Chapter 6

Week number 15 of the pregnancy. Patamon had just woken up, and the first thing he noticed was that he was sleeping downstairs, on a couch. "Euugh..." He groaned. Patamon felt terrible: He had a major headache, and he was about to throw up. "My head..." He wailed. "What the heck happened last night? I... I..." He grabbed an empty bucket nearby, and vomited. He heard someone coming downstairs: It was Gatomon. "O-oh, good morning honey." Patamon greeted her with a weak smile, but Gatomon just glared at him coldly. "...Morning." She muttered as she walked into the kitchen. "Oww... Gatomon, do we have anything that can cure headache? I feel horrible..." "Nope, sorry." Gatomon stated. "And even if we did, your bad condition is all your fault." "W-what do you-" Patamon started, but had to throw up again. "Ghah... What do you mean?" "Do you remember anything about what happened last night?" Gatomon asked him. "N-no..." Patamon said, and held his head. "I don' t remember one thing." "Too bad." Gatomon said. "I bet you'd like to know about all the fun things you did while drunk."

"What?" Patamon exclaimed. "What are you talking about, Gatomon?" "Nothing special." Gatomon said. "Only that you were drunk off your tail when you came back here last night, that's all." Patamon almost fell off the couch out of shock. "No... He gasped. "T... This can't be real... I have to be dreaming!" He pinched his arm, but he felt it quite well. "Ow! Okay, so this is not a dream... But how can I trust your word-" He threw up again, and looked slightly green. "I guess that goes for evidence." Gatomon said. "No..." Patamon weeped. "No! How could I have done such a thing?" He looked at Gatomon. "D-did I hurt you? Or the baby?" "Nope." Gatomon said. "I didn't give you a chance to do so." "Oh, thank goodness..." Patamon sighed out of relief. "If something had happened to you, I would've never forgiven myself." "Patamon..." Gatomon muttered. She started feeling bad for him, and grabbed a bottle that was standing on a shelf. "Here." She said, and handed the bottle to Patamon. "It's a cure for hangover." Patamon looked at the bottle for a while before taking a sip. "Phew." He said. "Thanks, that sure helped. Although I still remember absolutely nothing..." "I do." Gatomon said, and sighed. "I remember way too well..."

****FLASHBACK*****

"How does it feel?" Patamon asked Gatomon as he massaged her back. "Wonderful..." Gatomon murmured. "You're so good at this." "Your fur is so soft." Patamon stated. He moved his paws up on Gatomon's back, and was now rubbing her neck. "Oh yeah, just like that..." Gatomon whispered. Patamon soon stopped, but Gatomon just purred happily. "Feeling better now?" Patamon asked her. "Yeah, thanks." Gatomon thanked. "My back was killing me a moment ago." "You should rest now." Patamon said. "Just sit down and relax, I'll do the dishes." "Oh, you're so sweet..." Gatomon said as Patamon headed to the kitchen. "I spoke with Biyomon and Palmon some time ago, and they said they're jealous because of how helpful and caring partner I've got." "R-really..." Patamon said, and blushed briefly. Gatomon then looked at her belly. "I wonder how you are feeling." She whispered, although she knew the baby probably couldn't hear what she said. "I bet she's doing just fine." Patamon said. "She's going to be a strong digimon one day. She's our child, after all." "Yeah..." Gatomon muttered with a smile.

Someone knocked on the door. "I'll get it." Patamon said as Gatomon was about to sit up, and went to open the door. "Yo, Patamon!" Someone said. Behind the door were Veemon, Agumon and Gabumon. "Oh, hi guys!" Patamon greeted them. "Please come on in! What are you three doing around here?" "You'll see soon enough." Agumon replied with a grin. "Hello there, Gatomon!" Gabumon said to Gatomon. "Hello." Gatomon replied from the living room. "'Kay then Patamon, are ya ready to go?" Veemon asked Patamon. "Umm, t-to go where?" Patamon wondered. "Don't tell me you don't know!" Veemon exclaimed. "Sheesh, what kind of digimon are you?" "We're gonna have a guys' night out as a celebration!" Agumon exclaimed. "Umm, what exactly are we celebrating then?" Patamon asked. "You, of course!" Veemon said. "It's an old digimon tradition." Gabumon explained to Patamon. "When two digimon have their first baby, and the mother is 15 weeks pregnant, a small celebration is thrown for the father because of the upcoming fatherhood. It's similar to a bachelor party." "Sounds cool!" Patamon said, and looked excited. "Can I go, Gatomon?" "Of course." Gatomon replied with a smile. "It's not like I'm your mother or anything. Just don't do anything stupid." "Thanks, I won't." Patamon said, and shared a kiss with Gatomon before leaving with the other three males.

Gatomon had no idea what happened next, but this is how things went next: "Ha! I won!" Patamon exclaimed after beating Veemon, Gabumon and Agumon in a bowling match. "Congrats Patamon, you're truly a professional at this." Agumon stated. "Well, I don't know about that." Patamon muttered. "I just got lucky, that's all." "Man, I'm getting all thirsty." Veemon said. "Let's get a couple drinks for ourselves." "Good idea." Gabumon said, and the four headed towards the bar that was in the bowling alley. "Good evening." The bartender greeted them. "What will you take?" "A pear cider, please." Gabumon said. "I'd like a Long Island Iced Tea." Agumon said, and licked his lips. "One beer, please." Veemon asked. "Umm... I-I'll take a glass of water." Patamon said. "With ice." "Oh, c'mon Patamon." Veemon said. "Aren't ya gonna drink?" "Y-yes I am." Patamon replied. "You know what I mean." Veemon said. "Err, I, I don't drink." Patamon stated. "Hey, you're an adult already!" Veemon said. "Come on, one beer won't hurt, now, will it?" "B-but, Gatomon will kill me if she finds out..." Patamon muttered. "You don't have to tell her." Agumon said. Patamon hesitated for a moment, until he eventually gave up. "Ohh, alright then." He sighed. "O-one beer, p-p-please." The bartender soon handed them their drinks. "Well, here goes..." Patamon thought, gulped, and took a sip from his bottle of beer.

Gatomon woke up in the middle of the night when someone rang the doorbell. "W-wha?" She wondered, and yawned. "Who the heck comes here at..." She grabbed the alarm clock. "2:30 A.M? Eurgh... Patamon, would you go open the door please?" However, after getting no reply, she looked at the bed next to her, and noticed that it was empty. "P-Patamon?" Gatomon whispered, and looked around. "He hasn't returned yet?" Someone rang the doorbell again. "W-what if something's happened to him?" Gatomon said with a terrified tone in her voice. "What if someone's kidnapped him, or he's injured, o-or-" The doorbell rang again. "Maybe that's a police officer who came to tell me that Patamon is... Is..." Gatomon quickly climbed out of her bed, rushed downstairs, and went to open the door. However, much to her surprise, it was Patamon who was standing outside. "Honey, I'm home!" Patamon exclaimed, and gave Gatomon a bunch of roses. "P-Patamon?" Gatomon asked, and Patamon gave her a big kiss that caught her off guard. "How's my beautiful Gatomon?" Patamon asked. Gatomon noticed that he sounded slightly weird, and that he wobbled a little. "And how is Papa's little girl?" Patamon said, and patted Gatomon's belly.

"Where have you been?" Gatomon asked Patamon. "I, I thought that something had happened to you!" "Hey, nothing can harm the Almighty Patamon, hehehe..." Patamon said. "Something's wrong..." Gatomon thought. "I know Patamon's usually very cheerful, but now he's just acting all goofy." Patamon hiccupped all of a sudden, and Gatomon looked shocked. "Oh, excuse me darling." Patamon said with a weird smile. "Patamon," Gatomon started. "Be honest with me. Have... Have you been drinking?" "I hope that I'm wrong, in Azulongmon's name..." She thought worriedly. "Well, I'd- *HIC!* -I'd be lying to you if I said 'no'..." Patamon said with a chuckle. Gatomon immediatly tackled Patamon on the ground, and held her claws one inch away from his face. She looked completely enraged. "G-Gatomon?" Patamon asked, now sounding slightly worried. "What's wrong-" "You PIG!" Gatomon growled, and slapped Patamon. "We're about to have a baby, I'm pregnant, and what do you do? You just go and get yourself drunk!" "I-I..." Patamon stuttered. "I don't believe it." Gatomon said quietly. "The one digimon I thought would be completely sober, the one digimon I thought would love me enough so that never drank in his entire life-" "P, please calm down." Patamon said, and hiccupped again. "I-it'll be bad for the baby if you don't."

Gatomon stood up, leaving Patamon lying on the ground, and headed towards the staircase. "Don't." She whispered after noticing that Patamon was going to follow her. "You're sleeping on the couch tonight. I don't want to see your face until you're sober again." "Gatomon..." Patamon whispered out of shock as Gatomon rushed upstairs, headed into the bedroom and aggressively slammed the door shut. Patamon shambled to the bathroom, and washed his face with cold water. He looked at his reflection in the mirror. "What have I done..." Patamon thought, and a tear rolled down his cheek. "H-have I completely terminated our relationship?" Patamon shook his head, and went to the kitchen. "...I need something to drink-" He started, but slapped himself in the face. "No Patamon, you're not gonna take any more... Any more..." Patamon couldn't help it: He grabbed a glass, filled it with water, and drank it empty. He burped slightly, headed to the living room, and went lying on the couch. "Maybe- *HICCUP!* Maybe things are better in the morning..." Patamon hoped, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

*****END FLASHBACK*****

"This is impossible." Patamon muttered with his face buried in his paws. "How could I have done such a thing?" "Hey Patamon, it's not that big deal-" Gatomon started, and stroke Patamon's back. "Yes it is!" Patamon said. "...I promise you, the both of you, and myself too, that I will never drink in my life again if I can just avoid it." "That's my Patamon." Gatomon said, and gave him a kiss. "I'll make up for this, I swear." Patamon said. "Patamon hey, you really don't have to do anything-" Gatomon started. "But I insist." Patamon interrupted her. "Whatever you want to do, wherever you want to go, just name it and I'll make it happen." "Well, if you really insist..." Gatomon muttered. "I'd want to go visit my relatives, namely Gina." "Eh?" Patamon wondered. "I haven't seen her in such a long time." Gatomon stated. "I'm not sure if she even knows that I'm pregnant, even thought I wrote her a letter some time ago..." "If that's what you want." Patamon said with a smile. "Thank you so much." Gatomon thanked, and hugged Patamon tight. "Oof!" Patamon gasped, and Gatomon stopped hugging him. "Umm, sorry about that." Gatomon apologized with a small giggle. "It's okay, I really deserved that." Patamon stated, and they both laughed.

A couple days later, Patamon was taking a walk in the File Island when he all of a sudden came across Veemon. "Hiya, Patamon!" Veemon greeted him. "Hi." Patamon replied. "I've wanted to talk with you ever since the day before yesterday." Veemon stated. "Umm... How did things go after you returned back home?" "Well," Patamon started. "Gatomon sure taught me a lesson I'll never forget, but we're back to normal now." "Phew..." Veemon sighed out of relief. "I was afraid I'd ruin your relationship." "Well, no harm done." Patamon said with a comforting smile. "Listen, I'm sorry I encouraged you into drinking." Veemon apologized. "I would've never done so if I had thought about the consequences..." "Hey, it wasn't your fault." Patamon said. "I had no idea that I had such a small alcohol tolerance myself, either. I thought one bottle wouldn't do any harm." "So... How has it been now?" Veemon wondered. "Oh, just fine." Patamon replied. "Yesterday, we went to see Gatomon's relatives, and also went swimming, shopping and had dinner together." "Gee, Gatomon must've been really excited." Veemon muttered. "I've never seen such a delight on her face." Patamon stated. "Well, I have to get going now." "'kay." Veemon said. "Well, see ya later." "Bye!" Patamon replied, and started returning back home.

Later that day, Patamon and Gatomon went to a pregnancy group exercise class for digimon that was being held on the File Island. "Hmm, there seem to be a lot more pregnant digimon around here than I would've thought..." Gatomon whispered to Patamon. They spotted a pair of ExVeemon(one blue, one pink), Kabuterimon(one blue, one red), Gazimon, Impmon, Meramon, Guardromon, and many others. "Is it your first one?" The pink, female ExVeemon asked Patamon and Gatomon. "O-oh, yes." Gatomon replied. "Same here." The ExVeemon said, and looked at her husband. "We were pretty surprised to find out that they're twins." "I see." Patamon said. "Rex and I hope that they'll be both girls. Right?" The female ExVeemon said. "Y-yeah..." Her partner muttered, looking slightly embarrassed. "We're getting only one." Gatomon said. "Patamon's sure that it's going to be a girl." "We're having triplets." Said the red, female Kabuterimon who had joined the discussion. "Whoa, congratulations!" Gatomon said. "Thank you." The female Kabuterimon replied. "Okay then, let's begin everyone." Said the host of the pregnancy exercise.

"Well, what did you think about it?" Patamon asked Gatomon after the exercise ended. "It was nice." Gatomon replied. "Really refreshing. And it was nice to see other soon-to-be mother digimon there." "Maybe their children will become friends with ours." Patamon suggested with a smile. "That'd be great." Gatomon said. "And who knows, maybe our daughter will have some adventures of her own." Patamon said. "I hope that she'd live a relatively peaceful life." Gatomon wished. "I mean, we've already been through so much ourselves, I wouldn't want our child to risk his or her life too much..." "There's no chance for a peaceful life as long as it's going to be OUR kid." Patamon joked, making Gatomon chuckle. "Whoa, is it already half past nine in the evening? Time has really went fast..." "*YAWN* I agree." Patamon said, and rubbed his eyes. "I'm going to bed." Gatomon said. "What about you?" "I'll have to do one thing." Patamon explained. "I'll come in a minute." "Okay then." Gatomon said, and climbed upstairs. Patamon went to the kitchen, and grabbed a very familiar jar of sugar from the closet. He grabbed the box that was hidden in the jar, and made sure that the ring was still there. "Phew." Patamon sighed. "One day... This ring will join us together." He placed the ring back into the jar, put the jar back to the closet, and headed to the bedroom.