Curiosity killed the Cat, It did a whole lot worse to DG
AN - I really don't know how I came up with this idea. I was reading something else that had nothing to do with this but it pointed out the difference between where DG was raised and the O.Z. and how she gets into trouble because of those differences and I guess I started to think of all the things that could be different and somehow got this. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this and I'll be back to post the rest soon. Thanks!
Disclaimer: I do not own them, even if I wish I did.
Curiosity
DG was bored.
Everyone in the O.Z. knew that was never a good thing, so most of the time the went out of their way to make sure she had something to do. Lessons, family time, time with her friends, and things like that. But even with all of them doing their best to keep her busy there were times when she escaped from the their watchful eyes and got some time for herself.
Normally she would be reading a new book she found in the libraries, or exploring the castle and all it's secret and not so secret passages, or maybe off on some new adventure that would make everyone's head spin later at all the trouble she'd managed to cause without actually trying to cause any of it. The last of which would make everyone watch her more or make it so her schedule would suddenly become even busier.
But right now she didn't feel like doing any of those things. Nope. DG was bored, that was true. But unlike other times she was bored, she had a certain goal in mind. That goal? Find Cain and see what he was up to.
Her normal friend/bodyguard/part time shadow, wasn't around today and that made her suspicious. It was never a good thing when Wyatt Cain wasn't following her around trying to prevent whatever it was she was going to do next. Normally she couldn't get alone time when she actually managed to fit it into her schedule. So he had to be up to something to leave her alone (or he forgot that she had a whole hour to herself - but she wasn't sure she really bought that because really, when was the last time Cain had forgotten something like that?)
So naturally, she was searching him out. She finally found him in his room. (She hadn't expected that, since he usually never stayed in it for long periods of time, except to sleep.)
"There you are Cain." She said, coming into his room. She had stopped knocking about the same time he stopped knocking to enter her room, and she wasn't going to start again until he did.
"Hey kid." He said, not quite looking up as he studied something in his hands. It looked like some sort of think bracelet or wrist band with some markings that she couldn't fully see. He had a strange look on his face as he played with it.
Looking up at her after a moment he set the thing on the table next to the chair he was sitting in and looked at her. "Need me for something?" He asked.
"No, just had some free time and I thought I'd see what you were up to." She said, glancing at him briefly before looking at the bracelet thing. Some of the markings looked slightly familiar to her but she couldn't get a good enough look at it from where she was to say why.
Her curiosity got the best of her and before DG could help it she picked it up to study what the markings were.
"Hey Cain, what is this? Some of this looks kind of familiar." She asked, only to hear a slightly choked sound coming from her friend. She would have looked up to see what was wrong but at that moment the bracelet flashed and she had a moment of slight disorientation. It took a moment for the dizziness to fade but when it did she looked up to see if Cain was alright.
The look on his face was a mixture of what DG guessed was a look of startled shock and slight horror with panic thrown in.
"Cain?" She asked, concerned and slightly started herself. "What's wrong? What happened? What did I do?" She asked.
Cain blinked a couple times then did his best fish out of water impression for a moment or two before he finally found his voice.
"You touched the band." He said, speaking slightly calmly but with a edge of panic.
"Right. What does that have to do with anything? Cain, you're starting to scare me." She said, looking at him worriedly.
She was expecting him to react to something, or at least tell her what it was that was going to happen. She hadn't known him to just freeze up like that.
Not even when she had accidentally let the 'killer' bunnies loose. Yeah sure the things had been the size of a small pony but they had still been vegetarians. During that there had been a lot of yelling, especially when one got a hold of his hat, but he hadn't froze up then. This couldn't be worse then that or any of the other half dozen things she'd accidentally done, right?
"You," Cain said then paused, groaning slightly as he shook his head. "DG, do you know what that is? What it does?" He asked her.
"No. If I did I wouldn't be asking you. Though some of the writing looks familiar but I don't know why." She told him, happy that he seemed to not be freaking out anymore and that she was finally getting answers.
"DG, this thing, it. Damnit, DG, why do you always have to touch everything?" He questioned, but it lacked any heat that anger would have caused so she wasn't hurt by his question.
Cain sighed and ran a hand through his hair, trying again. "DG, your pregnant." He said, as if that explained everything.
"I'm what? No, I'm not. What do you mean I'm pregnant? I am not pregnant, there is no possible way that I am pregnant! I haven't even had sex yet!" She protested.
"Sex?" Cain echoed. He blinked for a moment, as if confused but then he shook it off, seeming to get it.
"Yeah, so you see, I can't be pregnant so if this bracelet thing is some kind of pregnancy detector, well rest assured, it's wrong or broken or something cause there is absolutely 100 no way it's even possible. Not unless it's the next Jesus, and I really don't think I qualify for a Mary, virgin or not." She said.
She knew that she was rambling a little but come on, this was kind of an embarrassing thing to be talking about to someone that you were attracted to and had feelings for. (Even if he didn't know that she had feelings for him it was still embarrassing. In fact if he had known she had feelings for him, it probably would have been worse.)
"You are pregnant." Cain told her, his voice calm despite the slight edge of panic she could still see in his eyes.
"No, really, I'm not." She said it slowly so hopefully her point would get across. "The bracelet is just broken, that's all."
"Yes, you are. You touched the band and it flashed, that means that it worked, and you're pregnant." He tried to explain.
"Cain, I just told you, it's broken. I haven't done anything to get pregnant." She repeated to him. She willed him to get it so that they could get off this topic.
"You touched the band." He said, as if that explained it.
"Yeah, and it's broken." She told him. He really needed to get that.
Cain looked at her, then looked down at the bracelet thing, then back to her and he finally looked like he got it. Shaking his head he sighed.
"DG, sit down." He told her.
"I don't want to." She said, shaking her head. Nothing good ever came out after somebody told you to sit down. The news was always bad.
"Sit." He told her, pushing a chair out with his foot.
DG grumbled, sitting down. She just knew she was going to get a lecture about being a princess and being pregnant and how she was supposed to set a good example. All this and she wasn't even pregnant!
"Listen Ki-DG. I'm gonna explain this so please listen carefully." He told her and she nodded.
"Bands like these hold a males DNA, when a female touches it, one of two things will happen. If nothing happens, then nothing happens. But if it flashes then the female is now pregnant with the male's baby. Didn't anyone explain any of this to you? How babies are made or how everyone gets pregnant in the O.Z.?" He explained and questioned.
"No! Nobody told me any of this. You mean that I am actually pregnant and you're the father?" She questioned, starting to get the panicky feeling.
He nodded.
"Oh God, why didn't anyone ever think to tell me this? I touch things all the time, and nobody thought to tell me about the band thingy that can make you pregnant with a touch? Do you think I would have grabbed it like that if I knew what it was? But no, nobody wants to tell me these things! I've gotta figure it out for myself! Well if nobody's going to tell me then things like that bracelet-band thingy should come with a warning label!" She yelled out, ranting.
"What ever happened to sex to get pregnant? Huh? You guys do know what sex is right? You know, put Tab A in Tab B? But no, everything has to be different in the O.Z.! Nothing can be simple. Nope, to get pregnant you guys have bracelets! Oh, GOD, I'm PREGNANT!!!!" She said, standing up and pacing while panicking and hyperventilating.
After a moment or two she took a moment and started to try to make herself breath properly, she was feeling lightheaded. Shaking her head at all the crazy things that have happened to her recently she knew this one won hands down. She collapsed back into the chair she had been sitting in a few moments before.
"I am no where near calm right now." She told him, trying to wrap her head around the situation without freaking out any more. Obviously what's done was done and there was no getting out of this so they just had to figure out what was going to happen.
She couldn't even be mad at Cain for the situation she was in. The whole two to tango metaphor didn't work because technically this was all her fault. Curiosity killed the cat but it got DG into a whole lot more trouble then that. Her curiosity had always gotten her into trouble but his time it had outdone itself. It had gotten her pregnant.
She moaned into her hands. She was never touching anything ever again.
Looking up at Cain she asked the first thing that popped into her head.
"What are we gonna tell my parents?"
okay I was going to make this a one-shot. But I can't leave it there, so it'll be a two-shot or a three-shot. So rest assured, this isn't how I'm gonna end it. But please review and let me know if you like it or not