My exams began, but fortunately I only have 3. From those I wrote it one today, so only 2 left! Yay!

I hope you'll enjoy this chapter! ^^

Warning: Not correct English sentences!

„No."

„Da~"

„I said no."

„Da~ da~"

„What are you, a Russian?" I asked as the baby squealed in my arms.

„I can see the love in its eyes" laughed Ace.

„Don't call him 'it'! He is a baby boy" I hissed at him dangerously.

„Okay, okay" he sulked.

„Daughter, what's in your arms?" asked Pops.

„Well, you see…"

Flashback

I was wandering in the town and tried to save as much as warm I could, because it was freezing cold.

„Damn Ace… he is running around half-naked like the temperature isn't -5 Celsius…" I muttered. „Why am I again out in this cold?"

I didn't get an answer, so I just continued my journey after some supplies.

„Stupid bird sent me out there… I swear next time he'll change into his phoenix form, I'll tear out a feather from him… or I'll try… Oh, I get it! I'll use a bottle to catch a little blue flame!" I said excitedly, but a sound stopped me.

It was near to me, but I couldn't figure out its place. I called out my cat ears and focused on the sound which seemed like a baby billow. I walked up to where my ears guided and I found myself in a dirty alley, full of trash. In the middle of a huge amount of garbage, I noticed some movement, so I threw off 2 bags and under there was a red face which was crying the living life out of a little body. Someone just left a baby in an alley, among the trash. I blinked 3 times, because I didn't want to believe it and after that I poked the baby's face, but he has just begun to cry louder.

„Okay, okay, I am sorry!" I apologized quickly and tried to find out beside the fact that he was in the garbage, why could he cry. Oh, right… he was ass naked. „God! You need clothes!" I yelled and immediately took off my jacket and my sweater; first I wrapped him up in the pullover and lapped up in the jacket. His tears stopped and he looked up to me with his chocolate-brown eyes. „Dude…you got me with your eyes" I declared and run towards the ship, while I was yelling. „FUCK THE SUPPLIES!"

End of flashback

„You want to take care of him?" asked Thatch.

„If I'd find you in the trash, I would take care of you too, so yes. I'll look after him!" was my answer.

As I was talking to Thatch, the baby pulled my hair harshly.

„Dammit baby, I said no!"

„Gaaaaaaa~!" he yelled happily and I couldn't help, but smile.

„The baby won't freeze, but you will, yoi" said Marco and the blue flames surrounded me. I gasped at that, because I've always wanted to see or feel personally those flames. It was amazing; they radiated warmth and ticklish licked my skin. I giggled a bit and poked one of them. It danced around my finger and then disappeared.

„Thank you, Marco" I smiled up to him.

„Da~"

„I think the baby thanks as well."

„Anytime, yoi" he poked lightly the child's face who caught his finger with his baby hands.

„Gaaaaaa!"

I lifted him up a little, so Marco didn't have to bend down so much.

„I think he likes you" I giggled.

„Everyone like me" he smirked.

„So confident. Want to hold him?" I asked and he nodded unsurely. „Be careful with his head and put your arms around him like this" I guided his arms, so he was holding the baby properly.

„Daaaaaaa~!" wailed with his arms the little boy.

„Well, hello. I am Marco and the one who found you is Cat, yoi" smiled a little the commander. „Even we aren't that cruel to let a baby like you in a dirty alley" he muttered.

I stroked the child's face and he caught my finger too.

„Oi! Don't steal people's finger-" the baby cut through Marco's sentence when he grabbed the blonde's finger again, put it to mine and squealed with his baby delight.

I blushed and looked up at Marco, who was watching me with an unreadable look, but I felt something warm around my hand. He fully took it in his and blue flames surrounded our connected hand. I couldn't speak; it was so peaceful and warm which I didn't feel in my life.

„Ahem" cleared his throat Thatch, which resulted a smack on his head by Haruta.

„You just broke their moment!"

I slipped out my hand from his and took the baby in my arms again.

„I-I just go and… uhm… feed him" I muttered and headed to the kitchen.

I hurried there while my face was on fire.

„He held my hand…" I whispered. „Because of you" I looked down at the baby, who looked back with an innocent expression. „Oooooh, no. Don't come with the I-am-a-baby-and-I-am-cute thing, because it doesn't-" he showed me a toothless smile. „Okay! It works!" I giggled and hugged him.

I tried to find a bottle in the huge kitchen, but with just only one arm, it was a little difficult. I muttered some curses under my breath, because I didn't want the baby to hear them. After what looked like an eternity, I found one and I put down the boy to wash the nursing bottle. I took out a saucepan and poured some milk into it to warm it up. A few minutes later the baby was back in my arms and he was eating soundly from his bottle.

„You are cute, you know, right?" I asked him, but he was too busy with the milk. „But you'll grow up and break girls' hearts too."

„He too?"

„Haruta!" I turned around and saw the female commander.

„You mentioned Marco earlier, right?"

„No."

„Don't lie to me, I know you like him… like? No. Love him" she smiled.

„I-" I wanted to deny, but she was my friend and I wanted to be honest with her; at least in this case. „Yes, you are right. But he doesn't feel the same, so these kind of feelings are deep inside me" I smiled bitterly. „And I can say the same to you with Lucas" her face went red, but she didn't deny it.

„You should try."

„I've got a lot of rejection, so I think I don't want to augment it."

„I have never seen him act like this around anyone. Why not give it a chance?"

„Because it will hurt in the end" it was a fact.

„Love isn't just happiness. You have to pay the cost and after that you will be happy" she was right, but then again, I only felt the bad side of the love so far.

„Gaaaaaa!"

„Sorry, we ignored you" I chuckled at the baby. „I don't want to get hurt. Not emotionally. I bear the physical pain, but not the emotional" I shook my head and walked out with the baby.

After a week the baby was comfortable with everyone, but mostly he was clinging on Marco, Thatch and me.

„Why doesn't he like me?" whined Lucas, because every time he went close to the baby, he immediately began to cry.

„Maybe he can feel that something is wrong with you" answered Matt.

„You meanie!" pouted at him Lucas.

„But I am surprised that he likes you so much, Cat" said Matt to me while I was throwing up the baby in the air. Of course not too high, but he seemed to like it because of the continuous giggle.

„Yeah, I am surprised as well. You know I don't really like kids at least they aren't in a huge amount, but he is just so cute."

„And he stinks" snorted Ace.

„You are the one who talk. You were a baby once too, please don't let me explain it" I grinned.

„Hell no!" he shouted and run off.

„Low blow, yoi" smirked my commander.

„Last night he slept with you, right? Then it's my turn" I said.

„Yes, but if you want, he can sleep with me again" he offered.

„No, I missed his little body, so he'll stay with me."

„Why not with me?" whined Thatch.

„Because you'd throw him off from the bed, that's why, yoi."

„You are mean too!"

I smiled at them and went to the kitchen to feed him. I used to take care of him and it was like I had my own baby without the pregnancy and the birth-giving.

„Come on, little one, we are going to your night walk" I cooed to him and he made his baby laugh.

On the first night he didn't want to sleep, so he didn't let me sleep either. Great, right? I decided to take a short walk or to feed him again, but when I reached the kitchen, the baby was already asleep and he didn't wake up until morning.

When I stepped out from the mess hall, the deck was empty which a rare sight was, but then again, I didn't complain.

„It looks like everyone is tired" I murmured, and slowly begun to walk on the deck.

Nobody's POV

Marco was the one on watch duty, so he wanted to change his arms into wings, but he saw Cat and the baby. He wanted to approach her, but something caught his interest.

„Well, baby… What about a story? Once upon a time, there was a little girl. She had a big family with parents and two big brothers. She loved her family and did everything to make their life easier. She cooked, cleaned and learnt well, so her parents didn't have to worry about her. She loved her two brave, big brothers. They were twins, you know? She always smiled beside the fights in her family" at that part her voice cracked, but she continued.

„Nobody could see her crying, not even a hint of sadness on her face. She was always smiling, but after a while, it didn't reach her eyes. When she was older, her parents begun to yell at her and call her everything and she still loved them. There were happy moments, like the time when I went fishing with my dad" she didn't seem to notice the aspect change and Marco listened.

„We had such a great time! I caught so many fish, though they were smaller than my father's. That was a perfect day! Later, he has begun to hit me when he was drunk and I still loved him. My mother told me that I was useless and I should go to find some work and she called me a whore. That was at age 17. My brothers fought with them a lot and they just left me with them one day. Why, you ask? They had enough. I wished I can do the same, but I had to make sure mom and dad didn't kill each other. Yes, their fights changed into physically, not just verbal. I remember when I stood between them and my father hit me so hard, that I fell into the wall and my head begun to bleed" at that point her tears were falling like a waterfall and she was hugging the baby tightly, Marco was clenching his fist and tried to hold back his flames.

„They didn't even noticed it! I didn't have a real, honest friend. I was afraid that they would turn their back to me when they would find out my life, so I was silent and stayed at my own business. I was so alone" she sobbed. „And that was the worst! I tried the suicide as well" Marco's breathing stopped for a minute. „Like you see, I didn't succeed, but at that time I didn't see any other escape. I remember when I lost weight, because we didn't have anything to eat. I think I lost 10 kg in a month. Not so much, but I was skinny as hell. My classmates mocked me because of my clothes and my diligence. It was just another blow. And when I got rejected rudely by the boy who I liked, I took a handful sleeping pill and laid down on my bed. The next thing I knew that I was in a hospital and after that my mother beat me up so hard, I didn't recognize myself in the mirror. I was a broken mess. Just a body and an empty soul. Nobody helped me to deal with these things! It hurt me so much!" she cried. „I am sorry that I am not perfect! I am just me! I am so sorry!"

Marco couldn't stand that anymore. He run up to her and pulled her into a tight hug carefully, not to crush the baby.

„You are worth something and you are yourself, that's all that matter, yoi" he murmured into her hair.

„M-Marco! Did you… you heard everything, didn't you?" she asked trembling. „Why didn't you tell me you are here?"

„Because you wouldn't tell me about your past."

„And what now? You will laugh at me like the others? Make fun of me? Throw me off from the ship, because I am not like the others? Hand to the Marines? Sell-" she yelled while she was crying, but he crashed his lips on hers.

She stood there frozen, her eye wide and she tried to understand what was happening. Marco didn't stop the kiss until he felt that Cat's body relaxed and she kissed him back.

„None of them, yoi. I'll protect you."

Oh my God a kiss! :D And we knew something about Cat's past again. I loved to write this chapter because of the baby :D I hope you like it too. I cried when I wrote about Cat's past, but it had to be make :)

Thank you guys so much for the reviews and for the follows and favoring! You always make me happy and make up my day! * give everyone a big hug and lot of cookies* ^J^

Thanks to chained2love, Luna loves u, Aria868 an pinkus-pyon for following/ favoring the story ^^

Review answers:

xxXxx: Phew, thank you ^^ I am glad you like it. I hope you liked this too!

'guest:Lol loved it can't wait for your next chapter': Here is the next~! And don't worry, I'll write more! :D

black medusia: Hehe ^^ Marco is pushing Cat's buttons, but she likes it, though, she doesn't know how to handle the daring blonde commander :D

Transformers' BABY: I laughed at your review it was funny :D Well, those two know how to make things awkward, but it makes life more interesting ^^

ichigo1508: Sure she has. She is selfish if it's come to what hers. And Marco will try out those claws personally :D