Surprise! You're a Dad

Farscape AU for Terra Firma

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Summary: John Crichton returns to Earth but finds a surprise there waiting for him.

Chapter 8 New Hope

The day had started out good for Aeryn. Olivia had come over in the morning and she had taken Aeryn shopping. They had spent the hours together.

It had been strangely peaceful from Aeryn's point of view, a view into a world she had never seen or been in before.

They had talked while they shopped, nothing serious, just 'girl talk' as Olivia put it. They had shared comedic stories about John's daily antics and congratulated and commiserated each other on being able to stand him for so long without doing him any grievous bodily harm. They had laughed and joked and for the first time in Aeryn's life she'd found herself opening up with only minimal prodding. For some reason she'd almost felt safe.

Almost.

Whenever she had started to feel safe, she would remember the way John had been acting and all the people that were after them.

They were nowhere near safe and the situation was not going to get better anytime soon.

She'd tried to prevent it all from overwhelming her by shopping. Olivia had been right shopping could be very therapeutic. By the time they were finished, she had felt much better.

The only thing that was troubling her was that Olivia had kept trying to steer her towards the baby sections of the stores in the mall.

Perhaps Crichton had had told her? Or was it just Olivia's own intuition?

Aeryn did not know.

Aeryn shook her head to clear it.

Anyway that was this morning. She was now at the beach house the Us government had given them. She was carrying some of the stuff she had purchased at the mall this morning. The rest of it was being carried by a row of Secret Service agents that were following in her wake. She entered the house to find the rest of Moya's crew sitting idly around the TV.

Dargo looked up at her and she asked him, "Is Crichton here?"

"No, but his cousin Bobby is by the pool interviewing Caroline Wallace," answered Dargo.

Aeryn nodded at this and went to put away the boxes she had with her.

A few minutes later Aeryn walked out to the pool to find Bobby sitting with his camera talking with Caroline.

"So how long have you been involved with John Crichton?" Bobby was asking.

Caroline caught sight of Aeryn, "Cut Bobby, we'll continue this later, okay?"

He shrugged, "Sure." He got up and started to film the surrounding area.

"I was actually interested in the answer to that question," said Aeryn cautiously as she approached Caroline.

Caroline just smiled at her.

Aeryn sat down in the place that Bobby had just vacated.

They sat there staring at each other. Each one waiting for the other to begin. In the end Caroline was the one that broke the silence.

"I haven't asked anything of him, you know," Caroline said.

"It's none of my business if you had," answered Aeryn.

"Yes it is," Caroline rebutted, "I've seen the way you look at him."

"…We were once involved, but not any more," Aeryn conceded.

"I can imagine…" she paused for a second, "Well actually I can't," she conceded.

Another pregnant pause descended upon them.

"You know he still has feelings for you," stated Caroline.

"How can you tell?" Aeryn asked.

"I asked him about you several times. He said that things were over between the two of you. He actually said it several times."

Confusion appeared on Aeryn's face. Were her microbes translating that correctly? Or was this another contradictory human statement? thought Aeryn.

Caroline saw the confusion and explained, "Usually when somebody says something repeatedly like he did, they're trying to convince themselves of it. He still has feels for you. You can trust me on that."

Caroline appeared happy with this or at least not disturbed by John's feelings.

"Oh…but what about you and little John?" asked Aeryn quizzically.

"We were never very serious about each other. We were only together to have fun times. I never loved him and he never loved me. And as for little John, well…he was just an accident. Don't get me wrong I love my son and can't imagine my life without him but I never intended to get pregnant back then. It was something that just happened," Caroline smiled happily and shrugged dismisively.

"But don't you want John to be a father to little John?" asked Aeryn curiously.

"He can be that without being with me," Caroline was adamant about that point.

Aeryn turned away from Caroline, I hope so, thought Aeryn. Her thoughts became filled with a glimmer of hope for her and John and the fetus she carried in stasis.

But in the depths of her soul, she knew it would never be that simple.

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