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Two days had went by. Two days Diana, Caine, Katie, Taylor, and Lana have been living with Leo and Lily. And in those two days, Diana's stomach had grown at an unbelievable rate. Already it looked like she was almost due.
"Need anything?" Leo asked Diana, as he frequently did. Diana shook her head. The seven of them were sitting around in the living room, watching the news. Occasionally a story about them came up.
"Sandra is now live with an eyewitness of the fateful incident caused by the now famous Perdido Beach Anomaly kids. Over to you, Sandra," the anchorman said. The screen cut to a woman in what looked like the middle of the desert with another man.
"Now, what exactly happened at this military base?" Sandra asked the man. The TV screen showed his name was Greg and that he was a mechanic who was working on the trucks at the time.
"Well, there was a lot of shouting and gun noises inside. So I stopped what I was doing and looked over in time so see a boy run out. You could tell that he would kill anyone on sight, that he was not mentally stable. And then he shot green lazers out of his hands! They sliced a man's legs off! God bless those CIA workers who fell because of these demon kids. They need to be taken away from us. They're a danger to our safety," Greg said. Katie scowled and turned the television off.
"This happens all the time. The CIA can't tell the media the truth, so they make it up!" she said. "If only they knew who those people actually were in there…"
"What other conspiracy theories are actually true, then?" Leo asked eagerly. He gasped. "Do you know about Area 51?"
Katie rolled her eyes and left Leo's questions unanswered.
"I take your silence as a yes!" he said importantly.
"Whatever floats your boat," Katie said.
Lily tugged on Diana's sleeve. Diana had become fond of Lily, and would comb her hair and put it in braids. She felt like she was training for when her baby came.
"I'm hungry," Lily whispered in Diana's ear.
"Do you want some Cheerios?" Diana asked her. Lily nodded her head. Diana slowly got up, it took a lot of practice but she didn't almost fall backwards anymore. She wasn't used to having what felt like a bowling ball in front of her. Diana grabbed Lily's hand and they walked into the kitchen.
"I'm glad Diana can take care of Lily. All that combing hair and stuff got annoying," Leo said once Diana and Lily were out of earshot.
"Yeah, I can't even imagine. You've been on your own for a week. Kind of like a mini FAYZ," Katie said.
"Except this FAYZ didn't have a Gaiaphage trying to manipulate you into shooting your friend. And it didn't have mutant bugs that ate people from the inside, or a flu that literally made you cough up a lung," Lana said. Katie and Leo just stared at her. They have never heard that any of that happened.
"Don't forget the whip-handed boy that roamed the land killing everyone in sight. Oh, wait, I guess you still have to worry about that little issue," Caine said.
"And there was the fires, the talking coyotes, the Zekes who ate you alive, the flying snakes that shot poison, the starving… but the drama was excellent. TV show worthy drama," Taylor added.
"You're scaring the children," Diana chided. Leo didn't notice she entered.
"Well, I'm not necessarily a child," he said.
"Yeah, right. And when was the last time you two had a haircut? Lily is starting to look like Rapunzel, and you're starting to look like a girl. Or like Justin Bieber," Diana said. Leo dramatically flipped his hair to the side and batted his eyelashes at Diana.
"You know you love it," he said, causing the kids to crack up. In the past two days, Leo was already beginning to feel like family to them. As well as Lily. Katie had already long been part of their makeshift FAYZ family, even though she was never part of the FAYZ.
"Now, are you guys going to elaborate on the list of horrifyingly gruesome things you just blurted out, or am I going to have to wheedle it out of you? Because that is the makings of a great horror story. I could make a lot of money off of it. Of course, I would give you some of the shares. 20, maybe 30% if I'm feeling generous," Leo said. Caine shook his head.
"I'm not reliving the story of our life just for your entertainment," he said.
"Don't think of it as for my entertainment. Just pretend I'm on my deathbed, and my dying wish is to hear your graphic and gory war stories in the Fallout Alley Youth Zone," Leo said. He gave Caine puppy dog eyes.
"See, Katie doesn't beg. Heck, she never even asked us," Lana said.
"That doesn't mean I don't want to know," Katie said.
The seven kid's moment of peace was ended by the sound of several cars screeching to a stop in front of the house.
"Time to have some fun," Caine said as he stood up.
"Awesome," Leo whispered, watching Caine with awestruck.
"Come, Lily. Let's go wait in this nice corner over here," Diana said in the sweetest voice she could manage. Lily gripped Diana's hand as they huddled in the corner. Diana felt a sharp pain in her stomach for a second, but she quickly waved it away. She was probably nervous. Lana and Katie joined Diana and Lily in the corner.
"Leo, have any weapons? Probably not, though," Caine asked.
"Well, I have some NERF guns. And other NERF merchandise. But nothing that would help. You could always chuck the furniture at their heads," Leo offered.
The men who came out of the cars were heavily armed and came trotting up to the front door. Some went around to the back.
"Caine, you're the only one who can actually fight. And we have two liabilities. Maybe four," Lana said. Diana suspected she was a liability.
"Yeah, I'm not going to just surrender," Caine said. "I'll bring this house down on top of us, if I have too."
"Wait, what?" Leo said. But before he could get clarification, the soldiers burst in, shooting wildly.
Caine telepathically threw furniture at them left and right, knocking the men to the ground. Getting furniture thrown at them seemed to mess up their aim, because none of the bullets were even close to hitting any of them. Diana didn't even know where Taylor went, she probably bounced up into Leo's room to hide. Diana felt another sharp pain in her stomach.
"Oh crap," she muttered. Lana heard her.
"What is it? And please don't say it's a contraction," she said.
"It's a contraction," Diana replied, causing Lana to swear. Diana covered Lily's ears. "But it's fine until it happens five to seven minutes apart from the last one."
The soldiers started to retreat, but only to reload their guns.
"Let's go, now," Caine said.
"They're surrounding the building. And I'm starting to go into labor!" Diana said. Caine froze.
"What?" he said.
"You heard me," Diana replied.
"Bad timing, huh?" Leo said. Diana felt another sharp pain in her stomach. She looked at the clock. It had been nine minutes since the last one.
"Well, everyone else start escaping somehow. I'll try and distract them," Caine said, still not taking his eyes off Diana. "Run to the gas station and wait there for me. I have no idea where Taylor went."
Taylor conveniently bounced in at the mention of her name.
"I was hiding in Leo's bedroom. And OMG, Diana, did you pee your pants?" Taylor squealed. Diana didn't listen to her because she was too busy silently freaking out over the fact that her water broke.
"My jeans are ruined!" Diana gasped. Then she realized what it meant if your water broke. "And I'm going to have a baby! Oh, God, I'm not ready."
"Okay, this is ridiculous, why don't we just talk to the people out there and explain the situation?" Leo said. "A girl is about to have a freaking baby, and they're out there trying to murder us!"
"Welcome to our life," Lana muttered. Then she turned her attention to Diana. "Okay, I'm sure you've watched plenty of TV shows and movies where someone starts going into labor and they can't get to the hospitable in time. So, just breath in and out slowly and stay calm. Everything probably isn't going to be okay, but I'm going to lie to you anyways; everything's going to be okay."
"Thanks a lot, Lana," Diana snapped at her in between deep breaths.
"Taylor, Lana, Katie, help Diana get outside of the house. Leo, you go with them and bring Lily. I'm going to bring the house down on these idiots who might kill my unborn child," Caine said. He glared at the soldiers who were getting ready to come back inside.
"Got it, boss," Leo said and saluted to Caine. He put his arms around Lana's and Katie's shoulders. "Let's go, ladies."
"I swear to God I would shoot you," Lana snarled at him.
"Let's climb out the bathroom window. It's on the side of the house, so maybe they won't be waiting there," Leo said as they walked as fast as they could towards the bathroom.
"I'm not exactly in the best condition to be climbing out a window," Diana panted. Then the doors burst open and soldiers found themselves trapped by Caine's telekinetic grip. He flung them one by one through the doors. Taylor lost it.
"Forget this! I'll be waiting at the gas station! I think I can bounce that far," she cried and was gone.
The now group of five bolted for the back door, not caring that there was probably people waiting out there with guns. While Caine could hold most of the soldiers, some managed to miss his grip and fired towards them. One almost Diana, she could feel the wind from hit on her back. Caine saw and he exploded one wall outwards, causing the roof to sag. All of the agents on that side of the house where hit by the wall.
"I hope insurance covers that," Leo said while he watched the ceiling groan and creak as it started to fall in.
"I'll never make it," Diana panted. She was hobbling as fast as she could. Her pants were all wet and sticky, and her contractions were happening more and were more painful.
"I'm going to carry you out," Caine yelled and grabbed Diana with the invisible force. She yelled at him to grab Lily, who was crying and screaming and covering her ears, and he did. They kids ran out through the hole in the wall just as the ceiling collapsed behind them. By then the soldiers had recovered from the shock and continued shooting at them. Caine set Lily and Diana down and continued to chuck the armed agents into the air.
Leo saw a stray bullet head straight towards Diana. He felt like the world was moving in slow motion, and before he realized what was going on, he dived for her. He noted to himself that tackling someone in labor was probably not the brightest idea. He felt himself slam into Diana and her crying out as they hit the ground.
"I just saved your life. You owe me some FAYZ stories, now," Leo panted. He stood up, but then his leg gave out under him. Diana gasped.
"You were shot," she cried. "Lana! Leo was shot!"
Leo looked down at his leg and saw blood. Then the pain hit him. How he hadn't noticed it before, he didn't know. It felt like his whole leg was on fire. He tried not to scream, because that would make Lily start to cry.
"It's okay, Leo. It's healing," Lana said. Then her soothing tone changed to worried. "Oh no, oh no, oh no."
"You better work on your bedside manner," Leo said as he grimaced.
"Yeah, I know. You're not the first one who's told me that. But the poison, it isn't healing! It's immune!" Lana said. Katie gasped.
"They can do that? Create poison that's immune to you?" she cried. Lily started crying.
"Everything is loud and everyone is screaming and there are bad people and you have a boo boo!" she wailed. Leo started feeling dizzy. He didn't know if it was from blood loss or from the poison. Probably both. Leo noticed Caine sink to his knees through his blurring vision. He was probably exhausted. It would only be a matter of time before the agents took them all away, now that Caine wasn't fighting…
"Oh, great! Another car!" Katie cried, She started hyperventilating. "Why did I get myself into this! My mom always said 'Behave yourself, don't go looking for trouble' but I didn't know I would end up being used as target practice while helping children wanted by an evil corporation escape!"
The car screeched to a halt and Sam, Brianna, and Edilio leaped out. Sam started shooting his laser at the soldiers' legs as soon as his feet hit the ground, and Brianna gave them all the middle finger before she zoomed off, holding a wire. Edilio sprinted over to Caine to help him up. Jack, being much less graceful, toppled out of the car and landed on his hands and knees. He jumped up, dusted himself off, and ran over to Leo.
"What happened?" Jack yelled.
"Leo dived to save me from a bullet but got shot himself. And I'm having my baby RIGHT NOW!" Diana screamed while crying.
"Okay, so I'm assuming the fainted kid is Leo, and the little girl is..?" Jack said while picking Leo up.
"It doesn't matter right now! Just get everyone into the car!" Lana snapped. Jack flinched at her harshness and ran for the car. He gently placed Leo in the back seat, then ran back.
"Okay, come on, Diana," Jack panted. Diana grimaced, another contraction. She shook her head.
"Lily first," she said. She was taking deep breaths, like Lana advised her too. Jack picked up a crying Lily and ran to the car.
Brianna, Sam, Caine, and Edilio joined the others. Diana hadn't noticed the fighting was over, all of the soldiers lay unconscious. Not dead, just unconscious. Caine kneeled next to Diana and grabbed her hand.
"Are you okay?" he asked. Diana shook her head.
"Okay, I'm going to ask everyone to look away," Lana said. She was holding a knife, which she used to cut Diana's jeans off her.
"Now they're definitely ruined," Diana said. Then she cried out, this contraction was the worse.
Edilio, Sam, Katie, and Caine shut their eyes. Brianna sat down next to Lana to help.
It was a lot of screaming and crying later until Diana took a deep breath of relief. In the middle of it, Jack had come back from the car, turned green, and ran away to vomit in a bush. Now the kids were all stuffed in the car, heading back to the HQ after picking Taylor up. Everyone else was fretting over Leo and the fact that they left a whole bunch of unconscious soldiers laying around at the house, but not Diana. She was too busy smiling at her crying baby boy.
I made the baby a boy because Lily is kind of like Diana's daughter, now.