Chapter 11: Staying Strong

MEGAN'S POV

My mom passed out and my sister looked at me with big eyes. Bob looked murderous…

"How far along am I?" I asked.

"About two or three weeks," the doctor said.

Wow… no wonder I had been so emotional this past while…

"I thought that the rape test came back negative?" my sister said.

The doctor nodded, "It did."

And then she left…

Leaving me to clean up this mess…

As we drove home, there was a long uncomfortable silence, but I didn't notice it.

I was pregnant…

With Sesshomaru's child…

I had never been so happy in my entire life.

Sure, I was a little bit young…but I had always wanted to be a mother…

"Honey?" my mom asked, "Honey are you listening?"

"Hmm?"

"What do you plan to do?" Bob asked.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"About the baby," my mom said, "I know of an adoption service that we can stop by on the way home and-"

"No."

We pulled into our driveway and everyone turned to look at me.

"What do you mean 'no'?" Kayla asked.

"No," I said again, "I am not giving the baby away. I want to keep it."

My mom smiled uncomfortably, "Honey. You should think it over, you won't want to keep the baby from a rapist."

"Rapist?" I asked, my temper rising, "what makes you think that I was raped?"

Bob seemed to turn pale, "I'll be going now."

And then he got out of the car and hurried inside the house.

I wish I could escape like that.

We all got out of the car and went into the living room. Bob had gone to his office, carefully avoiding the subject.

"You weren't raped?" Kayla asked, shocked.

I shook my head, "The baby's father's name is Sesshomaru."

"The woman who found you said you had been saying that name," my mom said, "who is he?"

"If I tell you everything, and I mean everything. Will you promise to not say anything until I finish?" I asked.

The both nodded.

And so I started form the beginning, "I'll tell you the short version. I passed out in the mountains, and when i woke up I was 500 years into the past. The feudal Era Japan to be exact. I don't know how I got there or why, but I did. I met a demon named Sesshomaru and we fell in love. The bite marks on my neck symbolize to other demons that I belong to him and that he loves me."

And, not being able to stop now, I told them about Rin and Naraku and everything else that had happened over the past months.

When I ended they just stared at me.

"I think you need another cat scan," Kayla said softly.

I clenched my fists, "Even after all that proof, you still don't believe me?"

"Honey," my mom smiled sympathetically, "Please understand, what you are saying…it's all impossible."

Damn it!

Then a light bulb went off.

"Wait! Did a girl call here a while ago, asking for me? Was it long distance?" I asked.

"Yes, but what does that have to do with anything?" my mom asked.

"I remember that call," my sister said, "it had come all the way from Japan."

I smiled, "See?"

They both shook their heads sadly..

Scowling, I got up and headed for the door.

"Where are you going?" Kayla followed me.

"I'm going for a walk, leave me alone."

Then I slammed the door behind me.

Running to a park that was across from our house I sat on a park bench to think.

What was I going to do?

I was pregnant and my family didn't believe a word I was saying!

I rubbed my stomach fondly.

"There is no way that I was going to give up you," I said.

I smiled as I pictured our baby. I hoped he or she had Sesshomaru's eyes…

Wait…

If Sesshomaru was a demon, and I was human…

Would that mean that I would have a half demon child?

I groaned as I remembered the stories Kagome had told me about how hard it was for Inuyasha to grow up because he was a half demon.

Would our child be excepted?

"Sesshomaru…I need you now," I said as tears began to fall from my eyes again.

I was surprised that I still had tears to cry…

……………..SIX MONTHS LATER……………

I sat in my room, stroking my large belly and reading from a text book on the entertainment business.

Since I was forced back to my own time, I had come to accept many things.

I couldn't throw away my life so easily, so I had enrolled in some evening classes at a local University and continued to work toward becoming a Talent Agent. It was going pretty well actually. I had a few good connections that said they would help me to get started in the business.

The next thing I had come to terms with, was that I was going to have to raise this baby on my own. It hurt to understand that I was never going to see Sesshomaru again, but I was determined to be strong for my baby, who I found out was going to be a boy…

I still hadn't decided on a name though.

My family had come to fully support me, although they still did not believe that I had traveled to the past.

Kayla had moved to Australia for a year so that she could do an internship on Marine Biology.

We had moved to the other side of town a few weeks after I came home. My mom said that it would best for all of us to get a fresh start…

As I sat there humming, the phone rang.

Picking it up I looked at call display.

Long distance…

Hmm…wonder who it could be.

"Hello?" I said into the receiver.

"Megan?" a girl's voice said on the other line.

It seemed familiar.

"Yes?"

I heard the girl gasp with joy, "Megan! I'm glad I finally found you! It's Kagome!"

My heart stopped, "Kagome!" I exclaimed.

"Yes it's me. Do have any idea how hard it was to get a hold of you? I called your old number but it was disconnected!"

"Yeah," I smiled, "we moved after they found me."

There was a long pause.

"What happened Megan?"

I could begin to feel old feeling that I had put behind me build up.

"I don't know Kagome. I was in the past…and then I was back in our time," I said softly.

"I see."

There was a pause.

"Kagome?"

"Yes.

"How is he?" I asked softly.

There was a sigh on the other line, "No one knows Megan. I haven't seen him since he and Inuyasha came and saved us from Naraku. We have looked all over for him. Inuyasha followed his scent everywhere but, we kept running into dead ends."

Tears began to well in my eyes.

What had happened to him?

"What about Rin?" I asked.

"Same thing, we looked but they just vanished," Kagome said softly, "Megan, I'm so sorry."

"Thanks Kagome," I sniffed, "So how have you been?"

"Good I guess, I miss you though. We all do," she said.

"We will see each other again, I promise. My step dad goes to china and Japan every year for business and I'll try and go with him the next time he goes."

"That would be amazing!" Kagome laughed, "what about you? How have you been doing?"

"It's been hard. My parents didn't believe me when I told them what happened. And Kagome…I'm pregnant."

"What!" she yelled so loud that I had to take the phone away from my ear, "Oh my gosh! Who's is it?"

"It's Sesshomaru's," I smiled, "I'm already a little more then six months along.

There was a pause an I knew that Kagome was crying.

"Kagome, why are you crying?" I asked.

"I'm just so happy for you!" she cried, "He loves you so much Megan, even Inuyasha sees it."

So we talked for about two hours, crying and laughing until Kagome said she had to go, but she would keep in contact.

After I hung up my heart began to lurch.

Sesshomaru had disappeared…what had happened to him?

Was he ok?