Mercy knew that she was pregnant with Bitterroot's child when her courses didn't hit her for over the past five months. But still, she worries about the damned Legion.
And yet, one of her hunches were right. The Fiends had captured her for chems from the Legion. But, when she was delivered to Cottonwood Cove, she met her Aunt Sierra there because she was a freed slave with whom Vulpes gave his heart to and she had the young woman released from her bonds.
She asked," Who's child are you bearing my dear? And I hope that he will make you happy for the rest of your life. Now, come, let's get you to the Hill for some much needed fresh clothes, a bath and some food darling."
On the way there, she told her aunt everything that she had told her father when she was told that she was pregnant. And she also had told Bittterroot and he was happier than he ever was long before they felt the same attractions to each other since becoming fast friends as children. They sent a pigeon to the camp telling them where she was at the moment and that she's safe... for now anyway.
Bitterroot began to nearly lose his temper when he had gotten control of it and asked, "So, why in the living nine hells would Fiends capture Mercy? Maybe, it's because of the fact that she's pregnant with my child right now and they figured that the damned legion would be able to use her. Thing is, there was a fresh treaty made between Vulpes and his half sister, the Courier before she died nineteen years ago. Stating that the Legion wouldn't harass the NCR and leave the Dam alone. So, what the hell are they thinking of? I mean, they've also ablioshed slavery too. So she'd be a freed woman once there, and her aunt and uncle would also keep an eye on her too. We hope."
The Great Khans also knew that they had a hand in keeping Mercy alive too. Because they knew the Courier before she found her half brother and became a worker for the Nashes as a courier. And yet, the fact that one of their own was from Red Canyon and living while working for the NCR was surprising. Bitteroot's mother was once a Great Khan, but at least she knows of her history and raised her son outside of the Great Khans but maintained a heathly relationship with them back home in the canyon of course.
As she was taken to the Fort, she knew that at least she wouldn't have to worry about being raped at all by the men there. and eventually, she will head to Flagstaff and finally, home to Camp Mcarran when it's time of course. So for the next month or two, Mercy was moved around because there was someone who wanted her dead because of who her mother was. And that someone was an assassin named Meria. And she has hated her half sister ever since her mother married Manny Vargas.