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It had become a monthly tradition, Shouto did his best to get home early and help with whatever dessert they were making.
It was weird for Touya at the beginning, doing things for others without hoping for nothing more than make them happy but he had come to like baking, it made him feel normal.
They were making a pumpkin spice pie since his daughter had seen a Halloween movie and insisted she wanted one, she was a little spoiled but he couldn't deny her anything. He tries to make her life as normal as possible even if his daughter's life has never been normal, ever since she was conceived she was bound to a life of wickedness. Touya tries to make up for it as much as he can. He can make a pie for her but he can't go out with her or take her to school.
Staying inside is the only thing keeping Touya alive and comfortable or so Shouto says, he's pretty sure heroes and villains alike have forgotten about him, at least enough for him to go unnoticed until he moves somewhere he isn't recognized so easily.
He wouldn't do that to his daughter though, not now that she has a life of her own, friends and family who know her and love her.
His daughter, who is also his niece, who Touya loves to the moon and back but who reminds him everyday of his sins. The sins that matter to him, not the crimes he committed as a villain.
Touya will use a blend of his daughter's favorite spices for the pie and he relishes in the smell of the multiple scents as he gets all the ingredients ready, similar but distinguishable from a person's smell. The food never smells quite like a person, even if they have a fruit oriented scent.
Shouto always tells him he smells like pines and cinnamon, Touya knows it's a strange mix for an omega but it's a surprise he has a scent at all.
He hears hurried footsteps and hears giggling as he's sure Sumie is picked up by Shouto, the doting father preferring to carry her than scold her for running down the stairs.
Sumie smiles at him from her father's arms as they enter the kitchen, Shouto puts her down and Touya sees as she puts on her little apron, looking extremely adorable. She likes cooking and while Touya enjoys being in the kitchen, he's pretty sure she got her love for cuisine from her dad.
Touya will make the dough while they will cut the pumpkin for the puree.
They work in silence and he knows Shouto will be extremely careful as their child cuts her part of the pumpkin even if she uses a kid safe knife, so he focuses on making the dough until he hears giggling and turns to look at them, finding Shouto cutting the pumpkin into funny shapes.
He wants to scold him for losing time but they look so happy and relaxed that Touya can pretend things are normal.
He can pretend that Shouto is just his husband, his lover and that the only blood relation between them is their daughter, he can pretend he didn't corrupt his brother in ways even a villain shouldn't.
It's almost too easy to do so and Touya knows it's wrong that it is. He should fight it more, do more to give his daughter a normal life.
But he can't never find the strength to fight it, can never resist as Shouto hugs him, can't deprive himself of his daughter's smile as she looks at her parents together, she's such a family girl after all.
It's hard to not watch in awe as she laughs, she has gotten big so quickly, Touya feels like his heart is being squeezed as he comes to the realization that she will stop being a child soon, it's too soon, 10 years passed in a flash, he still remembers how he had started to feel bad, never thinking it could be a pregnancy since he had thought his body was too damaged for it.
But his body was compatible with Shouto's in ways most omegas and alphas weren't anymore and had done the impossible for Touya to accept him.
When they see Touya watching them, Sumie smiles brightly and shows him one of the weird shaped pieces of pumpkin.
"Look Mom! It's you!" She laughs, so happy and at ease.
It really feels like things are normal.
Touya raises an eyebrow at them, trying to not smile as they try and promptly fail to hold back their laughter.
It feels almost perfect.
Touya would never try to take it away.
As he sees Shouto laugh with his daughter, both their scents mixing perfectly to give Touya peace, he thinks about what Shouto had asked him for a couple of years ago.
Another child... Now that their daughter was almost a teenager it didn't seem like something so crazy.
It actually feels like something he might need.
It's a selfish thing to want, even if Sumie was the light of Touya's life she hadn't been planned. Trying for a child was completely different, if he became the mother of another child it would only be his fault.
If his child grew up and hated Touya for not having a normal life, Touya wasn't going to have any excuses.
But as he sees his daughter laughing, happy despite the complications of her life, he knows he's willing to take the chance.
It's too selfish even for him. He shouldn't condemn another child to have him as a mother but he's never been known for his good decisions.