We are now half-way through Part One.
Part Two will be all about Rorschach and his team first, then Dan, and after an eternity, Dan will finally meet Rorschach... There is also a plot hidden somewhere in Part Two, and we'll revisit the characters of Part One every now and then. Part Two is also better written, in my opinion, so just hang on.
I own neither Naruto nor Watchmen.
Thirty-three chapters and counting...
Eddie grins whenever he thinks of that ring on Sally's ring finger.
She accepted his proposal, and they've moved into Sally's cozy two bedroom apartment. They've even fought over baby names – and settled on Morgan for a girl, and Carl for a boy.
Sally's due in six months when one night she shakes Eddie back into conciousness. Any grogginess flees as he registers the blood smeared all over the sheets and her thighs. Panicking, he throws some clothing on and bundles Sally up, sheets and all. He carries her bodily out the apartment, bridal style. The front door slams open into the wall, and drifts slowly closed on its own, he's already gone, running through Konoha's streets to the hospital, sticking to the ground because only an idiot would use the rooftops at this hour.
They must be quite a sight, as Eddie bursts through the emergency entrance's doors, half-naked kunoichi in his arms.
"She's pregnant, and bleeding!" He shouts, and this galvanizes the hospital staff. Finally, he lowers Sally onto the wheeled stretcher, and they're speeding through the white-washed halls, praying for the first time in years, that things will turn out okay.
Somewhere in between tests and holding his girl's hand through her spasms, the doctors draw him away to fill out paperwork and explain what has happened to her. By the time they're done, Sally has been moved to a room to recover quietly.
Her lovely face is pale and pinched, an IV drip drapes from its frame to her wrist.
"Babe." He says, and she turns.
"Oh Eddie." She says, and then crumples in on herself, wracked with sobs.
He's there, she's in his arms, and they're both crying. They were going to be parents, and the enormity of it hits him for the first time, just as this opportunity silently bleeds itself away.
"I couldn't even... keep the baby in me long enough." She whimpers into his shoulder, and he shakes her a little.
"Jesus Christ! It's not your fault. Wasn't anybody's. This changes nothing. I still want you, y'know." Sally says nothing, just clings to him, and they can't really do anything for the other except be there, and stay there.
They say life carries on.
And it does.
They'll get through this.
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