Hey all, so heres the next chapter, sorry its a little slow. I do have some sort of direction for this story even though it probably doesn't seem like it at the moment! Oh and I laughed when I read my reviews, someone mention the show I didn't know I was pregnant, which is honestly what I was watching when this plot bunny started torturing me, go figure. ~Arra

Chapter 2

Riza curled to her side, she couldn't see it, couldn't look at the bassinet they had placed by her bed, weak as that sounded to her. She felt a hand press against her back making smooth circles between her shoulder blades.

"Lieutenant?" A woman's voice asked, probably another nurse who came close to the bed. "Do you want us to leave her here?"

"I think you can take her to the nursery." Havoc said, she made no motion that indicated she had even heard the other woman, though he supposed it made sense. He couldn't even imagine what she was going through right now. Everything must be so confusing! He smoothed back stray pieces of her sweaty blond hair. "I'm gonna go make sure everything is okay with the baby. How about you rest for a little bit, you look like you could use it, I'm sure you didn't get much sleep last night." He couldn't really tell if she was listening, but he squeezed her shoulder briefly before following the nurse down the hallway to a windowed room with many other rolling bassinets full of tiny newborns just like the baby girl whom he'd been watching for the last hour and a half. He'd never seen anyone have a baby, and it definitely wasn't something he would have expected to see anytime soon! Poor Hawkeye, she hadn't spoken since the baby was born, he'd never seen her shut down like this even in the middle of complete chaos she always held it together. The poor baby too, it wasn't her fault she was born like that, she didn't know she wasn't planned for or why no one was holding her like the other infants...

"Would it be alright if I held her?" He asked the cheery looking nurse who was watching over the room of babies, she smiled and nodded.

"Your her uncle right? Your sister's not really the warm fuzzy type is she?" He held his arms out cradling the little bundle softly against his chest, right his sister, well that seemed an appropriate enough description of their relationship most of the time, they certainly fought like they were. "This wasn't planned for was it?"

"She didn't even know, kids aren't really her thing." He said staring transfixed at the little person's tiny pale features. He wasn't sure that he thought babies were all that cute, she was kind of wrinkly and scrunched like an old person. Yet she also had something so utterly fragile and completely innocent, babies had no choice but to trust adults with their lives. He ran a finger over her feathers of dark hair...Dark, odd her mother was so light...It wasn't until this moment that he realized he had no idea who this child's father was? He hated to ask, but at the same time he was concerned to know what would happen to her? He pressed a light kiss to her velvety white skin.

"Don't worry kiddo, I promise you will have a good life, no matter who your with or where you end up living in the end. I'll try to get your momma to come around soon." He smiled warmly, she had no idea what he was saying, but she cooed quietly at the sound of his voice.

"Sir, you guys have some visitors outside the nursery." The nurse informed him, he looked up to see the rest of their coworkers.

"May she come with me? I won't go far, you can watch me." He assured her, she looked a little skeptical at the idea of giving a newborn to a male military officer who could barely figure out holding her correctly, but she sighed and nodded.

"Bring her back before you go to your sister's room so we know where she is, we will bring her by later."

"Of course, thank you so much. Come on sprout, lets go meet some new people." He told her enthusiastically, bouncing her lightly. Her wide brown eyes lite up and she gargled happily when he held her close, she probably liked the body heat, he felt sure he had heard that about babies somewhere...

"So that doctor was clearly right?" Breda asked looking at the little wrapped up figure in his coworkers arms.

"Yes apparently. Seems like now were in an interesting situation, aren't we little one, shes a girl by the way."

"I guess the pink should have told us that." Falman said.

"Awe, shes adorable!" Fury said reaching out to hold onto her miniscule fingers, bouncing them lightly. "Hows Hawkeye doing?" Havoc shrugged smiling at the baby.

"No clue, she isn't really talking to me, or anyone right now."

"Can we see her?" Breda asked, he had been there earlier, she was obviously not in a mind state that would be conducive to becoming a parent today, not that anyone ever was really. She was so...Human. For someone they hadn't even know existed only hours before, this baby was a person with her own freewill and probably even her own personality. "Could I hold the baby?" Havoc nodded holding her out to his fellow lieutenant who took the little girl in his arms.

"I think I am going to go to Hawkeye's room, to see if she will talk to me, do you think that would be okay?" Falman asked leaning against the wall as he watched the others look at the baby.

"She might if you want to go try, it might be nice if its someone different." Havoc said rambling off her room number. He left the other three to give the baby her justified massive amount of attention and headed down the hall. He knocked softly on the door, when she gave no response he entered slowly into the darkened room. She moved slightly as the lock clicked on the door.

"So you are awake. Havoc said you weren't talking to him, so I thought I would try." He sat down in the chair by her bedside. She vaguely turned her head away as to not make eye contact. That didn't particularly surprise him, Hawkeye had always been a bit like a skittish animal when it came to anything resembling an emotional interaction, especially if it had to do with her own emotional state. "Have you looked at her yet?" This got her attention, she shook her head.

"Have you?" She asked hoarsely shifting to sit up slightly.

"Only briefly, the other three had her rather monopolized when I left."

"At least someone cares." She pulled her knees up to her chest, looking suddenly so much younger than she ever had.

"Well I'm sure her mom will come around eventually, she probably just needs some time." He said with a smile, she shrugged running her fingers up and down on the pattern of her bedsheets.

"I suppose so. I've never felt like this, I don't know what to do at all." She said. "What do you think?"

"I'd meet her first, then you can decide."

"Logical. But harder than a simple answer."

"Life has a way of being like that." He told her, she pushed a hand through her hair.

"You know I never wanted to be a mother." She sighed. "No like every other girl, it was not something I thought about."

"That doesn't necessarily mean you'll be a bad one, maybe going in without massive expectations for yourself is good. You can only do better than you think." This time she almost smiled.

"They said I can't leave, even though I feel perfectly fine. They want to observe me or something ridiculous like that."

"Obviously tyrannical bureaucrats, we can do work here tomorrow if you want. We wouldn't want you to feel like you could relax."

"I don't need to relax thank you very much. Its not like I did anything special that deserves different treatment." He hated to be the one to point out that work was going to say the same thing. Women were given maternity leave that was at least a few weeks, he could only imagine what she would say when that was suggested, he honestly feared for the poor soul who said it to her!

"Of course not Hawkeye, I'd never treat you different. That being said, you do look completely exhausted. I can make the others leave with me if you want to sleep..." She tried to interject, but he waved her off. "We'll be back first thing in the morning, you won't be out of the loop for a minute." She relaxed and nodded.

"Can you tell Fury to take Hayate home with him tonight. And thank all three of them a lot."

"Of course, now get some rest." He smiled.

"Thank you Falman." She said curling to her side on the bed away from him. He squeezed her shoulder lightly and turned back towards the door to go wrangle the rest of the men.

"Come on guys, were going to let her sleep and come back in the morning." Havoc looked like he wanted to argue, obviously he was worried about his friend as well as the baby. He didn't blame him, but he also knew they couldn't stay all night no matter how much he would have like to do so. "They will both be fine without us for the few hours that we're all sleeping." Fury nodded, being all together more reasonable than the other two it didn't surprise him that the youngest of them would understand more quickly. Havoc and Breda made eye contact momentarily before looking back to the group.

"You know hes right Jean." Breda said shifting the baby back to his friend. "Give her to the nurse and then we're going to get a drink. I'll make sure he leaves guys don't worry." The other two soldiers were obviously skeptical, but left them alone. "I know your worried about her, both of them, but lets get out of here. You also know she'd be happier pretending to think that we didn't care about her." He said bracingly, he pushed his friend back to the nursery. Havoc looked over the baby's sleeping features. He hate the idea of leaving her in that room alone, he'd never thought about children, but suddenly he was sad to think he most likely would never have any of his own, obviously...

"She really is something isn't she?" Havoc said walking towards the door, he looked at his friend who smiled.

"Amazing, good thing we get to play with her. We can come first thing in the morning, shes safe and cared for here." He said reassuringly. Havoc stopped right outside the nursery.

"Heymans?" The red head clapped his shoulder.

"I know, goodnight baby, put her back, we have to get out of here." He entered the nursery handing her back to the nurse with a smile.

"Told you I'd get her back in one piece." She smiled tightening the blanket around her little body.

"Well shes lucky to have such a caring uncle."

"You can tell her I will be back first thing." He said turning back to leave, but stopped. He reached into his pocket scribbling something down on a piece of paper. "Would you give this to her mom?" He asked, the nurse nodded. "Thanks, goodnight." He knew all he could do was give her a nudge in the right direction and hope things would work out, that she'd figure out how to be okay on her own. He kicked his friend off the wall. "Alright lets get out of here."

Thanks to all those who reviewed last time, and I hope this chapter wasn't terribly disappointing.