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It was a beautiful day, the sky was clear, the birds were singing and he had just fired his son latest secretary, yes today was indeed a beautiful day. Walter McKinney let out a satisfied sigh turned round and walked back to his chair.

He sat down and gazed at the old picture, which stood on his desk. The picture showed him, his wife and two young boys, Walter gently touched the frame and gazed sadly at his wife image; his beautiful wife Marianne had died not long ago of a long time illness. His oldest son William had shortly pronounced, before Marianne's death, that he was gay and therefore Walter blamed him responsible for Marianne's quick death. Walter and Marianne had always hoped that there oldest son would take over the family business after Walter, but he had crushed their dreams by saying those two damn words, 'I'm gay'. Now he had to rely on the biggest player in all San Francisco, his youngest son, Milo.

Milo just couldn't seem to find the right woman to settle down and start a family with. He had a new girl every week, always some celebrity, supermodel or just some brainless blond woman like his last secretary. But enough was enough; it was time for Milo to take responsibility and the best way to do that was getting him a decent secretary who would see through his charming mask.

"I'm so nervous Charlie... I don't think I can do this!" Hilary looked at her image in the mirror; she was wearing a black skirt that went down to her knees and a white top to go with it and suitable short jacket. Her hair was down and she wore a little make-up.

"Don't be like that Hily...You look perfect!" Charlie exclaimed proudly, it was after all him who had dressed her up. "Trust me, this is what the old man wants to see, an ambitious woman!" Hilary turned around a couple of times, examining herself.

"Uhh Okay, if you really say so hehe" She laughed nervously. Charlie glanced at his watch.

"We should get going. You wouldn't give a good impression if you're late" Charlie stated. Hilary gave herself a last look in the mirror, before walking out with Charlie.

A lot had happened in the last couple of days, and one of them was that she had moved in with Charlie in his apartment. It was big enough for the two of them and it was of course tidy and neat. She gazed out of the car window and saw the scenery fly by.

She couldn't believe that this was actually happening to her... of all people; she wished that Tyson and the others could see her now.

They pulled in on the big parking lot, and as she stepped out of the car, she couldn't help but to gasp at the big skyscraper. It was huge her mouth wide agape. She felt a tugging at her arm and saw Charlie's amused face, "C'mon Hily, you don't wanna be late". Hilary blushed deeply of her reaction and followed Charlie inside.

When they had entered, Charlie walked up to what appeared to be a reception desk of some sorts. Hilary stood still at the spot where Charlie had left her.

"Good morning Clarice, anything new today?" Charlie asked the woman behind the desk, she smiled sweetly at him and handed him some post.

"No nothing new today" she answered and then leaned over and whispered, "...except that Mr. McKinney are doing all the interviews personally".

"Really?" Charlie whispered back, Clarice nodded agreeing with her head; "Really" she said and smiled. Charlie gave a small glance back, where Hilary stood waiting. He turned back to the receptionist, "Thanks Clarice" he said and walked back to Hilary.

Hilary stared curiously at him, "What was all that about?" she asked as Charlie pulled her inside an elevator with him, he pushed the button to the top floor.

He looked at her, "I'm going to be straight with you Hily... the job you're applying for is the job as a secretary for Milo McKinney and he is known to be the biggest player in town, plus he is very childish as well-" Hilary rolled her eyes at that, Tyson and Daichi were the biggest babies she had ever met, so how worse could this guy be.

"- anyway, Milo's last secretary was a complete bonehead and it looks like the old man don't want to that mistake again." Hilary looked at Charlie in confusion, "What do you mean Charlie?" she asked.

Charlie looked down at her and smiled, "You are going to talk to the big man himself, the owner of this company… oh, and if you stumbles into Milo and he gives you a hard time, you can just tell the old man this!" Charlie leaned down and whispered something into Hilary's ear. Hilary didn't get a chance to say anything, because the elevator door opened and the two of them stepped out.

Hilary was in shock, she was going to talk with the CEO of this company over a lousy secretary job. She forced herself to calm down, it was no big deal, she could do this that was all she needed to tell herself, she could do this.

Walter McKinney stared down at the papers, occasionally he looked up to see how the woman in front of him behaved. "Well Miss Tachibana, you have quite an impressive résumé. You can speak fluent Japanese, English and even Russian".

Hilary smiled and fiddled with her hands, "Well, my ex-boyfriend was Russian and he taught me" Hilary said, she was a bit nervous sitting in front of the president of this company all ready, but she try to not let it shine trough and the way this interview was going, it looked like she was successful.

"Is that so..." Walter trailed off and looked into the papers once more, "You also had the highest marks in your class, making you the top student!" Walter nodded satisfied; he had a good feeling about this woman and in more than one way. She was just the thing Milo needed in his life. He regarded the woman again, "Well, Miss Tachibana I only have one thing left to say to you" Hilary followed him with her eyes as he got up from his chair and reached his hand forward, "you got the job". Hilary's eyes widened and she smiled a big smile; she took his offering hand and shook it.

"S-so when will I start?" Hilary asked a bit shaken by the happy news. Mr. McKinney looked at her and smiled a warm smile. "Well, you can start right now. Milo's old secretary left a mess behind her. You can use the day to clear out the files and other things that needs to be taken care of" Walter answered her.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door and in came a handsome man. He had the most striking blue eyes and his hair was in the beautiful colours of raven black with blue stains. He was quite the catch if you were a normal girl, but Hilary wasn't just any normal girl. " Oh, Miss Tachibana, this is my son Milo" Walter and came out from behind the desk and walked up to his son, "and Milo this is your new secretary Hilary Tachibana", Walter introduced.

A charming smile flashed over the handsome man's features, he took Hilary's hand and slowly brought it to his mouth kissing it lightly, "and here I was afraid that my father would hired some old bag" Milo said smarmy, "I'm very happy to see that it's a fair maid who will assist me in doing a well done job". Walter McKinney stared as his son annoyed by his behavior, couldn't the boy for once act like an adult, he was just about to reprimand Milo when Hilary did something he had never seen a woman do with Milo.

Hilary snatched her hand away from Milo's grip and smiled at him sarcastically, "I'm looking forward to work with you as well. As far as I'm concerned, you're previous secretary didn't do a good job. I mean she did forget to schedule a whole lot of important business meetings, plus she forgot to give you your day schedule thus letting you do absolutely nothing all day. That must have been absolutely terrible for you," Hilary said pretending to sound concerned.

Milo just stared at her in shock, "H-how do you know that-," he started to say, but immediately stopped when he saw his father's incredulous look. "Miss Tachibana, will you excuse us for one minute... I have some things I want to discuss with my son". Hilary smiled and walked out the door.

Outside she saw Charlie waiting; she ran to him and squealed with happiness. "I got the job...I got the job... and those things you said to me really worked. You should have seen Milo's face".

Charlie smiled back at her, "Well, a little payback doesn't hurt from time to time. Now come on let's go home and I'll make you dinner."

He just sat and stared at the package, it had been sent all the way from Japan to here, his home in Russia. Everything they had shared together, every flower, every gift and every memory she had somehow managed to shove down into a middle-sized box.

Kai reached down and pulled his favorite item up from the box. It was a beautiful red dress, but it was much more beautiful on Hilary, she looked like a goddess in it. He took the piece of clothing and breathed in the scent of her. His one love, Hilary.

He felt lonelier than ever. Tala had told him that Sonia was 6 months pregnant and now while he was gazing down into the box of memories he couldn't help feeling jealous. Had he made the mistake of letting Hilary go? He didn't know anymore, he didn't know anything. But his inner voice told him he had made the right decision... so why did he keep questioning himself.

"Perhaps because you know you are wrong Master Kai". Kai lifted his head to say where the voice had come from. His butler Vladimir was standing in the doorway looking at him. Kai growled he stood up and threw the dress down into the box.

"Throw this shit out" Kai snarled as he walked past his butler. Vladimir watched him walk away; he sighed and shook his head. He had been serving the Hiwatari family for all these years and he had hoped that Kai would turn out differently from his grandfather and father, but now it appeared that Kai was going to be lonely for many years to come and maybe never raise a family of his own. Vladimir took out a picture from the box; he could only hope that one day this ruby-eyed angel would come back into Kai's life and that Kai would realize his fatal mistake.

The bossy witch had been his secretary for only two weeks and yet somehow she has managed to make him do more work that he had ever done in his entire life. And it didn't help either that none of his charming/seducing tactics worked on her; it was as if she was immune to his good looks. But what was worse, he felt turned on by it. He could just picture the two of them in bed, she being the dominatrix and he being the underdog following her every order.

Milo felt something wet on his shirt, oh great he had been drooling on himself. He looked at the clock in his office once more. Where was she? She had never been late in the past two weeks. So what the hell was wrong with her?

Charlie stood outside Hilary's bathroom waiting, this morning Hilary had seemed a little paler than usual and it all culminated when she had rushed into the bathroom and started to vomit.

"Hily sweetheart, are you okay in there?" he heard no reply only the sound of the toilet flushing out. Charlie knocked softly on the door, a concerning thought had just entered his mind, "Hily, you don't think…" Charlie's voice trailed off as he tried to muster all his courage together, "Hily…could it be that you might be…p-pregnant?"

Inside the bathroom Hilary slowly lifted her head as she heard Charlie's question. She wasn't on the pill, had never been. Kai had been very against her using it; he didn't like the side effects it could cause. He had instead asked her, how many days apart her periods were and somehow found a freaking' way to figure out which days she was fertile. But, with Charlie both of them had been pretty drunk and she didn't remember whether they used a condom or not. Hilary slumped against the toilet, could it be? Could she really be pregnant?

"Charlie!" Hilary called out, "I think I need to see a doctor"

Charlie nodded at that, "Hilary, I'm going to call a friend of mine…he's a doctor and he should be able to squeeze you in…Okay" Charlie said and quickly walked over to phone and dialed the number.

"Well Miss Tachibana, it appears that you for a fact pregnant. Congratulations" the doctor said smiling. Hilary just stared at him dumbfounded not really believing what she had just heard. Charlie stood at her side holding her hand. "Now Miss, may I ask who the father is?" Hilary lifted her head up upon hearing the question; she blinked a couple of times.

" Ummm…I…um" Hilary was still too shock with the news to answer the doctor's question.

"Miss who were the last person you had a sexual intercourse with?" the doctor asked. Charlie noticed that Hilary was still incapable to answer. So he decided to answer for her.

"I'm the last person she slept with, Andy", the doctor looked at Charlie with a shocked expression. Charlie felt the need to explain himself further, "We were both drunk". His friend nodded at him.

"Okay then, Miss Tachibana we will need to schedule your next appointment, so if both of you will follow me". Hilary stood up shakily, she was pregnant and Charlie was the father.

Charlie and Hilary arrived home later that afternoon; she was still in a dazed condition as if the news still hadn't quite sunk in yet. They walked silently up to the apartment door and to their surprise stood an angry Milo McKinney waiting for them.

"Where the fuck have you two been? I had to take care of everything myself today!" ranted Milo and then pointed an accusing finger at Hilary, "What's your excuse, huh..".

Hilary slowly looked at him and big smile came over her features, "I'm pregnant…I'm pregnant… I'M PREGNANT" Hilary cried out happily as it finally had sunk in that she was to be a mother. Milo just stared at her incredulously and looked at Charlie in confusing, but all he saw was Charlie with a likewise big smile on his face.

"Could please tell me Manor what's going on?" Milo asked.

"I'm gonna be a dad" was all that Charlie said.

In the following months, Hilary couldn't be happier. Everyone, even Milo McKinney, was nice to her. Walter McKinney the CEO of the company, treated as if she was to give birth to his first grandchild and not to mention Charlie. He was to the edge of being over excited, but like he said in his own words, it wasn't often that gay men got to father their own child.

Finally, Hilary reached her final trimester and Charlie's friend, the doctor, had called both of them in, because he had some very important news to tell them.

Hilary and Charlie walked in to the doctor's office, where the doctor motioned them to sit down.

"So Andy, what's this all about?" Charlie asked while holding Hilary's hand. Andy had a serious expression on his face; he pulled up some papers from his drawer. He looked at Charlie.

"The blood test I asked you to do a month ago has come up with some very interesting results". Hilary and Charlie looked at each other sharing a confused look.

"What do you mean?" Hilary asked a bit concerned, was there something wrong with her baby?

The doctor held Charlie's gaze in his own. "The blood test showed that you are not the father of Miss Tachibana's baby, someone else is!"

Hilary felt everything going into slow-motion when she heard those words; she went completely pale, because if Charlie wasn't the father, then there could only be one other man… and that man was Kai Hiwatari. She felt a nudge in her side and looked at the doctor.

"Miss Tachibana I'm going to ask again. Do you know the father of your baby?" Hilary couldn't think straight, these past months she had been so happy, she finally believed that with this baby she would finally get Kai out of her mind and life.

"I…umm, I don't feel very good" Hilary mumbled and got up from her seat, she looked at Charlie, "I-I need some time on my own…I'll see you at home okay." And with that said she went out the door.

Hilary walked down the streets of San Francisco, what was she suppose to do now! As far as she knew, Kai was living in Russia running his business with very big success. Should she try to contact him and tell him that she was carrying their baby, their child, or should she hope that the child would never ask about its origin… who was she kidding, Kai deserved to know that he had a child and this child deserved to know about its father, she remembered how it was to grow up without a father and how her mother always would silence whenever she asked about him. There was no other way around it she had to try and contact Kai.

Two weeks later:

"AAAAARRRRGGGGGG" Hilary yelled and smashed the phone into the wall. For two weeks straight she, with every mean possible, tried to contact Kai and every freakin' time she ended up talking to one of his lawyers.

"Let me guess, being called a fan girl is not a very good thing is it?" Charlie said calmly. He was sitting at the dinner table eating some lunch, he hadn't been happy about the decision Hilary made, but he could understand it. Hilary glared at him murderously.

"Hilary you have tried to call the guy for two weeks and each time they have refused to let you speak to him…Hell they have even sent you a court warning, saying that you have to stay teen feet away from him for two years, else they threaten to put you in jail." Charlie tried to reason. Hilary looked away from him. Charlie stood up and picked the phone up from the floor, "Hily…they didn't even showed up in court yesterday for the question about dividing the custody over your child…-", Charlie walked up to his friend and pulled her into a hug, "Hily, you have giving the guy enough chances as it is, stop it, before it makes you more sad".

Hilary buried herself into Charlie's arms and cried her sorrow out.

He stood in his room of peace, Vladimir hadn't thrown the middle sized box out and when he found it in the bottom of his closet, he couldn't bring himself to throw it out. Instead, he had used one of his many rooms and had created into shrine, it might seem crazy, but he really didn't care. This room was his dreams and nightmares. For what he once had tilled what he lost. He walked out the room, locked it and hide the key. It was time for some training. Suzaku had seemed restless for some reason for these past months; it was like she knew something that he didn't.

Hilary waited on the cab in her flimsy dress. She and Charlie had today agreed that she would be going to the doctor alone today. Ever since he learned that he was not the father, he had been resultantly to go with her to the doctor. So now she sat alone in cab on her way, she was a bit excited, this was her last appointment with the doctor, she was scheduled to give birth in a very few days. It was just too bad that a robbery had only happened a few minutes ago and was now giving full speed ahead in the direction of the jam Hilary and the cab was currently in.

The first thing she had noticed was the blue sky and then darkness. Hilary woke up in the bottom of the cab, everything was dark. She tried to call out to the cab driver, but heard no answer. She pulled herself up into a sitting position and managed to reach the car light. It flicked on a few seconds and Hilary held in her scream. The cab driver looked very dead to her and as she scanned her surroundings, she noticed that she was trapped. One car had landed onto of the cab and other cars were blocking out the sun. Hilary then felt something wet between her legs and she looked down, it wasn't blood…it was.., water.

"Ohh good not now…I can't give birth now!" Hilary panicked and caressed her pregnant belly, "Please just stay inside a little longer", but she didn't get to say anymore before the first contraction went through her.

Kai woke up, something had disturbed his sleep. He sat up, something wasn't right, he looked over and saw his blue beyblade Dranzer lying on the nightstand where he had laid it last night, he picked it up and saw his bitbeast Suzaku gone.

She didn't know for how long she had been laying inside the cab, but she felt it had been hours and she as if she was dying. She began to cry, she didn't want to die, and she didn't want her baby to die, before it had even been giving the chance to live. She was on the verge to give up, when she felt a familiar warmth.

((Mistress))

Hilary snapped her eyes open… "Suzaku?" she whispered. Was she hallucinating or was the fiery phoenix really here.

((Relax… everything is going to be fine. Just relax and concentrate on giving birth to master's son))

Hilary cried in relief, someone was here, she wasn't alone. She felt Suzaku comforting warmth and then she felt this urgent need to push. As she pushed for her life she heard Suzaka's singing in her mind comforting her, focusing her to gather all her strength, but as soon as it started, it was over by a baby's cry. Hilary cried in happiness as she gently reached down and gathered her son into her protecting arms. She looked down at her new born son; he had ceased his crying and was now giggling softly. If she had any doubt on whom the father was, she certainly had all the facts now. The boy resembled his father perfectly; she could even see traces of the blue and grey hair. The difference was his eyes, they were hers.

Suzaku's singing had gently put the boy to sleep and she felt herself on the way to dreamland too. Just before she passed out of exhaustion, she managed to whisper:

"Thank you Suzaku"

Hilary woke up slowly, she felt someone clenching her hand tightly. She moved her head to the side and saw Charlie with a pained expression.

"Oh God Hilary, I'm so sorry. I should have been with you. I should have-" Charlie was silenced as Hilary brought her fingers up to his mouth slowly closing them.

"Where's my son?" Hilary whispered out. Charlie smiled at her.

"The nurses took him. They wanted to make sure he was all right. And you have seen Milo, he was completely furious, demanding you should be taken care of first". Hilary smiled at that, she couldn't really imagine her childish boss acting like that. She looked around, funny it wasn't until this moment she had noticed she was in hospital and as on cue the nurses came in holding a little bundle.

Hilary felt tears coming down her face as on of the nurse helped her sit upright and the other one handed her, her son. Doctor Andy came in with a relieved face.

"I'm happy to see that you're awake Miss Tachibana, but there is something you need to know" the doctor said seriously. At his tone of voice, Hilary immediately looked at him.

"Your baby boy is fine, he didn't suffer any injuries from the accident, but with you it's a different matter." The doctor paused before continuing, "You have from the accident suffered some mild injuries, and it's nothing dangerous I can assure you of that, but if you ever choose to go through another pregnancy, it can be a possibility that you might die giving birth. But it really depends on how large the child is. If it is the size of the child you just recently gave birth to, then it might cause a problem for you, if it's smaller, then you can go through the childbirth normally. Also always remember that you can have a caesarian" the doctor let out his breath and smiled at her. Hilary just stared and then looked at Charlie.

"Miss Tachibana you have some visitors, would you like to see them now or should they wait?" the doctor asked. Hilary smiled.

"Just let them in"

And in they came, it was Walter and Milo McKinney both of them had been worried sick. They had flowers and balloons with them. Doctor Andy was on his way out when he suddenly remembered something.

"Miss Tachibana, one last thing" he asked and Hilary looked up, "I need to know the name of your son"

Hilary grinned and looked down at her sleeping son, after a few seconds she looked up at the doctor.

"His name is Gou" Hilary answered smiling. The doctor nodded and wrote it down.

"Let me guess...Gou is some physco Japanese name" Milo said sarcastically. Hilary didn't really pay attention to Milo sarcasm, she was far to busy with tracing her small son's sleeping face.

"Gou means strength" was all Hilary answered and smiled once more.

Suzaku had returned to her bit-chip, he had notice that, but she refused to tell him where she had been. Kai sighed; it probably wasn't that important anyway, still he couldn't help having the nagging feeling that he should be somewhere else, somewhere more important. He should get ready, soon Tala, his wife Sonia and their little red-headed brat Sasha would come and remind what a life he had missed, a life he once could had have. Just seeing Tala with his little son, did something to him. At first he didn't know what it was, but he had soon found out. He wanted children of his own, a family who accepted him for who he was. The only problem was that he only wanted to sire children with one woman, a woman who wasn't here in Russia.