"BANZAI!", Shenzi yelled. "YOU – COMPLETE – ASSHOLE!" She jumped in front of him and punched him in the stomach.
Punch.
Punch.
Punch.
"Ow. Ow! OW! Shenz'! Would ya stop it?"
"NEVER!", she screamed. "You – jerky – fucker!"
Punch.
"SHENZ'!" Quickly, Banzai grabbed her ankle. "Imagine I'd do this to you."
"Then I'd fuckin' kill ya!"
"You're right, then I'd probably deserve it. – Shenzi." Banzai looked at her, smiling lovingly. "Why are ya so mad?"
"YA DARE TA ASK!?", Shenzi yelled. "Ya think I'm blind or something!? Ya think I wouldn't notice this name-thing you started!?"
"Don't you dare to mention that ... thing! You're – you're such a ... a ... WHAT DID YA DO WITH THE LIST!?"
— Too much. Shenzi leaned against the wall, scrapping down it until she sat on the floor. Even though she didn't want to, she couldn't help but cry and press her paws on her stomach.
"I ... hate you", she snivelled, "I hate you so much."
Banzai looked to the ground and bit his tongue. Damn. At first the tiny small Remy and now his pregnant girlfriend. Nobody liked the name he suggested.
— Besides Ed, but Ed doesn't count.
"Shenz' ..." Carefully, he tiptoed and sat down next to her. "I ... I'm sorry."
"And ya think that'll cover it?" Shenzi blinked a few times to detach some tears from her lashes.
"No ...?" He inched closer to her; when she didn't protest, he put his paw on hers.
She sobbed. "Ya ... ya didn't even make a proper suggestion and them you came with that Norpf-shit and ... Why did ya do this? It ... it was horrible for me."
'What was horrible for her?', Banzai wondered, but he didn't say it out loud. He just hugged his girlfriend carefully – he was sure she'd give him some nice scars.
"'t was because ya didn't like my ideas, wasn't it?", Shenzi snivelled. "Aw, dammit, everything ... everything'll be easy as pie for you, as you're not the one who feels sick in the morning or is hungry and craves for weird stuff or ... or who has frequent moods swings or whose ass becomes fatter everday –"
"Shht. No.", he murmured. "They were nice, really, but ... I think our kid should have a special name. Not something like 'Norpf', a pretty name. Pretty and special. – Shenz'." He moved his paw under her chin to make her look up at him. "I suggest we'll wait for a while with naming the lil' one, eh?" Smiling, he placed a paw on her stomach and rubbed it gently.
Shenzi pursed her lips, sniffed and nodded.
Then she laughed. "It's movin'", she whispered.
"It is?" Banzai carefully pressed his paw a little stronger on her belly. "... Don't feel anything."
"Ya can't, it's too small yet." Shenzi giggled.
"Hehe", Banzai said, slightly humourlessly. Then, he ... "Shenz'? I have an idea."
"Listenin'." 'Please, let it be anything Norpf-less ...'
"We'll ... call the kid 'work in progress'. Or no, 'working title'. Not as a real name, just ... to have somethin'."
Shenzi perked an eyebrow up. "... If ya want to."