąŖāā“ Telling the boys
Echo is bursting at the seams, ready to tell the boys
When it is finally time, you and Echo hosted a "holovid" night at your shared home and invited all the boys
Echo planned to leave the onesie you bought laying out on the caf table.
Rex notices first and outs him, saying aloud, "Echo, there's baby clothes on your caf table."
Fives jumps up, putting his arms around you and Echo in a big bear hug, telling you how excited he is to be an uncle
The rest of the gang gives similar reactions, there are just smiles and joy all around
THEN the little gifts keep popping up
Wrecker and Hardcase make "baby ARC armor" together
Omega gives you and Echo a stuffed tooka doll (she doesn't quite understand how you're having a baby, and Hunter threatened to kill anyone who tells her)
The Dominos start writing down all of the goofy stories they remember, ready to read them as bedtime stories
Rex tells Echo, "You're going to give them the childhood we never got. I know it."
ąŖāā“ During Pregnancy
Echo falls FAST into dad mode
He reads everything to the point where he knows more about prenatal vitamins than most doctors
Your comfort becomes his priority, offering you back rubs, extra blankets, food runs at weird hours - whatever you need
He also keeps a logbook, titled with each day, where he writes little notes to your baby
At night, or when you're sleeping, Echo talks to your growing bump
He says things like, "Mom's asleep now. It's just us." and "Don't tell mom I said this, but she has some competition for the #1 spot in my heart now."
Before he falls asleep, he'll kiss your bump and say, "Be easy on mom tomorrow. Don't keep kicking her kidneys, okay?"
Each morning, when he leaves for work, he'll kiss both of you
His last words to your bump before he walks out the door are always a countdown to your due date - or in his words, "____ days until we get to meet you."
