The next morning, I woke up first, quickly went to take a shower and started making breakfast for V, if you can consider cooking, putting food in the microwave.
Meanwhile, when the smell spread throughout the apartment, my lover also woke up.
"Good morning, sleepyhead." - I said to my passion and kissed her.
"Good morning… I didn't overdo it last night, did I?" - she asked me worriedly when she saw that I was limping a little.
"Don't worry, it will pass! And no, you didn't overdo it, you even managed to impregnate me." - I said with a smirk, and saw how her eyes widened in shock.
"Am I going to become a mother? Or a father?" V asked me as she came up to me and started feeling my belly.
"V, stop it, the baby is still just a fetus! And I'm inclined to think that our child had two mothers! No fathers." I told her, to which she nodded and we sat down to breakfast.
We were in each other's company all day and our conversations were about buying a bigger apartment with several rooms, and yes, as I found out, V would want more children later, but of course she asked my consent first, and I couldn't resist her cute little face.
In the evening we got ready and went to "Afterlife", where the whole gang was waiting for us.
I didn't attend the meeting, but went to the bar.
"Should I pour something for the beauty with the ponytails?" the girl asked me, rubbing the glass.
"Yes, do you have lemonade?"
She nodded and took a bottle of cold lemonade from under the bar and handed it to me.
"Did something good happen to you?" the barmaid asked me, rubbing her glass.
Once V said that bartenders are good listeners and even sometimes psychologists, and you can get valuable information from them.
"Yes, I'm pregnant." I simply answered shortly.
"Oh… Congratulations, maybe we should celebrate with a few drinks?" she asked.
"Thanks, but I don't drink, and… Drinking at work? Is that allowed here?"
She simply shrugged.
"What's wrong? It's just a few drinks. Okay, and who is he… well, the father of your child?" she asked.
I laughed a little and she apparently didn't understand why I laughed.
"She, the father, or rather the mother, who got me pregnant is her."
"Oh… Sorry." she said.
"Don't worry about it. Vi acts like a boy sometimes, but she's always a girl."
"Oh, I know her, I've talked to her a couple of times." She said and continued polishing glasses.
After a while, the discussion ended and I saw T-Bug for the first time in person, Jackie, and…
"Wow, V looks so good in that costume! It's like eye candy!" I exclaimed, jumping off my chair and running to look at her, and she blushed.
"I told you, Chumba, she'll like it!" Jackie said, poking V in the shoulder.
I looked at him and took a photo.
"Tama?" she asked me, not understanding why I took Jackie's photo.
"What? I want to send it to Misty, when will she be able to see Jackie in the costume again?" I asked.
Vi laughed, and Jackie turned away, muttering something under her breath.
We went outside, where a taxi was waiting for us.
"Yeah, well… "Delamain", now it's clear where 65 percent of it went." - Jackie said getting into the car, to which V snorted and looked at me.
"Tama…" - I didn't let her finish, I kissed her, which she happily accepted.
"Take care of yourself V, and take care of Jackie." - I told her, to which she nodded and also got into the car.
I watched them go, and went to V's car, got in and went home.
For the next few hours, I had a constant uneasy feeling, until I saw on the news…
Sabura Arisaka is dead, in that hotel in the room where the chip was.
I turned pale from this, and immediately started calling Vi.
"Come on, V, answer me." - and of course she didn't answer.
I had another option.
"Welcome to the Delo…" company
"Not now, where are V and Jackie?" I asked.
"State your face…
"Fucking no time, where are they?" I interrupted him with a shout.
He sent me the coordinates of some hotel, and without thinking, I immediately headed towards it.
On the way to it, I probably broke a lot of rules, but the police had no time for me, in connection with the recent events.
I got to this hotel in record time, and saw a Delomaine taxi parked next to the entrance.
When I approached it, I saw Jackie in the back seat, I immediately opened the door and checked on him.
Yes, he's alive! My talismans were able to save his life, but just a little bit more and…
"Delamen, where is V?"
"She has a meeting in room 214," he answered.
I nodded, took two pistols and headed inside.
When I reached the right room, I was about to enter, when I heard a shot. I kicked the door open, which scared those who were inside.
I immediately saw V lying on the floor, and something clicked inside me, before they had time to recover from the shock, I began to shower them with a hail of bullets, and continued, although it was clear that the first bullets fired had killed them.
When the clips ran out, I threw the pistols aside and ran to Vi.
"V, darling… V, wake up, do you hear me. You can't leave our child without a mother… you can't leave me!" I screamed, and tears poured from my eyes.
Without thinking twice, I picked her up in my arms and carried her to the car.
Opening the door, I sat her down next to Jackie, and I sat in the front seat.
"Delomaine! Take us to Vik's clinic!" I screamed.
"The route is built." A voice came from the speaker, and the car started moving.
I kept looking at V, and many emotions raged inside me, but most of all I was angry at myself for allowing V to participate in this adventure, although I felt that it would end badly.
"We have a pursuer," said Delamaine, and some car started driving next to us, the driver was a Japanese, this was for sure, since I lived with them for a long time.
"Delamaine turn up the gas!" I shouted, and I climbed out the window and started shooting at his car.
"To the right!" I screamed and Delamaine immediately turned, and our follower drove past.
In the end, we broke away and arrived at Vik's clinic, I picked up Vi in my arms and hurried with her to the basement,
Running past Misty, who hadn't gone home yet, I shouted to her.
"There's Jackie inside the car, take care of him!"
And ran on.
I kicked the door open, which scared Vik.
"Tama..." - he wanted to object, but he saw V in my arms.
"Let's quickly carry her to the chair,"-he said, to which I obeyed him.
The operation was long, but I was glad that V survived, even though she got a bullet in the head, if she hadn't used up all my talismans...
"Vik, what's wrong with your face? She's alive!"-I told him.
He sighed and looked at me.
"It's not that simple… She should have died, but the chip that was inside saved her. And everything has a price! The chip considers V's body an empty shell where another consciousness can be uploaded, so it kills all neural connections and replaces them…" - I didn't understand most of it, but it sounded bad.
"But, you can help her?" - I asked him in hope.
"I would be glad to, but I can't, and few can." - after his words, I felt the ground slipping out from under my feet, but someone's hands caught me.
"I'm holding you, darling." - I heard Misty's voice, and took advantage of this by sobbing in her arms.
My sobs were very long, but no one left me, because they knew that I needed someone who could comfort me.
"Vik… how much time does she have left?" I asked, wiping away my tears.
"A couple of weeks, maybe a month if I'm lucky." - these words hurt my heart.
"But, can't something be done?" - I asked him.
"Maybe it can, but I don't know anyone who could help." - after that we fell into silence.
But I set myself a goal, no matter what it took to save V, my girlfriend, my wife, the mother of our future child.