Alfred's chest puffed out at Evander's question about trust, ready to launch into — well, he didn't exactly know what he was going to launch into, but probably something needlessly hurtful. That was the stage of argument they were approaching, at any rate. He didn't get around to choosing the words because the word baby tumbled out into the space between them, which stopped his tongue in its tracks. Alfred's eyebrows shot up.
"Baby," he echoed thickly. It did not occur to him to wonder if it might have been true. His only interpretation of it was that this was Evander's latest strategy to try and win the argument, and he was having trouble parsing how it was supposed to work. He regarded Evander with suspicion. Had he heard about Zelda's pregnancy somehow already, and this was a sort of one-up-manship? If so, it was rather... short-sighted, to say the least.
"We're having a baby," Alfred responded: not an announcement but a rebuttal.
"Baby," he echoed thickly. It did not occur to him to wonder if it might have been true. His only interpretation of it was that this was Evander's latest strategy to try and win the argument, and he was having trouble parsing how it was supposed to work. He regarded Evander with suspicion. Had he heard about Zelda's pregnancy somehow already, and this was a sort of one-up-manship? If so, it was rather... short-sighted, to say the least.
"We're having a baby," Alfred responded: not an announcement but a rebuttal.
MJ made the most Alfredy of sets and then two years later she made it EVEN BETTER