Hey Everyone

I am so sorry about the late very late extremely late updates

All i can say is volunteering uni life and working don't mix well with writing

It took me honestly such a long time to write this but i promise i will finish this story over the summer

I never leave a story uncompleted :) it's a vow i've made to myself

And i hope you enjoy this chapter as much as i did writing it

When we arrived home Athrun took the bags in one hand and my waist in another as we walked inside the dark home and turned on the lights. I laughed as Athrun tripped over a shoe which I had put there before I left.

"At least it wasn't you," he said as he got up off the floor.

I kissed him and said, "Now will you tell me what's in the bags?"

Athrun laughed and said, "Of course angel but first let's go up to the baby's room."

I went behind him and Athrun passed me that bags and said, "The room was looking a bit empty."

I looked confused and looked into the bags and took out a few teddy bears and toys.

"I was looking at them for the past few days and couldn't help myself," he said holding up the blue bear, "You think he'll like it?"

I was touched and immediately my hormones reacted and I started crying.

"Hey what's wrong?" Athrun asked rushing up to me and soothing my back.

"I love you," I said rubbing my eyes, "I'm just so happy."

"Angel," he said, "Please, stop crying you know I can't stand seeing your tears."

"It's the hormones," I said hugging the bear, "Baby will love it."

"Let me ask him," Athrun said asking me to sit on a bean bag that was in the room and started talking to the little bump on my abdomen. I was a bit ticklish at first, but Athrun relaxed me with one touch and I sighed and felt sleepy as he rubbed my hair as I was in his arms and he told me about everything he planned to do with the baby. Content, I fell asleep.

In the middle of the night I woke up to chills and cuddled into the blanket where Athrun was soundly sleeping. I felt sick and rushed out of bed disorientated and puked into the toilet.

"Angel, are you okay?" Athrun said still half asleep. I told him before that he didn't have to come to me each time I threw up.

"I'm fine," I said breathless, "Go back to sleep."

I knew that wasn't going to happen. I heard Athrun come in as I weakly flushed the toilet and went to wash out my mouth.

"You look so pale," he said looking worried and approached me and rubbed my arms, "And you're burning up."

"I had a feeling I was getting the flu," I said shivering.

Athrun helped me change clothes to something warmer and got me some soup to drink. I ate half by force and settled into bed with approved medication and warm in Athrun's arms.

The next morning Athrun stayed at home and took care of me. I was in bed all day and my fever went down. Athrun was relieved as I slept with his finger combing through my hair.

When I started getting better I noticed that my headaches were getting worse. When I was walking around the garden outside I was hit with such a huge headache that I collapsed to the ground. Athrun was out looking for his tuxedo. I had a black out.

I opened my eyes to bright white lights glaring down at me.

I felt like mush as I moved around to make sense of my surroundings.

"Athrun," I called out as the room was focused and I looked to see doctor's filling tubes of my blood and watching a monitor as I had IV put in my other arm. Frightened I called out for Athrun who was let in and soothed me.

"Baby?" I asked

"He's fine," Athrun said holding my hand, "Doctor's are just going to try to figure out what's wrong with you?"

"What happened?" I asked

"I found you fainted in the backyard when I came home rushing because you weren't picking up your phone," he said.

Relieved and gripping Athrun's hand I barely noticed all of what the doctor's did to me and soon I was left alone with Athrun who was consoling me.

"What's wrong?" I asked feeling my baby move a bit.

"The doctor said the results will be in soon," he replied.

I nodded as we both just waited.

The doctor came in with a file and a smile and said, "Ms. Attha your lucky we found out about this before it became serious."

We both looked at her confused.

"You have Listeriosis," she said, "It's an infection caused by bacterium called listeria monocytogenes. It's mostly found in soft cheeses and ready-to-eat deli meats. You probably ate something bad and caught it. This is not a very good thing you might get."

"Will the baby be okay?" I asked worried

"Well we caught it really early, you're about 3 months in and the infection just seems to be concentrated and not very severe. We've started you on antibiotics. However, how much of the baby has been infected I can't say much. There is a 90% chance the baby may contract it and 20-25% of these babies do die either during the pregnancy or after birth. We'll just have to keep a close watch on you and the baby," she said with a concern.

I laid back on the hospital bed as tears streamed down my face. Athrun hugged me and tried to reassure me that everything would be fine and that our baby was a tough guy.

The next day I was let out with my antibiotics and feeling quite sick.

"The doctor said our baby's chances of not catching the infection are really good," Athrun said as we sat inside his car outside our home, "We caught it really early, and your body displayed the symptoms quite actively."

I nodded and said, "I really hope so Athrun…I'd die if I lost this baby."

"Hey don't say that," Athrun said holding my hands to my lips.

Our wedding was postponed for a week while I recovered. The antibiotics made me really weak as I recovered but I felt our baby fighting the disease's butt and that pulled me through. A week and a half later I was starting to get better, and got checked by the doctor who told me that I was cured and that the baby had a very likely chance of recovering just fine. I was shining once more.

The next day even though I wanted so desperately to prepare for my wedding, Athrun strictly refused.

"I'm not going to let you drown yourself in stress just after this ordeal," he explained.

"Then you're going to have to stay with me then," I said.

"Cagalli," Athrun said, "Stop being difficult."

I glared at him and said, "I'm being reasonable."

"No you're acting like a child, while I'm only trying to look out for your well being," he said kissing my lips, "Let me take care of you."

"Then take care of me, by being with me," I said smugly.

He chuckled and said, "You know I have things to do."

"Well someone's being a hypocrite," I said.

Athrun frowned a bit and said, "I guess someone woke up in a bad mood."

I sighed and said, "Fine then go, leave me alone."

Athrun didn't move noticing my disheartened tone and consoled me.

"Angel I'm sorry, but someone has to input our ideas into the wedding. And please I want you to relax. You wouldn't let me postpone the wedding even more then, at least try to relax for me and the baby," he said buttering me up and weakening my stubborn demeanour with his touch and caress.

"Okay," I coincided and leaned into his body.

"Then I'm going to go. Don't get into any mischief while I'm gone and Lacus will be here to watch you like a hawk," Athrun said giving me a long and sensual kiss before biding me adieu as Lacus came inside and we talked for the rest of the day. She cooked me dinner and sweets and I was a happy camper. My baby agreed with the food as well.

Athrun called constantly making sure that I was well, and resting. At one point I was taking a nap and Lacus told me he called and seemed relieved that I was sleeping. I laughed.

It was starting to rain by the evening and I sat by the windowsill watching the water fall from the sky. It relaxed me immensely and I could hardly wait for Athrun to get home. The dress rehearsal was tomorrow and I ready to finally see the complete venue. It was around 10 o'clock did Athrun come home with the rest of the people. I had fallen asleep by the window and was startled awake by the shouts of noises and started falling to my horror. I felt someone catch me before I hit the ground.

We both breathed a sigh of relief and looked up into each others eyes.

"I don't think you should take naps there," Athrun said with a scared look in his eyes.

"I know I shouldn't," I said calming my rapidly beating heart down.

"Alright in there little guy?" Athrun asked placing his ear on my abdomen. Our baby moved and Athrun relaxed.

"I'm sorry," Dearka said sheepishly.

"That was a close call," Shiho said slumping from her frozen position. Everyone let out sighs of relief and Athrun lifted me to the couch where I sat.

"So how's everything for our wedding?" I asked.

They all shared their input and showed me pictures and video of the wedding in making.

I was laughing by the end and Athrun was holding me in his arms trying to sleep.

We all parted ways soon weary and ready to sleep all night.

I changed into a large shirt and climbed onto the bed where Athrun was laying his eyes half opened with a smiled as he saw me.

"Hey," he said pulling me to him by the waist and rubbing his thumbs over my hips making me shiver.

"I love you," I said kissing his nose, jaw and snuggling into his neck.

"Love you too darling," he said, "And you too baby."

He kissed me and talked nonsense to our baby his hands always near the bump where our baby was growing. We fell asleep complete and whole.

I woke up to an empty bed and there was a note on my side table telling me to eat breakfast after taking a nice long pampering bath. I followed Athrun's instructions and putting some nice bath salt in the hot water I was taking my time in the bath tube. After shrivelling up quite nicely I showered and came out in red babydoll dress with halter ties behind the neck. It had a pleated bodice above a beaded encrusted mesh inset and a chiffon skirt. Wearing gold slippers to match the gold beading I put on an apron and made chocolate chip waffles and secretly craving cheesecake. I would definitely stop by the bakery to get some wonderful strawberry cheesecake.

After my breakfast I called Athrun who was in surrounded by noise so I could barely understand him.

"What do I do now?" I practically yelled.

"Cagalli, can you call me in five minutes angel," he said, "I'm kind of busy with these random people."

I sighed and said, "Fine," hanging up.

I sat down now really wanting some cheesecake. Deciding to go get some myself I got my car keys and realized that Athrun put a lock on the garage so I couldn't go anywhere.

That…asshole.

Furious I called Athrun again and got his answering machine. I left him a very evil message and huffed calling Stellar, a person who I got to know really well.

"Stellar," I said calling her, "Do you mind picking me up? I really need to have some cheesecake or I'm going to spontaneously combust."

"Yeah I'm one my way to the bakery. Athrun said something about getting some cheesecake," she said.

"Cheesecake?" I asked bewildered.

"The strangest thing happened we were sitting down for some coffee and Athrun randomly called some guys and asks for some strawberry cheesecake for pick up. Everyone was staring at him and he simply said that he wanted some cheesecake at that moment. After a while he told me to pick it up and deliver it home to you," she said.

I hung up after a few minutes of talking when Athrun called.

"What's with the cheesecake?" I asked grinning.

Athrun chuckled and said, "I really don't know, I just had this intuition that you really wanted some cheesecake."

"I was going to call Stellar to just get some," I said laughing, "Baby was craving some."

Athrun was quiet for a moment and said, "Really."

Stellar came though the door and I shrieked in excitement and hugged her for bringing me the dessert.

Athrun had gotten cut of by that point and after eating a slice of cheesecake Stellar drove us to wear the dress rehearsal for my wedding was. As I went inside I stared in awe at the venue and in love with everything. It was everything I wanted and I felt overwhelmed seeing it.

Stellar hugged me and said, "Isn't it beautiful. Athrun worked really hard on this with everyone, but he poured his heart into this place."

"Where is he?" I asked looking around.

"Last time I checked he was helping with the lights," she said as there was a blackout, "I guess Athrun's not very good with lights."

I laughed and moved a bit bumping into things and trying to find some place safe.

I heard Athrun yell out, "Sorry guys the electricians will fix this in about five minutes. Can someone call Stellar to see where she and Cagalli are?"

"I'm right here," I said tripping over and falling on my knees and hands there was a clash of metal trays landing on my hand. I screamed grasping my hands cursing. I heard Athrun yell out and came to me by hearing my yells.

He gripped my hands and rubbed it, kissing it and asked someone to find some ice from anywhere.

"Oww, oww, oww," I said hissing, "I'm in a danger zone."

Athrun kissed my forehead and said, "Darling are you okay? You're bleeding."

The lights came on and I looked to see a small cut on my hand, with avid blood flowing from it. Athrun got a napkin and dabbed the cut which stopped bleeding after a few minutes. I looked at Athrun who kissed my lips and then put a band aid on it. The ice stopped the swelling and Athrun, after we were alone for a while, pushed me up a wall and ravished my lips. Of course we were in some changing room that he locked us inside.

"You look so much more beautiful day by day, I don't know what to do to stop myself from loving you every second," he said untying my halter neck ties and moved his lips down to stroke my skin with his lips releasing a moan from my throat and I gripped his hair furiously, which seemed to have turned him on even more.

"We have a rehearsal to get to," I said, "People will be looking for us."

"Who cares about people," he said stroking the skin on my breast.

I went rigid as his mouth replaced his hands.

There was a knock at the door.

"Oh fuck," Athrun mumbled into my neck, "Who is it?"

"Athrun man, will you screw Cagalli later, your mother is looking for you," Dearka said from the other side of the door.

Athrun grumbled a bit and fixed my dress for me giving me one bruising lip lock before letting me loose.

"Go find her first," he said putting his head on a wall.

"Are you okay?" I asked

"I'm not sure, my mother would want to see aroused," he said giving me a sexy look making me aroused.

"Athrun stop giving me that look," I said shutting my eyes.

He laughed and said, "Go or you won't be able to leave this room any time soon."

I followed his orders.

Lots of Love and i hope to have another update soon

Samera :)