Hey guys, for those of you who haven't been following District 0, we had some issues with our beta reader but ended up posting without her. Hopefully this doesn't have too many errors either. START THE STORY!
Adam's POV
We had been in our home for a few days and now we were waiting for Isabella to be brought here. I was starting to get worried that he went back on his promise like the despicable devil is w there was finally a knock on the door which was answered in less than a millisecond.
"Adam!" She said happily tackling me in a hug. It was of course my twin sister Isabella who you should remember from reaping day. She and Feliss are the only ones I'd give my life to save.
I instantly returned it. "It's so great to see you, sis!"
"You too, and congratulations!" She said… there are three things she could logically be referring to since in such a short time I won the 74th Hunger Games, found out that my wife is pregnant, and got this cool new house.
"On what: the games, the house, or the baby?" I asked.
She giggled, "Well, congratulations on the other two as well but I meant my little niece or nephew. Is it true?"
"Of course it is!" I said excited.
"That's fantastic! You're going to be a wonderful father." She said hugging me even tighter. Everyone keeps saying that. What is it that makes everyone think that? Not that I don't have faith in my wife and sister but… why?
"You doubt it?" She asked as if I was the one who's off on this whereas I'm still pretty sure I won't. I'm not exactly built for fatherhood. We had been trying for so long but now that it's really happening the reality of the whole thing is hitting me hard.
"It's just, what makes you so sure?"
"I know, you, and you are good at anything you put your mind to," She said, exuberating such unadulterated yet possibly blind confidence in me.
"Not with things like this though, I get annoying and overprotective."
"A little, but it's good sometimes," She said.
"I literally threatened to rip President Snow's spine out of his mouth if he hurts you or the baby." I informed flatly thinking back to the time in the morgue.
"See? Good thing," She said.
I chuckled knowing that without it he would have, if he does I actually would do it though, it would not matter what he has on us, "Yeah, I guess it is a good thing."
"You'll be great at being a dad," She repeated sounding so unbelievably stubborn. We both were to an extent. I guess it just runs in the family.
"I keep telling you that," Feliss said coming over, "Yet you still don't seem to believe me on that."
"I just worry alright?" I said defensively. I mean you guys can't really blame me for that right? I just want a relatively good life for my son or daughter.
Feliss nodded, "Alright, but you shouldn't have to." She went into the hug. "It's great to see you, Isabella."
"You too, amazing work by the way," She said, this time it was obvious to both of us that she was talking about the games.
"Thanks, it certainly made Mr. Completely-Despicable happy." Feliss mumbled.
"Well sorry about that part," Isabella said.
"Yeah, apparently we did exactly what we were supposed to and terrified the districts. Though looking at the past few day we gave the Capitol a good the run for their money as well."
"You scared the Capital?" Isabella asked, in a voice of pure shock and you can't blame her, it's never been done before the two of us.
"Well, not as a whole but most of the random citizens are absolutely terrified of us." Feliss said with a smirk. "That they should be. We could easily wipe out the entire Capitol in seconds."
"Not seconds, minutes," I said.
"I don't know; if you tried hard enough you might be able to get it in seconds." Isabella giggled.
"No way," I said.
"Besides, though the vast majority is evil and deserves to die there are a small handful of decent people: like Achill, Annia, Cinna, Mila, and Yizziki." I added I'm not sure what drove me to leave Robyn off that list but I didn't try to add her, she was somewhere in the middle.
"Who?" Isabella asked confused.
"My stylist, Feliss' stylist, Achill's brother and Katniss' stylist, our realtor, and Annia's daughter who's pretty much the exact opposite of everything the Capitol's infamous for." I explained.
"Wow, you guys meet interesting, people," Isabella said.
"Well, we haven't actually meet Cinna, just heard a lot about him but yes, yes we do." I chuckled.
"Sorry you had to kill all those others though," She said obviously not having any idea about what really happened, that will change in a second though.
"Well, it was unfortunate but, we actually didn't kill all of them." I admitted. I of course trust my sister with that fact. I'd trust her with anything.
"You didn't?" She asked.
"No we didn't, Katniss and Rue are both still alive." Feliss informed.
"How can they be?" She asked.
I explained everything that happened with them including Snow's unexpected part in it.
"Wow, you two can't do anything normal huh?" She asked almost as if she knows nothing about us.
"Of course not, then we wouldn't be us." Feliss said simply.
"Well that is true," Isabella said.
"So, wanna see the rest of the house?" Feliss offered what somehow almost slipped my mind for a second.
"Sure!" She said sounding excited.
"Where do you think we should show her first?" Feliss asked looking at me with a smile.
"Her room?" I offered knowing she'd like and need to know that one.
"Alright, follow us." Feliss said with a smile and we lead her up to her bedroom. She was VERY excited as we walked.
"Ready?" I asked.
"Ready!" Isabella nodded notably jittery with excitement. I pushed open the door to revile a large room with a king size bed surrounded by a black curtain and a large bathroom and a walk in closet to the right and left. "WOW!" She awed looking around.
"I know right," Feliss said.
"Remember working on these?" I asked clapping the lights off she had started some work on them back in District 3 a while before the reaping.
"Yeah, I thought they were cool," She said and smiled clapping the lights back on.
"Yeah, always fun," She said.
"So, what else?" She asked looking back at us.
"Pool, a gym..." I trailed off
"Pool!" Isabella said excitedly she loved pools just as any sister of mine should.
"Let's go then," I said. Feliss staying behind, I led her down to the pool. She was surprised at what he saw. Not only was it HUGE but it had about a dozen of pretty much had everything. Diving boards, water slides, pool jet, hot tubs, you name it and the entire far side of the pool was a large water curtain coming down from the ceiling.
"This is amazing!" Isabella said looking around in awe I can't blame her one bit, this has to be by far the best part of the house.
"I know right! It's perfect!" I agreed with a smile.
"Yeah! I like this house," Isabella said.
"You've only seen two rooms." I said simply despite knowing that it was more than enough, it was more of a playful tease.
"Well, will you show me the others?" She asked.
"Of course, let's get Feliss first though." I said heading back where we left her… that sounds rude. She had staying on her own because of her aquaphobia.
"Wait up!" Isabella called going after me.
I chuckled, "I am, Isa. If I wasn't, I would have blurred there."
"Well you have a point," She said. I did slow down a little bit more to let her catch up. "Thank you," She said.
We made it to Feliss at human speed which for me after all these years felt like a snail's pace. I wish Feliss wasn't so afraid of water; she's missing out on the best part but I have to just respect that.
"Well like it?" Feliss asked.
"YES!" Isabella said rather loudly but I can understand her excitement completely.
"Okay, I see you're happy," Feliss said.
Isabella calmed down a little before nodded, "Yes I am."
"So want to see the rest?" Felicity asked.
"Yes, please." She nodded. So we took her to the gym which was closest. You already know what it looks like so I won't bother you with the details as Isa looked around. "It's incredible."
"Yeah we thought so too," I said.
"No question why you picked this house." Isabella smirked.
"Yeah," Feliss said happily.
"So, what would you like to see next?" I asked her since there's still so much more to see.
"The backyard?" She asked.
I nodded and led her there. The yard truly was huge to say the least, with a large garden lining the perimeter with all kinds of yellow and white floors. There was a gazebo with stone fire-pit and honey colored deck chairs towards the left corner and a trampoline in the right the rest was beautiful open space we could put to great use.
"Wow! This is amazing!" Isabella said
"We figured you'd like it." Feliss said then looked down at her stomach. "You will too, hopefully."
"I hope you two have a girl," Isabella said.
"I don't have much preference either way but Adam want's a girl so I'll be most happy with a girl." Felicity said.
"I just say it so she will ask for a pony and I can see Adams reaction," Isabella said I don't see what the big deal is with that though.
"If I know anything about Adam, his reaction would be to buy her a pony." Feliss chuckled… you have got to be kidding me right?
"Hey, I would not!" I said appalled that she would even think so.
"If she's like me and gives you sad eyes you would."
"Oh no!" I said dramatically falling to my knees. If that's the case, then I'll pretty much be screwed.
"I'm not going to lie, that actually is a scary though..." I heard Feliss say after a pause.
"It is?" Isabella asked
"A little kid that could get her father to do whatever she wants? I wonder what would happen if we both did that with contradictory commands."
"I don't want to know," I said.
"True, you might explode if that happens and then I'd be extremely sad."
"Well, then hope it never happens," I sighed.
"Definitely." Isabella agreed.
"I do," Feliss said.
"You do what?" I asked confused.
"Hope that never happens," She said.
"Oh, yeah," I said feeling stupid now as I stood up.
"Yeah," She said starring at her stomach.
"He or she will still be the greatest thing that's ever happened to us though." I reminded bending down to her belly's level.
"Yeah, I think so too," She said.
"Though getting married is a close second." She added.
"Oh yeah," I said smiling
"So, now what?" I asked either of them.
"I don't know," Felicity said. I looked over to the next yard and saw an Avox. I grunted then remembered what I agreed to tell Feliss after the games. "Adam, are you okay?" She asked.
"Remember that talk we had in the closet before the games?" I reminded.
"Oh, about the Avoxs?"
I nodded looking down, "Yes, about the Avoxs."
"Well let's talk inside," She said.
I nodded and we headed inside and took a seat on the couch. "Well it starts a year after I had been put on the table," I said.
Cue Flashback
3rd Person POV
Adam was lying cold on the table groaning in pain. "Hello Adam." Snow said coming into the room. "How are you feeling?"
"I don't feel good, I want my daddy," Adam said.
"That could be arranged." Snow smirked malevolently and left the room.
"Wait, where's Daddy?!" Adam shouted after him.
There was no answer till he came back with Adam's dad, Sergio, in chains.
"Daddy!" Adam said struggling against his bindings.
"Adam!" Sergio said struggling against his own. "What have they been doing to you?"
"I don't know I feel sick, daddy." Adam said.
"Let him go!" Sergio demanded of Snow. "Do what you want with me but let him go! He's only six-years-old!"
"I know that," Snow said not caring.
"Let him go!" Sergio hissed again.
"Not likely," He said.
"Let him go!" He demanded, but this time it wasn't Sergio. It was Adam. "He has nothing to do with this!"
"Oh, I will soon," Snow said in an ever characteristic casual manner. "First though, there's something I need to do, something that you get a front row seat to."
"What?" Adam asked afraid.
"You of course now what an Avox is right?" Snow asked sadistically.
"No, NO!" Adam shouted.
"What are you going to do about it, little boy? You can't even save yourself."
"No, don't hurt my daddy!" Adam screamed struggling against his bindings. Snow simply smirked at him getting the tools. "No, no please I'll do anything!" Adam screamed louder
"You can't do anything." He said approaching Sergio ready to perform the procedure.
"No!" Adam said and the leather strap around his right hand broke and he grabbed the edge of Snows shirt and pulled creating pressure on his neck. Adam stared at hiss mostly raw wrist in disbelief. How on earth did he do that? And could he possibly do it again? That was enough for Snow to get out of the grip and re-restrain Adam.
"Impressive little boy," Snow sneered.
"You of course know what's going to happen because of that stunt though."
"Just let my daddy go," Adam said.
"Unlikely. Not until I'm done anyways."
"Please no!" Adam begged. He didn't say anything and set straight to work. Adam screamed and struggled as he watched helpless.
Once Snow had finished the procedure and disposed of the tongue Snow turned to Adam, "I'll be back in a second don't think you could get away with your almost escape attempt. You will of course be chastised soon." With that, he dragged the now Avox out of the cell closing and locking the six foot thick cell door.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" Adam shouted after Snow as all innocence and mercy left him and he began to struggle violently against his restraints again.
Flashback Ends
"Oh, I can't believe it," Felicity said. She couldn't not notice that he was crying profusely at this point and pulled him in closely. "I shouldn't have asked. I'm sorry for making you relive that."
"No you both deserved to know I should have told you sooner," Adam said still in tears.
He turned to Isabella while still in his wife's arms, "I never was able to even find out where he was sent after that though."
Isabella let out a whimper and leaned against Adam starting to cry as well. Feliss took one arm off her husband and pulled her sister-in-law in as well trying not to cry herself.
"I'm sorry for bringing down the mood," Adam said.
"It's my fault, as I said before, I shouldn't have asked at all. Whether you feel we needed to know or not you shouldn't have had to relive something like that."
"Hey don't beat yourself up," Adam said.
"If I don't beat myself up, then who's left to do so?" Felicity shrugged.
"No one that's the point," Adam said.
She said, "Well, we'll find your dad, he wouldn't have been taken outside of the Capitol."
"I know, but who knows where he could be this place is huge,"
"Then we'll search it all, we're obviously beyond fast enough. Then just buy him off of whoever owns him."
"I hope we can," Adam said.
"I know we can, we could even start right now." She said getting up.
"You can?" Isabella asked
"We're us, we can do anything we so damn please." Felicity said simply.
"Within reason," Adam said.
"Well, I guess there are some exceptions, if I so damn please to cook I still sure as heck can't." She shrugged.
"Yeah don't do that," Adam said.
"So, do you want to go find your dad or not?" Felicity asked pointing to the door.
"Let's go!" Adam said. She took his hand and they blurred off.
"Hey!" Isabella said as they vanished.
They returned once they realized, "Sorry." Felicity said and took her hand before blurring off again with both of them.
Adams POV
We searched high and low for hours. It was honestly starting to feel hopeless that we'd ever find him but that was only before coming to a skidding stop, "Oh my god."
"What?" Isabella asked looking the other way. I guided her head to face the right way. "No! Dad!" She gasped.
"We need to get over there." I said dead serious.
"Yeah!" She said and we both rushed into the shop.
One of the regular workers came up to us once we got there, "May I help you?"
"I want that Avox!" I said pointing at dad who spun around when he heard me.
You could tell that he obviously recognized us but he obviously couldn't say or even do anything about it… yet, soon though. "Well that will cost a lot so..." The owner trailed off.
"Money's no object, name your price." I said dead serious.
"600,000?"
"Deal," I agreed pulling out my wallet obviously not going to risk haggling with something so incredibly important. This is my DAD we're talking about.
"Seriously?" He asked.
"Seriously," I said pulling out the money.
"Well, alright he's all yours," The man said.
"Why do you want him so badly anyways?" The man asked.
"That does not matter to you I already paid," I said not sure if it's safe to tell him the truth on that.
"Yes well come with me I'll get you the papers," The man said. I follow him to the back of the store. "Just sign where needed," He said. I read through the papers a few times then signed where needed. I still can't believe this actually worked. "Okay, that's it," the man said.
"Thank you." I said heading back to my dad.
"No trouble,"
Paper in hand, I took my dad and sister and my wife and I blurred back to our house. "I can't believe I finally found you." I said hugging him tightly. "I'm sorry I didn't save you, I should have been able to if I didn't let myself get distracted." He just looked happy to see me and then curious when he looked to Feliss. "Oh right, Dad. This is my wife Felicity."
His jaw dropped and he looked at me if to say 'Really?'
I closed his mouth with my hand. I obviously knew there's no tongue in there but I don't need to see that. "Really, we got married 5 months ago and are EXTREMEMLY happy together."
He shrugged and smiled. "We need to get him a tongue," Isabella said what we were all thinking.
"Yes we do, I'll arrange an appointment immediately." I said heading to a phone. To my surprise, before I could reach the phone, he pulled me to the side with a worried look and raised eyebrow.
"Oh you're worried?" I asked.
He nodded then motion backwards at nothing. Okay, so back. He motioned to his mouth. Back… when he was made an Avox? Then it hit me. It never crossed my mind how that most have looked from his side: his six-year-old son strapped naked, bloody, and beaten to steel table by Panem's most infamous sociopath? The truth was way worse than it though. "You want to know what Snow did to me?" He nodded. "I can't tell you that." I said seriously. "Then no force on earth would be able to stop you from killing him and we need him alive."
He looked suspicious. I sighed, he deserves to know. So, I explained everything. As predicted, he looked ready to kill and I sure as hell couldn't blame him but that exactly why I didn't want to tell him at first. "Dad, don't." I held him back. He tried to fight it and though I'm at least eight times as strong as he is I logically can hold him forever, there's one other option but… I could never stoop so low as to play that card on him. "Dad please," I said. He didn't stop trying though. "Little help, Feliss?" I called.
"Right!" She said blurring over.
"I assume you caught everything?" I asked.
"Yes I did." She said, of course she did, since none of these rooms are exactly soundproof. With our hearing we could pretty much cover the whole house.
"Calm down dad," I said.
Feliss went around to face him and said in a calm and gentle voice, "I know you want to kill Snow after what he did to your son but we need him alive because he's the only one with information that we both need otherwise we would have killed him the millisecond we were free." He stopped struggling.
"Thanks, Feliss." I smiled.
"No problem," She said.
"Would you mind just keeping an eye on him so I can make that call?" I asked her desperate that both are completed without a hitch.
"Yeah, I've got it," She said.
"Thank you." I said giving her a kiss and heading back to the phone and dialed the surgeon.
"Capitol High Class Functional Surgery, Dr. Latro speaking, how may I help you?"
"I need to schedule two reverse Avox surgerys," I said.
"Alright, but those will be extremely expensive and you'll of course have to provide their papers for proof of ownership."
"Yes I know," I said.
"Alright then, we can get them in tomorrow at one-thirty if that works for you."
"That's fine,"
"Alright, is this Adam Daniels? Because if not you certainly sound like him."
"It is, why?" I asked.
"Well, congratulations on the games and just so that I could get it down. Which I do now. Is that all?"
"Yeah, is that all?"
"You know where we are right?" He asked.
"Not really, no," I said.
So he gave us the directions which I scribbled down.
"Thank you," I said.
"You're welcome. That is all then unless you need something else."
"No, that's all," I said.
"Alright then, I will see you then, Sir."
"Thank you, ma'am!"
I hung up and went back to my wife and dad, "The appointment's set for tomorrow at one-thirty." He raised an eyebrow. "To make it so that you're not an Avox anymore, there's an extremely complicated surgery to do so." He looked excited, but nervous. I guess I could understand that last part, too. Then I realized something and turned to Feliss. "We never got Dystopian's papers did we?"
"No we didn't" Feliss said.
"Damn, those are strictly required for obvious reasons."
"Well, we can go get them,"
"Right, Dad, do you want to come with?" I asked turning to him to look for a nod or shake of the head but he just shrugged.
"I think he should meet them." Feliss said. "He'll like, Ms. Surprisingly-Nice and Ms. Anti-Capitolite."
"Yeah let's go," I said, I'm sorry I haven't been giving very much of my thoughts here but, I'm really just having trouble gathering them myself.
"Isabella, wanna come on a quick trip with us." I called knowing she can't hear as well as Feliss and I.
"Sure!" She called.
"I'll get dad you get Isabella?" I offered Feliss.
"Yeah that works," she said. So I took my dad's arm, Feliss took Isabella's and we were off arriving seconds later.
"Where are we?" Isabella asked.
"Our friend and my stylist's house," Feliss said.
"Oh, what are we doing here then?" She asked sounding confused.
"Getting Dystopian's papers," I said
"And, Dystopian's an Avox?" Isabella asked.
"Yes he is," Feliss said.
I knocked on the door since it's a considerably friendlier visit. After a moment Yizziki answered. "You're here." She said sounding excited, "but, who are these people?"
"This is my dad Sergio and my sister Isabella" I said
6/26
"Oh, well, it's nice to meet you." Yizziki said looking at them, it seemed like she looked at Isabella a lot longer but it must have been my imagination. I mean, they're both girls, that's weird.
"You too," Isabella said.
"My name's Yizziki Zinx." She said shaking her hand.
"Isabella Daniels," she said shaking her hand.
"I'm sure my dad's happy to see you too but he can't say so because… he's an Avox. We're going to fix that though." Isabella explained.
"He's an Avox? Why?" She asked.
"We're not exactly sure, but we don't like to talk about that." I said trying to hide the bitterness in my voice.
"Oh alright," she said
"We actually came here because we'll need Dystopian's papers though." I said getting on topic.
"Well, let me get those," she said and turned heading back inside and we followed her in. She bounded up the stairs to a filing cabinet and started thumbing through it but we had decided best to stay down here instead of invading their privacy.
"Need help?" I called up.
"Nope, I almost… got it!" She called before coming back down with them.
"Thank you very much," I said. "By the way, the appointment's tomorrow at one-thirty." I added looking though the papers.
"Thank you so much!" She said and predictably pulled us into another hug.
"It's our pleasure, do you happen to know why Dystopian was made into an Avox." Feliss asked.
"He tried to escape to District 13. He almost made it, too. He had made it past District 12 before they caught him."
"Wow that is sad," Isabella said.
"Yeah, if he had just made it a little bit farther…" Yizziki trailed.
"Well he tried at least," Isabella said.
"You like that?" She asked… wait… what?
"What?" Isabella asked.
"The fact that he tried."
"Oh yeah, at least he tried,"
"You know, I've been working up a plan to go to 13 my whole life." Yizziki said, it's surprising how many people she's been telling that to that she hasn't had any consequences for it yet.
"Really?" Isabella asked impressed.
She nodded, "Dystopian has been helping me. We worked out a secret written code to communicate with."
"That is very impressive!" Isabella said.
"Thank you." Yizziki smiled. "I'd do anything to get out of this hell hole."
"What if you find a reason to stay?" I asked.
"Unlikely, but maybe, if I found someone to make it worth my while."
"Oh, really?" Isabella asked.
"Could I talk to you alone for a minute?" Yizziki asked.
"Uh sure why not?" Isabella said following Yizziki to her room. I have no idea what to make of any of this.
Isabella POV
I'm not exactly sure what to make of this, is she…? More importantly do I want her to be? "So Isabella," she said carefully.
"Yes?" I asked hesitantly.
"I… well… I..." she stammered. "Like… you…"
"You mean like-like?" I asked.
She nodded slowly, "It's okay if you don't."
"Well I'm not sure how I feel," I said honestly.
"Oh, okay." She said looking down.
"I mean I just never thought of another girl like that, I don't know it might work, but I do not know how to find out," I said.
"I have one idea." She said scotching nearer to me.
"Oh what's that?" I asked feeling my checks warm up.
"We could try, kissing."
"Well... I guess we could," I said feeling nervous about this.
"Only if that's okay with you though," She trailed but was looking me straight in the eye bravely.
"Yeah I'd like to try," I said.
She leaned in connecting her lips to mine. It felt...good her lips were soft and warm against my own. I wrapped my arms around her not wanting to pull away yet. Her own arms came up and around my neck pulling me closer. I honestly had no idea I would ever feel this was about another girl but it felt… amazing. I never wanted it to end.
Lack of air however meant it had to. "That was incredible." I breathed staring into her eyes.
"Yeah it was," She said happily.
"So… does that mean…?" I trailed. I REALLY hoped so.
"If you want to," She said.
"I do want to." I said still holding her close.
"Then it's official," She said pressing her lips to mine again.
Adam's POV
They've certainly been up there a while. What on earth could they be doing up there. "Feliss, what do you thinks taking them?"
"I don't know want me to check?" She asked. I nodded and she headed up stairs.
Felicity's POV
I headed over to the room that Ms. Anti-Capitolite took her to. I pushed the door open and was surprised by what I found. I… I thought… don't only girls and boys do that together? I cleared my throat awkwardly. They both turned to me deep red. "Want to explain?" I asked
"Please don't tell Adam but… Yizziki and I sort of… got together."
"You mean like dating? Also why can't I tell Adam?" I asked
They both nodded. "I'm afraid he won't accept me. Just please don't." Isabella said in almost a begging voice.
"Well I guess I can manage that," I sighed not liking this at all.
"I'm sorry; I know you usually tell him everything."
"Well… not everything," I said.
"Really?" She asked sounding surprised. "What haven't you?"
"Well it's hard to explain," I said.
"How about you sit down?" Isabella offered. "I promise I won't tell Adam if you don't want me to."
"Well I sort of… have a kid," I said.
"You what?" She asked in shook but luckily being quiet. "You mean, besides that one?"
"Yeah," I sighed. I've actually never told anyone this before so only Snow and I know having been there… unless of course, Snow told someone… he better not have.
"How?"
"It was back when I was on the table."
"Oh okay," She said.
Cue Flashback
Third Person POV
Ten-year-old Felicity lay tied to her table as always but in addition to the usually blood and chemicals covering her otherwise bare skin, she was covered in vomit. For whatever reason, she had throwing up like crazy about a week ago and couldn't stop. The cell door slid open and President Snow stepped in. "Well, Felicity, I have some interesting news."
"What?" She asked.
"Well, I was running a few tests to see why you keep throwing up on yourself and… you're pregnant, Felicity."
"I'm what?" She asked not knowing what that meant.
"It means that there's a baby growing inside of you right here," He pointed to her lower pelvis, "and after it's developed he or she will come out here." He pointed to her vagina.
"I'm gonna have a baby?"
"Yes you are, but you obviously can't be an adequate mother strapped down to that table. I could try to find out who the father is but there are so many possibilities."
"So let me keep my baby," she said.
"How on earth would you take care of a child here?" Snow asked.
"You could let me go," she said but honestly wasn't expecting it to actually work. That was way too far-fetched of an idea.
"Or I could just kill the baby right after they're born. One less thing to worry about." Snow said as casually cruel as ever.
"No, no, no!" She begged.
"Why not? It will be so much better for all of us then." He said before leaving the room to check up on Adam. Felicity started to cry with worry, over the past five years she had gotten so strong with everything, it was the first time she had cried in over a year.
A few months later, the dreaded day was upon our poor heroine. To say she was in pain would be understating it. However she did not even scream a peep as she pushed clenching the sides of the table. "Almost done," Snow said
Felicity scowled, her eyes clenched shut as she gave one last good push before hearing the baby cry. "There we are," Snow said. "It's a girl." He said but she kept her eyes shut till the crying stopped.
"Please let me see her!" Feliss pleaded.
Snow simply placed the undeniably dead baby girl with a dagger sticking out of her chest on Felicity's bloated belly.
Felicity screamed loud enough that glass shattered her hand slipped free and dug into Snows throat.
"Go ahead." Snow said calmly. "You'd have nowhere to go without the information that only I have." Her grip tightened a little at first. However, she removed it completely when she realized he was right. That's the worst part about Snow. No matter how much you hate him. You can't kill him.
"That's better," Snow said. He put her back in her restraints, took the dead baby, and left the cell closing and locking the cell door.
Flashback Ends
"Thats horrible," Yizziki said, Felicity had actually forgot she was there for a second when she had gotten so caught up in everything.
Felicity nodded with her eyes full of tears. "Why did you never tell Adam?" Isabella asked
"Because it would just make him sad and worry too much. Unlike with his dad there's nothing that can be done about it at this point. Besides, I still can't let him kill Snow which we know nothing could stop him if I do."
"Well I guess," Isabella said.
"So please don't tell him and I promise I won't tell him you guys' secret." Felicity pleaded.
"Okay, that's fair," Isabella said.
"You need a story for what you guys were doing though, he's getting suspicious." Felicity pointed out wiping her eyes.
"Any ideas?" Yizziki asked.
"We could just give the unquestionable answer of 'girl stuff'." Isabella suggested.
"That should work," Feliss said.
"Ready to go back or do you need a second?" Isabella asked.
"Give me a second," I said.
"Of course," Isabella said having figured that because of the story she just told.
"Yeah, I'll be down soon." Felicity sighed.
"We should probably just wait till then so he doesn't get suspicious." Isabella told Yizziki.
"Thanks," Felicity said.
Adam's POV
Great, now she's stuck up there. What on earth are they doing? I sat tapping my foot impatiently. As I looked up at the room starting to get worried that something was wrong. "Is everything okay up there?"
"Yeah just a second," Isabella called.
"Alright," I said sounding exactly as confused as I was.
"Okay!" I called.
A while later, they came down but something seemed… off. I couldn't put my finger on it but something was definitely amiss. "Are you okay?" I asked them all.
"Yeah." Feliss said, "It was just some girl stuff."
"Oh well okay..." I said suspiciously.
"Feliss, you'd never lie to me right?" I asked still feeling like something's wrong.
"Why would I ever need to?" She asked.
"It just feels like there's something you're not telling me." I said looking down.
"It's nothing, Adam. I'm your wife. Can you not just trust me?"
"Yeah okay your right," I said. She seemed to look guilty as she said it. Yizziki and Isabella both did not look much better either. I knew that I definitely needed to look into this, seeing as they won't tell me. "Well alright," I said carefully.
"Great, so can you please stop doubting me?" Feliss asked coming over.
"Yeah, sorry," I said.
"Good." She said wrapping her arms around me. I hugged her close. Seriously though, what is it that my own sister and wife are trying to hide from me? No matter how many times they say it's okay I can't see it written all over their faces. "Are you okay?" Feliss asked
I forced a convincing smile, "Yes, I'm fine."
"Good," She said.
"Should we head back home?" I offered.
"Yes, please," She said
I let go of her and took my dad. She took Isabella and we were off.
We arrived back home all five of us...wait what? "Um… what's Yizziki doing here?" I asked being certain I didn't take her.
"I grabbed her," Isabella said.
"Okay, any particular reason?" I asked with a raised eyebrow. It's perfectly fine just a little... odd. She didn't even mention it to us.
"I want to hang out with her," Isabella said.
"Alright, but it would have been nice if you would have just asked." I shrugged.
"Sorry," She said.
"It's okay; just keep that in mind for next time."
"Okay," she said.
"So, I can stay?" Yizziki asked.
"Sure why not?" I shrugged.
"Thank you. What should we do then?" Yizziki asked turning to Isabella.
"Ever gone swimming?" She asked.
Yizziki nodded, "Often, I can even hold my breath underwater for up to six minutes. It's a good Peacekeeper evasion technique. Admittedly fun as well."
"Let's go to the pool then!" Isabella said.
"I don't have a suit with me."
"You can borrow my spare," Isabella said.
"That works." She smiled and they went up to her room.
"Well, that was odd," I said.
"Well, at least she's already made a friend… a good one too." Feliss pointed out.
"Yeah at least there's that," I said.
"Then what's the problem?" She asked wrapping her arms around me.
"Nothing," I said carefully.
"Adam, please don't lie to me. Something's bugging you."
"It's nothing," I said.
"I know you better than that." She said with a frown.
"It's nothing," I said.
"No, it's not. Please, just tell me."
"I just feel like you all are not telling me something," I said honestly.
"Adam calm down," she said.
"Why are you guys acting so suspiciously?" I asked with a sigh.
"We aren't." She said.
"Yes you are." I sighed. "I know you just as much as you know me."
"It's nothing," she said.
"No it's not." I said just as she had.
"Adam, it's nothing," she said.
"You wouldn't let me get away with that." I reminded.
"It's nothing," she said.
"Why won't you just tell me, Feliss?"
"It's not a problem really," She said.
"If it's no problem then why won't you just tell me?"
"I don't have to tell you everything," She said then gasped and covered her mouth.
She disappeared and it all made sense. "Morning sickness," I chuckled knowingly. She came back looking green. "Better now?" I asked worriedly.
She nodded and hugged me. "You know I love you right?" She asked holding me close, "More than anything."
"I know and you know I love you more than anything," I said.
"Yes I do." She nodded happily. I smiled and just held her against me.
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