Chapter 3

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Fanny

Drake's POV

I was relieved. Relieved that Gloria wanted to keep our secret. Relieved that we weren't alone anymore. We had found someone to help us trough this and face all our problems with us. It felt like a big weight had been taken off my shoulders.

But that didn't meant that everything was okay now. We still had a lot of problems. I just had to look around and I could see the pupils that were either staring at me or bad mouthing me. And I had no idea what they would say or do if they knew about our baby.

Let alone the danger if the Trags or the Red Hawks would find out. But if I had to choose one of them the Red Hawks would definitly be the better option, they probably would try to hurt me and that was okay. I could live with that. But the Trags? They would want to kill Taylor and they won't ever stop until they achieved their goal. And all I could do was trying to protect her and don't think about the chance that I might be failing. How could I keep her save when there were so many bad people out there? I didn't know how but I knew that I had to do it. I cared about her and the baby a lot more than I told myself at the beginning. I loved her and I could not think of anyone else to take her place. She had always been the one for me, it just took us some time to meet.

And I had to make the life she wanted to live possible by protecting her and doing the things she needed me to do.

There was no way I wouldn't try to protect her. She was everything I always wanted and more. And even though the baby was unexpected I smiled at the thought of holding a little Taylor in my arms. I'd loved to have a baby girl, another Taylor to take care of. Of course boy would be great, too. But I rather had a mini version of Tay.

All in all it was just important that Tay and the baby were alright and so next time when I saw Gloria I had to asked her about giving birth to a half-Atrian baby and if there was anything to make it easier for Taylor, maybe Cyper was a solution.

I didn't remember much from my classes all my thoughts were by Tay and the baby, so I was glad when they finally were over and I could see her again. She had been waiting at my locker and she seemed to be a lot better than the last time I saw her. She had definitly fixed her make-up and drank a lot of water just to be on the safe side.

She looked even more beautiful than in the morning. Earlier she had looked stunning but now she just was a big WOW!

I bent down and gave her a peck on her lips. Once again everyone was watching but hey, I couldn't blame them. If I was in their place I would be starring at Taylor the whole time.

I put my arm around her small shoulders and together we walked outside.

Because of the new long curfew we had at least another three hours to go and so we wanted to drive to her house, what looked a lot more like a villa if you asked me. Taylors parents seemed to have a lot of money.

We got in her car and I was glad that I didn't had to wait behind the next corner so she could come and pick me up like the last weeks.

"So, were your last classes okay? Any dumb comments? Because you know you just have to tell me and I will be more than happy to tell them what I think."

These questions had been bothering me a lot. I had been a bit worried to just let her go after how upset she had been. I hated it to just go to my next class with not knowing if Taylor was alright.

She smiled before she answered: "Oh, everything was okay. Actually I skipped them together with Julia. I just needed a time-out and so we went for a walk."

I began laughing but she remained serious.

"Wait, you really went for a walk?"

"Yeah Drake, I really went for a walk. What makes you think I hadn't?"

I couldn't believe it, she just wasn't the girl for something like that. I must have been looking very surprised because now it was Taylors time to giggle.

"You and walking this is just something that doesn't sound right. I just can't see you taking a walk in nature, I can see you walking in the shopping centre for hours but in nature? You don't seem to be a 'camping girl'. That's all. But hey, if you tell me you are one then I don't have any problems taking long walks with you and explore the beautiful nature."

"Don't even try that! And don't you dare go camping with me! I hate spiders and flies and little animals that are everywhere: in your tent, in your sleeping bag, on the ground, in the air. They are everywhere in nature and that's disgusting!"

"That's my girl!" I laughed "And of course I won't even try to take you camping. But I have to admit that it sounds like a lot of fun with you."

When I couldn't stop laughing about the thought of a camping Taylor she took one hand of the wheel and punched me in the flank.

"Oww, that hurt, baby!"

She looked at me in surprise, normally it would have been impossible for her to hurt me.

"That's the pregnancy, princess, when you are pregnant with a warrior baby, you are getting a lot stronger."

There was a slight smile forming on her face.

"But Drake, I'm five weeks pregnant shouldn't I have realised something by now?"

I just thought one second about that question before I went on.

"It's probably because of the lack of water. You hadn't enough and so there was no energy to form so much power."

"That's unbelieveable and crazy but also cool! How strong am I going to be?"

"You definitly will be a lot stronger than a normal human and Atrian but not as strong as I am or other warriors from my tribe are."

Her smile grew wider, she was excited like a little girl on Christmas.

"That's cool, Drake, it's like I'm going to have super powers."

By the time we arrived at her house (or villa) she hadn't stopped talking about her strenght. She said it was because she always had wished for something like that but I thought it was because now she had something to feel superior to the pupils at school that couldn't stop talking about her. She probably loved the idea of being better in something, to have something to think about when they were staring. I was relieved that she had something to be happy about and that she finally was in a good mood after a day like this.

Taylor opened the front door and called out for her mum and her dad, just to make sure that they weren't at home. They didn't know about us and she didn't want to change that soon. Tay was afraid of what they would think about her having an Atrian boyfriend and being pregnant with his child. I respected her decision totally, I hadn't told my mum either but it was only a matter of time until I would drop the bombshell.

When there was no answer Taylor closed the door and pulled me in for a kiss, that was something I missed doing the whole day. I loved the sweet taste of her lips. I wrapped my arms around her and picked her up. Immediatly she entwined her legs around my body and deepened the kiss.

We pulled apart when Tay was running out of air and I let her catch her breath while I gently caressed her beautiful face.

We both had to laugh when Taylors stomach began to grumble and because she didn't felt sick we decided that it was time to eat something. She untangeled her legs and I sat her back on the ground again.

Tay made us both a pizza and we ate it while we watched her favorite TV-show "Sex and the City", what was definitly not my cup of tea but I knew she enjoyed it and so I just went along.

Tay was cuddled into my side with her head on my chest, it was such a great feeling to be near each other and so instead of watching the show I just watched her. Her eyes were glued to the screen but I noticed that she was very tired and sometimes they closed for a few seconds.

"Hey, when you are tired again it's fine with me when you go to sleep."

She let out a small yawn but kept her eyes open and mumbled: "I can't go to sleep now, Drake. First of all you are right by my side and I don't want to miss the time we have alone because I'm too tired. We rarely have time at all. And second Carrie and Big having sex for the first time in a few minutes, I can't sleep through that."

She smiled at me and turned her head back to the screen and stubborn as she was she fought against her sleepiness the whole time.

When I had to go she didn't let go of me, she wrapped her tiny arms around my body and tried to pull me back on the couch again. She was stong, no question but I was stronger. I gave her one last kiss on her forehead and put a blanket over her.

"Good night, baby."

"Good night, Drake. I love you." Her voice was just a whisper.

"I love you, too."

She probably was asleep by the time I was at the door.

I went to the bus-stop and took the bus to the Sector and luckily I got there just in time. Inside Roman was waiting for me.

"Hey, man, what's up? No Emery today?"

He gave me an annoyed glance.

"No, no Emery today. It was her aunt's birthday, so I couldn't visit her. But it looks like you and Taylor spent a lot of time together, did you do something inapproprite?"

He chuckled and I just ignored him, I didn't want to talk about sex now. We hardly discussed it any time. Roman and I remained quiet until we were inside of my container. We didn't prefer to talk while we walked through the Sector, it wasn't safe and we couldn't risk letting anything slip out to the Trags. I know they had a lot of ways of finding something out and if they needed information they would get it but we wanted to be careful. We couldn't risk Taylors and Emerys lifes.

"Is your mum home?"

It was strange to hear this words. It was a question that hadn't been asked for a long time because the answer had been "no" anyway. Two weeks ago there had been no way that my mum could have been at home. But now there was a real possibility that she was here right now.

"No, I don't think so. She mentioned something about a meeting with Castor. So what's going on? Anything about the Trags? Just tell me, I can see that there you want to say something."

"Are you and Taylor in trouble? You were called to Glorias office and after that we didn't meet again. Was it something serious?"

He looked really concerned.

"Don't worry, it's nothing big. Okay, it's big but not bad. She knows everything about me and her. Everything." I didn't want to say words like pregnancy or baby loud, just to be on the safe side. "But she is kind of fine with it, she experienced the same and now she wants to help us to get out of this mess."

"Wow, that's surprising, I thought that she was going to..."

"Hey Roman, hey Drake!"

My mum was standing in our door and I had to smile, it just seemed so natural to have her around and see her every day. After such a long time it felt so right again, like a family.

"Hey mum, I thought you were going to meet Castor?"

"Oh, I am but I just came back for a second to check if everything is alright."

She had been like this ever since she came back. I think she just wanted to know if I was fine after a long time when she couldn't check on me and now she was afraid of losing me again.

"Yeah, we are good, you don't have to worry about me, mum, I'm already eighteen."

I wave of sadness rushed over her face I regretted telling her that she had missed so much of my life.

"Okay, I'll see you later. Bye Roman."

She gave me a kiss and went outside again, Roman looked at her when she walked away.

"It feels good to have her back, Drake. I know it's not easy and a lot of Atrians keep their distance but they will get along. They are just scared but they'll come around. And I'm happy for you I know that especially in this time she could be a great help for you two."

I smiled, "Yeah, it's good to have her back."