+Candycane21, lol idk, Ingine a sneaky and clever one. No one knows how long she's been planning this. We still don't know where she came from.

+Money100, lol Thank you for the review, I hope you enjoy this one.

Chapter 7

The rest of that dinner Nala eagerly anticipated her conversation with Ingine. This would be the first time the lioness would have a heart to heart with someone. She's tried to build the nerve to speak about this situations she facing with Simba, but she doesn't feel he will understand her like a lioness would. And a lioness who oddly might be feeling the same way as her. When the dinner was over Nala had kissed Simba go bye and told her she was going on a walk. She didn't want her future mate to be worried about her, and going on walks was something she liked to do in her spare time. She didn't invite him along obviously, and told him she was going to think.

"Hey Ingine, I'm so glad we could have this walk." Nala stated, starting the conversation. The lionesses where walking down the path that crossed the lioness den. They had no real destination in mind. Just getting away from pride rock was something Nala wanted to do. "If you don't mind me asking, how long have you known you were pregnant?"

"A while actually." Confessed Ingine.

"Wow…" voiced Nala, so she was pregnant before coming to the pridelands. That must have been scaring.

"So if you don't mind me asking…what happened with the father?" this question sparked an interest in Ingine. Should she play it safe? Or go along with it into her future plans? The pale yellowed eyes lioness took a moment. It probably seemed like she was thinking about telling Nala about her cubs 'father' and not her coming up with her devious plan. "I mean you don't have to if you don't want to."

"No I don't mind." She stated. "It was love at first sight, really. As soon as I saw him I knew I wanted to make him mine." Ingine chuckled lightly, and Nala followed trying to ease the small tension she felt- not knowing the true meaning behind it. "But no, he was a looking and he had such a charmed personality. I was smitten really."

"Then what happened?"

"One night, he woke up and just left. He said he had another lioness, a fiancé…" Nala eyes nearly popped out of her skull.

"He cheated on you?!" Ingine, shook her head slowly. The cream fur blue eyed lioness couldn't believe it. "I can't believe it. You're the sweetest lioness I've ever met, that lions is crazy!"

"He thought I was trying to 'trap' him. "

"When you got pregnant…"

"Yes…" before the lioness could get another word out. Nala had embraced her in a big hug. She felt terrible. No lioness should go thought what she's going thought alone. Ingine loved the lioness naive and gentle nature. She even added a few tears to add more of a dramatic effect. "…it…it's okay." She wiped away her tears. "Sometimes I feel like giving up, and just quitting, I just feel so alone sometimes. But then I think of my baby, and I know he or shes loves me. and that enough."

"I'm so sorry Ingine…." Commented Nala. " You are so strong, if Simba did that to me…I wouldn't know what to do…" spoke Nala, but oh how the irony. " It kill me. I commend you for wanting to keep your cub." Then the blue eyed lioness added shyly. "Can I confess something…"

"Sure." Voiced Ingine. Nala breathed, she struggled to even consider what she was thinking. Let alone speak it. But she had too, it was something burning in her chest that she had to let out. "Nala are you okay? What's wrong?" painfully the lioness opened her mouth with tears filling her eyes.

"…I…I don't think I can have this baby…" this caught Ingine waaaay off guard. Did she just hear what she thought she just heard? Nala questioning about having her baby?! Nala wiped her face, she didn't want Ingine to see her like this, so crushed. But her body was changing her emotions where hanging- everything was changing. She could control nothing. " and…I know…I am in nowhere near your situations. You are handling it so- incredible actually. While…I'm over here question thing everything!"

"What does you mean?"

"I love Simba… I love him so much- and I know marrying him will completely change my life. And I've been adjusting to it, convincing myself I could handle such a dramatic change. All the responsibilities and rules. I knew I could adjust with that. But then, this….i wasn't expecting this at all and it completely caught me off guard!"

"Wow Nala I had no idea…"

"…It's just so much pressure right now, and I can't handle it. Simba already head over heels for the baby. I know he wasn't expecting this either but, I know he's making the best of it. And he loves the baby…" Ingine said nothing " the worst of it is that we're still engaged and….a cubs outside of wedlock is a bastard, and I can't live with that. This baby will be judge the minutes it's born! If they even consider it his. Mufasa and Sarabi are amazing leaders. But they are so traditional. If they find out… how will she think of me? how will the other pridesisters and mothers think of me?"

"But Nala, you know Simba wants the cubs… and probably your friends too. I could see Tama and Kula calling themselves aunties already. They will be overly excited-"

"But I'm not!" cried Nala " This wasn't something I wanted…or was ready for. Everything already be decided for me, I have control of nothing… sure Simba and I get married and then we start ruling and then what- a few days later I give birth and now we have a kingdom and cub to look after! Its all happening too fast and I need it to stop…" Nala slowly sat down, her stomach had begun to turn and she knew she was making herself sick.

"what do you mean stop?"

"I…I don't know…"

"Nala, you aren't thinking of?" the Nala couldn't even look her companion in the eyes. She just shrugged her shoulders. "But what will Simba think?"

"He doesn't know. I haven't told him how I feel. I can't, he'll end up stopping me."

"But it is his cub too. Should he have say."

"Ideally yes, but this is something I have to do by myself. It's just something I will have to leave with."

"How long had you been thinking about this?"

"Snice I found out a couple days ago. I was going to go back to Rafiki to see what he could do. I don't want him to harm the baby… and I don't want anyone to find out. Sarabi just thinks I'm sick for right now. She'll be excepting me to take charge and lead. I know I can't I'll harm the cub, and beside…I'm starting to really feel my pregnancy now. And if I stop it in enough time then…maybe no one will know." This was something Ingine did not expect to come from the over happy-perfect life of Nala. She was in a real dilemma, and she might have set herself in a trap. "But I'm I a terrible person for this? I don't even want my own baby…" more waterworks fell upon the lioness face. Staining everything.

"Listen Nala listen." Ingine spoke kind heartedly. "You have the right to feel stress, pregnancy is stressful, getting married is stressful and ruling a kingdom is stressful and if you don't know what do it can be over whelming. It's your body and your decision, so whatever you chose…you chose."

"….But I'm so scared, and confused! And I can't tell him, I can't. he's been nothing but loving and loyal to me. and here considering getting rid of his baby…"

"Nala if you're not ready you're not ready. It'll only be more hard on you- NOT him, you. You having this baby you're not ready for. You stress…what will that do to your marriage. It will end it that's for you. If you ask me…if I were you…I would get rid of the baby" her last words ran in Nala ears over and over again.

"…Really?"

"Yes" Nala wiped her face.

"But…when should I do it? I don't want the cub to suffer at all." Ingine took a moment of thought. She considered being actually kind of the lioness and think of her own situation. But then she thought of her situation. This lioness was going to marry to lion she wanted, the father who wanted to be in the life of his cubs, and rule a pride with a mighty dynasty. Everything she wanted… Ingine had a more stern look on her face.

"I would wait, give it a couple of weeks, three or four…maybe even five." Nala furrowed her brows.

"But…but I'll be almost a month in…I'll be showing."

"But it's to make sure for sure if you want to keep the baby or not."

"…but…then the baby with feel it…right? I know I'll feel it. I don't want that. I want it was painless as possible."

"Well Nala, pregnancy hurts…it just does."

"Think of it this way, the more you wait the more for sure you are of this decision." Nala said nothing. Ingine took her arm about the lioness shoulder.

"…will…will you go with me. I know Rafiki has these herbs and spices that will…you know. It's painless I heard."

"It is." Confirmed Ingine. Before Nala could say anything or question Ingine spoke. "And don't worry, I'll come with you. I can't let my friend me alone." Ingine words gave Nala much comfort. "C'mon, lets head back. We'll go first thing tomorrow."

As the lionesses made their way back to priderock, another drama was unfolding in the mind of the young prince. Did Ingine really just say the father of her cub left her? That she just gave her hidden pregnancy away?! What the heck…Simbas mind could not stop racing. He was alone in the back of priderock. Everyone had gone on their ways to either head to bed or stay out longer to enjoy the night. The young prince walked back and forth, thinking…what could he do next. What was Ingine going to do next? This was expected, and now he cant find her motive. Did she want others to feel sorry for her? She's already staying in the pride, his parents are allowing that. Did she really have to go all off and give a whole sob story. Poor Ingine, the poor baby, well what about poor Simba?! He's the one who's really suffering over here…he's the one being blackmailed and tormented.

"Dude what are you doing?" Simba turned his head quickly, spotting the voice from behind him. It was his pals Malka and Tojo. "We have patrol man, lets get this over with."

"Oh…right right right." He voiced, sitting down and breathing for a seconds. At first he thought it was his father or something. Or worse even Ingine.

"Simba you okay, you look like crap." Voiced Malka. Simba wiped the sweat off his forehead.

"Yea, I'm fine."

"What are you so pressed for?" asked Tojo. "you usually start walking around like a mad lion when you get stressed. Is it Nala and the cub?" oh and then he thought…Nala, where was she? She did go on that walk a while ago…she had to be back.

"Oh have you guys seen Nala?"

"No, not snice she went on that walked with Ingine.

"Ingine? Why was she walking with her…where did they go!"

"dude…I don't know. They just went to talk relax." Voiced Tojo. Now Malka, knowing Simba all his life. Knew something was seriously up. He never freaks out like this, unless something is seriously bothering him. So he took a moment to walk over to his friend.

"Hey something bothering you sim?" the prince sighed, he couldn't hide his frustration.

"Yea man, big time." Tojo by this time had walked over. He gave Simba a look, ' well you might as well tell us' which, he in turned did. Their faces went from wide eyed, to frustration, to some type of pity. He told them everything. The fight with Nala, him leaving her storming off. Then his encounter with Ingine and how he doesn't remember a thing of how it even started. How she's been blackmailing him to be with her and that sadly her situation is true. That the ' father of her cubs' did leave her…because he is the father of the cub.

"Dude, what the hell?!"

"I know Malka, I know-"

"How long has this been happening?"

"Ever since she came here. And guys I swear SWEAR I didn't mean for any of this to happen. I can barely even remember the night. All I know is she came to me saying I was the father of her cub."

"bro…" voiced Tojo in disbelief. His face had shown that he couldn't believe his story. It was too far-fetched his strange lioness. Got him to sleep with her, got pregnant in one night and now is blackmailing him to be with her, and leave his fiancé. It was just too crazy.

"Does Nala know?"

"Of course not! Are you kidding me…" voiced Simba, frustrated.

"Good, this would kill Nala, KILL her dude. She's crazy over you. How could you do this to her?!-" Tojo

"Tojo!" voiced Malka, cutting him off. "Look, Simba knows his mistake. And he didn't do it on purpose."

"You think Nala or the girls will think that? Malka, leaving after a heated fight, staying out all night. Meeting some strange lioness, it's the stepping stone of a disaster man."

"I know Tojo! I'm trying to fix this so no one gets hurt. I just have to figure out what to do."

"Well what have you been doing?"

"I've been doing what she says. I take her out early with me on patrols, and get her freaking breakfast because she can't hunt due to the cub…and now she's tormenting me, by telling her lie! The last thing I need is for her to be alone with Nala."

"She's not that crazy, if she even thought about telling Nala, she wouldn't believe it."

"No guys, you don't understand she's so manipulative."

"Well then tell her off!" Malka.

"No, everyone knows her story, if I say something it will go to me. I'm the no good father that left this…this poor helpless lioness. Knowing I am engaged with Nala and to make it worse she pregnant too…" the king fell back on his bottom. This problem was just mounting higher and higher on his shoulders. "The last thing I will allow is for her to hurt Nala or our baby. As long as I play her game and keep her happy she should be fine."

"But dude, she's staying here over the dry season… oh hell permanently. And by that time, she and Nala will be having the cubs and then what?"

"….i ….i don't know. But I can't lose Nala…I can't." voiced the prince in distress. Both boys came over and placed a paw on his shoulders.

"Don't worry Simba. We've got your back." Vocied Malka. "Tojo and I won't say anything, well just be here to help you figure things out. And if Ingine starts to get in the way, we'll intervene. She won't know. That way she won't be able to torment you as much."

"Please, the other way for that to happen is her and the cub leaving forever."

"Bro, Sarabi won't have that. You know how she is."

"I know, she's here for good now… and I know Nala stressing too. I tried to talk to her the other day about the cub and even telling my parents." Confessed Simba.

"What she say?"

"Nothing, she didn't want to talk about it. She's really embarrassed…"

"Why?" voiced Malka "everyone knows the dynamic duo Simba and Nala. We all knew you two would get married, and have cubs someday.

"Yea, but not before our actually ceremony. We'll have to move it up, way up. By the end of this month. We already have to do it before the dry season and that less than two month away."

"Can you even move up a wedding a whole month ahead?"

"Yea, but it won't be easy. But we have to do it before he cub comes. This cub will be considered a bastard, and he or she won't be allowed to rule because they was no official ceremony… and I won't let that happen."

"Simba.." they both voiced.

"I'll have to talk with Nala more, find some common ground. I just need to keep her away from Ingine. I know she's jealous of Nala, and you don't know what a jealous lion or lioness can do." They all nodded. "But thanks guys for listening. This has been killing me and I didn't know who to talk too.

"Don't worry, we're here for to Simba. No matter how much to screw up. That's what bros are for."

"Thanks, you guys are definitely are best lions in the wedding."

"Haha, one step at a time dude." Chimed Tojo was the three prideland boys began their walk on border patrol. The red mane male sighed, if only time where on his side.

Three weeks is what Ingine suggested, even four weeks. Four weeks to be sure that Nala was serious about her decision. It's been four weeks, with Nala hidden pregnancy. That is now not so hidden at all. The full on effect of headache, nausea the sweats. Her stomach had definitely rounded out. From a distance, you wouldn't able to notice her body subtle changes into motherhood. But she knew and so did her close friends. Tama and Kula were actually leading the hunt when Sarabi handed over the hunts to Nala. Nala has been having Tama catch the prey while she followed close behind. That way it would look like she was giving an effort, and when the other lioness reached the kill. They would see Nala there at the head of the kill, subduing the prey, while Tama and Kula held the prey down. The plan has been working for weeks for far and nothing out of the ordinary was happening. That was until today.