"You said you didn't have kids." Anna didn't bother to turn to face Nate, believing he was speaking to someone else. In hindsight, she would realize just how stupid that assumption was, seeing as they were the only two in the alley leading to Valentine's Office. It was only when he grabbed her shoulder did she speak.
"I don't." She paused turning to face him with an arched brow, they didn't travel alone together frequently. Typically, anytime they did it had been because they had accidentally run into one another. Out of all his companions, she was the one he had spent the least amount of time with.
For no other reason than she had other things to do than to sit around waiting for his every beck and call.
Her words, not his.
"Funny, I met with a kid who quotes Alpha & Omega and has your eyes." Anna's frown deepened, the redhead didn't seem to be happy about that little piece of information. Nothing could have prepared Nate for the next five words that left her mouth.
"I don't think I do." He paused as his mind processed what she had said, then shook his head.
"Tha-That isn't something someone, especially a woman would forget." Nate was trying to be patient, she could tell. "Unless…"
"Right." She interrupted, chuckling to herself as she poked his nose and continued speaking. "You know absolutely Jack about me." Anna laughed, spinning out of his hold. "I took two rounds to the head a few years back." She tapped her forehead to the scar. "Adamantium bones, horrible process to get them but it has saved my life on more than one occasion. The slugs didn't do any real damage outside of leaving me with this bad boy," She flicked her head back to allow the scar he had glanced upon on more than one occasion to show. "While the Adamantium saved me from the slugs themselves it didn't do shit to stop the swelling or whiplash. Point blank will do that you know." Nate remained silent wondering how the hell someone like Anna had managed to find herself in a situation where someone had the opportunity to get two rounds on her at point blank range. "The doc said I may have lost a memory or sixty-five. Sometimes, as with Macready, I can wrangle out a thing or two. Nothing 'bout a kid though. Or even why I am wanderin." She leaned back against the wall of Valentines Office with a shrug.
"Anna…" He hadn't known, there was actually very little he knew about the woman. Not that it had caused any issues in the past, some of the things she could do had been a pleasant surprise and turned the table in their favor. Plus, both Nick and Hancock had vouched for her. And when he finally learned about the Railroad, well any questions he did have were silenced. There was a reason why they hadn't been wiped off the face of the wasteland yet. "Anna, I am so so-."
"Ah. Ah." She shook her finger twice stopping him from continuing, "This doesn't change shit. You think I've got a kid. Show me 'em," She paused and he watched as a light bulb seemed to flicker to life above her head, "is his father in his life? I'll stab a bitch."
"You'll stab yourself?"
"Hold up, I'm the father?!" She gasped over exaggerating and throwing her hand over her heart, reverting back to the Anna he was used to dealing with. "By God, my life is a lie." He couldn't help himself, Nate lost his bearing and cracked up. Anna smirked to herself at the change in mood. This, this she could deal with.
"What. No."