Hello to everyone out there in cyberspace!

I am SO SO SO sorry I haven't updated this in a long time (blame my teachers).

I won't bore you with my rambling, so let's get on with it (Happy Charlotte?)

P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR MERCURY!

"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Freddie, happy birthday to you!"

All of the Seven Seas of Rhye was succumbed by the sudden singing of 'Happy Birthday', and it was directed at Freddie Figaro. The boy in question stood on top of the bar, smiling at everyone, even if he didn't really know what was going on.

"Thanks so much you guys! I, um, really appreciate it." As the crowd slowly disappeared into various booths and seats, minding their own business, Freddie jumped off the bar, and was greeted by Lady.

"Hi Freddie." She said nervously, strangely out of character for her.

"Hey Lady, what's wrong?"

"Oh, nothing, I've just, uh, brought you a present." Lady bubbled, pulling a small, brown wrapped package out from behind her back.

"Oh Lady," Freddie cooed. "You didn't have to do that."

"Oh no, I had to. I don't mind. Open it!" She insisted.

"Okay then." Freddie said, pulling at the corners of the wrapping. He slowly undid the corners, one by one. When he got to the present, he gasped.

"You don't like it, do you?" Lady said, her face falling.

"No, no, I love it!" It was a picture, drawn by Lady, of four people. Freddie, Lady, Galileo and Meat. Well, four and a half people. His half-sister, or brother, was there as well, sticking out just above the waistband of Meat's skirt.

"It's our family! You, me, Mummy, and Gaz. And Mummy's baby."

"Where's my Mum?"

"Scaramouche? She's not a part of our family, Freddie."

"But she's my Mum!"

"She's not important anymore!"

"Yes, of course she's important! She's MY Mum! She'll always be important! And if you don't agree, well, I guess we can't be friends anymore!"

"Fine!" Yelled Lady, stomping away, tears in her eyes.

Suddenly, the bar seemed to go very quiet, all eyes on Freddie. "What are you looking at?" He yelled to no one in particular. We he was greeted by silence, he stormed off into the garden, not to be seen until that night.

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"Bloody… Hell… Wait… Up…" Galileo said breathily, clutching the stich in his side, struggling to keep up with Scaramouche's brutal pace.

"No, you keep up!" She yelled behind her, voice being caught by the wind.

"Why do we have to run so fast?"

"Oh sorry, do you want us to be caught by the GlobalSoft police and dragged back there again?"

"No, but-"

"Exactly! So either hurry up, or slow down and get me to rescue your slow ass, once again!"

"Fine!"

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"What do I do, Pop?" Meat said, rubbing her small belly. She had heard the little outburst that Lady and Freddie had, and was worried about both Freddie and Scaramouche.

"Well, you just have to let it run it's course. If Gaz is gonna help raise this baby, he will. If Scaramouche wants to be your friend again, she will. But everyone has to realize that it is Gaz's, and there is no avoiding it. No one can tell you what the future has in store, and you'll just have to wait for it to get here."

"Okay dokay." Meat said, trying to digest all of the information.

"Speaking of a little Gaz, how far through are you?"

"A couple of months. 8 weeks."

"Hmm… okay. I wonder where Freddie is." Pop said absent mindedly, looking out the window into the darkness of the night.

"I wonder where Gaz is." Meat said quietly, nothing more of a whisper, looking out over the bar.

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"Scaramouche, can we please stop now?" Galileo said to his partner in crime.

"Not yet." She replied, purple pigtails swinging in the wind.

"But, it's dark!" He protested, accidentally falling over a medium sized rock, as if to emphasise his point.

"Get up, and we need to find some shelter first."

"Well, GaGa land is coming up, why don't we hunker down there for the night?"

"Okay then. Not the best place, but it'll work."

"Now, HOW ABOUT WE WALK?"

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Meat slowly pushed open the door to the girls dorm, and saw Lady lying on her mattress, tears staining her face.

"What's wrong, baby?"

"Freddie… That's what's wrong!" Lady grumbled wiping the tears from her face. " He said that he wanted his Mum to be a part of our family! But she's not! We're family! Him, you, me and Galileo!"

"But imagine that you couldn't have me as a part of your family?"

"I wouldn't be very happy, but-"

"That's what Freddie means! He just wants his Mum to be a part of his family! And hey, maybe we could be a really big family!"

"Yeah, I'd like that." Lady said, smiling.

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"Ugh, I thought that I'd never come back here. Gaga Land is worse than I remember it."

"You'll be fine, Scaramouche."

"Oh no, I'd beg to differ!"

"Well I don't, so shut up and keep walking."

"Fine then."

They walked in silence for ten minutes, until they came across to a Community Hall, were GaGa kids could meet and talk, not that they do, it's easier over the internet.

"How about we stay in this alleyway?" Galileo proposed.

"Uh… Alright. It's better than nothing."

They hunkered down behind an empty trash bin. Something inside the empty hall caught Galileo's eye. It was a calendar. He stood on his tip toes to see into the vast room.

"Hey, it's the 5th of September. Why does that ring a bell?"

"Shit."

"What? What's wrong?"

"That's Freddie's birthday."

"Oh, shit."