Moonbeams Ch8 A cuppa Tea and a Sage's Mistake

Colette was kneeling over the toilet again, 'Damn morning sickness, I thought it had stopped.' Lloyd stood by the door, looking on a bit worried. He was not exactly sure what to do, so he just waited until Colette had stood up, then he went to help her clean herself up.

They were at an inn, only about 10 miles from Iselia. Normally, it would only be an hour's journey on the wing, but Colette was feeling the effects of her condition, an was having trouble flying with the extra weight. Because of this, they had to walk, but Colette could not walk for more than a hour before needing to rest. Fortunately, Lloyd was patient enough to wait for her to catch her breath before they set off again.

"Come on Colette, if you're okay we should go get something to eat."

"Yeah, I'm okay, and I think the baby might be hungry."

As they walked downstairs, Lloyd was thinking, something he would not admit to doing. He was thinking about Colette, she was only about 2 months pregnant, but it was already showing. 'Angels' bodies do function differently I suppose, but she seems 5 months pregnant, not 2, this makes no sense.' He then contemplated their future: before leaving Meltokyo he had been to see the king again to explain the circumstances. The king had been generous enough to let them have their estate immeadiately, and let Lloyd leave without finishing the last part of his work, which could be done by anyone. As such, they could move there and enjoy their retirement from adventuring, or so they hoped at least. Things never went quite as planned it seemed.

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Back in Meltokyo, Sheena was in Zelos' bed, contemplating her last week at his house, she'd enjoyed it no doubt, and felt happy she was no longer being controlled, but slightly annoyed that she had no exsphere any more, but right now the thing she wanted most in the world was a good cup of coffee. She wondered how Lloyd and Colette were doing, she was rather upset by the way she had acted, and even moreso because she had not got a chance to appologise to them.

There was a knock on the door and Zelos walked in, with two cups of coffee. "Hello my lovely ninja hunny."

Sheena glared at him "How many times must I tell you not to call me that?"

"At least once more", Zelos said smirking.

Sheena sighed, living with Zelos was hard work at times, but the nights made up for that. She looked up at the redhead and smiled at him. They kissed softly for a moment, then Zelos said "I've been thinking."

"So what position is it that you wanna try out tonight then?" Sheena grinned"

"No, I was thinking that maybe we should invite some of the others over to celebrate our engagement, and Lloyd and Colette's."

"What, they're engaged?"

"If they aren't by the end of this week I'd be supprised."

Sheena thought about this, she and Zelos had only been together a week and they were engaged, but they had gone from trying to kill each other to bedfellows in about 12 hours. She thought that those two would go a little slower, but with the baby and everything, it might be sooner than expected.

She nodded her assent. "Good," her fiance replied to the nod.

"But only once they are deffinately engaged, and maybe once they've moved into that estate of their's, I don't imagine Colette wants to travel too far."

"True, but for the moment let's have a good time with just us, then worry about this celebration later."

"You just want an excuse to get drunk and already be at home so it doesn't matter."

Zelos smirked "How did you guess?"

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It was just gone 3 o'clock when Lloyd and Colette made it to Dirk's house. The dwarf was outside attending to Anna's grave.

"Dad"

The dwarf turned to see the couple, he smiled "Lloyd, so you came back at last, it's been four months since you last came home."

"Uh, well I've been busy avoiding a homicidal ninja."

Dirk cocked an eyebrow, "Come in and explain exactly what you've been up to."

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When Lloyd had finished the story, his father laughed. "So you spent two months running away from one of your own companions, and getting you girlfriend pregnant. Well I must say congratulation to you both."

"Thanks Dad, but I was wondering could I take Noishe with me, 'cause Colette get tired easily walking, so she could ride him to Iselia to visit her parents."

"Sure, he came with you in the first place, so he is really yours."

"Again thanks, we'd better get going if we're to reach Iselia by dinner time, and if we're late for dinner the baby doesn't like it."

"Well come see me again if you need anything, or even if you don't."

"Well I'll see you soon."

"Thank you Mr. Irving," Colette was as polite as ever.

"Goodbye you two, take care of you selves."

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Iselia was as quiet as ever, Genis was used to this quiet, and was glad of it, as it gave him time to think. He was lying on his bed thinking about Presea again. The girl had moved in with the Sages so he saw her every day, but that didn't stop him thinking about her all the rest of the time. He heard soft steps coming up the stairs. He knew it was Presea, as Raine was out that evening. His heart beat faster as the footsteps stopped outside his room, then he heard a knock.

He gulped, she always affected him like that, he was scared of upsetting his girlfriend somehow, or of doing something stupid. "Come in."

The door opened and the girl stepped in. She walked over to him and sat down on next to him on the bed, "Genis, I want to ask you something."

"What is it?" Genis was curious as to what she wanted to know.

"Genis, I want you know I've loved you since I got my emotions back, can you tell me, did you always love me? Even when I was an emotionless doll?"

"I did, why?"

"I just needed to know, because I needed to understand you better, and I wanted to know what attracted you to me, and it seems it was just my looks."

Genis realised that he'd blundered, "Presea, do you really think that I'd go out with a girl just because of her looks? And if I would, why do you think I chose you over any of the others on our journey? It's 'cause initially, even before you got you're emotions back, I knew the sort of person you were, the sort that cared about other people no matter what."

Presea smilled and kissed him. Then they heard something downstairs, and then Raine burst into the room. "Lloyd and Colette, their back."

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A/N phew, another chapter over. I've also gone back and made slight corrections to the earlier chapters. Please give me some more reviews and thanks to all reviewers to date. Especial thanks to Adriannu255 and ShadowVDP for 5 reviews each.

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