#mackpreg

he orders no less than ten books on pregnancy and parenting. the guys chirp him when he pulls them out on the plane, but he doesn't care. he grills the vets with kids, asking them the most random questions in the middle of the night, or during practice. they usually just smile at him fondly and pat him on the back.

he signs him and mack up for parenting classes, pregnancy yoga, male omega pregnancy support groups. mack refuses to go to that last one, i'm not going to a support group, will, oh my god.

Aika said something and i have to share:

he's so sick; has never understood the big deal about being sick in the mornings, except morning sickness is a LIE. he's always sick, always nauseous, always white knuckling counters and toilet seats and praying to the porcelain gods. and he's like that up until he gives birth, none of that first trimester only shit he sees online.

will struggles a lot seeing him like that. he can get damp washcloths for the back of his neck, he can get him clean smelling towels and soft things to bury his face in when the rest of the world is too much. he can keep those sour candies on hand, the only ones mack can tolerate and the only food mack can ask for and know he'll keep down. but he can't fix it for mack; he can only sit there and rub soothing circles on his back and tie back his fringe.

mack's always been a large man, too. and he'd expected to get bigger with pregnancy; had looked forward to it, even. proof of a life they had created together. but he just hadn't expected to be so *puffy*. so swollen with water weight. he doesn't even think he looks pregnant, not really. he just doesn't look like himself and that's scary. and will thinks he's beautiful. always has, always will. but there's nothing he can do to convince mack of that.

and mack is just exhausted. all of the time. his body is sore. he feels like he's been doing bagskates for hours every day. and yeah, he's growing a whole person. but he never thought that moving from bed to the couch would be so EXHAUSTING. and he's napping EVERYWHERE. falling asleep mid-activity, falling asleep in obscure places that make will panic when he can't find him immediately.

and the labor? of course that's rough too. hours of contractions with no progress, he's weak and tired and eventually they have to do a caesarean for everybody's safety. and will is *distraught*. of course, pregnancy is scary and there's always a chance of complication. but will never thought it would happen to his partner, to his child. he spends hours whispering apologies into mack's sweaty hairline as he works through contractions. he's crying the entire c-section, white knuckling mack's hand and terrified it will all go south.

Like full on dead in his tracks, frozen, still as death. The whole locker room is watching this idiot stand there, digging his own grave while will sits like a statue.

Misa (god bless him) is abt to uncharacteristically violent towards this dickhead when will slowly places his gear down, slowly stands up, slowly walks over to the idiot, and lays him completely out.

Finally free from my job and I miss the discourse on omega Mack 😩 Sooo to feel better after a hectic work day I shall ramble, omegaverse style lol. And your explanation on the links did make sense to me, thank you! :) I shall experiment another time. But oh boy this is gonna be long so I apologize in advance.

Now, for today’s topic, cryptic pregnancy part 1. Cryptic pregnancies are interesting and terrifying cause most of time people don’t know they’re pregnant until late pregnancy or birth, and I read on google that it’s more common with athletes (if the conditions are right) due to their muscles especially in the abdomen area.

So, will and Mack are in a relationship, not yet mated cause they’re trying to take it slow (not working out lol). Mack is not ashamed of his omega status in this, he rather embraces it but however, he has irregular heat cycles due to his intense training growing up and being on/off suppressants and he has family history of irregular heats + hormone cycles unfortunately, so he experiences heats very differently than what is considered normal. He has birth control that helps with his regulation and is diligent with taking. He and will are pretty responsible with safe sex surprisingly, but of course nothing is 100%.

So Mack is noticing he gained a bit a weight but nothing too out of ordinary but his stomach pooch is more pronounced than usual and normally he would blame it on bloating during his cycle fluctuations but it seems more stubborn than usual and nothing he does seems to make it go away. Will is obsessed with his soft (but a bit firm) stomach so he doesn’t see anything of concern and is appreciating that Mack is putting more weight in his hips, thighs, and posterior area, Mack not so much. He’s annoyed with the weight that’s going to his lower body that he has to get new pants cause it won’t go over his ass (will has to leave when he gets changed cause he can’t keep his hands to himself) and he starts wearing compression undershirts and later sports bras cause his chest starts to get overly sensitive with nothing to buffer. He complains to his dad one day over the phone, rick is working up more plans to tackle his sensitivity problem and stubborn weight gain in his hips and the stomach pooch that hasn’t gotten bigger but has not gone away.

Will is more clingy to Mack than usual, scents him more, pampers him more than usual, gets more anxious when he gets pushed around at games and practice. He’s practically restless if Mack is around other alphas, especially unmarked single ones. He drowns Mack in his scent so much that no one can tell which one is will or Mack when they are in the locker rooms, the rink, or at other people’s places. The team is lowkey fed up cause the amount of will they have to smell is irritating their noses and to their horror, Mack is practically nose blind to will. The team also notices that they do not react well at all if they are separated for any period of time. When Mack is pulled away to discuss game plans, will is pacing in the hallway outside the office or room he’s in. If will is pulled to do any social media or interviews, Mack is literally five feet away, emitting anxiety. The team is also softer with Mack, more affectionate and less roughhousing than they realize. They always make him and the younger players get food first, but especially Mack. Reavo especially is more protective of him, making sure the team isn’t picking on him more than they need to.

I headcannon that pregnant omegas have an allure that draws alphas in intentional or not (platonic for pack/family members, less so for single strangers) So during games, the team has to beat alphas back cause they keep hanging around macklin. Will is now around him 24/7 cause his hackles are raised and will not feel satisfied unless macklin is in his sights and can physically touch him. Macklin is a downright menace to these foreign alphas, he hisses, snaps, and even bit one that tried to touch him. Don’t even get him started when it’s on the ice, absolute demon mode. He eventually earns a reputation that has lone alphas keep a ten foot distance and avoid eye contact lest they have a hissing omega that can body alphas twice his size. But opposing teams have whiplash when they experience bitch Mack, and then see him absolutely melt when around his alpha teammates. Same with the refs, the refs that don’t know Mack experience his wrath but the ones that know Mack, get the nicer version of him. Warso gets the best of both worlds, a bitchy Mack and a downright possessive will, constantly faces their ire with his shitty decisions and comments.

Now, one person of the team starts to put the pieces together. None other than wennberg, who is now noticing the teams behavior shift towards Mack. It starts with a game where Mack took a pretty hard hit, and the entire team practically jumped the player that hit him. He hears mack complain about his constant pants problems and even sees Mack rip a pair of leggings trying to get it over his thighs. He sees will scenting Mack so aggressively that he’s concerned that he’s gonna rub his scent gland raw. And that’s when he gets a bit of a flashback during Felicia’s pregnancies (cause he had done that himself) And he has to do a double take cause that can’t be right. So he keeps an eye on them but doesn’t say anything cause he feels like if it was the case, they’re not stupid…the trainers aren’t stupid enough to have Mack keep playing during a pregnancy if he was, and he’s sure macklin is on a million contraceptives. Famous last words however.

It all comes to ahead during a game, a home game luckily, Mack has been having this cramps since he went to bed, and they haven’t gone away, but he’s used to cramping around his suspected heat cycles so he brushes it off. When showering in the morning, he notices that he’s having more slick or discharge than usual but again, sometimes happens during his heat cycles (sign 1). He’s getting changed and his chest is so sensitive it’s borderline painful, so he goes sports bra/compression undershirt. (sign 2) He and will arrive, will being more clingy and almost aggressive towards anyone near Mack, that the team is a little shocked that smitty is nearly growling at everyone. (sign 3) It’s during the game that Mack really starts to feel the cramps get to him. He was alright until it starts to last longer than the previous cramp and the pain intensity is increasing with every. (Sign 4) One cramp hits him so hard that he folds over and clings to the boards to steady himself. His teammates closest to him see him stopped at the boards hunched, curling over himself for a concerning amount of time. The cramp lets go, and macklin, brushes it off as severe preheat cramp but he has never experienced anything like that. (Sign 5) He keeps experiencing more and more painful cramps to the point that he keeps going to the bench to get will to scent him cause he notices that his scent helps a little to soothe the pain.

Warso is sick of the back and forth, and keeps them separated to keep the pda down, and send Mack once again to the ice. Another painful cramp strikes again, and Mack manages to push through it, just to get the body check of a lifetime against the boards. Someone’s leg or elbow, digs deep into his stomach and ribs, not helping his cramping situation, and he collapses on the ice. A full on fight occurs, but he zones out due to the pain that is now flaring his abdomen. He knows he might have a rib injury or bruising on his stomach but it doesn’t explain the downright dread and anxiety he’s feeling. He manages to get on his feet and knows that he needs to see a trainer cause the pain should not be feeling like this. He flags down a trainer, and they head down the tunnel, he ignores will, not wanting him to worry, and they head to the locker room (I don’t know where they go to look after players so if I’m wrong, my bad) and macklin is struck by a cramp so bad, he gets physically sick, he thinks it’s from the hit he took, and starts to describe what he’s feeling to the trainer. This trainer so happened to take an omega health program during his college times, and when he starts to hear macklins symptoms, his heart drops to his ass. He only dealt with three cases of omega pregnancies, one of which being a cryptic pregnancy, and macklin is checking off the boxes. He then has to calmly ask Mack about his sex life, and heat cycle info, mack confused as to why he needs to know this, until the trainer explains to macklin that he may be in active labor and suffered a serious blow to his abdomen that can complicate said labor. Macklin crashes out bad. Like bad bad. Is in denial until he feels something leak down his leg, both he and the trainer panic when they see its blood, and Mack agrees to be manhandled while the trainer examines him. So stress time, and the trainer and Mack both know that this baby won’t wait until they get to the hospital. They get an ambulance enroute (paramedics on scene get sidetracked by another injury during this time), and macklin ends up giving birth in the locker room not too long after that. They get whisked away to the hospital, only telling the team that a medical emergency came up. Despite the bad hit he took and the more than usual bleeding, macklin and his new baby boy are both declared healthy. Macklin however has a longer recovery due to his injury and slight complications and tearing from birth. Will is eventually allowed to go to the hospital, and finds out he’s a father and it’s a boy 🥳, the baby of course being a near carbon copy of his baby pictures. They are both stumped as to how they have a baby when they both used protection and macklin wasn’t in heat nor will in rut, and how did the blood tests they take every now and then not reveal the pregnancy.

I’ll end part 1 here and part 2 will be like aftermath stuff. And maybe I can make like a will perspective or something. Oh dear gosh, I got carried away, I feel so bad about how long this is lol, it took me two hours to write this 😭 I hope it’s not too much…

-anonymous anon

Will: Bet.

*10 months later*

Will: *smugly holding the triplets he impregnated mack will*