Later the following week, a lawyer showed up at the apartment in the evening. Hallie had to be the one to answer the door always, at least for awhile, unless it was one of the few supporters like his family, or Hallie's parents. Randall just couldn't risk arrest at the moment.

The lawyer was the one who Sulley had spoken of. He was centipede like, with two arms. He was brownish in color. He had red eyes. His name was Mr. Kramer.

Kramer was serious about his cases. He wanted to know everything from the start for when this would go to court. He was one of the best in the business for getting clients the shortest or best outcomes from their punishments.

Randall and Hallie both hated the idea that Randall might go to jail for a long time and he might miss out on his son's childhood. Kramer promised he would do the best he could.

"If we could get the jury and judge to believe that not everything was your own doing on your own and that you were under orders to do the things that you did, they might go easier on you, but there would still be something that will be used to punish you." Kramer said.

"I just hope I don't waste half my life behind bars." Randall said.

"I hope they don't banish him again." Hallie said. "I do want to marry him too."

Randall was glad to hear her say that. But he did also want to hear it in a decent proposal too. It just wasn't going to be now.

Kramer said he would help and he would. At least they were getting their story straight now before anything further and the story had to be kept to the truth only and no changing details.

As Hallie had been at all of Randall's get togethers with their family and friends, she hadn't heard of any changing of details at all. Randall's story had remained consistent. The truth didn't change, lies did. Hallie told Kramer that the story had remained the same with everyone who he had seen and told what happened.

If another witness said it was true, then it had to be. Though the only other witness was Randall's old scaring partner, Jeff Fungus. He might also be able to back up the story too.

Kramer left and said he would represent Randall when the time came.

….

Hallie talked to Fungus and asked him to come to her place and once again, there was a startled response and such, and then the telling of what happened.

Hallie recorded Fungus's response to what he knew what had happened too. And Randall had remained calm with him while he had asked him questions.

A lot of the answers Fungus had provided went along the same as Randall's story. They thanked him for his time and story details.

Fungus hadn't known Randall to be that calm before. Hallie was sure to have been helping him. He smiled. And he too learned of their baby coming. Big changes were ahead of them.

…

The last weeks were finally up and there was a cracking in the egg in the incubator on a Thursday afternoon.

Hallie was at work and Randall had once again, fallen asleep in the chair in the room.

The cracking got louder and the baby pulled out an arm and hit it on the side of the wall. It awoke Randall.

He looked at the incubator and he saw something coming out of the egg. He got up and went over to it. He couldn't believe what he was seeing.

A little purple head was poking out and an arm. The tail had emerged at the other end. It was pink. There were three fronds on the head.

Randall was surprised, and he saw his baby seemed to be struggling to get out of his egg. He opened the door and took his child out of the incubator and held him. He was wet and all.

Randall proceeded to help pull the rest of the egg apart from his son's body. He threw the shell away and wrapped his son in a towel and helped to dry him off.

As he overlooked his son's markings, he saw that he had a mix of blue and red markings on his back. He also had four arms and four legs, three fingers and toes each. Most of the body color was purple, like his dad. The eye color was green too.

Randall could hardly believe this was his son. But then, he needed to know what he and Hallie were going to name him. He would wait until she came home that evening, but for now, he had the time to spend bonding with his son.

He mainly just held him and talked to him. He even got a grasping reflex from the baby's hands too. That just melted Randall's heart.

The baby lizard just seemed to coo at his father's voice. Randall was sure his son knew who he was. He must have known his voice.

"What are we going to call you?" He asked the baby.

The baby just looked up at him with big innocent eyes.

Randall had never such a connection to anything so small and innocent before. Not even his own nephew when he was a baby. Though his highest other affections were for Hallie. But now, he definitely had it for this little baby, because it was his.

"You remind me of me." He said.

He got up and looked some more through the baby book for a name. He wasn't about to choose his childhood nickname for his son.

For some reason, Randall kind of liked the name of Blake. He would ask Hallie and see what she said. The name meant 'light, dark.'

Randall figured he had been kind of dark for so long and Hallie had become his light. And this little guy was a balance of them both. Why not?

He put the book down and went to put a diaper on his son before he would go out and watch TV, get his son used to some more sounds. But he was worried if he got hungry. But he and Hallie had practiced preparing bottles of the reptile formula Hallie had gotten because the hatching had been close and had now come and gone.

Randall stayed on the couch and just held Blake and turned on the TV. The baby gave a little jump, but didn't cry. He had yet to hear him cry. But it wasn't long that the TV sounds put little Blake to sleep for the first time. Randall smiled.

Randall watched TV the rest of the afternoon, holding and watching his son.

When Hallie got home that evening, Randall had a surprise for her.

"Hallie, there's a surprise. Look who wants to meet you." Randall said.

Hallie was more than surprised that her child had hatched while she was gone. She had so wanted to see it. But then, for her lover having missed so much during the pregnancy and the egg laying, him being here and witnessing the hatching was nice.

He gave her the baby. "He's so beautiful, Randall." She said.

"Yes, he is. He's our son. I don't know if you'll like it, but how's the name Blake?"

"Blake Boggs? How about Blake William Boggs?"

"Why William?"

"It's my father's middle name and it sounds like it catches the beat."

"It does. So that's who he'll be then."

When Blake woke up and heard a female voice, he cooed at her too, but began to get fussy.

"He must be getting hungry. Have you fed him?"

"No. He just laid there all afternoon."

"Well, now it's time for his first meal then."

Randall prepared the formula. Then Hallie sat down to feed it to Blake. The proud father just sat down and watched the new mother. But then he came over and sat next to her.

Hallie looked at him. "We're a family now, Randall. We aren't married yet, but we are officially a family."

"Yeah, we are. I wish I could enjoy this forever." He said.

"You were able to handle everything okay, right?"

"Yeah. He was halfway out when he woke me up. But I had to help him get the rest of the way out. He was struggling to get out."

"Good thing you were here." She leaned over and kissed her lover.

Randall kissed her back.

The moment couldn't have been better for them. They both enjoyed feeding their son for the first time. And later, they put him to bed in his crib.

Then the two of them had some personal time together before going to bed.