Zane stared at Jo in shock, surprise written all over his features. Jo, taking his silence as a bad thing, bit her lip, then added, "It's yours too, obviously."
Zane, his brain finally back in motion, whispered, "Christmas eve, right?" and as Jo nodded, he smiled broadly and swung her around, whooping giddily.
Setting her down gently, with an arm around her waist to support her, he kissed her full-on, putting all of his elation, joy and wonder into it.
Jo kissed him back, her relief and happiness showing through. Her eyes filled as Zane reluctantly broke away, a full-blown grin on his face as he stared at her for all of five-seconds, then kissed her again. He embraced her as her eyes overflowed and dripped slowly down her cheeks. Murmuring nonsense soothing words into her ear, he rubbed her back, cradling her close to him.
Once he realized that she was no longer crying, he continued holding her, but started talking.
"It's okay sweetheart, we're going to have a wonderful child. Now, why the tears?"
She took a shaky breath, getting a heavy dose of his uniquely Zane scent that she'd missed so much recently and her voice muffled a little, said, "I didn't know how you would react and…well, I was scared you'd hate it and me…"
Zane, understood her unspoken fear, pushed her closer to him and holding her tightly, said softly, "Jojo, I love you. There's no way I won't be here for you and our kid."
Jo shut her eyes tightly in relief and leaned into him, taking comfort in his familiar bulk. This was the closest they'd ever been in this timeline and she treasured it.
Jo just smiled as Zane pulled her as close to him as she could get and held on. It was nice to be needed, to be wanted again. She had spent far too long not like that as this Zane slowly transitioned into her Zane. She realized now that it didn't matter that they'd come from another timeline, this Zane was her Zane, just lacking the memories of them together, but maybe, just maybe, those memories could be remade.
Short chapter, I know, but now that I'm off, I'll have a little more time to work on this and besides, it needed to be short for all the juiciness coming in the next chapter. Hopefully that will be either tomorrow, or Monday, not exactly sure when yet.
