A/N: Sorry you had to wait six months for this.

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They didn't make it.

By the time Allen and Kanda caught up with Timothy, he had already reached the cafeteria, which, despite the fact that it was not a standard meal time, was still pretty crowded. They could only watch in horror as the teen burst through the doorway and shouted at the top of his lungs. "Allen and Kanda are kissing in the training hall right now!"

All activity in the cafeteria came to a screeching halt following the declaration as everyone turned to face the young exorcist. They couldn't tell if he was being serious or if he was crying wolf to get attention like he was occasionally prone to do. If he was telling the truth, this would be the biggest thing to happen at headquarters in years. But then again, there were Allen and Kanda, the two in question, standing calmly in the entrance to the dining hall. Neither looked particularly happy, but given that they had also heard Timothy's declaration, that was to be expected; whether it was true or not, they would be unhappy with the younger exorcist spreading such rumors about them. But their presence did tell the onlookers one very important thing: they were definitely not making out in the training hall like Timothy claimed.

Seeing Allen and Kanda standing there, everyone grumbled in disappointment and went back to their business. As they did so, one finder spoke up to tell Timothy off. "Really? Then how do you explain the fact that they're right behind you? You should have picked something more believable if you wanted to mess with us."

While Allen and Kanda were both relieved that no one had believed Timothy, Timothy himself was quite upset. He knew what he had seen in the training hall and he was more than a little peeved that no one was taking him seriously. He whipped around to face Allen and Kanda, intending to demand that they tell everyone the truth, even though he knew they wouldn't, but that was when he noticed something that they weren't going to be able to deny. "Oh yeah? Then why are they holding hands?!"

As everyone once again turned to look at them, Allen blanched and pulled his hand out of Kanda's. He was embarrassed over being caught, but he was more embarrassed that he had gotten so used to such displays of affection from the samurai that he hadn't even noticed that they were holding hands. He did, however, catch the hurt that flashed in Kanda's eyes as he pulled his hand away, and that made him feel guilty, which in turn made him replace his hand. It was too late to pretend that they weren't holding hands anyway; everyone had already seen it.

The cafeteria had gone dead silent following Timothy's declaration, and it stayed that way even as Allen tried to act like he wasn't touching Kanda. They wanted to chatter amongst themselves, but the glare on Kanda's face was so terrifying that no one dared to speak and risk angering him further. In reality, Kanda was not angry, but rather, completely embarrassed at having been caught like that; this was not how he wanted his relationship with Allen to become public.

The room stayed dead silent, awkward and unsettling, until the tension got to be too much and Allen found himself blurting out the truth. "We've been married for almost four months."

After a brief moment of silence, someone snickered. The others followed and in mere moments, the entire room had erupted into raucous laughter. While there was no denying the hand-holding, the idea that Allen and Kanda had gotten married was so completely ridiculous that it could only be a joke.

Hurt by their disbelief - a feeling that was only made worse by the pregnancy hormones raging through his system - Allen turned on his heel and fled the room before anyone could see him break down and cry. Kanda stayed faithfully at his side, and their silent exit went unnoticed by the crowd.

Safe in a quiet hallway, Allen was briefly surprised to be wrapped in a hug from behind, but his shock faded as he realized that that was exactly what he should have expected Kanda to do. Biting back his tears and taking a few deep breaths to calm himself, he leaned into the embrace and drew strength from his husband. "That was horrible. I don't know what was worse, getting caught or having them think that I was joking. Why on earth would I joke about that?"

Kanda kissed the top of his Moyashi's head, doing his best to comfort the pregnant boy. "You tried. That's what's important. I was beginning to think that you were never going to be ready to tell everyone about us."

Allen snorted at the comment, but when he turned to face Kanda so that he could argue, his lips were captured in a fierce kiss. He melted into the kiss, loving the feeling of Kanda touching him so gently and sweetly.

However, before Kanda could take the kiss any further, they were interrupted by someone clearing their throat. "Would you two stop doing that? It's really gross."

Both young men jumped at the sound and pulled apart. However, when they turned around to find that Timothy had followed them out of the cafeteria, that shock and embarrassment faded to a mixture of annoyance and resignation. It was clear that the younger exorcist wasn't going anywhere until he got an explanation.

Timothy scowled at the two in front of him. They may have stopped kissing, but they were still touching each other in an intimate way. A hug between two exorcists may have been normal, but not when one of those exorcists was General Kanda Yuu, and definitely not when the other was Allen Walker. Timothy desperately needed to know what was going on between them. "Everyone may think it was a joke, but I know what I saw in the training hall. What's going on with you two? Don't you hate each other? Why would you tell everyone that you're married? Why would you kiss each other like that?"

Allen sighed heavily at the barrage of questions, suddenly feeling exhausted. "Let's go somewhere we can sit down and talk."

The suggestion was met with resistance. "But I need answers!"

Allen snapped at Timothy, irritated with his demanding tone. "I'm going to the lounge to sit down. You can either come along and get your answers, or you can stay here and argue with thin air."

Kanda briefly thought about taking the opportunity to escape, leaving Allen to deal with Timothy by himself, but he knew what kind of reaction that would get out of his Moyashi, so he kept his hand intertwined with his husband's and accompanied him to the lounge without complaint. Timothy followed sullenly behind them, grumbling under his breath the entire time; he didn't believe for a second that they were actually going to talk to him once they reached their destination.

Once they arrived at the lounge and Allen got himself comfortable - which, to Timothy's annoyance, just so happened to involve him sitting on Kanda's lap - he smiled gently at the younger and gestured for him to take a seat. Timothy ignored him and continued to stare down at him with his arms crossed, so Allen forced a smile and launched into the story. "I'll spare you the graphic details, but basically, something happened on a mission a few months back, and I ended up pregnant with Kanda's child. The Order has some weird rules, so we were required to keep the baby and get married. A lot has happened between us since then, and now we're actually in a real relationship."

While Kanda was stunned by the laid back way in which the Moyashi explained something that usually made him moody or angry, Timothy was trying to wrap his head around the very bizarre thing Allen had just told him. There was no way that the older exorcist was actually telling him the truth. "Pregnant? How can you be pregnant? I've been in control of your body. I know that you're male. Stop trying to mess with me and just tell me what's really going on!"

Allen hadn't been particularly worried about telling Timothy - at least, not in the same way as he'd worried about telling his closest friends - but that reaction was unexpected. That was the first time that he'd been accused of lying. "I'm not messing with you. I really am pregnant."

"How?!"

Allen sighed heavily as he surveyed the younger teen. "You really don't want to know that."

The implication that he was too young to understand was not lost on Timothy, and that pissed him off, especially since Allen had always been one to take him seriously and not treat him like a little kid. "Hey! I'm thirteen! I'm not a child!"

His reaction made Allen frown. "Tim. Once I tell you this, you can't go back, and I'm not sure that it's something you can handle."

The words made Kanda snort in derision. "Don't be ridiculous, Moyashi. How many times in the last few months have you yelled at someone because they knew but didn't tell you? You may as well tell him. It's what you, yourself, would have wanted if you were in his shoes."

Allen looked up at him with an expression that was a cross between a scowl and a pout, so Kanda kept talking to keep himself from laughing at the childish bean sprout. "Besides, the stories you've told are all from your time with Cross, back when you were no older than Timothy is. You don't need to shelter him just because he's a kid."

The pout turned into a full scowl. "Dammit, Bakanda. Stop making good points."

Timothy looked back and forth between the two older exorcists, very confused by their exchange. This was clearly about something serious and not Allen treating him like a naïve child like he had originally thought, but he had no clue what that serious thing could possibly be. "What's going on, Allen?"

Allen studied the young exorcist in front of him for a moment before he sighed heavily and gave in. Kanda was right. Timothy deserved to know the truth. Living in ignorance was only going to hurt him the same way it had hurt Allen. "Well, apparently, male parasite-types have female reproductive organs. Being in a homosexual relationship means that we can get pregnant."

"So your Innocence did this to you?" Timothy's initial confusion and wonder morphed dramatically into horror as he understood what Allen was actually trying to tell him. "Wait. You can't possibly be saying that this is going to happen to me too?!"

Allen nodded slowly. "That depends entirely on what your sexual orientation is, but yes, it's possible."

Like Allen expected, Timothy did not take that news particularly well. For a brief moment it looked like the teen wasn't breathing and was on the verge of passing out, but then he started shaking and babbling panicked nonsense to himself while he paced around in circles. Watching Timothy freak out made Allen feel bad, but he couldn't take it back now. He was just going to have to let Timothy work through his feelings on his own and hope he didn't do anything stupid in the process.

Feeling the baby flutter inside him, Allen suddenly knew exactly how to calm Timothy down. He gently extended a hand to the panicking teen and smiled softly at him. "Come here."

Timothy hesitantly approached and took Allen's outstretched hand. He was wary of what was happening and he almost pulled away when Allen took his hand and placed it on his stomach. The older teen's shirt was thinner than it looked, so his belly was bigger than it appeared, and Timothy found his palm resting against the rather prominent bulge of Allen's pregnant middle. The feeling was strange and unexpected, and just a little creepy, yet somehow comforting. And when Timothy felt something brush against his hand, he let out a startled yelp that made Allen smile. "The baby started moving today."

The shocked look on Timothy's face immediately morphed into one of awe. And as the baby kicked once more, his grin practically split his face. The excitement of feeling the baby move completely overwhelmed the confusion and fear that he had been feeling, and Timothy began to babble excitedly at Allen, who was all too eager to share the happiness he felt.

When the moment passed, Kanda cleared his throat and gave the Moyashi a meaningful nudge. Now that Timothy had calmed down, it was time to get rid of him so that they could go back to what they'd been doing before he interrupted. Allen looked up at him, clearly confused as to what he was supposed to say, but a pointed glance in Timothy's direction was all it took to make him understand.

Allen smiled gently at Timothy as he pulled the teen's hand from his belly, keeping a firm grasp on his wrist to help him get his point across. "Tim. I hope you know that everything I've told you today is a secret. My relationship with Kanda and my pregnancy are both things that you cannot talk about with other people. And until we are ready to share the news, it has to stay that way. Understand?"

Initially agreeing, Timothy froze mid nod as a thought occurred to him. "But what about what happened in the cafeteria? What am I supposed to tell people when they ask me about what I saw or why I said what I said? You can't expect me to lie about it."

Allen let out a long, slow sigh. In the stress of having to explain things to Timothy, he had completely forgotten about what had happened in the cafeteria less than an hour earlier. "Shit. I forgot about that. I guess I did already try to tell everyone, didn't I? They may have taken it as joke at the time, but the truth is coming out soon whether I want it to or not."

He sighed once more before turning to look at Kanda. The blank expression on the samurai's face was an open book, telling him that what happened next was his decision and his decision alone. While he was a little disappointed to not get Kanda's actual opinion, Allen was touched by the respect his husband was showing towards him and his feelings.

Turning back to Timothy, Allen frowned in thought for a moment before he gave up on trying to collect his thoughts and began to babble them out loud. "This conversation, that we've had just now, has to remain a secret. You are free to talk about what you saw in the training hall as truthfully as you want, but you're going to have to act like we haven't talked about it. You don't-"

Timothy rolled his eyes impatiently as he cut off Allen's rambling. "I get it. All I know is that I saw you two kissing. I followed you out of the cafeteria, but you've been avoiding me and dodging my questions." He suddenly narrowed his eyes as a thought occurred to him. "Speaking of questions... If I wouldn't have walked in on you earlier, would you two have ... gone all the way right there on the training room floor?"

While Allen went beet red at the question, mortified by the reminder that they had almost had sex in a public location, Kanda snarled in irritation. Not only was that question something that was none of Timothy's business, it was a reminder that he hadn't gotten to fuck his Moyashi after hearing him say those three wonderful words, and that was especially irritating, as that was the first time that Allen had actually been eager for sex. "That's none of your business. Get lost, brat."

That reaction from Kanda was expected, yet eerie. The samurai was always impatient with people and prickly when it came to his personal life, however, sitting there with Allen, he had been nothing but calm and reasonable, so it was weird to see his temper surface once more. Timothy looked to Allen to see if he would disagree and actually answer his question, but Allen was clearly not interested in sharing anything. He couldn't help the pout that crossed his face as he turned to leave the room.

Allen's smile was gentle as he called after the retreating teen; he may have been embarrassed, but that didn't change the fact that he didn't like seeing Timothy look so disappointed. "Hey, Tim. Go talk to Komui. You learned something very disturbing about yourself today, and he's got the answers to the personal questions you have."

The mortified look Timothy shot him confirmed that he understood the comment. He wavered slightly, looking like he was about to faint, but then he was off like a shot, sprinting from the room in his hurry to escape.

Allen sighed heavily at Timothy's retreating back. He knew that Kanda was right, and telling Timothy the truth had been the correct thing to do, but he was still just a kid. Allen may have been able to handle that kind of news when he was Timothy's age, but that was because of Cross and his degenerate lifestyle. Timothy was much more sheltered than he had been when it came to those sorts of things, and Allen worried that this was something that the teen wouldn't be able to deal with. It made him feel guilty for telling him.

Allen was pulled from his thoughts when a hand brushed into his hair, guiding him into looking up at the man who was holding him on his lap. For a brief moment, Kanda's deep blue eyes flickered with concern, but the look faded to one that was much more intense as he pressed his forehead to Allen's, removing all the space left between them. And as the samurai whispered huskily in his ear, Allen felt his body heat up. "Now, where were we?"