Chapter Four

The rest of Zell and Rinoa's holiday pasted really quickly. Rinoa stayed in Timber mostly, Lady, Squall and Zell only saw her again two days before she was due back at Garden, cause they'd decided to see how Timber was getting on.

A few mornings after Rinoa and Zell had left, Squall was sleeping in his and Lady's hotel room when he was woken suddenly by a door slamming and locking.

"Huh!" He exclaimed sitting up in bed and looking around in the dim light. He looked next to him to where Lady should've been but wasn't. "Lady?" He called. Nothing. He called for her again and got up out of bed, and walked towards the bathroom. "Lady, are you in there?" He knocked on the door. The was some noise but it was a voice it sounded like someone throwing up. "Hon, are you OK?" More retching. "I told you not to eat that chicken last night." He called and sighed. The retching had stopped. He heard the toilet flush and the taps running. He stepped away from the door as it opened and Lady, looking groggy stepped out. "Are you OK?" He asked with concern to his voice.

"Yeah... I just don't think that food we had last night agreed with me." Lady smiled weakly.

"Well, you go back to bed OK. I'll have a shower, then you can, and then we'll go the doctors, OK." Squall said tenderly.

"No!" Lady said suddenly. "Actually... what I'd prefer to do was to go back to Garden... see my friends?" She said looking at the floor.

"OK.... we'll go back to the Garden, but remember, we're still on a holiday." Squall smiled at her, kissed her forehead and went into the bathroom, as Lady curled up in the duvet.

A day later, Lady and Squall were back in Garden, and Lady didn't seem to have got any better, in fact, she looked worse. She'd thrown up again that morning, and she was getting sick of it. So, with much convincing from Squall she went to visit Dr. Kawasaki.

"So, what's wrong Lady?" Dr. Kawasaki asked, facing Lady on her spiny chair. Lady, who was sitting on a bed gulped. She knew exactly what was wrong with her, but didn't want to know if she was right or not.

"I've just been feeling really under the weather." Lady replied staring at her jeans.

"OK, now tell me what's really wrong." Dr. Kawasaki sighed.

"OK.... but you have to promise not to tell anyone!" Lady said.

"Everything that's said in this room is completely confidential." Dr. Kawasaki assured her.

"Promise me!" Lady growled grabbing the doctors hand.

"Alright, alright Lady, I promise. Now what's wrong?"

"I.... I think I may be pregnant." Lady sighed. There was a pause and Dr Kawasaki grabbed a pen and clipboard.

"Right. What symptoms have you got?" She asked.

"Well... I've been throwing up every morning for the past few or so, and it's nothing from what I ate the day before, it's just bile. I've been eating a lot more too... which is annoying!" Lady began.

"Uh-huh." Dr. Kawasaki said, writing something down. "Anything else?" Lady ran through a list of things. That she'd been more tired and been feeling really depressed.

"OK. Well -" Dr. Kawasaki began but was interrupted by Lady.

"And another thing, I'm late. And I'm talking, really, really late. Like, since.... last month."

"Ah...." Dr. Kawasaki said slowly.

*******Quad*******

"Did you see, Squall and Lady back today? I thought they had a longer holiday than Zell and everyone." A student said to her friends.

"I heard they got called back early cause there's a mission they have to do in Esthar!" A male student told the group of girls.

"Really?" They all gasped and started twittering on about what mission it was.

"Oh, geez, will ya listen to that." Zell sighed to himself, kicking the wall he was sitting on.

"ZEEEELLL!!!" Selphie whined. "Don't kick the staaage!"

"It's a wall Selphie! Not the stage!" Zell snapped.

"You wanna make sure of that Zell?" Ami Mitch, a new SeeD smiled walking up. Ami was Lady's best friend, they told each other everything, they even had a code they wrote to each other in when they were writing notes in class.

"Huh?" Zell looked up and saw he was actually sitting on the stage. "Opps... sorry Selphie."

"S'OK Zell." Selphie smiled and went back to her plans for the stage set up for that anniversary of Ultimica's defeat.

"Hi Zell." Ami smiled sitting next to him.

"Uhh..." Zell gulped. "Hi Ami." he managed to squeeze out of his dry throat.

"You haven't seen Lady around have you?" She asked.

"Uhm.... yeah, I think she's in the infirmary." Zell said. "Why?"

"Oh, just, me, Kate and Morgan haven't said hello to her yet." Ami replied getting up off the stage. "See ya round Zell." She waved and walked away.

"Bye, Ami." Zell said breathlessly.

"Ah... Ami Mitch." Irvine's patronising voice said behind Zell. "Good choice. She's got a nice ass, but I prefer Kate."

"Well, I doubt Ami would ever go for you Irvine." Zell snarled.

"What ever floats ya boat Zell. Later!" Irvine said and went to help Selphie with a banner which had fallen down on top of her.

*******Lady's Dorm*******

In Lady's dorm, she was laying on her bed, staring vacantly up at the ceiling. Pregnant..... but... how could that be.... I guess anything's possible. She thought to herself. Oh.... but what am I gonna tell Squall.... he'll flip. This is a disaster! She sighed and cover her eyes with a hand to hide her tears.

"Lady? Lady, are you in here? It's Ami!" Ami called through the door.

"Coming." Lady called back wiping her eyes with her hands and getting up. She opened the door and was greeted with hugs from Ami, Morgan Highright -Lady's other best friend, a red head with an attitude to match. She could out bitch anyone.- and Kate Marshal - The quieter one of the four. The best to go to for advice. But she could get mad, and when she did, you couldn't hide from her temper, as Irvine and Morgan had both found out before.

"Hi guys." Lady smiled weakly shutting the door and walking over into her sleeping quarters. Morgan cast a wary glance at Kate and then at Ami.

"Hey Lady.... what's up?" She asked following her. There was a sound of quiet sobbing from behind Lady's hands.

"Hey! Hey! What's wrong? Why are you crying?" Kate asked running over and putting a comforting arm around Lady's shoulders.

"I've done something really stupid!" Lady replied through sobs.

"Well, what is it?" Ami asked smiling. "I'm sure we can help."

"I don't think you can." Lady replied looking at her.

"Well, we can't try unless you tell us." Kate said soothingly.

"C'mon ya wet blanket, tell us." Morgan said, being her usual blunt self.

"I'm pregnant!" Lady told them sobbing harder.

There was a stunned silence from Ami, Morgan and Kate who just kept looking at each other as Lady's sobs became quieter.

"Who by? Irvine, Squall or someone else?" Ami asked. Lady had told Ami about her and Squall the second they'd shared their first kiss.

"SQUALL?!" Morgan and Kate gasped. She hadn't told them.

"You mean Squall Leonhart?" Morgan gapped.

"Do you know any other Squalls?!" Lady shouted.

"No... but it's so hard to believe.... is he good in bed?" Morgan asked.

"MORGAN!!!!" Ami and Kate yelled.

"Only asking...." Morgan said, and shrunk back into her chair.

"By Squall.... definatly." Lady said shaking.

"Does he know?" Kate asked. Lady shook her head.

"Are you gonna tell him?"

"I don't know! What we have is wonderful. And I love him so much. I'm just so afraid this baby will ruin everything!" Lady replied. "But I can't get rid of another human life... especially one that's living in side me."

"So what are you going to do?" Morgan asked.

"I don't know." Lady shrugged.

"I'll tell you a good battle plan. OK. So, you don't want to ruin what you've got with Squall and you don't want to kill this baby. That's fine. My idea is, tell Squall, and see his reaction. If he loves you, he'll stand by your decision, and maybe this is something he's been waiting for. I mean, we all know how crap Rinoa is said to be, don't we. So just tell him, find out his reaction and take it from there." Ami said pacing back and fourth in Lady's room.

"Good plan." Lady said. "One problem."

"Yeah?"

"I don't have the guts!!!" She whined.

"Lady? Lady, hon? Can I come in?" Squall's concerned voice called through the door, causing the four girls to freeze and stare at the door like it was a bomb about to go off.

"Ju-just coming." Lady called weakly. "Please stay here.... just so I know I've got someone here if he breaks up with me." She whispered to her friends shutting the sleeping quarter door a bit and walking to the main quatars.