Hello, my dear readers,

I'm really happy you liked this short story and because I got very nice reviews (thanks Cagallirocks and firekitsune2z) I decided to write a little continuation. :-) I hope you'll like this as well.

There is also going to be a part three but I don't know when. :D

Part 2

Miri was sitting on toilet in the bathroom of her flat. She was blankly looking at the small stick she was holding in her hand. 'Two blue strips…' This was the only thing on her mind. She was like this for almost 10 minutes, unable to move or to even comprehend what this result means. She checked the instructions written on a box she was holding in her other hand. There was no mistake. She was pregnant.

'How did this happen?' She asked herself and grimaced remembering that faithful night one month ago. 'Dear God, what did I do in my previous life that you punish me like this?'

Miri sighed and finally stood up. She left the bathroom and still with the pregnancy kit she went to the kitchen. There she threw the stick and the box into the bin and made herself a tea.

She sat down by the table, slowly sipping the tea and munching biscuits. She sighed again. Now it all made sense, her constant tiredness, lack of appetite, nausea and exaggerated reactions. She thought of these symptoms as stress and prelude to flu but when one of her friends commented that she also had such problems at the beginning of her pregnancy, it lit up a light of suspicion in Miri.

And now she was sure. 'Oh my, what am I going to do with this?' She looked down to her flat stomach. She just couldn't imagine that there is a tiny little one inside. 'And on top of it, it's Dearka's.' Miri hung down her head laying it on the table. She spent the last month successfully avoiding him and now it seemed like she's bound to him more than ever before. She knew that Dearka was looking for her from their friends but she still couldn't sort out her feelings so she just kept running away every time she heard his name. She knew she couldn't do this anymore.

'Alright. I admit he attracts me. A lot. He's handsome and I'm not made of stone. But is this enough for a relationship to work out? We already tried it once and it was a disaster.' Miri stood up and started to walk back and forth. 'But now you both are older. You're not seventeen anymore.' Her mind pointed out. 'That might be true but I doubt Dearka is more grown-up than he was two years ago.' She objected. 'But you never know until you try.' Her conscience answered immediately.

"Ahhhh…!" Miri half-screamed relieving the accumulated tension inside her chest. 'This is not going anywhere.' She stopped marching around the kitchen, placed the cup inside the sink and went to bedroom to get dressed. 'I'll think about the way out of this later.'

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Her 'later' came much, much sooner than she expected. Just when she got fully dressed and left her bedroom, her door bell rang.

Wondering who might be the guest, she went to open the door. She froze immediately when she saw Dearka leaning against the door frame. He was smiling but she could sense that he wasn't actually in a pleasant mood.

"Hi, Miriallia, I finally found you. We have an unfinished talk." He said with serious voice and walked past Miri who couldn't move at all from the shock.

"I think you should close the door." Dearka's slightly ironic remark woke her up finally and she slowly did as he said. Her brain started to work as well and she realized that he called her with her full name. 'He never did this before. It was always 'Miri' or 'princess'.' Strangely it made her feel really bad. 'He must be really angry.' Then she lectured herself. 'Why should I feel guilty over making him angry? We are not a couple anymore nor do we have anything in common!' She turned and saw Dearka already sitting on her sofa. It irritated her and she couldn't suppress an angry snort.

"What are you doing here?" Miri asked finally finding her lost voice.

Dearka straightened up from his seemingly relaxed pose. "I told you, we have an unfinished talk. Or did you already forget the night one month ago?"

Miri flinched and closed her eyes not wanting to remember but she still did. 'Now I can't forget even if I want.'

Dearka noticed her reaction and nodded approvingly. 'Good. At least she's not in denial about it anymore.'

"Won't you sit down?"

Miri looked at the man in front of her in disbelief. "Don't order me around, this is my home!"

Dearka just shrugged. "I didn't mean to order you around, it was just a suggestion. I thought you might want to sit before we talk."

Miri just inhaled sharply but did what Dearka told her to. Of course she chose armchair that was furthest from him.

"So? What do you want to talk about?" She said pretending to be completely uninterested.

"Oh, why so cold? You're hurting me, honey." Dearka said touching his chest in pretended pain.

"If you want to play around, then do it yourself. I have a work to go to." Miri said irritated and stood up.

"Sit down." Dearka's voice was suddenly very deep and serious.

"I told you to not order me around." Miri weakly protested but her threat was suppressed by fear.

"Sit down." Dearka repeated quietly.

Miri slowly sat down. Suddenly she was afraid. Afraid what she was going to hear. She has never seen Dearka being like this and it gave her goosebumps.

"One month ago," He slowly started. "I thought that you finally understood what's between us and that our relationship didn't end when you broke up with me. I knew the revelation has scared you and that's why you ran away in the morning." He paused for a second.

"BUT I would have never thought that you're such a coward to continue running away from me for another whole month."

"What do you mean by running away? That night was just a mistake I don't wish to repeat! Ever!" Miri tried to defend herself but she somehow knew that she was going to lose this argument.

"Oh, please! Would you stop denying it? Just face it, you were the one who started it one month ago!"

"NO, I wasn't!" Miri almost screamed, scared and not wanting to admit the truth even now.

"Ahhh!" Dearka just angrily shouted and looked up to the sky. "You and your fear! When will you realize that you can't live like that forever?"

"What do you mean? I have nothing to be scared of!"

Dearka arched his eyebrows in pretended surprise. "Oh, really? And what about losing me in a battle?"

His words blanketed Miri. Her lips started to tremble as she felt a twinge of pain in her chest. She would have never thought that he knew about it. His next sentence only confirmed her fear.

"Did you think I didn't know the reason you broke up with me?" Dearka smiled unhappily. "Why do you think I let you go so easily? I knew even without you telling me that you don't want to go through the same horror you did after Tolle's death."

Miri just sat there, unable to move or talk. A silence spread between them.

"But I'm soldier and I'll always be so you better accept it." Miri lifted her head confused by Dearka's sudden change of voice and saw him smiling the way he always does. But before she could ask what he meant by that, Dearka continued.

"Because, my dear Miri, now the war is over and I'm not going to let you slip away from my grasp again."

His self-confident declaration annoyed her. 'And for one moment I thought he was serious.' She thought angrily.

Dearka stood up and looked down on her. Patting her head he continued.

"I'll be at Ceasar's hotel till tomorrow evening so you can find me there when you're ready to stop running away from yourself. Till then."

Miri shook his hand from her head. "You wish! I won't EVER come!"

Dearka just smiled and waved at her before closing the door leaving totally pissed off Miri behind.

"WHO DOES HE THINKS HE IS TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" Miri jumped off her seat, fuming with anger and breathing heavily while trying to calm down her nerves and vigorously beating heart.

"He just walks in, says whatever he wants and then leaves with 'come to find me when you're ready'? HA!"

She was marching around the room to calm herself down before she suddenly lost all the energy and sat down on a sofa. She closed her eyes and leaned against it. Letting a small sigh to escape her mouth, she looked up to the sky.

'I have no right to be angry. Dearka was right. I'm really a coward...' She smiled sadly. 'I like him so much yet I still run away…' She looked down to her stomach and placed her right hand over it as if the tiny baby inside could give her the wanted answer. Slowly she smiled. Before Dearka's visit she didn't know what to think about her sudden discovery and she didn't even want to imagine having a baby but suddenly her feelings took a one hundred and eighty degree turn. 'Is it because of your daddy's visit, baby?' She asked. Her mind finally settled down and she knew what she was going to do.

"Alright." She said aloud as she stood up and went to kitchen where she took the pregnancy kit from the bin.

She smiled cunningly. 'Dear baby, your daddy's going to have an evening he won't ever forget!'