Chapter 1 - Surprise

"What is this?" Dan questioned as the two men stood outside their apartment staring down at what have been left at the foot of their doorway.

"It's a baby in a basket Dan," Phil replied.

"I know that Phil, I meant more of why is it sitting in front of our door!" Dan groaned.

"I guess somebody left it here," Phil stated.

"Well we better find out who," Dan said looking around.

"I'm going to take him inside," Phil said kneeling down to pickup the basket.

"What!" Dan exclaimed, "why?"

"Cause he might get cold," Phil replied as he set the basket on top of a table inside.

"It was inside of an apartment," Dan argued.

"Well somebody might step on him," Phil replied.

"Who's going to step on a basket that bi-" Dan paused rethinking their conversation. "Wait, him?"

"Yeah, I think it might be a boy," Phil replied. "Maybe we should che-"

"Oh no no no," Dan turned down as he quickly grabbed Phil's arm before he could reach the blanket covering the baby. "We are no checking cause if we know the gender then you're going to name it, and when you name things you get attached, and we are not getting attached cause we are not keeping it."

"I just wanna check," Phil whined.

"I don't care, we are taking this baby where we need to so they can find the mom or dad or whatever," Dan shouted. Phil opened his mouth to argue but stopped when the baby began to cry. "Fantastic," Dan groaned.

"See what you did," Phil said.

"Me?" Dan questioned.

"Yeah you started yelling," Phil replied.

"Okay stop!" Dan exclaimed, "this baby isn't going to stop crying if were yelling at each other." The two remain quiet as they listened to the baby scream and cry.

"Do we do something?" Phil asked.

Dan glanced at the baby then back to Phil, "well fix the baby."

"What?" Phil exclaimed in a whisper tone.

"You're the one assigning genders so deal with him," Dan demanded.

"Him?" Phil questioned smirking.

"It ... shut up!" Dan exclaimed forgetting to keep quiet.

Phil chuckled as he walked over to the basket on the table.

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Later that night Dan paused the game as he heard the door open. He turned in the chair just as Phil walked in with the child in his arm. "Well Dan I was right."

"What?" Dan questioned.

"The gender," Phil explained, "it's a boy."

"Why did you check?" Dan exclaimed.

"Well I didn't really have a choice, he had to be changed," Phil mumbled.

"Wha- how did you manage that?" Dan asked.

"I have no idea," Phil replied.

"Whatever," Dan said as he set the controller down, "let's go take him to someone who can deal with this." He stood up from his chair and walked pasted Phil who was standing in the doorway

Phil quickly turned around, "but it's so late," he complained.

"I'm sure something is open," Dan replied.

"But I don't want to bring him on the subway especially so late," Phil argued.

"Phil!" Dan shouted as he turned around, "we can't keep this child!"

"I know," Phil mumbled.

"They why are you fighting me on this?"

"I-I," Phil stammered.

Dan watched as his friend choked on his own words. He bit his bottom lip as he struggled to hold onto his anger. Dan sighed, "Phil, I'll meet you half way on this."

"What?" Phil asked.

"Since it's so late we'll keep that baby over night then tomorrow we'll look for somebody who can help us." Dan had never seen somebody smile as big as Phil was. He watched as Phil cheered quietly. "But still no naming him."

"Aww," Phil whined.

"And he's sleeping in your room," Dan continued.

"What!" Phil exclaimed.

"And you have to deal with all of his antics," Dan finally added.

"Oh come on!" Phil whined.

"Have fun," Dan said as he walked back into his room.

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'How did I get wrapped into this?' Dan thought to himself as he stared at the ceiling in Phil's bedroom. Dan didn't get to sleep in his own room, he managed to get dragged into this when late into the night Dan got tired of hearing the child's scream. When he walked in to see what was going on Phil managed to wrap him into staying and helping which involved staying in the same room. Which wasn't that bad to either of them. Dan rolled to his side causing his back to press up against Phil's back. He looked down to see the baby sleep on a layer of blankets on the floor.

'Is he suppose to breath like that?' Dan thought as he listened to the baby's heavy breathing. 'Is he sick? Are we hurting him more by keeping him over the night?' Dan slowly leaned over the bed he leaned his head against the baby's slowly moving chest. He held his breath as he listened to the child's rapid heartbeat. 'Is that normal?' Dan thought.

"What are you doing?" Phil whispered in a sluggish tone.

"Nothing, go back to bed," Dan replied quickly as he pushed himself off the floor back onto the bed. He looked over as he watched Phil turn over and lay back down. "And don't think I can't see that stupid smirk of yours," Dan sneered.

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"Dan, hey Dan, Dan!" A voice called as Dan struggled to block the voice out. "Dan!" The voice shouted.

"What!" He snapped as he pulled the cover off of his head. He look up to Phil standing over him holding the baby.

"We don't have anything to feed him," Phil stated.

"Then go buy something to feed him," Dan said in an irritanted tone.

"That's the thing, I need you to watch him," Phil said.

"What why don't you take him, or let me go to the shop," Dan said as he quickly sat up in bed.

"No I'm already dressed and it's just easier to leave him home," Phil replied as he push the baby into Dan's arms and quickly walked away.

"Phil wait!" Dan shouted, but he already heard the front door shut. "Damn." Dan look down to see the baby looking at him, "those are some green eyes you got there," he commented. "Well, I might as well as get dressed," Dan sighed as he walked over to his room.

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"Dan!" Phil called as he walked into the house an hour later, "I got food...and some other stuff," he mumbled. Phil looked around as he heard a muffled voice, he walked around until he noticed the noise coming from Dan's room. Without thinking Phil opened the door to see Dan sitting on the floor holding the baby's hand as he helped him walk around.

"Making my downtown walking fast..." Dan sang as he walked the child around.

"Dan?" Phil called, Dan gasped turning to Phil. "What are you doing?"

"Nothing!" Dan replied quickly as he stood up and swapped the bags in Phil's arms with the baby. He then proceeded to look through the bags. "Phil, what the hell most of this stuff isn't baby food!"

"I bought baby food!" Phil exclaimed.

"Yeah along with a bunch of stuff we don't need," Dan stated as he rummaged through the bag.

"It's for the baby!" Phil argued.

"We are not keeping the baby!" Dan shouted.

"I know," Phil mumbled looking down at the child in his arms. "Just want him to be prepared for when we give him away."

Dan took a deep breath as he looked at the expression that cracked his anger the first time. He pinched his bottom lip between his teeth as he glanced away and walked past Phil. "Just get the baby ready so we can take him to somebody who can keep him," he sneered as he walked out of the room.

"Yeah okay," Phil mumbled.

A/N:
I do hope you guys like this story, I don't know I've been trying to branch out on the type of stories. I just feel like that if this has little to no interest I'll end up deleting it.

Anyway thanks for reading, all reviews, comments, and feedback is highly appreciated.

Until next time!