I don't own Howl's Moving Castle! But I so wish I did , I told you it was about to get interesting!

Sophie's POV:

I looked at her with wide eyes and sighed at her and became very aggravated. She was the one who wanted to take Howl away from me to fight for the king, but she was the one that can save me. "You're the lady that wants me dead?" I looked at her I was angry and upset, and a whirlwind of other emotions.

She laughed, somehow I knew she would, and I knew she would sound like she did, old, raspy, unhappy, and meaningless. "Sophie, I don't want you dead, I just want Howl to be good again. Less selfish and actually have a heart. He was a great apprentice; he was the one I had planned on replacing me when I grew to old. Do you know why Howl is incapable and unwilling to love you Sophie?" I looked down at her body, more fragile then I imagined; her hands wrinkled like how mine used to be. I shook my head. Howl was unable and not willing to love me? Did that mean he would never love me? Did I no longer have to fight anymore? I slowly closed my eyes and felt myself drift away from my freak coma. "Sophie, don't leave just yet," she said to me. I opened my eyes and looked at Sulliman once again. "There you go. Now Sophie, he sold his heart to a demon. You call him Calcifer. He holds Howl's heart, you've fallen in love with a heartless man Sophie Hatter." Howl's heartless? He doesn't seem heartless! The way he treats Markl, and Calcifer, the way he laughs and jokes with all of us around. She's lying to me, she had to be, right? "Doubting me? I'm giving you a week, one week, seven days, to get me back Howl's heart, and if you don't, well… you know… I have no problem killing a mortal." I gasped and sighed and wanted to cry, but I couldn't, I couldn't allow myself. I was not going to cry in front of this trash of a wizard. Disgusting and despicable, but I guess that's what you get for being old.

"Done." I agreed without any hesitation, knowing that if I showed any emotions she would prey on it, and I may not be a wizard, but I am not a dumb human and I know better then that.

"We have a bond Miss Hatter." She nodded her head and lifted and dropped her staff on the ground making her and the floor disappear. I was falling and falling for what seemed like hours. I looked down and say a white floor coming up quite quickly and before I knew it I hit the ground and my eyes opened immediately as I sat straight up in Howl's bed, waking him.

"Sophie?" he asked me quite surprised, and I turned my head to the right and smiled at him, I never thought I'd be able to do that again. He got up from the bed and ran out of the room, I sat there completely confused as I looked down at my young hands, and smiled to myself.

Before I knew it I was surrounded by two of the most important people in my life, Markl and Howl. I smiled at them both as Markl threw himself onto me crying to my shoulder, he was crying so hard his words with inaudible. I just grabbed the back of his head and held him close to me, telling him that I was fine, and I could be forever. Even if I knew I was lying to him, I couldn't see him upset.

"Markl, can you go down and get the pots ready? I'll cook your favorite dinner, chicken noodle soup!" he nodded at me and hugged me once more before running out of Howl's room leaving me, and the great wizard himself. He had been standing towards the back of the room, near the door as Markl had attacked me, smiling a smile I had never seen on him before, I hope it would stay, I loved that look on him.

"So, you'll never regret loving me?" he said in a sarcastic voice, that sounded more and more like Howl with each passing word. I smiled at him as I slowly made my way out of bed, cringing a little, but I had been born and raised to at like nothing was wrong, it was who I am.

"Sorry Howl," I said as I walked closer to him. "Thought this was the only way I could actually keep myself young." I finished the distance between us and wrapped my arms around him. God I loved him so much. He gently hugged me back but I knew he was holding back because I was hurt.

"Come sit… I want to talk to you." I smiled at him and took his hand as he led me to his bed. He crawled to the far side and laid down, leaning on one side of his body resting his head on his hand, which was propped up underneath him. I followed him but I laid on my back not sure what my sides could take. He kept my hand and squeezed it and I squeezed back.

"Howl, I … I don't know how to tell you this." I started but he cut me off and scooted closer to me and I cuddled into his chest. This was so improper, so unreal, completely uncalled for in my generation, but somehow I just couldn't stop myself. I needed his warmth and his love, no matter what Madame Sulliman said about Howl being heartless.

"Let me talk first." He said to me and I smiled looking up at him. "I don't know what you've been able to piece together about me. But Calcifer holds a very important piece of me, and I don't know if I'm endangering either of us while telling you this, but I don't think I am. He holds my heart Sophie; I gave it to him many years ago so I could avoid love, and heartbreak. I became a womanizer, and heart eater, someone who has no capability to love. Somehow though since you've come into my life I've fallen in love with you too. Somehow, someway I get butterfly's when I see you, I get giddy when you talk to me, and right now I'm ecstatic that you're here with me, alive and looking at me, in my bed, smiling at me." I smiled at him and blushed a little as he picked up his free hand and rubbed in against my cheeks. "You've turned me into a hopeless romantic Sophie, and I will do anything to keep you safe." He smiled at me and winked. "Your turn." He said and I gulped as I tried to figure out how to say all this.

"Well Howl, right after I told you to stay strong, Madame Sulliman appeared to me. She told me about Calcifer, and you being heartless. She told me that I had a week to live – and then she would claim me back to the dead if I didn't get your heart back to her. I agreed Howl – but I don't want to, I just want to live this last week with you, and be happy for once in my life." I looked at him, his smile had dropped from his face and he looked like he was going to throw another hissy fit. "Howl," but he put his hand up to stop me from talking.

"Did she flat out say she would kill you?" he asked me and I just nodded my head, my voice would crack from the tears that are now running down my face. "Sophie, there's only one way to buy us more time if you don't want me or Calcifer to die." I brightened up; I knew Howl would come up with something. "It's against all magical rules to kill someone, wizard or mortal if they'rewithchild." He mumbled the last part, but I thought I heard him right. My body froze and I became very, very scared, and nervous.

"Did you just say I was going to have to get pregnant?" he just looked at me his blue eyes just as scared as I was.

"By the end of the week." He said and with that I passed out, my head on the pillow. I was going to have to carry Howl Pendragon's baby. I'm only seventeen, wonderful.

will Sophie choose to keep living and have Howl's kid or will Calcifer have another way out?