Ah, the final chapter before the epilogue. Let's get this started!
Chapter 20, after the birth
Soon after Garnet Michelle Walker was born, Allen and Kit went to see the Great Generals about the matter of Kit taking care of the child until it was old enough to be left with a babysitter while she was off on missions. The red head wanted to have as much time as possible, so she could teach Garnet to speak, walk and even potty train her. And Kit's mother had also told the girl that it was better for the child to breast feed them than bottle feed them, and so that was exactly what the red head would do. She needed time for that and then more time to ween the child off of the breast.
"Excuse me, Sirs?" Kit adressed the men sitting high up in their chairs as politely as possible. These men were her bosses of course. "I would like to be kept from having missions for three more years, please. At least until mine and Allen's daughter is old enough to do without me being around for long periods of time."
The Great Genarals looked at each other, whispering too softly for Kit and Allen to hear. When they finaly looked back at the married couple, they gave their answer.
"I'm sorry, but we can't give you that long a time. We know the need to take care of your child, but you are also an exorcist. A worrior of God. The Order also needs you to go on missions to retrieve the innocence..." There was a pause for a moment. In this time, Kit had fallen to the ground, tears silently making there way down her cheeks. "The longest amount of time we can give you is two and one half years."
Kit stayed on the ground, crying silently. Garnet, who was in her mother's arms, blinked awake when one of Kit's tears splashed onto her face. The infant could tell her mother was upset about something, and so she too started crying. Only much louder than Kit was.
Kit's crying stopped as soon as Garnet's started. She did her best to shush her crying daughter. "Shhh, shhh. It will be alright, Garnet." Kit's sweet motherly voice did nothing to shush the crying of her daughter.Kit then went to singing to her daughter.
"Sing a song unto the world.
Rising high, the clouds unfurl.
Fan the flames into the past.
Here now, our lives will last.
We'll never know the times of pain.
Fall down, fall down, falls the rain.
My life will not be plain."
The child was now sleeping once more. Kit craddled her back and forth gently, humming a sweet soft lulaby. Allen looked from Kit and Garnet to the Great Generals.
"Can you see how much they need eachother?!" Allen yelled. "Please give my wife three years of time to spend with Garnet! They need as much time as they can get together before sending Kit on missions!" A single tear now fell down Allen's cheek, more out of the thought that his wife and daughter wouldn't be happy and together as long as they wanted.
One of the generals sighed. "Alright. They can have three years and two months."
Kit looked up at the generals who's feces were hidden under their hoods with a look of pleasent supprise. She would have hugged them all too, if it haden't been for them being her superior officers.
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Now beeing about six in the evening, it was Garnets feeding time. And she expressed it as loudly as she could. Kit ran from the bed where she had been reading before Garnet started crying her head off.
"Don't worry, sweety! I'm here, and so is dinner!" Kit reached for Garnet to lift her from her crib.
Kit took her daughter to her feeding chair. Kit opened her button down shirt enough to let her breast out of her bra cup and allowed her red haired daughter to suckle at the mound. The exorcist layed back in the chair, relaxing as her child fed on her milk. Kit closed her eyes, lost in thought. She would have to take this time with her child for the advantage. Because the Great Generals could change their minds about how much time that Kit had with Garnet before going on missions again.
The bedroom door opened sudenly, supprising Kit. The red head looked at who it was.
"Oh! Sorry!" Lavi said. He started to walk out of the room.
"Wait. Tell me what you needed to say," Kit stopped him.
"Well, alright. I just won't look your way."
"Fine with me." That would save some embarassment. On both of their halves.
"Well, Allen asked me to tell you that we, meaning Allen and I, have a new mission."
Kit sat in silence for a moment. "Why didn't Allen tell me himself?" Kit asked Lavi, pain apparent in her voice. The red head suddenly hissed in pain. "How many times must I tell you not to bite?!"
Lavi turnned around in confusion. "But I'm all the way over here! How could I bite you?!"
"Not you, Garnet. She just has a tendancy to bite when feeding," Kit said sheepishly. "So, why didn't Allen come to tell me?"
"He said it was personal buisness when I saked him why he wouldn't tell you about our mission..." Lavi thought back to when Allen had told Lavi to tell Kit. "His face seemed sad about something...I don't know what, but something..."
"What's today's date?" Kit asked suddenly after Lavi said this.
"It's March 17. Why?"
Kit smacked her forehead. "That's why!"
"That's why what?"Lavi asked. Kit sighed and rolled her eyes and started to explain after taking Garnet off of her teet.
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Allen walked from Komui's office to the chaple where he and Kit were married. He walked to the pulpit and kneeled down. He bowed his head, closed his eyes, and placed his hands together in prayer. The only thing that was on his mind at the moment was his deceased adoptive father.
'Mana...'
Allen looked up at the oversized version of the rose cross on the wall, a single tear falling from his eye down his cheek and fell from his chin to the floor.
"I promise I'll stay strong, Mana."
And despite his sadness for Mana's death, the silver haired bo...man smiled.
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"March 17 is the day that Mana died..." Kit said, voice tinged with sadness.
"Oh...Wait. Who's Mana?" Lavi asked. Kit prat fell.
"Mana was Allen's adoptive father, dingus!" Kit smacked the eye patched exorcist in the back of his head.
"Oh! So that's why I saw him walk in the direction of the chaple! I never would have known!" With that Lavi left with a wave.
Kit rolled her eyes and placed har hands on her hips. Even after what she told him, he was still so insensetive. But that was Lavi, so what could ya do? Pretty much just let him be himself.
Kit took Garnet over to her crib an gently placed the sleeping baby inside, trying to not wake her up. Kit heard the door open once more. The red head turnned around to see who it was. Allen. Said man walked into the room. He looked into the crib at their sleeping child and smiled.
"She really has your hair," Allen whispered into Kit's ear.
Kit looked at Allen and smiled. "Yeah, but she's got your eyes."
The conversation stopped there. Kit and Allen just watched their daughter as she slept, their arms around the other's waist. Kit sighed. Allen looked at her.
"It sucks that I won't have as long a time with her than I wanted. But at least there's still time." She smiled sadly.
"We did our best. But now I think it's dinner time for us."
"But don't you leave for your mission soon?" Kit asked.
"No. We leave tomorrow morning. Really early.
So Kit and Allen went to have their dinner at that moment. Allen left for his nission the next morning, as he said he would. Kit went to go see him off with Garnet. After that, Kit and Garnet went back to their room and back to sleep.
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Less than a week later, Kit rushed to the under ground entrance to find Allen. She had secret intell that he would be back that day. She got their in time to be caught in Allen's arms. They topled over into the gondola, Kit on top of Allen. The red head was panting hard from the long run. Allen could see that she was also smiling brightly. But not quite for Allen being back.
"Garnet said her first word!" Kit said once her breath calmed down. "You will laugh at what is was!" Kit's smile grew brighter.
"What was it? Was it daddy?" Allen asked his wife.
"Nope!"
"Mommy?"
"Nope!"
"Then what?!"
"Okay, it was at the right time for her lunch feeding, and she just said 'hungry!' " Kit then started laughing lightly. Allen didn't see what was so funny though. Lavi did and also started laughing.
"Yep, that's yer kid for sure, Allen!" Lavi said between laughs. Allen still didn't find it funny.
"And now, she can't stop saying the word 'hungry!' Even when she's not!" Kit's smile grew even brighter (if at all possible). "It's just so cute! Everyone thinks so!" There was a silence for a while. "Oh crap! I forgot it's time for her dinner!" Kit then stepped out of the gondola and ran once more down the halls, only this time in need of feeding her child than telling Allen about Garnet's first word.
The red head entered the room in enough time to find Garnet crying for her food. "You know, this is why I never leave you alone for one second," she said to her child. And so thier feeding ritual started. Kit almost fell into a sleeping state, but was quickely drawn away from that when Garnet bit her. "Damn it, child. Stop biting!"
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The days and months passed by and Allen was lucky enough to be at the order for Garnet's first steps. And in fact, the silver haired man had helped his wife with teaching the child to walk. This experiance made oth of the girl's parents smile bright and warm, so Garnet joined them and smiled too.
And Garnet learning to walk and run made things very, very diffiult for Kit. This was because it caused Garnet to run every where, exploring the large building. And Kit would have to chase after her. And then Garnet moved to the stage where she decided she didn't like to wear anything. And run around the building buck naked. Kit would still chase after the girl, only this time, with Garnet's clothes.
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One night, Kit and Allen were in their room at Garnet's feeding time. Kit sighed and turnned to look at Allen.
"You know, Allen," she said. "There's only one thing I miss about being pregnant."
"What is that?" the silver haired man asked.
"I didn't have to worry about my period," Kit said quite bluntly.
Allen just stared in silence, sweat droping.
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Soon Garnet was about one year old. And with that age, came teething. She would cry and cry and nothing would work to make her stop. Kit would sing to her. Nothing. Kit would give her a pacefier. Nada. Lavi would do his best funny faces. Zilch. Then Komui gave Garnet a teething ring. Kit sighed in relief when there was finaly silence. The red head thanked Komui greatly for the assistance.
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In what seemed no time flat, the tree years and two minths were up. Garnet had been taken off of the breast and had been on the bottle, but now that she was three years old, she could pretty much eat solid foods.
Kit was sent on a mission as soon as they could possibly send her on one. That was when Kit first asked Alice and Toma to babysit Garnet.
"But, mama! Where d'ya have to go?" Garnet asked.
"I have some important work that I need to do, sweety! Mr. Toma and Ms. Alice will be watching over you while I'm gone. Be good for them, okay?"
"Okay," Garnet said, voice full of disapointment.
Kit ruffled Garnet's hair. "Good." With that, Kit left for Komui's office.
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Three days later, Kit came back to a happy Garnet hanging from her neck. The child was giggling happily that her mother had returnned home safely. Kit picked up her daughter and, with Allen, stepped off of the gondola. The family walked off to the mess hall to have lunch.
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Wow. Now all that's left is the epilogue. silecne for a moment This will be the first multipul chapter storie that I've ever finnished... 'Tis a joyus day for a writer! And now accepting reviews!
Do you think I'm using the thingy too much? I wonder...??
Well, the next one is the last one. Ja ne!