As days went by, it became increasingly difficult for Lianna to hide from her family that there was something different about her.
After her conversation with Leia, the Skywalker girl had finally gathered the courage to go see a doctor. Of course, it just had served for confirming what she already knew.
She was, indeed, pregnant.
Eight weeks pregnant to be more exact. It could only mean that she got pregnant on the day Rey married. Force, of course it had to be that night. If she wasn't screwed up already.
She was so lost on her own thoughts that she didn't even notice that her aunt was talking to her before Matt nudged at her side to get her attention and she rose her eyes to see the look of pure shock in all the faces around the table.
"Are you alright, darling?" Leia asked looking concerned at her.
"Yeah, I'm." Lianna answered ignoring the fact that all the eyes on the kitchen were on the two of them.
"Good. I was just asking if I'll see you this evening?" She had almost forgot her meeting with Leia. Since the day they had talked, the two women became quite close, what had started to rise the suspicions of everyone on the house since the two of them didn't used to talk that much with each other.
"Yeah, of course. I'll be there." The senator seemed pleased with her niece's answer and smiled.
"That's good. I'll be waiting for you." And with that the elder woman leaved the room to start her day. Matt, who was sitting beside Lianna, opened his mouth to talk but was interrupted by her.
"Don't ask questions." She stared at him and he recognized the look on her face immediately – she was pleading. The blond just nodded before rising from his sit and kissing her forehead, also leaving for the day.
The silence filled the kitchen and for a while the Skywalker family just stared at each other, quietly. One by one they lived to their morning activities living Kylo and Lianna alone. The girl didn't noticed they were alone until she came back of her thoughts to find his eyes staring intently at her. Her blue irises encountered his brown ones and the two of them just took each other in for a while.
They hadn't really talked after the night of Rey and Ben's weeding. When he woke up that morning, she was gone and all she left were the cold sheets and a bittersweet taste that reminded him of their first night together.
"Why did you left?" Lianna wasn't expecting that question. She thought he was going to question the sudden change in her relationship with his mother but not this. Never this. She wasn't prepared to answer that question. Actually, even looking at him was difficult. Now more than ever before.
"You know why." She simply replied, their eyes never letting each other.
"I thought we were over that." Lianna just smiled, sadly. Nothing was ever simple with them.
"We will never be over that and you know it." Of course, he knew. However, after everything they had gone through, he thought that this was the least of their problems.
"What you and my mother talk so much about?" Redirecting. It was something he always did, like his father before him. They were always running of their problems.
"It's a project she is helping me with." Well, it wasn't a lie, entirely. Her aunt was really helping her with a project. A project that he helped creating but didn't knew about.
"I've never seen you two talk to each other like that. You are hiding something." Lianna knew that he would notice somehow. After all, he knew her better than anyone besides their grandfather. She knew she had to face the truth and tell him about her pregnancy – their pregnancy – but she wasn't strong enough. Her fear got the best of her. He didn't gave her time to answer – he just got up and left, leaving her to her thoughts again. His eyes staring at her haunted Lianna for the rest of the day.
Lianna met Leia in the Senator's Office at two in the afternoon, sharp. She was nervous beyond normal and she didn't know why. She was pregnant with Kylo's child. The end. Nothing would change that.
But somehow her appointment with the obstetrician made it all more real. Leia reassured her that everything would be solved in the right time, but Lianna wasn't so secure about it. Her conversation with Kylo this morning had kept her thinking about what kind of relationship they would had from now on.
Leia accompanied her to the doctor, making sure he would be discreet about everything. After the appointment, they went home. At that time of the day, nobody was there, so the two women sat in Lianna's bed facing each other.
"You already decided what you'll do?" The girl took a deep breath trying to put her mind at ease.
"Well, now that I'm a hundred per cent sure, I guess I have to talk to him." The two women just stared at each other. Leia knew what her niece was feeling because she had felt it too when she got pregnant of the twins. She panicked when she discovered the pregnancy and, at the time. She wasn't prepared to it and she didn't had a clue about how Han would react to the news. That was one of the reasons that encouraged the Senator to make sure that Lianna could rely on her. Of course she was dead inside knowing that she was hiding something so important of her son. But she had been in the place her niece was in, and it wasn't an easy one.
"It will be for the best, I'll see." Leia reassured her and Lianna smiled nervously.
"It's funny how life is – I was the one who never wanted kids and now I'm pregnant!" Leia opened her mouth to say something but she never got the change because in the next second a very astonished Kylo appeared at the door taking both women by surprise.
"Pregnant! That's what you were hiding." Lianna's blood turned cold in her veins. She knew that time would come but she didn't expected it to be like this. Leia took her hands in hers briefly and whispered an "everything is going to be alright" for her before taking her leave. When she reached the door, the senator gave Kylo a menacing look that could be interpreted as a warning: "don't go too hard on her, or you will be going to answer to me". After the door was closed behind Leia, Lianna's eyes met Kylo's and she knew he had solved the puzzle. "It's mine, isn't it?"
"Yes, it is."