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Vox couldn't sleep…well its not like he needed to sleep in the first place being biomechanical, and with Valentino giving birth to their son only a few days ago…Vox had been a little on edge. He was currently holding the moth demon as he slept, high and blessed out on the best painkillers money could buy as well as the strongest sedatives Velvette whipped up to help the taller man get some rest from the whole traumatic experience. Sinners were supposed to be infertile for the most part, someone should have put a giant asterisk next to infertile. As both Vox and Valentino would come to find out, Sinners being infertile didn't mean completely sterile. Sinners could still get pregnant by either cross breeding with hellborns, striking deals with hellborn royal families, or by each other just naturally. However most people abort, have miscarriages or if they do have children move to the outer cities of the Pride ring to live in peace.
That being said, Vox being biomechanical and constantly making upgrades to himself and experimenting on his body may have contributed to him getting Valentino pregnant. He had privately asked Baxter for an internal augmentation a while ago when Valentino had expressed that one of his many, many, many kinks was a creampie and breeding fetish. Vox himself had the same kink (as well as a deep seeded pregnancy kink) so when he asked for an augmentation from Baxter, he thought nothing of it thinking it would be like other previous augmentations. However, that little bastard loved going above and beyond with his inventions and augmentations. Baxter at first was not amused and found his employer's request quite vulgar but since he was under contract got to work and managed to enhance Vox's semen and testosterone output to quote “Come hentai levels of semen into Valentino's tight ass.”
Vox, of course, was way too excited and ignored Baxter's explanation of how it was possible and proceeded to fuck, rail and absolutely destroy the Film Overlord for a week straight on every surface of the Vee's private penthouse and Vee tower. The pair were doing it 6 times a day and for almost 12 hours at night. Vox was even proud to say Valentino couldn't even walk or sit down for a good while. And production of films were backed up for a while until Velvette shouted some sense into the both of them and got them back on schedule. It was a good month of breeding and creampie sessions before Valentino started showing symptoms.
At first both Valentino and Vox just thought the usual, either Valentino was hungover on alcohol or drugs, or had food poisoning or Valentino was just sick. But then Velvette pointed out that Valentino hadn't been clubbing in a month due to Vox monopolizing his time (and body), so no excess alcohol or drug use. Food poisoning was out of the question as Vox had a strict food protocol in place after Velvette got food poisoning once that actually killed her and she need to regenerate. And Valentino hadn't been outside enough to catch a cold. The perked up the two older Vee's interest so Velvette had the bright idea of typing all of Valentino's symptoms into the search engine. Valentino was having pretty severe nausea, his chest was a bit tender and swollen but that could also be attributed to Vox sucking and biting his chest, some pretty strong food cravings and very strong food aversion as well. Once Velvette finished typing she just deadpanned “Valentino it's saying you're pregnant.”
Of course all the Vee's laughed for a good minute before brushing it off with the obvious excuse that Sinners were infertile however the laughter slowly gave way to panic when both Vox and Velvette's searching wasn't turning up anything else. The three doomscrolled and panicked, reading hell forums for a good 30 minutes before going to the nearest doctor who indeed confirmed Valentino was pregnant. Vox was told he fainted and Valentino had a full prima donna meltdown at the news. Once things were calmer the Vee's assess the situation, before going to Baxter who once again had to explain to his employer that the new augmentation that he underwent required gene splicing. In order for Vox to have hentai levels of semen, it required him to splice some of Vox's own DNA with hellborne DNA, and Baxter took the liberty of using hellhounds DNA who are know to “Fuck like rabbits” which technically increased Vox's fertile tenfold. Vox was pretty sure he caused an electrical surge blackout after that explanation. Once again panic, screaming, crying and things were being thrown (mostly by Valentino). But when the dust settled and the two actually sat down and talked about it, both realized near were opposed to the idea of having kids together. They already shared a home, an empire, bodily fluids…Velvette technically too. The only thing that was missing was wedding rings and the look of ‘finally!’ on Velvette's face said everything.
Vox then looked down at the gold wedding band on his finger before looking at the matching one on Valentino's hand. Funny thing for all of his temper tantrums, and mood swings Valentino made sure to never take off the ring or even get a scratch on it. Vox can still remember how hard Valentino was gripping his hand when he went into labor and how the strength slowly lessen as it went on…and how limp and lifeless his hand felt as he was losing blood and energy from trying to push so hard…Vox could feel himself start to spiral as static creep to the edges of his vision as he could hear Valentino's pained screams echoing in his head and a familiar cold dread started taking over. However an alert quickly flashed on his screen before the sound of a baby starting to cry from the foot of the bed cleared Vox's vision and he was getting up cooing softly to the newest addition to the Vee's.
“Hey little guy,” Vox murmured softly as he picked up their son from his crib “You getting hungry?”
The newborn in question was a perfect mix of Vox and Valentino. Although the baby did take after Vox with a flat screen for a head, and had the most adorable chunky body with six limbs and small wings taking after Valentino in that regard with two antennas on his head. He was a small thing compared to Vox and Valentino being 7 feet and 10 feet in height but he was a hefty baby coming out to 14 pounds and 7 ounces at birth. Vox felt bad that Valentino had to push out such a heavy baby but he was even more proud at both of them surviving the whole ordeal. They ended up naming this little guy Vax, which was both gender neutral and on brand for them. Vax let out another little whimper in Vox's arms and Vox got another notification that confirmed that Vax was hungry. Vox used his wires to grab the nearby pumped milk from Valentino and carefully settled down with Vax near the sprawling windows with a view of pentagram city. Vax made soft feeding sounds with slight electrical humming in between and Vox couldn't help but stare down at his son. Vox would be the first person to admit he was scared shitless throughout Valentino’s pregnancy, trying to carry a regular baby was no easy task but a hybrid demon baby was something else entirely. Valentino had a very rough go of it between his body image issues, eating disorders and pain, Vox was fully convinced Vax would come early or worse that Valentino would miscarry. But after the very scary first trimester it seemed like both Valentino and Vax “locked in” as Velette said to him. And Valentino started eating a lot and regularly without skipping meals, stopped drinking, smoking and doing drugs. Vax in turn became a strong healthy baby and even made the poor moth demon go overdue by a week, but he stayed put until he was finished cooking in there. Although during the birth Valentino was extremely weak by the time Vax came out and Vax was even more distressed worrying both his parents and the doctors when he didn’t cry immediately. Even though it was only a few seconds (well 77 seconds…yes Vox counted) Vax finally came online with a little spark thanks to a nurse realizing that the baby like his father was biomechanical and just needed a little shock which Vox quickly provided and Vax screamed his little lungs out after 38 hours of hard labor.
They only spent about three days in the hospital with Vox hacking into every electronic hospital equipment, security camera and hijacking every frequency from analog to digital in the hospital to monitor both Valentino and Vax. Making sure no one was trying any funny business or testing the Vee’s while his husband was recovering. Val was very much worse for wear, he had tore pretty bad, lost a lot of blood and was extremely exhausted from the whole ordeal. But Vox was glad that Valentino was demanding enough to still hold Vax, the moth demon had always been possessive and a bit territorial when it came to things he loved and Vax was no different. There were still a lot of questions about Valentino’s overall health and Vax’s unique anatomy, but Vox shut that line of question down after he caught a doctor being paid off by some not so savory scientists for information. Vox dealt with the doctor and the scientist personally and let off some much needed stress and steam. The smell of burnt flesh was stuck on his clothes which he made sure to change before getting Val and Vax discharged back to the safety of Vee tower.
Vax then stopped feeding and was making little cooing noises before settling closer to Vox, Vox then tapped into the little Vax’s frequency. Like Vox, Vax could produce his own and could send and receive signals back. Thankfully because he was a baby he didn’t have a big range but Vox was still worried and made sure to intercept all signals the little baby was sending out as well as add a signal blocker to the tower to block Vax’s specific signal from getting out as well as from receiving outside signals in so the small baby wasn’t overwhelmed. Vox learned in the first couple of days of Vax being home that Vax was picking up signals left and right and because he couldn’t filter them like his dad he was crying and wailing non-stop until the safeguards were put in place. But the signals little Vax was sending out were very easily decoded and Vox felt like a genius at parenting as it was just Vax stating what he needed. Which mostly consisted of ‘Food’ ‘Wet’ ‘Hungry’ ‘Sleepy’ ‘Mama’ ‘Daddy’ ‘Hurt’.
So Vox added an alert system for whenever Vax sent out a signal which made taking care of the newborn a breeze. How many parents wish they could read their kids' minds and anticipate their needs. With Vax being an easy baby to take care of for the most part it allowed more time for Vox to focus on having Valentino recover. Valentino was in constant pain and still weak, but he would try to take care of Vax and Vox. Vox knew Valentino didn't want to feel unless but he really need to rest and not push himself so they came up with an agreement. Valentino would rest and stay awake with Vax during the day and Vox would take overnight duties so the moth demon could get ample rest. However Valentino would wake up at every whimper, sneeze, or slight sound Vax made which led to Vox asking Velvette to make sedatives for him so he would be knocked out at night.
Vox didn't mind the night duties as he got to spend some alone time with his son. And his favorite thing to do was to just listen to Vax's frequency signals and his tiny breathing, while he held him close. It was like mediation almost, Vox was so used to listening and monitoring everyone in hell, sometimes all he heard was a buzzing, screaming well of never-ending voices from everything he was connected to. That just focusing on his own son's one track mind was peaceful. Vox doesn't know how long he sat there letting Vax sleep on him but he decided to move Vax back to the bassinet. Vox himself was about to go back to cuddling Valentino, when suddenly he got several distressed red alerts from Vax as the newborn started crying again. Vox immediately scrambled back to the baby holding Vax again concerned only for Vax to quiet down immediately. Vox of course was confused before he checked the distressed signals only from his chest to tighten and his heart to melt.
⚠ INCOMING SIGNAL — PRIORITY: RED
SOURCE: VAX-UNIT
BANDWIDTH: NARROW / UNSTABLE
TEMP_STATUS: ↓↓
CONTACT: LOST
HEART_RATE: IRREGULAR
[DECODE: CONCEPTUAL TAGGING]
▸ ENVIRONMENT → COLD
▸ PRIMARY CONTACT → DADDY
▸ CONTACT STATE → ABSENT
▸ QUERY LOOP → WHERE / WHERE / WHERE
▸ EMOTIONAL FLAG → FEAR
▸ FEAR
▸ FEAR
[WARNING]
SELF-REGULATION: FAILED
DEPENDENCY SIGNAL: ACTIVE
INTERNAL TEMPERATURE: RISING
⚠ SIGNAL UPDATE
CONTACT: RESTORED
SIGNAL INTEGRITY: STABLE
[DECODE: CONCEPTUAL TAGGING]
▸ STATUS → SAFE
▸ PRIMARY CONTACT → DADDY
▸ CONTACT CONFIRMED → FOUND
▸ ENVIRONMENT → WARM
▸ STATUS → SAFE
▸ POWER STATE → SLEEPY
TEMP_STATUS: NORMAL
HEART_RATE: STEADY
PROCESSING LOAD: LOW
Vox held Vax close feeling the baby relaxing in his arms.
“I'll keep you both safe,” Vox said quietly “I promise…I'll do better…for all of us…”
Vax just let out a cute little sigh in response and then Vox got an idea before sending a signal thru his antennas.
OUTGOING SIGNAL
TARGET: VAX-UNIT
BAND: PROXIMITY / COMFORT
POWER: LOW
[ENCODE: EMOTIONAL-ASSOCIATION]
▸ PRIMARY CONTACT → DADDY
▸ EMOTIONAL STATE → LOVE
▸ TARGET → VAX
▸ STATUS → CONSTANT
Vox watched as Vax’s antennas picked up the signal and Vax suddenly relaxed. Vox was still reading his vitals and frequencies, suddenly Vax sent something back and Vox felt something caught in his throat.
HEART_RATE: ↓
MUSCLE_TENSION: ↓
POWER_DRAW: MINIMAL
OUTGOING SIGNAL — LOW STRENGTH
SOURCE: VAX-UNIT
BANDWIDTH: LIMITED
[DECODE: PARTIAL]
▸ PRIMARY CONTACT → DADDY
▸ EMOTIONAL STATE → LOVE
Vox felt tears dripping down his monitor as he looked down at the sleeping baby as his decoder finished.
VAX → DADDY
LOVE
“Daddy loves you too baby…” Vox choked “Daddy loves you too…”
Vox wanted to be bigger, louder and brighter in life seen by everyone and everything, hell even in death he wanted the same thing. But now in the late hours of the morning, Vox only wanted to be seen and loved by one person and he promised to himself he'd never let go.