Consequences, Choices, and Confessions
by pari106

pari106@hotmail.com
http://www.geocities.com/pari106/damain.html

Disclaimer and rating found in chapter 1.

Chapter 7

"I'm pregnant, Zack."

'…pregnant…'

"This is normal."

"Normal? Normal for what?"

"For a pregnant woman."

'Max is pregnant…'

"I'm pregnant, Zack."

Zack left the motel room and just started walking. Didn't know where he was walking – he was just
walking. It was late and the night was still, but Zack didn't notice because he just heard Max's words
repeating, over and over again, in his head.

"I'm pregnant…"

A baby. She was going to have a baby. Max was going to have a baby. Max was having someone's baby.

Finally, Zack stopped. He found himself just on the edge of the motel's parking lot, standing in front of a
tree.

Max was having someone's baby. He'd spent the last two months agonizing over having left Seattle. Over
having let his insecurities overcome his instinct and having left. He'd planned what he'd tell her, in his
head, for two months. How he was going to tell her he would stay in Seattle with her; try things her way.
How he was going to tell her, finally, that he loved her. And she was having someone's baby.

Zack stared at that tree until he could almost feel his glare piercing into it. And when that didn't work, he
put his fist right through the trunk. A shower of bark and splinters flew from the impact of his punch.
Then he stalked back to his bike. He needed to get away. To think for a little while.

Hell, who was he kidding? He needed to get away so he wouldn't have to think for a little while.

He needed to focus on his anger. He needed to focus on the pain in his bloody fist. He needed to focus on
anything but his tortured thoughts and his all too new emotions.

He needed to focus on something other than the strange suspicion that he wanted to cry. Other than that time when he'd turned himself in to Lydecker, Zack had never
shed a tear in his life. It was impossible that he would do so now.

Even if Max was having someone else's baby. Even if he still loved her anyway.