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A/N: not really anything to say. Hope you enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 3: Confessions (part two)
"Beka!" Rhade yelled as he ran to catch up to her in the corridor.
"Yes," she answered as he came to be in stride with her.
"I have been meaning to ask you if you have been feeling alright?"
"What do you mean?" she asked, silently praying he was not going where she thought he was.
"Well, a little over a month ago, you almost threw up on command after a trip through slip stream and since then, you have sometimes look a little thrown off by some flights and even come to command some mornings a little, um, green. Even sometimes, you come late," he elaborated.
"Oh, um, it was just a bug, I'm doing better though," she lied.
"Really," he answered. "So you are totally fine know?"
"Sort of," she answered.
"Beka what is really going on?" Beka didn't want to answer, so she just tried speeding up, avoiding him. "Beka," he said, catching up and grabbing her arm. He spun her around to face him. "What is going on?"
"Nothing, don't worry about it," she said, trying to get away.
"Beka, something is going on, please tell me. I know we had our problems, but that is in the past. What you did while possessed was not your fault. I want to help," he pleaded, only slightly loosening his grip.
She stopped fighting him and turned to face him but didn't look up. "I'm pregnant," she confessed.
"What?" He as well had been thrown by the news.
"I'm pregnant, with child, going to have a baby," she repeated harshly, finally looking him in the eye and clearly upset and yet at the same time, hurting, fearful and almost in tears.
"With who?"
"Tyr Anasazi," she answered.
"Oh, well, you okay?" he asked, releasing her arm.
"I'm going to be."
"May I ask, how this happened? I thought he died-"
"Three months ago. He did. I'm three months pregnant," she said.
"Oh so you and him. So you were pregnant while possessed?" he asked obviously trying to wrap his head around this idea.
"I guess. That is why I've only known for about a month," she said.
"Well, if you need any help with anything, don't be afraid to ask," he said.
"Can you tell Dylan I'm going to be a little late?"
"Sure, but why? You okay?" he asked eyes wide and worry in his voice.
"I'm fine, I just need to go take care of some unfinished business," she said, as she took off in the direction of the machine shops.
Beka entered machine shop 3 to a bombardment of sound. Harper not only had music blasting, but was working on something noisily. "Hey Harper can we talk," she called.
"Boss?"
"Yeah. Harper can we talk?" she asked, walking in his general direction.
"Sure," he called turning off the loud tool he had been using.
"Could we turn down the music too?" she requested having reached the small open area where he had been working. He nodded and turned off the music with a remote on the table.
"What's up?"
"Um Harper, you know how about three months ago, I went to go see Tyr," she pried.
"A huh," he answered, quite curious where this was headed.
"And then after he took me into the abyss and I was then possessed by the abyss for two-ish months," she continued.
"Yes," he said.
"Well, um Harper," she began. She was so unsure how to tell him this. "When I left Tyr, I sort of took something with me, that I only learned about recently," she said.
"Uh?" he questioned, confused by her insinuation.
"I took something of Tyr with me," she said, looking at her stomach, hoping her would catch on.
He didn't. "Beka, what are you talking about?" he asked.
"You know for a super genius, you are slow sometimes," she said, again looking at her stomach.
"Will you just say what ever it is you are trying to say," he said, also a bit frustrated.
"I'm pregnant," she confessed.
"WHAT?" he exclaimed. "Oh my god you slept with Tyr?" Beka nodded. "Oh I get the references now," he said. Beka couldn't help but let out a small laugh. "Oh Beck, gross. Why?"
"I don't know?" she confessed, holding back the tears that threatened to fall.
"How long have you known?"
"About a month," she confessed.
"And you are only just telling me now?" he said, sounding a bit insulted.
"I have been trying to wrap my own head around it for pretty much this whole time," she defended.
"So who knows?"
"Dylan, Trance, Rommie, Rhade, and you," she confessed.
"So I'm the last one to know?"
"I'm sorry Harper, it's just that they all managed to pin me down or eves drop. I would have told you soon, I just… its been hard."
"I get it," he said, with real understanding in his voice.
"You do?"
"Yeah, I mean it's got to be scary, and you didn't want us all looking at you strange and trying to protect you like we will now," he said. She smiled at him, knowing how he was only too right. "I know you Beka, you hate having people watching over you. But now that this is out, you are so going to be watched like a hawk."
"Gee, thanks for the comfort," she said.
"Hey I calls 'um as I sees 'um," he confessed.
She smiled. "So you don't hate me forever?"
"I couldn't do that boss, and I promise to love what ever you have, even if it does look like old Tyr," he said.
"Thanks Harper," she said.
"I say you name it Harper, as thanks," he joked.
"Ha ha, no. I luv ya, but not that much," she said. "I'll see you around?"
"Yeah," he said, turning back on the music and returning to what ever it was that had had his attention before her.
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