Warning! This is gets extremely depressing! You have been warned.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counselor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. ~Pam Brown

Nova sighed as she stood outside her sister's door. No one had been in or out of there in two days. The team was starting to get worried and they knew only Nova was strong enough to take care of her.

That's why Nova was here.

But Nova didn't want to go in, after all that had happened in the last few days she wasn't sure if she could handle it. All the surprise and laughter they had experience, just to be destroyed by four little words.

Four. Little. Words.

Her sister had broken down and cried for hours without stopping. She had only ceased when she passed out from exhaustion. Otto had held her in a kind of daze that he had yet to break out of. Neither one of them had eaten much of anything in the week since the news.

The horrible news.

There had been hours of uncontrollable shock and sadness, and now her sister was in a state that could only be described as despair.

That's why Nova was here.

Nova tired not to think about how she would have reacted. She didn't thing that she would have been able to take it on her own. But Gidget would have been there to help her, so she had to repay the favor.

That's why she was here.

Genesis was to young to know how to help her, only Nova could relate. But that was the problem, Nova couldn't relate. She could never go through this, Nova had already been told that she could never have that experience, she had received to many wounds to ever achieve the status Gidget had almost. And at this moment she wasn't sure if she wanted to.

But almost was still a key word.

But that's why she was here.

She and Sparx had only told one person about that news, but it had done no good. They were still in the same situation they had tried so hard to avoid.

She finally took a deep breath and knocked on the door. She got no reply so she tentatively called out.

"Gidget?"

Still no answer, but she didn't really expect one. Gidget hadn't talked to anyone in days. Nova finally just walked in and the site she saw almost made her start crying again. Almost, she swallowed her tears and kept walking. She had to stay strong for her friend.

Her sister.

Gidget laid on the bed they had gotten her, the hammock would have been murder on her back in her condition. The normally violet monkey looked darker some how, dingier, dimmer. Maybe it was just because the light was off, but Nova doubted it. Gidget laid with her back to Nova, her tail hanging limply off the bed.

"Gidget." Nova said again, she still received no reply.

"Gidget, I'm so sorry." It was the only thing she could think to say.

This time Gidget flinched for a moment before she relaxed again. Nova turned her head and bit back tears, there was no way she could talk to her about this. She couldn't understand what Gidget and Otto were going through.

She had heard from Gibson their reaction when he had told them the news.

Those four stupid words.

Otto's normally happy eyes went dark and lifeless in moments. Gidget had collapsed in his arms, uncontrollably sobbing.

The robot had been so lifeless with it's two happiest occupants in such hopelessness.

Nova felt such sorrow for Gibson, he had given the news to them. He had been floating around the robot in a uncaring daze, nothing like his previously unusual jolliness.

Antauri had tried to tell them that it was just not meant to be, but even Nova could tell he thought that was a load of crap.

Chiro had canceled all celebrations that had been planned, and he made sure that no one had disturbed the team. Genesis had tried to put on a happy, innocent face but it did no good. She probably hated more than anyone else what was happening to her sister and brother-in-law.

That's why Nova was here.

Nova remembered when she had heard the news. She had gone to her room and tried her best not to be angry at everyone. She tried her best not to be angry at the God who had let this happen. Then she had heard a knock on the door and Sparx had walked in.

His eyes had been tinged with a pink that matched his fur all to well. That's when Nova lost it. He had stood by her side that night, just as he had when they got their own terrible news on that subject. He had been the one to convince her to talk to Gidget.

That's why Nova was here now.

Nova finally gained enough courage to walk over to the small bed that was in the middle of the room. She sat down on the edge and gently laid her head against Gidget's side. She wish that she could feel something, anything, just a chance that there was something alive in there, but she knew she wouldn't.

They stayed like that for a while, not moving, just sitting there in the sorrow that had inflicted the robot.

"Nova?" Gidget said in a hardly audible whisper.

"Yeah sweetie?"

"Does this mean I won't be a Mommy?"

Sisterhood is powerful. ~Robin Morgan

You don't have to say it, I know this is sad. But this isn't the end, and I promise you it gets better, just stay with me a little bit longer.

If you didn't get it, don't worry, it will be further explained in the next chapters. I know that this chapter doesn't make much sense and it's confusing but just whole on. You'll get it after you read the rest of the chapters.

I was just in a sad mood when I wrote this.

Keep reading.

One must sink to the depths of despair to rise to the top of happiness. ~ Polly Archer