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"Fluff" Speaking
Fluff Thinking


Chapter 5 – Surprise, surprise!

It had now been two weeks and the time had come for their second appointment with doctor Watanabe.
Both siblings were nervous, but nervous in a giddy kind of way.

"Ah, the beautiful, young Mudou couple! It's nice to see you again." Doctor Watanabe exclaimed, making the youngsters blush.
Sara flinched when the liquid was smeared on her stomach.
"It's cold!"
The doctor chuckled lightly.
"I assure you that it's supposed to be like that. Won't it be worth it when you see your child?"
Sara smiled brightly and looked at the little screen.
Watanabe started to explain what they saw.
"Let's see here.. Here, you have the spine, and the head, and here…" He looked closely at the screen.
"What's wrong?" Setsuna started to get worried when the doctor didn't say anything.
Then the good doctor just smiled.
"Well, congratulations young boy – looks like you have done a really good job here."
"Huh?" Was Setsuna's very intelligent reply.
"As I was saying: Here, you have a spine, and a head, and here," he pointed slightly to the right," you have another spine and another head. Congratulations – you're going to have twins."
Setsuna's jaw practically hit the floor and Sara appeared to be as shocked as him.
"It looks like you're in about the twelfth or thirteenth week of the pregnancy and everything seems to be just fine. How about I book you in for the check-up in two months?"
Stunned, Sara just nodded.

The teens more or less stumbled their way back home and threw themselves down on the bed.
"Twins…" Setsuna murmured.
"Yeah… I'm fifteen and pregnant with twins…" Sara could hardly believe it.
We're just teenagers. How in all three worlds are we going to be capable of handle twins? Setsuna frowned as he thought about all the hard work two children would take and groaned.
"What are you thinking about?"
"About how I have to find a better job. It's expensive enough with one child – but two?" Simultaneous sighs was heard. Though Sara suddenly started to giggle. Setsuna glanced at her.
"What's so funny?"
"I just began to think about twins. It almost seems like a pattern here – just look at all the twins there are among the angels." She giggled again.
Setsuna thought back and started to laugh softly.
"Maybe not the best role models… Alexiel and Rosiel, Astarte and Astoreth, Michael and Lucifer… It could have been better." He gave her a lopsided grin.
"Let's hope it's two girls then, that's one pair that hasn't been done before." Sara beamed.
Setsuna held her tightly and kissed her on the temple.
"As long as they're healthy, I'm happy."
"Yeah, me too."
"Just as long as we don't name a possible boy Rosiel!"
"Damn, another name thrown in the trash can."
"Why you little..!"
The happy pairs laughter soon turned to passionate moans as they 'celebrated' the good news.

About an hour later, Sara suddenly exclaimed: "Setsuna, do we have any pickles at home?"
"Yeah, I think so."
"Do we have any mustard?"
Do I really want to know? "Yes… Why?"
"I just had this huge craving for pickles with mustard."
Setsuna made a disgusted face. "Pickles with mustard? You women are weird…"
His sister giggled and pointed out. "Just be happy that I'm not having angel-cravings."
"And dear I ask what angel-cravings are?"
"Oh, nothing special… Just hunt down humans for food or just going on a killing spree - the ordinary things pregnant women do." With a teasing grin, Sara left for the kitchen.
"Yeah, like that's true.." Her brother muttered. "It can't be, we should have heard something about it then – shouldn't we? Hey, Sara, what did you mean by that!"
Sara stood in the kitchen, nibbling on a pickle. She smiled sweetly at him. "You're really gullible sometimes, you know that?"
Our favourite, gullible teen let out a relieved sigh and kissed her. "Please don't scare me like that again, okay? And by the way: Eeww!" He made a face at the taste of pickles and muster on his tongue.
"You haven't seen anything yet, koibito. I'm just getting started…"

Setsuna shivered. He really, really didn't want to know.

"You know, even if there were some weird angel-cravings, I wouldn't get them. We're not angels anymore, remember? At least not angels with powers."
"I don't know about that. You'll always be my angel, Sara." Setsuna said and hugged her.
Sara's eyes filled with tears in an instant. The young man was bewildered and didn't know what to do or say.
With a tear-stricken face, Sara flung herself in her lover's arms.
"That was so sweet!" She exclaimed and embraced him tight.
Trying to find the right words, Setsuna hesitantly said: "So… You're happy about what I said?"
"Of course I am! Don't you see that?" Sara was beginning to get angry now.
"Sure…" Wonderful…I just love mood swings…
The young girl in his arms gave him a quick peck on the chin and went back to her beloved pickles. Setsuna just stared at her and decided that he was better off to watch the TV instead.

As he sat at watched some comedy show, he started to think about the time that he and Sara had run away. When they turned on the TV and saw that Kira had taken the blame for Katou's 'murder'. I wonder what would've happened if we hadn't gone back. Maybe Kira would still be alive, Sara never would have died, I wouldn't have become Messiah and… And we would have been miserable… No matter how hard everything's been, I would do it all again, just to be with Sara. To me, all is worth to be with her.

"Setsuna, why in all three worlds haven't we got any milk at home!"
A fuming, pregnant, young woman stood in the doorway and glared at her brother.
"Because you drank the last this morning?" As soon as he had said it, he knew that it definitely wasn't the right answer. "I mean, I was just on my way out to buy some right now!"
Sara's glare softened a bit. "If you're going to the grocery store, could you pick up some liver pâté and mayonnaise too?"
"Please don't tell me that you're going to eat those things together?"
Once again, Sara glared at him. "Why? Is there something wrong with it!"
"No, no, no! It's probably really good…" Setsuna could barely hold in his shudder.
To stop new arguments from forming, and getting his ass kicked by his little sister, the teenage boy quickly made his way to the grocery store.

Why didn't we use protection? He thought miserable. It seemed like such a good idea at the moment… He sighed deeply.
"What's the problem, young man?" A friendly voice asked.
Setsuna looked up at an old, friendly looking woman. He gave her a tired grin.
"My girlfriend is pregnant." He simply said.
The woman gave him an understanding smile.
"With twins."
She couldn't help but gasp. "Twins? Congratulations!"
"Yeah..Thanks…"
"Let me guess: She's got the cravings?"
"How did you know?"
"Well… My late husband had the same look every time I got pregnant and started to have my cravings. The poor man… I really admire him for being able to handle everything. The mood swings, the cravings, and not to talk about the labour…"
Setsuna felt a chill go down his spine at the thought. I haven't even thought about that…
The old woman chuckled at the boy's horrified expression. She laid a comforting hand at his shoulder. "Don't worry about it, lad. You're young, you're going to get through it all just fine."
Even though he just had met this woman, and she hadn't done anything special, Setsuna felt calmer. "Thank you."
"Anytime, boy. And now you ought to hurry up if you're out on cravings shopping. You wouldn't want to make a pregnant woman wait." She smiled warmly and continued on her way.
Setsuna jerked and quickly picked up his groceries and made his way home again.

"Tadaima!" He said as he walked inside.
"Okaeri, koishii." Sara smiled at him and snatched the bag out of his hands. She immediately started to search through it for her things.
"Nice to see you too…" Setsuna grumbled.
"Aaaww… You're so cute when you pout!" Sara flung herself in his arms and kissed him.
"Please don't take the things I say or do so seriously, it's just my hormones speaking, okay?"
Her partner couldn't help but smile and kiss her. "I'll try… But I don't promise anything."
The teenage girl giggled. "It feels like it's just as good if you don't. We're both to hotheaded to be able to never argue."
"Sad, but true…" Setsuna grinned and kissed her once again. "By the way, I bought some ice cream. Do you want some?"
Sara's eyes lit up right at the moment that he mentioned ice cream. "What flavour?"
"Vanilla and chocolate."
"I love you, I love you, I love you!" Sara shouted and hugged him tightly.
"Can't breathe…"
His sister reached out her tongue at him. "I'll try to remember that you're so fragile the next time." With that, she raced out to the kitchen.
He raced after her, caught her and embraced her from behind in his strong arms. "I love you enormously, you know that? I don't know what I would do if I lost you again. I don't know if I ever would be able to go on."
His warm breath on her ear made a shiver go down Sara's spine. "Lucky for us that we wont have to go through all that again then. We'll always be together."

Both had a foreboding feeling at that simple statement, but shook it off and instead filled their own mouths and their partner's face with ice cream.


AN: Koibito: Sweetheart, lover.

My ordinary thanks to Cerridwene for beta-reading and just being there. Love ya, 'sister-in-law'. smiles brightly

chriss: I've tried, the lords know I've tried; but they refuse to do anything but fluff, the disobedient little... Ahem... I hope I'm going to be able to bring in at least some complexity later on though.

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