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"I'm sorry, mister Payne, but you are unable to conceive," the doctor said from the other end of the phone.

"O-okay thank you." Niall ended the call and put his phone. His husband, Liam, walked in a second later.

"What did he say?" Niall just shook his head as the tears started falling. Liam embraced Niall in a tight hug. "I'm sorry, babe. I know you really wanted this."

"All I want is a baby. I want a family. Why is all of this bad stuff happening to me?"

Earlier that year, his parents had died in a car accident, one of his best friends from primary school had been diagnosed with cancer then passed away a few weeks later. Then another of his best friends was diagnosed with Major Depression then committed suicide. Also for no reason, his brother cut Niall off from ever seeing his nephew, Theo, for no reason.

"Baby, I don't know why terrible things happen to us sometimes, but we'll get something good out of this," Liam said. "I know we will."

"Like what? We've already gotten married and all we want is a baby. I'm ruining your life because you want a baby but I can't give one to you. I don't know why you still love me. I'm useless."

"Niall, stop it. You know that's not true." Liam held Niall closer. "And even if you can't get pregnant, there's other ways to get a baby."

Niall sniffled. "Like what?"

"Like we can get an egg donor that can be pregnant for us," he suggested.

"No because then it won't look like the mix of you and I," Niall argued.

"Okay well there's adoption." Niall shook his head. "Okay how about we do the procedure where they take one of your eggs, which you still have, take some of my sperm, mix them, then implant it back in you."

"Will that really work?" Niall asked, hopefully.

"I don't see why it wouldn't."

*~ 2 weeks later~*

"How are you feeling, mister Payne?" The doctor asked, walking over to Niall's hospital bed.

"Good," Niall answered. Liam held onto Niall's hand tighter.

"Is the drug kind of kicking in yet?"

"Yeah I can't feel anything below my stomach."

"Okay that's good.We're just preparing the room we'll take you in. I'll be back in a few minutes." He left the room, closing the door behind him.

"I'm kind of nervous," Niall said to Liam.

"I know, I am too, but we're getting a baby through this whole thing."

"You're right."

A few minutes, the doctor showed up and took Niall to the room. It was freezing in there. The doctors claimed they kept it that way because they needed to keep the egg and sperm fresh.

"Okay, Niall, you're going to feel a bit of pressure. We're just going to get that egg, take it and implant the sperm then we'll put it back. Ready?" Niall nodded. He looked away as the doctor stuck his hands up his ass. He cringed at the discomfort, then it was over. "Okay we're taking this to the lab. We'll be right back. Would you like your husband to come in?"

Niall nodded. They left and a few minutes later, Liam came in. "Hi, babe. How are you feeling?"

"Good. Still nervous." Niall chuckled a little.

"Are you excited we're getting a baby?" Liam asked.

"Of course. I hope I'm a good parent."

"You'll be fantastic, baby."

The doctors came back a few minutes later."Okay you ready, Niall?"

Niall nodded as Liam grabbed his hand. "It'll be the same, just some pressure." Niall hissed as the doctor stuck his fingers up again. "Okay all done. So now what we're going to do is an ultrasound to make sure it's in there right."

The ultrasound came out being perfect. The egg had implanted correctly and Niall was now officially pregnant.

Niall and Liam had decided not tell any one for a while so they could take a little time to sort everything out.

*~A few months later~*

"Liam, come feel this," Niall said with a hand on his belly.

Liam knelt next to Niall who was relaxing on the sofa. He put his hands where Niall told him to on his belly. "What am I feeling for?"

"Just wait a second." Niall tapped his belly, making a movement come up under Liam's hand.

"Oh my goodness. Our baby's moving in there!" Liam said, astounded. Niall nodded. "I can't believe you're moving, little one. We can't wait to meet you."

Later that night, Niall and Liam sat on the sofa watching a film when Niall had to get up to use the loo.

When he was done, he looked down to see blood. It was a heavy flow of just red. "Oh god." He decided to just pull himself together since he wasn't in pain. He walked downstairs where he saw Liam still sitting on the sofa. "Liam, we need to go to the hospital."

Liam jumped up and went over to Niall. "Why? What's wrong?"

"Just come on." Niall pulled Liam to the car.

As they started driving, Liam asked, "What's going on?"

"I'm bleeding. A lot. I don't know where it's coming from but it's scaring me."

"Okay well the doctors will know what to do." Niall couldn't help but start crying.

"What if we lost the baby? I don't know what I'm going to do if we lost it."

"Baby, we didn't lose it. The baby's just fine. I'm sure it's just something small." Liam put a hand on Niall's thigh. "It'll be just fine. I know."

"God, I hope you're right."

When they arrived at the hospital, Niall was taken to a room where they took tests and checked him over. While they were waiting, Niall couldn't stop crying. "We probably lost the baby."

"No, don't say that, babe. We have to be positive and think that we didn't lose our baby."

"You're right. I'm sorry."

"Don't be babe."

A few minutes later, the nurse walked in. She didn't look very happy which worried the boys. "I'm sorry, boys."

Niall broke down in tears. Liam couldn't help but start tearing up as well. "The egg had somehow moved positions from where it was implanted. The baby was cut off from all of it's resources. I'm sorry. You're welcome to leave if you'd like."

"Thank you," Liam said. On the car ride home, neither of the boys said a word. The same thing happened when they got home and it lasted for almost 2 days.

Eventually Niall decided to tell Liam what he had been thinking about for the past few days. "Liam, I want to adopt."

"Really?" 

"Yeah I mean, obviously that didn't work out, I don't want an egg donor, plus it would just feel good to give a kid that doesn't have a real home, a real home. But I only want to get a baby that's six weeks or younger."

"Baby, that's great!" Liam engulfed Niall in a hug. "I love you so much."

"I love you too."

A few weeks later, Niall and Liam walked into a diner where they would meet someone to discuss an adoption. A very nice man walked up to them. "Are you Liam and Neil?"

"Niall," Niall corrected. "Nice to meet you."

"I'm so sorry. I mess up so many names. But it's very nice to meet both of you. I'm Jerry." He led them to a table where a baby's car seat was with a blanket on top. "So this is the baby. She doesn't have a name as of right now."

Jerry pulled the small baby out of the seat and handed her to Niall. "Oh my goodness. You are just about the sweetest thing I've ever seen." Liam looked at her as well.

"You're a beautiful little one."

"She's one week old," Jerry said. "Her parents weren't able to take care of her. They put her up for adoption before she was even born."

"Oh you poor thing. You don't have any parents," Niall said to the baby. She continued to sleep peacefully in Niall's arms.

After a bit of discussion, Jerry had to feed her while Niall and Liam went into a corner of the diner and talked. "Liam, I want her. She's perfect for us. I'm already falling for her."

"I am too. She's an angel." Liam looked into Niall's deep blue eyes.

"Does that mean we can go for it."

"Of course it does." Niall jumped onto Liam and kissed him over and over again. Then he took Liam's hand and pulled him to the table.

"So what do you guys think?" Jerry asked, putting the baby in her seat since she was asleep again.

"We want her," Liam said.

"Guys, that's fantastic!" Jerry dug through a bag of papers. He eventually pulled out a small stack. "So you guys will have to sign these where it says for foster parenting."

"But we want to adopt her," Niall said.

  "I know but first you have to be foster parents before you can adopt. It's just how the system works."

"Oh." Liam and Niall began signing away. When they were done, they discussed how Liam and Niall already had all the stuff to take care of her. They were prepared for her.

They walked out of the diner that day with a baby in their arms. "So they said we can't legally name her until she's legally ours."

"I know. But that's okay. We can call her something until she becomes ours."

"Okay but what?"

"I love the name Cayden."

"Me too. Can we have your mum's name as a middle name?" Liam asked.

"You want Maura to be her middle name?"

"But we spell it differently. How about we take out the U in Maura."

"So it's spelled M-A-R-A?"

"Yeah."

"Perfect. Then your last name. Cayden Mara Payne."

"It has a nice ring to it."

*~A few weeks later~*

"Hello?" Liam asked, answering his phone.

"Hi, Liam. I was wondering if you could bring the baby down to the diner. Her parents are here and they want to see her."

"Uh yeah we can come down. We'll be there soon." He hung up the phone before shoving it in his back pocket. "Niall!"

Niall came down the stairs a second later. "I just got Cayden to sleep. What do you need?" He didn't sound too happy.

"Jerry just called and wants us to go down to the diner. Cayden's parents are there and they want to see her."

Niall huffed. "Jesus Christ." He went back upstairs to grab the baby. Luckily she stayed asleep while being moved around too her seat and everything. "Liam, what if they want her back?'

"They're not going to take her back, babe. They couldn't have her in the first place, remember?"

"I know but if they didn't want her then why would they want to see her."

"It's not that they didn't want her, it's that they couldn't take care of her. I mean if we had a baby and we couldn't support it, you would still want to see it right?"

"Yeah I guess. I just don't want them to take her away from us."

"I don't think they will."

When they arrived, Liam carried a still asleep Cayden in her car seat inside. Niall dreaded meeting Cayden's parents, but there they were, sitting right in front of him, so he had no choice but to be nice.

"Hi, I'm Niall, this is Liam," he said to them.

"It's nice to meet you. I'm Sarah and this is Tom," she said. Niall and Liam took a seat on the opposite side of the booth while Jerry sat in a chair at the end of the table.

"So I'm going to get a drink and let you guys talk. I'm just required to be present in anything like this concerning the baby so I'll be at the bar. Let me know if you need anything," Jerry said.

There was a short moment of awkward silence before a whine came from under the blanket. Liam was quick to take Cayden out of her seat. Sarah and Tom cooed lightly. "Want to hold her?"

"Sure," Sarah said, reaching for the baby. Liam handed her to Sarah who cradled her close. "Hello, baby. Oh even though we never actually met you, I missed you."

Niall looked at Liam who just shrugged. "So boys, the reason we brought you here is we wanted to take her back. Sarah and I have discussed and figured out that we can support her now."

Niall stayed silent, although it was clear he was going to cry. "O-okay we'll give you all of her stuff." Niall went out to the car, sobbing the whole way. As he reached the car, he collapsed in the passenger seat.

He had no idea that Liam had in fact followed him out. He opened the passenger side door, startling Niall but he just started crying into Liam's shoulder. "I'm sorry, baby."

Back inside, Sarah and tom watched the baby sleep peacefully. That is, until she woke up and saw that it wasn't Liam or Niall holding her. She started screaming and crying. Sarah tried to feed her from her breast, but Cayden refused. She wanted Liam and Niall.

When Liam and Niall came back, they saw that Cayden was having a fit. Niall tried incredibly hard not to break down at the sight of her sobbing. They made it over to the table. The sight of the poor baby's face broke Niall and Liam's heart.

"We can't figure out why she's so upset. We tried everything," Sarah said.

"Oh, hi baby girl," Niall said to Cayden as he looked at the baby. She suddenly quieted and began looking around. She was looking for Niall's voice. "I'm going to be sad to see her go."

"Well since you've got her quieted down, we better get going," Tom rushed. 

"Wait, can I just hold her one last time before you go?" Niall asked. Sarah handed the baby to him. Liam stood behind Niall and looked over his shoulder. "I'm going to miss you, baby girl."

He let a few tears slip as he kissed her forehead which she happily accepted. She watched intently as the boys talked to her.

Meanwhile, Sarah and Tom were having a very major conversation.

"I think we should just let them have her," Sarah said.

"What? Didn't we just say that we could support her?" Tom argued.

"Yes but let's face it. We are going to end up losing her anyway. Plus, she is so much happier with them. She stopped crying the second she heard one of their voices. I think they're better parents than we'll ever be."

"So you're really up for this?"

"Of course. It'll be better this way."

They went to consult Liam and Niall about their decision. As soon as Niall saw them, he kissed Cayden's head again. "We'll miss you."

He held his arms out for Sarah to take her, but she didn't take her. "No, you keep her."

"But aren't you guys leaving?"

"Yeah, but we want you to keep her. She deserves happiness which is what you can give her," Sarah said. "And we'll sign any papers we need to for you guys to get her."

"Oh my god..." was all Niall said.

Liam engulfed Sarah and Tom. "Thank you so much."

Sarah and Tom signed all the needed paperwork, which gave parent signatures, but Niall and Liam weren't her official parents yet, and they all left.

"I can't believe this. She's our baby girl."

"We still have to wait for full consensus but at least we got her from her other parents."

Niall chuckled. "Other parents."

"What? We're her foster/adoption parents and they're her biological parents."

"But if we get her, then she's one hundred percent ours."

"I bet we'll get her. If everyone is on our side, we'll get her."

"I sure hope so."

*~1 year later~*

"Liam Payne," Liam said into the phone.

"Hi, Liam. My name is Carrie. I work in the adoption program," said a nice voice.

"Oh hi," Liam said nervously. He was just playing with Cayden and Niall so he was in no place to be told that they couldn't keep her.

"I'm calling to let you know that your adoption went through for your child."

"Wait, does that mean she's ours now legally?"

"Yes it does. Congratulations. We'd like a birth certificate filled out at some point as well."

"This is fantastic. Thank you so much. We'll get that certificate to you." They hung up and Liam ran upstairs where Cayden and Niall were playing. "Niall, we got her."

"What?"

"The adoption people called. She's ours."

"Are you kidding?!" Niall asked, standing up.

"No," Liam said, shaking his head and smiling. Niall jumped into Liam's arms.

"I can't believe that after a year," Niall said. "We got her."

"Hear that, Cayden? You're all ours now!" Liam said picking up the giggling child.

"I'm so happy things turned out the way they did," Niall said.

"Me too. I don't think we could be any happier."

"Our perfect family."