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"Well, remember how sick I've become over the past couple of weeks?"

"Uh huh."

"And how I said that I missed my period because of how sick I was?"

"Mm."

"All right. Well." Damn. Izaya was never like this. "It wasn't because I was sick that I was late…" She always had just the right words to say. So why was her mouth so dry just then, and why was she stalling for time this way? She couldn't honestly be that frightened of Shizuo's reaction. Come on, Izaya. You can do this, she coaxed herself.

The rest of the words fell from her mouth surprisingly easy.

"I only missed my period because I'm pregnant. According to Shinra, I'm about a month and a half in already. Congratulations, Shizu-chan, you're going to be a papa! We've successfully mated and created a little human~! Ha! And to think everyone was so opposed to us breeding!"

And.

Silence.

"Shizu-chan?"

"…"

"…Shizu-chan?"

"…"

"…Shizu-chan."

"…M'here."

"Oh. Good."

"…"

"…"

"…Izaya?"

"Mm-hmm?"

"Is this a joke?"

"No."

"Oh."

"Mm."

"…"

"…"

"So you're…like…"

"Pregnant?"

"Yeah. That."

"Why yes I am!"

"Like…with a baby?"

"…If there is some other way to be 'pregnant', you really must inform me. It would be atrocious to have my hopes up for a child and get something unfortunate like a blender."

"I didn't mean…" A growl. "Shit…"

Well. That wasn't good.

Izaya giggled a bit, tensely. Shinra and Celty seemed to pick up on this from across the room, where they had been talking amongst each other, and turned to look at her as the conversation suddenly seemed to be turning sour.

"I…I've decided that I would like to keep this baby." Izaya tried, speaking in a considerably softer voice than before.

"What?"

"I mean, it's a little human, Shizu-chan. One all my own. How terrific is that?"

"…"

"Shizu-chan?"

"Izaya."

"Yes?"

"You said you were at Shinra's?"

Izaya felt her blood freeze in her veins at the suddenly venomous tone that Shizuo possessed. "Yes…"

"Okay. I'm going over." Shizuo all but growled into the phone. As she heard his voice in her ear, Izaya gave a heavy shudder. "Don't move a muscle."

"S-Shizu-"

Click.

Yup. Dead.

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Shizuo Heiwajima was only fluent in two emotions; rage and neutral. And that was only if one considered neutral to be an emotion at all. Usually when a person becomes angry, they go from neutral to annoyed, to frustrated, to pissed, and finally to enraged. Shizuo skipped the middle ground all together and moved right on from 'neutral' to 'enraged' within seconds.

Tom Tanaka was used to his outbursts of anger. He was one of the few people that could put up with Shizuo's abnormally short fuse and even come to calm him down during one of his many outbursts. And of course, he was always ready should something, or someone, trigger Shizuo's temper. He could usually intervene before things got ugly.

Yes, Tom was very good at handling Shizuo when he was pissed off.

However, Tom had no idea of what to do when Shizuo suddenly grabbed him up in a bear hug and started laughing.

"S-Shizuo?!" The debt collector all but shrieked. It was a very unprofessional sound, and Tom felt his face grow hot because of it. "What the hell-"

"Tom!" Shizuo interrupted. Blessedly, he placed his boss back onto his feet, but his hands remained firmly clamped down on the other's shoulders.

And heaven help him, Tom didn't know what to do. Shizuo Heiwajima was smiling at him. He had never seen such a wide, goofy look on his bodyguard's face before. And…and were those tears brimming in the corners of his eyes?

"Shizuo, what the hell happened?" Tom ventured to ask, his eyes wide as he realized that he was captured in the blond's steel grip. One wrong move here and pop. There go his joints, rolling out of place.

"I'll tell you what happened." Shizuo said, and he sniffed a bit. The suspicious tear-like substance continued to build in the corners and insides of his eyes and his grin didn't falter. "I'm going to be a father, that's what happened!"

Tom was struck dumb. "Wh…what?"

And again, the air was crushed viciously from Tom's lungs as Shizuo once again succeeded in lifting him off of his feet and hugging him. This time, he even dared to spin his boss in a circle, much to the surprise of onlookers across the street from them.

"I'm gonna be a dad!" All right, no more denying it. Shizuo was crying now. And yet he continued to smile, his face lit up like a Christmas tree in a display that Tom had never before seen from the bodyguard.

"Shizuo…" Tom wheezed, glad when the taller man set him back on his feet and released him. "That's great news! Congratulations!" He wrapped an arm around his own torso, as if he were holding himself together after Shizuo's rough embrace.

"Oh God, Tom…" Shizuo said. He ran a hand through his hair before he wiped his face dry with his sleeve. "I gotta go. I gotta find Izaya." He said, looking back down hopefully to the older man.

"Go." Tom agreed with a nod and a smile. Despite being taken aback and nearly crushed, Tom wouldn't deny how happy he was for Shizuo. He needed this. He had always wanted a family. "Go on, I'm sure Manager will understand. If not, I'll cover you." He said, and grinned, reaching up to clap the blond on the arm.

Shizuo nodded eagerly. "Thanks." He said, and quickly turned on his heel. He stomped off down the street in the direction of Shinjuku, leaving behind him a very happy Tom Tanaka and the still-smoldering cigarette that had previously fallen from between his lips.

Little did Shizuo know that while he knew that he was acting out of pure joy, the rest of the town weren't so inclined to know this.

All they saw was Shizuo Heiwajima hauling ass through Ikebukuro with a shout of 'Izaayaaa-kuuun' on his lips, and they ran away to hide before anything could go wrong.