AN: welcome everyone to lifes most precious gift! I just want to thank you for taking a look at my work, and hope you enjoy! There are two ocs in this story, so if that's not your thing, this probably isn't the place for ya. I don't own tiger and bunny or any of its characters, only my oc. Anyways, please enjoy, and don't forget to review, reviews make miss Echo happy!~

Thanks and thanks again, enjoy!

The dark sky let out a low rumble as small drops began to patter against Keith's long coat. Fitz shielded his eyes for a moment while he glanced up quickly at the sky.

"Guess it's starting to drizzle." Keith chuckled. He was answered with a small "hm" from the blonde walking beside him.

In his hand Keith held a large bag of food from a Greek restaurant from just down the road. The two had gone out to get some lunch for the office just before the drizzle had begun. With another clap of thunder, came the small cries of an infant. Both blondes stopped dead as the wails filled the otherwise empty street. Fitz covered his ears, the loud clap sending sharp pains through his head. It was a blessing and a curse to have such acute hearing as Fitz did.

"Do you hear that Fitz?" Keith asked quietly, looking around for the source of the noise. Finally, he spotted the small blue bundle in the middle of an empty alleyway. With an excited "Aha!" he ran to the child with Fitz close behind him.

"Hold this!" Keith thrust the bag out to Fitz who quickly grabbed it.

He crouched down slowly, not wanting to frighten the infant even more than it already was. "What's a baby doing out here all by itself?" Keith questioned while carefully scooping the infant up into his arms and cradling it.

"I don't know, someone has to have let it." Fitz said while the hand not grasping tightly to the bag covered at least one ear. As a next, fitzs power left him in pain most of the time. He possessed highly sensitive super hearing.

"Who would just abandon a baby?" Keith asked, shocked at the thought. He looked around, searching for the parents, but they were the only ones in sight.

"Horrible parents, that's who." Fitz said a bit disgruntled at all the commotion.

"Well we can't just leave it here! It'll die! Come on, let's get it back to the office, we can figure this out there!" with the still wailing child in his arms, the tall man hurried toward the large building, Fitz struggling to keep up behind him.

Once inside the warm building, the two hopped on the elevator. Keith continued to coo at the child, successfully quieting him down, aware of the effect the noise had on Fitz. The machine sounded with a ping at the 7th floor, and the metal doors heaved open, revealing a long hallway.

Practically running down the carpeted hall, Keith barged into the main living area of the Hero TV office building.

"Alright! Foods here guys-"Antonio's sentence ended midway through as he caught a glimpse of the now slumbering child, "what…what the hell is that?" he questioned just above a whisper.

"What…did you…do?" the look on Ivan's face as he starred at the blonde man holding the child was one of pure shock and terror.

In that instant, Fitz rushed through the door, throwing the food down on the nearest table and bending to catch his breath.

"Fitz?" Ivan gazed at the panting Fitz, like everyone else in the room, wondering just what was happening.

Fitz moved his head up to glance at his boyfriend and their eyes connected.

"The storm…alley…." He gasped out between pants before Keith took over for him.

"We were on our way back and we just found him all alone in an alley." He took a moment to look down at the child he held gently in his arms. "Just…abandoned…" he added.

The room fell into a pregnant silence as everyone let their eyes fall on the sleeping child. Sleeping became laborious for the small being as it woke and its eyes shined up at Keith. Another loud cry filled the room and everyone jumped back. Fitz's hands flew to his ears once again in an attempt to block out the noise.

"What are we gonna do with it?" Pao-lin asked, having to yell over the cries.

"I'm not sure, here, you're a girl, hold it!" Keith tried to hand the small female the crying child but she backed away quickly, raising her hands in defeat.

"No, you need an actual girl for that! It was a onetime deal!"

"How about you Karina? You're a girl!" he attempted handing the blue bundle to the shocked girl, but she did the same as the first.

"What? I'm just a teenager, I don't know how to take care of babies!" she bellowed.

"Sweetie, we need a WOMAN, and I mean a real one." Nathan chimed as he attempted to grope Antonio's behind.

"Well, the only person who would know about kids is Kotetsu, but he's gone!" Fitz said through gritted teeth.

Seeing the pain on his face, Keith moved to hush the bawling baby. Kotetsu would have indeed been able to take care of the child, but he was a few towns over, visiting his own daughter.

"Well who else do we know that is loving, motherly, and knows about kids?" Karina spoke up after the baby had been quieted. The room fell into another silence as everyone thought.

Fitz's head sprung up when he broke the perpetual silence. "Keith, Call Valeriya! She'll know what to do." He said calmly, watching Keith's face light up.

"Great idea!" he praised the thought while pulling his white iphone from his pocket. He carefully scrolled through the contacts finally finding hers. The screen lit up with a picture of her on a beach they had visited on a vacation as it rang.

Keith quickly held the device to his ear and waited for her to answer.

"Hello?" Her voice came through the speaker with astonishing clarity, the wonder evident in her voice. Very rarely did he call her during the day, so the simple call made her nervous.

"Hi honey! We have a bit of a situation here at the office."

Val leaned back in her office chair, the rollers moving away from her desk.

Her spacious office was comprised of a desk, two bookshelves, her chair, and two plush chairs for clients to sit in.

Her large mahogany desk was littered with picture frames filled with photos of her and Keith together, Keith and john, and various pictures of her husband. Her favorite was their wedding picture, and another on their wedding of all their best friends gathered around them: Fitz, Pao-lin, Antonio, Ivan, Nathan, Karina, Kotetsu, and Barnaby,

Working as a psychiatrist, Valeriya had secured a job at a local clinic, just a few minutes away from the hero TV building.

A worried look quickly consumed her face as her eyes grew wide.

"Keith, honey, what's going on, are you alright, is everyone ok?" the questions poured from her mouth as she leaned forward in her seat.

Her husband let out a low chuckle at her worries before answering. "Calm down, everyone's fine, but we need your help."

"With what?" she inquired.

"Well, while Fitz and I were out grabbing lunch, we found a baby in an alley way, so we brought it back to the office, but no one knows anything about caring for the poor thing." He said now holding the cell phone between his shoulder and cheek as he held the child in both arms.

"Oh my god, that's awful! There was no one around?" she asked, appalled at the thought.

"Yeah, someone just abandoned the poor little thing." She detected the hint of sadness in his voice as he spoke. "But none of us have ever had to take care of a child, but you're good at that kind of stuff."

"Alright, hold on, I'm on my way!" she jumped up and threw on her coat before grabbing up her purse.

"Thanks Val! Love you!"

"Love you too, see you in a few!" she stopped at her boss's office to tell him she had no more clients so she was taking the rest of the day off.

AN: well, there's the first chapter everybody! Hope everyone enjoyed! Chapter two is fast approaching, and I can't wait to post it! How will Val react to the little one? And will poor Fitz ever be safe from the loud cries? Find out next time, right here!

Echo out!