Chapter 24

Three months later.

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"Look!" Bellamy said, pointing outside the window. "Raven is spacewalking, again"

Jane looked where he was pointing. "Actually, I think that's Echo."

Bellamy laughed. "Echo? You can't be serious."

"Yeah, Raven and Echo traded knowledge. Echo is teaching Raven how to fight Grounder-style, and Raven is teaching Echo protocol on Spacewalking. I think today was her first spacewalk."

Bellamy chuckled again. "Ha, a Grounder in Space. The best oxymoron in the Universe."

Jane grinned. "Yeah…" she trailed off. Then, "Did you know that this is the size of a plum?" she blurted out, showing him the size with her hands.

Bellamy raised an eyebrow. "Yeah? And?"

Jane grinned and whispered something in his ear.

"WHAT?" he said. "You're serious?"

Jane nodded.

"I'm gonna be a daddy again?" he said in a husky voice.

"Yep."

"Are you sure?" He chuckled nervously. "Because last time you-"

"Last time I had no idea what was going on. But trust me, I know, now. And besides, there were a few pregnancy tests left behind, here."

"When? How far are you?"

"According to the test I took a few weeks back, I'm twelve weeks far, now. So you should be seeing your son or daughter in about six months."

Bellamy was speechless for a long moment. He kept looking between her face and her belly over and over again. There was a tiny bump.

"How did I not see this before? How did you hide that bump?" he asked, gently resting his large hand on her belly.

She shrugged, a coy smile on her face. "It's only begun to show recently. And I've been careful to wear large shirts. Yours, in fact."

Bellamy grinned. "You had my shirts. I thought I had lost them somewhere." But to be honest, all the clothes were pretty much the same – gray, worn out, and formless – so he couldn't have noticed it.

Bellamy had this blissful smile on his face, the kind that you just can't take off. "But why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"I wanted to be sure. I read that some women lose their child in the first three months. I guess I just didn't want to put your hopes up and then end up losing it."

He looped his arm around her shoulders. "You know I love you, right?" She nodded. "Good. I just wanted to make sure you remembered." He paused and then kissed her on her soft lips. "When do you want to tell the others?"

"I don't know. Maybe we keep it for ourselves a little bit longer? I know they're all family, now, but I'd rather say it the day I really can't hide it anymore."

"Okay." He still had that stupid grin on his face. "Do you already know if it's a girl or a boy?"

She shook her head. "Nope. And I don't think I want to know, to be honest. What would you want it to be?"

"A baby, preferably."

Jane burst out laughing. "Bell!" She pushed him playfully and Bellamy rolled on the floor, laughing.

"What's going on?" Raven asked, as she and Echo came back from the airlock.

Bellamy sat back up and he and Jane exchanged a look. "Was that really you spacewalking, Echo?" he asked.

"Yeah," she said proudly. "That was awesome."

Bellamy laughed and shook his head in disbelief. "A Grounder in Space-"

"An oxymoron," Echo cut him, "we know. And you're the worst moron in Space."

Raven burst out laughing. "Echo's an oxymoron and Bellamy is a moron. Good one." She slapped her leg, and sat on the floor next to Jane. "Seriously. It was a good one."

Jane laughed, too. "I should have thought of it first," she said rolling her eyes.

Echo sat on the floor with them, too. "So, when are you two making babies again for us aunts and uncles?"

Bellamy and Jane quickly looked at each other. Echo always had the terrible habit of putting her foot in it. And this wasn't the first time.

Bellamy shrugged. "Oh, you know, we have time. It's not like were indefinitely stuck in space or anything."

"But you'll be the first to know if it happens," Jane quickly added.

"Yeah, well that's obvious," Raven said rolling her eyes.

The four of them stayed on the floor for another hour, talking and laughing, and making puns at each other's expense. Bellamy couldn't keep his hands off his wife, always pulling her close to him, as if protecting her from the others; but protecting, the baby, really. Jane kept pushing his hands away playfully, and Raven and Echo put it down to simply being a newlywed couple. Even though they knew they had been together for far more longer than that.

At some point, they heard steps in the hall, and Monty and Harper appeared around the corner, hand in hand.

"Monty!" Bellamy said, inviting them both to side down with them. "Come join us. I need another guy here. I'm outnumbered, right now."

Monty and Harper chuckled and sat with them, and they all laughed and talked for a few minutes. "Us guys are always outnumbered, Bellamy," Monty said and they chuckled.

Harper scooted over to Jane and leaned towards her. "Jane, can I talk to you for a minute?" she whispered.

"Sure," Jane said, and they both stood and walked away from the group.

"Where are you going?" Bellamy asked.

"I'll be right back, Bell." She flashed him a smile and he let it go. When they were out of earshot of the group, the girls stopped. "What's going on?" she asked Harper.

Harper tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, clearly embarrassed by whatever subject she was about to broach. "I, um, I was wondering if you, as the only medic we have here, can uh…" she trailed off. How was it so hard to talk about this, but so easy to handle guns and learn how to shoot?

"It's okay," Jane said. "You can tell me. What's wrong? Are you sick?"

"No," Harper said, chuckling nervously. "I- Monty and I were wondering if you knew how to take out an IUD, actually," she said very fast and softly.

Jane smiled. "Well, as a matter of fact, I do. Not later than three months ago I was looking that up in the medical book."

"So you can?"

Jane took a deep breath and let out a nervous chuckle. "I have the theory, but I've never done it for real. You want me to try?"

"You've never done it before?"

"Um, no. I never had the chance to. I wasn't a medic or anything close to that before coming up here. But I'm sure the medical book will help me. From what I read, it's not really that complicated."

Harper nodded. "Okay, do it."

"Now?"

"Why not?"

Jane eyed her friend suspiciously. "Wait. Does Monty know about this?"

"Yes. He's making a diversion with the others so no one walks on us in the med bay."

Jane's lips formed a small "O". "So you want to do this alone?"

"Yeah, I'd rather. Well, it's not like Monty's never seen me naked before," Harper said blushing, "but I'd rather do this alone. Just with you."

Jane was silent for a moment. "Okay. Let's go." She started to walk away and Harper followed, her arms crossed over her chest.

"Sit down on the table," Jane said. "I'll need some time to get ready." Harper obeyed and watched Jane as she took out the tablet with the medical book on it and typing a few things in it. Jane read the procedure again, and then looked for the surgical tools she would need. She didn't have everything, but she would have to make do with what she had. "I'm ready," Jane said. "Are you?"

Harper swallowed and nodded. "Yeah."

"Lie down," Jane said softly. "It's really not complicated. Maybe a little uncomfortable, but not painful. I'm just going to pull the little string, and the IUD's arms will fold up and it'll slip out. Okay?"

Harper nodded again. When Jane asked her to take off her pants and underwear, she obeyed. They tried not to do any eye contact in the process, because it was awkward for both a them. A real medic wouldn't be embarrassed. But Jane wasn't a real medic. She was the closest thing they had, but she was not the real thing. Sometimes, she wished Clarke or Dr. Abby Griffin was with them. Oh well.

Jane took one of the surgical instrument and placed it in Harper's vagina and opened it. Then, she looked inside with a small light. Jane felt really awkward and looked away, taking a deep breath to steady herself. Then she focused on her task. "Okay, I see it." She paused and took a pair of small surgical pliers. "I'm going in," she said, and Harper sucked in a breath. "Sorry, my hands are a little bit shaky," Jane said, trying to loosen up the atmosphere of the room. Harper chuckled nervously.

"Okay, got it." Jane slowly pulled out the IUD and saw the tiny arms fold on themselves. She held it up for Harper to see. "There, done. See? Not too bad, huh?"

They both chuckled nervously and Harper put her clothes back on.

"So," Jane said, not meeting Harper's eyes, cleaning the medical instruments. "You guys want a baby?"

"Yeah," Harper said, a smile in her voice. "We figured this was the safest place to have a baby, anyway." She paused. "Thanks. For your help."

"No problem."

Harper walked away and Jane was left alone in the medical bay to finish cleaning up. she grinned, knowing that her baby wouldn't grow up the only child on the Ark. Or at least she hoped he or she wouldn't be the only child. When she was finished putting everything away, she headed for the door, and bumped into Bellamy who came in just at the same time.

"Jane, what were you doing tin here? You said you'd come back? What happened?" He held her shoulder and searched her eyes.

"Everything's fine. I was with Harper. No one is sick, I promise."

"Then what was it about?" he said, frowning.

Janes smiled. "She wanted me to take out her IUD."

"Oh," was all he said. Then he grinned. "That's good news for our little plum, right?" he said, pulling her gently into his arms and kissing her.

Hey! thanks for reading, still! I hope this chapter didn't gross you out^^

anyway, I've given some thought to the rest of the story, and there should be 30 chapters in all, that's 6 remaining chapters... Is there anything you'd like to see and you'd want me to try to include next?