I wrote this scene a LONG time before I finished the fic. It takes place 6 years after the events of Animals and Prizes, and is, well, one way things could go. :)

"Look!" Tori yelped. "This is stupid! We've been together for like... five years now, and you won't say yes to living with me. I know you like your own space, but you can have your own space. We can mark it, 'JADE'S SPACE,' it will be fine!"

Jade glared at her. "No."

Tori's lower lip pouted. "But we're graduating college. We're going to New York."

"I hate you."

Tori shoved her. "You don't."

"Don't you dare go all alpha on me! I'm not your bitch!"

Tori quickly pulled back. She always had to be careful about that. It wasn't as if she acted all alpha normally, but if she even hinted at it, Jade would freak. (Well, unless they were in bed, and even there they tended to take turns topping.)

Tori sat on the bed and rubbed her temple. "Okay?" she said. "I mean, It's just expensive. I guess I could see if Cat wants a roommate..."

"I get Cat," Jade said. Then she made a face.

"Wouldn't you rather live with me?" Tori wheedled gently. "I'm like, you know, generally calm, and can give you amazing sex."

"You've given me enough of that," Jade snapped.

Tori gaped. "What?" That was the one thing Jade never complained about. Enough sex? What was she going to do?

Jade shrugged. "It's not like I'm going to need it for a while."

"What? I don't- I don't understand."

Jade glared at her. "Do you pay attention at all? I didn't go into heat this month."

Tori scratched her head. "But- but we totally had a sex weekend. I remember, because you tied me to the headboard and then bit me all down my inner thigh and-"

"Shut up!" Jade glared. "Yeah, we fucked, but we didn't heat fuck. We haven't done that for two months. The first time I was like, whatever, not important, and the second time I went to the doctor."

Tori froze. Was she sick? What was this? Was she telling her something horrible?

"And apparently that last doctor I went to back in LA was an idiot."

"Why?"

"He said I didn't need to be on birth control pills if I was just sleeping with you."

Tori choked out a laugh. "Well, duh. I mean, it's not like I can-"

Jade quirked an eyebrow.

"What?" Tori's eyes widened. The curve of Jade's lips expanded into a rather mona-lisa-esque smile. "You're not serious."

"You're an alpha. If male omegas can get knocked up, it's only fair that you can knock me up."

"But how does-" she looked at her hands. As far as she knew she had never ejaculated cups of sperm from her palm or fingertips.

Jade snorted and grabbed her crotch. Tori squealed and tried to pull away, but Jade was pressed against her. A brush of lips against hers and she was stepping away. "The doctor said it seriously isn't easy to do it on accident. Mostly it involves fucking around with turkey basters. But apparently we had enough cross-pollenation of fluids to manage it. Must be because you're insatiable." Jade considered this for a moment. "Actually, it's probably because I like watching you masturbate yourself and then don't make you wash your hands before you touch me."

Tori sank onto the bed. "So you're- you're..."

Jade rolled her eyes. "Pregnant, yes."

"Mine?"

Jade flicked her head. "You saying I'm sleeping around on you?"

"My parents are going to kill me."

Jade laughed. "Because you knocked up your omega mate?"

"We're twenty-two!" Tori swallowed. "And- you... you don't want to live with me."

Jade glanced down and let herself smile. "I... may have been fucking with you. I mean, I'm going to be needing to be out looking for work, so you're staying home with the kid."

Tori grinned. "Okay."

Jade froze. "Okay?"

"Well, it makes sense, doesn't it? I can stay home, write songs, work on my next album, and you can pound the pavements and write and star in broadway shows. That was what we planned anyway. It just sounds like even more fun now."

Jade was staring at her, head slightly tipped, eyes bright with what could only have been tears. "You mean that?"

"Definitely," Tori said.

"Stop lying to me!"

Tori's eyes widened. "Lying? I'm not-"

"When are you going to start treating me like an omega? If it's not now, when I'm having your fucking kid, when is it? I'm the omega. I'm not supposed to tell you what to do. I'm supposed to stay home with the kid. I'm supposed to-"

Tori covered her mouth. "Jade."

Jade bit her.

"Ow! Jade! Stop being crazy! I don't treat you like an omega because you're not 'an omega' to me. You're Jade. And Jade, yeah, Jade's an omega. You can tell because she's smoking hot and drives me crazy once a month, but she's not just an omega. She's also an actress, and super smart, and has the best fashion sense I've ever met, and loves scissors, and loves me, I hope."

Jade gaped at her, and then started to cry.

"Hey! Hey!" Tori enveloped her in her arms. "Don't cry, baby!"

"I'm not your baby," Jade muttered into her arm.

"No," Tori said softly, her hand sliding down to press against Jade's flat belly. "You're not. But you're the one I love, right?"

She felt a slight nod against her arm.

"And you love me back?"

Jade snorted softly. "Yeah," she said. "I love you back."

Tori's mother gave them one very tense look, pulled Jade into the backyard and had a conversation that went on long enough for Tori to start to feel very uncomfortable. Finally she gave in and peeked - trying to hear what they were talking about. But when she looked, Holly had Jade wrapped up in a tight embrace and they weren't saying anything at all.

When they came back, Holly gave Tori her own hug. "You're a good girl," she murmured in her ear.

"Yeah, I kind of don't feel like that right now."

Holly grinned at her. "This is going to suck for you. Please let me know if you need anything. Even - and possibly especially - a break from each other."

When they told her dad, he gaped and looked from Tori to Jade and back again, as if he didn't know who to threaten to shoot with his handgun. Cat claimed godmother, Andre godfather, and god help the child if she actually had to be raised by those two crazy betas.

The sympathetic alpha hormones were a pain in the neck, and Tori did get a little crazy and possessive and defensive, but she tried to channel it into waiting on Jade hand and foot, which Jade was entirely okay with.

Jade wouldn't let her sing lullabies to her stomach. She would grab Tori by the arm and drag her up to the top of the bed. "Get up here and sing them to me."

"I thought you hated my singing."

"I don't hate it less when I can't see your stupid face."

Tori sang to her anyways, and Jade decided that she was just going to enjoy being treated like a queen, because she deserved it, and always had.