Lily felt sick to her stomach. She tried to convince herself that it was nerves over being chosen for Prince Nuada's queen or the shock from her fight with Rocco, anything to prove that it wasn't that unspeakable third thing. Yet she'd been sick for a couple of days now, and as she threw up for her second time that morning, she decided she had to find out.

Lily quickly dressed and walked over to the nearest convenience store. She nervously walked down each aisle until she found the one she was looking for. She walked down the aisle until she found the item she had come here to buy. She took a deep breath, not believing she was actually doing this but she had to know, and grabbed the item off of the shelf. She would've loved to avoid the embarrassment of the cashier's stare as they saw what she was buying and much rather walk out without paying and that encounter, but she figured that it wouldn't be good if the Unseen Realm's new queen was in jail for shoplifting. She walked up to the counter, put her item on the counter, and began pulling out her money.

"Is this all?" A very bored teenage girl asked.

"Yeah." Lily said, not looking at her.

The item was rung up and paid for and Lily almost ran out of the store. On the way back to her apartment, she had the urge to talk to someone about her current situation. But she didn't know if she was allowed to tell anyone about her being the future queen and there was no way she was telling anyone at the BPRD.

She finally got to her apartment and was fumbling to get her keys in the door, when she heard someone talk to her. She turned her head and almost groaned at seeing Mr. Peterson, her landlord, there.

"Ms. Golden, your rent's due. Do you have the money?" He asked, slowly stepping closer to her.

"Yes, I do. I have my wallet with me if you'd like it now." Lily answered, slightly uneasy at his creeping forward.

"That'd be fine." He said.

Lily grabbed her wallet out of her purse and handed him the correct amount.

"I'll be leaving soon, just to let you know. I've been offered a better paying job elsewhere." She lied.

"That's such a shame. I hate to see you go." He said before walking away from her and back to his office.

Lily knew that his creepiness was just Mr. Peterson being a pervert and trying to get with her, but in her current situation she almost freaked out. She opened her apartment door and went in, slamming the door behind her. She locked it then grabbed the item out of the plastic bag that the convenience store had given her. She walked over to the bathroom while opening the box. Time to find out if she was pregnant.

HBHBHBHBHB

"I will not love her." Nuada told Nuala. He was talking about Lily.

"You do not have to. Just marry her and produce heirs to take over the throne." Nuala replied.

"She is a filthy human. She does not deserve to share my bed." Nuada said.

Then Hellboy walked into Nuada's room.

"Is he still complaining? You need to stop, she's pretty hot." He said.

"Is there something you want, demon?" Nuada asked, aggravated.

"Not me, Manning. He needs to talk to you about something concerning your wedding and Lily." Hellboy answered.

"Very well." Nuada said and walked out of his room, Nuala and Hellboy following close behind.

They all entered Manning's office with Manning standing there, nervous as usual.

"Prince Nuada, your Highness, a wedding date must be chosen for your marriage and a guest list made and an area chosen for the ceremony." Manning told him.

"Shouldn't Lillian be here?" Nuala asked.

"She wasn't at her apartment when we went to get her. She was probably out." Manning explained.

"Out. Or kidnapped and killed." Hellboy said. "Or just kidnapped. Or just killed."

"The demon is right. How could you be so careless with someone as important to your kind as her?" Nuada said.

"Well . . . It's just . . ." Manning tried to explain.

"No matter. I will find her so she may deal with these wedding details." Nuada said.

"Now hold up right there!" Hellboy said as Nuada turned to leave. "There's no way you're going to go there alone. You could kill her for all we know. I'm coming with."

"Do you think that's wise-?" Manning tried to protest, but they were already gone.

"At least he is showing some type of interest in her." Nuala observed.

"Yeah, but is it good interest?" Manning said. He wiped his forehead sweat with a hankerchief.

HBHBHBHBHB

Lily was waiting for the pregnancy test to be ready(only about a minute left) when she heard sounds of things being moved in the living room of her apartment. She slowly opened the door of the bathroom to check and saw Prince Nuada standing there. She silently cursed at his timing and stepped out of the bathroom, closing the door behind her.

"Why are you here? Trying to kill me so you don't have to go through with this wedding?" Lily said as she stepped into her living room.

"No. You were not here earlier and I wanted to make sure that you were not dead. It would be troublesome to find a new queen again." He stated.

"Aww. You do care." She said sarcastically.

There was a knock at her door and Nuada opened it to reveal Hellboy.

"How you climbed that wall, I'll never know." He said as he entered her apartment. "Got any beers?" He opened her fridge.

"Were you worried about me too?" Lily asked Hellboy. God how she wanted them to just leave.

He opened a bottle of beer he found in her fridge and took a swig of it.

"Yeah. But I also wanted to make sure His Highness here didn't kill you." He looked at the label on the beer. "Why do you have this in your fridge anyway?"

"For when Rocco comes over. I should get rid of it." Lily told him.

"No way! This is good stuff!" Hellboy told her.

"As a matter of fact, where is Rocco?" Nuada asked and he stepped closer to Lily.

"Gone. Forever. The second I found out I won I kicked him out." She said, not intimidated by him.

Hellboy happened to look past Lily and saw the light from the bathroom from under the cracks under the door.

"Your light's on." He said and went to go turn it off.

Lily's heart stopped. Time seemed to slow down as she extended an arm and at the same time shouted no at Hellboy. She moved to stop him, but she was too late and he saw the pregnancy test on the counter as he opened the door. His mouth formed a perfect O as everything clicked in his head. Nuada also looked inside the bathroom after their odd behavior. He did not understand.

"Whoa! You might be pregnant?" Hellboy said. Lily pushed past him and grabbed the test.

"What?" Nuada said forcefully, demanding an explanation.

"Maybe. I don't know. Me and Rocco have always used protection so I doubt it." She then glanced down at the test. She saw the two little lines that said she was pregnant. "Or not."

Nuada snatched the test away from her and looked at it. "What does this mean?" He showed it to her.

"It means I'm pregnant." She said reluctantly.

Nuada clenched the test so hard it snapped in half.

"It could be a false positive though. Sometimes the tests are wrong." Lily told him.

"Abe." Hellboy said. Lily and Nuada both turned to look at him. "He can look and see if you're pregnant. That's how Liz found out she was pregnant."

"Yes. Let's go to Abraham and see whether or not you are pregnant." Nuada said. He grabbed her arm and almost dragged her along.

HBHBHBHBHB

"She is not pregnant." Abe said as he lifted his hand from Lily's abdomen. "The test was most likely false."

The entire room seemed to breath a sigh of relief, especially Manning.

"Good. And not a word of this whole ordeal leaves this room, ok? I don't need the media up our ass about this." He said as he walked to get out of the room. He stopped before he got to the door and turned around. "And Miss Golden, I would advise that you live here at the BPRD before someone leaks to the public who won. It would be better for you to be safely guarded by the government when that riot starts up."

"Okay. I'll get my things from my apartment then." Lily told him and moved to leave.

"No, you stay here. I'll send agents for your things." He said and left this time.

The room was silent for a brief moment before Liz broke the silence.

"So what's your wedding going to be like? Elven or human? Or a little of both? Inside or outside? Could I be a bridesmaid?" She was in one of her happy pregnancy moods. She grabbed Lily's hands and began jumping up and down. "Oh I can't wait! It'll be the wedding of the century!"

Nuada rolled his eyes at this display. Everyone else looked on happily, used to her different moods by now.

"Well I don't know for sure. I have a rough sketch of an idea because I've had my wedding planned since I was a teenager, but it's Nuada's wedding too." Lily said, stopping the jumping.

Liz quickly turned to Nuada and everyone else's gazes followed. He looked at them with disinterest.

"I only ask that it be outside and take place near the new Bethmoora. Also, I will not wear anything human and neither will any of the fae. Nuala will help you with the guest list because she knows who needs to come better than I do. Other than that, I do not care." He told her.

"Oh yay! We get full range!" Liz said and began bouncing again. This time Lily joined her happily.