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"pregnant?" Mo stuttered a little as she repeated the word. Hadn't it just been yesterday that she had discovered that Jac had potential fertility issues, and now she was saying that she was pregnant. It didn't make much sense.

"Y'know with child, up the duff, up the creak without a paddle" Jac spoke with the hint of amusement in her voice but Mo thought she could detect something beneath that; an emotion she couldn't quite put her finger on.

"And it's Jonny's?" Mo asked, trying to treat a little bit carefully. She didn't want to probe too deeply in to Jac's personal affairs but Mo couldn't help but worry about how Jonny would feel either way. If the baby wasn't his, then he'd have to deal with the fact that Jac had slept with someone else so soon after they'd broken up, and he'd have to watch as her body changed, nurturing the child of another man. But if it was his, then it could be difficult given how the situation was between them.

"No it's Elliot's" She said, twisting her lips a little, before she sighed "of course it's Jonny's" Part of her wished that the baby wasn't his. He had made his feelings quite clear about her child's demonic potential and he'd always made it clear that he had no intention of having anything more than a professional relationship with her. And that was without considering that fact, that the night they'd conceived this child was in his eyes a mistake.

"And when are you planning on telling him?" Mo questioned. Jac wished she had an answer for that question. It barely made sense to her, the fact that deep within her, a child was growing. She'd thought it was an impossibility and yet now it was happening and her emotions were all over the place.

"I'm still trying to process it myself" Jac responded softly. There was little point in denying that and it was something that Mo understood. Her own pregnancy had been different, planned with military precision with the aid of medical technology but it had still taken her brain a little to process that it was real when the result had been positive; and she'd been expecting it.

"Do you know what you're going to do?" Mo queried, suddenly a little worried that Jac would do something she'd later regret or that she'd do it without Jonny's knowledge and he'd never have had a chance to know about his child. Jac's eyes widened in surprise at the bluntness.

"I" she froze. She hadn't thought it through properly though she thought that she'd keep the child. This was, after all, potentially her only chance of having a child and there was a small part of her that did love babies. But there was an even larger part that didn't trust herself. She worried that she wouldn't be able to love her child enough or worse that she'd end up abandoning it in the same way her mother had her. She didn't want to inflict that on another human.

"He deserves to be involved" Mo told her, and Jac blinked a little. There were so many thoughts running around her own head, that she wasn't sure she could cope with the opinions and beliefs of another in there as well. She needed to have things straight for herself first and yet she could see Mo's point as well. This embryo within her was half his.

"I do know that" Jac answered, a little bit bitterly. Perhaps it had been a mistake, confirming to Mo that the child was Jonny's. But there was another part of Jac that didn't want to be seen as the woman who seemingly slept around – particularly given the mistakes she had made in the past.

"He might help you make a decision" Mo reasoned. And she saw a look of concern flicker over Jac's face.

"If it's anything like the last time, he'll want to deal with it" Jac responded, a little bit sadly remembering the time she'd been late. The time when the baby hadn't actually existed; it was only a possibility. This time it was real and any decisions, any actions would have consequences.

"and you don't want that?" A small smile played on Mo's lip, a smile indicating she had won a game. Jac sighed a little, wondering if she'd been tricked in to her statement. If it had been Mo's strange way of trying to trick her in to revealing what she wanted.

"I don't know" she answered slowly, shaking her head a little. It was all too much. "I just need a few days to get my head around it" she added, hoping that would at least keep Mo at bay for the time being.

"and then you'll talk to Jonny" Mo stated, firmly and Jac rolled her eyes a little.

"And I'll talk to Jonny" though she made no indication of how long a few days was. Mo smiled again.

"He may just surprise you" Mo hoped that he would. In a strange way, Mo could see that Jac was so used to dealing with everything on her own, that the idea of having someone to support her was an alien concept. It was a sad realisation and yet in some ways it explained a lot.

"maybe" Jac replied, though she didn't quite trust her answer. People rarely surprised her; generally they brought about hurt and disappointment. Things she had come to expect. It seemed unlikely that Jonny would be any different.

"Give him a chance" Mo spoke softly, and Jac nodded her head a little. She would give him that. But not yet. She wasn't ready yet.