Later that night Kenneth and Ana sat in her living room and talked.
Nicole and Terry had stopped by earlier to ask if they should start fixing dinner, But Ana said she wasn't feeling to well and was going to stay in for the rest of the night, Kenneth told them to go right ahead...he was going to stay with Ana.
Both didn't say anything for a while, Kenneth sat on one couch and Ana sat on the one across from them, covered up with her shawl.
Kenneth had lit a few candles on the glass table between them and the flicker of the flame danced across their worried faces.
Each time Ana would meet eyes with him she would look down at the floor ashamed, She felt like she had let him down somehow...both knew the rules about what happened once you got the infection and what would happen next.
Finally after an hour or so of stillness, Ana cleared her throat and spoke up.
"Luda was bitten five days before she had gone into labor, I guess from the bite her blood stream was infected and must have entered the womb...The baby could have died in a matter of hours and changed once it left the womb."
Kenneth listened to her and then spoke himself.
"Yeah, But Luda was bitten."
"And that's how the baby and her died, the infection entered their system."
"But you were never bit..."
"From what I saw, it depends on the bite you get...if it's fatal wound or you die right after it happens you come back in a snap, But if your bit on the arm, leg or any other part of the body that wouldn't kill you right away it takes hours or even a day or two."
Kenneth tried to see where she was going with this. He watched her worried face in the candle light as she tried her best to explain what she thought was going to happen to her and her unborn child.
"You see once Michael was bit, on the upper arm the infection had all ready taken place...I don't know why it took over eighteen hours to set in, but maybe his system was stronger then the others I've seen."
"Go on..."
Ana sat up a little and brushed her hair out of her beautiful blue eyes.
"The infection was in his system, meaning everything inside him was getting it...his blood supply, and sperm."
She stopped for a minuet and couldn't look at him...she seemed so out of sorts and scared to death that she was saying what might be the truth.
"I had sex with him once...about twenty-four hours before he was bit...and then seventeen hours after he was...the chances are 50/50."
Kenneth looked down at his hands and then spoke in an uneven voice.
"Both times you didn't use anything...and their was no one else that could have been the father?"
Ana shook her head.
"No...only Michael."
"Oh God she wished he was here."
"Okay..."
Kenneth said slowly.
"I don't know enough about this stuff, Hell! I don't think anyone does...but if Michael did get your pregnant after he was bit I think you would have changed since the infection or whatever was inside him was in your body once right?"
Ana shook her head...she knew Kenneth was trying his best.
"Your two months...and you said their hasn't been any problems, but then again it's to early to tell...who knows if the baby would be born...that way."
The last part seemed to kill Kenneth to say.
Ana shut her eyes feeling the words cut into her heart.
She had been so strong before and felt like there was nothing left after Michael had died...but that one morning when she found out she was pregnant with his child she started having tears of joy, she couldn't stop...this was God's and Michael's gift to her giving her a reason to live on...to have a life that was part her and part him.
"Do you want to get rid of it?"
Ana's eyes snapped open.
"What?"
"Do you want to abort the baby...it's not to late, and I know how."
Ana looked at Kenneth as if he was crazy...what did he want? To kill her and Michael's baby...to end the "what if?" fear that had entered their hearts hours ago.
Maybe he was right...what if the baby was born like that, Or born lifeless and dead...she knew she couldn't take that kind of pain and might even try to end her life after that.
He was just looking out for what she wanted and she had to make the choice now.
She bit her lip and then saw Michael's grinning face for a second...it was quick and somehow since he died had all ready started to fade...no matter how much she tried.
It seemed like the memoires of their loved ones and past of before was starting to fade like old photographs...not forgotten, But growing darker and darker with every day.
She didn't want this to happen with Michael.
She wanted to see her son or daughter and see his smile, his eyes and hear his laugh all over again.
She couldn't let go.
"No...I can't."
Kenneth understood and nodded.
"I'm sorry Kenneth...I...I just miss him so much..."
Her voice broke off and she started to sob.
Kenneth then walked over to her couch and put his big arms around her shaking frame until she had stopped.
"Don't worry Ana...we're gonna look out for you and nothing is going to happen..."
Little did he knew...not yet at least.