Hello again everyone! Wow! Thank you all so very much for your reviews! I hope you continue to enjoy this story as much as I am :-) Here is Chapter 3 as a thank you for your kindness (and for your enjoyment :D )
Tamora and Felix sat in a perplexed silence for a moment.
"What?!" Tamora yelled, trying to get a grasp on what they had just been told.
"Jimminy jaminy…" Felix said softly. Then again but MUCH louder, "JIMMINY JAMINY!" he yelled, "we're having a baby!"
Tamora felt dizzy, as images of kids, diapers, bottles and (oddly enough) pie flashed through her intricately programmed mind.
"We're having a baby!?" she said in a true state of disbelief.
"Yes I-a said that already," Dr. Mario said looking slightly annoyed.
"Doc, I swear to you if you're playing around I'll blast you so far even Bowser won't bother to look for you," she growled, still not sure if Mario was serious.
"No, I am-a serious!" he said quickly, putting his hands up in front of his face.
"Oh Tammy! We're going to be parents!" Felix exclaimed, jumping up to give his wife a hug.
"Yes I know!" she said, still not quite sure how she comprehended this news or if what they had just been told was real.
She, Tamora Jean Calhoun-Fix-It was going to be a mother?!
She was more confused than when Felix first asked her to teach him how to shoot a gun. And believe me, she was REALLY confused then. Now she was extremely baffled. But amidst the surprise she also felt…excited?
"How far along?" she asked.
"About-a two months," he replied, trying to keep his face as serious looking as possible, which was actually quite difficult considering Felix was still freaking out in his seat.
"Jimminy jaminy a new little mister or little misses! Isn't this great Tammy?" He asked, shaking with excitement and grinning like a madman.
"Yes! A baby…" she replied. Me…a mother… she thought to herself realizing she was semi-excited semi-freaked out.
By the time they returned home, Felix was still as jittery as a baby cybug. Tamora couldn't get him to calm down.
At some point, he was so excited that she thought he might start glitching. "Jimminy jaminy" or "oh my land" was used in about every other sentence coming out of Felix's mouth, which Tamora couldn't help but grin at for all the exuberance he exerted.
"We have to baby proof the house, and buy little socks and shirts, and pick out names…Goodness gracious, I'm so excited Tammy! How are you feeling about all this, sweetie?" Felix asked enthusiastically, and finally beginning to wind down.
"Pretty good, solider. I'm still trying to get over this whole 'being a mother' thing though. But I guess I'm excited," she said truthfully.
Believe or not, she actually liked babies, as long as they weren't those of cybugs. She was just trying to get over the fact that she and Felix would actually be having one and that she, the hard as nails sergeant she was, would be a mother. That aspect was actually what scared her.
"Will I be a good mother?" She questioned herself as she looked down at her still flat stomach, still in disbelief that a future character was inside there.
Felix would definitely be a good father; kind, caring, compassionate, and loving but, she, on the other hand...
"Pumpkin? Did you hear me?" asked Felix. Tamora didn't realize she had been so in depth with her thoughts.
"Hmm? What is it dear?"
"How are we going to tell everyone? We won't exactly be able to hide it for long, you know in a few months or so. It'll be pretty apparent, ma'am, especially in your game," said a fidgeting Felix.
Now, Sergeant Calhoun had a whole new problem on her mind. She couldn't exactly (nor did she want to) tell her squad of men that she had gone and gotten pregnant.
Wouldn't that make her look soft and…vulnerable? Nuh uh, she couldn't afford for them to think that.
She knew by Felix's thumb twiddling that he (being a overprotective soon to be father) was trying to hint that he really wanted her to tell her men, even though he knew the consequences of asking her could be fatal.
"Um, you mean the Nicelander's, Sugar Russians, Ralph, and Vanellope?" she said, trying to avoid what she knew Felix was really asking.
"Well, yeah but shouldn't you're squad know too? We can't have you gettin' hurt out there now," he said and immediately began to regret doing so as Tamora's face darkened.
"Fix-It, you know for one thing that I never get seriously hurt during battle and if I did I'd regenerate. I can't exactly abandon my job," she said angrily.
"But ma'am, you might regenerate but not necessarily the baby. You'd have to take SOME time off at least during the last few months. Can't have you goin' into labor in the middle of a game. We both know that THAT would not be good at all."
Tamora sighed, "Well, I guess that is true. That would be a disaster. I guess I could train Markowski to TEMPORARILY take my spot during my free-time," she said, frowning a bit. "But that would also mean less time with you."
"Tammy, you give me the honey-glows something awful," he replied as a pink flush overcame his face.
* Hope you enjoyed that chapter! Thanks again for reviewing and for reading my story :) Edited by ChristinaF1234...thank you! *
