A/N: I dont own ANYTHING ok?! Ms. Anything: ...damn straight you dont!

Chapter Seven

Lucrecia's Shattering Demise

Lucrecia spent the next few days in the hospital and Jessi visited her each day. With each day that passed, Lucrecia grew stronger and was able to do things on her own again. She asked about her son constantly, but no one listened to her.

"He's the most beautiful thing Lucrecia; he has your eyes and thankfully, doesn't look like Hojo one bit." Jessi had told her.

"We can go see him as soon as you get better."

But that never happened. The day Lucrecia was able to walk, they sent her back to the hotel. She wasn't allowed to have any contact with the baby and she couldn't even go to see him. Jessi threw a fit and tried to get Gast to let Lucrecia see her son.

"I am so sorry, but I can't do that. Please forgive me Lucrecia."

Lucrecia had nodded and had a heartbreaking look on her face. Jessi placed her hand on Lucrecia's arm and gave her a weak smile.

"We'll find a way for you to see him, I promise."

"Now, you are not fully recovered yet Lucrecia," Gast reminded them, "so don't do anything strenuous or work yourself up unless you want to end up back here."

"Thank you doctor, I wouldn't let her do anything by herself yet anyway." Jessi smiled at him reassuringly and he nodded.

She helped Lucrecia up the winding stairs and was about to leave when Hojo stepped out of his room.

"Lucrecia, it is good to see you are healthy again, do you still have that key I gave you?"

Lucrecia gave him a puzzled look.

"Not with me, why?"

"Just asking, I gave you the only spare I had and I always keep the original with me. As you know, I keep my room locked when I am not in."

"I don't see where you are going with this professor."

"You see, the other night my room was unlocked when I went in it and I seen that someone had read my journal. Now it couldn't have been you since you had just bore our son and it wasn't me since I was with my colleagues."

"I am sorry to hear that professor, maybe someone found the key."

Lucrecia was staring intently at Jessi, who was glaring at Hojo. He smiled.

"It's not a problem, nothing was missing or broken so there is no hard feelings to whomever did it."

He smiled at Jessi and she narrowed her eyes at him.

"Come on Lucrecia, let's get back to the Hotel, we have much to discuss."

Jessi smiled warmly at Hojo when she noticed his face darken. Lucrecia nodded and said strictly, "Yes we do, don't we."

Jessi looked at her and seen she was angry, Hojo said heartily, "Have a wonderful day ladies!" as he disappeared down the stairs. When they reached their room, Lucrecia crossed her arms.

"Well, what do you have to say for yourself?"

Jessica's jaw dropped down and she gaped at her sister.

"Me! You let them walk all over you!"

"You stole something that wasn't yours and…"

"Lucrecia open your eyes! He cannot be trusted! Look how sick you got…"

"And broke into someone's room and snooped around…"

"Lucrecia listen to me!"

"No, you listen to me; what you did was Un-called for and you had no excuse…"

Jessi blew up at her sister, forgetting Doctor Gast's warning.

"I had a good excuse and that was concern for my unusually sick sister! Why can't you see what they're doing to you Lucrecia? They had no excuse for what they did!"

"Oh, and what was that?"

"Are you that blind to not see it? They injected you with that virus!"

Lucrecia's mouth opened slowly.

"…No, they couldn't… the baby?"

Jessi nodded and Lucrecia shook her head.

"They put my child's life on the line…"

"They put your life on the line Lucrecia."

Lucrecia ignored her; "They could have killed him."

"It was Hojo, not Dr. Gast, he was oblivious to the whole thing…"

Lucrecia's eyes widened as everything came together. The day Vincent had left, before when he was warning her about Hojo and they heard him coming.

"The plan is sure to work, all that needs to be done is to have a quick "romp" with the host and wait for the test subject to develop…"

"I am not sure about this Hojo, it would be extremely risky…"

Hojo planned to do this all along. He purposely seduced her so she would think he loved her. He had sex with her and got her pregnant just so she could be his little lab rat and test out the virus. That was all she was to him, just another test subject to experiment with. Lucrecia put her hand to her chest and choked out a feeble cry, her head felt as though it was about to burst while her heart pounded against her chest fiercely. Vincent and Jessi were right all along, but she was foolish and didn't think with her head, but with her feelings.

"Leave me alone for a while."

"Lucrecia…"

"GO! Please, just leave."

Jessi looked at her, concern etched in her eyes. She nodded and said she would be back as she closed the door behind her and headed downstairs. Lucrecia turned away from the door and walked towards the window when she suddenly stumbled forward. Her eyes widened as she fell and landed on the ground, face down. Her heartbeat slowed as a tear escaped down her face and then she slowly closed her eyes.

"Jessi, Vincent… I'm sorry for not believing you…."