Shun

Air traffic regulations seemed to be ridiculous. No matter where you went. The people down on the ground in the air tower, were doing nothing more than wasting our time by making Kato request landing permission. We could of already made it to the hospital by now. I flipped open my phone and read over the text that Snake had sent to me earlier. It had the name of the hospital and street.

We had been flying for two or three hours, and I wanted to be on the ground again. They finally gave Kato permission to land, and the minute the jet touched the ground I bolted from it. Dan chased after me and grabbed onto my wrist and pulled me to a stop. "Chill buddy! There's no fire."

The others filled out of the jet and walked up behind Dan. Murucho still had his stack of papers and told me, "Kato and I are going to head to Moscow and show them what we had found in there law. You guys head on towards the hospital. And Shun, tell Alice I said hello." Kato and Murucho headed towards a rental car they had called in at some point. Another drove up behind theirs after they left. I knew it was for us because it had enough seats for the six of us. I got back out my phone and read the driver the directions towards the hospital. He seemed to understand me clearly and started driving. Thank God for bilingual people. It was a twenty minute drive to get to the hospital, and that surprised me because it would take you twenty minutes to just get to the other side of the small town.

The hospital looked brand new as we drove into the parking lot. The six of us walked into the main lobby, and Dan said to me, "I'll go ask that lady what floor they have Alice on." I guessed Dan thought I couldn't speak and ask questions myself. Well, he was right for the moment. My brain had still yet to register what was going on. All I was full aware of was that I was in a Khimiki hospital and Alice was having her baby. Dan came back to us and said, "She's on the third floor. We won't be able to see her though until the baby's born." That was self-explanatory. We easily found the elevator and Dan pushed the third floor button.

There was some mellow jazz music playing over the speaker, but it wasn't helping to calm me down. The first thing we saw when the elevator doors opened up, were three nurses and two doctors trying to drag Snake into another room.

He was yelling at them, "How many times do I have to tell you people I ain't the freaking father! I'm a friend!" He had his feet on the doorframe to hold himself in place as the staff tried to drag him into the room. This was really an odd site. "Snake?" He turned and saw me and the others and smiled. "Sparky! Hey, you came at just the right time. Tell these idiots that I'm not the father of your kid so they'll let me go."

The nurses and doctors were looking at me for an answer, and I nodded my head slowly. They looked at each other and shrugged, then let go of Snake's hands. Snake fell to the ground with a thud, and they walked off. He got up off the floor and brushed himself off and walked over to us. Dan whispered over to me, "You know this guy?" Snake was fixing his hair and clothes when I whispered back to Dan, "Sadly, yes." Dan raised an eyebrow, and looked unsure of what to think of Snake.

Yeah, I was the same way. I walked over to Snake and asked him, "So, how's Alice doing?" He looked back over at the door that he was almost pulled through and told me, "I wish I knew, Sparky. But every since I got here I was trying to convince these idiots that I wasn't you." I sighed. I seriously doubted they would even let me in the room now after this long. Looked like I'd have to wait.

And my patience was already running thin, so I seriously thought that I'd go insane. I sat down in one of the chairs that were on the end of every hall as little waiting rooms. This was all I could do at the moment. It always seemed like I spent way too much time in hospitals, and it was getting really old. Dan sat down in the chair next to me and put his hand on my shoulder.

I looked at his with narrowed eyes. Dan knew I didn't like people being too close to me when I wanted to be by myself. But I needed it. Dan told me, "Just relax buddy. This will all be over with in no time. I guarantee it." In reality, Dan sucked at pep talks. But it was the thought of him trying that counted.

Shun

Somebody was touching my shoulder while I was sleeping. I opened my tired eyes and saw an oddly chipper nurse. Are all the hospitals drugging their staff now? I sat up, and saw the rest of my friends were asleep in chairs and even on the floor. I also saw that Murucho wasn't back yet. I turned back to the nurse. "Yes?" The others were starting to stir and wake up now that there was noise going on. How long had we been asleep? An hour? Two maybe?

The nurse told us, "Everything went smoothly with Miss Alice and you're allowed to see her one at a time." I guess it was my half awake mind, but it took a minute to register what she had told me after she left from the room. I heard Dan say, "Damn. We've been out for four hours." Man, my guess was way off. Runo stood up and stretched, then walked over to me and said, "Shun, you should be the first to go and see Alice."

Now it hit me. Alice had her baby sometime while we had all passed out. I was happy that I survived those four hours. I nodded to Runo and sleepily walked down the hall and found Alice's room. It had been over two months since we had last seen each other. I wondered how much she had changed in that short of time, and how much I had changed as well. The door opened smoothly, and the room looked nice for the most part. I saw Alice laying in the bed her eyes were closed. I said softly, "Alice? You awake?"

I doubted it. After what she went through I was positive she was exhausted. But her eyes opened, and she nearly shot out of the bed when she saw me. "Shun! Oh my god! You're here!" I had to stop her from getting out of her bed.

I was sure it wouldn't be good to let her get up and move around yet. I walked to the side of her bed and we both hugged each other at the same time. We sat there for several minutes before we let go. I sat next to her on the edge of the bed. I saw he stomach wasn't stretched out anymore, and smiled. I told her, "And I had just gotten used to seeing you the other way." She laughed and told me, "Me too."

Alice

I was really surprised to see Shun so soon. I thought it'd take him a little bit longer to make it to the hospital. I guess Kato flew like Snake drives. Shun handed me the bottle of water a nurse had brought in for me a while ago. I took the bottle from him. He must of seen I was getting thirsty. I wasn't hurting anymore though. The nurses had given me some kind of super good pain killers, and you could of stabbed me in my leg and it wouldn't of bothered me.

I drank my water, and set it next to me on the part of the bed that Shun wasn't sitting on. He looked the same as when I last saw him. Although his hair had grown longer, but that was about it. He asked me, "So, what's the baby look like?" I wasn't really sure. "They didn't give me a chance to see it before they took me back to my room."

I could see this was killing Shun, and it was killing me too. I wanted to know just as bad as he did. They would probably bring the baby in after everyone had visited and everything seemed to be ok. The door opened again, and Dan and the others walked in. Shun looked at them and said, "I thought the nurse said only one at a time." Dan shrugged his shoulders and told him, "Well, the nurse wasn't doing anything to stop us. We can go if you want."

I looked at Shun, and he told me, "Up to you if you want them in here." I smiled at them and said, "You guys can stay in here. I don't mind." Runo and Julie were the first out of the group to run to the other side of my bed. Dan and Jake stayed and talked with Shun. I couldn't make out their conversation over Julie's squealing. Snake finally walked into the room. "Hey! What's up girlie?"

I smiled. It was good to see that Snake had still stuck around. I asked him, "How long did it take for them to finally figure out that you weren't Shun?" He rolled his eyes and started on his rant. "They stayed at for hours until Sparky finally showed up and corrected their mistake and then they just literally left me on the floor."

I saw Shun looked a little annoyed with all of the people in the room. I should of added in the factor that he might of wanted to spend some time with me since we had been separated for so long. But I didn't want to be rude to our friends, and I knew that Shun was aware of that as well. And that was why he was sucking it up. A doctor then came into the room and froze as he saw all of the people in the room now.

"There's supposed to be only one visitor at a time." Julie wrapped her arms around my shoulder and squeezed me. She told him, "Sorry if we broke your rules, but we just wanted to see our Alice." The doctor looked over the room again and sighed. "Ok. I'll let this slide. I was just coming to tell you that everything's ok with your baby. Do you want us to bring the baby in here for you to see?" Well, duh. Sun's eyes were wide, and I knew he must have been nervous. I liked seeing him like that. It was a change from the seriousness. I smiled and nodded my head.

Shun

I was finally about to see my baby. Julie and Runo were squealing to each other. I never would understand why girls did that. The doctor left the room, and I felt my stomach flip. I hated when I was like this. But it had to be normal, right? I felt Alice squeeze my hand. How was she so calm? Oh yeah. That's right. She was the one going through all of that stress a few hours ago. A nurse came back holding something wrapped in a blanket. I knew what it was.

She handed the baby to Alice and told her, "Here's your baby girl." The nurse then left the room. So it's a girl. Runo and Julie were saying how cute the baby was. I saw she had black hair like me, but had Alice's eyes. She looked more like Alice than anything to me. I was sure that Alice would say she looked liked me, but I think that falls under opinions. Runo asked Alice, "So, what are you two going to name her?" Neither of us had ever thought about what we would name the baby.

We had all other kinds of stuff going on to think about it. Alice thought for a minute before turning to me and saying, "How about Rowan?" It had a nice ring to it, and was a very pretty name. I told her, "Sounds perfect to me." Murucho then walked into the room. All of us turned to him. Him being right there could only mean one of two things; the plan worked or failed. Murucho smiled and flashed a single paper in front of us. I snatched it from him and read it. I couldn't help but smile.

Dan was asking me what it said. I turned to him and said, "The city of Moscow has decided to reduce the age required to still have a guardian down to 20." Once everyone figured out what that meant, we all clapped for Murucho. All of his hard work had paid off finally.

In the end everything had seemed to work out, even though it was hell to get there. Alice and I could finally be together without any interference from overprotective relatives. We could live how we wanted to. I smiled at her and asked the others, "Could you give me and Alice a minute or two?"

They didn't protest as they all left from the room. Alice asked me, "What do you want to tell me?" I told her, "I didn't want the others to freak out when I asked you." She raised an eyebrow. "Ask me what?" I smiled. "If you'll marry me." She leaned up and kissed me on my lips. "Of course."

well, i wrapped up another story. XP i dont know if there will be another to go along with this one. but i'm thinking about doing a short fic about when Shun and Alice were seperated and what went on with Snake and Omaki during that time. kinda like a behind the scenes thing. XP i had gotten some insperation from a Skillet song yesterday and i am now thinking of converting it into a song based fic. (as you can see i like doing those) well, tell me what you think about my Snake and Omaki story idea and read, review, and other things. ~Copperpelt~