A/N: Uh oh...Kuja's gonna get it (snicker, snicker).

Disclaimer: Only thing that is mine is Kandi. That's it. Nothing else.

Rhianna glared at the silver wizard. The silver wizard who was wearing a black button up and a pair of distressed jeans. The silver wizard who looked like a model from Alberkrulie & Snitch. Rhianna's brain did the mental version of a record scratch as she caught herself and her thoughts.

"Okay, where's the manipulate materia?" she hissed, reaching her hand out.

Kuja arched a silver eyebrow. "Last I recalled, my lady, it was still in your possession," he replied.

Rhianna paled as she remembered where she had hidden the manipulate materia and that the wizard was, in fact, correct. She narrowed her eyes at Kuja's smirk.

"Having dirty thoughts about me, are we, Lady Rhianna?" he purred.

"Shut it, Kuja," she snapped, kicking her feet back up on her desk. "I'm just not used to seeing you in civilian clothes. I must admit, they suit you."

Kuja inclined his head slightly, ever the polite gentleman. "Why thank you, my lady," he answered cordially. "As arousing as it may be that you are having...'thoughts' about me, you did call me in here for a specific reason, did you not?"

"I did," Rhianna said, narrowing her eyes again. "I can't believe that you were so irresponsible as to knock up one of my most promising guardians! I already had one out of commission with Akalara. And now that Gwendolyn is pregnant as well, Kandi makes a third guardian that I am going to have out on maternity leave in approximately eight more months! Plus, do you know how bad it's going to be with those three pregnant and hormonal at the same time?! Do you have any clue of the cataclysmic disasters that await the Shrine with the mood swings that will be coming from those three? It is going to be unbearable!"

"My lady..."

"And Kandi already ate enough for two people as it was!" Rhianna continued. "Now that she is officially eating for two, it's going to be more like she's eating for four! And what if...oh blessed Mother help us! What if she has multiple births? That will just increase her nutritional intake by another two times. The Shrine will go bankrupt before the girls are in their second trimester!"

"Lady Rhia-"

"And then, of course, they will need to take off for doctor's appointments and such," she continued. "And if they aren't feeling well, I don't have the heart to force them to come into work. I remember what it was like to be pregnant. It was miserable." She rested her chin in her hands and smiled at him. "But it was truly a blessed time as well."

Kuja returned the smile. "I'm glad you thought so," he said. He bowed his head humbly. "Lady Rhianna, it was not my intention to impregnate Kandi when I copulated with her, I assure you. However, what's done is done. You know as well as I do that abortion is strickly forbidden by the Church."

"Of course," she replied with a nod.

"Neither Kandi nor myself even considered that an option," he confirmed. "And though I know you are incredibly upset at me for my lack of responsibility, I don't regret for a moment that Kandi is now carrying my spawn. She is a good woman and a dear friend. In lew of falling in love and marriage to a woman, I could ask for nothing more than the situation I have found myself inadvertantly placed in."

Rhianna blinked. "Come again?" she asked in disbelief. "You're actually happy you knocked her up?"

"Yes, my lady."

"What the hell...why?" she exclaimed. "You aren't married! You don't love her! It was a one night fuck!"

Kuja stood his ground. "Marriage is an institution that I have never cared for," he explained. "Love is a fickle emotion that is as highly overrated. And as for a one night fuck, it was a very...memorable one."

The Head Watcher leaned forward in her seat and studied the silver wizard. "So you don't intend to marry her?" she asked.

"No."

"You don't love her."

"No."

"Kuja, I demand that you do right by her!" Rhianna exclaimed. "I will not have a guardian who is a single mother raising a child alone in the Shrine! It just isn't done."

"She will not raise the child alone," he told her simply. "I am the child's father. I will be there every step of the way. I will be there for Kandi during this pregnancy and afterwards."

"But you won't marry her?"

"No."

"Why?"

"Because she doesn't want it."

"She doesn't want it?"

"No."

"You asked her?"

"I offered to marry her, yes," he replied, his eyes twinkling at Rhianna's disbelief.

"What did she say?"

Kuja sighed. "Lady Rhianna," he said wearily. "If you wish to partake in female gossip, by all means, please wait until Kandi arrives. Though that is not something she eagerly participates in. She said 'no'. Kandi does not wish to be married."

"To you or to anyone?"

There was a soft knock on the door and the subject of their conversation eased in. Kandi smiled at Kuja brightly as she closed the door and walked in, taking a seat next to her lover. "Glad you're back, Rhianna."

Rhianna smiled. "Thank you," she replied. "And thank you for giving me something interesting to take care of now that I'm back."

Kandi laughed. "Fucked up situation, huh?" she said.

"Yeah, it is," Rhianna agreed. "Kuja tells me you won't marry him."

The Turk nodded her head. "That's right," she answered.

"You are carrying his child," Rhianna stated. "Why would you not want to marry him?"

"I'm not in love with him," she replied matter-of-factly. "I'm not going to marry the man who got me pregnant just because he got me pregnant."

"Akalara is," Rhianna interjected.

"Akalara and Zack are in love," she replied with a smile. "And I'm happy for them. However, Kuja and I are not."

Kuja arched an eyebrow at his boss, smirk still in place as if to say, 'Nah nah! Told ya!' Even though he would never resort in actually saying something so childish.

"Well, what about Squall?" Rhianna offered. "I mean, the child could have been his as well. Any feelings for him?"

"I adore Squall," Kandi said with a bright smile. "He is one of the coolest people I've ever met. But I'm not in love with him."

"Rude, then?"

Kandi flinched. "Rude and I aren't exactly on speaking terms at the moment," she explained, casting Kuja a grateful smile as he took her hand in his and stroked her fingers comfortingly.

Rhianna studied them. "You know, for a couple who claims they aren't in love, you sure do display the characteristics of one who is," she observed with a sly smile.

"My lady," Kuja began in a mocking tone. "Love is not absent in our relationship."

"Oh really?"

"Indeed," he continued. "We love and care about each other very much. But we are not in love. It's really not that difficult of a concept to grasp."

Kandi covered her mouth with her free hand and snickered at Rhianna's dumbfounded look. "And besides, my lady," he ventured. "Even if we did get married, a room in the Shrine is hardly a suitable place to raise a family. With my passed deeds, I am required to maintain permanent residence here so that I may be under constant supervision. That's no life at all for a wife and child, now is it?"

Rhianna balked at that. Damn it, she hated when that sexy silver bastard was right! It made her blood boil. "So, then Kandi," she said, turning her attention back to the pregnant guardian. "What are you going to do? Be a single mother?"

"Yes," she answered.

"No marriage? To anyone?"

"Not unless I fall in love," she said. "And if I choose to marry, the man will have to accept the fact that Kuja is my child's father and that he will always be a part of my life and the baby's."

"Good luck with that," Rhianna mumbled. She studied them again. "Are you at least dating?"

"We've been spending more time together," Kuja told her. "We've been 'out' a few times."

Kandi's eyes widened and she checked her watch. "Oh shit!" she said, leaping up from her seat. "That reminds me! I actually have a date tonight!"

The look that crossed Kuja's face did not go unnoticed by the former belly-dancer. "Oh?" she asked nonchalantly. "With who?"

The guardian grinned as she freed her hand from Kuja's grasp. "Squall, actually," she answered with a slight blush. She came around and kissed Kuja's cheek. "I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Of course," he answered lowly, stroking her face tenderly. "Have a pleasant time."

"Thanks!" she said cheerfully as she left, waving at Rhianna as she went.

As soon as the door shut behind her, Rhianna rounded on Kuja. "Kuja, you're a fucking liar and if you don't tell me exactly what is going on, I will castrate you!"

Kuja paled and crossed his legs quickly. "I don't know what you are talking about, my lady," he said weakly.

Rhianna lept from her desk and grabbed a serated letter opener. She pointed it menacingly at Kuja. "I saw that look you got when Kandi said she had a date," she explained as his eyes widened. "It was a mix between anger, jealousy and pain. You have feelings for her, don't you?"

"Of course I do!" he spat out glaring at her harshly. "The woman is carrying my child!"

Rhianna glared at him as she leaned back against her desk in front of him. "That's not the extent of it though," she said softly. "You are actually beginning to fall in love with her aren't you?"

Kuja rose from his seat and thrust his fingers through his silver locks. He turned back to her and she could see the answer in his eyes before he even voiced it.

"Yes."

The silver wizard lay in his bed waiting. He couldn't sense his child's presense, so he knew she wasn't back from her date yet. The clock on his nightstand flashed 11:32 p.m. Was she even coming back, or would she end up spending the night at the SeeD captain's apartment? The thought made his heart sink. He was doing exactly what Rude had done. By not telling her exactly how he felt, Rude had lost her. Kuja knew the bald Turk was still in love with his red-streaked canary; but he still failed to express it in words. Words are what Kandi needed. Actions spoke volumes, but words confirmed what she needed to know.

A hum began to ring in his ears and he shot up off the bed. She was back? She was back! He went out his door ignoring the fact he was just in his pajama bottoms and walked down the hall to her room, the familiar feeling of bliss getting stronger as he neared his spawn growing in her womb. He stopped when he heard footsteps coming back down from her room. Peering around the corner, he watched as Squall made his way back to the exit of the Shrine. The captain had just dropped her off. He wasn't staying with her and she wasn't staying with him.

Kuja smiled as the man left and then continued on his way to her room. Standing in front of her door, he knocked softly, so as not to disturb anyone else. Her door opened slowly and she peeked out, her face lighting up when she saw him.

And that's when he knew.

He was in love.

"You know, this whole sensing the kid thing isn't really fair," she said with a laugh. "You always know where I'm at."

Kuja silenced her by taking her face in his hands tenderly and pressing his lips against hers in a searing kiss. Kandi gasped in surprise and Kuja took advantage, slipping his tongue passed her lips, deepening the kiss with slow, sensual strokes of his tongue against hers. Nimble fingers ran through silken tresses, igniting nerve endings beneath soft skin into a raging, oversensitized inferno of passion. Breaking his lips from hers to trail over her face, Kuja rested his head against hers, still tangling his fingers in her hair and breathing heavily.

"Kuja?" she whispered in question.

The silver wizard closed his eyes as foreign feelings engulfed him just by the sound of her voice saying his name. "I will not be a fool," he told her between clinched teeth. "You came to me because Rude failed to voice what needed to be said. I will not do that."

He stared into her eyes, foreheads still pressed together and fingers of his right hand interwined with those of her left. "I love you," he whispered out. "It happened so suddenly, it took me by surprise. But I do. I love you. I want you to be mine and no one else's. And I...want to be yours."

Kandi's lips turned up slowly into a smile, her eyelids drooping as she tilted her head to look up at him. "Wow," she said, nodding slowly. "All right, then."

Taking a shuddering breath, he eased her back into her room, shutting the door and locking it behind him. "Can you love me?" he asked lowly, trailing soft kisses down her neck. "Is it possible for you to perhaps someday feel what I feel for you?"

Head thrown back and neck arched, she trembled at his tender caresses. "Yes," she breathed out, eyes fluttering shut. "I think I can."

"Mmmm," he murmured, breathing in the scent of her assailing his nostrils as her arousal increased. "I shall find much pleasure in bringing you to that point, my little canary."

Whimpering in the back of her throat, Kandi brought his lips back to hers, her black lacquered nails trailing up his sides and skimming over his chest, scraping against his taunt nipples. Kuja hissed in pleasure into the kiss, slowly unbuttoning her shirt and flicking her pants open before pushing both garments from her body, his fingers brushing tenderly against her skin, removing the remainder of her clothing as she pushed down his silver sleeping pants, causing the silk to pool at his feet. Stepping out of his pants, Kuja turned her slowly, the fingers of his left hand ghosting over her stomach before resting firmly against it, pulling her back against his chest. Brushing her hair to the side, he trailed the tip of his tongue around the shell of her ear before planting a trail of nips and kisses down her neck to her shoulder, biting down softly before sucking gently at the spot. She was trembling in his arms, watching their reflections in the mirror of her dresser. Kuja's left hand traced unknown symbols on her stomach as his right traveled down her arm, lacing their fingers together and bringing both of their hands up her stomach and over her breasts. Silver hair mixed with brown and red, cascading over her shoulders to brush across their hands with feather soft caresses. His left hand continued tracing, trailing lower and lower, until his long fingers brushed through her slick folds, his thumb caressing her clitoris languidly as his middle and index finger eased into her slowly. Gasping, Kandi felt her knees buckle as he continued with this and his ministrations on her neck, their twined hands massaging her breasts and his impressive erection pressing against her backside.

She felt herself being turned again, a full set of lips pressing against hers as her fingers were unraveled with his and his left hand moved to grasp her hip, matching the actions of his right. Effortlessly, the silver wizard lifted her body, causing her to wrap her legs around his waist. He positioned her in such a way, that when she slid down his body, she impaled herself slowly on his erection, her back arching as she felt his entire length ease into her. His lips never leaving hers, Kuja backed up to her bed, settling himself down on it with her is his lap.

And then he began to move. With a gasp, Kandi broke her lips away from his, clutching his shoulders as his hips undulated off the bed against hers with a skill she had never seen possessed by another man. Her back arched and her head thrown back, her hair spilling onto his thighs, Kuja thought she was the personification of sensuality. Bracing her back with his left hand, his right traced over her skin, following the route of the veins pumping her lifeforce to her heart. He carefully drew a pattern over each breast, ending with an accentuated mark on each erected nipple. The woman shuddered at his every touch, her breathing coming in rasping pants. Enveloping her in both arms, Kuja brought his lips to her neck again, tracing her veins once again and repeating the pattern his fingers had drew with the tip of his tongue, all the while maintaining a sensual and nearly painfully slow rhythm with his hips. He felt the muscles of her core contracting and knew that she was close, oh so close.

"Kuja," she panted out. "I..."

"I know," he said, nipping at her chin. "Come for me, my love. Breath my name in ecstacy."

Kandi lifted her head to stare into his eyes. His breath caught in his throat at the look in those deep brown orbs. "Come with me," she gasped out. "Please Kuja. Come with me."

Kuja's lips fell on hers again as he angled his hips and increased his rhythm, hitting something deep within her that sent her reeling over the edge. She sobbed with the intensity of her orgasm, her muscles pulling over him in exquiste silken heat. Kuja contracted his abdominal muscles to prolong his pending release, milking hers for all it was worth. After several long minutes, he released his muscles, allowing his essence to pour into her as her head once again fell back and a pleasured scream escaped her throat, his name falling from her lips as she shuddered in the after affects of her orgasm.

Breathing deeply, Kuja leaned back and arranged them comfortably on the bed, cradling her in his arms and tenderly caressing her damp face. It was then he realized the moisture coating her face was not just sweat, but a mix of tears.

"What is this?" he asked, wiping her tears away with his thumb. "Have I upset you?"

She shook her head and continued to cry softly. "What have you done to me?" she whispered softly, lacing her fingers with his against her face. She looked up at him. "What did you just do?"

He smiled down at her softly. "Ah, I see," he said gently, continuing to caress her features. "Different, yes?"

She nodded. "Yes," she said. "No one's ever fucked me like..."

"That crude term is not suitable to describe what we just shared," he interrupted. He kissed her to ease the sting of his words. "Nor is sex. Making love isn't even appropriate."

Kandi blinked up at him, watching his features. "What was it then?" she whispered in question.

Kuja smiled gently, bring her hand to his lips. "Something that has yet to be named," he told her. "But it was beautiful, was it not?"

"Yes, it was."

He pulled her closer to him. "Sleep, my love," he coaxed gently. "Sleep."

Enveloped in the safety and warmth of his arms, she did just that. And it was a euphoric sleep, in which reality faded into dream with ease.

A/N: (winks) Hope you all like that. If you did, you have MysticSpiritus to thank for the suggestion for the insertion of the lemon. Give her thanks when you review.