Beauty Made From Beasts
Disclaimer: I do not own DRRR!
Ugh. Yes, I'm a moron. I was wondering what I had done wrong with this story, and viola. I found out. I forgot to add this part in. xD;; I skipped straight to the other things...oh geez. You all missed my favorite part! So for now, I'm deleting the old chapters and starting over. The rest will be back up soon, plus new chapters. Sorry! orz
Chapter 3
"Hello?"
"Shizu-chan!"
"Oh great..."
Izaya pouted into the receiver as she heard Shizuo's rather unenthusiastic greeting. It was partially an act, though, as she found herself more relieved than anything as she noted that Shizuo's voice was flat and bored. It was how he always sounded when he was calm. It really was no cause for concern, and Shizuo wasn't necessarily giving her attitude. It was just how he was accustomed to speaking to her.
Well, this was a nice place to start, if anything.
Now then, just don't piss him off before you tell him.
"Are you busy?" Izaya asked, listening hard for any background noise.
"Huh? Oh. No. We just finished with a client." 'We' of course was Shizuo and his boss, Tom Tanaka.
"Oh, good. Then you'll have time to hear me out for a minute. I've got some news for you, Shizu-chan." Izaya said as sweetly as she could. Lazing into the cushions of Shinra's couch, Izaya held the phone against her ear with one hand while the other traveled down to her stomach. She couldn't seem to stop touching her belly now.
"What is it?" Shizuo asked.
"Well, you see Shizu-chan," Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap. "when two people love each other very much," Ooh, crap… "they like to show their love by having sex."
Izaya's attempt at humor did not blow over well. Shizuo snapped at her in the next second, and she had to rethink her strategy a bit.
"What the hell, flea. Did you just call to mock me? Spit it out!"
"Ne, ne! Shizu-chan, patience. It's a virtue, you know~" Izaya's sing song was quivering slightly. Even she was aware of that much. Nevertheless, Shizuo didn't fail to amuse her by completely missing the break in her usually even tone. Instead he pressed for her to tell him the 'news'.
"Calm down, Izaya." Shinra coaxed gently. He patted his friend on the shoulder, offering her another steaming cup of coffee. The one from before had gotten cold, and she had failed to drink even a little.
With a nod and a small smirk up at the doctor as she took the offered beverage, Izaya went back to her conversation.
"Okay, okay. No more jokes." She said, sighing a bit. "I'm at Shinra's. I was having some tests done."
"You sick?" Shizuo questioned.
"No."
"Then…?"
"I was having some blood work done. I just had to be one hundred percent sure about something before I called you to let you know."
"Okay…" Shizuo dragged it out as if saying 'go on'. Izaya sighed at his stunted replies.
"Well, remember how sick I've become over the past couple of weeks?"
"Uh huh."
"And how I said that I missed my period because of how sick I was?"
"Mm."
"All right. Well." Damn. Izaya was never like this. "It wasn't because I was sick that I was late…" She always had just the right words to say. So why was her mouth so dry just then, and why was she stalling for time this way? She couldn't honestly be that frightened of Shizuo's reaction. Come on, Izaya. You can do this, she coaxed herself.
The rest of the words fell from her mouth surprisingly easy.
"I only missed my period because I'm pregnant. According to Shinra, I'm about a month and a half in already. Congratulations, Shizu-chan, you're going to be a papa! We've successfully mated and created a little human~! Ha! And to think everyone was so opposed to us breeding!"
And.
Silence.
"Shizu-chan?"
"…"
"…Shizu-chan?"
"…"
"…Shizu-chan."
"…M'here."
"Oh. Good."
"…"
"…"
"…Izaya?"
"Mm-hmm?"
"Is this a joke?"
"No."
"Oh."
"Mm."
"…"
"…"
"So you're…like…"
"Pregnant?"
"Yeah. That."
"Why yes I am!"
"Like…with a baby?"
"…If there is some other way to be 'pregnant', you really must inform me. It would be atrocious to have my hopes up for a child and get something unfortunate like a blender."
"I didn't mean…" A growl. "Shit…"
Well. That wasn't good.
Izaya giggled a bit, tensely. Shinra and Celty seemed to pick up on this from across the room, where they had been talking amongst each other, and turned to look at her as the conversation suddenly seemed to be turning sour.
"I…I've decided that I would like to keep this baby." Izaya tried, speaking in a considerably softer voice than before.
"What?"
"I mean, it's a little human, Shizu-chan. One all my own. How terrific is that?"
"…"
"Shizu-chan?"
"Izaya."
"Yes?"
"You said you were at Shinra's?"
Izaya felt her blood freeze in her veins at the suddenly venomous tone that Shizuo possessed. "Yes…"
"Okay. I'm going over." Shizuo all but growled into the phone. As she heard his voice in her ear, Izaya gave a heavy shudder. "Don't move a muscle."
"S-Shizu-"
Click.
Yup. Dead.
