.~:*:~.Vivi 18, Avery 22.~:*:~.

"You're an asshole!" Avery shouted taking everyone in the near vicinity by surprise. Especially the man she was calling said asshole. "Leave me alone Pell. Go away." She turned and walked quickly off. Her orange hair had grown out a bit and now reached just past her shoulder in the slightest of waved. Pell was too shocked to say or do anything.

He looked over at Vivi who seemed to be just as shocked as he had been. "What did I say?" He questioned the young girl. He felt old now. His lover for the past 4 years was now twenty two and the princes who he'd watched being born was eighteen while he was now thirty. Could it be that she was tiring of him? He was eight years older than her after all. Old. That's how he felt. He was old now and she being so young and in her prime was wanting someone younger than him. That had to be it.

"Pell, she's been acting um," Vivi thought about how to explain what she had noticed in the past few weeks. "Temperamental isn't what I'm going for because she always is but more so now than before. She's been acting odd, I guess that's how to phrase it." Vivi nodded. That's how she would put it. Odd. She'd know Avery since she herself was six and Avery eleven. And Avery's recent behavior could only be classified as that.

In the past month alone Avery had devoured enough food to last her for a good three months and she'd been more temperamental crying at the most stupid of things and within moments become angry at the same thing. Then there was how she was treating Pell and Vivi. To Pell she was being more... volatile, Vivi would put it. Avery would be all indifferent like normal about any to everything he'd say. Then at any random moment she would become irritable and leave before throwing a raging fit. This was the first time she had went off on Pell himself. "Is it because I'm getting old?" Pell questioned.

"You know what she thinks about that, Pell. She'd say screw the world and it's mother if they cared." Both of them chuckled. Avery came back then and glared at Pell.

She grabbed Vivi's arm and growled out, "I'm not leaving this poor girl with a fucker like you." before dragging Vivi off with herself. That's how Avery's been treating Vivi. She's become more attached and protective. Not once in the past week had Avery let Vivi out of her sight. And once again Avery had insisted that they bathe together like they had as kids.

Vivi's eyes looked Avery over when they suddenly stopped in the middle of the street. Avery's eyes widened and her lip quivered. "I was mean to him. I have to go apologize." Vivi let her eyes go to Avery stomach. She had gained some weight recently. And until this moment Vivi had just thought it was because of her massive appetite.

"Avery, I have a friend I'd like you to meet." Avery's head snapped towards Vivi like she had forgotten the princess was there. "She's a really nice woman. Will you come with me to see her?" Avery nodded and grinned at Vivi.

Once they reached an old looking building that was halfway run down they entered it. "Vivi-sama."" An old woman called out when she spotted the blue haired girl. "And who do we have here?"

"This is my friend Avery. I think she might be pregnant." Avery looked at Vivi like she was crazy. But the old woman looked Avery over.

When the woman started to lift Avery's shirt up Avery jumped back. "Don't touch me you old hag." Avery growled but the woman just seemed to ignore it. Soon after the woman went over to Avery, Avery backed away. This happened for a while until the woman had Avery cornered. "Get away you old bat!" She shrieked but it did no good. Just as Avery was about to bolt again her entire body froze.

"Well what do we have here?" A man's voice that just oozed sexuality and confidence asked. In the doorway behind Vivi stood two men. One man looked to only be in his late teens or early twenties and his right hand was raised with his fingers out stretched, though Avery knew better then to think he was so young. This blond haired blue eyed man was nearing his mid thirties. And beside him stood a red haired boy that was almost the same age as herself, he was twenty-four. "Raven, what would your guess be?"

Raven, the red haired guy stood up and entered the building. The old woman was immediately on edge. Raven's green eyes scanned Avery over. The dark outline that never dulled around his eyes made the green seem to shine. "I'd say we have our selves a pregnant Peregrine." Raven's husky voice said. He wasn't one for talking. "What about you David?"

"I could call it any better." He laughed and still held his hand out. "Old woman, you gonna check her or what?" Avery's head was free to move but the rest of her body couldn't move an inch.

"I hate you David." She growled and tried to struggle but it was futile. "You and your fucking Kairai Kairai Fruit." David's a Devil fruit user and he has the power of the Marionette Fruit. He is able to, with this fruit, control anyone's body's movement. Or lack there of as he currently was. "How'd I end up with you for family?"

"I'd say she is indeed pregnant. She's even got a buldge."

"Of course I'm fucking pregnant you old shit." Avery growled she surprised them all. Even surprised David enough for him to lose his concentration and free her. "Bout three to four months along. Or that's what Pell's mum says. Fricken bitch won't give me a straight answer about anything until she finds a way to either get him to marry me or dump me." Avery sat on the ground cross legged. "And I can't say shit to him about it or she threatens to may me pay."

Avery started to pout. Her bottom lip stuck out as she huffed. "Well, she said you couldn't tell him right?" David asked and Avery nodded. "Did she say you couldn't tell anyone else?"

"Not a work to anyone of the palace."

"Well, Raven why don't you go find the man? We are anything but palace people."

"Ack!" Avery said aloud and only the old woman gave her a strange look. The others had gotten used to it by now. "You can't do that! I have to tell him. It's not right if he has to hear it from you. So don't you do nothin, just let it be." A sly grin crossed David face and Avery had a bad feeling.

"So you don't think I'm old?" Pell's voice asked. He had been walking around and had seen a raven flying around not to long ago. So he had went to where the bird had been. He's arrived here in time to hear Avery call his mother a bitch. Normally he would say something about that to her but he belived the circumstances called for otherwise.

"Out all of you!" The old woman cooed at the people that had started to gather around her place. "Out all of you!" And they all left. Once out the door she grinned wickedly. Then she reached up and tore at her face. Bit's and pieces came off to reveal a young woman that was no where near as old as she had looked moments ago. Then the old gray hair fell off of her head and piled onto the floor as a wig while long strait white hair fell down to her mid back. Only a few people would recognize her but she knew the two girls would have known her along with Pell. She was after all with his closest friend Chaka.

Outside David and Raven peeled away from Avery and Pell, dragging Vivi with them. "So you all angry at me because you are pregnant?" Pell asked Avery.

"No, I'm all pissy because I'm hungry twenty-four, seven. My feet hurt half the time along with my back and every muscle has been feeling soar. I'm tired way too much and I hate it. Then when I'm around you all I want to do is tell you but there is no way I can afford to pay your mother." She gritted her teeth but it did nothing to stop the tears. "And I cry all the time. I hate it. It feels like I've got no control over myself. And all I want to do is tell you but I can't." She repeated the last part.

Pell puled Avery to himself and held her. Her head only reached the bottom of his breast bone. As she gripped onto his clothes he could feel the bite of her nails starting to dig into his chest. But he didn't care. This was what he had wanted. Recently he had been wanting something, something more than what he had now. He'd realized that he had wanted a family. He was indeed starting to get old. He was thirty and unmarried, though he did have a lover for the last four years and had been with her for the past six, and he was also childless.

Chaka had a son by now, the king obviously had a daughter, Khoza was wooing Vivi hoping to start a family himself, and Pell had been able to see the way that Chaka looked at his child. It seemed that he was envious of his friend because he had a child. Pell was feeling older and older by the day just looking at Chaka's kid and seeing how young Avery was. But he hadn't wanted to say anything to Avery because she was young and had a long life ahead of her.

"You're not mad?" Avery mumbled into his chest and Pell had almost forgotten where he was.

"What?" Pell asked and pulled back from Avery. "Why would you think that?"

"You never talk about it. You've seen how Chaka is with his baby and you just seem to be content with how we are." She looked up into his onyx eyes and he met her mismatched blue and green ones.

"Every time I see Chaka I-" Pell cut himself off. "I've wanted to marry you since you were eighteen. But I thought that you wouldn't want to be stuck to an old man like me for the rest of your life. And I haven't brought up having kids because you're still young, too young and free to be forced to take care of a kid." Avery laid her head on Pell's chest again and he held her lightly, one hand on her back the other stroking her hair. "I've been waiting so long to hear that." Pell was sure she was talking about the marriage thing rather than the kid thing.

"We'll get married sometime. Whenever you're ready. And I'll also talk to my mother about how unlawful black mailing you is." Avery chuckled at the last part.

"I'm tired, can we just go home?" His answer to her question was lifting her up bridal style and jumping into the air where he transformed into his Zoan form of a man-bird. Flapping his large and strong wings they arrived at the palace in no time, but in that short ammount of Time Avery had proved she had been tired by falling asleep in his arms.

Ok so here's another one. And just so you know in between my little designs is the persons name and their age. P.s. If you ever notice any errors in my story like HE instead of He or He instead of Her let me know. (If you point out anything like how Vivi never had a friend like Avery I will thank you for pointing out the obvious and inform you that I don't care. This is fanfiction and I have the power to do as I wish- don't like, don't read, enjoy and remember flames keep my toes nice and warm.)