Disclaimer: I do not own Jonny Quest or related characters.
A/N: If you're reading this, then I got brave and posted this. I may end up deleting it though. My first story with Jade and of course she's a bit OOC. Can you blame her though? A note about Jade and Race's relationship: The way I play it is when they're together, they're a couple (save the years Race was with Estella), when they're apart they're free to pursue other relationships (or in Jade's case free to play people. Because I imagine she does that a lot). Though they love each other they know they can't have a life together. Their lifestyles wouldn't allow it.
Also, to be clear, this is very early in Race and Estella's relationship (they've only been together for two months).
Jade was sitting up in the hospital bed when she heard the door open. Her jade green eyes flicked over to the tall man that had entered the room then returned to the white blanket covering her. "Did they tell you?" She asked bitterly.
"No." Race answered. "All they said was that you were going to live."
She had to admit, she was surprised at that. She thought for certain the doc was going to blab, especially since she was one of Race's friends. Jade was beginning to think she shouldn't have taken the job that had brought her to America. She'd been after a thief that had stolen a national treasure of Egypt when she had run into Race - literally. Of course, he had agreed to help her. It hadn't taken much convincing, leading Jade to believe it had been far too long since he'd had a real mission. They had taken the man down easily. No injuries at all. No, it had been severe abdominal pain that had brought her here.
"Jade, what happened?" Race asked as he sat on the edge of the bed.
She still wouldn't look at him. Swallowing hard she answered, "I lost the baby."
"You were pregnant?!" Race looked at her completely shocked. She was glad he didn't ask about the baby's father. She wouldn't have wanted to answer that question.
She nodded miserably. God help her, though losing the baby hurt, she was glad she'd never have to face the issue of trying to figure out what to do with the child. She knew she wouldn't have been able to keep it. Her job wouldn't allow her to be a mother. But she also knew she couldn't be sure she would have been able to give it up. Tears came to her eyes and she tried to hold them back. A moment later the tears were rolling down her cheeks and she was reaching out to him.
Wordlessly Race pulled her into a hug. He ran a hand through her raven black hair as he held her, just letting her cry. He said nothing, there was nothing he could say to comfort her. Burying her face in his shoulder Jade tried to calm down but she found that she couldn't. Emotions she'd been holding in for three months overwhelmed her, leaving her a sobbing wreck in Race's arms.
Race. The only man she had ever truly loved. The man Estella might take from her. The man who would never know it was his child she had lost.
A/N: The reason I wrote it is it symbolizes the death of an OC I was working on but decided to scrap. Mei, a girl a year older than Jessie with raven black hair and ice blue eyes, the daughter of Jezebel Jade and Race Bannon... that Race wouldn't have found out about until several years later (yes, that was inspired by the Golden Quest version of Jessie).
If I do end up posting this, please let me know if you would have liked to see how Mei would have turned out. I scrapped her because I was afraid she'd be to cliche or Mary-Sueish.