Well, I think we're actualy nearing the end of this story! This next chapter is proof enough of that. Well, any way, I won't keep you from reading any more!
Chapter 19, unexpected birthday gift
It was still the month of Febuary, and Kit's birthday was comming up very soon. Everyone in the order was plannng a suprise party for the red head, Allen being the main organizer. After all, Kit was his wife. Emoen was supposed to help him when he couldn't think of the correct thing for Kit. Like the main type of music that should be played, aor the main color to decorate the mess hall. Things like that. But Allen, in reality, didn't need help for the main color to be used to decorate the room.
If there was one thing everyone in the order knew about Kit (this is not including her pregnancy, or her love of Allen) it was that her favorite color was purple. This was because, when she and Allen had returnned from picking up Knives and Ryumaru (and finding Celeste) Kit was restricted from going out on missions, so she had no need of wearing her uniform and instead was wearing maternity clothes. And for the most part, they were purple. Although every now and then she would also wear blue or green.
That and when Kit went walking around the order, doing some various chore, or even just going to the mess hall for lunch, all of the men couldn't take their eyes off of her. With her long flowing dresses, and hair becoming long once more, she looked like an angel had fallen from heaven, though not quite.
Kit found it annoying that her hair was getting in her way when doing chores, so she started wearing it in a braid once more. Between chores, kit would have her braid hanging over one shoulder. And despite this effort in keeping her hair from getting in her way, it still did. When this happened, Kit would groan in annoyance and just brush the braid back over her shoulder onto her back, only to have it come back and smack her in the face.
Any way, as the days passed by, Allen and crew had finnished planning for the party, and it was foinaly the day that they were going to set it up, the party being the next day. While every one was setting up the music, the decorations, etc. (being directed by Emoen) Allen was to be making sure Kit was sleeping, and if she woke up, Allen was to tell her that she needed to get back to bed, and fetch any kind of food she wanted.
Kit woke up the next day to Allen holding a tray of breakfast for the red head.
"Happy Birthday, Kit! I've got breakfast in bed for you!" Allen smiled.
Kit smiled back, greatfully accepting the meal. She looked at the tray. A simple plate of bacon and scrambled eggs, a piece of toast, and a glass of milk. At least he knew that she had the appetite of a normal person. Kit picked up the fork and started to eat her scrambled eggs. Allen sat on the bed next to her, making sure Kit finnished her meal before making sure everything was alright for him to leave her to shower and get dressed for the day.
"Are you absolutly sure I can go?" Allen asked once more, just in case.
"Yes, I'm sure! Now go! I need privacy!"Kit reassured him.
"Okay, okay, I'm going! I'm going!"
Kit then made sure Allen was gone before turnning to the dresser to grab her change of clothes. A head stuck itself through the door.
"Are you sure you're sure?" Kit heard Allen's voice ask again.
Kit growled. "FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME YES!!!" Kit yelled at Allen. "Now if you don't mind, I would like to get to the shower." Kit started walking out of the room after grabbing her violet dress with embroidered roses of red and blue. Allen followed her.
"Alright, fine...but you didn't have to yell at me, ya know."
"You wouldn't listen to me other wise," Kit stated. Allen stood where he was for a moment. Silent.
"...Good point," he said after a while and contiued walking with Kit.
The red head found this a little annoying. She was being followed by a little puppy known as Allen Walker. Kit turnned to Allen, a look of annoyance on her face.
"Will you stop following me?" she asked, it comming out more of a demand than a request.
"Alright, fine. I just thought you might need my help for something," Allen said sheepishly.
"I'M NOT A GLASS FIGURINE! I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF JUST FINE!" Kit yelled and stormmed off in the direction of the shower.
Allen stood rooted where he was, a look of seriousness on his face. "What about when I had pushed you out of the akuma's attack? Did you really take care of your self then?" Allen asked Kit quietly, knowing that she was too far away to hear him.
Kit drew the shower curtain closed and turnned on the water. She leaned on the shower wall, waiting for the water to heat up. The red head placed a hand on her belly, feeling the spot that her unborn child liked to kick the most. She thought about what she had said to Allen, suprised that she had actualy yelled at the silver haired boy. She shook it off, ready to actualy start washing her hair, then her body afterwards.
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Kit turnned the knob to turn the water off, her shower done. She grabbed her towel and started to dry of her hair with the towel, then her body after that. The red head then dressed in her clothes for the day. She stepped out of the shower room after braiding her hair, to be greated by Allen.
"It's just about time for lunch, so I figured I would just fetch you for lunch," he said when he saw the confused look of confusion on the red head's face. Allen grabbed Kit's hand and started leading her toward the mess hall.
They opened the doors leading into the mess hall. All of the lights were off. Which was weird. Allen fixed this problem by flipping the light switch.
"SUPRISE!!!" everyone said in unison, stepping out from their hiding places. Kit jumped about six feet into the air (yes, obvious exageration, but still) and clutched her heart, briething hard and fast.
"Gimme a heart attack, why doncha?" she said.
"Happy birthday, Bell!" Emoen said to her friend, holding a wrapped package out to her friend.
"Thanks, red!" Kit opened her gift. It was...a pair of fuzzy handcuffs. "...Thanks...I think..."
"Well, I figured that since you'll have your baby soon, that you and Allen will be having some fun in bed, and I just wanted to help!" Emoen smiled.
Kit and Allen both sweat dropped.
For the next half an hour or so, Kit opened many gifts. Her favorite out of all of tham was the one Allen had given her. It was a beutiful necklace with a gold chain, and a small heart shaped pendant of amethyst, Kit's A)favorite stone and B) birthstone. Allen helped Kit to put the necklace around her neck.
Then, when Kit had finished opening her gifts, they had started eating lunch. There were many different dishes that they could all choose from. Things like different kinds of pizza, chicken, pasta, sushi, sashimi, ramen, teriyaki, seafood, cake, icecream, pie, hot dogs, hamburgers, pork chops, and so on.
After every one was finished eating, they went on to the party games and dancing. A slow song came on. Allen looked at Kit lovingly.
"Would you like to dance, Birthday girl?" he asked her.
Kit smiled at her husband. "I would love to."
Allen placed his arms around the girl's waist, and Kit placed her arms around Allen's neck. They were dancing in a slow waltz to match the tempo of the song. At some point i nthe middle of the song, Kit fet a sharp pain in her stomach and suddenly stopped dancing. Allen looked at her in a worried way.
"Are you okay?" he asked as soon as Kit stopped their dancing.
Kit shook her head. "I'm fine. The baby just kicked, that's all..." Kit lied. And they left it at that, continuing with their dance.
As soon as the song was over, another slow, dancing song came on, but instead of dance, Kit sat down on one of the benches. She held onto her stomach with both hands. She held a look of pain on her face. That was when Allen knew it was something more serious than the baby kicking her. The silver haired boy sat down next to Kit, placing his hands on her shoulders.
"Kit, what's wrong?" Allen asked the girl who was now groaning from the pain.
"I-I think it's time!" she barely got out.
"WHAT?! NOW?! But, the doctor said it was due in two weeks!"
"Yeah, well, I think the baby said NOW!"
"EEEK! What are we gonna do?" Allen asked franticly.
"Call the doctor, duh!"
"Oh, right! WE NEED A DOCTOR OVER HERE! NOW!"
Every one looked at the two. They imediatly understood when they saw the look of pain on Kit's face.
Komui pushed through the crowd, pushing up his sleeves.
"Comming through everyone!" The Chinese man looked at Allen with a serious face. "Allen, I want you to take Kit to the infermary."
Allen simply nodded. He lifted Kit bridal style and went to the infermary as quickely as possible, Komui following close behind.
"Allen! It hurts! I feel like I'm going to die!" Kit screamed. This just made Allen panic even more. He hurried as fast as he could to the infermary.
The cursed boy gently placed Kit on a clean bed once they arrived at the infermary. Then Komui turnned on the inter com.
"I need some one who has experiance with delivering babys to come to the infermary imediatly!" he said, sounding pretty frantic, but only that he had a short amount of time to get this finnished.
Then a female finder by the name of Alice walked through the doors into the infermary. "I can help with this. I used to be a midwife's apprentice back home."
"Don't give me your life story, get some hot water and clean cloths, NOW!"
"Yes!" Alice rushed off to retrieve the listed objects.
Kit looked up at Allen. "Please stay with me! And also, please get Emoen."
Allen nodded. He walked out of the doors to find that ALL of their friends were there. Even Kenda, though he was probably dragged there by Emoen. Celeste walked up to Allen and looked at him in the most adorable worried face anyone ever could, holding onto his sleeve.
"Big brother, is big sister okay?" the little girl asked.
Allen nodded. "Yes. She's fine."
"But why is she screaming in pain?"
"It's just time for our child to come. That's all." Allen turnned to Emoen after sitting Celeste down. "Kit asked me to fetch you. She said that she wanted both of us to stay with her." Emoen nodded and stood up.
"You stay here," the fierce red head said to Kanda, who looked like he was going to leave once Emoen left for the room.
The Japanese man sat back down with a grumble of annoyance. This stopped when Emoen shot a glare at the boy. With that, Allen and Emoen entered the infermary, just to be ushered back out by Alice.
"I'm sorry, we're going to have to do a C section. You can't come in."
Emoen simply sat back down while Allen stood where he was, staring at the door. He wasn't completely sure what a C section was, but it couldn't be good.
"It's a sergery that is done when the mother is having problems giving birth to a child," Lavi said after Celeste asked what a C section was. After hearing this, Allen became even more worried than before. He fell to the floor, his legs sudenly feeling like jelly.
"Allen?" Miranda asked the boy. "Are you okay?"
"My wife is going under the knife. Yeah, I'm perfictly fine! Not over whelmed with worry. Nope, not me," he answered sarcasticly. Which was the big indicator that he was worried about her.
"Look, Allen, Kit's our friend too. We are worried about her. Right?" Emoen asked Kanda, who obviously didn't look like he cared one little bit. The Japanese man didn't answer Emoen's question. Emoen glered at him. "Right?"
"Yeah, yeah."
Allen sighed. "I guess you're right. All we can do now is wait."
And for one full hour, that's exactly what they did. Then Alice came out of the infermary to fetch Allen. The silver haired boy stood up and walked into the infermary to see Kit awake, perfictly fine, and holding their new child.
"Allen, it's a girl! What should we name her?" Kit asked, holding the tiny bundle close to her body.
"Garnet," Allen said. Kit looked at him in confusion.
"But that's the birth stone for January! She was born in Febuary!"
"Her hair is the color of garnet. So, Garnet."
Kit looked at their daugter's hair and smiled. "You're right. It is." The red head looked up at her husband. "But the name Michal is passed down from generation to generation in my family." Now it was Allen's turn to look at Kit in confusion.
"But, Michal is a boy's name..."
"Which is why we will name her Michelle. The femenin version of Michal."
Allen looked at the sleeping face of his and Kit's child. "Garnet Michelle," the silver haired boy tested the name wit ha smile. "That's got a nice ring to it!"
"Yes, it does."
-end chapter 19-
Wow. That took longer than I hoped. It usualy takes about two days to write ont chapter, but this one took two weeks...You're probably wondering why I say this and I still updated on time, right? Well, when I had written a certine chapter, I was afraid that I would be stuck where I had been stuck in the hand written version for MONTHS, but I wound up spitting out that whole chapter, along with three extras in the corse of two DAYS. Granted I still updated once a week. I did this because after all of that, I couldn't think of what to write for chapter 18. But I got an idea for that chapter after writing my only horror fic, Valentine's Massacre, which I told ALL of you to read and review, but only one of you have. Thank you, Demon's sinner! Your review is greatly apreciated! Then, after finishing that chapter, I couldn't think of what should happen in this chapter until just recantly. So yeah...
I had the strangest dream last night. In my dream, I was pregnant at the age of seventeen. This is probably saying that I want to have a baby, even though I'm not yet twenty...Okay, time to interpet the dream. Hold on, I need to grab my dreamer's dictionary...Okay, I've got it! Let's see, pregnancy, pregnancy...AHA! For a woman, this dream forcasts a happy increase in material wealth...well, I'm a woman (sort of). Let me think...My friends were in my dream. friends, friends...here it is! Any demonstration of friendship in a dream is a streightforward prediction of happy sicial times with good companions. I was also at school. A dream of being in schoolsuggests that your reluctances to break old associations is retarding your progress. Well, I think that's it.
And for the last goddamn time, I am NOT pregnant in the real world. Only in that dream and this fic! That's it! And before I ramble for much longer, ja ne!