A/N: Chapter 7 is here. I hope you will enjoy reading it and please review.
Summary: Six years have gone by since the birth of Hikari and everyting seems to be going fine with the family of three, but will it last? Or will something happen that threatens to tear them apart?
Disclaimer: I don't own Durarara!
A week had passed and it was finally the day of Shizuo's birthday. For once Izaya had made sure not to sleep till too late and woke up before Shizuo, since the blonde had gotten a day off because of his birthday.
He got out of bed as silently as he could and made his way over to the bathroom, before taking a quick shower and dressing in his clothes.
After dressing he went to Hikari's room to wake the girl up and then headed downstairs to the kitchen. He had decided to make Shizuo some breakfast and knew he had to stand up early if he wanted to be able to do it for the blonde. Hikari had wanted to help him, so now it was waiting till the girl was here.
He could hear small feet walking down the stairs and not long after he saw the girl walking into the kitchen. "Mama, what are we making?" She asked.
"I thought some pancakes and maybe some toast and eggs." Izaya said and then helped Hikari put on her apron before he put on his own.
"Alright! Can I help you make the batter for the pancakes?" She asked and Izaya smiled at her.
"Sure, let's start with that then." Izaya said and grabbed a bowl and a mixer. Picking the right ingredients, he put the first two in the bowl and then gave Hikari the mixer while holding it himself too, since he didn't want her to hurt herself or something. "Just turn it around in the bowl and make sure to mix everything." He said while helping her turn the mixer. Once he deemed it good enough he added the last ingredient and helped her stirr this too.
"Alright, seems like we're ready to bake them. Can you get the strawberries?" He asked, since he had gotten them too. While Hikari got the strawberries, he made the pancakes and placed them on a plate. Meanwhile he had already put the toast in the toaster and also baked the eggs before putting everything on plates and on a tray. He also put the strawberries on it together with some sirup and sugar and then lastly filled a glass with milk.
"Alright, ready to give this to your father?" Izaya asked and Hikari nodded. Izaya picked up the tray carefully and started walking slowly up the stairs, while Hikari went ahead of him. Once he had gotten to the room, Hikari had already opened the door and was waiting for him.
"Wake up papa!" She yelled, when Izaya finally walked into the room. Izaya could see that the blonde wasn't waking up yet. "Papa! Wake up!" This time the blonde seemed to stir and opened his eyes slowly, looking to where Hikari was sitting on the bed, with Izaya behind her with a tray. "Happy birthday papa! We made you some breakfast." Hikari said with a smile. Izaya could see the blonde blink a few times before a smile appeared on his face too and he slowly sat up.
Izaya saw this as his cue and walked over to the blonde, before placing the tray on his lap. "Happy birthday Shizu-chan." Izaya said, before giving the blonde a kiss on his lips.
"Thanks, the food looks good." The blonde said while looking at everything the two of them had made.
"Of course it looks good, we made it after all." Izaya said with a smile, before sitting down on the edge of the bed. "Just eat, before it gets cold. The two of us will be downstairs." Izaya gave Shizuo one last kiss before standing up and leaving the room.
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Soon the morning was over and they had had lunch. Now it was just waiting before the guests would come. A cake was already waiting in the fridge and Shizuo had almost wanted to eat from it already, but Izaya had forbidden him from eating it, since it was for when the guests were here.
Izaya noticed that he had gotten quite tired himself and his back was a bit sore, but it was probably because he had been doing quite a bit in the morning. The morning sickness had only come once and in the morning this time.
"Izaya? Are you fine?" Shizuo couldn't stop worrying about him, even though Izaya had told him not to worry.
"I'm fine, just a bit tired, but not too tired." He added, otherwise he might be pushed to go to bed and take a nap and that was something he was not doing, since the guests could come anytime now.
"Just rest if you get too tired, alright?" Seems like the blonde had indeed intended for him to get some rest.
"Fine, but only when I'm feeling too tired, since the guests could come anytime now." Izaya said and just when he said that the doorbell rang. "I will get it." He said before walking away, making sure that Shizuo couldn't complain more than he had already done.
Opening the door he got greeted by the sight of Shinra and Celty. "Ah, Shinra, Celty, come inside. Shizuo's in the living room." He said and waited for the two of them to come in before closing the door and walking after them.
"Happy birthday Shizuo." He could hear Shinra say and saw the doctor give the blonde his present. Izaya wanted to know what the blonde got from the doctor, but once again the doorbell rang, so he had to go and open the door again.
This time there was a whole group. The van gang was there, together with his sisters. Now the only one they were waiting for would be Kasuka, but he would be later, because of a job.
Izaya walked into the living room to see everyone sitting there and Shizuo had all kinds of presents put in front of him on the table. "I see that you've gotten a lot of presents." Izaya said and smiled while looking what kind of presents were between them. They were mostly normal, except for some things that were probably from Erika.
"What does everyone want to drink, coffee is not an option." He said and listened to everyone tell him what they wanted to drink, luckily most of them wanted to have tea. Izaya turned around to go and get them the drinks, but got stopped by Shizuo.
"I will get it, you should sit down." It irritated Izaya how the blonde wouldn't let him do what he wanted to do. He was feeling fine after all.
"I can do it, you know? I'm only pregnant not crippled." Izaya said and then stormed of to the kitchen, not giving the blonde a choice. He started with making tea and got the cake out of the fridge. He heard footsteps behind him and turned to snap at the person to get away, since he expected it to be Shizuo, but got surprised when he saw Shinra walking into the kitchen.
"Do you need help?" The doctor asked carefully.
"Fine." Izaya answered. "Can you cut the cake? Make sure to give everyone a piece and leave one for Kasuka too." Izaya said before turning around to grab the tea he had been making, together with the cups.
"Are you doing fine with the pregnancy?" Did everyone really need to ask him about this? It was getting irritating.
"You already asked about it last week." Izaya irritatingly answered.
"Ah, that's right. Just wondering though." Shinra said. Izaya sighed and turned to look at the doctor, who was still cutting the cake.
"Shizuo keeps asking everyday if I'm fine, you know? It's getting irritating. It's not like he did that last time." Izaya sighed and kept his gaze on the cake.
"He's just worried, since your morning sickness was really bad." Izaya knew that what the doctor said was true.
"I know, but it feels like too much, you know? It's true that I get tired a lot easier, but that was last time too, so there's no difference there." Izaya started filling the cups with the tea and waited for Shinra to say something.
"Hm, I guess there's no difference with last time there, just make sure not to snap at Shizuo all the time, alright? He looked pretty miserable just now after you snapped at him." With that the doctor left with the first slices of cake and left Izaya alone in the kitchen. Izaya thought about what the doctor said, but soon followed with the cups of tea.
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A few hours went by, but somehow Izaya got more uncomfortable with every passing minute. The back pain he had at first was now a lot worse and cramps had appeared in his stomach too not to long ago.
Izaya tried to focus on the conversations around him, but the pain that he was feeling was too distracting. Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to go and lie down, even though the guests were still here.
"Izaya?" Hearing his name took Izaya out of his thoughts and he looked to Shizuo whom had called his name.
"What is it Shizu-chan?" Izaya tried to smile at the blonde, but he knew that Shizuo would be able to tell that it was a fake one.
"Are you feeling fine? You don't look so good." Shizuo said and Izaya knew that he was probably right. The question was now if he was going to admit it in front of everyone or not. He could tell that all their gazes were on him after all.
"Not really, so I think I'm going to lay down for a bit." He could see Shizuo's worried look increasing and he hoped that the blonde wouldn't just send everyone home right now, just because he wasn't feeling well.
Izaya slowly stood up from the couch, holding back a flinch at the increasing pain in his back. With a small apology he made his way slowly up the stairs and towards their bedroom. He could hear someone following him, but he knew it wasn't Shizuo.
Once inside the bedroom, he slowly said down on the bed and turned to look at the person who had followed him, to see that it was once again Shinra. "I should have suspected you to follow me." Izaya said, but couldn't bring up the smile he had been wanting to give.
"Shizuo asked me, so what's wrong?" Shinra asked while looking the raven over, to see if there was any sign of what was wrong with him.
"Just some severe back pain." Izaya said and groaned when a cramp hit this time too. "And some cramps." He added, but as soon as he had said that he could see Shinra's face turn slightly pale.
"Severe back pain and cramps, you said?" Izaya nodded at that. "Do the cramps hurt too?" Izaya looked at the doctor in confusion, but another cramp confirmed that it did indeed hurt. A small yelp of pain escaped Izaya's lips while he held one arm to his stomach.
"Sh-Shinra, what's wrong?" Even Izaya was feeling slight panic now. This couldn't be what should happen right?
"I hope I'm wrong, but we better get you to the hospital." Shinra said and Izaya's eyes widened at that.
"What do you mean Shinra, how bad is it?" He was fully panicking now. Was something wrong? Was something going on with the baby? Before he could get an answer though, the pain increased again and this time it made his vision swim.
"Izaya?" He could hear the doctor's voice say, but with the next cramp and with it the increasing pain he finally blacked out. The pain had gotten too much.