Three years passed and Zoey moved out on her own, along with her three year old little girl.
It turned out that what the doctor had found that was causing Zoey to be sick al the time, was the simple fact that she was pregnant. Everyone believed that the child was Zoey and Mark's, but Zoey knew better. For starters, she and Mark may have been going out, but nothing ever went passed a light kiss on the cheek. Then there were the child's ears, not as long as Cyniclon ears, but not exactly human ones either, a little in between.
The doctors had thought that the ears had been a birth defect, so Zoey let everyone believe that, but of course she knew that they weren't a defect at all, just sweet ears.
Zoey had decided to move out on her own after having the baby. So she'd gotten a nice sized apartment and kept the rent paid with her wages from the cafe, but that wasn't enough to take care of everything, so she got another job. She worked during the night, as a Naughty waitress at an open late bar. She didn't like it when she was groped of course, but she couldn't just think of herself, she had a smaller life to think of now, and her daughter was the one thing that got her through the night. The security wasn't bad either, the bouncers would throw anyone out if they touched the waitresses, so she didn't mind all that much working there. It was the time schedule that got to her though.
She still went to school during the early part of the day and afternoon, then worked at the cafe. She had about two hours to spend with her daughter, who she'd named Anya, then she went to work at the bar. Had only a few hours to sleep, until she had to get up for school again and start the entire schedual over again.
Her mom took care of Anya during the day and night for her, then Zoey would pick Anya up from there and head home, where she sometimes had to get Anya back to sleep, before being able to go to sleep herslef. Sometimes, Zoey got no sleep and just went on with the schedule.
No one except for Zoey's parents knew of the secnd job, and Zoey was not about to tell Elliot and the girls that she was working at an open late bar, it was bad enough telling ehr parents that she was working there, but she had to do what she had to, to take care of her child.
More then once Zoey's mind focused on Dren, and what had happened to him and the others. They'd left three years ago, right after Deep Blue was destroyed. She had hoped he'd come back one day, even if it was only to ask her one last time to come with him, she knew what she'd say this time.