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The Ties that Bind

Serena laughed as Anna joked about taking the master bedroom, "I'd break your arm before sleeping on one of those small beds," She joked before patting her belly lightly, "I already have enough keeping me awake at night," She ran a hand through her hair, "Although... I do wish our room wasn't such a... stark difference," She said, feeling bad about their friends staying in the small rooms that only had essentials.

Gunner locked the door from the hall before he gathered his own things and walked into his own room, "Don't worry about it, Serena. We really don't mind," He started to unpack his things. He was comfortable knowing that anyone who wanted into the room was going to have to knock, meaning that Anna or himself would be in the room before they even had the chance to enter. It didn't take him long to have all of his suits and the few workout clothes he brought hanging neatly in his closet. He stepped out into the main room as Anna emerged announcing that she was hungry. He nodded, "I could eat," He looked at Serena and Sebastian. Serena, at this point, seemed to eat everything or nothing at all, which was a little worrying at times.

She smiled, she hadn't even bothered with unpacking yet and instead took to looking over their room. She liked the thought of her things in her bag, meaning they could just leave as soon as possible. It took almost a month before Serena gave into unpacking at Sebastian's. Although, she had a feeling that she'd have to unpack sooner than later here to avoid all of her clothes getting wrinkles. She wrapped her arms around Sebastian's and looked up at him, "I'm famished to be honest... So we best get a lot of food," She made a small face, "And hopefully the medication the nurses gave me will help with keeping it down," She walked over to her bag and grabbed out pill bottle and shook it a little before tucking it away into a purse that she had just recently taken to carrying with her everywhere. It had everything from snacks to medication and basically became her pregnancy survival kit.

She looked between her friends and fiance, "Should we go and eat out or order something in?"

The Ties that Bind

Serena sighed a little as Sebastian told her that the Queen couldn't openly support their relationship, "I know... but even her quiet support much shut your parents up."

She sat up a little when they came to a stop, she hadn't even realized that had arrived. She watched Anna as she jumped out of the car and practically ran to beat the guardians that had come to meet them to Serena's door. She laughed a little and allowed the girl to help her out, squeezing her hand a little, silently thanking her. Standing, Serena's shirt hid most of her stomach, making her appear as though she weren't with a child. Although, that was also partially due to her breasts that had grown in size... Even then Serena could still feel her belly brushing against the loose fabric. She sighed and smiled, taking Sebastian's hand in her own for a moment. She needed to be on her best behaviour for him. She wanted to try her best to not get moody, knowing it would only make things harder on him. Especially if in being moody she got cranky with him. She released his hand, knowing that walking anywhere holding hands would be looked upon strangely and she didn't need anyone looking at them all strangely in this moment.

When Anna told the guardians to lead them to their rooms she laughed a little. She looked at Sebastian, "I fear that Anna is going to give someone frostbite with her cold tone."
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Gunner's eyes had been flinting all over the road from the moment that they had left the school. Sebastian had told him that he could stay behind, due to the reasoning that he was that, but Gunner wasn't letting his friends go alone. He had gotten guardians he barely knew killed because of his mother... He wasn't going to let his friends join the ever growing list.

He let out a small sigh when they arrived on the other side of the wards and court and hopped out. He let Anna run around to Anna and to an intimidating stance, hoping to prevent any ideas that Sebastian's parents might have stuck into guardians' heads. Luckily, these guys seemed to have been sent by the Queen herself, which made him relax a little. However, only slightly, whether or not they were sent by the Queen some guardians could be bought off.

He kept quiet as Anna informed them to take them all to their conveniently attached rooms and took up the rear, allowing the other guardians to take their luggage. When they arrived he looked everything over in the room before nodding his head, "Doesn't look like anyone's been in here since it was cleaned."

Serena immediately walked over to the couch and sat down as their luggage was being brought in. She pulled off her shoes and sighed. They were nice shoes but they were incredibly uncomfortable and Serena intended to only have them on her feet when necessary. She stood again and looked around the room, "It's like we have a little apartment together."

Haywood Academy (Kimi and Tsu)

Park walked with Abigail to the bus stop and felt himself jittering a little. He was nervous about Misaka coming over. He wanted him mom to like her but he worried that she wouldn't because of where Misaka came from. As he walked he started to think of all the different things that he had to teach Misaka during the day to avoid any mistakes that night which might make his mother decide she didn't like her.

When he reached the bus stop he smiled at her, "Hey," He said quietly, coming to a stop beside her, "I talked to my mom... She's okay with you coming over today if you want," He scratched the back of his neck, "I also brought a pretty big lunch... If you uh.... Want to eat it with me... I can kind of teach you... Korean etiquette.... So you don't feel uncomfortable... If you want...."

Haywood Academy (Kimi and Tsu)

Park helped his mom with dinner, avoiding any conversation about how Abigail had acted at school today. As he was cutting some vegetables he looked over his shoulder at her, "Eomma, I was wondering... I met a girl today and she just immigrated here. I told her that she could talk to you... cause you know what it is like..."

"Oh?" Park's mother said before she stopped what she was doing and looked at him, "Where is she from?"

Park cleared his throat, "Japan..."

Park's mother started to shake her head.... The Japanese weren't exactly Korea's favourite people after a rather... violent history between the two. He sighed, "Please, Mom. She needs someone to talk to..."

Park's mom looked at him before nodding and turning back to their food. Little more talking was done and soon it was time for bed. Park slipped on one of his headphones and curled up in bed. He found that he slept best with music and soon he was fast asleep.

Haywood Academy (Kimi and Tsu)

Park walked home with Abigail, his headphones in, not wanting to listen to her. He was still pretty upset with her behaviour today... Even if he didn't like Misaka, he'd have been pissed. He didn't understand how she knew what him and his mom had gone through and yet could mock someone for doing the same. When they got home, he took out his head phone, leaving his shoes at the door, "Eomma?"

Abigail looked at Park, worried, "Park, please don't."

Park looked at his sister as she struggled to take off her shoes and follow him, "Eomeoni will kill me."

Park sighed and looked at his sister, "Fine. I won't tell her... This time. But you better make sure that your friends don't do it again."

"Park?" Park's mom stepped out of the kitchen and looked at her, "What is it?"

The boy smiled at his mom, not making eye contact something he had learnt at a very young age and had been struggling between when to look at people and when not to for years. This was due to being taught as a baby not to make eye contact for it was not polite to only be told that it was not polite not to make eye contact when he went to school. Ultimately, the shift in cultures was strange, "Was just wanting to know if you wanted any help with dinner."

Haywood Academy (Kimi and Tsu)

The bus left the school shortly after and started to make its way through the stops. The two of them didn't talk much. Park wasn't very good at talking on the bus and the few times they had talked he had a topic to talk about. Abigail being a bitch, immigrating, drama, math, Ryan, Abigail... Now not so much. But sitting in the silence wasn't that bad either. In fact, Park enjoyed it when he could sit in complete silence with someone and it not be awkward.

When their bus came to their stop, Park pointed, "We should go," He smiled and stood gathering his things before getting off the bus. Pulling his backpack on he scratched the back of his head, "Do you... Want me to walk you home or something? Make sure you don't get picked on... or something?"

Haywood Academy (Kimi and Tsu)

Park looked down at Misaka when she wrapped her arms around his neck. Slowly he wrapped his arms around her and smiled, "Don't worry about it... Abigail kind of deserved it."

He looked down at her as he stepped away and nodded his head toward the bus, "Come on," He climbed onto the bus and walked to his seat. For the first time in a long time, he placed his bag between his legs. He patted the spot next to him for Misaka to sit then looked out the window, "I'll talk to my eomma... My mom about you coming over... Does tomorrow sound good?"

Abigail and Elle walked onto the bus and Elle took their usual seat as Abigail walked to the back and moved to kneel on the semi empty seat in front of Park and Misaka. She looked at the boy that was sitting there for a moment before she looked at Park and spoke in Korean, "Don't tell mom... She'd kill me... Please."

"[i]At this point... I think you deserve to be killed. You're an immigrant, why are you mocking immigrants?" Park said, almost sounding a little sad despite still being rather angry with her.

"Because... It's what everyone else was doing and... I want to be cool, not getting mocked like her."

"It's cruel, Abigail... They are mocking people like mom... They are mocking US. I think you need to take a step back and realize that," Park said quietly before Abigail brushed him off and walked back to Elle and joined the blonde for the ride home. Park looked at Misaka and sighed, "Joesonghabnida," A small smile broke on his lips, "It means sorry."

The Ties that Bind

Gunner followed Anna into her room and looked around a little, after all this was the first time he'd been in here. Although, it was almost identical to his own room. He looked over to her when she climbed onto her bed and noticed his shirt and watched her quickly stuff it under her pillow. He laughed and grabbed it out, shedding his own sweaty shirt for the clean one. He hopped onto the bed and put his hands behind his head, "I know," He said simply to her comment about its comfort.

He looked at her as she started rambling again and smirked, "I'm staying, Ross. Sebastian would kill me if I didn't make sure you'll alright when you wake up... If you are out for that long, I'll go sleep on the couch or something like a good guard dog," He joked, using Jace and Rae's nickname for him after he started to show them a bit of his darker side. He used it though to set her at ease a little, he was going to protect her, no matter what. He looked up at the TV and pressed his lips into a thin line as he thought about a movie to watch, "I don't know..."

He climbed off the bed and started to look through the small collection she had with her. Finally choosing an action packed one that had no romance in it, he popped it in before returning to the bed. He figured it was best that they avoid any romantic scenes for now... Not the best idea to watch them when the two of them had confessed to still loving each other but weren't acting on it to let Anna get herself together again. He smiled at her, "I'll be amazed if you manage to sleep through all the explosi-" His words were cut off because as he looked at her, she was already fast asleep.

He laughed a little and leaned back to watch the movie. He'd move to the couch later.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~3 WEEKS LATER~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Serena was lying across the back seat of the black sedan with her head on Sebastian's lap and her hand on her stomach. She wasn't feeling all to well, which over the last ten weeks was nothing new. However, adding the fact that she was struggling to keep ghosts out of her head as they tried to lure to death and that she already couldn't fit into her normal clothes and was starting to feel fat, she was down right miserable. She was dressed nicely for court but nothing that a guardian would wear. Guardian garb was highly uncomfortable and she really didn't want to be fat and uncomfortable. Of course, it was also partially due to the fact that Sebastian had basically banned her from being his guardian as he took Gunner and Anna, both who sat in the front, to replace her while away from the school. Serena couldn't really be mad about it, she wasn't exactly in any kind of condition to fight. Sadly, she knew that Sebastian's parents weren't going to be any kinder due to all of this... In fact, she was pretty sure the only reason they let her stay with them was because she was Sebastian's guardian. Now she was just his pregnant fiancée... And that ring meant little to them.

She sighed and forced herself to sit up as lying down was starting to make her car sick as well as pregnant sick. She struggled a little due to the fact that her abdomen just didn't help her the same and leaned against Sebastian. She took his hand in her own and kissed it lightly, "I think the only thing about this trip that I'm looking forward to is seeing the Queen again..."

She knew he agreed. Despite them being family, Sebastian hated Serena being around his family more than she did. In fact, he hated being around his family. She smiled slightly, "And I suppose Kenzie... It'll be nice to have at least one person in your family being happy for us."

Kenzie had almost immediately taken a liking to Serena. Serena was pretty sure the girl took a liking to anyone that Sebastian took a liking to, they were close like that. It made Serena smile just thinking about. She kissed his cheek before resting her head on his shoulder, "The court also has wonderful food... I think I could eat," She said, trying to think of all the good things that would be waiting them at court and tried to ignore the ominous cloud that was his parents.

She took a deep breath, "Everything is going to be fine... They can't do much... Not if the Queen is going to be so happy for us..."

The Ties that Bind

Rae had his arm wrapped around his fiancée's naked body as she ran her fingers along his chest. He was reveling in what had just occurred, the very thing he had been waiting far to long to do. His attention was pulled out of his thoughts when Kat spoke and he looked down at her. He thought about it for a moment before shrugging, "I guess... I don't know... I don't feel like I'm the dad type but I have plenty experience with the dad who is always at work... I could probably be him for any kids you want."

He closed his eyes as she ran her hand through his hair as she mentioned getting out of bed and going to the feeders, "Or I could call a couple up here... They wouldn't even mind us staying in bed... The feeders are all a little too out of it to notice."

He reached over and grabbed the phone, calling someone up for them. Putting the phone back down, he wrapped his arm back around her, "See, don't even have to get out of bed."

The Ties that Bind

Gunner looked at her as she explained why she looked like she was about to pass out after she downed most of his water. He wasn't too bothered by it, he could always refill it and he wasn't that thirsty and the moment anyways. He was a little confused to who it was that she was training to fed off complusion with... After all, Sebastian was basically in class or at Serena's side these days and he was barely using spirit to avoid building up any extra darkness that Serena would have to deal with. He pushed it aside for now though, complusion was a major reason as to why Anna ended up in that horrible relationship with Jace to begin with. He could only assume that she felt a lot better knowing that she could fight against it in short bursts. He placed a hand on the shoulder farthest from him, "I'm proud of you, Ross."

He handed her back his water bottle before he snaked his arm under her legs and lifted her off the bench, "Now, you need to rest or else you are going to end up in the infirmary like Serena."

He walked to her room, ignoring any looks they were getting. He walked a bit of the longer way because it was away from people and figured it would save Anna the embarrassment of being carried through the school, of course he couldn't avoid everyone. When he reached her room, he placed her back on her feet and looked her up and down, "Do you want me to stay to make sure you actually get to your bed and don't end up passing out on the floor?"
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Serena smiled when Sebastian, "I know you do... Too much for a man who can enter my head and check up on things," She joked, poking his forehead a little. She was in a far better mood now that he had promised to cool it down a little.

She kissed him as he seemed to enjoy the names that she had picked out for their baby before she stepped around him, "I should go get in that bath before it gets cold... Thank you, Sebastian. You are a fantastic husband and father to be."

She walked into their room and grabbed her ipod before moving into the bathroom and closing the door behind her. She stripped down and looked at herself in the mirror. Her stomach was already starting to stick out a little. She had talked with a nurse during a check up who said that most women didn't start showing until twelve or sixteen weeks but here she was at seven and she was already struggling to button up her pants. She sighed and climbed into the bath, letting the warm water surround her. She relaxed as her music played, her hand resting on her stomach. She'd have to go shopping for maternity clothes... Maybe that's what she and Anna would do tomorrow instead of dress shopping...