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The next morning, I sat in the rocking chair with Adeline in my arms, watching the Moyashi open an ark gate in the middle of the living room. Not long after I had accidentally awoken him during the incident with Alma, the Science Division had found a way to remove the Fourteenth Noah from Allen's body, but the boy still had control over the ark, something that would prove very useful for getting all of the baby's things moved to headquarters that day.

Lavi came bounding through the gate the moment it was opened, with Lenalee following behind him at a more reasonable pace. The Usagi rushed straight to Allen and almost knocked him over with the force of his hug. "So where's the baby?! I can't wait to meet your child!"

I swore internally. The Moyashi's silver eyes got huge at those words and he backed up a couple paces. I knew he was panicking over the same thing I was: our friends weren't supposed to know about the baby yet. "Wh-what are you talking about, Lavi?"

The Usagi just laughed. "Oh come on, Allen-chan! You've been gone for nine months, I know it's because you got pregnant."

The Moyashi was saved from having to answer by Lenalee, who thankfully seemed to have no clue what was happening. "What are you going on about, Lavi? Allen's not a woman."

"No, but he is a parasite-type." Lavi's words both calmed me down and stressed me out further. He didn't know because someone had told him, he knew because he had figured it out.

Lenalee just continued to stare at him. "What does that have to do with this?"

Lavi gave her a weird look, apparently confused by her confusion. "Male parasite-types have female reproductive systems. Did you not know that?"

"No." Lenalee turned to the Moyashi who was looking rather pale. "Did you know about this, Allen-kun?"

He stared at her blankly for a moment before he sighed and gave in. "I didn't know it was possible for me to get pregnant until after I already was."

The color drained quickly from Lenalee's face as she gaped at the Moyashi. "You mean you actually had a baby?"

He nodded once, and Lavi grinned as he threw an arm around his shoulders. "Ha! I was right! So where is it? I want to see how adorable your baby turned out to be!"

Allen frowned as he reluctantly gestured towards Addie, and the other two excitedly turned to see what he was pointing at. They both froze when they saw me though, momentarily forgetting about the baby, even though she was in my arms. The first comment was what I expected it to be, as I had taken to wearing my hair in a low braid to keep it away from Addie's grabby hands, and I knew that a change in my hairstyle would not go unnoticed by our friends. "Whoa, what happened to your hair?"

I couldn't help snarling, but Lenalee spoke before I could swear at the rabbit. "I don't think I've seen you wear it braided like that before, Kanda. Why'd you change it?"

"Che. The brat thinks it's a toy."

Allen laughed at the confused looks the other two gave him; they clearly thought I was talking about him. "Addie loves to play with his hair." He leaned over my shoulder and tickled the baby. "Right, Addie?"

I expected the conversation to shift focus to the baby, but it stayed on me. Lavi narrowed his eye at Allen. "You never told us you were pregnant, but you let Kanda play with the baby?"

The Moyashi shrugged. "I had every intention of telling you about the baby, you just scared me by suddenly bringing it up like that. I wasn't expecting you to already know."

"But why'd you tell Kanda first? And what's he even doing here anyway?"

I knew the Moyashi didn't want to tell them my role in Adeline's conception like this, so I spoke up. "Che. I've been here for the last month. It's kind of impossible for him to have not told me."

Lavi opened his mouth to argue more, but Lenalee covered it with her left hand, effectively shutting him up. She leaned forward and tickled the baby the same way the Moyashi had just done. "So this is your daughter, Allen-kun. She's beautiful."

Allen grinned at the baby. "Yeah, she is. Her name is Adeline Su-"

He was cut off as Lenalee squealed and began babbling in baby talk at Addie. The way she was invading my personal space to do so was annoying, so I wordlessly offered to let her hold the baby. Her eyes gleamed as she took Addie in her arms, and she and Lavi spent several minutes fawning over the baby. "She looks just like you, Allen-kun. She's even got your silver eyes."

The Moyashi giggled at the compliment, but wasn't given a chance to speak. "It's a little weird that she's a redhead though. Did she get that from her father?"

Allen froze at the question. It was obviously Lavi's way of asking who had got him pregnant. We had decided to tell them, but it was clear from the look on the Moyashi's face that he was having second thoughts about that. When he spoke it was forced, and he deliberately avoided looking in my direction. "No, that's the color mine was before it turned white."

Lavi's eye sparkled briefly at that answer. "Then what did she get from her father?"

When Allen didn't respond, Lenalee joined in, though in a much more direct manner than the rabbit. "Oh come on, Allen-kun! You're going to have to tell us who you slept with eventually!"

The Moyashi gave me a look, clearly hoping that I had changed my mind and wouldn't want him to tell them. I hadn't. With a heavy sigh, he took Addie from Lenalee, so that the Chinese woman wouldn't accidentally drop the baby when she heard the news. "Like I was trying to tell you earlier, Addie's full name is Adeline Suzuko Kanda."

Lavi immediately burst out laughing. "Nice try, Bean Sprout, but there's no way that you and Yuu had sex!"

I snarled at the Usagi, but didn't draw Mugen; Addie was too close. "Don't use my first name!"

Lenalee ignored Lavi as he hid behind her, and placed her hands on the Moyashi's shoulders. "Allen-kun, please tell me you're messing with us."

Part of me wanted to be offended by Lenalee's reaction, but I knew that it was disbelief that had her freaked out, not disapproval. Once she got over her shock, she would be overbearingly supportive of us.

"He's not." I had planned to let Allen deal with explaining things to them, but this was taking far too long. "Addie really is my daughter."

The words were met with dead silence. It wasn't surprising, it was incredibly unbelievable news given how the Moyashi and I used to act around each other.

Lenalee found her voice first. She looked from me to Allen and back again, her violet eyes giving away her shock. "You two actually slept together? How did that happen?"

The Moyashi turned redder than he already was. "We were kind of... a little bit... drunk."

I snorted at his attempt to downplay what had happened. "Try 'very drunk'."

My words snapped Lavi out of his shock, and his one green eye burned with such a fierce curiosity that I almost regretted saying anything. "How drunk is 'very drunk'?"

If it was possible, Allen's blush deepened. "...I don't even remember doing it..."

Lavi immediately rounded on me. "You took advantage of Allen-chan while he was that drunk?!"

"Che. No one took advantage of anyone. I was just as drunk as he was." I shoved the redhead away, and took Addie from the Moyashi; we both knew that Mugen would stay sheathed if I was holding her, so he gladly handed her over. "Do you really think he'd let me anywhere near his baby if I had raped him?"

"He's got a point, Lavi." Lenalee laughed briefly, but before I could be thankful that she'd intervened, she turned on me. "But I have a question for you, Kanda... You've only been here for a month; did it really take you his whole pregnancy to decide to take responsibility for your kid?"

Her disapproving tone really bothered me. "Che. I took responsibility the day I found out. He's the idiot who ran off without telling me he was pregnant."

As I expected, they immediately turned on Allen with that news. Lenalee practically shrieked at him. "What?! You didn't tell him?! Weren't you pissed at him for knocking you up?"

The Moyashi sighed and stepped away from the upset Chinese woman. "Not really. It's not like either of us knew that I could get pregnant. And like he said, we were both very drunk that night. It was clearly an accident, so there was no reason to be mad at him."

His explanation calmed Lenalee down, but it seemed to just confuse Lavi. "But you two hate each other. Are you really saying that you didn't hate him more over this?"

Allen sighed again and shook his head. "I really only hated him around the time I started to show, especially around the first time that I couldn't button my pants because my belly was in the way. That was when I realized that I was ruining my body for his child, and I wanted to hurt him so badly for that."

He smiled sheepishly at me, embarrassed over telling me this for the first time in front of our friends. "But all that changed when I felt the baby kick for the first time. The physical changes to my body didn't matter after that. I had a brand new life growing inside me, and that was so amazing that I no longer cared how it happened."

Lenalee and Lavi shared a look, and it was clear that they didn't believe the Moyashi. He smiled at me and then followed through on his decision from the night before. "And for the record: we don't hate each other. We're dating."

The way their eyes went wide almost made me laugh. But then Lavi decided that the Moyashi was joking and laughed it off. "Good one, Bean Sprout. You almost got me with that. But even if he is the father of your child, there's no way you got that guy to agree to go out with you."

"You've got it backwards, Usagi." I didn't particularly want to set him straight, but if the Moyashi was willing to admit to something as embarrassing as giving birth to my baby, it was only fair that I do the same. "I asked him out."

Like with the Moyashi, Lavi didn't believe me, and he started laughing again. Allen and I shared a look, and then, to my surprise, he leaned over and kissed me.

The Usagi's laughter immediately died in his throat. Lenalee stared at us like her eyes were going to pop out of her head, but only for a moment. "Clearly I'm missing something. You two got drunk and slept together, which led to Allen-kun getting pregnant. You ran off without telling Kanda, but despite that, he found out, and you've been raising the baby together for the last month? And on top of all that, you're a couple? That doesn't add up. What is it I'm missing?"

The Moyashi and I shared another look, silently debating which of us had to answer her question. I sighed and looked down at the baby in my arms. "I didn't come here because I found out about the pregnancy. I came for a different reason, only to find him in labor with my child."

Lenalee narrowed her eyes at me. "And that didn't freak you out?"

I shrugged. "No."

Allen snorted and flicked my ear. "Well it freaked me out. Instead of getting upset like a normal person, he decided that the middle of my labor was the right moment to tell me that he had fallen in love with me."

"Hey! You were trying to kick me out! How else was I supposed to tell you that I wanted to stay?"

He snorted again. "Maybe by saying you wanted to stay?"

My retort was cut off by laughter coming from the open ark gate. I inwardly cringed at the sound; at least being stuck with Allen and the baby for the last month meant that I hadn't had to deal with any of the idiot Supervisor's antics. "I see you two still don't get along, Allen-kun, Kanda-kun."

Allen smiled and accepted the Chinese man's hug. "It's good to see you again, Komui-san."

"You look a lot better than the last time I saw you, Allen-kun."

The Moyashi's laughter was dark and sent a chill down my spine. "That's probably because the last time I saw you, you were trying to convince me to abort my baby."

Komui's laughter turned nervous. He backed away from Allen and clapped his hands together. "Ah, yes, the baby. Where is little Addie-chan?"

He was suddenly in my personal space, looking over Addie. It was very uncomfortable, especially when the baby talk started. "Hello Miss Adeline Walker. I-"

"Kanda." Allen's correction was loud and forceful. But Komui didn't get that it was a correction, and instead turned his focus on me. I glowered at the Supervisor while the Moyashi clarified. "Her last name isn't Walker, it's Kanda."

As expected, Komui looked me up and down with that glint in his eye that meant he was up to something. I snarled at him and tried to back away, but didn't get anywhere because of the chair I was in. "Yes. She really is my daughter."

The way Komui looked at me scared me to the core, and what he said next made that feeling even worse. "But that shouldn't be possible."

My blood ran cold. He wasn't talking about the impossibility of me sleeping with Allen; he was referring to my physical ability to get someone pregnant. I briefly wondered if the Moyashi had lied to me, but a quick glance at Allen revealed that his silver eyes were wide with horror. That look not only confirmed that I truly was the only person he'd slept with, it also told me that he knew that Komui was talking about the Second Exorcist Project.

Not sensing the tense atmosphere, Lavi laughed. "I know it's hard to process that they slept together, but do you have to be that dramatic, Komui?"

Forcing myself to remain calm, I scowled at the rabbit. I didn't want to explain this, but if I did the explaining then it would get told the way I wanted it to. "The Order experimented on me when I was a child, Usagi. He's freaked out because the records say I'm sterile."

Everything was dead silent for a moment before Allen forcibly changed the subject. "We've wasted enough time sitting here. Let's start moving things."

While Lenalee, Lavi, and Allen began taking boxes through the ark, I took Addie and followed Komui to the infirmary. The plan had always been for the Supervisor to give the baby her first medical exam while the rest of us moved her things, but given that new development, it seemed like a good idea to go with them. While I didn't particularly want to let Komui do tests on me, I needed answers.