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AN: sick again. Damn weather can't decide if it wants to be freezing or sweltering.

Warning: one or two bad words.

Chapter23

"Well he took it better than Optimus did," Axel said trying to lighten the mood. He'd carried Koji to the couch in the living room after he'd went upstairs to investigate a loud thump. He'd been pretty surprised to find T-Ai in the attic with Koji.

"Yes, but only because he isn't conscious to yell!" T-Ai hissed. She hadn't expected Koji to faint. Yell, freak, throw a hissy fit, but not faint.

"Oooww," Koji moaned waking up. 'That was odd' he thought. He saw T-Ai's stomach. 'Crap I'm going to pass out again' he thought as fell back on the couch.

"Hey man. Try to stay with us, ok buddy?" Axel said grabbing Koji to keep him from hitting his head.

"Ok," Koji said still staring at T-Ai's stomach. "Umm?" he still couldn't take his eyes off her stomach.

"Yes Koji," T-Ai answered, finally understanding the look he was giving her.

"Ok then. I'm going to pass out now and deal with imminent fatherhood when I wake up," Koji said losing consciousness again.

"Dad, seriously you're going to catch flies," Xandra informed her father. He finally shut his mouth, which had been hanging open since Koji left.

"But he's-"

"Dad you're starting to sound like a broken record," Xandra sighed.

"But- he's- he's so much like her," he finally managed to get out.

"I know, Dad."

"The way he looked at me. It was like I was staring her straight in the face again," he said.

"Actually I think he looks a lot like his dad," Xandra put in. Sparter gave her a withering glare. "Just stating an opinion," she said defensively.

"He acts just like her. Thinks like her too, I can see it in his eyes," Sparter said mentally comparing the boy to his long dead daughter. "He's just like her," he said again, more to himself than his daughter.

"You feeling alright Sideburn?" Prowl asked after returning through the warp gate.

"Yeah. I really needed that," Sideburn said refering to the ass kicking he'd given the Deceptacons. It had made him feel slightly better about fighting with Koji at the skate park two days ago. Last time something bad happened to Koji, Sideburn had been to injured to do any fighting and by the time he had recovered Optimus decided to ship him back to Cybertron with Koji and Ultra Magnus.

"PRIME!" Sparter yelled.

"He doesn't sound happy," Ultra Magnus stated the obvious. Optimus glared at him. He wanted to see Koji before he dealt with Sparter. He hadn't seen the boy since before he was kidnapped and he really wanted to make sure he wasn't too hurt.

"Prime!" Sparter growled this time.

"General Sparter I will talk to you later. I really need to speak with Koji right now," Optimus said walking past the man.

"Don't bother. He already went home. Said he needed some sleep," Sparter said crossing his arms.

'He should have gone to the infirmary, Magnus said he was bleeding pretty badly the morning he was taken' Optimus thought.

"What do you want to talk about, General?" Optimus asked.

"I want to talk about my grandson."

Optimus glared at Sparter for a minute. First the man wanted Koji aborted, and then he ignored him for seventeen years including right after Dr. Onishi died; now he was referring to Koji as his grandson. Sparter didn't seem to be able to get his mind made up about Koji. He said as much to Sparter except in more words and less nicely.

"Crap," Koji said when he realized he wasn't going to pass out again. Now he had to deal with imminent fatherhood. Actually it was more the painful death Optimus was going to give him when he found out about Koji's imminent fatherhood that scared Koji. 'If he freaks to bad I can always give Magnus the good blackmail pictures for Christmas' he thought.

"Koji?" T-Ai said hesitantly from the door of the living room.

"Yeah."

"Are you alright?" she asked. She'd bandaged his back while he was out. The cuts had been infected. She was afraid the infection was going to make him sick.

"Yeah, just figuring out away to blackmail Optimus," Koji sighed.

"About that," T-Ai said coming to sit next to him.

"You didn't throw out my good blackmail pictures did you?" Koji asked, suddenly very worried.

"No it's not that... Optimus already knows," T-Ai said.

"How bad did he take it?" Koji didn't want to know but curiosity demanded he ask.

"Elita said Ultra Magnus had to calm him with a paperweight," T-Ai shuddered. Hopefully those blackmail pictures Koji mention were really good cause otherwise she might be raising her son alone due to lack of a living boyfriend.

"How many people know already?"

"Elita because you can't really hide anything from her-" Koji nodded, knowing how omniscient his foster mother was "Ultra Magnus because he noticed my morning sickness and wouldn't leave me alone until I told him, and Optimus because Magnus blabbed," T-Ai explained.

"Oy. You've had a hard few days," Koji sympathized.

"Yeah."

"So," Koji said searching for a subject to fill the silence "It kicks," he said nodding toward her stomach.

"Yes, he kicks. He loves using my kidneys as soccer balls," T-Ai smiled.

"He. It's a boy?" Koji asked.

"Yup. Red Alert did a scan yesterday. He eighty to ninety percent sure that it is, indeed, a boy," she said.

"Which translates to one hundred percent sure in Red Alert language because he's never wrong," Koji laughed.

"Pretty much- oph. Speaking of kicking," T-Ai rubbed her stomach after a particularly strong kick. "He's either going to be a soccer player or a kick boxer when he grows up," she laughed through the pain.

"Can I...umm," Koji didn't know how to finish.

"Yes," T-Ai said putting Koji's hand over the spot she'd last felt the baby kick. In another second the baby kicked again. T-Ai couldn't help but laugh at the look on Koji's face. He looked like a little boy on Christmas morning.