911 had Shima on hold.

The fucking police had him on hold while he sat there watching his best friend bleed to death and to top it all off he had a fucking baby in his hands! Shima was gonna lose his mind, Rin would become a single parent, and Ai would grow up without her father. He felt responsible for this--all of it.

"911, what's your emergency?"

"Fucking Christ, I said my best friend was shot! He's dying send someone here now, you stupid cunt!"

Shima didn't mean it. He didn't mean the insults and the cursed spewing from his mouth but he was panicking and he was scared and he just wanted Bon to live and for this to finally all be over.

"We'll be right on our way sir, just tell your friend to hold on."

Shima hung up the phone to avoid calling the woman out of her name more than he had already. She seemed to take the insults fairly well, most likely understanding the situation that Shima was in right then.

He kneeled down, grabbing onto Bon's shaking hands and looking into his half-lidded eyes as they began to cloud slightly.

"Fuck, don't do this to me man. Not now. We still haven't gotten the chance to go to the Playboy mansion like we said we would. Remember?"

Bon cracked a little smile from the floor and Shima felt tears stinging from his eyes. Here he was dying and all he could do was smile. This man is a fucking soldier.

At that moment, the sound of a crying child echoed in the room. He looked at Ai in his hands.

She was sleeping soundly now.

Shima stood, still carrying Ai in his arms.

"Stay strong, Bon. I'm gonna be right back, okay?"

Bon didn't respond and Shima didn't wait for a response. He made his way up down the hall and the crying became louder. He looked in each room.

Nothing.

Nothing at all until he came to the living room where they had entered...when the crying was the loudest. Where could it have been coming from? A child couldn't have simply wandered in here.

Shima studied the room for a moment and spotted a closet in the room. Could they really have put a baby in a closet and kept it there? That's sick and infuriating!

Shima closed the gap between him and the closet, swinging it open without a moment's hesitation. Sure enough, a baby was in the bottom on the closet wrapped in a blanket and probably freezing.

"Hey buddy...shhhh...I've got you now." Shima whispered, picking the baby up with his free arm and attempting to comfort him. He couldn't help but notice how much the boy resembled Ai. They even had the same little birthmark on their cheeks. If Shima didn't know any better he'd think that they were...twins...

"...No fucking way..."

Realization hit him like a ton of bricks.

He quickly ran back to the room where the old guy with the eye patch was and sat the baby boy down in the crib. He proceeded to pay down his pockets and (among other things) he found a police badge.

Detective Igor Neuhaus
Devil County Police Department

Just as he thought. This was one of the guys that was with Rin after being left to bleed to death on the highway. They said that Rin had lost the other baby. Did they really not know that Neuhaus took him? Did Rin not notice that the child had been cut from him?

Of course he probably thought that the procedure was to save Ai and himself. He didn't know that he was being used and dissected like some sort of monster.

"Police! If you're here then come out with your hands up!"

They'd probably seen the bodies when they came in. It was expected.

They came rushing down the hall. Guns were pointed on him and he stood calmly, attempting to sooth the now startled children in his arms.

"My friend is Ryuji Suguro. He was shot twice and is bleeding out quickly. Please make sure they help him...please."

The officer slowly retreated his weapon.

"The kid with the mohawk, right? He's being taken care of. Mind explaining what the hell happened here?"

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Bon had the most skull splitting headache that he had ever had in his life, not to mention the extreme soreness in his abdomen.

His eyes fluttered open and then snapped shit again when the sunlight flooded his sensitive eyes, stinging them with its rays.

"Bloody hell..." He groaned, attempting to stretch his muscles. The pain was worth the stretch.

He began to take a look around, realizing that he was in the hospital. The TV was off and the room was dim save for the sunlight coming through the window.

Next to the bad was cart that he recognized. It was like the one that the doctors had brought Ai in when Rin had first given birth to her...except it was doubled this time. Why was this in here?

Then he remembered why he was there. He had been shot and Ai had been in his arms. Was she hurt? It was his fault that she was hurt!

He impulsively stood from the bed, ignoring the pain of his wounds and his shaking legs to try and get to the cart.

"Mr. Suguro, please sit down!"

Bon didn't realized that the door was open. The nurses had seen him and now they were rushing in to force him to sit back down on the bed. His legs gave out on him once they moved him back to the bed and the feeling of desperation filled his heart.

"Is that my daughter? Please. Please tell me she's okay."

"She's fine, Mr. Suguro, and so is your son. We're calling Mr. Okumura now so please just sit tight and I'll wheel them over to you."

"....my...my son?"

One of the nurses exited-- probably to go call Rin--while the other wheeled the cart over to him. Sure enough, Ai was swaddled in a pink blanket and sleeping. Next to her was a baby boy swaddled in a blue blanket.

His resemblance to Ai was stunning at best.

"This is...my son?"

"Blood tests proved he was. Your friend Mr. Shima had said that he was yours and insisted that tests be run." the nurse answered. Bon looked up from the babies to look her in the eyes.

"Where's Shima now?"

"Helping with police investigation. That's all I know." she said. He gave her an absent nod and she left, but the door opened again and Bon was tackled to the bed.

"BON! Oh my God, baby, are you okay? Of course you're not okay, you got shot, I sound like an idiot--"

"OW, OW, OW, OW--Rin, baby, you're killing me here!"

The ravenette quickly detatched himself, grabbing Bon's face and showering him with kisses. Bon could feel something on his cheeks.

Tears. Rin was crying.

"Baby, I'm okay. Stop crying."

"I thought I lost you! I can't lose you, Bon, I--"

The sound of crying interrupted their reunion and Rin paused, turning to face the cart which he had failed to notice beforehand. The tears became heavier.

Two babies.

"You got our baby back! But...whose baby is this?"

"Its ours, Rin. I don't know how but it's ours."

Rin's brows furrowed in deep confusion. "But...but I lost our other baby. I mean...they told me that I did...they said that...it didn't make it." Rin didn't understand what was happening.

"They lied, Rin."

Both Rin and Bon turned to the doorway where Shima was standing. He came in, stopping at the cart to smile down at the babies before looking back up at the two of them. His smile fell and his face turned hard with seriousness.

"The guy who shot you was a cop named Igor Neuhaus. Ring any bells?"

"He was the cop assigned to guard my room when I was hospitalized in Devil County." Rin answered. Shima gave a nod.

"I figured as much. I also figured that he wasn't working alone. His boss's name is Allen Night. Also known as Detective Night by the public."

Rin's memory flashes back to that night in the hospital where Detective Night told him he had lost his son. He had been so nice about it and yet he had cut his child from his body.

"Apparently they were working for a wealthy man by the name of Ernst Frederick Egin to extract the son of Rin Okumura for scientific research. The daughter was to be born and taken alive." Shima continued.

Rin remembered what his parents had said about Egin and it all really began to make sense. This sick man had been waiting for this to happen all these years, watching Rin and making his life Hell.

"Glad to see that everything turned out well." Shima added. He smiled at Rin and gave him a tight hug, confusing the hell out of him and then going on to hug Bon. "I love you guys."

An officer came in and and Shima nodded at him, putting his hands behind his back and allowing the cop to cuff him. Bon's eyes widened and Rin froze where he stood.

"What's going on?!"

"I'm under arrest for the murder of Reiji Shiratora and a number of other fellows. I've already confessed that I'm guilty so I'll be getting my final verdict in court." Shima explained.

Stunned was not the word to use.

Shima shot his friends a smile and allowed the officer to escort him out of the room.