Hi people, OK the story skips a lot timewise. You will get clues as to how much time has passed but I don't like writing the 5 months or 2 years later.

If you are having trouble with it please tell me and I will try to make it more obvious.

I do not own Beyblade

"PREGNANT?" Lee jumped to his feet, Mariah and Hilary exchanged nervous looks as they waited for everyone else to react to the news, Mariah began to cry quietly. They had been waiting for over a month before they told everyone, long enough to get up the guts to tell everyone and soon enough so they hadn't begun to show yet.

"IS IT RAY'S?" Lee stood over the two girls but he was focusing on Mariah, she nodded.

"Lee" Hilary tried to reason with him

"Don't you speak to me" Lee pointed at Hilary angry "just cos your OK being some Blade Breakers groupie doesn't mean my sister had to join you" at this Mariah stood she looked as though she was about to do battle her hair flew up into the air as she jumped to her feet and her eyes were flashing with rage,

"How dare you!" Lee was surprised to see his sister so angry

"Mariah..."

"I love Ray, Hilary loves Kai. This wasn't some one night stand, this was something special. I have loved Ray all my life, and Hilary even though she never admitted it has been in love with Kai for years. We all knew that we might never see each other again so we were impulsive. For once in my life I did something really impulsive and I am glad I did. I will have and love this baby, and you whether you like it or not will be a fantastic uncle."

Lee looked at his sister her face was stained with tears but she was smiling,

"Uncle?"

"Thats what you are, or will be"

"I always wanted to be an uncle"

"Well you got your wish, just don't get mad!" Lee looked at his sister, she smiled lightly and sat down again next to Hilary, Lee decided that he ought to apologise

"Sorry Hil's, I didn't mean it"

"Don't worry" Hilary smiled at him "I'm not exactly looking forward to telling my big brother."

"He'll understand," Lee sat with them and put his arms around his sister "I understand!"

The rest of their circle of friends seemed to have taken it better, Kevin and Gary agreed with Lee that Ray ought to be killed after all they had begun to look on Mariah as their little sister as well, but they definitely looked forward to becoming honorary uncles. Grandpa was thrilled for them, he even offered to start baby proofing his house right away. Emily hugged the girls close telling them that she would be organising a baby shower, neither girl had actually heard of this before but Emily soon explained that it had nothing to do with any water, or general washing of babies they were relieved. When Hilary and Mariah finally managed to escape to their bedroom they sat on their beds and looked at each other.

"How are you?" Hilary was beginning to worry about her friend she looked exhausted.

"Not too good, I mean Lee took it OK all things considered but my parents! They are gonna kill me!" Mariah began to cry Hilary sat and put her arms around her

"Mariah look, you heard Grandpa we can stay here as long as we like, he wants us here, he'd be very lonely if we left. You don't have to go home not till your ready to. Ray loves you. Everything will be fine" Hilary continued along this soothing vein, stroking her friends hair and rocking her gently. It was sometime before Mariah stopped crying and allowed Hilary to put her to bed. When Hilary left her bedroom Lee was sitting out in the hallway, he had his knees drawn up to his chest and his head resting on them. Hearing the door close Lee looked up

"Hi!"

"How long have you been there?"

"Long enough" Lee was looking directly into her eyes "I should have been more supportive, not yelled."

"You were angry, it's understandable" Hilary sat down next to him and put a supportive arm around his shoulders, sometimes she felt as though she should be studying to be a therapist,

"I just want to… I just wanted her to"

"You wanted her to wait until she was 25 married and settled down till she started a family"

"Maybe not 25, 23 would have been alright" they laughed together quietly

"Believe it or not most girls want to be settled down and married before they start a family"

"Neither of you thought about, getting rid of it"

"It's a baby not a jacket that doesn't fit"

"I guess..." they sat in silence until Lee spoke again "I guess I always knew she and Ray would end up together, I just expected them to be on the same continent when this kind of thing happened"

"Ah yes, the old why don't you live on the same continent thing. Many parents suffer from that these days!"

"Would you stop kidding around?"

"Lee she and I are better off than most single parents, we have friends, family" she nudged him gently he smiled showing his fangs "and we have each other. I promise to get Mariah through this!"

"I still shouldn't have got so mad"

"She was expecting you to be mad." Lee sighed and rested his head on her shoulder,

"She's my little sister, I love her"

"I know that, she knows that. She's just gonna need time to get used to it. I mean OK single parenthood is easier these days but this is different. She doesn't know when she will Ray again if…" Lee looked up as the girl struggled to talk "if she ever sees him again".

"What about you?" Hilary saw that Lee was staring at her, she grinned and shrugged her shoulders

"I'll survive!" Lee stared at her, she looked sad there was a short silence,

"Look Gary, Kevin and I started thinking"

"Congratulations was it all you thought it would be?" came Hilary's sass reply

"Shut up" Lee grinned

"Sorry, couldn't help it"

"How the Blade Breakers put up with you I will never know, anyway Mariah doesn't want to go home because of our parents, I understand that! The three of us have decided to stick around, we were going to find a place to stay nearby but Tyson's Grandfather has offered to let us stay here"

"Mariah will appreciate it" Hilary smiled at him but he noticed a small tear making its way down her cheek. Lee was uncomfortable crying girls was not his forte!

"Hey listen don't worry they'll be back, and look I know how much you mean to them all Ray" he said the name harshly "well he talked about you a lot. They will come back to you"

"I know, it's just going to be hard."

"I'll do everything I can to help"

"Thank you it means a lot," Hilary pushed herself up and stood smiling down at him "Lee you're a good person and I hope we can be good friends"

"You're a good person too, we will be good friends, and I'm sorry again about the groupie comment"

"That's alright your probably not the first to think it," Hilary looked at the floor sadly Lee stood next to her and gave her shoulders a squeeze,

"Yeah but if I ever hear anyone else say it, I'll kick their asses"

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Hiro and Max were sitting quietly.

"You all right?"

"Always!" Max gave Hiro his signature smile

"This is going to be tough Max, you and Kenny will be alone on this one."

"I'm sure we can handle it"

"You better be sure!" Hiro handed Max a small mobile phone "this contains all the information that you need in order to do your job"

"Right" Max stared at the phone, his hand shook slightly as he took it. Hiro noticed this but decided to ignore it, Max was probably just over excited as usual

"You and Kenny will arrive in Rome tomorrow night at 11pm. Boris has a building on a large industrial estate, officially the building has been listed as abandoned but we have information that something is going on there. The team will get you in there but it will be you and Kenny that need to get into the main office, Kenny knows what he's doing as far as getting the computer files is concerned but I need you to sort out something else"

"What needs doing?"

"The building needs to be destroyed"

"Destroyed?"

"Yes destroyed, Kenny says that he will be unable to get the information he needs undetected. When Boris finds out what's happened he will want to know whos been in the building, we need to make sure that we don't leave a trace of evidence. Kenny will disconnect the computer from the main system and he will then have about 10 minutes before anyone works out he has done it. When they work out that the server has been disconnected they will be checking up on the building, the only way of making sure they don't know that someone has accessed their files is to completely destroy the place. We have managed to convince a local news channel to run the story that the place has been used by amateurs trying to make bombs"

"Sounds convincing!"

"It will be when I've finished writing the story for them"

"So I guess I'm in charge of the bomb"

"You have had the training besides, I want to send Kenny in with someone he trusts!"

"Not a problem!"

"Max you will be the only one who knows about the bomb, whatever happens that bomb must be detonated by 3:25am or Boris will be onto us."

"Whatever happens? You mean like whoevers inside?" Max's eyes widened, but he knew what Hiro would say next,

"Whatever happens!"

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