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"It means exactly what it sounds like it means. You're twenty two weeks pregnant."

"'Pregnant'?! How on earth can I be pregnant?! I'm not a woman!" I could feel my earlier hysterics coming back.

"Internally, you are." Komui's voice was calm and serious.

"What does that mean?!" My voice was louder than it needed to be, but Komui didn't even blink.

"It means that you have all the same internal organs as a woman." When I just stared blankly at him, he explained further. "You have a uterus, ovaries, a vagina, all of it."

"I do not have a vagina! I'd think I'd know if I had one of those!"

The outburst made Komui smile. He handed me a page from his stack. It looked like gibberish to me, even the diagram meant nothing, but I knew it was supposed to be proof of what he was telling me. "It's not open yet, but it's there."

I shoved the page back at him and collapsed backwards onto the table. I couldn't stop the tears from falling. "How?"

Komui laughed. "Well, you're pregnant because you had sex with a man. I'd think that would be pretty obvious." His mirth suddenly vanished and he sighed heavily. "But if you're asking how it's possible... While you were unconscious, I went through your medical records. It happened when you lost your Innocence. While you were working to reconnect with it, it was restructuring your insides. We missed it at the time because we were focused on your heart and arm."

I didn't know how to react to that. "...My Innocence did this to me?"

Komui nodded, but otherwise ignored my question. "Allen. How long have you known that you're gay?"

I glared at him, but that just made him laugh. "Like I said earlier, I don't care. Actually, I prefer it that way. I don't have to worry about you touching my sister. So...?"

"... ... ...Since before I came to the Order..."

Komui briefly looked shocked, but then he nodded. "Anyway, your Innocence probably gave you those female organs because you're gay. And given that you conceived less than a month after your eighteenth birthday, it's probably safe to say that your Innocence was preventing you from getting pregnant while you were a minor. If-"

I cut him off when I whimpered. The thing inside me was moving again. Komui smiled as he took my hand and placed it on my belly. He held it there when I tried to pull it away. I whimpered more; now I could feel it through my palm instead of just from the inside. "Allen, that's your baby. Your daughter."

He continued to babble, but I wasn't listening. I didn't even register that he'd said the baby was a girl. I was too busy fighting back the hysteria. I was given no choice but to face the fact that the mysterious thing inside me was actually a baby; a child I had somehow conceived in the uterus I had apparently had for years. But in the middle of my torment, a thought struck me. "Can't you just get rid of it?"

Komui's face fell. It was obvious from his expression that the question made him sad. "...Allen... ...The short answer is no. You're too far along. At twenty two weeks, we can't abort the baby without doing serious harm to you."

I don't know what expression was on my face, but it made Komui smile. "If you really don't want the baby, we can arrange for an adoption. But you need to calm down and put some serious thought into that before you decide to go through with it."

I nodded slowly. He finally released my hand and handed me my sweater. "Before you decide on anything though, there are a few things you need to do."

"Ok..." The word was muffled as I pulled the thick fabric over my head.

"First, you need to go to the cafeteria and get a decent meal. Don't stop when you think you've eaten enough: eat until you're full. Being underweight is only going to make the rest of your pregnancy more difficult. Understand?"

He stared sternly at me until I nodded. "I understand."

"Once you've done that, you need to go find the baby's father and tell him what's going on."

My eyes went wide with terror. "What?! No! I can't do that!"

Komui sighed. "Allen. It's his baby. He deserves to know that it exists."

"But he's never going to believe me!"

"Then bring him to me, and I'll prove it to him." He chuckled briefly. "Actually, even if he does believe you, you should still bring him to me. That way I can do an ultrasound for the both of you, and you'll get to see your daughter."

I frowned at that, but he ignored my reaction. "You're free to go now, Allen. Remember, go eat before you do anything else, ok?"

Easing myself off the exam table, I made my way to the door. Komui called to me before I reached it. "Allen? There's no reason for you to be embarrassed by your body."

I scowled at him, freezing as I adjusted how my sweater hung over my belly. He smiled gently at me. "You're not fat, you're pregnant."

The words only made me frown more. I turned back around and stalked the rest of the way to the door, slamming it behind me.

Completely lost in thought, I wandered to the cafeteria. Not because it was where I was told to go, but because that's where my feet always took me when I was hungry.

The size of my order made Jerry blink, but he didn't comment on it. I sat at a table alone, but it didn't stay that way for long. Lenalee joined me and talked nonstop while I ate. I didn't hear a single word she said. My mind only had enough room to concentrate on two things: finally filling my stomach, and the news I had just gotten. I barely noticed she was there.

That is until she pulled the fork out of my hand. "Are you even listening to me, Allen?"

"No." I reached for my fork, but she pulled it away.

She rolled her eyes. "Of course not. You never listen when you're eating. I should have known better."

I glared at her, but she didn't care. Her initial annoyance had faded to concern. "I thought you were watching your weight, isn't this going a little overboard?"

I took advantage of her worry to take my fork back. I stared at her levelly for a moment, debating how to tell her I'd been ordered to give that up without telling her why. "For your information, I just had a checkup. I'm fifteen pounds underweight."

I started to dig into my food again, but once again, the fork was pulled from my hand. If she were anyone else, she would be dying a slow, painful death right about now. I glared across the table. "Lena. Give it back."

She shook her head at me, the expression on her face said she thought I was lying. "Allen... What really happened? You were trying so hard to lose weight. Did you give up because it wasn't working? Or-"

"Lena. Your brother did the exam. Go talk to him if you don't believe me. Now give me my fork back and leave me alone." The words upset her, but I had too many other problems to care. Especially with the realization that if I couldn't tell her the truth, then there was no way I'd be able to tell him.

She stormed off, taking the fork with her. It didn't particularly bother me though. I was hungry enough that I could make do with my other utensils.

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Lavi, having just returned from a mission, was completely unaware of everything that had transpired that morning. He walked past the Supervisor's office, as he usually did on his way to his room, and what was about to happen would catch him completely off guard.

The door opened without a sound, and he was yanked into the office by a firm hand on his elbow. It was dark inside, the lights were off and the drapes were closed. The Bookman apprentice narrowed his eye as he looked around for the owner of the hand that had pulled him inside. "Komui? What's going on? Why is it so dark?"

"Tell me, Lavi. How long have you been sleeping with Allen?"

Lavi whirled around, trying to figure out where the voice was coming from. The Supervisor was suggesting something truly mind boggling. "What are you talking about, Komui? I'm not sleeping with anyone here! And definitely not Allen!"

"Don't deny it. You've been having sexual intercourse with Allen."

"Have you completely lost it, Komui?! Something like that would be against the vows I took when I became Bookman's apprentice." Lavi was trying really hard to stay calm. Komui's last sentence had made him want to throw up. "And what on earth would make you think I was ...doing that... with Allen of all people?!"

Komui sighed inwardly. The redhead was tougher than he thought. But really, who else could have gotten Allen pregnant? He'd have to try a different tactic. "Fine, so you're not actively sleeping with him. But you two have done it, right?"

That nauseous feeling wasn't going to go away. Not while the Supervisor remained insane. "Komui. I have never touched, thought about touching, or wanted to touch Allen like that. He's a guy! And I don't find him even remotely attractive! Besides, he's sleeping with your sister!"

Komui frowned. "I know for a fact that he is not sleeping with my precious Lenalee, so don't try to change the subject."

Lavi blinked a few times and peeled his hands off his mouth. "He's not? ... Then this wasn't an elaborate ploy to make me say that out loud?"

Silence was the only answer he got, so he kept talking. "I really don't understand why you're so concerned with Allen anyway, even if he was ... interested in men, wouldn't that be none of your business? I mean, don't you usually try to stay out of those kinds of things?"

"I said, don't change the subject. This is about you and Allen, not me. Now stop with the denial, and tell me: when was the last time you and Allen exchanged bodily fluids?"

Lavi gagged. That mental image was too much. And to make it worse, Komui was clearly serious. "For the last time, I have never done anything like that with Allen, ever."

The redhead found the doorknob and escaped before Komui could ask about that disturbing subject again. He wandered aimlessly through the halls, trying desperately to shake the mental image of having sex with Allen that the Supervisor had put in his head.

At that precise moment, Allen was just finishing putting away his dishes from lunch. The two ran right into each other outside the cafeteria. "Oh, Lavi! I'm so sorry!"

"Don't worry about it, buddy. I wasn't paying attention either." Lavi forced a smile. Seeing Allen almost immediately after what had just happened was definitely not what he needed. But on the other hand... "Hey, Allen? Do you have any idea why Komui thinks we slept together?"

Allen paled and adjusted his sweater. "He thinks you and I ...?"

"Apparently." Lavi shuddered. Then he eyed his chunky friend. "You didn't tell him that we did, did you?"

"Of course not! How could you say that?" Tears pricked at the corners of Allen's eyes.

Lavi frowned. It had become way too easy to make the white haired teen cry lately. "Relax Allen, I didn't mean anything by it. Honest."

Allen blushed as he wiped his tears on his sleeve. He forced a smile. "I know, I'm sorry. Ugh... I should've known that Komui would go off the deep end when he learned that I'm gay."

At that point, he was just glad that Komui hadn't told the other that he was pregnant; that would have been completely awful.

He started to walk away, but Lavi caught his arm. The redhead felt like his one good eye was going to fall out of his head. He hadn't thought, even for a single second, that the part about Allen being gay was true. "You're ...?"

Allen shrugged as he pulled his arm free. "That's not a problem is it?"

Lavi blinked. "No. Of course it's not. ...Wait! So Komui thinks that we ... because he knows that you're sleeping with a man, and he just assumed it was me?"

"Probably." Allen shrugged again.

A devious smile crossed Lavi's face. So Allen is actually sleeping with someone... "Who is it really? Is it a fellow exorcist? Or is it one of those scientists that you're so close to? It's not Johnny, is it?"

"Definitely not!" Allen hadn't been planning on answering the question, but that suggestion deserved a very emphatic denial.

"Then who is it?"

"None of your fucking business." Allen turned and walked away, leaving Lavi too stunned over the curse word to pursue him.