A/n Hello everyone! Thanks for the reviews and sorry that It's been a while since my last update, but with star testing at my school, and my friend moving in with me. My life has been quite busy for the last week or so. Oh and just a small heads up. I get out of school June 2nd which is where I have been posting and updating because yes as sad as it is I have no Internet at home. Therefore, if I don't finish by then there will not be any updates for awhile. Sorry! Okay but anyways please remember to review and enjoy the next chapter! Oh yeah and only about two months and til I'm 17! Woo that means only about 1 year and eighty-six days til I am a legal adult…wow sorry I'm just overly excited about moving away from my parents…anyways on with the story and happy reading.

Chapter 14

Gippal's POV

We got to the hospital shortly after 7:30, but we couldn't see Cid until well after 9:00. When we got into the room Rikku instantly started to sob. I understood why. Her father was hooked up to tubes and machines. He looked a lot older then he was and you could tell he was sick. I looked at Brother and glared at him. Cid looked as if he had had much more then a mere heart attack. I tugged on Brother's arms and he glared at me. I pulled him out into the hall and he sighed heavily.

"What do you want?" He asked in al-bhed.

I replied back to him in al-bhed, he seemed to understand it better when something was wrong.

"What's really wrong with Cid?" I asked.

"The doctors don't know, they said he had a heart attack, but there is something else wrong as well. Stress and so on." Brother replied.

I shook my head.

"Man this is gunna kill Rikku." I said.

He simply nodded and walked back into the room where Rikku was now sitting in the chair next to her father. His eyes were open now and the fell on me and Brother as we entered the room.

"It's good to see you again Gippal." He said using my first name, which was weird, because ever since he took me in when I was twelve, he called me boy.

"Likewise." I replied.

"I guess I have you to thank for bringing my daughter to me." He asked.

"No actually your son came and picked us up."

He looked to Brother and nodded.

"Glad the boy learned some common sense." Cid replied.

"Pops what happened?" Rikku asked still sobbing lightly.

Cid turned to Rikku and smiled. He only smiled at her that way, maybe it was because she was his little girl. I wouldn't know. I have never had a sister or daughter although that might change her pretty soon.

"I was just at home reading. When all the sudden I started having this awful pains in my chest."

Brother sighed.

"He was busy yelling at someone on the phone and got stressed out." Brother said.

Cid looked at him and nodded.

"Oh yeah I was." Cid replied. "Anyways, I just thought they would go away and they didn't so I had your brother bring me here." Cid replied.

"I found him in his room. He was out cold." Brother replied.

"Pops you know you shouldn't be stressing yourself out like that…" Rikku said.

"I know Rikku, I'm sorry." Cid said.

It was weird standing here watching them. I felt so out of place. I never really knew what it was like to have a family. I always just watched the others and their families. Now that I was probably going to become part of this one just made me feel weird. A nurse entered the room and looked at all of us.

"I'm sorry, but I am going to have to ask you to stand outside." She said.

She looked young to be a nurse. Her hair was long and black, and she had red eyes. Rikku stood and walked over to me. I hugged her, and she let me.

"We'll be back Pops." She said and we left the nurse to do whatever she needed to do.

Rikku's POV

As I sat in the waiting room, my stomach hurt. I didn't want to lose my father. I wanted him to see my baby before he left us to go to the farplane; I wanted him to see his grandchild. Gippal had gone to get me a cup of coffee from the cafeteria and Brother was pacing back and forth in front of me.

"Brother." I said.

He looked at me and I smiled slightly. My Brother annoyed me, no doubt about it. However, he was my Brother and I needed to tell him, I had to tell him.

"What?" He asked.

He was calming down I knew this because he was back to speaking English. I made a hand jester that told him to come over to me. He looked at me confused but came and took a seat next to me nonetheless. I looked at him and didn't know how to begin.

"What is it Rikku?" He asked.

"I'm…well we, Gippal and I are umm getting married." I said.

He looked at me angry but didn't say anything. He knew no matter what he said it wouldn't change my mind, even if he hated Gippal.

"And I am well. I'm pregnant." I said hurriedly.

He looked at me in shock.

"You're…" He paused searching for the word in English. "Joking."

"No, no I'm not."

He stood and started cussing in al-bhed. I didn't catch all of it because he was speaking to rapidly. But I did hear: "I'm gunna kill that fucking bastard," and "Son of a bitch." I stood and walked over to him. He turned and glared at me. I watched as Gippal entered the room and he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Brother's face.

"Brother please don't do anything stupid." I said.

He shook his head and I knew he was going to attempt to hurt Gippal. Great just great…

Gippal's POV

I watched as Brother stalked towards me and I knew he wanted to hurt me. Rikku probably told him she was pregnant great. I set the coffee down on a side table and got ready to dodge his attacks as best I could. I would try not to hit him, but I wasn't promising anything. When he was about twenty feet from me he began to cuss me out.

"You fucking bastard you ruined my sister!" He yelled it was all coming out in al-bhed which proved how pissed he was.

Everyone's eyes found us and watched the show.

"I didn't ruin her." I replied calmly in English.

"The hell you didn't! You ruined her when you touched her five years ago. When you first laid your hands on her! I knew you would ruin her life! Do you think she is ready for this?"

What he was saying was taking me by surprise. It was weird hearing this coming from him, gee and all my life I thought he was stupid. Now it looks like he was just masking what he really thought. The next thing he did caught me off guard. He actually threw a punch and me being so distracted, he actually hit me. I brought my hand up to my mouth and found blood. He hit me again, but this time I was ready for it and I hit him back. It was all in slow motion for me. I didn't mean to I just forgot what was going on and my first reaction was to hit back when I was being hit. I felt as my fist hit his face and as it threw him backwards onto the floor. I watched as Rikku ran to her brother and knelt by his side. I looked down at him and saw the damage. Brother wasn't a big guy, I was a lot stronger then he would ever be just because I was bigger then him in basically everyway. I instantly felt like shit for what I had just done. Brother's nose was bleeding and badly. I was trying not to hit him for that exact reason. But as I watched him push Rikku to the side and get back up I had a new respect for him, not many guys will come after me again when I hit them as hard as I had just hit him. He threw another punch this time I dodged it. At that precise moment, two well-built guys came in and asked us what the hell was going on. Brother looked at them and shook his head.

"Just a disagreement." Rikku said.

"One hell of a disagreement." One of the men said.

"Nurse, can you come here." The other one said and a small woman in her early thirties jogged over to us.

"My word." She said looking at Brother. "It may be broken." She said.

"Get him some medical attention." The older of the two men said. "And you Jack, can you clean this blood up?" he added.

The old man called Jack nodded and began to mop the floor where Brother had bled. They looked at me and asked if I was okay. I felt my lip and shook my head no. I would be fine. Rikku looked at me and shook her head.

"Sorry I didn't mean to hurt him." I said.

She smiled and nodded.

"He started it." She replied.

I nodded.

"But really it was just a reflex, I didn't want to hit him."

"Don't worry about it. He won't be giving you any more crap now." She replied.

I nodded and picked up the coffee she had asked for.

"Your latté my lady." I said with a smirk.

She stuck out her tongue but took it nonetheless. She took a sip and smiled.

"Vanilla, good you remembered." She said and drank more.

"Of course I did. I will never forget the time I got you caramel. You threw a fit and hit me on the head." I replied as we started walking back towards the chairs where she was sitting only moments before.

I saw Rikku smile but she didn't say much after that. I didn't want to talk much either so we just sat there until I spotted Brother walking back out to us. His nose was now bandaged and looked like they had set it in place so the bones would grow back together or whatever they did. He took a seat on the other side of Rikku and we waited silently again. Only a few minutes passed until a doctor came to see us. Rikku stood to meet him.

"You're Rikku?" he asked.

"Yes I am, how is my father?" She asked.

"Actually doing much better. He will be able to leave in a day or two." The doctor replied.

I stood up too and stood by Rikku.

"Is there anything else wrong with him?" Rikku asked.

"Well it seems he just has high stress levels and umm…" He lifted up a sheet of paper on a clipboard. "And he his high cholesterol."

"So what do we have to do to keep this from happening again?" I asked.

"Lets see you can do a number of things…First off he needs to be in a stress free environment, or at least in one without much stress. And have him eat healthy no more fatty foods." The doctor replied.

Rikku nodded.

"Can I see him now doc?" She asked.

"Sure go ahead." The doctor replied and then walked away.

We made our way back to Cid's room and saw him lying down watching what looked like a blitzball game on TV.

"Pops." Rikku said.

Cid looked at us and smiled. Then he looked at Brother and frowned.

"What happened to you?" He asked.

Brother didn't reply but just looked at me. Cid started laughing.

"You boys fighting again?" Cid asked.

Rikku grinned.

"Yeah sorry Pops." She replied.

Cid laughed.

"Well I'm getting tired and the doctor says I need to rest so unless you kids have something to tell me you should be going." Cid said.

I looked to Rikku and she nodded. It was time to tell Cid what was going on in our lives. All I could hope was that it wouldn't give him another heart attack.

Rikku's POV

"Actually Pops I have some very important news to tell you." Rikku said cheerfully.

I turned to see both Brother and Gippal look at me as if I were crazy, but I continued nonetheless. I was sure Gippal could feel my father's eyes upon him.

"Pops?" I said, he turned his attention back to me but kept glancing back at the boys. I continued. "Pops I just wanted to let you know that Gippal and I have decided that we want to get married." I said quickly.

He looked to Gippal and smiled. Wow he was actually smiling.

"Is this true boy?" He asked of Gippal.

I watched as Gippal's eyes widened and he nodded yes very slowly. I had to suppress a laugh.

"My little girl all grown up and settling down." My dad said and I could tell he was going to get all emotional.

I heard Brother sigh deeply.

"What is it Brother. Be happy for your sister." Pops said scolding him.

Brother glared at us.

"She is hiding something." Brother said.

"Am not." I said. "I just haven't gotten there yet."

"What other good news do you have for me?" My dad asked and I smiled the best I could because I was almost positive the next news wouldn't go over as well as the first.

"Umm Pop's what do you think of being a grandpa?" I asked.

A/n there you have it. I know it took me forever and I am soooo sorry but a lot of shit has hit the fan in the last few months and I am not happy about it. Well lets see my mom is telling me that she is thinking of sending me away to a mental institution and hmm and getting my band off the ground so hopefully I will one day be famous (lets all keep our fingers crossed!) and I have only 44 days of school left Oh joy finals! Riiight…anyways I will try to update as soon as I can but I can't make too many promises. Until next time readers! Thanks again for reading and don't forget to review!

Oh and just some random quotes I like! Feel free to use them!

Smile, it confuses people

If I promise to miss you, will you go away?

I understand what you're saying, I just don't care

History class, the ultimate sleep aid

You're not as stupid as you look, no one could be.

Are you dumb all the time, or just when I'm around?

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Death is unavoidable lets have a drink.

God makes, God creates, and If God made Britany Spears then God even makes mistakes.

Damn I'm good.

Do not interfere with the affairs of the dragon for you are crunchy and good with ketchup

There you are folks enjoy. Oh and if you ever find yourself anywhere near Cottonwood California run…far far away.