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Chapter 3

Breaking Heart

Jaden felt numb. He felt empty, and hollow, and broken. The only sound in the otherwise silent room was his own sobbing.

This wasn't him. He didn't cry easily. When was the last time he cried? When Zane was 'sent to the stars' in the alternate dimension? When he destroyed Yubel? He'd cried then because he had felt so bad. Yubel had torn the Super Polymerisation card in half in a burst of anger, and with its destruction, she had taken whatever sanity she still had away. Jaden had had no choice but to end her misery, and he still felt bad that he hadn't been able to save his old friend. He hadn't kept his promise, but he knew that it wasn't his fault, though he felt bad.

But Yubel's death hadn't saddened him half as much as Jesse's leaving did.

Jaden loved Jesse. He sometimes worried about how much the bluenette meant to him. It was as if he was happy when he was with Jesse, and if he wasn't, he was sad. That was why he'd enjoyed the months of pregnancy. It was like having a part of Jesse inside of him, in an entirely new being.

The baby. The unborn child that was, in Jaden's mind, a symbol of the love he and Jesse shared. What was the child if Jesse was gone? How could he raise a baby alone? He'd so loved the idea of the whole 'family setting' with father, mother and child. He didn't even mind being a male mother. That didn't matter, so long as he and Jesse were together and had their little baby with them, a symbol of what their love could create.

Jaden wasn't even aware of how loud he was sobbing until he heard himself gasping. Even then he didn't care. All that he could make sense of was the kicks from inside him, and the devastating fact that Jesse - his one love, the one he'd given both his innocence and his love to, the one he'd made a baby with - had walked out the door and left him.

Jaden stayed on the floor until he cried himself to sleep, curled up miserably on the living room floor.

Silence was silence. It wasn't comfortable, it was the opposite, and Chazz Princeton thought it was downright irritating. He broke it.

"So has Jesse left yet?" he muttered.

The other three remaining members of the SODMP looked at Chazz, shrugged and went back to their more important thoughts.

They were all thinking about Jesse. And about Jaden. Had he told him yet? How badly had Jaden taken the news? It was true that Jaden was strong, he could take a lot, but he was in a hormonal condition and had been for eight months. The brunette couldn't take things half as well as he used to. Not to mention that Yubel's death - however he'd managed to get rid of her, he'd never told them anything more than that she was gone for good - seemed to have left some sort of permanent scar of Jaden's heart, and he definitely became more sensitive after that happened.

Still, they had all made a promise to Jesse that they would protect his lover between them. It was true that they had all known Jaden longer than Jesse had, but it was even more true that they didn't know him half as well as the bluenette did. They all knew it, and they all understood that Jesse needed them to protect the brunette now. Even Chazz cared enough about the members of the SODMP, cared enough about Jaden, to be able to look out for them him. Jaden would be well looked after under the watchful eyes of the members of the SODMP. They could take care of him, give him all the care and treatment that could possibly be offered, but none of it would be comparable to the care of his love. They could take care of a guy in labour, but they couldn't take care of a guy with a broken heart. And they were all certain that Jesse's leaving had broken Jaden's heart.

Note: Yubel is not a part of this fic because I attempted to write it with her involved and it didn't work. This story is AU from the moment Jaden frees Jesse from Yubel in the alternate dimension. I feel terrible for not including her, but she's included in my other major MPreg fic: Life And Death Within, for those who are fans.

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