The thought terrified her, and excited her all at the same time. Mixed emotions ran through her being as she slid down the bathroom door, her hands shaking so roughly the test in her fingertips danced like a flame.
Over the last few weeks Jade Nguyen hadn't been feeling… quite like herself. Dizzy, Nauseous, and just plain off hadn't quite put two and two together till she was complaining to her leaders daughter who was roughly the same age as herself and Talia made a comment jokingly that, "Perhaps she was 'knocked up.'"
Surely not, she and Roy had always been careful. Used protection, or he pulled out, or they settled for just pleasuring one another through /other/ means. But as she did the math for her last visit into Central City to see her 'secret' boyfriend it had been about two months, and the symptoms had set in just when-
That was when she'd gone into town to pick up the test that was now sitting in her hands, and even as she stared at it in disbelief she knew that it was true. Inside her she was harboring a child, and she felt the instant urge to protect it. Hide it from the world, especially from her family and this lifestyle she had placed herself into.
Finally she stood up, tossed the plastic in the trash and returned to her room. She pulled her bag up from under her bed and began to gather up her belongings. Weapons, clothes, there wasn't much. Ra's would be furious that she would up and disappear but she wouldn't have this baby end up like her… or Artemis.
This thing, this creature inside of her… she would give it a home, a place it would feel safe. She'd give it what she never had.