Synopsis: oneshot. Adim has to deal with an unexpected event. Set just after season 2.
Disclaimer: the show 'Galactik Football' doesn't belong to me. I'm not making any profit from this fic so, please, don't sue me.
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Adim sat down onto the edge of her bathing tub and forced herself to calm down. This was not the end of the world, after all. Six weeks earlier, Aarch and she had gone to a restaurant to celebrate his team's victory. They had a lot of fun talking and laughing and making up lost time. And then they had gone to her home and… well, when she was younger, she had imagined that kind of things would become boring when she got older. How wrong she had been! It had been mind-blowing…
But know she knew she was possibly pregnant. She had been waiting for six weeks and nothing had happened. So she had bought this pregnancy test and now she was waiting for the result. Maybe she was going to have a baby. Maybe she wasn't. She had to think about logically, which was one of the things she did the best. Either she could keep the baby if she was pregnant, or she could get rid of it. What were the arguments?
On the one hand, she was in her forties and her biological clock was tickling. This might be her last occasion for motherhood. People used to say that all women want to be mothers, and there was no reason for her not having both a child and a career.
On the other hand, she wasn't sure that she had the needed qualities to be a good mother. She could hardly imagine herself bathing a baby, telling it stories or – eww – changing its nappies. She was a career woman who enjoyed organizing things and ordering people about. Even though she didn't mind motherly women as a whole, she could hardly see herself in their shoes. And raising a child alone would probably be so straining!
But maybe she wouldn't have to raise it alone. The kid had a father, after all. The other problem was his reaction. Unlike his brother, Aarch was not exactly family-oriented. When they were younger, she had somehow hoped he would propose her, and he never had. Nor had he ever married anybody else, even though he was a handsome man and an eligible bachelor. He was loyal enough to pay for the child's expenses if she asked him to but she wasn't sure that it was what she needed. And yet if she decided to keep this child, she had to tell Aarch about it because sooner or later, he would realise that something was going on.
Could she knock at his door and say something like "Hello, you know what? I'm pregnant with your baby so now, marry me even though you're not into marriage and be a good father for my kid."? No, that would be some kind of a psychological violence. He couldn't give up his career and his dreams to raise a baby he may not want. And she didn't want to give up her career too. So she had to abort.
But… aborting would have been okay if she had been raped or if her health was in danger, but it wasn't the case. And she couldn't help thinking of the way Aarch had touched her that very night. She had a little part of him inside her now, a tiny living thing that might grow up having his blue eyes and her red hair. Could she just get rid of it and do as if nothing had ever happened?
Her alarm clock made her jump. The fifteen minutes had passed; it was time to look at the result. She stared at the small stick and sighed. Only one line. She was not pregnant.
So there would be no nappies to change, no tantrums on the way to school, she would keep her slim waist and wouldn't have to break the news to her lover. She felt relieved. Well, mostly relieved. Maybe the idea of a red-haired and blue-eyed baby still looked somehow interesting to her.
Well, one thing at a time. First she had to be sure about what to do with her relationship. She had to talk with Aarch as soon as possible.
The end…
