A/N: Thanks for all the reviews. I love hearing that you guys are enjoying this story. On to chapter three!

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I followed the Moyashi on autopilot, and he led the way with a slow shuffling walk that gave away just how heavily pregnant he was. The room he took me to was a very sparsely furnished bedroom, a small bed covered in pillows and a couple wooden chairs were the only items in the room. Allen pushed me into the chair closest to the bed, and then he disappeared into the closet.

When he returned a minute later, his sweater and pants had been replaced with a short light blue dress and knee high socks. He sat down on the edge of the bed and groaned through another contraction before he finally explained. "Male parasite-types are able to get pregnant. Obviously neither of us knew that, so when you and I had sex that night, we did it unprotected, and you knocked me up. When we found out I was pregnant, Cross and Komui tried to convince me to abort the baby, but I could never do that, so Cross came and took me away from the Order. He put that spell on me to disguise that I'm male so that I could travel around freely and wouldn't have to hide all the time."

The story paused as another contraction hit him, but he picked right back up once it passed. "We've been pretending that I'm his niece; he took me in when my parents kicked me out for getting pregnant."

He might have fallen silent then, or he might have kept talking, but I was no longer paying attention to him. My ability to think had finally come back.

If it weren't for Cross' comments and actions, I probably would have thought that I had fallen asleep on the train, and that this was some strange nightmare. But this really was happening. Allen was pregnant. With my child. I had gotten him pregnant. I was going to be a father. I didn't know how to process that, it was a concept that I couldn't wrap my head around, but I knew I wouldn't know how I felt towards my child until I actually saw the baby.

My feelings towards Allen were another issue. If my feelings had never changed, it would have been so easy to process that he was going to be giving birth to my child soon. I would have been able to just walk away. But now that I knew that I was in love with the Moyashi, everything was so much more complicated. But I quickly realized that how I felt over the whole situation was hurt. It hurt me that he had hidden this from me, that he had never told me he was pregnant. "Were you ever going to tell me?"

Allen had apparently still been talking, as his mouth snapped shut at my interruption. He blinked at me for a moment before he turned his gaze back to his pregnant belly. "No. I planned to give up the baby for adoption and then return to the Order as if nothing had happened. I was never going to tell you or anyone else that I had had a child."

I had to wait for another contraction to pass before he clarified. "I thought about telling you, after all, it's your baby too, but it was you and me. Any attempt I made to tell you would have resulted in an argument and you hating me more than you already do. I counted myself lucky that you truly had forgotten our drunken night together, and left it at that."

I wanted to tell him that he was wrong, that I didn't hate him, but I couldn't make myself say the words. So I asked something else that was bothering me. "'Planned'? Past tense? Meaning it's not what you want anymore?"

Allen sighed heavily and rubbed his belly through the thin dress. "I don't know. I never really wanted to give up my baby, and then to have you show up, today of all days, just when I happened to go into labor, it's just so... ugh. I don't know."

His head suddenly snapped up and his silver gaze was clear as he stared at me. "Why are you here anyway? Why come looking for me? Why- argh!"

Allen doubled over as another contraction hit him. It was hard watching him in pain, but there wasn't anything I could do other than watch; comforting him would have been a waste of energy and, even though I loved him, it was not in my character to do so.

Instead of returning his attention to me when the contraction passed, Allen pushed himself off the bed with a whole lot of effort, and waddled to the open door. "Oi, Cross! My water broke! Get your butt down here!"

It wasn't until he said the words that I noticed the wet spot on the sheets and the trail of liquid that had followed him to the doorway. I was at a loss for words over what I was witnessing.

Cross appeared in the room before Allen made it back to the bed. Without speaking to each other, they prepped for what was about to happen. Allen climbed fully onto the bed and laid down. Reclining against the pillows, he arranged the fabric of his dress, bent his knees, and spread his legs. Cross tied his hair back, rolled up his sleeves, and then knelt between Allen's spread legs.

I couldn't see what Cross was doing from the angle I was at, but he wore a very serious expression. Looking at Allen though, I could tell from the embarrassment on his face and the way he occasionally squirmed that Cross was examining his birth canal.

Cross grunted as he climbed off the bed. He spoke as he fixed his sleeves. "You're about five centimeters dilated. Only halfway there. I'll check you again in an hour. In the meantime-"

He glared at me, but Allen interrupted him with a heavy sigh. "Save the lecture. He didn't know. I never told him."

Cross' glare turned on Allen. The Moyashi squirmed under the tense gaze. "He was out on a mission when I found out, and you showed up and whisked me away before he returned."

"Allen." Cross and I both knew that Allen was making excuses.

The name was all it took to make the Moyashi cave. "Fine. I was never going to tell him. We don't even like each other. We got drunk one night and had sex. That's all. I don't even remember doing it."

Another contraction hit him, and Allen and Cross glared at each other through it. The staring contest broke when Cross turned and left the room. Allen sighed and collapsed back onto the pillows on the bed. He closed his eyes and turned his head towards the wall. "You can go ahead and leave now. I know you don't want to be here, dealing with this. So just go. I don't mind."

The dejected expression on his face contradicted his words. But I couldn't tell if it was because he didn't want me to leave or if he was upset over me finding out about his pregnancy. I couldn't leave though. I didn't want to leave. The whole baby thing was weird, but I still hadn't told him that my feelings had changed, and I knew now that I had to do that. I couldn't put it off any longer.

I stood up from my chair and moved to sit on the edge of the bed, careful to avoid the wet spot from Allen's water breaking. The Moyashi's eyes flew wide open as he felt my weight on the mattress. "Kanda?! What are you-?!"

"I can't leave yet, Moyashi. I haven't gotten what I came here for."

The confused look on his face was priceless. "What do you mean? What-?"

I cut him off when I leaned in and kissed him. It was just a brief kiss; I pulled away before he reacted. He lay there frozen for a moment before he started freaking out. "What the hell was that?! You came all this way to kiss me?! What-? Why-? Why?"

I sighed and stared at a blank spot on the wall. He didn't hit me, so at least I knew I hadn't made him too angry. "I told you that morning that I wanted to know if your feelings ever changed. Well, mine did. A long time ago. But you were gone by the time I figured it out. So when I learned where you were, I had to come see you. I had to tell you, I love you."

This time Allen did look like he was going to hit me, but a contraction distracted him from doing so. When it passed, he leaned back against the pillows and stared at the ceiling. He said nothing.

I didn't expect him to say the words back. Sure, part of me had hoped that he would, but I had been fairly certain that he wouldn't. This shocked beyond words reaction was actually better than what I thought he would do, especially given the circumstances, so I just sat there and waited for him to gather his thoughts.

It wasn't until after another contraction worked its way through his body that he finally reacted. He reached over and tugged on my hair. I immediately grabbed his hand and pulled it out of the strands. "Oi! What the fuck do you think you're doing, Baka Moyashi?"

He sighed and let his hand fall to the mattress. "I was just... making sure that that was really you. You said something really bizarre, and I had to make sure my brain wasn't playing tricks on me."

I snorted at that. "You're in labor, Moyashi. I don't think you have the right to judge me for saying weird things."

"Point taken..." Allen's hand began rubbing his belly, and he was silent for a moment. When he did speak again, it was more like he was thinking out loud than actually talking to me. "Well, you're obviously not joking, you would never joke about that, especially not under these circumstances. And you wouldn't say it to be mean either, that's not your style; if you wanted to hurt me, you'd have done it physically. But you would also never hop on a train just to come see me, like you claim to have done."

He stopped talking to groan through another contraction, and I used the silence afterwards to set him straight. "I would if I meant everything I said."

Allen stared at me for a moment, silver eyes wide with shock, before he looked away. His voice was really quiet when he spoke. "...Why now?"

I snorted. "Because fate has a cruel sense of humor. I didn't exactly plan on finding you in labor, you know."

He let out a sound that could only be described as a giggle. "That's true."

This time when silence fell between us, it felt a little less awkward. Allen broke the silence to groan through another contraction, and when it passed he scowled at me. "You're awfully calm for someone who was just told that he's going to be a father."

I raised an eyebrow at the accusation. "You're awfully calm for a man who's going to be giving birth soon. Shouldn't you be freaking out?"

"Touché."

Silence fell once again, this time even more comfortable than the last. I didn't speak again until after the Moyashi's next contraction. "Why are you so calm anyway?"

Allen sighed and pushed himself up into a sitting position. He rubbed circles on his belly as he spoke. "Not long after I left the Order with Cross, he apprenticed me to a midwife."

I raised an eyebrow at him. "Really? A midwife?"

He snorted. "Yeah. He said it would either convince me to abort the baby or teach me what I needed to know for childbirth, because he wasn't going to sit here and hold my hand through it."

Allen's laughter at the memory was cut off by a contraction. When it passed, he looked up at the clock and muttered under his breath. "Three and a half minutes."

I shot him a questioning look, but he ignored it and went back to telling his story. "I spent six weeks working under Miss Stella. Between seeing all that and having to act like I was a girl, it was really hard. I didn't think I could take it. And the first time I witnessed a woman giving birth... it took everything I had to keep from passing out. After it was over, Miss Stella began to chew me out for my behavior, but that's when she figured out I was pregnant, so instead of getting lectured, we just sat and talked about my pregnancy. She's the only person I know who agreed with my decision to not abort the baby."

The groan he let out this time was a borderline scream, and he swore under his breath when the contraction passed. "Anyway, to answer your question, I'm calm because I'm a fully certified midwife. This may be my first time giving birth, but I've delivered quite a few babies over the past several months."

It was hard to imagine the Moyashi as a midwife; it was almost as ridiculous as him being pregnant. "It'd be interesting to see the look on the rabbit's face when you tell him that."

"Oh god, can you imagine?" Allen let out a short snicker, but the humor faded quickly. "Ugh. I don't think I'd ever hear the end of it if he found out I had a baby, though."

That thought made me panic a little. "It'd be even worse if he found out that it was mine."

The Moyashi snorted. "And now you see why I wasn't going to tell anyone that I was pregnant."