Iron Pyrite Chapter 4, an azur lane/碧蓝航线 fanfic

Part Four – Hind sight is 20/20

My stomach felt weird, I was still trying to sleep, but I couldn't. I know we had something strange for dinner last night… his way of making it up to me, after our millionth fight since I moved… I can't believe that was almost a year ago now.

Yeah we fought like cats and dogs, but making up for it at night had become a lot of fun. Ugh, I can smell his night breath from here… My stomach does another backflip, and I jump out of bed, and watch dinner in reverse land in the toilet.

Once I think I'm done, I brush my teeth again just before another wave hits me and I'm back to hugging the rim. Once I'm sure there is nothing left in my belly I stand and catch myself from the side in the mirror, my eyes land on my belly. It's not as flat as it would normally is, it looks like I still had eaten a big dinner. I go back to bed but find that I'm wide awake so I grab my phone and head down stairs just as the coffee maker starts.

Then a smell hits my nose and I start looking around for it, whatever it is, it really, really stinks. I go from room to room and then I find it, his running shoes that were in the garage. I take them and spray them down with much better smelling spray. And I start to wonder what is going on with me, I get my cup of coffee and sit down in the living room and start to enter what I've noticed just today into search, what I get back as the number one result has me yell out, "Son of a bitch!"

I go stomping back up to our bedroom, and kick his side of the bed as I say holler at him, "You… you… Dummkopf! This is entirely your fault!"

He rouses from his sleep, faster than I thought he would, rubbing his eyes… I'm mad right now, but he is cute when he's sleepy… no! No! This is his entirely fault… maybe I had a small role to play in this, but damn him!

"What? What's wrong Hipper?" he asks me, looking around trying to figure out what is going on.

"You didn't wrap it!" I holler at him.

He blinks a few times, clearly still trying to figure out what I was talking about as he asks, "Wrap what?"

I run a hand down my face, I'm still seething as I get my hands on my hips and lean into his space and jog his memory, "On our anniversary!"

Then it hits him, he looks to my belly, points at it and stumbles over his own tongue, "You… We're…. How?"

Really?

"I don't know, but it's your fault!" I holler at him, poking him in the chest with my right index finger.

He sits more upright and tells me, "You suggested we go without one that time! You said you didn't think kansen could get pregnant!"

Damn… he's right, I did say that… How the hell was I supposed to know?

I run my hands through my long blond hair and give it a toss before I shoot back, "Then what are you going to do about it? Huh?"

"Me?" he says back, sounding surprised before he adds, "You said you didn't want to get married, that we could just take life as it came."

Damn him for tossing my own words back at me.

"Well... maybe… Ugh!" I stumbled out before leaving the room in a huff.

Once I'm back down stairs I sit in the living room and start to read up as much as I can about my current problem.

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Later that day I sought out Eugen, if anyone had a clue on how to manage this, it'd be her… sadly, I didn't get the reaction I was expecting.

"It's not funny!" I shout at her.

She plays with a strand of her silver hair where she has the red stripe, a smirk on her lips as she keeps laughing while telling me, "From where I sit, it kind of is."

I cross my knees and fold my arms across my chest while huffing out, "You said I couldn't!"

"No, I said if you do it, use protection to reduce the chances of it happening. I had heard a story of a kansen becoming with child, but I didn't know how much faith to put in it." She says, keeping a level tone, but I can see the amusement in her eyes, just before she adds, "Look at it this way Hipper, now you don't need to use one for a few months."

I give off a loud groan and flop down on to my back as I say, "This isn't fair!"

Eugen taps my forehead as she says, "I think this is a good thing Hipper, it will force you to relax… and in a few months, I get to be the cool aunt that can teach them all kinds of naughty things."

"I hate you." I say to her with a tone of voice that makes it clear I don't actually mean that.

She smiles at me says "Love you too smaller sister."

That brings to my mind what I read about the effects of my condition… my clothes are going to stop fitting for a while. I let out another wail as I say, "I'll need to do so much shopping!"

Eugen laughs harder before adding in, "True, but think of all the fun little baby clothes."

I sigh, she was right; they did make some pretty little clothes for human offspring… epically those little boots. Then it hit me, would this… this… thing that was now growing inside of me, leeching off of me, be human or kansen or a mixture of both?

Eugen seems to pick up on my sudden train of thought as she asks, "Wondering if they will be human?"

I place my hands on my belly and nod as I say, "If they are going to be kansen, does that mean I'll have to push them out of me while they have their rigging out?"

Eugen laughs and says, "If that happens, you will never be the same down there again."

I groan out, "Eugen, not funny!"

"It kind of is!" she says back while laughing.

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As I got close to home that night, after checking in with Vestal and letting her preform some tests, turns out, yup… I've got his spawn growing inside of me now…. And now I've got a massive list of things I can and cannot eat for the next few months, I cried when I read I could drink anymore beer for a long, long, long time. My nose picked up a smell; a wonderful, mouthwatering smell… roasted pork.

Once I was inside I kicked off my boots and made my way to the kitchen to see the table set with two glorious servings of Schweinshaxe with Rotkohl, Kartoffelknödel, and apple slices. I make a direct line to my chair; I just sit down when my eyes land on a little box that is sitting on my napkin. I tilt my head sideways and open the lid of the box; inside I see a white gold metal band, a clear stone in the center flanked by two green stones.

My nose just barely picks up the smell of his aftershave as he comes into the kitchen and asks, "Will you?"

Then it hits me, this ring, what I was yelling at him before I went out… I knew what I wanted to say, but I said instead, "What took you so long, Dummkopf?"

He laughed and took the ring out of the box to slip it on my finger; it really was a perfect fit. With the ring on, he sat across from me and said, "Honestly, I've had it for a while… I just wasn't sure if I was ever going to ask."

I raise an eyebrow and ask, "Were you happy without having to buy the cow for the milk?"

He laughs hard, and then I clue in… what the thing inside me will use for food when they are on the outside of me. I find my lips start to curl into a smile as I sigh and add, "I guess I will be one before too long…"

He reaches over and pats my hand as he says, "One step at a time."

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My hands gripped the sides of the bed while Vestal said from between my legs, "Push!"

My teeth were clenched as I pushed as hard as I could, this was hurting so much! I looked at my Dummkopf as I cursed in my native language at him, "Du bist ein Arschloch! Du hast keine Ahnung, wie sehr dir das weh tut! Wenn wir noch einen haben, kannst du ihn aus deinem Schwanz schieben!"

All of the vitriol I was spewing at him went away when I heard that tiny voice cry. I was still in pain, but that tiny voice was holding my attention, I couldn't see it, but I heard Vestal say, "It's a girl!"

That didn't help me any, now I was more worried than ever, doubly so when I saw that she had blond hair like mine. I started to wonder if she would be human or kansen… but that went away when Vestal brought her over to me and I got to hold her, look at her tiny lips, tiny nose… this was the thing that had been growing in me, moving around inside of me for months. I took a deep breath and I could smell her, and that scent made me start to forget the pain I had just been through, I felt a tear run down my cheek as I said, "She's perfect."

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The End.

A/N: Thank you for sticking around for this one, I know that the last chapter wrapped up rather quickly, but there wasn't much more story I wanted to tell for this one. Next up is going to be my take at the "Mother Like No Other" Challenge from Reddit in the Azur Lane sub-reddit.