"Ozone, I don't think you get it. I'm not as young as I used to be and I never successfully gave birth to a living child. As far as we know, this time could kill me," Tiberius lectured Ozone. He was about to say something else when the hairless cat stated, "I know that. And I also know that you and I are more alike than you know."
"What, you've been pregnant before?"
"No but Clara was," Ozone murmured. Sighing, he licked Tiberius's cheek as he explained, "A year before I met you, Clara and I were gonna have kittens. While she was pregnant, she got sick. Very sick. She got better eventually but we lost the kittens. I got upset and I started going out to bars and I started drinking to forget-"
"I'm sorry, is this supposed to make me feel better?" Tiberius interrupted. Sighing, Ozone looked his lover in the eye. Placing his paw over the hawk's taloned foot, he murmured, "Maybe there was a reason why we had to go through those heartbreaks. This could be the work of the universe. It's their way of saying that we are meant for each other."
"Well, if this is the work of the universe, they could've at least found a different way of doing this so no one gets killed," Tiberius muttered. Lifting his head, he silently stared at his side. Tears brimming in his eyes, he looked up at Ozone and rasped, "I can't bear to lose another child."
"And I can't bear it if I lose both of you," Ozone replied. Giving the hawk's foot a reassuring squeeze, he nuzzled Tiberius as he continued, "I have you and you have me. We're going to bring this little child into the world and we're gonna love him with all of our hearts. I promise you that everything is going to be okay."
"Don't make a promise you can't keep Ozone."
"I intend to keep this one."