His emotions were fluttering; he was nervous, excited, but at the same time, he had this odd peace about everything as her arms wrapped around him, and Blaine returned the favor. He kissed her back, but he was gentler than usual. Part of it was the tenderness of the moment, but at the same time, it was something else.

He knew she wasn't fragile; she'd told him that several times before, and though it took him awhile to get it, he realized that Lee, in fact, was not that easy to break. But now it wasn't just Lee, and he was sure the little one was a little more fragile than that.

His hands ran up and down her back as his thoughts stopped racing and he was now focused on her. His girlfriend. The one who'd turned him into a thoughtful, loving person instead of the lone wolf he'd been for years.

He was kissing her back, his arms wrapped around her, his hands gently running up and down her back. Much more gently and lightly than normal.

Lee was very relieved, though. When she has been worrying about the possibility of being pregnant over the last few weeks, she honestly hadn't even hoped that Blaine would take it this well if it were true. And here he was, obviously nervous, but otherwise completely at peace with the idea that he was going to be a father. That she had gotten pregnant barely two months after they had met.

Pulling back from the kiss slightly, Lee just gazed down at Blaine for a moment. ”I'm still not breakable,” she told him with a smile. Then she leaned in for another kiss.

"I know," he murmured before she kissed him again, and he held her close for a moment as he held it, but then pulled back again. "But this time, it's not you I'm thinking about." He looked at her lovingly, yet sincerely as his hands slid up to the zipper of her dress, sliding it down before easily slipping the dress down.


Then, he removed his own shirt before pulling her in for another kiss, slightly less gently this time.

It wasn't her that he was thinking about being so gentle and careful with her. Of course not, Lee thought with a smile at Blaine as she felt his hands sliding up her back again. ”I promise, you are not going to hurt the baby,” Lee whispered, shivering as she felt Blaine sliding her dress down her shoulders, the fabric falling to the floor at her feet. ”Nothing you would do will do anything to it.”

Then Blaine was pulling her closer, kissing her again. Stepping out of her dress, Lee moved closer to Blaine as she returned the kiss. And while he wasn't quite as gentle as he had been, Lee realized that it was probably going to take some work. Again.

Or, she thought, maybe just some encouragement. Smiling into the kiss, Lee slowly started to push Blaine backwards onto the bed.

Blaine nodded in understanding, slowly working his way back to normal as she pushed him back onto the bad, and he heard his breath catch in his throat as he held her close, his hands trailing the bare skin as he smiled behind the kiss.

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Skye always hated Valentine's day. It always seemed she never had anyone, and finding....company...seemed to be beyond her grasp today. So, she found herself unlocking Blaine's apartment, and stepping inside. Alone. Hopefully Blaine and Lee were out together--or at least in the confines of the bedroom this time. With a sigh, she stepped into the apartment and plopped on the couch, not even taking her hoodie off or letting the hood down as she lay down, closing her eyes. Maybe she'd manage to sleep til tomorrow. Hey, nothing would be better than waking up only for Valentines day to be over, and half-off chocolate day to be in full swing.

All things considered, Lee and Blaine still had so much time together. It was still earlier than she would normally head over to his place, and neither of them had to go to work that night. And Lee didn't even have to head back to her place in the morning because Kevin was spending the night at Tarin's.

So much time they could spend together, and yet, even as she lay there kissing Blaine, hands alternating between closing in his hair to hold his head close and letting her fingers roam his bare chest Lee couldn't help but think that the day, the night, could be so much better if she would just be able to sleep. Even if Blaine wasn't ready for her to sleep in the same bed as him, Lee was really wishing she could have slept that night.

Then all of a sudden, Lee couldn't feel Blaine. Well, she could feel Blaine, but she couldn't feel his energy, she couldn't feel herself siphoning.

In shock and surprise, Lee sat up quickly, losing her balance in more ways than one, and she fell backwards of the bed. As she felt herself falling, Lee's arms reached out, trying to catch herself, but all she managed to do was hit the lamp off the table beside the bed, causing it to hit the floor with her.

One minute, things were going great, but the next minute, they weren't. He saw Lee falling, but he couldn't quite react quick enough to catch her as she and the lamp hit the floor, the lamp faring far worse than Lee had. The lamp crashed to the floor, shattering into tons of little pieces.

Blaine was on his feet in a flash, and without thinking, picked Lee up and placed her gently on the bed. "You okay, hun?" he asked, not worrying about the glass yet.

Meanwhile, the crash made Skye jump from her sleep, and she hit the floor in the process. The living room suddenly lit up with a very vivid green before it suddenly erupted in a flash of white light and a loud bang that echoed through the apartment.

After a few moments, Skye knocked on the bedroom door once her ears stopped ringing. "Hey, everything cool in there? But damn, calm it down, will ya?" she said, hoping everything was okay.

Lee was on the floor, the lamp in pieces beside her, and she still couldn't feel any energy coming from Blaine. But before she was able to move, he was right there, picking her up and seeing her on the bed. At the same time she heard a loud noise on the livingroom she recognized as Skye going nova. Apparently they weren't home alone anymore. But at least the closed bedroom door muffled the noise enough that Lee's ears weren't ringing.

Finally get brain made sense of Blaine's question, and Lee shook her head.”I’m not siphoning, she said. Then her eyes shot to Blaine. ”Can you…” of somehow there was an adapted near them, stopping her from siphoning, did that mean that Blaine could actually feel with his mutation nullified?

Then Lee heard a know l knock on the bedroom door, and she jumped. Boy was she jumpy and nervous when she wasn't siphoning.

”We're just having a great day, aren't we?” Lee said, after hearing Skye's question through the door. Then glanced at her rather undressed state. ”You want to…?” she asked, nodding toward the door.

Blaine sat on the bed next to her, wearing just his jeans, himself. His face showed concern as he looked at her, making sure she was okay. To answer her question, he reached over, letting his hand run across her stomach before he sadly shook his head. "Nope. Nothin. Whatever this is, it isn't an Adapted," he said, turning his attention to the door.

"It can still be a great day, we're just having a few...unknown hiccups," he said with a shrug, then looked back at the door. "We're fine, Skye," he called out, hoping that would be enough.

But then, he left the room, going to the kitchen to grab the broom, and then he went back to sweep it up as Skye's green-tinted head peeked in through the now cracked door. "You sure you okay?" she asked.

Blaine’s mind seemed to go in the same direction as hers had, to there being an adapted cancelling out her powers. Well, really, what else could it be? The only times since she had been a teenager that she hadn’t siphoned had been when there was an adapted nearby. Otherwise, she was always siphoning if someone was nearby, especially when she was touching someone. It didn’t matter how much she had wished over the years that she stop siphoning, even just briefly, it had never happened without being in an adapted’s field.

Then after her partial question, Lee saw Blaine’s hand reach out, his fingers lightly trailing along her bare stomach. Then her eyes rose to look at Blaine as she heard his words, and Lee’s brow creased. ”Then what’s going on?” Lee asked, though she was asking herself as much as she was asking Blaine.

But apparently he still thought that it could be a great day. At least Lee didn’t have to say anything to that, since Blaine answered Skye’s question through the door, then got up and left the room. Lee just stayed where she was sitting on the bed, trying to figure out what in the world was going on. At least it didn’t take Blaine long to return, with a broom. Followed by Skye’s head poking into the room with green light following.

”We’re fine,” Lee said almost absently, eyes on Blaine as he cleaned up the mess she’d made. ”I’m just not siphoning all of a sudden.”

His brow furrowed a bit as he thought, finally shaking his head. "I...I don't know. I remember when I was younger, though. When my mutation surfaced at age twelve, pain was the first sensation to go, and then by the time I was sixteen, I couldn't feel anything. You think maybe it's some sort of...I don't know, thing like that? I mean, I'm fine, Skye's obviously fine..." His voice trailed off as he continued to think.

He swept up the glass, going back to the kitchen to dump the lamp as he continued to ponder the situation. It really didn't make much sense, but then again, he'd never dealt with this before. It'd be like if he could suddenly feel, but there wasn't an adapted nearby.

Skye's head had disappeared almost as soon as she'd peeked in. "Well, my power's still fine, so...I'm really not sure. That is...odd though..."

Blaine claimed to be at a loss about what was going on, about why her siphoning had stopped. Except that he was giving a possible explanation even if he didn’t realize it. He’d started having just lost the sensation of pain, but in the next four years he had lost everything about his sense of touch. And as he said, both him and Skye had no issues using their powers, it was just her.

As Blaine left the room after sweeping, Lee thought about what he had said. His powers had changed over the years. So had hers, she no longer siphoned nearly as much energy as she used to unless she was actively trying to take more.

But that wasn’t the only way her powers had grown over the years, Lee remembered. That was why her and Tarin hadn’t been allowed to train at the gym they’d been going to because she had somehow thrown Tarin 15 feet without even touching him.

”Maybe you’re right,” Lee said, swallowing slightly. as she looked up at him. ”I just have never not felt myself siphoning if there’s people around.”

A thoughtful frown on her face, Lee scooted herself off the bed and moved to grab a pair of her pajama pants and a shirt to throw on. The mood was pretty ruined at this point, after all.

Blaine nodded thoughtfully as he finished cleaning, and he'd left to dump the glass and put the broom and dustpan back in the kitchen, and Skye returned to her spot on the couch, this time putting something on the TV before sitting down and propping her feet on the coffee table.

When Blaine returned, Lee had put on a shirt and pajama pants, and he gave a quiet sigh, grabbing his muscle shirt off of the floor and putting it back on. He'd figured the mood was long ruined, but...well one could only hope, right? "Well, as long as you're okay. That's what's important," he said sincerely, though he was still somewhat disappointed. Even still, a new facet to her mutation could be kind of cool. As long as it didn't ruin anymore intimate moments. Once dressed, he leaned in and gave Lee a quick kiss on the cheek before making his own way to the living room and sitting in the recliner.

"What are you watching?" Blaine asked Skye, slightly confused as he looked at the TV.
"Oh, Grandma and Grandpa recorded all of your fights. They gave me a copy of the tapes when I got old enough," Skye explained.
"Really?" He said with a slight smile as Skye nodded in agreement.

Relaxing in the chair, he couldn't quite shake the grin that was now on his face. Overall, it was still looking to be a pretty good day.

Lee heard Blaine’s sigh when he came back into the bedroom and saw that she was wearing more clothing than she had been when he’d left the room. ”I think I am,” Lee replied with a shrug. ”It was just a huge surprise. But, we do still have all day.”

Then with a kiss on her cheek, Blaine left to head to the livingroom. Following a bit slower, Lee stepped into the livingroom to see Skye sitting on the couch and Blaine in the recliner. So Lee made the only reasonable decision that she could make on Valentine's Day: she went and sat on Blaine's lap to watch whatever it was that Skye had on TV.

Apparently, Lee was quicker to realize what Skye was watching than Blaine was, and Lee smiled seeing his reaction. ”I've watched a few of them with her,” Lee told Blaine softly. ”You were more impressive than I expected, and she gets quite mad about the fact you didn't make it big.

“I must be selfish, though,” Lee continued, dropping her voice even more to whisper in Blaine's ear. ”I'm rather glad you didn't go pro. Where would that have left me if you had?” Having said that, Lee leaned back a bit, snuggling against Blaine as she watched the fight on the screen.

After a few minutes, Lee lifted her head to look at Blaine again. ”Maybe we should think about ordering some food,” Lee suggested. ”I’m going to grab a drink, do you and Skye want to figure out what we're ordering?” Giving Blaine a quick kiss and smile, Lee got to her feet and made her way to the kitchen. Opening the fridge without even thinking about what she was doing.

And the moment the door was open, all that Lee could smell was the Chinese food. It wasn't as strong as it had been earlier, and Lee actually managed to reach into the fridge and grab a bottle of beer for Blaine before it became to much. Closing the door and setting the bottle on the counter, Lee made her way to the bathroom again. She didn't quite have to run, but she was definitely moving faster than she typically would have.

This was going to get old fast.

Blaine had been upset that the mood had taken a complete 180, but seeing what Skye was watching lifted his spirits a little. After all, it meant alot to him that his family had not only taped his fights, but also held onto them all these years. And Skye seemed to be an avid fan; maybe not of MMA, but she held her uncle in high regard if nothing else.

Skye stretched out on the couch, seeing Lee sit in Blaine's lap--really did she expect anything else, though? "Well, yeah. It wasn't right," she said simply as her hair flashed red, but only briefly.

"Easy there, Skye. It's okay. Besides, Lee's right. Even if I did go pro, this wouldn't be happening right now. And you, my dear, would be up a creek," he said teasingly to Skye. And then Lee had gotten up to go get beers.

"So what are you--" Blaine asked Skye, but was cut off by Lee making her way to the bathroom.
"Is she okay?" Blaine nodded, and his smile seemed to tell Skye everything. "She's pregnant? Really? Dude that is so cool! I'm happy for you guys!" She exclaimed, her hair and the lights on her hand flickering with a very vibrant shade of yellow.

After that, Blaine got up, grabbing his beer from the counter, and getting two sodas for Skye and Lee. Sitting down, they began debating pizza.

"Pepperoni, Pineapple..."
"Ew. No pineapple. Mushrooms?"
"Hell no. Meat lovers?"
"I'm a vegetarian."
"[color-slategray]Bull****.[/color]"
"Heh, no, not really. Onions and peppers though. Just no pineapple."
"Okay, maybe one with, one without?"
"Deal."