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Everyone had just finished eating dinner. With Shuri’s Pregnancy she’s been recently joining her family for dinner and breakfast. Probably because her appetite had changed from eating for one to two. It had been two weeks since she told Namor she was pregnant. That was the last time she had talked to him. She knows he’s just trying to give her space.
T’Challa stood up, “I have an announcement to make.”
Everyone turned their attention towards him
“Tomorrow night Namor will be joining us for dinner.”
Shuri stood up, “Brother, a little warning much before you invite the father of my child over” She yelled.
“Sister, may I remind you that we will have to tell the council soon about your pregnancy and when we do we have to have a plan on what's going to happen between you, Namor, and this baby.”
Nakia could tell that Shuri was getting frustrated and was about to yell at T’Challa. She stood up, “Sister what he means is that when you tell the council we want to have a plan like will there be a marriage or is this going to be more of a co-parenting situation.”
Shuri’s cheeks heated up at the thought of marrying Namor. In full honesty she hadn’t really thought about what she and Namor were going to do. It would be best and most classy to marry before sharing this news with Wakanda, but she wasn’t even sure if he wanted anything to do with her after she yelled at him in her lab that night.
Shuri all the sudden felt tired, “Alright well I’m gonna head to bed.”
Everybody told her goodnight as she made her way to her bedroom
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Shuri got up extra early today, she planned on spending the whole day in her lab working until dinner. Unfortunately her baby told her no when it was breakfast time. She made her way to the dining room surprised to find her family already eating.
T’Challa saw his sister walking in, “Kind of you to join us sister.” He joked
She made her way to her seat seeing they had a plate already made for her.
“Had a feeling you would be joining us for breakfast sister.” T’Challa said
Nakia laughed, “No he didn't, I told him to have the chefs put a plate out for you.”
T’Challa put his fingers over his lips and made a pretend shushing noise. “She doesn’t need to know that Uthando Love.” He kissed her.
Shuri fake gagged, “get a room.”
T’Challa teased her, “Says the girl who got pregnant while she was supposedly negotiating a treaty.”
Shuri pretended to be offended, “Wow did brother just call me a whore without calling me one.”
Everyone laughed. T’Challa cleared his throat, “Speaking of Namor, I just wanted to let you know that tonight I will be interrogating his ass.”
“Brother,” Shuri yelled, “Nakia, do you plan on helping me?”
She shook her head, “Sorry sister you're on your own for this one cause I plan on also interrogating the guy who impregnated my sister.”
Shuri groaned, “Please don’t embarrass me, It’s just supposed to be like a regular dinner remember.”
Everyone laughed, Ramonda spoke up. “Oh please Shuri, you remember the first time T’Challa brought Nakia over for dinner.”
T’Challa groaned remembering it, “I didn’t bring her over, remember Baba was told by somebody in the water tribe they saw us together and you immediately planned a dinner with Nakia and her parents and y’all embarrassed us.
Ramonda laughed at the memory of her late husband and her embarrassing her son while Shuri was still a little kid. “Ah yes we had to teach y’all that you can’t hide anything from us. We have eyes everywhere.”
Shuri raised her hand, “I still don’t understand why T’Challa has to embarrass me. I was a kid when that happened, I didn’t do anything.”
Both T’Challa and Nakia laughed at Shuri’s comment. “Oh sister, you made many embarrassing comments like ‘Are you going to have a baby with my brother and will I be an aunt? Will you marry my brother? Are you going to be the new Queen after mommy? Do you and my brother kiss?’ Oh usisi just you wait for dinner.” T’Challa and Nakia laughed again at the memory of young Shuri.
Now that T’Challa mentions it she kinda remembers it. Shuri gave up on trying to convince her family not to embarrass her as it seems they’re going to do it anyway.
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A little bit before dinner
Shuri was in her lab, to be honest she wasn’t really doing anything except stressing about the upcoming dinner. She had no idea what she was going to say to Namor. For being the smartest person in the world she felt really dumb so she did what any person would do in that situation, Call her bestie AKA Riri Williams.
On her Kimoyo Beads she made a facetime call to Riri hoping she would answer. Luckily Riri answered
“Shuri?” Riri said in a groggy voice like she had just been woken up out of her sleep.
“I’m sorry did I wake you up,” She totally forgot about the time difference.
“Yeah kinda.” She said back
“Go back to sleep, What I was calling you for wasn’t even that important.”
Riri sat up a little bit trying not to fall asleep on Shuri, “Nah it's ok you don’t usually call so i'm guessing this is important?”
“A little bit.” Shuri said
“What’s up?” She asked
Shuri ranted “In an hour Namor is going to be here eating dinner with my family as they embarrass me all while we’re supposed to come up with a plan. I really do love him Riri, and I want to tell him but how do I do that? I mean I don’t want to do that infront of my family, Namor probably doesn’t even feel that way about me, and I’ve kinda trapped him down with this baby…”
Riri stopped her mid sentence, “First your ranting babes, Second you didn’t trap him he had the choice not to come in you knowing what could happen and chose to anyway.”
Shuri laughed.
“Do you love him?” Riri asked
Shuri was quiet, thinking about her feelings for Namor. “Yeah, I love him,” She smiled.
“Then at dinner tonight tell him that, and make a plan for your child based on that. You can wait till after dinner. That way you don’t have to do it infront of your family.”
Shuri didn’t even hear the door to her lab open. “Yeah you can do it after dinner in private, that way we can keep our dinner down.” T’Challa said smugly.
Shuri turned around seeing both T’Challa and Nakia standing there with smug looks on their faces, “How long have the two of you been standing there?”
“Long enough to hear about how this fishman has swept my sister off her feet.” T’Challa said jokingly.
“Riri I’ll talk to you later,” They both said bye and hung up the phone.
“Why are the two of you here?” She asked.
“Oh, Okoye just texted us that they have your lover and will be here in ten minutes so wanted to come get you.” Nakia said.
Shuri shut everything down and started to walk with Nakia and T’Challa.
“So you want to tell us more about this fish lover boy who swept Wakandas genius mind off her feet and got her pregnant within a week.” Nakia joked
Shuri put her middle finger up and T’Challa and Nakia laughed. “Oh sister, you're going to hate us after this dinner.”
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Even though this wasn’t a traditional business dinner in Wakanda they decided to still follow some of their traditions which was standing in the foyer waiting for their guest. Shuri stood there, fidgeting with the jade bracelet on her wrist. She just heard Okoye, Aneka, Ayo, and Namor land which meant at any minute Namor would walk in. She could hear them walking in and Okoye was already threatening him that he would be dead in a second if he pulled any funny business.
“Go soft on him Okoye,” T’Challa joked.
When Shuri looked up she saw Namor but instead of him in those tight green shorts like usual, he had a jade suit on with no shirt. She wasn’t going to lie he looked hot
Namor bowed to both T’Challa, Nakia, and Toussaint. “Oh please you are practically family brother, no need for that fancy stuff.” T’Challa opened his arms to hug Namor. Namor accepted the hug.
As soon as Toussaint saw his father hugging the wing footed man he ran out of Nakia arms to hug his leg. “Toussaint,” Nakia \yelled.
Namor looked down and saw the little boy and picked him up, “It’s ok Queen Nakia, What’s your name?” He asked the little boy.
“Toussaint,” He said loud and proud, “But my real name is T’Challa the second.”
“That’s so cool buddy.” Namor handed Toussaint back to Nakia.
“Let’s head into the dining room while we wait for the food.” T’Challa headed into the dining room with everyone following him.
When Shuri entered the dining room she noticed something a little different. Nakia had set up name cards for where everyone would be sitting. Of course she had her sitting next to Namor with Her and T’Challa sitting across from them so that way they can embarrass her way more easily by looking both of them into the eye.
For the first 5 minutes it was just silence between the family and Namor. Until the servers came in with dinner.
Namor was the first to break the silence. “This food is very delicious, very different from Talokan.”
“Thank you, it's hand cooked by our Wakandan chefs.” T’Challa sat up a little more to look Namor in the eyes.
“So Namor, how long has this thing been happening between you and my sister?” T’Challa asked
“Brother!” Shuri yelled.
“It started a little bit after she arrived in Talokan. Queen Nakia, King T’Challa, and Ms Ramonda it was hardly my intention to ever get her pregnant.” Namor said.
Okoye snickered, “Well you did.”
Shuri gave Okoye a death glare.
Nakia cleared her throat, “So Namor it seems you have swept my little sister off her feet. Do you plan to marry her?”
Shuri cheeks started to heat up at the thought of marrying him.
“I wouldn’t say I swept her off her feet. I mean it's completely the Princess's choice if she wants to marry or not. I mean in Takokan it isn’t looked down on to have kids outside marriage.” Namor explained.
T’Challa laughed, “Well I would definitely say you have swept her off her feet I mean I heard her say it herself didn’t you hear it too Nakia?”
Nakia nodded her head, “Yes, If i’m correct she said she loved him?”
Everyone except Namor and Shuri laughed.
Shuri lightly banged her head against the table. This was going to be a long dinner.
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Finally half way through the dinner everyone stopped embarrassing her, and asking Namor embarrassing questions. They were currently just sitting there finishing their dessert.
“Queen Nakia and King T’Challa, This dessert is delicious. I must have the recipe to have the chefs in Talokan replicate. Especially for days when Shuri is down there.” Namor said.
Nakia, T’Challa, Okoye, Ayo, and Aneka shared a look.
Nakia spoke up, “Hey didn’t you want a tour of the palace the last time you were here?”
“Yes,” Namor said, remembering his last visit.
“Well T’Challa and I would love to give you one right except we need to get Toussaint to bed, but I just had the greatest idea what if Shuri did the tour.”
Shuri knew what Nakia was doing a Nanny always took care of Toussaint when Nakia and T’Challa had important business. They would get him ready for bed for them if they asked. This was everything Nakia was saying was bullshit to get them alone together.
Namor smiled. “I wouldn’t mind doing it. Princess, do you want to do that? He asked her.
She smiled at him, “Sure I can do that.”
She gave Nakia a death glare as she and Namor left the dining room to start the tour.
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Surprisingly the tour was going well. It wasn’t awkward between her and Namor. They were right at the end of their tour. She was just showing him the guest rooms, and the area of the palace where the royals slept. After that she would be done with the tour and take him to the main entrance for him to fly home.
“So Princess you know we have to talk about this.” He said.
Shuri pretended to be clueless. “Talk about what?”
Namor signed, “This relationship or whatever it is. Look Shuri, in nine months we are going to have a baby. We can’t bring a baby into this world before discussing this between us.”
Shuri took a deep breath, she knew what she needed to say. “Kukulkan, I love you, I have since you first showed me Talokan. I love you, I want to be with you.” Kukulkan stopped her ranting and kissed her.
This wasn’t like their last kiss they shared in Shuri’s lab. It was softer, hot, and filled with lust, passion, and love.
Namor pulled back, “I love you too princess.” Shuri immediately attacked his lips with her own once he stopped talking. She wrapped her legs around his waist and before she knew it her back hit the wall.
“Where's your room princess?” He asked.
She was breathing heavily against the wall, “Down the hall to the right then take a left and head straight.
He followed her directions and went to her room lets just say they had very hot night
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Namor woke up and felt the spot next to him empty. He immediately sat up trying to find where Shuri was when he heard gagging coming from the bathroom. He immediately knew what the sounds meant. He ran into the bathroom and rubbed her back as she threw up last night’s dinner. Soon Shuri sat up and leaned against Namor, she was just waiting for the nausea wave to pass.
They were sitting there for two minutes when they heard a knock on the door.
“I’ll get it, Princess.” Namor got up from his spot on the floor and headed towards the door. When he opened it he didn’t expect to see Queen Nakia and Ms Ramonda standing at the door with a tray in their hands with Ginger tea, water, and crackers. He also didn’t expect to see them carrying a bucket. All three of them stared at each other in shock, not expecting to see each other. All three of them were brought back to reality by the sound of Shuri throwing up again.
They ran into the bathroom to help Shuri. She wasn’t gagging anymore but her head was still leaning over the toilet. Ramonda went back into her bedroom putting lavender essential oil in a diffuser next to her bed. The smell of the lavender calms her nausea down sometimes. Nakia asked Namor if he could carry Shuri to her bed, which he agreed to immediately. He helped the princess back into her bed as Nakia poured some of the ginger tea into a cup. Ramonda also set the bucket next to her just in case she would need it.
“Hey I’m gonna head out, I've kinda overstayed my welcome.” He told Nakia getting ready to exit through Shuri’s balcony.
“No, you are soon to be family to us you can stay for however long you like. Also please feel free to join us for breakfast before you leave. We would love to have you join us.” Nakia said.
Namor considered for a few seconds and got back into bed next to Shuri.
Nakia stooped down to hug her usisi, “You know we’ll have to talk about this breakfast right?”
Shuri put up her middle finger and Nakia laughed. “See you at breakfast usisi.”
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At Breakfast T’Challa was surprised to see the guest his sister brought with her. He just guessed that Namor and Shuri's tour ended late and he decided to stay the night.
Nakia looked at Shuri, “So Shuri, why was Namor in your room this morning?”
T’Challa eyes widened as he realized why Namor stayed the night last night.
He shook his head and had his hand covering his face. His expression did not go unnoticed by Shuri.
“Brother I don’t know why you have that expression. It isn’t like I can get pregnant again.” Shuri laughed.
This time T’Challa covered his ears, “Nope I do not want to think about my baby sister doing actions with me in the same building to create a baby.”
Everyone, including Namor, laughed at T’Challa comment.