So much drama in this chapter! You'll love it!

Lily woke up when Nuada stood from the bed. He had spooned her after their lovemaking and she felt cold from the sudden lack of contact. She turned over in bed to see him moving to his wardrobe to get dressed.

"I was thinking about talking to the demon about giving us control over the Golden Army so we can effectively deal with this land problem since the humans are being stubborn and not giving us any mountain terrain." Nuada said casually.

Lily smiled and was about to say something when she clenched her stomach and instead ran into the bathroom. Nuada heard her vomit and knew its cause. He was surprised she had morning sickness, she must have been farther along than he thought. She was still in there by the time he had finished dressing, so he decided to see if she was alright. He found her sitting next to the toilet, her elbow on the bowl and her hand on her forehead.

"I don't know what's wrong." Lily said. She leaned over into the toilet bowl and retched again.

Nuada stood silently in the doorway, not offering her any help. He was scared to face this particular topic. He didn't know why he was so afraid, it was just a child. Lily lifted her head from the bowl and flushed it. They spent a couple of moments in complete silence.

"Do you think I'm pregnant?" Lily asked him. She remembered all of the sex that had been having.

He shook his head. "No."

Then he left. He couldn't believe he had just lied to her. Lily sat on the floor, confused. She supposed it wouldn't hurt to make sure she isn't pregnant. She could ask some healers or Nuala or Abe. She stood up and brushed her teeth.

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Maerwen had helped Lily get dressed, after blushing once she saw the stains on the bed, and Lily had asked many healers if she was pregnant. They had all strangely denied finding out for her and she was not able to find Nuala or Abe, no matter how hard she looked or who she asked. So she shrugged off the idea of her being pregnant and instead asked Meldiron to help her with the bow and arrow. She would focus on her killing Hellboy plan to get her mind off of a possible pregnancy.

They were heading out to their regular training spot when a wave of nausea swept over Lily. She gripped Meldiron's arm, stopping him, as she waited for it to pass. Once she felt normal again, she released his arm and he looked at her worried.

"What was that?" He asked.

"I felt nauseous. It's probably something I ate though." Lily shrugged it off.

"Have you told Nuada of this?" Meldiron asked. He knew he should drop the topic, but a part of him wanted her to know she was pregnant and that Nuada was keeping it from her. A part of him wanted her to hate Nuada and love him.

"Yes, but he brushed it off. I thought I might've been pregnant, but no healers would tell me and Nuala and Abe were nowhere to be found." Lily told him. She was glad he was asking, she wanted to talk to someone about this.

Meldiron inwardly fought with himself. He wanted to tell her so badly, but he knew Nuada would kill him if he didn't have good reason for doing it. And wanting Lily to hate Nuada and fall in love with himself was not a good reason. Then he noticed her dress. It was tight around her midsection and if she was far along enough to be experiencing morning sickness, the tightness of her dresses would harm the baby. He decided to use this pitiful excuse as his reasoning.

"But then again, I've had a pregnancy scare before and it was nothing." Lily commented, not noticing Meldiron's inward debate.

"You're pregnant. Nuada knows and he kept it from you." Meldiron blurted out before he could stop himself.

Lily stared at him, what he had just said sinking in.

"How-?"

"The healers told him."

"Why-?"

"I don't know why he kept it from you." Meldiron answered truthfully. "I told him to tell you."

Lily stood there thinking about what this meant, the pregnancy hormones making her angry. She shoved those feelings down and told herself she would handle Nuada's punishment later.

"Let's go practice." She shook her head of angry thoughts.

"Are you sure?" Meldiron asked her, slightly disappointed there wasn't a bigger bang.

"Yes. I will handle Nuada later." Lily said calmly.

Meldiron reluctantly followed her out to the training grounds. He set her up with a bow and arrow and showed her a target 100 feet away. Lily was fully concentrated on the target before she spotted something very red out of the corner of her eye. She turned her head and saw Hellboy and Nuada talking calmly. She remembered Nuada saying he would talk to Hellboy. Her previous angry thoughts came flooding back full force and she changed the position of her bow. Before she could think clearly, she released the arrow and gasped when it missed its target.

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"You murderer!" Liz shouted, trying once again to lunge at Lily. She was stopped again by guards.

Lily's arrow had completely missed Nuada and instead hit Hellboy directly in the heart, killing him instantly. While that solved one of her problems, it created many more. Now Nuada, Lily, Meldiron, and Liz were all in the hospital with Hellboy lying dead on a bed near them and guards surrounding them.

"It was an accident!" Lily shouted back. "I was trying to hit Nuada!"

Before Nuada could question her on this, Liz began again.

"You liar! You don't understand what you've done! I've lost the twins and now I've lost him! I have nothing now! NOTHING!" Liz lunged once again at Lily.

The guards grabbed her again, but her entire body set fire and they released her to save their hands. Liz made it to Lily and clawed at her face using her fiery hands. Lily shrieked and Liz only managed to grab Lily's face before the guards recovered and tore Liz off of her. They threw her to the ground, ignoring the pain her fire brought to them. Lily covered her face with her hands once Liz was off. Liz's fire eventually went out and she was left sobbing on the floor, being restrained by four guards. Meldiron approached Lily and asked her if she was alright. Lily only cried and shook her head.

"You have hurt Queen Lillian! You must be punished for your actions!" Meldiron shouted at Liz, drawing his sword and pointing it menacingly at her.

"Then kill me." Liz said, with a determined look on her face. "I have literally nothing now. No Hellboy. No twins. That was all I had. And now they're all dead." She began to cry again.

Meldiron was shocked at her request. He didn't expect her to say that at all. He expected some kind of protest to his threat.

"Kill me!" Liz screamed, before crying once again.

Meldiron looked at Lily, he could see her tears through the spaces of her fingers, then he looked at Nuada, who stood impassively nearby. Nuada gave him a subtle nod. Meldiron hesitated before stabbing his sword right through Liz's chest. She yelped, but then was silent. The entire room was silent except for Lily's crying, which had increased when Meldiron killed Liz.

Well, that escalated quickly. Wow. Intense chapter. Like? Yes? No?