Vicki slowly turned, her heart beating wildly out of her chest. She was shocked to find no one there. Had she been imagining things? She must be, she had to be. She was tired, stressed and maybe pregnant. Hormones would explain it all, wouldn't it?

"Get it together Nelson," she reprimanded herself out loud. She wanted to get some sleep but found she was unable to relax. She kept looking at her cell phone wondering if Henry would call or should she just at least call to see if he was alive? She was still pissed at him so did she care if he was alive? Yes, she did but she wasn't ready to admit that. Laying her head back on her couch, she covered her eyes and rested hoping sleep would come soon. She was tired of worrying, tired of being awake and most of all she just wanted her heart to stop aching. Sleep would eventually come but it would be fitful and full of nightmares. Christina dominated them as she watched Henry and Christina together laughing, kissing and hugging then turning to Vicki, both vampires releasing their beasts as they turned and chased her, trying to kill her. Vicki sat up with a start when Coreen tapped her shoulder and called to her softly.

"Coreen? What time is it?" Vicki peered over to her wall clock and noticed it was already nine a.m. She was sweating, her heart was racing and she was out of sorts.

"You okay? You were crying out in your sleep and I..." Vicki stopped her with a raised hand to her mouth.

"Never speak of that.." she warned through narrowed eyes.

"Sure, no worries.."Coreen handed her a coffee she'd brought in with her, the smell was heavenly and at first, Vicki instinctively grabbed it then stopped realizing if she were pregnant, big cups of java all day would probably have to stop.

"Here.." she handed it back and sat up slowly.

"No, it's decaf, you know.." Coreen nodded toward her stomach, "just in case," she added softly. Coreen waited for Vicki to spat something back at her but amazingly, she didn't.

"Thanks Coreen, you really are a great friend," Vicki told her as she stood up. Coreen had to steady her as she swayed slightly then regained her balance. Vicki was very light-headed and wanted so badly to blame it on not eating yesterday nor this morning yet but knew that wasn't the entire reason.

"I brought you something to eat too, you haven't eaten since sometime yesterday, here," Coreen handed Vicki a croissant and a bagel, not knowing which one she would want more. Coreen had even had the wherewithall to bring cream cheese and butter in anticipation of her wanting one or the other for whichever she chose. Vicki chose the bagel, slathered cream cheese on it and sat back down, her leg up to her chin in a relaxed state. Coreen sat on Vicki's coffee table and tried to talk to her boss in a girly kind of way.

"So, um..what's the plan?" She asked vaguely. Vicki swallowed and gave Coreen a look that said 'what plan?'

"Oh, I mean, you know with the uh..well the..uh.." Coreen was avoiding eye contact, stuttering and trying to sound helpful and supportive.

"The baby or supposed baby I should say," Vicki finally let her off the hook but still wasn't ready to admit she was pregnant either. Was she pregnant or not pregnant? That was the sixty million dollar question.

"Yeah, look, I know I'm not as smart as you guys or even as grown up I guess, but I'm here, if you need to talk to someone just to let it out, okay?"

"I know you are Coreen and to be to honest, I don't what to say. I mean, if there really is a baby, what am I supposed to do or think? How the hell did I get pregnant?" Vicki shared.

"So, you haven't "been with" anyone but Henry?" Coreen was being bold, even using quotation marks with her fingers when she said been with.

"Not that it's any of your beeswax as I have said many times but no, I haven't and that's what puzzles me," she sighed. Coreen reached into the bag she had brought in retrieving a small, rectagular box.

"What the hell is that?"

"A pregnancy test. I thought that maybe if you could see it, you know for real instead of just a piece of paper, you might believe it and be happy," Coreen was ever so bubbly.

"Yeah, I don't think so," she started to hand it back. Vicki reminded Coreen that a blood test was the most reliable, "what good would it do to piss on a little stick to see some pink lines?"

"Come ON Vicki, you know it's eating at you, just cowgirl up and do it!" Coreen said with stern determination as she pushed the box back.

"Fine." Vicki shoved the rest of her bagel into her mouth, decided she felt a little better after eating and went into her bathroom. She came back out, handed the stick to Coreen and sat back down.

"How do we know it's positive?" Vicki asked peering in Coreen's direction.

"It'll say 'pregnant' or 'not pregnant'" Coreen was giddy. Less than a mintue later, they had results.

"There," Coreen announced excitedly, "now do you believe it?"

Vicki looked at the positive result and even though she knew deep down she was, it didn't help.

"Coreen, what if it isn't Henry's?" Vicki asked with reservation.

"What do you mean? I thought you said.." Coreen was puzzled and disurbed at the same time.

"I haven't but there was that little incident with Dahak," Vicki reminded her.

Coreen's face went white.."oh..."