A/N: That's right! This is a sequel to "Cruel Intentions." I gotta admit, I'd been thinking about doing this story for a while now, especially after how "Cruel Intentions" ended. Meanwhile, the Scoutpauling kidfic Mia and I have been working on is still in development hell, but most of the blame goes to life stuff on both of our parts. Speaking of which, I'm going to be a senior in college this fall. (This, of course, means that I might be quite busy for the rest of the year when the semester begins.)

Well, enjoy!

A week had passed since Anita had told Victor the big news. Both of them were still adjusting to the fact that Anita was pregnant with his child and that this pregnancy risked getting them in trouble with their superiors. Initially, they discussed the possibility of getting an abortion to maintain the status quo. However, as logical of a choice as it was, it just wasn't sitting right with Anita. They decided instead to keep it for now and contemplate the idea of giving the child up for adoption so as to give it a normal life.

Today, they'd made it into the U.Z.Z. base and gone through the usual procedures to get into the building and make their way to the briefing room. Changed Daily and Professor Professor were already there, eager to start the new day.

"Ah, Anita, Victor, you're here finally," Changed Daily began. "Now, as you already know, for reasons of security, my name is Changed Daily. Today, you may call me..." His cellphone beeped and he just sighed. "Troom Troom."

Everyone else burst into laughter that lasted about thirty seconds.

"Anyway," Troom Troom continued. "We are just now catching wind of the Impostors' plan to offset the Earth's axial position in order to bring in a new ice age."

"Um, excuse me," Anita started to speak up. "How would knocking the Earth off its axis start a new ice age exactly? That sounds like something out of a bad comic book."

"Beats me, but that's not important. What is important is stopping it before it can kill most life on Earth."

Now it was Professor Professor's turn to speak. "But in order to do so, you have to infiltrate them from the inside and sabotage whatever you can get your hands on... which is why we want you to go undercover as fellow Impostors."

"Because that ended well last time," Anita quipped.

"Anita, please," Changed Daily chimed in. "Now let's go. We can't wait any longer."


With the mission to stop the Impostors done and over with, Victor and Anita could now breathe a sigh of relief and hope that they wouldn't have to deal with any more intense missions like that for a while. Not just for their sakes, of course, but for their child's. Surely, a mission that involved thwarting a plot to commit genocide on a global scale would prove stressful for such a small cluster of cells. Anita had already planned to tell Troom Troom and Professor Professor that she was pregnant, but she'd lie about being artificially inseminated in order to keep the relationship further under wraps. She wasn't sure if they would actually buy that story, but it was worth a shot.

Once that was out of the way, Victor and Anita next decided to tell his mother Mildred about their child.

"So, um..." Anita began. "There's something Victor and I would like to tell you. It's actually kind of important."

"Go right ahead," Mildred said. "I'm all ears."

"Okay... Victor and I are having a baby."

Mildred could only beam with joy about this. "Oh, that's wonderful!" Immediately after, she noticed the look of worry on Anita's face. "You don't seem too happy about this yourself. You're worried they'll find out about your relationship, aren't you?"

"Yes. How'd you know?"

"I had to hide my romance with Lionel way back when myself. In my case, though, we didn't have to deal with a pregnancy on top of that. We just waited until after we left U.Z.Z. to start worrying about raising a baby."

"How hard was it to keep your relationship a secret?"

"I was tempted so many times to just blurt out that Lionel and I were together. He was better at hiding it than I was, so for me anyway, it was very hard."

Anita sighed. "Victor and I aren't really sure what we're going to do with this... child. We talked about me getting an abortion first, but I couldn't get on board with it no matter how logical it sounded. It just didn't seem right. Maybe we'll put it up for adoption if it means it'll have a normal life, but it's up in the air for now."

"Don't worry about it right now. Everything will be fine in the end, trust me."

"Well, I certainly hope so," Victor chimed in. "Anita's already told Troom Troom and Professor Professor that she was artificially inseminated by an anonymous donor."

"Now is there anybody else you plan to tell?" Mildred asked her son.

"Yeah. Anita's parents. I'm not sure how thrilled they'll be to hear that they have a grandchild on the way, though."

"Good luck."


A couple days later, Anita invited her parents over to her house to share the big news. At first, Catherine and William Knight weren't sure what Anita was going to tell them, but she assured them that it was good news that she needed to tell them.

"Okay, so what are you waiting for?" Catherine asked her daughter. "Just what is this good news?"

"Well..." Anita began to speak. "I'm pregnant. That's all."

"Wait, you mean...?"

"Yes, Mum. You and Dad are going to be grandparents."

Catherine could hardly contain her shock at this. She had waited so long for this moment, for her daughter to bestow upon her and William grandchildren. It was a moment that would've been a pipe dream before they'd adopted the merbaby out of guilt for killing her mother. Now it was finally here. She started to cry tears of what could only be joy.

"We're happy for you, Anita," William said. "We really are. We hope you'll let us visit him or her sometime."

"I'm sure they'll appreciate it," Anita replied.

Now, for the first time since she'd joined U.Z.Z., Anita started to feel like there was hope yet.