This is a Stimi story after the finale (I will not call it the series finale, I'm holding out fo Scifi channel or someone else to pick up the show!)
The Gift
Chapter 1: An Unknown future
Mimi watched her fiance sleep peacefully for the first time since they had burried his sister. He seemed so peaceful, like he didn't have a care in the world. She knew that this was not true. They had to start planting the corn crop within the next week to have a decent crop to harvest come fall. And they didn't know if the Cheyenne government would replace Major Beck and grab everyone that was implicated with insurgence. Would she loose him anyway? Would they take the farm? A few days ago she would have said that it was okay as long as they were togther, but she knew that this farm was more than dirt and buildings. It held the spirits of everyone that Stanley ever loved, parents and now his sister. And it was were their children would grow up. She knew that was what he was dreaming about.
Stanley woke up to find Mimi stairing down at her, "What is it?"
"Just dreaming"
"Of what?"
"Do you want kids?"
Stanley was shocked at the questions, "Of course. I don't know if my boys are still swimming up stream, you know, after I was out in the radiation rain."
"Well, I think that I can say for certain that it is possible."
"You mean?"
"Before the bombs I used a type of birth control that's an injection every six months. It ran out in December. I lost track of time, and there was no way that I could get another dose... I remember reading that it took a while to get pregnant after going off the birth control, six months to a year after not getting a dose. However, with us it didn't take that long. Last week I had an appointment at the med center to go back on the birth control, and they told me that they needed to give me a pregnancy test, cause the birth control could hurt the baby."
"So, does that mean?"
"They gave me a pregnancy test, and it came back positive."
The biggest smile she had seen on him since Bonnie died flashed across his face. "We're gonna have a baby?"
"I was afraid to tell you, it's only been a week since we buried Bonnie, and I don't know..."
Stanley pulled Mimi in for a kiss, "You didn't know that a child was included in 'anything and everthing,'"
"We're at war, Stanley, you might loose your farm for being an 'inserectionist', how could we bring a child into this world?"
"Let's take this one step at a time, take the good while we have it. The bad will be along soon enough."
"Your right." Mimi said, "So, wanna show me how happy you are,"
"Can we?"
"If we haven't hurt it already, you don't have to worry now..."
TBC ?