Now let's see what happened after Alastor's little fun week shall we? Might be something good.

Ch 55: Third Time's the Charm

(Heart's POV)

My week of fun with Alastor was something I can never forget. Even though he was in his rut, it was our first time back making love and I will say that it made up for the last four months it was absent from us. I still enjoyed myself and I had a feeling that there was no way that the serum would not have worked. It honestly made me excited to go see Dr. Talon again, but I was giving myself an extra week or two to heal.

I wrote in my notebook when I could, keeping track was hard and I just kept a tally system and that seemed to work. Alastor noticed the smell on me again, that just seemed to trigger him and would not want to stop. Honestly, my body just felt so sore and beat up after everything. I didn't mind though because I had fun and that's what matters. Alastor made sure to take care of me at last. Taking care of wounds and giving me a hot bath to relax me. Sometimes he pampered me too much it seems, but it was nice just for the day. It may be weird to say but I enjoyed the markings on me. I may be married to him now but that still didn't mean I didn't like to have marks show.

After another week I made sure to pay attention to myself while writing in my journal. I was pretty sure that the serum worked because I was having the stomach pain come back to me. I honestly wasn't looking forward to it when I had morning sickness again, but I still had those pills leftover so at least I could keep it under control. I wanted to keep everything a secret from Alastor, so the week I wrote in my journal was when Alastor wasn't around and I kept it inside still instead of on top.

I got Rufio back from Charlie and Vaggie and she said that he was very good for them. He didn't like the construction workers coming in that were working on the pool, but he behaved himself. When I came to pick him up Charlie was almost worried when she saw the state of me. I reassured her that I was fine and to not worry. Alastor was just more...wild them normal.

With the week I was healing I was keeping Charlie up to date and I didn't give her an answer on how I was feeling because I didn't want her telling Alastor anything while he was over at the hotel. He was going to be surprised this time. He didn't say anything to me about it after he was all done with me. That scent I gave off must have really been hidden by his feral mind. Didn't put two and two together. It went just as I planned. Made me wonder how he would react now that it was an actual surprise to him.

This morning I woke up to Rufio, I lifted my head and looked down at the hound. He was whining on the floor while looking at me over the edge of the bed. I gave a yawn and then looked over to my clock, this was the third day in a row now. I had slept in. I was surprised, usually I didn't sleep in. That and Alastor woke me some days when he got out of bed. Rufio must want to do his business and eat breakfast. Even though it's been two whole weeks since the week I had with Alastor, I was surprised I didn't feel more already then I did last time.

I reached out and patted his head, "Sorry boy. Didn't mean to sleep in on you." I sat up in bed and stretched with another yawn.

Rufio barked and then started to spin in circles as he waited for me to get up. I pulled the covers off and stood up from the bed. Automatically I felt the pain in my abdomen but pushed passed it as I walked out of the bedroom. Rufio ran past me and down the stairs. I walked down the steps after him, and he went to the door. Yep, he had to do business. I opened the door and let him out into the front grass.

Leaving him to do his business I went and looked around to see if I could find Alastor. I was going to make coffee, but I realized I shouldn't drink stuff with caffeine. I decided to make myself some tea that didn't have caffeine in it. As I put the pot on the stove, I heard Rufio at the door. I let the hound back in, gave him his food for breakfast. I was surprised that Alastor wasn't around this morning. He must have gone out.

That was ok though because I had to go see Dr. Talon today and get my tests done. I would have to leave eventually so who knows when he'd be back. Plus, I had to continue my crafts with the patients today. I promised Charlie I would. I went and started to make myself some eggs. I made it into a small sandwich with cheese and some toast. When my water was boiling, I took the kettle off and poured it into my mug and sat down at the table.

I looked out the window into the woods and just casually sipping my tea and ate my sandwich I made. Rufio had finished his food and was laying down by my chair now. It was nice and calm today and it was weird without Alastor being here. Even so it was still nice to have some time to myself. I was mainly all healed up from stuff that happened two weeks ago. Alastor still gave me a sucker bite though when one would start to fade. I didn't mind, he just still liked to mark me.

When I was done eating, I washed off my plate and finished my tea.

I headed upstairs to get a quick shower and got dressed. Once I was all ready I walked back downstairs and I grabbed Rufio's leash then headed out. I figured we could walk today instead, so we headed down the dirt road. We were enjoying the nice day as well. We got into the city part and seemed like hell was quiet for now. That's good at least, so I didn't have much to worry about. Rufio and I didn't have a problem as we walked to the hotel. We walked up to the door of the hotel and Rufio ran in as soon as I clipped off his leash.

Guests at the hotel really liked when I brought Rufio, he liked the attention, but he still stayed by me. Luckily, Charlie was right in the lobby when I came in. Rufio was by her and getting pets.

"Hello Heart, how are you? Are you feeling ok today?" Charlie asked as she greeted me.

"Hi Charlie. I'm fine thank you." I answered her. "Although I plan to take a visit up to Dr. Talon but that can be before I leave."

Charlie smiled wide, "What do you think? Possible?"

"Charlie, I'm probably 100 percent positive but I still have to go see him to make sure."

"You going to tell Alastor right away?"

"We'll see. I am thinking of waiting this time. He doesn't know so I can pull it off as long as I want to or until I start feeling sick again."

Charlie laughed. "Well are you ready to continue your art projects today? I told everyone that was in it that you were coming back today."

"I definitely am, trying to distract myself today be nice." I told her.

"Well I will see you later. I must go check on the pool stuff. Have fun and let me know if you need anything." Charlie said with a wave and started to walk off.

"Thanks Charlie." I waved bye to her. Rufio watched Charlie go and then turned to me. "Let's go boy."

I walked up the stairs and started to ascend to the second floor. Turning left I headed down the hallway and towards the craft room. I walked in and turned the light on and started to set everything up. Rufio sat at the head of the room as I did so and watched over me.

Soon I had everything all set up and went to my book and set it up by the door. Charlie wanted everyone that came to sign in and she can keep track of it all. All part of their rehabilitation. I walked over back to Rufio and patted his head.

"You behave ok. Keep ears sharp." I said to the hound.

Rufio yipped and wagged his tail.

Soon the first patron came in and my day was just going to be starting.

"Good job today everybody. Same time Friday everyone, ok? You are all improving so much." I told the group as they started to clean up their workstations.

When their stations were cleaned up and everything was off to the side of the room, they said goodbye to me and headed out.

One stayed behind though; he was a dog demon that looked like a German Shepherd. He went by Vegas. I saw that he stopped at the doorway but turned around and walked up to me.

Rufio spotted him first and stood up and stood in front of me. I looked up and saw the dog demon.

"Vegas? How can I help you?" I asked him as he got up as close as he could get.

I saw him fidget with his clawed fingers a moment, "Well, I wanted to ask about you actually? If you don't mind that is."

I tilted my head a moment, "Me?"

"Yea, I'm sorry if this sounds weird or rude but I noticed all the bitemarks and stuff on you today and was wondering if-" He paused as if to make sure he chose the right words. "-something happened?"

Chuckling, I answered, "No, it's alright Vegas. I can understand your concern. If you mean if Alastor and I got into a fight, then no. Nothing happened. He was, how do I put this...in season. He can be a little wild sometimes." I chuckled. "I still have some marks not fully healed yet."

Vegas put his ears down a moment, "And you let him do this to you?"

"Well, yes I do." I told him. "I don't mind it at all. I actually enjoy it. I know that sounds weird, but it's just his way of marking me as his own."

The dog demon sighed a little in relief. "Alright. As long as I know you're ok."

"Thank you, Vegas, I'm glad you are considerate of my wellbeing." I smiled.

He then got nervous again, "I hope this also doesn't sound weird, but your scent is a little off as well."

"Scent?"

"Yea, sorry my nose is very sharp, and I noticed you smelled a little different today."

I paused a moment. "Oh! I'm going up to see Dr. Talon about that. No need to worry Vegas."

"Are you ok?" He asked worried.

I waved him off, "I'm perfectly fine."

He gave me a look that didn't say he believed me, but he seemed to let it pass. "Alrighty, well hopefully everything turns out ok."

"Me too." I flashed him a smile. "Now go ahead and be off. I'll see you Friday."

Vegas nodded and turned around to walk out of the room. I looked down to Rufio who had sat down and started to scratch behind his ear.

"Makes me wonder if you can smell something different with me too." I talked down to the hound. Rufio rolled his head back and looked at me with his tongue hanging out to the side. I laughed at him. "You're weird." I picked up my notebook. "Come on boy let's go, I have to visit someone before we leave."

Rufio gave himself a shake before we both headed out of the room and down the hall to the elevator. We got to the elevator and stepped inside. As we went up my mind got lost into thoughts on what was going to happen. I knew for sure this time that my pregnancy would go smoothly. I would honestly make sure of it. I'd trust no one at this point right now so that things would stay on track. Hell, I'll even lock myself away if I can. It almost made me paranoid, but I felt that I was just blowing it out of proportion. You can't blame me though after the last two times I was pregnant. Things would be ok, plus I feel that Alastor will be more overprotective of me than normal. I was fine with that though. I know he would want things to go smooth with me just as much as I would. Just something normal would be nice. Of course, me becoming pregnant wasn't normal but that's beside the point.

The elevator stopped and I walked out and headed to the lab door. I knocked. Soon the scientist opened the door and smiled at me.

"Hello dear, Heart. It's good to see you. I'm looking over someone at the moment. Can I ask you to wait here while I finish up?" Dr. Talon asked me.

"No worries doc. Take your time." I answered as I flashed him a small smile.

The scientist nodded and closed the door. I walked to the other side of the hall and sat down with Rufio beside me. I pet the hound as he laid down and put his head in my lap. It was probably about five minutes till the door opened again and I saw a humanoid looking arctic fox demon walk out with a bandaged arm. She said thanks to the scientist and then walked to the elevator. I stood up and the wolf demon waved me inside. I commanded Rufio to stay there and I knew he would do as told.

"I hope I didn't make you wait long." Dr. Talon apologized.

"Not at all, your fine." I told him as I walked over to the table and sat down.

"Now, I can probably take a guess as to why you're here?" The scientist said with a smile.

"Probably but I know that you know you want to be positive about it." I said as I crossed my arms and tilted my head a little.

"Very true you do know me well." Dr. Talon said with a chuckle. "Let me grab everything."

We were quiet as he started to grab the stuff, he needed to take my blood. He came over to me with the supplies and went and took a tube of blood from me. He put it in his machine and now we had to wait.

"Have you been feeling ok the last few days?" The wolf demon asked as he sat back down in front of me.

"I've been fine. I've been having my stomach pains come back but that's all I have noticed for now."

"Well that's good. It's a start. Are you feeling confident this time around?"

"Absolutely. I'll make sure I am successful this time. Nothing will stop me."

"Third time is usually the charm they always say."

I nodded, "Let's hope so."

"Hopefully, I can use that new equipment I ordered as well." He said with a big smile.

"You ordered new stuff?" I asked.

"Sure did. It's just an ultrasound machine, nothing too crazy."

I beamed at that. "Oh, my goodness that should be exciting! I can't wait."

The scientist laughed. "It will be interesting for sure, but I have to wait till you are about six to nine weeks to use it." His ears went down a little. "I was waiting for it to arrive before I could use it last time. That's why it took so long. After everything happened, I still kept the order and it's just been sitting in the other room for now because I knew you wouldn't give up."

A smile came to my face, "I'm glad you still had faith in me doc."

We both heard the machine go off. He stood up and walked over to it to pull the paper off once it was done printing. He looked over it a moment before walking over to me again.

"What you got for me doc?" I asked him as he stopped in front of me.

The wolf demon pushed his glasses up his muzzle and then looked up at me. "Congrats, you did it again. You are in fact pregnant. This confirms it 100 percent."

My tail wagged happily behind me on the table. Yes, we did it. I was honestly so excited because nothing was stopping me this time. I wasn't going to lose anything along the way.

"Thank you, doc, this is still amazing. I'm honored to still be in this with you." I told him.

Dr. Talon chuckled. "And I am glad you are still here to stick around." He handed the paper out to me. "Would you like to take this again?"

"Yes please." I said taking the paper from him. I looked at it and smiled as I read the paper, "I plan to tell Alastor but I'm not sure when. He won't have an idea so I can leave it a surprise for a while if I want to." I gave a laugh at the last part.

"Well don't leave the man hanging too long ok?"

"Don't worry I won't." I jumped off the table and gave Dr. Talon a hug. "I won't let you down this time."

"Now now, it wasn't your fault for things, and you know that." Dr. Talon reminded me.

"I know but I still could have done something." I said into his lab coat.

"Things happen for a reason mate. Some things are meant to be and sometimes that takes many tries. Don't you worry, everything will be ok."

I tightened my hold on him. "Thanks for your words Marcus." I whispered.

He pulled me away from our hug and held me on the shoulders. "You are my patient Heart, but you are also my friend. So, it's my job to help you in any way I can."

My tail wagged, "Thanks doc. I appreciate it. You're my friend too so I thank you for that."

Dr. Talon nodded. "Now, how about you be on your way? I'm sure your husband will be waiting for you."

I shrugged, "I'll see. He left this morning without a word, but he told me last night he had a serious meeting today so hopefully it went well."

"Hopefully so." The wolf demon then led me to the door.

We said our goodbyes and I grabbed Rufio's leash so we could head out. We walked into the elevator and headed back down to the lobby. When I got down their Angel Dust was there and trying to have a conversation with Husk. The spider demon gave up on the cat and looked up and spotted me as I walked down the steps.

"Hey wolf girl. I'm surprised you're here. Shouldn't your deer daddy have you in bed?" Angel then let out a laugh.

"Haha, very funny Angel." I fake laughed as I got to the bottom of the steps. "I'm surprised you're here and not with Russ."

"Eh he had lessons to do today and I decided not to come along. Give him some space ya know?" He said.

"You guys didn't have a fight, did you?" I asked worried. Russ and Angel had fights like any couple and it always hurt me to see friends hurting, but they do make up and are always happy as can be. Their relationship was not toxic at all, they loved each other, and I was happy for that.

"Maybe, but we were both high, so shit happens. We make up though." Angel told me, at least he admitted it to me.

"Have you yet?" I asked him.

"Well no, but hey, make up sex is really great." Angel cackled.

"Well good luck with that." I said, patting his shoulder.

"So why the fuck ya still here anyways?" Angel asked me.

"I had to go see Dr. Talon." I told him.

"What for? Don't tell me you're knocked up again?" Angel then held his middle and started to laugh.

I just kind of stood there with my arms crossed and with a smirk. I didn't answer him. Soon his laughter stopped and looked up to me finally to see my face. His laughter slowed until it stopped completely.

He looked at me wide eyed, "Oh shit...no way?"

I giggled, "Yes way."

"Well fuck." He tossed his hands up in the air and sighed. "I guess I'll congratulate you then. May it do the charm this time around."

"Thanks Angel." I smiled. "Now I'm heading back home. If you see Charlie let her know I went home ok?"

"Sure thing babe. Be careful going home alright?"

"I will." I looked down to Rufio. "Let's go boy."

Rufio yipped in response.

We headed out the doors of the hotel and made our way down the road. The city wasn't quiet anymore. Almost sounded in chaos. I stopped for a moment to look and see where it was. It was to my left but up ahead of me. I shouldn't have to worry though as it was still far away. I saw the city on fire, orange and yellow danced across the red sky. Something was happening and I needed to get home before I found out.

I looked down to Rufio, "Let's get home fast boy. I don't want to get stuck out here."

The hound nodded and we walked faster. I kept my eye out in the direction of the chaos going on. It was hard to not listen to the stuff that was going on. I just wanted to go home because I'd be safe there. As I was still five minutes from the house, I saw the forest just up ahead. I wanted to give a sigh of relief. Unfortunately for me, the battle that was going on had gotten close. Almost too close for my own comfort.

Unfortunately for me, I wasn't going to make it home.

I heard the sound in my ears. I knew the sound; it was all too familiar. I almost wanted to freeze up when I heard it. I looked towards the chaos and fire that was engulfing the buildings. I then saw figures in the fire light. I was almost shocked at what I was seeing. There were about five figures and four of them were attacking one that was taller than the rest.

The buzzing noise was loud and almost hurt my ears. I saw tentacles appear and smack the four figures away. Then one came back, and I could hear the sounds of guns being fired off. It hit the single tall figure and I saw the blood, but he still stood. Another figure popped back up and jumped up to the taller one. It grabbed him and tossed them, unfortunately closer towards me. The figure landed bounced off a building and on the ground with a thud across the street from me.

When I saw the figure, I felt my breath in my throat get caught.

No, It couldn't be?

When the figure stood up, I was face to face with Alastor.

There was a moment of silence besides the sounds of buzzing and radio stations coming off him. I looked at him and he looked like shit. His outfit was covered in his blood, ripped, and had bullet holes in them. His blood fell to the ground and I then saw two spears sticking out of his back.

When he looked up his eyes widened as he saw me. "Heart?"

"Alastor what's going on?" I asked quickly as I was afraid.

"No time to explain. Go back to the hotel. Get out of here. Don't go home. We are fighting to close to the forest. I don't want you hurt." Alastor told me quickly.

"But Al I-" I couldn't finish as I heard more guns being fired off and I went to my knee and covered my head.

I saw them hit Alastor and he grunted in pain. Rufio went in front of me to protect me. Oh goodness I was now in the middle of this.

Alastor caught his breath and turned to me, "Run! Go!" He turned around and saw the four figures he was fighting.

I didn't get told twice as I ordered Rufio to follow and ran down the sidewalk.

I heard the fighting going on behind me and was so worried about Alastor's safety, but I knew he could take care of himself. Four against one wasn't fair. I would help him, but I can't right now. I had to keep myself safe because of me now being pregnant. I had to put that safe above anything.

I heard an explosion not far behind me as I ran. I then heard the angry radio tone of Alastor.

"Leave my wife alone!" He yelled and then I heard the sound of flesh being ripped from bones and blood curdling screams.

I didn't look behind me, I kept running. I ran until everything was faded out behind me. Ran for my life as fast as my legs could take me. I had to. I tried to block everything out. Soon I saw the hotel and Rufio was beside me panting. I got to the door and ran in, slamming the door behind me.

Everyone in the lobby jumped in surprise. I was so busy running and worrying about getting to safety that I didn't even feel myself sink to the floor. I started to cry. I just left him. I couldn't help. I know he told me to run but I felt so bad just leaving him. I started to hyperventilate. What if something happened? What if they had angelic weapons? What if he got killed!?

I got pulled out of my thoughts when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I jumped in surprise and looked up through my tears to see Angel.

"Heart, what the fuck happened? What's wrong?" I heard the spider demon ask frantically.

I was breathing hard still and was trying to catch my breath to speak, but I came out with shaky breaths.

"Calm down babe. Calm your breathing." Angel said as he rubbed my arms.

I took a breath and let it out shaky, "A-Alastor...H-He."

My commotion had attracted others, but they stayed back as Rufio growled at them to keep them back.

Soon I heard Vaggie's voice echo through the lobby. "Ok what's going on! You guys better not be fighting again, or I swear I will-" she didn't finish as she pushed her way to the front and saw me on the ground with Angel. "Heart?" She went and kneeled next to me. "What's up hun, I thought you left to go home?"

"All I got out of her was something about Alastor." Angel told her.

Vaggie put a hand on my shoulder, "Calm down, tell us what happened." She rubbed down my arm a little.

I took a few deep breaths to calm myself, "Alastor is getting attacked…I saw him while I was walking home, and he told me to run back here." I took a breath. "I know he can take care of himself, but…he looked really hurt…I'm scared." I finally got out as I cried a little.

"Heart it will be ok. As you said Alastor can take care of himself." Vaggie reassured me.

"But what if he is really hurt? What if he gets killed?" I wondered as I shook.

Angel stood up, "Fine, if it makes you feel any better, I'll go look for the deer fuck and bring him back."

I looked up at the spider demon, "Thank you Angel, but please be careful."

"No worries wolf girl." He pushed up his chest fluff. "I can take care of a few fucks in my way."

Angel then walked out of the hotel and into the streets. Vaggie managed to help me off the floor and into the main lobby to sit me down on the couch. She sat with me as she sent Nifty to go get Charlie who was currently in her office going over papers. Rufio sat by my feet and kept his head in my lap and I was petting him to keep calm. Vaggie tried to soothe me and got me some tissues for my tears. I tried to be calm because I didn't want to push myself already. Soon the cyclops demon came back with the demon princess behind her. They came running over to me on the couch and Charlie kneeled down in front of me.

"Heart, are you ok?" Charlie asked me right away.

"I was walking home and found Alastor in a fight. He told me to come back here to be safe. I'm just worried about him though because he was really hurt." I told her as I tried to clear tears away.

"Angel went out to look for him." Vaggie added.

Charlie frowned. "Heart, Alastor is the strongest demon there is. I'm sure he will be fine."

"But what if they used angelic weapons? What if he loses a lot of blood? What if-" I didn't go on as Charlie put a finger to my lips.

"Heart, I'm positive Al will be ok." Charlie took her finger away. "Don't worry. Everything will be ok." She got up and sat next to me on the couch. "Let's talk about something else right now. Distract you for the moment."

"Ok." I whispered.

Charlie wrapped an arm around me, "I know, how did your visit go with Dr. Talon?"

"It went as expected I guess." I told her as I sat back. "I am pregnant again though, so I guess that's a good thing to come out of today."

Charlie and Vaggie smiled while Nifty seemed to beam with delight.

"Congrats Heart!" Nifty cheered.

"We will make sure things turn out ok this time around. Don't you worry." Charlie reassured me.

"Thanks guys. I'm trying to be calm right now. I don't want to overwhelm myself already." I let out a small chuckle.

"Good idea. Just keep yourself at ease. Don't be stressing." Vaggie said as she held my hand.

I let out a small sigh. My thoughts went back to Alastor and the fight I saw. "When I saw Alastor fighting I know I shouldn't have been worried, but I was. Especially since I saw him getting outnumbered by those guys. I guess his meeting this morning didn't go well."

"I'd say not. Angel will find him and if Al wants his help Angel will lend a hand." Charlie smiled.

Nodding, I just tried to keep my mind at ease. The girls tried to help keep my mind off it for now with talking about some things that have happened at the hotel since I've been gone. Was very funny to hear that one drunk demon fell in the hole of the pool they were building out back. The whole time in the back of my mind I was telling myself that Alastor will be ok. Everything will be fine in the end. We will go home together and it will be back to normal.

I didn't know how wrong I would be.

After about 20 minutes the doors to the hotel opened. All of us on the couch turned to look. We all gasped in shock.

It was Angel and he had Alastor slung on his back, trying his best to hold the deer demon upright. The white and pink spider demon was covered in black blood and it still seemed to be falling as he walked in.

Charlie quickly walked up to him, "Angel what happened?"

Nifty went and started to clean up the blood that was on the floors of the hotel now.

"I can't explain right now. This guy is losing blood and fast." I saw Angel look at me with a sad look then back to Charlie, "The bastards he was fighting had angelic weapons and a lot of them. They got Al pretty good. We need to get him upstairs."

After he said that they had angelic weapons I felt my heart sink fast. My breath caught in my throat as I looked at Alastor on Angel's back. I couldn't even tell if he was awake or not. I had a bad feeling about that fight. I only was assuming of angelic weapons and I knew they were around because people always sold them on the black market. Now that I know that they did have them and Alastor was attacked with them, multiple times. It wasn't good. His healing process would be slowed down a lot. Nothing could really stop Alastor, but still who knows how long he could last if not treated.

Charlie spoke up, "Come on Angel let's get him upstairs."

The spider nodded and they two headed up to the elevator. I wanted to follow. I needed to, but part of me was stuck on the couch as I watched them walk up the stairs. Then disappear into the elevator.

I felt Vaggie put a hand on my shoulder. "Heart, everything will be ok. You know Al is a strong guy, something like this won't knock him down."

"I know, but there are angelic weapons. This is something new and scary. I'm just worried."

"Do you want to follow them?" Vaggie wondered.

My hands gripped onto my pants. "Yes, but I don't know how I can handle it. Dr. Talon probably won't let anyone see him till he is done."

"Tell you what, why don't you go wait in your hotel room and when he is ready to be seen I'll let you know. That sound fair?"

I nodded, "I think I will. I might lay down for a nap. All this worked up emotion has made me tired." I grabbed onto the moth girl's hand. "Just please let me know when I can see him as soon as possible. Ok?"

"I promise." Vaggie gave me a reassuring smile.

Standing up I walked past her and passed Nifty who was cleaning the floor. Rufio followed close beside me. I looked at the blood that had dripped onto the floor. I walked up the stairs and I looked at the elevator a moment. I felt tears prick my eyes again. I hugged myself as I walked down the hallway and Rufio had his side close to my leg to remind me he was there.

We walked and soon I looked at Alastor's room a moment and decided to head in there instead. My room may have been comfortable, but I needed to be here, for my own comfort. I opened the wood door and headed inside. Once Rufio was inside I closed the door and walked over to the bed. I sat down on the edge and put my head in my hands and started to cry again.

Rufio seemed worried about me and he came over and tried to get his head under my arm so he could look up at me. He gave my arm a lick. I gave a small giggle at his gesture. I sat up and tried to wipe tears away. I patted the bed next to me and the hound jumped up and sat close to me. I started to pet his chest fluff.

"I'm so worried, Rufio. I know Alastor can make it, but I am still scared." I said talking to the hound.

Rufio gave a whine and looked at me with his puppy dog eyes.

"I know, you're probably scared for him to huh?" I asked because I know the hound saw the whole thing to. I am sure Rufio would have stayed to help Alastor if I hadn't told him to come with me. Even so, I am sure that Alastor would have sent the hound away so that he could protect me instead.

Rufio put his nose against my shoulder.

A sigh escaped me. So much for this day. I was hoping I could go home and make dinner for Alastor and I could tell him about the baby afterwards, but it looks like that won't happen. I tried my best to wipe my tears away. Hopefully, they can patch him up and he'll be as good as new. Even so, they might have to take him to a real hospital if it gets to be too much. That would be a scary sight to see for anyone, seeing the Radio Demon in the hospital. Plus who knows what would happen if someone saw that he was weak. I just hope it didn't get to that point. Dr. Talon had almost everything he needed here thanks to Charlie. He was a skilled physician and I thank him for that.

I decided to lay down finally and rested my head against the pillow. Rufio moved so I could lay down and once I was settled, he curled up next to me against my front. He tucked his tail under him and put his nose close to my stomach. I started to pet him down his back.

"We'll be ok. Everything will be ok." I whispered.

I felt the weight of my eyelids now as they slowly got heavy. With everything that just happened it seemed to really take a toll on me. Soon I was asleep, my mind filled with a nightmare.

I will admit I wanted something to happen to Alastor eventually...why not now! Yay more action piled on top of pregnancy stuff!