Belle woke suddenly like she had for the last three days, for a moment she didn't know why she had awoken; Cordelia was asleep in her bed, Ruby was clearly awake, but quiet and Mister Carpenter's television was on a reasonable volume. So why had she woken so suddenly? Then the next wave hit her. Belle threw off her silver-grey covers, waking Cordelia with the sudden movement, and charged through the little apartment, passed Ruby who was reading a magazine on the small couch, into the kitchen and then to the bathroom slamming the white door behind her. From there Belle proceeded to throw the little contents of her stomach up.

Belle's stomach contacted savagely, like she had been punched repeatedly in the gut, her body purging itself. She heaved again, throat burning and eyes stinging as acidic tears built. Her cerulean painted fingers curled almost into fists as Belle gripped the sides of the toilet, she felt so weak but still managed an iron strong grip. Belle could feel the stomach acid coating on her teeth, foul, wretched, and longed to brush it away but she couldn't bring herself to stand and walk, or more likely stumble, the few steps to the sink and her toothbrush. The smell of vomit filled her lungs making her gag again but there was nothing left to come up and so Belle slumped off her aching knees to the floor, it was cold but Belle didn't care, she just sat there desperately trying to get air into her deprived body. A worried knock came at the door.

"Belle, hun are you alright?" Ruby sounded somewhat panicked. "Belle?"

The auburn haired beauty took a slow breath and somehow found the strength to stand up and open the bathroom door, coming face-to-face with Ruby, who was worrying her scarlet lips.

"Yeah." Belle began slowly, it was still a little hard to speak due to the burning feeling in her throat. "I must have eaten something bad, I'm fine."

Only then did she notice Cordelia by Ruby's feet wearing a similarly concerned look. It amazed Belle at how much animals could say through their eyes.

"Hey girl, didn't mean to scare you. Sorry Cord." The Samoyed barked in response and nuzzled at her owner's legs, providing comfort and love.

"Belle, you've been like this for days. Are you sure you're alright? I mean you've been complain about pain too so..." Belle cut her off.

"I'm fine, really. Any woman's breasts will hurt if you slept on them and I think that I will..." Belle paused her eyes widening in horror and realization. "...Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!"

"What!?" Ruby looked terrified and rested her hands on Belle's shoulders. "What's wrong?"

Belle just stood there with her hand in her hair, she looked petrified beyond all reason and to be honest she looked like she would throw up again; if there was anything let in her stomach. Instead, Belle began to cry, panicked tears that flowed over her pale cheeks like waterfalls.

"Oh God! No, no, no. This can't be happening, no, no, oh God, no."

"Belle!" Ruby screamed dragging Belle's attention back to the taller girl. "What is it? What's wrong?" She looked one second away from shaking Belle.

"Oh God!"

The tears kept falling and Belle couldn't bring herself to look anywhere but the white tiled kitchen floor. Cordelia stayed close worried over her Mistress' sudden explosion of emotion, dogs where incredibly intuitive and Cord more so than average.

"No more oh God-ing okay? Tell me what's wrong."

Belle took a deep breath and wiped away the cascading tears but it was pointless, new shed ones just replaced the old.

"Y...you remember a few w...weeks ago when my bag was stolen?" Belle couldn't help her stuttering.

"Yeah?" It was normally a two syllable word but Ruby somehow stretched it to seven. Belle took another breath.

"My birth control was in that but so where my Dracula notes and I...I meant to go get more b...but I forgot because I...I needed to g...get my notes done again Oh God me and Cam we didn't...we didn't use..." Belle spoke in one breath and then finally her body forced her to breathe, she slowed down, Ruby took a moment trying to take in all that her friend was saying. "Ruby, oh God, Ruby what am I going to do? Ruby..."

"Belle, calm down!" Ruby put a quick end to her best friends blathering and squeezed her shoulders a little tighter. "Do you think you're pregnant?"

It was clear that Belle saying it was the only way they would get anywhere. Ruby was determined to be there for Belle no matter what happened, and the first step of that was to calm her down.

"Yes." The word came out at barely a whisper and Ruby had to strain to hear her. The taller girl took a moment to think.

"Okay, okay here is what we're going to do." Ruby lowered her head to force Belle to make eye contact. "You and Cord will stay here and I'm going to go to the store across the street."

Ruby was always good in a crisis, she was far more mature than people gave her credit for and Belle couldn't be more thankful for that.

XXXX

It didn't take long for Ruby to return with a small white paper bag. Belle had spent most of her time alone on her knees with her arms wrapped around Cord repeating the words 'how could I be so stupid' over and over again. It soon stopped when Ruby lowered the bag to her.

"I got two, you know, just to make sure." Ruby spoke so very softly like Belle was an injured animal. "Go on hun, you don't want to sit here worrying any longer than you have to."

Belle nodded and clambered up on shaky legs taking the white bag from her friend with an almost mute 'thanks'. It wasn't taking the tests that was the hard part, no, it was the waiting that killed her. Ruby was sat on the couch tickling Cord, while Belle paced back and forth chewing on her thumbnails frantically. She felt like hours had passed and Ruby was sure that if she paced anymore she would ware a hole in the floor.

She nearly screamed when Ruby announced it was time. The girl with azure eyes took a deep breath and steadied her hands so she could pick up the first test, she looked over to Ruby who was wearing such a supportive smile. With one final deep breath Belle picked up the test and looked down.

"So?" Ruby sounded suddenly exited.

Belle gasped. "Two lines." Tears threatened to start again.

Ruby rose to her feet and crossed the room to grab the second 'back up' test.

"Maybe it's a false positive, we just need to take a look at..." She stopped dead her words falling to an early grave and her black lined eyes widened.

"Two lines?" Asked a petrified Belle.

"Yeah."

Belle's face dropped and tears began to reappear and soaked Ruby's shoulder as somehow her red obsessed roommate had pulled her into a hug within two seconds. No matter how comforting Ruby tried to be, Belle was in a mix of shock and panic.

"Ruby what do I do? How could I be so stupid? Oh God, what am I going to do?"

Ruby had endured as much as she could take of Belle's panic and terror as she could and finally gave into her urge to shake Belle until she shut up.

"Belle! Get a grip." Ruby took a breath and released her grip on Belle's shoulders. "You are not alone in this, okay? You have Professor Gold, it's his baby too, right?"

"Yes Ruby, of course it's his." Belle suddenly snapped.

"Just go talk to him, alright? You. Are. Not. Alone." She spoke the last part slowly to really drive the thought into Belle's mind. "And you will always have me, Victor and Jefferson. So no more mad panicking."

Belle was determined to be brave.

"Okay."

Some people have said that Belle wouldn't be able to get pregnant after being off her pills for just over a week and yes it is unlikely but not impossible.

After the cycle, attempts can be made to start getting pregnant although it may be advisable to wait for the first normal menstrual period after you stop taking your pills, yet this precaution is not essential. Some women conceive within a week or two after stopping birth control pills. (Taken From WebMD)