( Fayt's POV )

We were just walking along, you know, trying to stay out of trouble, but you know that if Albel and Cliff are in the same proximity, we are anything but. So, all I can do is just sit back and watch.

" You know what Albel? " Cliff says.

"What, maggot?"

"If you weren't such a tight arse, and just loosened up a little you could, quite possibly, get laid. A little advice from me to you."

"Why would I take advice from a fool who probably has more diseases than an ill prostitute?"

This is when it starts. Cliff will tackle Albel, they will roll around fighting, calling each other names, and then Adray will finally come and break them up. On average, it only takes about two sentences to start a fight with them.

OK now that we have that under controll, we can continue our trek to Kirlsa! You see we need to train. And I'll tell you why; Cliff-I can easily beat now, Maria-beaten, Nel-beaten, Rodger-too young, Pepita-too young and she likes to kick at areas that are only supposed to be treated nicely, Adray complains that he's too old, and then there's Albel.

Albel likes closer combat, because of his sword. Most of the time when we fight its close combat, almost hand to hand, and I get very nervous that I'll do something stupid.

'What is this something stupid?' you ask? I'm scared my hormones won't listent to me, and he'll see or worse because of his STUPID hand to hand combat!!!!

. . . Yes, I'm gay (as if you couldn't tell)

. . . And yes, I really like Albel

. . . Also, just so you know, all of the girls in our group (Nel, Sophia, Maria, Mirage) know about my 'problem' and think it's cute.

I didn't think that they would all be so supportive and open-minded. Of course I don't tell them all of the things I tell Sophia, but I'm sure she tells them some of it. She was the first person I told when I was certain of my feelings for a certain psychopathic warrior.

Which brings me to my next point. Ok, you see, I tell her (more like she tortures me until I tell) whenever I have a dream about him.

My newest dream has already been deemed as 'wet' in her own little world.

"C'mon Fayt, you know you wanna tell me!"

"Sophia, it's not a wet dream ok? There are no 'juicy' bits! Even if there were, I wouldn't tell you."

There was a pause, and a very smug, self-satisfied smirk on her face.

"Fayt?" she said, looking too innocent for her own good. "What happened in one you had about a week and a half ago? Didn't he do unrepeatable things to you with his mouth? Or did he skip the teasing this time and just slam right-"

While she was bringing it up, I was rapidly loosing color in my face.

I. Hate. Her.

Well only sometimes. But COME ON!!! We're in PUBLIC! You don't talk about 'those' in PUBLIC! You just don't do that.

But she's right. I will end up telling her, so I might as well get it over with.

"Ok, but its not juicy." I say. At this point, I wish I could crawl into a hole.

"Who cares! What did he do this time??" she exclaimed.

"Alright, alright. From what I can remember I'm standing in water up to my knees and right when I was about to fall, he comes up and wraps his arms around me, and says he'll never let me fall."

I close my eyes and let myself drift back into the dream. . . It really was great, until my friend broke the silence with her squee of delight.

"THAT IS SOOOO CUTE!! Why don't you ask him out? Or at least tell him how you feel! I mean, come on Fayt, you are the only one who can share a room with him."

"Do you want me to die?!?! I can't just go up to him and say ' hey Albel, I think you're hot and I would appreciate it if you could screw me into the floor boards. He would Kill me!"

She just stares at me with a look that says 'ok your point is. . . '

"What?! I want to live to see twenty." I say.

"But Fayt-"

"NO!!"

"Fine, but you're being a wussy." she said, and walked away.

She doesn't get it. I want to tell him, but when you care about someone as i do about him it's not that easy. I want to be his whole world, I want him to be happy even if it's not with me, I want him to not have to act so tough all the time...Now, since she brought up a dream, as she put it I was so loud that she has ' no idea how Albel couldn't hear me', I have to go take a cold shower now. . . I'm sure you know why.

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Now since I'm out, dry, and normal I go to find Pepita. I promised her we would explore the vilage.

When we got into the busy part of the town, where all the shops were, she dragged me into every clothing, insence, and pet shop we came across. But then she just stopped.

"Do you hear that, Fayt?"

I stopped too and listened for something different from the hustle and bustle from all the people shopping. I finally found what she was listening to.

"Yeah, it sound like someone's crying."

"Lets go see if they're OK!" she said, and ran off toward the wailing.

"Pepita wait! Don't run off like that!"

"They're in trouble Fayt! C'mon!"

We sprinted into a tiny alley that was tucked away from the outside world. There was nothing in it except for a few boxes and stray animlas. The crying had softened to whimpers. Pepita walked to a smaller box and lifted the lid.

"Fayt?"

"Yeah? Whats wrong?"

I walked over to see what she had picked up. She kept her back to me until I touched her shouler. "What's wrong Pepita?"

She turned to me with the smaller bundle in her arms and smiled brightly at me. "Can we keep her?"

"Pepita, thats a baby. We cant care for a baby while we're looking for Luther."

"But she's all alone with nobody to take care of her."

"But-"

"And if we dont take her back to the ship, I'll tell Sophia that you left her to die!" she said, she was still smiling.

Everyone think that she's an innocent little girl, but she can be as sadistic as the man i share a room with, so I stopped to think on that. Now that I knew it was a baby, I would feel bad about leaving it alone. And what if the mother of father wasnt comming back? Not to mention Sophia would kill me for leaving it here.

"Fine." I said, she giggled. "Lets go back."

(Author's POV)

Albel went into the room that he and Fayt shared, only to find himgone. This wasn't a surprise, but what was strange, is that there was a bag of diaper on the bed that Fayt had claimed as his, and a note promising that Fayt would explain later.

(Albel's POV)

I left the room that the bluenette worm and I shared to demand why there were diapers in the room. Needless to say I found him in the galley.(He spends more time there than is healthy.). And guess what was with him? A baby.

Not a newborn that would only wake up to get fed then go back to sleep. A small toddler, who cries at everything.

I walk up to him and DEMAND to know why it is with him and not with the females of the little band that follows him around.

"Well, I- um, see they thought-"

Hn. He's stuttering. He's looks even more feminine than he usually does. I think he would be the girl in any relationship, even if he was with a girl.

I stare at him, expecting him to finish the sentence but when his stuttering continues, I turn and head in the direction of our room.

As I reach the door of the Galley, he finally finishes.

"They said that since I found it I have to take care of it!" I don't feel like deeling with him and his lecture about how I am going to have to be less violent now, so I pretend I don't hear, and keep walking.

As I was seething about the new arrival to the room I walked passed the female klausian and the stupid human girl. Normally I wouldn't care, but this time I heard my name so I stopped to listen.

"-really think that making the baby Albel and Fayt's roomate is smart?" the blonde said.

"Well I hope so, but you know Fayt won't let him do anything to it."

"Speaking of Fayt, has he told Albel yet?"

"No, not yet. I wish he would though."

"…Hey! Why don't we tell Albel for Fayt?"

"I don't think that he would want us to blab his secret to the one he wants to keep it from."

"But he'll miss his chance-"

"I know," the brown-haired girl said, " but it's his choice, not ours."

I hear I chair grate over the floor of the room, and decide to take my leave, and make a mental note to ask the bluenette what they meant.

(Fayt's POV)

THAT EVIL, SELF-ABSORBED, EGOTISTICAL, ARROGANT, hot MAN!!!

I know that he heard me, but he still WALKED OFF!!

Oh well.

I still can't believe everyone is making me take care of her. Yes, the kid is a girl. And you know what gets me? Sophia and all the girls know of my little 'problem'.

. . . Oh well. At least he didn't slice my head off.

And I still have to think of a name for her. We cant just go around calling her 'it' or 'baby'.

I pick her up and walk down to the observation room, where Maria is sure to be. Maybe she can help me pick out a name for her. And maybe I can find Albel so I can talk to him about the new roommate too.

"Fayt! Just the guy I wanted to see."

"Hey, you need to do a check up on the baby?"

"Yep," she walks behind me an closes the door. I'm guessing we're going to talk about Albel, "How are you and Nox doing? Any progress?"

I sigh and updated her on what happened when I told him about the baby.

"Hmmm. I think this would be a perfect time for you to get closer to him. And it would do 'the Wicked One' some good to learn how to be nicer to everyone."

" Ha ha. Just because I have a baby doesn't mean that he will suddenly become this dreamy father figure like those older shows idolize."

I handed her the kid and she took her over to the table to begin her check-up. She listened to her heart, looked in her ears, the whole shebang. After Maria wrote and loaded everything on the computer she turned to me with a grim look on her face.

" You know that I have access to all of the cameras on this ship right?"

"…Yeah." I was getting nervous.

"Well, I was monitoring the reading room yesterday."

"And…" I prompted. I wanted to know where this was going.

"Sophia and Mirage were in there, talking about you and your crush."

"Uh-huh…" I was getting really nervous.

"Albel might've heard the ending of the conversation." she saw the paniced look on my face and hastily added- "He didn't hear the important parts! But he might ask you about what they were talking about and why he was mentioned in it. So, just in case, you might want to get a white lie ready and rehearse it for when he does decide to ask."

"Ok, thanks." I said, and went over to take the baby back to my room.

Back in our room I finish changing the baby and I start to work on my excuse as to why the girls might be talking about him and me.

"Oh, really? They were probably talking about fighting or they might think that I've hurt myself, you know me. Always hurting myself."

"What do you think?" I ask the little girl. But all I get as a response is her giggling and trying to grab my hand.

I smile at her. At least Albel didn't hear the important bits. And maybe if I'm lucky he'll just brush it off.

I finish diapering and dressing her and turn around as the door opens and shuts. Leaving an irritated looking samurai.

"You still have it?" he asked.

"She's not an it. She's a girl." I say. I'm so hoping he doesn't ask about the conversation he overheard.

"Whatever." he started toward his bed and moved the diaper bag off of it.

"I am not going to have anything to do with this child, do you understand?"

"Yeah, I know." I answered.

"Is there something your not telling me?" he asks.

My grip on the baby tightens as he asks me the ONE question I did NOT want to hear.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." and I quickly head for the door.

I hear that chair he's sitting on move as he gets up. "Thats not the answer I wanted. I heard the Klausian woman and the one that follows you around say something about 'missing a chance' and that you have something you're not telling me. So, what is it?"

Wow...he's talkative today. I still have the baby in my arms as i turn to face him. "I can't tell you what they were saying." I say.

"Why not?"

"Because they're my secrets. And no one can know about them yet." I turn to the door and grasp the handdle.

"We still have to name her, you know." And I leave the room