Kay, folks, this is the last chapter.  *sniff*  I know, I know. 

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"Jinx?"

Jin flinched a little at the sound of her old name.  Heero's voice sounded distant, worried, and betrayed all at once.  She closed the door softly behind her.  The voice had come from the kitchen…

"It's me, Heero.  I'm home…Oh shit, Heero, are you ok?" Jin said as she walked into the little kitchen of their private quarters.  Heero was sitting on the floor of the kitchen with his back on the cabinets.  An overturned chair and various items from the nearby table and counter were all over the floor around him.  She picked her way over the fallen items and crouched near where Heero sat on the floor, still in a daze.  Anxiously, Jin ran her hands on either side of his face, bringing him back to reality.

"Was it true?" he asked in a whisper, as if talking about a baby out loud would make it up and vanish into thin air. 

Jin just nodded, pulling him closer to her and resting her forehead against his.  Slowly his arms wrapped around her and he held her.  He held her with all the warmth and emotion that he'd wanted to show her for the last few months.  Ever since before Trowa had even moved in with them.  Before long, Jin had melted into his embrace, curling on his lap and burying her head in his neck. 

"How long?" he managed to say again.

"Four months left," she whispered.

"That long…?  How come I never knew?"

Jin sniffed a little.  She couldn't answer that just now.  The scent of pasta and tomatoes reached her.  Curious, Jin lifted her head and looked in the direction of the stove.  Sure enough, two pots were on the stove.  Heero watched her from the floor as she got up and inspected his cooking.  "Why were you cooking?" she asked.

"I wanted tonight to be special."  He got up and put his arms around her from behind.  She tasted the sauce.  "I'm lucky that pasta just boils and the sauce needs little tending," he smiled as he spoke into her thick hair.  "Otherwise I'm sure the food would be burned after I fell down back there." 

"I'm sorry…"

Heero silenced her with a little squeeze of his arms.  "How come you never told me?" he asked again.

Jin sniffed again.  "I wasn't sure if you wanted a family," she admitted.  Her tears splashed onto his bare arms wrapped around her.  Wiping the wetness away, Jin rubbed her hands over his arms.  She wrapped her arms around herself as she put each of her hands over each of his.  One of Heero's hands opened and let her fingers entwine with his.  Jin looked down and frowned at the offending hand that wouldn't let her fingers lace between his.  Heero didn't resist as she pried open his fist.

He heard a light gasp and felt the light weight of the ring leave his hand as she took it.  She twisted in his embrace and faced him.  Heero smiled at the pleasantly surprised look on her face.  "I've kept that secret for the last five months too," he said, kissing her forehead.  "I would have given it to you a long time ago, but I wasn't sure if you wanted to be a family…"

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The lights were out when Roddy entered the office she shared with Trowa.  She'd been expecting that though.  For some strange reason, the lights had been going on and off every fifteen minutes.  All day long, she'd had to endure the annoying glitch in the computer system. 

She sighed as she sat heavily at her desk.  Trowa hadn't talked to her all day.  Through all of their classes they taught together, Trowa seemed very distant and avoided making eye contact.  Maybe something had happened last night on his date with Willameena.

Roddy didn't notice the figure watching her from behind.  She wasn't aware of Trowa's presence getting closer and closer to her as he walked forward.  She screamed out when he suddenly put a hand on her shoulder.

"Shit, Trowa!" Roddy said, putting a hand on her chest to steady herself once she realized who had come up from behind her.  She didn't remember jumping to her feet and spinning around, but there she was standing and facing Trowa.

The darkness kept her from seeing the little smile on his lips and the gleam in his eyes.  But she felt his hands snake their way around her waist, pulling her closer to his large and warm body.  She didn't resist.  She'd wanted to be held by him since the first day they'd met.  His hands pressed against her back, moving her closer to him. 

"What're you doing, Trowa?"

"I wanted to tell you something…"

***

Duo tugged at the collar of his tuxedo.  "I don't know how you guys can look so comfortable in these things," he complained.

Wufei just smiled smugly.  "We're better men, Maxwell, that's all there is to it."

"Ha, ha, ha," Duo said sarcastically, casting a quick glare at Wufei. 

"Would you two stop fighting?  The baby's almost asleep," Heero said, gingerly holding the small bundle of green blankets close to him. 

Quatre burst into the waiting room, flinging the door against the wall.  "Get out of the way," he warned, "I'm going to throw up again!"  He rushed past his three friends and ran into the bathroom.

The baby stirred.  Heero silently willed the child not to start crying.  Bouncing the bundle slightly, he got up from his chair and started walking through the room. 

Duo came and took the baby into his arms.  "Hey there little one," he said, beaming.  Holding on tightly, he raised the baby high in the air and spun around in circles.  Little baby squeals of delight soon filled the room.  Heero breathed a sigh of relief.  "Problem solved," Duo said, offering the bundle back to the father. 

"No way," Heero said, backing away from Duo.  "You're the one that spun around in circles.  I'm not going to get spit up on this tuxedo.  Jin and Catherine would kill me."

With a panicked look in his eyes, Duo held the child out to Wufei. 

"Heero's right.  You shook that baby up, you deal with the consequences," Wufei said taking a few steps backwards. 

At that moment, Rashid entered the groom's waiting room.  "Master Quatre," he called.  "You have thirty minutes left before the ceremony begins.  Is everything alright?"  Rashid looked questioningly to the three pilots present in the room.  "Is he alright?" 

Wufei shrugged casually.  Heero said that Quatre was just nervous.  Duo saw a golden opportunity. 

"Hey, Rashid," he said, walking up close to him.  "Have you had a chance to hold Heero's baby yet?"  Rashid shook his head no.  "You haven't?  Well then, I think now is the perfect time for you two to get to know each other…" 

Before Rashid knew what was happening, Duo had convinced him to take care of the baby during the wedding ceremony.  Having been outsmarted, Rashid retreated from the waiting room and fled down the hallway with the baby in his arms before Duo could convince him to do anything else. 

Duo smiled as if he'd just won the lottery.  "Problem solved," he repeated.  Heero just shook his head, knowing that Jin would not be happy with the current solution, but he wasn't too worried because Duo would be the one to suffer a mother's wrath.

Trowa came into the room with Roddy.  They'd been inseparable for the last six months, ever since they'd confessed that they both had secretly liked each other from the moment they'd first met. 

"Hey guys," Duo said with a smile.  Wufei and Heero nodded their hellos. 

Trowa smiled back and looked a little nervous himself.  He was to walk Catherine down the aisle and was getting his own set of jitters.  "How is Quatre?" he asked.

"Throwing up," Heero said nonchalantly. 

"Poor guy," Roddy empathized.  She turned her attention to Heero.  "Where's the baby?" she asked.  "Jin asked me to look after it during the ceremony because all of you are either bridesmaids or groomsmen." 

"Umm…" Heero had no answer to give her.  "Can I answer a different question?"

His response confused Roddy, but she shook it off as one of his little quirks.  The guy was odd, in her opinion.  She thought for a moment before she replied.  "Actually," she said, "I've been wondering why you and Jin never got married."

Heero smiled.  "We did get married," he said, holding up his left hand and showing the ring on his finger. 

"But you guys never had a wedding," Roddy insisted.  "Why?"

He shrugged.  "It's not our style to have this big celebration the way Quatre and Catherine are.  We made our promise to each other, have the rings to prove it, and made it legally binding.  That's all that mattered to us."

Roddy nodded.

"And Hilde and I just eloped to avoid this whole hullabaloo that Quatre's going through," Duo added.  "Sally and Wufei are the only ones that refuse to get married."

"Why are you interested?" Heero asked.

Roddy blushed a little and shifted from foot to foot.  Trowa held her hand and smiled at his friends.  "She's checking out our options," he said. 

"Options?"

"We're planning on getting married, too," Trowa said.  He was practically glowing. 

Hugs and congratulations were showered upon the new happy couple. 

"Where's the baby, Heero?" a stern voice asked.

Heero looked back toward the door, seeing a very teasingly angry Jin staring at him.  An innocent look crossed his face, and he pointed a single finger in Duo's direction.  "He did it."

Duo's mouth dropped open.  "Traitor," he said to Heero.  "Rashid is taking care of the baby," he explained with his best and most innocent looking smile.

"Duo Maxwell," Hilde scolded.  "When will you ever grow up?"

He opened his mouth to answer, but no words came out.  Instead, he got a confused look on his face and noted, "The last time someone said that, Jin was upset at Heero and she was pregnant…Hilde?"

Hilde got a Duo-sized grin on her face, but she didn't say anything.

"I'm going to be a father?!" Duo asked.

Hilde nodded vigorously. 

Duo promptly tackled her in a hug and spun her around in his arms.  "I'm going to be a father!" he said triumphantly.  Carried away in his excitement, Duo proceeded to hug Heero, Jin, Trowa, Roddy, and Quatre, who had recently emerged from the bathroom.  When Duo approached Wufei, he surprised everyone by openly hugging Duo in return. 

"Wow, Wu-man, I didn't think you cared," Duo said, returning to Hilde's side. 

Wufei's smug smile returned.  "Well, Maxwell, you're not the only one who's going to be a father," he said quietly.  If they hadn't been taken by surprise with Hilde's announcement, the occupants of the room were absolutely stunned when Wufei gave his little announcement that he and Sally were expecting a child of their own. 

"I can't believe how things are changing so quickly," Quatre said. 

"Yea," Duo agreed, "who would have thought that when we first met we'd all be together years later?  Who would have thought we'd support each other though getting married and having babies and … and the rest of our lives?" 

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aw, and isn't it just so sappy and happy!  Hope you guys liked.  There isn't much of a real story in all this at all.  Just some fluff to tie up the end of the Jinx story.  Let me know if you want me to write more of this story arc and I'll promise to put more of an actual plot in next time!

Thanks to all my lovely reviewers.  *hug*