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Chapter 13

Rei finished his shower and had walked back into the bedroom to see that Josh wasn't in there.

"Joshie" he called but then he noticed the door open, quickly he changed and decided he better find his son, he heard people in the lounge and moved towards it when he saw Josh run into the lounge, then he heard a familiar female voice, freezing at the last sentence she said.

they know he looked up and saw Kai looking at him, he was so scared as Kai's eyes where unreadable.

"is that true?" asked Kai quietly so not to draw attention. Rei nodded and tears started to course down his face, quickly Kai caught hold of Rei's arm and pulled him into his study before hugging the Neko close.

"I see the complications now" he said, Rei pulled back and hung his head. "tell me everything" said Kai as he poured them both a brandy.

"Josh is my son" said Rei.

"is Max the father?" asked Kai, Rei nodded slowly "is that why you ran?"

"y..yes..i was..sscared..it happened at your Birthday party…i..i was so drunk..i didn't know who I had slept with" stuttered Rei crying harder. Kai pulled him onto his lap as he cried.

"carry on"

"then the fight with Dunga…ii ran bbecause of tthat to start with but..i wondered why I was acting like that sso I…ttook a pregnancy ttest." He gives a slightly chuckle at the memory "..ii tried to believe it was lying but..i ccouldn't"

"why didn't you come to us?" asked Kai, Rei pulled away angrily.

"how many boys do you know that can get pregnant..i'm a freak Kai!..I gave birth to a child…I was pregnant." Rei sobbed and fell to the floor.

"and you didn't know who's it was" said Kai kneeling opposite Rei.

"not until hhe was born and then ii couldn't believe it…ii tried to pick up the pphone but how do you tell one of your closes friends that you have had their child?…ii just ccouldn't..i was sso scared..i'd rather have lived with the unknown that to have ffound out that Max hated me" cried Rei shaking with the force if his sobs, the door of the study opened and Josh raced in and hugged Rei tightly purring loudly trying to calm his daddy. Rei buried his head into Josh's hair crying.

Kai looked at the door to see that crowd at the door all shocked at seeing Rei in bits on the floor and what they had just heard. Tala moved forward to Kai who was looking at his best friend unsure of what to say or do, this wasn't his area of expertise. The others stood still until Max moved forward seeing the tragic scene before him.

"you thought I would hate you?" he whispered, Rei froze and even seemed to stop breathing before he looked up in Max's direction eyes misted with tears. "Rei…I could never hate you" said the blonde strongly as he moved forwards.

Rei got up and shot backwards eyes wide, Max stopped and looking at the scared Neko before looking at the others.

"could you guys leave?…Rei and I need to talk" said Max looking pleadingly at the others, the main group left. Kai looked at Rei then at max a promise of a long painful death to Max was in his eyes if he hurt Rei, before he was pulled out of the room by Tala.

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Max looked at Rei who wasn't looking at him and was still holding tightly to Josh who was still purring.

"..oh Rei…I wish you had told me" he said as he sat in one of the chairs "why didn't you say you could get pregnant?"

Rei stopped before finding his voice "Oh Yeah that's something you can drop into a conversation 'great battle Kai, by the way did you know that certain Neko Jin males can get pregnant and I'm thought to be one of them'" said Rei sarcastically glaring at the blonde "I wasn't expecting to sleep with anyone"

"Okay I'm sorry Rei….why didn't you phone….tell me….or come to the team in the first place?"

"I was scared Max…I'm a fucking male who got pregnant in a drunken fumble and I couldn't remember who I had slept with..how do you tell that to your friends….it would just prove what Dunga said that day" spat Rei.

Max looked at him, Rei was as beautiful as he had been when they had all met up all those three years ago, he looked even more alive as he was angry his golden eyes where a swirling whirlpool of golden and amber.

"I would never have rejected you" said Max quietly "I love you"

Rei stopped and looked at Max he had opened his mouth ready to argue some more with the blonde he hadn't expected that to come from the blonde, all the fight left his body as his legs crumpled underneath him, Max was by his side in seconds.

"I was just so.scared….I could lose you to hate" said Rei looking into blue eyes, tears still falling from his own, Max reached up and brushed the tears away.

"I wish I could understand but It was probably so hard for you….let me be there for you now" said Max truthfully.

Rei was shocked "..yyou mean that?"

Max nodded "I want to be there for you Rei Kon…you and Josh….please let me be there..we can start from the beginning go slowly until we feel comfortable about being together…I want to be with you Rei"

Rei looked away "I was so geared up to lie about his mother that I didn't plan on telling the truth, well not straight away anyway" said Rei "I would like to try with you Max but do you want to be seen with a man who has children without medical help?"

"I would love it and if we get settled enough I would love another one with you…I love you Rei Kon don't ever forget that"

Rei was silent before looking at the blonde "..I love you too Max" he said before he placed the child on his lap to face Max. "Joshie…say hello to your daddy…Max this is your son Josh"

" hey Josh" smiles Max. Josh smiled back in the same way. Max looked at Rei "..could I?"

Rei nodded and handed Josh over to Max carefully, watching every move that the blonde made before he placed Josh on his lap and reached for Rei holding the Neko close. Max kissed Rei on the forehead smiling brightly. Rei gave him his own smile and leaned against him a feeling of contentment filtered through him as a rumble started from his chest as he purred. Max smiled wider running his fingers through Rei's raven locks.

"What happened to you?" he asked. Rei looked at Max.

"after I ran from Dunga's match I ran to the local airport and court a plane to Hong Kong once there is was hard."