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Chapter 13

Six Months Along

Time was passing slowly, and as each day went on, Jaden got sicker and sicker.

As he lay on the couch he was six months along in the pregnancy, and he felt like he was going to pass out any second.

Jesse and Miss Fontaine sat next to him, neither of them convinced that he was going to survive another day, and both watching him warily as if he was going to start screaming again.

Earlier in the day a pain had wracked through is body so forcefully that he had started screaming, and it had taken him an hour to completely calm down. That was when Jesse had phoned Miss Fontaine and told her to get up to the Obelisk dorm.

Jaden's eyes weakly opened halfway and he looked at Jesse.

"What do you want, sweetheart?" Jesse whispered, stroking Jaden's arm gently.

"I don't feel so good" the brunette whispered.

Jesse sat beside him on the couch and pulled him up, supporting him as the brunette was too weak to hold himself up.

The school nurse placed a basin in front of Jaden and took his temperature.

"He's burning up, Jesse" she said quietly. "Perhaps it's time to move him off the island and into a proper hospital."

"He can't move anywhere, Miss Fontaine" the bluenette said sadly.

"Not today, of course. But when he's a little stronger, we can take him to an actual hospital where he'll be properly cared for" the nurse said.

"Okay" Jesse said.

But the brunette wasn't keen on that idea.

"No" he whispered weakly. "Jess … don't send me away …"

"Jaden, you're sick" the bluenette whispered. "You have to get proper care."

"Please" Jaden whispered, tears forming in the corners of his eyes.

Miss Fontaine glanced at Jesse, nodded once and then left the dorm. She knew she had done all she could, and it was up to Jesse, not her, to comfort Jaden.

The tears started to flow down the brunette's flushed cheeks as he threw up, Jesse holding his hair back out of his eyes. Jaden moaned weakly as the pain got stronger and then died down a little before returning full force in a never ending cycle.

Once he had stopped vomiting, Jesse put the basin on the floor - he'd get to it later, for now Jaden needed him - and he saw that Jaden was crying not out of pain, but of frustration and sadness.

Jesse turned the brunette's body so that he could fold him into his arms. He lay weakly in the bluenette's embrace, tears falling from his half open eyes.

"Shh, Jay" Jesse whispered into his lover's ear. "You're okay, come on. Shh."

The brunette continued to cry. He wanted to wrap his arms around the bluenette but he didn't have the strength for it.

"Don't send me off the island" he whispered, using what little energy he had to talk. "I don't want to go. Please, Jess."

"Jaden, I'm sorry" the bluenette tried to reason with him. "But you're really sick, Jay, and we can't take care of you here. You're not well, love."

"I'm not normal" the brunette sobbed.

"Jaden, don't say that!" the bluenette said soothingly. "It's not a bad thing you can have a baby. It's a good thing, you said it yourself."

"They can't do anything" Jaden whispered.

"Who can't do anything?"

"Hospitals" Jaden said simply, feeling more hot tears trail down his cheeks.

Jesse didn't answer. He knew it was true.

Males couldn't get pregnant. There was no way that any hospital would know how to care for a pregnant male. Not to mention the media attention that the sick brunette would get if the public was to know about his pregnancy. Nobody except his friends and a few teachers on the island knew about it.

"Jaden …"

Jesse held the brunette tighter and decided to stop talking about it.

There was little any hospital could do for him that the school nurse couldn't, and trying to argue with Jaden was only stressing him out, which was bad for both him and the baby.

"I won't send you away, love" Jesse whispered at last. "I won't make you do anything you don't want to, okay?"

"Promise?" the brunette asked weakly.

"Promise" Jesse confirmed. "Don't cry, Jaden."

Jaden allowed his tears to stop and lay against Jesse, the pain starting to grow again.

But he was comforted as Jesse's lips met his forehead and he knew that, in the bluenette's arms, he was cared for.

Jaden didn't want to admit to himself that his health was something his boyfriend couldn't fix.

Please R&R