Anything like "this" is actually being signed not spoke as there is a hearing impaired character here that will be truly introduced in another story.
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Time passed and things settled back to normal at the Xavier Institute. Ororo was working in her garden. Scott and Jean were sitting outside talking about something, she wasn't really paying that much attention to them. She was too interested in what she was doing. Suddenly she started to feel off balance, dizzy.
"Oh" she groaned trying to keep upright but failing and falling to the soft soil of her garden
"Storm" Scott said and ran to the older woman Jean following behind her. "Jean contact Hank"
"What about the professor"
"Hank first then the professor" Scott replied as he helped Storm to her feat
Hank told them to bring her to the infirmary he would check her out there. They did as instructed and met up with Hank there. Scott carrying Storm as she could barely balance herself and was trying to fall unconscious.
"What happened?" Hank asked
"We don't know, she was working in the garden, I heard her groan and then she fell"
"Oh dear that isn't right" Hank checked for a fever and found none then took a blood sample for testing as Logan walked in having followed Scott and Jean
"Logan you might want to step back out, I'm about to use smelling salts... I can barely stand them myself and since your nose is even stronger than mine, I wouldn't reccomend you remain where you stand" Hank warned
"Just checkin in" Logan replied
"She fainted in the garden, I'm trying to find out what could be the cause"
"Logan took a wiff of her scent getting closer to the woman in question"
"You can't smell that, I think I know what's going on here..."
"No like I said your nose is better than mine"
"Run a test, I'd be willin to bet money she's pregnant" Logan replied
"That... that would easily explain this situation, if she is with child then... then I must tell Charles"
"Wait, Hank, first she needs to know" Jean said stopping the overly excited scientist "then I think it might be better if she were alowed to tell Professor Xavier about this herself"
"You are right Jean, first Ororo needs to know about this herself"
Logan, Jean and Scott stepped out and Hank waved the smelling salts under the weather witch's nose arousing her almost instantly.
"Hank... what... what happened?"
"You fainted in your garden earlier, Scott and Jean brought you here" he said with a smile "and by the way, congatulations are in order"
"Why?"
"You're pregnant" Hank smiled
"What?"
"You heard me Ororo you are pregnant" Hank repeated
Storm ran her fingers through her hair, she couldn't believe it, she was really pregnant
"It's a lot to digest, isn't it"
"Yes, yes it is" she replied dark grey eyes looking a bit bewildered "how am I to tell Charles that I..."
"That is for you to decide"
Storm went up to her room, Charles had not been informed of the incident in the garden as Logan thought it wise to let Ororo tell him herself.
Storm went into the bedroom she now shaired with Charles and sighed as she fell back on the bed. Pregnant, that was not what she was expecting to hear from Hank when she woke in the infirmary. She could only think back to the nights that she and Charles shared, she regretted nothing, and enjoyed every moment with him. Now she carried his child. In a way she was happy that it was reall, but in a way it felt like a dream.
'How do I tell him... he has to know, even if I tell no one else I have to tell Charles he deserves to know of his unborn child' she set her jaw and got up from the bed to go tell her husband the news. She just hoped they could get some mesure of privacy.
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Lydia was in the professor's office talking to him about something she was struggling with and he told her that he would help her as much as she needed to get it taken care of. She then started to leave but nearly ran into Storm on the way down the hall
"Mrs. Xavier, what is wrong?" Lydia asked having sensed the teacher's anxioty
"I am okay, Lydia"
"Do not lie, I know you are upset about something." Lydia paused looking directly into Ororo's eyes "Do not worry, he loves you and no matter what you tell him it will not change the way he feels for you"
"Thank you, I guess... can you keep a secret?"
"Yes, why?"
"I am going to tell you something I don't want you to tell anyone else, okay?"
"Okay"
"I am going to have a baby"
"Congratulations Mrs. Xavier"
"Thank you"
Lydia went on her way and Ororo entered Charles's office closing the door behind herself.
"Ororo, what's wrong, my love?" he asked standing from his chair to greet her.
"Charles I've got some news, but you really might want to sit back down"
"Why?" He asked, but he could tell she was upset and that maybe he had better sit for this news. "Okay, I think I understand"
"Charles, I fainted in the garden earlier"
"Ororo what happened"
"Hank ran some tests, he told me that I... I am pregnant" Ororo watched Charles for a reaction and saw him smile happily as he stood to embrace her. She allowed him to hold her as she tried to make sense of the thoughts in her head.
"Don't worry, my love,"
"Charles"
"Ororo, weren't you the one telling me that you wanted to have a baby of your own"
"You're right, I did say that, but this... I never dreamed it would actually, that I would actually..." She paused "how will we tell Kathy?"
"Gently... you do know she already reffers to you as her mother"
"She started calling me 'Mom' not to long after we got back, it just... it feels right to have her call me that"
"Yes, it does seem natural" Charles replied "do you want to tell her now, or wait?"
"Now, Charles, I think we need to go ahead and tell her now"
Charles used his telepathy to call Kathy to his office where he had her sit down and they told her together about the coming baby.
"Really, mom, you're having a baby?" Kathy asked in surprise
Ororo nodded mutely and was surprised when Kathy embraced her, but she quickly returned the hug
"Congratulations, this is so great"
Charles hugged his wife and daughter knowing that soon there would be another child in his family.
That afternoon Ororo called her sister
"Vi, I've got big news for you" she said
"What is it?"
"I'm going to have a baby"
To Be continued...