(A few hours earlier)
Days like March do go by fast, Kyubi mused. He was sitting on the 70s carpet in the hallway, the one with the smell of weed that would never come out even with deep cleaning at tears of pain. The medium sized apartment eerily quiet at this point. It wasn't like him and Katie bustled around like wild bulls, though it didn't really matter since they were on the ground floor, but there was always a comforting feeling to the little things. Foot steps in the kitchen, yawning, small talk, all the sounds they heard and never to into account.
At this, the kitsune and human craved some sort of disruption to distract themselves from this horrid piece of plastic. This little white stick was a pregnancy test. If in exactly 45 seconds, at this point, it flipped a plus sign, Jibanyan had the right to call him a dumbass.
Tick fucking tock, tick fucking tock. When were they going to throw out that grandfather clock? It was implanted in the wall, but that didn't mean it's loud ticks and tocks weren't annoying. The only good thing is that is brought him out of his phasing out. He glanced at Katie. Her brown eyes were locked on the window, as if looking away from it would make her miss something.
Ten seconds. Now is the last time to pray to all the gods and cross repent for your sins. Jesus, I'm sorry for putting a tack on my Mr. Wheezer's chair in third grade, Ganesh, please forgive me for not returning the hundred dollar bill, even if it was fake, Cthulhu-
And then, plus. Nothing more, nothing less. Just a small, blue symbol. Obviously, Jesus had a funny sense of humor.
Tickity fucking Tock. Katie stared at the test, almost glaring at it as if it was a dog that just peed on the carpet. Bad, pregnancy test, bad. Only, this wasn't a dog, it was forming fetus that would had a high chance of eligibility for joining the freak show. Sweet Lord, she wasn't even out of college. Yes, it was her last year before getting her Master's degree, but still.
Katie simply plopped the test on to her lap and pulled herself up onto her feet. She looked over at Kyubi to see equally shocked, but showing it much more. His green eyes were locked on the test, like a deer staring into a car's headlights. Every golden and cream follicle was almost straight at a ninety degree angle from the pore.
Clasping her hands together behind her back, she spoke in a calm tone,
"So, what should we do?"
Tick. Tock. Whipping his head around, the kitsune blurted out,
"How are you so calm about this,"
Katie shrugged. "I've been through worse scenarios before. A lot of stuff doesn't really shock me,"
"Well-ok..." Kyubi stumbled over his words, "what do YOU want to do?"
Katie looked down at her stomach. "I don't know, honestly. Abortion would just feel wrong. Adoption would be probable, but I don't know and orphanage, human or yokai, that would take a kid like this,".
"So...you want to keep it?" No matter what, that little quizzacal head tilt of his always managed to make her giggle, internally and/or externally.
"Yeah, pretty much,". Ahh, the awkward silence. The point when someone wanted to say something, yet there was nothing to say. Today seemed to be ripe full of these moments. Hopefully tomorrow was only an awkwardly long smile day.
After a few moments, it was Kyubi's turn to break the silence.
"Want some tea," he said while pushing himself off the floor with a grunt.
Katie smiled in a little relief. "Sure," she curtly replied. Yup, today was going to be start of something. Not good or bad, just something. Well shit, she thought, I guess we're parents.
A/N: Guess who's back, frickers. So, yeah, if you don't care for prolouges, this is where you start. Probably gonna see and update every week or so. Want more, then follow and review this story, I want your feedback so the next chapter can be bigger and better. Anyways, school's out for this kid.
