Chapter TenDiana grabbed onto Lana's hand as she felt another contraction, and tried to focus on her had been eight months since she had moved to the looked desperately at Lana. "Keep it inside me." She whimpered. "It's coming too early."Lana looked at her as if she was going crazy. "Diana, you know I can't do that."Dekka was facing Diana's open legs. "Oh, God. This is making me feel sick. What the hell am I supposed to do? I've only seen this happen on TV shows!" She yelled."Yeah, that's great, Dekka." Diana said sarcastically, back to her old self. "You're really helping to calm me down right now."Lana tried to loosen Diana's grip on her hand, but to no avail. She turned to her. "I think you just need to...push." Diana stared at her. "I mean it. Push! You can't keep in there forever!"Diana was horrified. "No, no, I don't want to do it! Can't you just...can't you just cut it out of me? You can heal me after! Please?" She begged Dekka spoke. "Diana, just push it out! This isn't easy for me either; I have to look at it whilst it comes out!"Diana glared at her, but then braced herself, and was pain like no other she had felt, and it lasted for so long. She was pretty sure that she had sworn profusely during the whole then she heard a baby all sighed with relief. Lana held her broken hand so that she could heal it, whilst Dekka cut the umbilical cord and wrapped the baby in a towel. "It's a boy," she said, still looking shell-shocked from the experience. She handed the baby to Diana. "Man, I know it's cute and everything, but I am so glad I'm not having children."Diana smiled as she held her crying son. She realised that she had been sweating so much that her hair was matted to her face. "He's so...bloody." She laughed; she was expecting a nicer adjective at the end of that sentence. "You need to wash him."Diana nodded. All three of them were staring at his then his face started to mouth started to become bigger, bigger, and his eyes and nose disappeared, so that his whole face was his mouth. And his teeth! He had so many sharp realised that he looked like the monster who tried to tempt them during the the mouth spoke."Come to me." It screamed. Someone was shaking woke up. "Dekka." She breathed as she saw her."I heard you moaning in your sleep. And then you screamed." Dekka said. She looked kind of creeped looked down at her stomach. It was flat. She wasn't eight months looked awkward. "Bad dream?" She asked."I was giving birth." Diana replied. "But it was a monster. The monster from the poof." She said quietly. Dekka didn't respond; she didn't know how dropped her hand to her stomach. She could still feel her baby's power. But somehow it was no longer comforting to woke up with a start. She was sure she had heard it. Come to me, it had whispered. It was invading her mind again, or at least trying looked over at Patrick in the darkness, and could see him sleeping at the end of her bed, his body slowly rising and falling as he breathed. Watching him helped to soothe her, but she still felt like getting some slowly got out of bed and creeped outside, careful not to wake everyone else on her large boat. She breathed in the fresh air and calmed herself. Perhaps she had just imagined that she had heard the she could still feel it there, restless. Waiting. Anticipating. She could still understand it somehow. And even as she tried to deny it, she knew that it was waiting for had gone back to sleep, and woke up the next morning still feeling uneasy. She walked out to the kitchen area, where Sam, Dekka and Edilio were eating makeshift breakfasts. Dekka half-smiled at Diana. Diana smiled she turned to Sam. "I'm sorry I kissed you yesterday. I was in a weird mood." She said, sitting down on one of the 's mouth fell open. Dekka dropped the cracker she was sighed. "And you couldn't have told me that in private?" He muttered back."Oh, sorry." Diana replied. She took a few crackers and went back to her and Dekka were silent for while. Then they both spoke at once."You guys kissed?""When did this happen?""Wait...are you guys together?""Oh my God, do you like her?"Sam waited until they were finished. "OK, look; nothing happened. She just kissed me for like, two seconds. And then we both pulled away. It meant nothing." He added clearly, making sure that they obviously didn't. "If it meant nothing, then why didn't you tell us?" Dekka rolled his eyes. "I am not having this conversation. You both know that I love Astrid." He stood up and went to his own he wanted to do was forget that one stupid yet, he couldn't get it out of his head.Come to me, it felt it. He felt it reaching his mind. The Darkness. The gaiaphage. Whatever it hadn't felt it in months, ever since he had tried to kill it with now it was calling out him. It wanted ignored it. The last time he had followed the Darkness, it had sent him into a crazed frenzy of dreams. And then it had influenced his thoughts. He had lost control of his own didn't want to become like that again. So he lay back down in his bed and waited for sleep to take didn't.