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{This fanfic is placed after the latest episode, Season 2 Ep 10, Yellow Brick Road}
{How Dariela tells Abe she's expecting =3}
They were still out looking for him. Jackson. Ripped out his tracker, but he was a part of the team now. She needed to talk. She needed to talk to someone other than Jamie or Allison. She needed Abe.
Allison know though. Maybe she could talk.
But she didn't want to talk to Allison, she wanted to talk to Abe. No. She needed to talk to Abe.
She needed a drink, just a cup of alcohol. To drown out everything that was going on. But she couldn't.
All these things she couldn't do. All she could do was wait.
She stared at the door for 45 minutes before Jamie walked up to her and asked if she needed anything. She wanted to talk, to just let the volcano in her mouth explode. But Abe would be mad at her if she told other people before him. No he wouldn't. Abe would never get mad at her. But still she sat with her hands shifted over her stomach, to afraid to talk.
She looked up at the door when she heard Mitch's voice, followed by Abe's. She got up and walked quickly to the bar, not wanting to alarm the boys by sitting there. She sighed as the soft whoosh of the door reached her. Sounded like the air being let out of a balloon, the exact way she was feeling.
She got up and walked to greet them in the lab. As she looked over the edge for a second she realized two things, Jackson wasn't with them, and she would have to look less suspiciously different. She forced her hand down from her stomach to her side and put on her usual face, not to happy but not as nervous and depressed as she felt.
She rounded the corner and walked slowly down the stairs, speeding up a bit at times. She had just been so tired and restless ever since she found out she was expecting. She looked at Abe for only a few seconds with her deep brown eyes. SHe looked away at Mitch and said, "So I'm guessing you didn't find him?"
"No, we caught him and we left him tied up outside the plane," Mitch said glaring at her. He was obviously upset about not finding Jackson, but she didn't blame him. The Noah objective would be released in less than three days, they needed to find the last triple helix animal that lived on an unmapped island miles away, and they couldn't till they found Jackson.
But she was stressed too, so she rolled her eyes and sighed.
Saving her from blabbing her smart mouth off, Allison walked in. "Couldn't help but overhearing, but we honestly don't have time to go off on another wild goose chase. We need to find this 'magical' saber tooth cat."
Dariela took a step back as a wave dizziness smacked her in the side of her head. She took a step back and grabbed the railing of stairs. Half-falling, half-slowly-lowering-herself, she sat down on one of the stairs. She closed her eyes for a few moments, trying to regain her balance. She opened her eyes back open to find everyone staring at her.
"You okay?" Mitch said, looking slightly worried. She panicked a bit, but only for a second.
"Yeah, yeah." She mumbled. "Just got lightheaded for a moment, but I'm fine." She crossed her arms over her stomach and got up slowly. Allison looked worried, but she gave her a small nod, telling her that she was okay. "So, what are we gonna do about the whole Jackson situation?"
Mitch was still looking at her, and she could tell that he was worried. She brushed it off though, they would all be worried after they found out. "We don't really know. Either we go try to find Jackson again, or we fly and try to find the saber tooth cat. The first option could take more time than we have though."
Dariella felt sick to her stomach. She couldn't tell if it was morning sickness or how she felt guilty. Jackson would have never run away if she hadn't shot him, and that was all she could think of.
Abe finally spoke up, "We are not leaving here without Jackson." He said simply. She could tell he wanted Jackson back badly, so he would say sorry. She almost felt bad for him, but the person she felt the worst for was the unborn baby inside of her. Forcing a person into a world filled with animals that could kill you at any moment if they wanted to.
"Well, we may not have a choice" Jamie said, walking in from keeping Vera company in the conference room. "Were running out of time. We need to get this cure soon, or the whole world is at risk."
"Then I will stay here, and I will find him." Abe said. She could see that there was no way that they could stop him from trying to find Jackson.
Suddenly, the sick feeling in her stomach rushed back stronger than before. She got up and ran to the bathroom without any reason know to the others. Except for Allison. She got sick, and she knew it was morning sickness this time.
She could tell from the feeling on the back of her neck that they were talking about her. That, and she could hear everything they said, there was an air duct connecting the lab and the bathroom closest to the lab.
"Is she ok?" Jamie asked. No. I'm not ok.
"She did say that the animals were targeting her while she led those people to the safe house." Mitch said, trying to make a conclusion on what was wrong. You have no idea Mitch.
She could just feel Allison looking sympathetic.
"I'll check on her." Abe spoke, his voice growing softer as he walked away. Please Abe. Don't come in here. Then I will have to explain.
But he continued walking till he reached the bathroom door. He knocked twice, speaking softly, "Dariela? Are you ok?" She sighed as she heard his voice.
She flushed the toilet and walked up to the door. "Abe, I need to talk to you. But not here." She opened the door and looked into his dark brown eyes. Her stomach was still doing flips but if she told him here everyone would know because of the vent.
She could see the uncertainty in his eyes, but she would be nervous if Abe had thrown up and told her they needed to talk in private. For all he knew she could have the mutation, or she had a life threatening disease. She walked past him towards the loading bay.
As Abe followed her she ran through things that could happen. He could lash out, or he could just run off like Jackson did. She didn't know and was nervous to find out.
They got to the loading bay and she could tell by Abe's eyes that now he was more confused than nervous. She continued on though, climbing into the Jeep that didn't get trampled on. She sat in the driver seat and looked back at Abe who was standing in the doorway of the passenger seat staring back at her.
"Get in. You'll probably want to sit down for this." She said sternly, her hands resting on the steering wheel. She was looked a lot more confident than she felt, to be honest she was scared out of her wits.
Abe got into the car, closed the door, and looked back into Dariela eyes. "What is it? Are you okay?" His voice was filled with nervousness. This wasn't going to be easy.
"Abe, do you remember a few weeks ago when you were here, and I was new to the team, and Covax was still alive…" She stumbled over her words. "And I came in and, well you know." She said sternly.
His eyes were expanding, he could see where this was going. But she could tell he didn't want to jump to conclusions, mostly because of what he said next. "Yes, yes. I do remember that."
She sighed, and placed her hands over her stomach. "Abraham, Abe. I-I'm pregnant. That's why the horses targeted me. It's your baby. I don't know what to do." She could feel tears coming to her eyes as all the secrets she had been keeping came spilling out.
"And Abe. Abe. Abe. Abe, I Love you."
She fell into a fit of tears she couldn't stop. Her hands flew up to her face as tears fell onto her leather jeans.
He grasped her and pulled her closer to him and placed one hand wrapped around her stomach and the other wrapped around her upper chest. He whispered into her ear. "Don't cry, it will be okay. I love you too."
That made her cry even harder.
He let her go and they locked eyes again. "Dariela, I will love you no matter what happens. We will raise the baby together. Nothing will keep me from protecting you." He said with full confidence. She could tell he meant every word. She kissed him and whispered, "I will never leave you. I will always love you."
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