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“Quick, quick, take the picture, Chris- She’s gonna smash that cake any second!” Leon fretted with his ears straight up and alert. Chris groaned, aiming the polaroid camera just right to get the perfect shot. “I’m trying, Leon, stop moving so much, you keep bumping me and the table, it’s gonna turn out all blurry.” Leon held his hand defensively over his very round belly. He shot his husband a look. “Who’s fault is that, Redfield?” Leon was carrying an extremely large pup that made it impossible not to bump into things accidentally with!
Chris ignored that comment, readjusting with the camera while cooing, “Look over here, baby! Look up! Aww, she’s so cute! Birthday girl!! Look at daddy!” Leon was chewing his nails watching Chris be so precious about the photo. His tail swished impatiently back and forth. He knew it was only a matter of seconds before their now-one-year-old girl slammed her tiny fists straight through the pink cake on the highchair tray in front of her.
“Chris…” His tail swished faster. He knew his girl too well when she got that glimmer in her mischievous dark brown eyes. That cake did not stand a chance. Her little tongue stuck out of the corner of her mouth. Leon knew exactly what was going to happen next.
“Ugh, she’s not looking at the camera, she’s just looking at the cake- Hey!!” Without another moment to waste, Leon snatched the camera from Chris’s hands and snapped the photo right as their pup squealed and sent her eager paws flinging into the cake. It smashed all too easily with frosting smearing everywhere and the soft crumb caving into a sad looking mess of the beautiful cake it once was.
“Oh!” Chris exclaimed and Leon smirked as the polaroid printed out. “Leon! It’s gonna be all blurry!” He had tried so hard to take the perfect photo! Memories and sentimental moments were really important to Chris and he kept a huge record of all of their first puppy’s events!
She just turned one today but Chris already had multiple photo albums built up with the cutest, most perfect and precious photos of their first pup. She looked like Chris but had a lot of her mama’s disposition already, so Chris would say affectionately. Her brown eyes sparkled wide and her floppy dark brown ears twitched when she licked the pink frosting off her fist.
“It’ll be fine,” Leon held the photo out of reach just to tease his husband, smirking playfully when Chris bumped into his round, pregnant belly while trying to grab it. “Who’s bumping into who, now, Chris?” Leon held the photo out of reach just to tease his younger mate a little more and then after a second he handed it over. “Thank you!” Chris huffed, quickly checking for how good or bad it came out.
“How’s it look?” Leon leaned his arm up on Chris’s shoulder. Chris was younger than him but he was taller and very well built for his age. He felt good to rest his pregnant weight against. Leon purred while he gazed at the developing photo in Chris’s hands. He rubbed his pupped belly absentmindedly. Isn’t your daddy so worried over something so silly? He telegraphed lovingly to the big, growing pup in his belly.
“Oh… Look, she isn’t looking, and it’s blurry, her hands are moving!” Chris’s shoulders sank. Leon smiled with a soft scoff. “So what if it isn’t perfect?” He wrapped his arm around his sweet mate. “I think it’s cute. It’s what was in the moment.” Leon pressed a kiss to Chris’s cheek as a consolation. “Not everything has to be perfect, you know. Besides, look-” He nodded to their daughter and Chris looked up from the photo to his first born pup.
She was completely occupied taking huge, messy bites of cake with her hands to even notice how adoringly her parents were gazing at her. “I think she likes it,” Leon’s tail wagged and his ears twitched softly.
With his loving older omega’s arm around him and his adorable little pup in front of him… How could Chris feel disappointed for even a second? He perked up and Leon’s heart warmed.
“Hey, cutie birthday baby, wanna let daddy have some of that cake?” Chris walked around the table to her high chair and leaned down with a huge smile across his face. “Mmyeah, baby girl? Yeah, share some with daddy?”
Leon’s ears melted and his tail wagged even faster with his hand resting on his round stomach full of his perfect mate’s second pupping. It was the cutest sight he had ever seen in the whole world. “Oh!!” Chris laughed loudly, music to Leon’s ears that stood back up when their daughter shrieked excitedly with her daddy. She had whacked her little cake and frosting covered hand into his face in an attempt to feed him. Pink frosting stuck to Chris’s chin and a chunk of cake fell off his lips because he wasn’t expecting it.
Chris laughed, “You little scamp!! Little scampy puppy girl!! Ohh!! You’re so cute! I love you!!” Chris rubbed his nose into his squealing puppy baby’s nose, getting frosting on the tip of both of their noses. He licked her cheek, “Mmm, yummy puppy!!” And she yelped happily, flinging cake while she bounced in her seat. Her tiny floppy ears waggled and Chris cooed sweetly, peppering pink frosting kisses all over her face.
“She’s such a mess!! But shes tastes so good!” Chris’s alpha was purring as loud as he could, completely enraptured by the miracle of his and his perfect mate’s first puppy. Leon was older so the possibility of conception was slim but to their extreme joy, Leon conceived within the very first year of trying. And then again right after, even though they weren’t trying. It “just” happened!
Chris felt bad Leon had to carry again so soon after delivering but the omega couldn’t have been happier. He was almost fifty but glowed radiantly in the bliss of getting to carry another pregnancy. Leon was in the prime of his life as an expecting mother with a big pup on the way in his belly. It was all he ever dreamed of but thought he could never have. Mated, bred, happy. There was nothing more he could have ever wanted for.
“Hey, you two, over here,” Leon called for both of their attention. Chris and their pup looked up at the same time to the sound of their favorite person in the world’s voice. They both had big, frosting smiles across their messy faces and the same sparkling brown eyes that matched when they looked up dreamily and happily at mama that called for them.
A sudden flash they weren’t expecting temporarily blinded them and Leon chuckled at the matching stars in their matching eyes. “Here-” He handed Chris the photo who took it in a slight daze. Leon stroked his daughter’s hair and ruffled her tiny floppy ears affectionately while watching the expression on Chris’s face go from curious to wide eyed to looking so happy he was about to cry.
“Leon...” Chris melted, looking at the spontaneous and unplanned photo of him and his little birthday pup with matching cake faces and matching smiles and matching brown eyes that were looking up with so much love at mama.
Their pup ignored the photo completely and was back to eagerly lapping cake off her hands, cooing happily with her mama’s hand resting against her head. She was happily situated right between her parents and stuffing her face with cake even though she didn’t understand that it was her birthday, all she knew was that she was loved and she had cake.
It was a moment and a photo Chris would cherish forever, messy and imperfect but exactly as perfect as could be. “Thanks, Leon.” Chris beamed and Leon laughed lightly with a flick of his tail. “For what?”
Chris stood up and rested his hand on his pup’s back, leaning over and giving his mate a nuzzle with a loud purr. “For this. This photo. Our pup. Our family.” Leon’s ears lowered affectionately and he tried not to blush. He stroked their daughter’s velvety soft floppy ear and purred back to Chris.
“Well… I didn’t do it all on my own… I had some help.” He winked at Chris and it was Chris’s turn to blush. “Lucky guy,” Chris purred back once he recovered. Leon scoffed faintly, “Sure, but he won’t feel so lucky tonight when he has to clean all this cake off his puppy. Isn’t that right, sweetie?” Leon brushed her hair out of her face so it wouldn’t get stuck to the cake but it was too late. She was gonna be a hassle to wash off later, all hyped up on sugar and coated in the stuff.
“Oh, I have to wash her?” Chris play fought, because of course he was more than happy to be on bathing duty. It was just fun to tease and bicker. He felt puppyish around Leon, always ready to yip and nip and tussle about whether verbally or physically with him.
“Yep. I’m the one with a pup pressing on my bladder and hot sweats. After you give her a bath, come give me a foot rub.” Leon pulled a chair out and sat next to his daughter’s high chair. “Isn’t daddy the best? Right, sweetie pup? Cake? For me?” Leon licked the offering off his cute daughter’s hand and she babbled happily with her mama’s attention all on her.
Leon purred, his blue eyes warm on her smiling, messy cake face. His first pup’s first birthday! His ears leaned towards her at full attention, tail wagging as she grinned and ate cake while cooing happily to her mama. Chris literally was so happy his heart could have burst.
He quickly grabbed the camera and snapped the photo without calling for them to look. “Hey,” Leon blinked the camera blindness away and their pup looked up at him. “Neither of us were looking at the camera, Chris!”
Chris smiled at the photo of his mate and his pup looking at each other so rapt and enamored, little smudge of pink icing on Leon's lip. Leon, his mate with the softest eyes while he looked at their baby birthday puppy, another one growing there in his belly. His pups, the purest form their love. So many more birthdays to celebrate with all the more pups they made. More photos, more memories, more moments and of course, more cake. “No, don’t worry. This is absolutely perfect.”