He's flipping through the stations on the T.V., and a commercial reminds him of her.

She's lying in her bed, trying to fall asleep. No matter how hard she tries sleep simply will not come. She opens her eyes and stares at the ceiling, waiting on some sort of answer. The only voice she hears, is hers. It resonates from the back of her head.

What am I doing? How did I let this happen? I've ruined everything. I love Connor. Right? But if I love him why did I let this happen? Why did I sleep with Daniel.

He sits in the chair and stares at the blank television. His face falls into his hands. What a stupid thing to do. You knocked up your arch enemy. What a great idea. How did this even happen? It was just sex, he reminds himself.

She rolls over onto her side. Without thinking her hand drifts onto her stomach. She flinches. It was supposed to just be sex. How could I be so foolish? Why is this happening? What did I do to deserve this? "Sorry kid," she says aloud as she touches her stomach.

He stares at himself in his bathroom mirror. And now I'm going to be a father, to Wilhelmina's baby. Wilhelmina is having my baby. How is this really supposed to work? She hates my guts. This kid is going to have the worst childhood ever. I just wish that she felt differently. I wish that this could be simple. I wish that... why is this so hard? Why do I have to have feelings for her? I know that she's going to be the mother to my child, but it's more than that.

Maybe if I take a warm shower I'll be able to fall asleep. She climbs out of bed and goes into the bathroom. As the warm water runs over her she stands frozen. Don't do this, she warns herself. She turns the shower off, and grabs a towel. She steps out of the shower and moves to the mirror. "What a mess," she tells the reflection in the mirror. She puts her clothes back on and climbs back into bed. Why does this have to be so hard? I can't believe that I... I can't believe that I let myself be sucked in. I should have left well enough alone. I don't want to be in love with him.

He can't seem to get her off of his mind. He dials her number. He hits send, and holds it to his ear.

She grabs the phone off of her bedside stand. She looks at the caller I.D. She let's it ring a few time, and then decides to answer it.

"Hello?"

"I'm sorry to be calling so late," he apologizes.

"I'm not asleep."

"Oh."

"What do you need?"

"I shouldn't have called."

"Is something wrong?"

"I can't believe I'm doing this."

"Doing what?"

"Calling just to hear your voice. Just to make sure that you're ok."

She doesn't respond.

"Wilhelmina? Are you still there?"

"Yeah, I'm still here," she answers as a tear runs down her cheek.

"I have something that I need to ask you."

"Ok," she tries to wipe away the tears as they fall.

"Is there any possibility that we could ever be more than this?"

"More than what?"

"What we are now."

"We're having a baby."

"You don't even talk to Nico's father," he points out.

"That's different."

"How?"

"I don't like him."

"You have a daughter with him."

"I know. I had feelings for him once, but they were superficial."

"I see."

"What exactly are you asking me?"

"Was it just sex for you?"

"Is it ever?"

"For some people," he answers.

"It wasn't," she assures him.

There is silence on the other end for several moments before he asks, "Do you still love him?"

"I don't know."

"You don't know?"

"No. I did, but then..."

"Then what?"

"After our retreat I started to wonder how much I really loved him. If you love someone you don't cheat on them. I didn't mean to hurt him, I didn't mean to hurt you."

"You don't cheat unless you have feelings for someone else."

"I don't know if a relationship between us would ever work. We are two completely different people. We want entirely different things."

"We should still give it a shot," he suggests.

"And when it doesn't work?"

"If it doesn't work, then at least we'll know. We owe it to our daughter to try to make it work."

"Ok," she answers.

He stares at the phone in shock, saying nothing.

"Daniel are you still there?"

"Um, yeah I'm still here. Sorry, I didn't expect you to agree."

"I'm full of surprises."

"I guess so," he agrees. "I should probably let you go, we both have to get up early tomorrow."

"Goodbye," she hangs up the phone.

She climbs into bed and falls asleep within minutes. Daniel falls asleep with the lights on.

When he arrives at the office the next morning he finds Claire in his office, waiting on him.

"Mom what are you doing in here?"

"I want to talk to you."

"About what?"

"How stupid, and careless you are."

"You got over the shock?"

"You were dumb enough to fall into her tangled web? Really, Daniel you should know better by now."

"Why do you automatically assume that this was a trick?"

She stares at him in deep concern, "Do you really think that she could ever have feelings for you? Do you really think that she's capable of having feelings at all?"

"Don't," he begs.

"Why can't you see it?"

"See what mother?"

"This is a ploy to get control of Mode."

"It's not a ploy."

"How do you know? How do you know that she's really pregnant? How do you know that she's not faking it? That she plans on stealing someone else's baby when it's time for her to pop?"

"She wouldn't do that."

"Yes she would. She's an evil, conniving, vindictive, bitch. She would do anything to get to the top."

"Mom she's pregnant."

"How do you know that the baby is really yours?"

"She told me."

"Did you see the test results yourself?"

"No."

"So then how do you know that's she's telling the truth?"

"Because I do."

"You really believe her?"

"Yes I do."

"Daniel I would demand an independent DNA test be performed on this child before you sign anything."

"Ok, and when it proves that she's really having my baby then what? Will that be good enough for you?"

"This isn't about me."

"You're making it about you."

"I'm sorry."

"What are you going to do with this baby is born?"

"What do you mean?" Claire questions.

"You're going to be this child's grandmother."

"And Wilhelmina is going to be its mother," a lightbulb goes off in her head.

"Yes," he nods.

"You can't bring her into this family Daniel."

"Who?"

"Wilhelmina."

"I'm not."

"She's having your child, according to you."

"Her child will be a part of this family."

"And you don't think that she'll use the baby to claw her way into the family? Daniel she's heartless, she'd do anything to get what she wants."