Very sorry this update took so long. I've had several things happen both professionally and personally. Not the least of which is working on my novel, beyond that I kinda hit a wall with this story but however long it takes writer's block will eventually lift and leave me be. So here it is, enjoy.
A muffled sound of something falling onto the floor caused Kim's eyes to shoot open as his eyes adjusted to the darkness of the room he glanced round, keeping his breathing steady.
A frightened voice whispered next to him, "Kim?"
He wordlessly kissed her shoulder blade as a means of reassuring her while his ears stayed on alert to any other noises. When he heard someone in the hallway, he gingerly got out of the bed. Once out from under the blankets, he pulled on his track pants. He went around to Lynette's side of the bed and crouched in front of her, holding a finger up to his lips he gently kissed her forehead before grabbing her steel baseball bat and heading out of the room.
In the dark hallway Kim stayed close to the wall as he made his way towards the living room. He had the bat lowered, and grasped with one hand over the other but spaced a apart like he was getting ready to hit a ball coming towards him. He made his way through the darkness, keeping his back against the wall as he made his way around. In the living room he spotted a figure roughly his height, they were clothed from head to toe. He did his best to keep quiet, not making any sudden noises.
The intruder however must've caught a glimpse of him in the tv screen as they spun around and threw a nearby object at him. Reflexively, Kim brought the baseball bat up and used it to deflect the oncoming projectile. The sound of the ceramic statuette crashing against the hallway floor and shattering reverberated through the hallways. The next thing Kim knew the windows in the living room were covered with steel. The intruder glanced around as well as panic seemed to set into them realizing that they were trapped.
"Tough break, guess the saying's true—crime really doesn't pay," Kim taunted the intruder. Where had that come from? He wasn't normally like that, but he also couldn't stand the thought of Lynette being so frightened. The disguised figure rushed towards Kim, now brandishing some kind of weapon from their pocket. It took Kim a split second to realize what it was.
He evaded the attack and swung the bat, connecting with the elbow which held the steel pocket knife. There was a grunt as the bat connected he then wrapped his arms tightly around the attacker's torso, pinning their arms to their body, his hands were bracing the back of the attacker's neck, pushing their head forward to keep them from being able to head butt him. Sirens could be heard outside, and Kim smirked triumphantly as he announced, "You hear that sound? You're never bothering her again."
The intruder growled lowly in their throat.
Penny rushed into Lynette's room while Jagged approached, visibly on the phone with someone as and held a small rectangular object in his other hand. He pressed a button on the square object and the steel coverings of the windows lifted, showing that the mansion was in fact surrounded by the police department. Jagged hung up the phone and placed his cell phone down on the countertop. He then reached over and removed the intruder's mask revealing jet black hair and dark brown eyes stared back at Jagged.
At that moment Roger Raincomprix entered the mansion and cuffed the teenager, allowing Kim to get a good look at him. Kim's calmed face instantly shifted back to an enraged scowl as he nearly yelled, "you! I should've guessed it was you!"
Sebastien gave a very small nearly unnoticed smirk before announcing to Roger, "I want my lawyer called, immediately."
'How much good would that do you? It's like getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar,' Kim thought to himself before he headed back to Lynette's room. He found the door open, and his girlfriend in the arms of her father's assistant, gently cradling her as the pregnant teenager clutched at the red haired woman's pyjama sleeves.
"It's over now, I'll probably have to make a statement at the police station though," Kim announced as he walked over to them. Once he'd sat down he began to gently massage Lynette's back trying to soothe her.
"That can wait until morning. Little brat's been crying for his lawyer, but since this is just a break and entry right now, nobody's willing to wake the lawyer up in the middle of the night," Jagged assured them from the doorway.
"He will spend the night in a cell at least," he concluded.
Lynette nodded her head slowly, and placed Kim's hand over the upper left side of her stomach before looking to him with a smile. Kim chuckled as he rubbed where the baby was kicking and kissed Lynette's cheek murmuring, "that's so amazing."
"You're amazing," Lynette countered before adding, "who else would take on a burden like me and a child they didn't create?"
"You're not a burden, neither's the baby. It'll be difficult, but we're both goal getters. We'll make it work," Kim replied Penny stood from her spot on the bed, walking past Jagged. The rock star waited for a minute before following the woman out and closing the door behind them both. Kim gently wrapped his arms around Lynette and she leaned back into him. The athlete smiled as he buried his nose into the nape of her neck.
"Is it bad that I don't want to leave your arms?"
"No—unless you're gonna pee yourself," Kim replied jokingly.
Lynette giggled and shook her head 'no', "No, that won't happen—well I'm not in danger of it anytime soon."
She bit her lip a little before asking, "Kim—do you want to find out what we're having?"
"I don't care if we find out or not," Kim admitted with a small shrug of his shoulders. He gently kissed her neck.
"You're bad," Lynette accused.
"And you're an angel," Kim teased as he shifted so they were laying down again, but this time with him being on the side of the bed nearest the door. Lynette laid down on her back, using the pillows to elevate her right side a little, so she could pass for saying she was laying on her left side.
"You know—we'll have to see how things play out in the future, but I wouldn't mind going through this with you another two or three times," Kim admitted.
Lynette shot him a death glare before sarcastically replying, "Oh, okay. You carry the last two and I'll carry the first two."
Kim laughed and shrugged his shoulders, "if I could carry them all for the first four and a half months, I would."
Lynette laughed in response, "Not eager to face labour, huh?"
"No—I admit, when it comes to that, I'm a coward," Kim replied, being half serious and still laughing a little.
When the brunette calmed down she shrugged her shoulders and said, "we'll see how things go. Sometimes life just really throws curve balls, no matter how much you plan."
Kim nodded in agreement as he hooked a finger under Lynette's chin and gently kissed her. He felt her responding to his kiss, chaste and quick before he pulled away and confessed, "like you. I've always cared about you—but I never thought I'd fall in love with you."
"Same," Lynette admitted.