Ok going off of the single dad/best friend!ash thing. Ash keeps his heart guarded until Baby Irwin is in kindergarten and he’s in the studio when he breaks his arm at recess (like boys do- he probably jumped off the play structure; something ash has told him a million times not to do) but when ash gets to the school, the nurse tells him reader has already picked him up so he walks into the er to find his son with reader trying to keep him calm and he realizes then that he wants their family
I’m fucking emo, wow. Okay. Again, a bit long. Someone stop me.
Yes! Like, I can see him getting the call and obviously, he’s freaking the fuck out. Because that’s his little boy and he never wants him to get hurt. So, he gets to the school and he’s, like, half hysterical. But they tell him that he’s already at the ER, that she came and got him (because Reader’s also one of his emergency contacts and has permission to take him off school grounds) and he’s partially thankful that she was the one to take him and partially even more terrified because what if his son is mad that he wasn’t the one to get him?
But he gets to the ER and he finds them in the waiting room, his arm in a sling and her holding him in her lap. She’s reading to him (she actually has a few kids around her because they all sorta stopped crying when she started reading and doing the voices and the parents are so thankful and she’s just chill about it) and Ash just kinda sits down without either of them noticing and when the book is over and the kids are kinda back with their own parents, Ash gets her attention. And she apologizes for taking him, “I was closer to the school. I figured we’d be here a while, anyway, and wanted to get him here as quickly as possible.” And Ash, who is feeling his heart pounding in his chest in a way that he hasn’t in ages, waves her off. He tells her that it’s fine, that he’s glad she brought him there and that she kept him calm.
And this is the moment Ashton dreaded because they gave Baby Irwin something for pain and he’s really clingy and pouty. When they get ready to put the cast on, she has to put him down and he’s pouting and crying that he doesn’t want his mom to leave and Ash is freaking out but she doesn’t mention it, doesn’t even look mildly surprised (although she feels it on the inside) and just holds him after the doctor says it’s alright while he gets his cast on. And the longer Ash watches her with him, the longer he contemplates it, he realizes that he wants her to be Baby Irwin’s mother. He wants them to be a family. He wants them to have children of their own and to grow together and he realizes that he can’t see a future without her in it anymore.
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Imagine cooking Sunday dinners with singledad best friend ash because my heart is weak
Oh my god. (Lowkey want to make this friends to lovers.) Also, under a read more because I suck and went overboard. 🙃
So. Single Dad/Best Friend!Ash got married and had kids young. He was madly in love and so was she and they really wanted to get started on their life together immediately because they both had plans to have a ton of kids and just be really happy. But once they actually got married and had Baby Irwin, she realized just how much that would be. She realized how hard it would be and how many sacrifices she was going to have to make that she wasn’t ready for. So, she filed for divorce and left the baby with Ash because he was the one that was head over heels for their little boy.
Obviously, he had the boys to call on but they weren’t much help. And his family helped as much as they could from home (his mom even came to stay for a bit) but the only person that was constantly in his life and in his little boy’s life was his best friend. She’d been there through it all, seen him at his best and at his worst. She was his little boy’s favorite person (other than him, of course) and Ash is so thankful to have her by his side because he wouldn’t know what to do without her.
And to have some sort of sense of normalcy, they’ve established a routine. She babysits on nights that he has to work late and she doesn’t. They go to the park on Saturdays, and then on Sundays, they all make dinner together and watch a movie. It’s very domestic but they don’t really think much of it because it was just to establish a routine, right? (That doesn’t stop the boys from asking them about it, separately, of course. Because everyone ships it and wants them to be together and be the perfect little family that they know they could be.)
But, yes. Sundays are family days. Ash takes care of all the chopping (he doesn’t want her to hurt herself and his son is too young) and setting the table while she and Baby Irwin wash vegetables, stir sauces, put things in pots, etc. And they all move seamlessly around one another in the kitchen. Baby Irwin is still small (around two or three) so he can’t really do a lot but he loves to think he’s helping. So, she’ll let him put something on a plate or wash things and he always has his dad’s attention. If he’s doing something and he calls for his dad, Ash looks over immediately and cheers his boy on as he helps wash a cucumber or some lettuce.
And Ash loves to sneak peeks at the two of them while they’re cooking. She usually has his son on her hip or sitting on the counter beside where she’s working, and she’s so patient with him. She teaches him carefully but she lets him be as independent as he can manage (something Ash isn’t great at because that’s his baby, he wants to take care of him but he appreciates her doing it because he knows it has to be done). And it melts his heart seeing them both giggle when they’re putting things on plates or in bowls. He also loves to see her listen so intently to his son, to see her ask questions and play along, even if it’s something that she knows already.
And when it’s time to eat, Baby Irwin has to be seated where he can see (and be fed) by both of his favorite people. He calls her by a nickname (some variation of her name) and Ash is slightly afraid that he’ll start calling her mommy some day and he’ll have to explain but for right now, it’s nice and it’s happy and they’re happy and that’s all that matters.
He hasn’t let himself think about relationships much since his divorce but he could see a future with her and that scares the hell out of him because what if she breaks his heart, too? What if she does the same thing his ex did? Love this little boy and then leave him? So, he keeps his heart guarded and settles for friends because at least this way they both have her in their lives.
maybe ash is able to put on a brave face until the baby is born and then, one night, a few months down the road, the baby wakes up crying and he quickly pulls himself out of bed before his girl because she needs the sleep more and shuffles down the hall to the nursery and picks up his baby and holds them against his chest and bounces a little shushing and whispering soft words to them. (1/2)
and that goes on for a few minutes before he realizes the baby isn’t quieting down and he starts to pace the room, like you do, but that doesn’t work and the he tries changing their diaper and nothing and then he tries a bottle of milk his girl keeps in the fridge for such situations like this and nothing but he refuses to wake her, he can do this. he can figure out what his lil baby needs. can’t he??? and then his hands are shaking again but he keeps rocking his body, hoping the rhythm he knows so well will finally kick in and the baby will drift off and then he’s mumbling under his breath that he doesn’t know how to do this. he’s not programmed to know how to do this. and eventually he’s talking to his kid openly and honestly, saying anything and everything that comes to mind, about how scared he is and how terrified he is of messing them up and he loves them so much, they gotta believe him
He would be so overwhelmed, so upset and so desperate to make this baby happy. He wants to be able to calm his child. He doesn’t want her to have to do it every time but he just can’t figure out what the baby needs and he’s so upset. Because he feels like a failure. And he’s openly sobbing, telling the baby that he loves them so much and that they mean so much to him. But they’re still crying and it’s only making him cry harder and she walks in to find them both sobbing and it breaks her heart because she hears him begging the baby to stop crying, to know that he loves it and that he wants the best for his little angel and he’s just so upset because he can’t be what they need and she comes in and the baby just instantly stops crying and he’s even more devastated because shouldn’t he be able to do that, too? And she tries to calm both of them, tell him that the baby is still really young and that it’s just a mother’s touch sort of thing but he’s not having it. He’s so convinced that he’s going to be a horrible father and that this just proves it. Wow. I’m so emo. Thank you. This is helping the angst!
aghhh, i’m sorry!!!! it’s just hard for me to think about ash as a dad and not go so completely soft for everything that comes with it. i keep thinking about him putting together all the baby’s furniture or getting into heated discussion about which stroller is safer and OH him getting excited to tell everyone about them expecting a baby!!!! and how big is smile would be and maybe they’re touring when he finds out and he does a drum roll, stands up on his kit and announces it to the audience!!!!
BITCH PLEASE. I’M WRITING ANGST AND I’M SO SOFT. (I want to give this a sad ending but you’re making me want to make it happy. I can’t. Oh my god.)
I love all of this and I wholeheartedly endorse it. Can you imagine? Him just telling anyone and everyone that he’s having a baby. While he’s at the grocery store, he sees a pregnant woman and he just beams at her and tells her that he’s expecting, too (well, his partner, not him, and then they talk about babies and how wonderful it is). While you’re out getting lunch, you see a little family with a new baby and he coos over them, telling them that you guys are expecting, too, and asks them about which stroller options they think are safer. When you start showing and people can see the bump, he just grins proudly any time someone asks. And he would absolutely put together all the furniture and just be so thrilled. Like, he’d love it. He wouldn’t want anyone else but him to do it. He would be so hands on, I’m so soft. And him standing up on his kit and cheering the news, holy shit. I’m so soft. I CAN’T. I’M WRITING ANGST PLEASE. (Now I really want them to have the kid and be happy. Wow.)
Honestly I’m so soft for new dad Ashton just admiring lil baby Irwin sleeping in his arms like he’d trace their little lips and kiss their nose and just mumble nonsense that they wouldn’t understand anyway I love dad Ashton
New dad!Ash. Ugh. It makes me so soft. I can see his girl waking up in the middle of the night to an empty bed. She would get up to find Ash sitting in the little rocking chair in baby Irwin’s nursery, rocking the baby in his arms and talking to them. He would be telling them how much he loves them and their mom, he’d be telling them how happy he is to be their dad. He’d just be talking to them and letting them hold his finger in their little hand and it would be the sweetest, cutest thing, wow.
see the problem is i always go in circles. cause thinking like that makes me think his girl would NEVER let him think like that. because she knows about his past and knows that’s exactly what he’ll be thinking so she’ll do everything she can to make sure he’s confident about this baby + buying him books + telling him how happy she is he’s by her side on this journey + she wouldn’t want anyone else holding her hand + honestly i can’t help it, i am so completely whipped for ashton fletcher irwin
These are rationally things I know but I’m trying to make myself angsty so I can write this as angst and not give them a happy ending but this is so hard, oh my god.
I can see this. I can see his partner being the best and assuring him every step of the way. I can see him being that person with piles of parenting books. I can see her telling him how happy she is that he’s the father of her child. I can see her loving him unconditionally and encouraging him to go overboard and build the furniture for the nursery or touch her stomach whenever he wants or tell the little old lady at the grocery that they’re expecting. I can see her encouraging him and telling him that she wouldn’t want anyone else in the delivery room beside her. I can see her telling him that she’s proud he’s going to be the father of her child. And I can see her being so soft and gentle with him because he needs it and he’s always been so soft with her so it’s time to return the favor. Fuck I’m whipped for him. I don’t want him to be sad, even in a fic, dammit. Fuck.
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