While Anders slept Justice looked around the bedroom. The spirit fumed, Anders had been more worried about Hawke and her causes than about the mages plight. He knew how deeply his host cared for the warrior woman. That was a vulnerability they could ill afford. The Knight-Commander was committing more atrocities by the day and Anders was here asleep, content. If he didn't know better Justice would think Hawke was a sloth demon, keeping Anders tame and inactive, under her thrall. Hawke may not be a demon but the result of her influence in Anders was way too similar to sloth. Is not that Justice couldn't see that the Anders' woman had her uses, she had helped mages escape Kirkwall and openly defied the Knight Commander in the public square yesterday. But that wasn't enough. Anders had to act soon or many mages would suffer and Justice doubted the love struck mage would risk upsetting his woman. Love! He snorted. What was love compared to Justice ? Compared to the suffering of all mages? All mages deserved the opportunity to love who they chose and have freedom to be around their beloved. What could one life mean against that many being oppressed ? How could Anders not see that ?
Something needed to be done. Justice knew he had to wrestle more control from Anders. He liked and respected his host but they had merged for a just cause and Justice would make that just cause's work even if it meant forcing Anders hand. It was necessary. He hoped Anders would agree but at this point his host's agreement was not a priority. Their cause was all that mattered.
Justice watched as Anders twitched in his sleep, the Warden taint giving him darkspawn filled dreams. The spirit concentrated and sent a wave of healing energy through his hosts body. With a relieved sigh Anders relaxed into a dreamless sleep, the taint's poison nullified by Justice's spell, for this night at least. Justice had been doing that every night since their merge, making sure Anders could sleep well at night, that he woke up rested enough to work for their cause. The taint was very poisonous but Justice's nightly effort had kept most of it's side effects at bay. Other Wardens paid a heavy price for their Joining but Anders would be spared of the worst. His energy was needed for a Just Cause.
While concentrating to heal Anders Justice had felt some unknown magic nearby. He cast his magic senses around the room to find the source now. It was faint but there was definitely ancient magic nearby. An artifact ? The energy came from Hawke's side of the room, from a trinket on her bedside. It seemed to be affecting Hawke. That got Justice alarmed. What exactly was the trinket doing to Anders' woman? It wasn't a regular buff or protective spell. It didn't seem to be harmful though. Justice concentrated and examined Hawke's magical flux and her body. Oh. It was .. a fertility spell. It was cancelling the herbs Hawke took every morning for birth control. Why would Hawke wear a trinket like that ? Did she want to get Anders even more attached to her ? Was she trying to wrest Anders away from him ? Justice fretted. A being of pure emotion, he could not help but meet any new event with an emotional upheaval. Waves of dread, jealousy, fear, joy, doubt and more washed over the spirit. He needed to know more about that trinket. He let it exert it's effect on Hawke.. for now.
The next day Hawke put the trinket in her pouch before she left. "Going to visit Isabella" was what she told Anders. Justice urged him to go too. Anders accepted it. "Let me go with you then love, I want to play some cards with Varric. I think I can win this time." said Anders, to a doubtful Hawke. Anders never won at cards!
At the tavern Hawke offered the trinket to Isabella who declined it saying she didn't need fertility. A puzzled Hawke was told that that Rivaini trinket was a talisman given to new wives, to make them fertile and fruitful, blessing their husbands with many heirs. And that the trinket was shaped like a female's privates. A red faced Hawke put the trinket back into her pouch embarrassed, while Isabella teased her mercifully. Justice heard the entire conversation from afar. So the trinket was for Isabella. Hawke hadn't known about it and wasn't trying to get pregnant. Did she even know Wardens seldom fathered kids ? She probably didn't or she wouldn't be taking those herbs in the morning.
At night Justice pondered on the idea while his host slept. Hawke pregnant. That would make Anders even more subservient to the woman. He missed the days when Anders kept Hawke away for fear of hurting her... Wait. That has possibilities! thought Justice. What if the child was a mage ? How far would Anders go to protect the kid from harm ? Hawke's father and sister were mages. Her mother's family had mage blood as well. The possibility of Hawke having a mage child with Anders was very high. If she were to conceive.. And if the child was a mage.. Anders would not rest until his child was safe from being locked in a Circle. If there was one thing in Thedas that would make Anders get back to fighting full time for the mages cause, it was him faced with a mage son or daughter that could be ripped away from him and Hawke. There would not be anything Anders would not do to protect that child. So that child needed to be conceived... For the good of all mages in Thedas.
Justice focused and took charge of Anders body. He made Anders get up and look in Hawke's pouch for the fertility trinket, then made Anders hide the trinket under Hawke's side of the mattress. The next day Justice used his healing spell on Anders even before they got to bed. A curious Anders had asked Justice what was that and Justice had responded he felt guilty for interrupting their lovemaking the other day so he was giving Anders some extra energy. "Thanks! Me and Hawke will be sure to put it to good use!" responded Anders, proceeding to caress Hawke in a way she liked very much.. Their lovemaking was intense and exhausting and they both fell asleep shortly after, leaving Justice alone with it's thoughts. The spirit concentrated and examined Hawke again.. It was too early to tell but his aid and the Rivaini trinket seemed to have worked.
A week later Justice had confirmation. His plan had worked. Hawke was pregnant. The child was a mage girl.