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"I love rock n roll! So put another dime in the jukebox, baby!" Sarah sang to the music that was thumping from the CD player, running her hands over Jane as the loric ground back against her.
"I love rock n roll! So come an take your time an dance with me!" Jane sang back, a smirk playing on her lips as she moved her hips seductively to the beat against her lover, looking back at the grin on her face. "Said can I take you home where we can be alone?"
Sarah grinned even wider as they danced and sang before the phone rang and she groaned when Jane left her to dance alone in the middle of the room and she moved her hips seductively, seeing the loric's eyes following her intently as she pressed several buttons blindly, making her laugh.
Jane stuck her tongue out before finally pressing the right button and turned serious out of habit, Sarah was the only one she loosened up around while everyone else got her warrior side. "This is Six," she said bluntly before biting her lip when her gaze returned to her mate's dancing form and she swallowed slightly at the smouldering look in the hazel eyes and nearly hung up the phone. "Huh?"
"I said, we found a party of mogadorians," John repeated slowly, wishing the music would get turned off soon so he could hear more clearly. "They're a few hours' drive from you, the rest of us are heading to their location now to clean house."
"Count me in," Jane said instantly, finally registering what the other loric was saying. "I'll be on the road in a few minutes, call me about the meeting place."
"Ok, call you in a few hours," John said shortly before hanging up.
Sarah blinked as she watched Jane hang up and pick up her travel bag, checking it had everything in it before adding her dagger to it and she turned off the music instantly. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Where do you think you're going?"
"Four just called, they found some mogadorians a few hours from here and we're going to clean house," Jane said as she snatched up her keys before finding her way blocked by her less than impressed lover. "Sarah, they need me, you know I'm the best fighter they have-."
"And the best fighter they have is on maternity leave," Sarah said bluntly, crossing her arms over her chest. "You can't seriously expect to be able to fight right now, Jane, what about the baby?"
"I'll be fine and the baby will be fine," Jane said soothingly, trailing her hands down the outside of Sarah's arms from her shoulders slowly, trying to soften her up. "And I won't be alone, don't forget, the others will be there to pull their weight and kill their share of mogadorians, I probably won't even get to break a sweat."
Sarah grumbled slightly, knowing this was probably true considering the number of times Jane had come home in a foul mood because there hadn't been enough mogadorians for her to kill with the others around. "Fine...but if it's so safe I'm going with you and if you even open your mouth to argue that it's too dangerous then you can forget about going."
Jane shut her mouth instantly and glared silently at her lover, trying to make her back down before checking the time and scowled heavily. "You stay out of the way though, I don't want you to get hurt," she said sternly before going out to the car while Sarah locked up the house quickly and packed her own bag with food for the trip. She sighed as she started the car and resisted beeping the horn, not wanting to attract attention from the neighbours, so she drummed her fingers on the steering wheel impatiently as Sarah locked the front door and ran to the car, throwing her packs into the back before climbing into the passenger seat. "Got everything?"
"Ask me that again and I won't share my snacks," Sarah said loftily before answering the phone as Jane pulled onto the road and started to head out of town before she gave her directions to the meeting place from John as she looked over a map. "It'll take us about eight hours to get to the meeting place from here."
"Except I'm driving," Jane said with a smirk before stepping on the gas and smirked even more at the yelp from Sarah as she dropped the map. "Hope you've got your seatbelt on."
Sarah glared, not impressed, but checked her seatbelt before checking the radio for anything good that could make the trip go faster and distract her from Jane's unsettling driving that still made her feel a little queasy sometimes. "Promise me if I tell you to pull over that you'll pull over."
Jane blinked and glanced at her beloved before wincing slightly and nodded, her eyes apologetic, the last time she'd ignored Sarah's request to stop she'd nearly crashed the car when she'd started throwing up into her bag and had needed to replace it. She grimaced at the memory, she'd needed to wash everything that had been in the bag and use air freshener in the car, but that was only after she'd calmed down a humiliated Sarah and promised her a thousand times that it was alright and that she'd never liked the bag anyway. "I promise, babe."
Sarah nodded as she relaxed in her seat, letting her eyes close as she listened to the radio, smiling slightly when she felt a comforting hand rub her thigh and let her hand rest on it. "I'll be fine," she mumbled, giving the hand a reassuring squeeze. "Focus on the road and don't crash."
"Yes ma'am," Jane said with a smile but left her hand on the thigh as she focused on her driving, letting Sarah shift their hands so she could snatch hers back at any time if the need arose. She sighed softly and settled in for the long drive, eager to get to the fight and hoped they didn't start without her.
Five Hours Later:
Sarah stretched with a groan, boredom on her face as she looked around at the scenery before cleaning up the leavings from lunch. "And you mocked me for bringing food."
"Smartass," Jane shot back with a grin before straightening when Sarah slipped a hand onto her thigh and slid inwards, making her groan and struggle to concentrate. "D-Driving," she said hoarsely, clearing her throat several times to just get that much out and resisted closing her eyes at the tender kiss from her lover. "Teaser."
"Mmm~ you love it all the same though," Sarah said lightly, grinning smugly at the look her fierce loric warrior sent her. "Focus on driving."
Jane grumbled but obeyed and turned serious as they entered the small town they were supposed to be meeting the others in and her eyes scanned the buildings and signs, looking for the meeting point before recognising John's SUV and casually pulled over. "You feel like some coffee?"
"I feel like a restroom," Sarah said bluntly as she stepped out of the car gingerly, ignoring the chuckle from her mate as she got out of the car and locked it. She didn't wait as she hobbled into the cafe, not stopping when the others greeted her as she hurried around to the bathrooms.
"What's up with the human?" Luke asked with a smirk, enjoying anytime that Sarah spent in discomfort.
Jane glared at the loric as she sat down next to Marina, not even bothering to answer the annoyance that was Five, all he thought about was getting in her pants for the 'good of the loric race'. She smirked inwardly at the memory of regretfully and sorrowfully telling the group a lucky shot from a mogadorian had left her unable to reproduce. It hadn't stopped Luke from bothering her though, since he knew how much it upset Sarah, which was also one of the reasons why she'd told the lie, even though she'd been very impressed the time her lover launched herself across a picnic table and started to strangle him. It had taken both John and Crayton to drag Sarah off the loric while she'd nearly laughed herself sick at his expression...the following evening had consisted of very hot sex that still gave her a lop-sided grin.
"Earth calling Six, you in there?" Ella said as she waved a hand in front of Jane's eyes, a little disconcerted at her expression.
"She's thinking about her life mate naked," Marina said casually, grinning when the youngest loric jerked her hand away as if Jane might bite it off while Luke scowled heavily. "Since Six is busy daydreaming I think we should just leave her here and go kill the mogadorians ourselves."
Jane snapped out of her daydream so fast it was amazing she didn't get whiplash. "Six isn't getting left anywhere; you guys couldn't kill a mogadorian without me even if they were tied to trees and painted neon orange. I want to kill already!"
A waitress stopped at the proclamation, alarm on her face as she stared at the group.
"Your eagerness to kill people in paintball disturbs us, honestly, you should seek help," Adelina said dryly, discreetly covering Jane's slip as the waitress relaxed and moved on. "Watch your mouth; you've never been so loose before, you shouldn't even-."
"I'm fine, just itching to play some 'paintball'," Jane said shortly, cutting off the Cêpan instantly and giving her a warning look, she hadn't thought about the baby all day and she didn't want to start now, or for the others to find out about it. She shifted slightly in the booth when Sarah returned and rested a hand on her thigh and felt her hand slip onto hers gently. Unlike the others they couldn't make public displays of affection, it was too noticeable when two young women started exchanging kisses, she'd nearly had a meltdown when a group of high school boys had started taking pictures of them and they'd decided it was best to keep their public affections discreet so they could remain inconspicuous. "So where are they?"
"A few miles from here, Luke has been playing the bait to keep them around for the past few days," John said lightly but it was clear he wasn't impressed. "We'll drive and then stop a mile from their location before going in on foot and picking them off one by one until we break into the inevitable all out fight."
"I prefer the all out fight," Jane said impatiently, knowing she'd be the one doing most of the sneaking through the dirt to pick the enemy off one by one, she liked fast and flashy, not slow and sneaky.
"You hang back then while the rest of us deal with them," Adelina said firmly, giving Jane a warning look that if she argued she'd spill her secret.
Jane glared at the Cêpan but didn't call her bluff and smirked slightly. "Fine, I'll come in at the last moment and save your asses."
"Cowboy," Marina muttered, knowing there was a high chance they'd need Jane to step in.
'My cowgirl.'
Jane held back a smirk and glanced at her lover, who was looking the other way innocently. 'My bronco.'
Sarah coughed to hide her smile, her cheeks reddening slightly in a blush as she forced her gaze to stay away from the loric before her lips curled upwards slightly as a memory surfaced and nearly laughed when Jane choked on her water.
"Ok, enough you two," Crayton said sternly, guessing what was going on between the pair and they couldn't afford distractions right now.
"Sorry," Sarah said apologetically, patting Jane on the back as the loric cleared her throat firmly.
"We need to be in position within the hour," John said briskly, moving on before the two could start up and disrupt the meeting all over again. "No engine revving, got it?"
Nods went around the booth before they left money on the table for their drinks and filed out, innocently chatting about paintball as they passed the waitress.
"Six," John said quietly when they were outside and he jerked his head, glancing at Sarah as she chatted with Ella while Jane joined him. "Why is Sarah here? I thought we all agreed we'd leave the humans out of this for their own safety."
"She blackmailed me," Jane said dryly, her expression clearly saying she wasn't about to divulge details on the subject. "And with so many of us here she'll be fine, I'll keep her safe, Four."
John made a noise of reluctance but nodded and withdrew to his SUV, talking with the others before getting in and starting the car, waiting for her to start her car before following the SUV down the street and out of town before turning onto a dirt track.
"I want you to stay in the car," Jane said quietly, keeping her eyes on the back of the SUV. "I need you to be safe-."
"I wanted a pony when I was seven years old," Sarah said lightly as she looked at the forest they were driving into. "Didn't matter how much I wanted it, I never got the pony I wanted."
Jane blinked, confused at the unexpected story. "Um, ok, but I'm not talking about ponies, I'm talking abou-."
"You're talking about what you want and I'm telling you, you don't always get what you want, no matter how much you want it," Sarah said coolly, turning her gaze on her lover. "This is one of the times when you won't get what you want; I'm not letting you out of my sight, Six."
Jane physically cringed, she hated it when Sarah called her that and she knew it, she hazarded a glance at Sarah and nearly cringed again at the gaze, feeling the unfamiliar sensation from their bond that made her submit without explanation. "Ok then, but just stay out of the way and if I tell you to run, you run."
"Fine," Sarah said shortly, turning her gaze back out the window and heard a shaky exhale from the loric and sensed her trying to regain her composure through their bond but stayed silent as she watched the scenery go by until the SUV quietly stopped in front of them and Jane pulled alongside.
"We go on foot from here," Luke said as he checked his weapons before frowning when Sarah got out of the car. "No humans."
"Shut up, Five," Jane snapped, her eyes dangerous as she stared him down, even reaching for her loric dagger that was strapped to her back.
Luke scowled heavily and looked at John for support and ground his teeth angrily when he didn't get any before stomping off in the direction of the mogadorian camp, the others following warily, ready for anything.
"I'm surprised you're letting them get so far ahead," Sarah commented as she watched the group disappear while Jane ambled along.
"I'm the reserve and make sure no one circles around them from behind, it's also good so if they walk into a trap so someone is free to help," Jane explained boredly, her eyes flicking from tree to tree warily, she might appear casual but her muscles were ready to snap into action. "Four came up with the strategy after reading some book; it's a good idea except I'm the one who gets left out of all the fun in the end since I'm the best fighter."
"Woe is you," Sarah said with a smirk, being sure to stay a pace behind Jane, just off her flank, so she wouldn't get in the way, she flinched when a pair of birds chirped in the trees overhead somewhere and looked down. "Jane-."
"Please don't start, I need to focus right now, Sarah, and I promised you that I'd be fine," Jane said quietly, trying to keep her focus, distractions like this could be fatal to herself and to the others, another reason why she preferred Sarah to not come on these hunts. She heard a grumble behind her and smiled slightly, she was off the hook, for now, but she was going to get it later...she could deal with that. She stiffened when she heard yelling and fighting up ahead and froze, signalling Sarah to stop silently as she waited, she couldn't move unless someone called for her.
"It's started," Sarah murmured, also hearing the fighting and stayed still as she waited, trusting the loric knew what she was doing.
"SIX!"
Jane exploded forward instantly, as if she were a racehorse bursting from the starting gate, leaping over shrubbery as she ran towards the fighting, hearing Sarah following as they approached the fight and she fired her loric gun, killing two mogadorians as she stopped on the edge of the fray, firing at the enemy while the others dodged and ducked, steadily wearing them down. She smirked as she shot another before a rather nasty looking mogadorian spotted her and her confidence abandoned her suddenly as her body seemed to pulse and she dropped her gun, her eyes wide as she gasped for breath at the fear running through her gut. The baby, the baby was in danger; they were going to kill the baby.
"Six, what are you doing?" John demanded as he fought off three mogadorians at once, his teeth grit as he looked back at Jane who seemed frozen, her expression torn, normally she would have been all over this fight but she wasn't even moving, her loric gun forgotten on the ground. "SIX!"
Jane started out of her trance at the yell and at the sight of the mogadorian coming at her with a sword and she stumbled back, her arms wrapping around her stomach protectively as terror filled her, she had to get away, she had to protect the baby. She started when she felt a weight get removed from her back before Sarah appeared in front of her, Jane's loric dagger in hand, as she stood unmoving and unafraid as the mogadorian charged.
"COME ON!" Sarah shouted angrily, her eyes blazing as the two blades met and she surprisingly held her ground against the alien, who growled as they pressed against each other.
"Sarah!" John yelled, concerned and surprised that she was holding her own against a mogadorian while Jane looked frozen still, her face a picture of terror. He quickly shot and knifed his opponents before taking careful aim and shot the mogadorian Sarah was locked with and heaved a sigh of relief when the alien was reduced to dust before looking around to see the others ending their own battles quickly. He relaxed as the last mogadorian was reduced to dust before looking back at Sarah and Jane and a dark frown descended on his face as he approached the two. "What the hell was that, Six?"
Sarah bristled before starting when Jane fell to her knees and ran to her side instantly, pressing her close, whispering so only the two of them could hear. "Are you alright?"
Jane shook her head shakily, trembling. "N-No..."
Sarah stiffened instantly, worry flooding her. "Did you get hit?"
"I-I couldn't m-move," Jane whispered, feeling a painful lump forming in her throat.
Sarah softened before wrapping her arms around the trembling form of her mate comfortingly. "It's alright, you're safe."
Jane buried her face in Sarah's shoulder as she held onto her as tightly as she could without injuring her as she tried to keep it together. "The baby..."
Sarah gently shifted a hand down to rest over the miniscule curve in Jane's abdomen. "The baby's safe too, you're both safe."
Jane nodded but did nothing more as the two stayed like that for several minutes while Adelina ordered John off the two, letting them have some space but not saying why, it wasn't her place.
"How about we go home and I make you some soup?" Sarah suggested softly before smiling at the nod she got in reply before helping her lover to her feet and dusted her off gently. "And after that a nice bubble bath."
"You two have some explaining to do," John said bluntly, his eyes narrowed.
Sarah bristled and moved her arm around Jane protectively as she stared down her ex; surprising him at the look so much that he stepped back slightly at the intensity. "We are going home."
John grit his teeth, putting his foot down. "No, an explanation is due here; people could have been killed from her freezing up!"
"But no one was killed so there is no need for an explanation!" Sarah snapped angrily before starting when Jane disappeared suddenly and she felt panic consume her, Jane's legacies were acting up again.
John fumed at the disappearance. "SIX, GET BACK HERE!"
Sarah ignored the loric as she focused on her bond with Jane before running off without a backward glance, jumping into her car when she reached it and gunning the engine, dirt flying as she sped off, not even noticing the others following in her haste to get to Jane, her heart pounding in her ears as she drove. She focused on their bond as hard as she could as she drove, getting snatches of the scenery and recognised several landmarks as she stepped on the accelerator, cursing how slow the car was. "Come on, you stupid thing!" she yelled at the machine, hitting the wheel with her hand. "Come on!"
With Jane:
Jane gasped as she landed heavily on her front, her nose flooding with the scent of dirt and dead leaves and she pulled herself up quickly, her heart racing as she looked around frantically before scrambling back through the leaf litter, pressing her back against the rough bark of a broad tree. She wrapped her arms around her abdomen protectively as she drew her knees up to her chest, her muscles trembling from adrenaline, not even able to hear Sarah through their bond as a sob escaped her lips in the quiet of the forest.
Several Hours Later - With Sarah:
Sarah slammed on the brakes and automatically put the parking brake on as she looked at the beginning of the forest trail, flinging herself out of the car. "Jane!" she yelled frantically as she galloped down the trail, hearing cars stop behind her as the others followed quickly, calling her back.
"Sarah, stop!" John shouted as he tried to catch up with the woman and normally would have if he hadn't been fighting a whole party of Mogadorians a few hours earlier as he heard Marina, Adelina, Crayton, Ella and Luke following him as Sarah disappeared from sight and the sound of her yells faded into the dense forest.
"Jane? Jane!" Sarah called as she ran through the forest before hearing a noise and stopped, listening carefully before running in the direction of the sound, catching a glimpse of blonde hair before she skidded to a stop in front of the big tree and her beloved. "Jane."
Jane looked up tearfully before latching onto her lover and cried her heart out. "I can't do this, Sarah!"
Sarah stiffened before softening and sat down in the dead leaves, keeping a firm grip on the sobbing, trembling form as she rubbed her back soothingly. "It's alright, babe, I'm here," she said reassuringly, feeling Jane press closer for comfort as she cried.
"Six?" Marina said uncertainly as the group approached the two.
Sarah looked back at the group warily, tightening her hold on Jane instantly. "She's ok."
Marina nodded, relief on her face since she knew what was really going on unlike the others, except Adelina, but they were both concerned about how Jane was doing and how the others were going to react when they found out.
"What is going on?" John asked impatiently, his eyes narrowed on the two, twitching slightly at the hard looks he got from Sarah, Marina and Adelina.
Adelina shifted into a more defensive position for the couple as she faced the rest of the group, staring them down steadily, tempted to tell them what was going on but kept herself in check since it wasn't her place to say anything.
Sarah bristled at the tone John was using and aiming primarily at her pregnant mate. "She's with child, so I think the lot of you should back off before I make you."
The effect was instant as jaws dropped and stunned expressions took over faces as they tried to process the statement and most reached the conclusion that Jane had been unfaithful to Sarah but that made them wonder why Sarah was defending her so fiercely.
"Who's the father?" Luke growled, ready to tear the pathetic human to pieces.
"None of your business," Sarah snarled, locking eyes with the loric instantly.
Luke bristled instantly, ready to go head to head with the human. "No filthy human should have planted his seed in her; she claimed she couldn't get pregnant!"
Sarah fumed, rage pounding through her so hard it made her head throb. "You do NOT get to talk about her! It is NONE of your business! Our lives are NONE of your business!"
Luke growled, his loric power blazing around him furiously. "Six is a loric and it is her duty to help rebuild our race and Lorien! THAT makes it my business!"
"No! Your only interest is the fact that you wanted to get her pregnant yourself but she refused and refused to let you guilt her with your talk about rebuilding the loric race! You're angry because she's my life mate and refused to betray me to you!" Sarah shouted furiously, standing up while Marina crouched down by Jane to comfort her. "You're just scum! Scum like half the HUMAN guys I knew in high school!"
Luke yelled angrily as he charged before he suddenly found himself pinned by John, Adelina and Crayton while Ella went around to Marina and Jane.
Sarah felt herself torn between charging at Luke and giving him a piece of her mind and staying in her defensive position in front of Jane as she watched John and the two Cêpan yell at the struggling and bellowing Luke as they restrained him.
"S-Sarah."
Sarah stiffened before instantly going to her lover's side. "Babe, what's wrong?"
"I wanna go home," Jane whispered tearfully.
Sarah nodded instantly, brushing a lock of hair off of Jane's face gently. "Ok, I'll take you home now for some soup and maybe a movie," she murmured softly as she coaxed her beloved up with Ella and Marina before guiding her to the car and Marina got in the driver's seat with Ella in the passenger's seat so the couple could be in the back together. She shifted to get Jane more comfortable as the loric laid down with her head in her lap before clicking the seatbelt on carefully so the woman was secure and her abdomen was safe as Marina started the car and headed back to their house. "We'll be home soon, baby, just relax."
Jane nodded with a sniffle, her face red with humiliation as she closed her eyes and buried her face in Sarah's lap, wishing they were already home so she could curl up on the bed with Sarah to hold her and tell her everything would be ok. She shuddered before taking deep breaths, focusing on keeping her legacies in check and staying in the car with Sarah, not wanting to leave her again and relaxed uneasily when gentle fingers stroked her hair comfortingly. "S-Sarah..."
"Shhh, it's alright," Sarah breathed soothingly as she stroked the blonde locks gently, feeling the tension slowly wane from the pregnant body as the loric continued to sniffle. "We'll be home soon and I'll make you some soup, what kind of soup would you like?"
"Tomato," Jane whispered hoarsely, shifting to get more comfortable and rest a hand on her abdomen before looking down when she felt a hand there already before looking up at Sarah and felt the fear wash out of her as if she'd stepped into a nice hot shower as she met the hazel eyes. "The baby-."
"The baby's safe in your tummy and you're safe," Sarah said soothingly, rubbing the unseen curve gently before entwining her fingers with the loric's. "I love you."
Jane felt her chin wobble and wondered why she was crying as she buried her face in her beloved's lap again to hide her tears. "I love you too."
Sarah smiled at the muffled reply into her lap and squeezed the hand in her grip while continuing to stroke the blonde locks gently, lost in her own thoughts as they lost track of time.
"We're here," Marina said suddenly, breaking the silence after what felt like a couple of seconds, before looking back at the couple. "Sarah?"
"Hm?" Sarah said absently before looking up when she realised they'd stopped. "We're home already? How fast were you driving? You could've had an accident, Marina!"
Marina glared at the human indignantly, resisting the urge to bop her in the head.
"She didn't go over eighty and has been driving for nine hours," Ella said blankly, bewildered at the behaviour and questions. "She didn't speed once; you've been dozing the whole time, both of you."
Sarah blinked, her mouth forming a small 'o' before she looked at Marina meekly. "Sorry, I just want to keep them both safe," she said apologetically before looking down at the dozing Jane fondly, brushing a stray lock of hair back into place gently. "I need to keep them both safe."
Marina smiled slightly and nodded while Ella got out of the car to get the door for them and help get Jane out of the car and she sighed silently, wondering when she was going to find her life mate so she could feel what the other couples felt. She shook herself from her thoughts before helping to rouse the sleeping loric and followed the couple into the house, Jane steadily regaining some of her confidence as they went inside.
"Ella, can you lock the front door? And Marina, could you check the security monitors and sensors?" Sarah asked as she steered Jane down the hall to the bedroom, trusting the two lorics to take the security measures seriously while she took care of Jane.
"I'm fine," Jane said hoarsely before clearing her throat and speaking a little stronger. "I don't need you hovering over me."
"You need rest, the baby needs rest," Sarah said firmly as she manhandled her lover into the bedroom and sat her down on the bed before pulling her boots off with a grunt as the loric stood up again. "So you're both going to rest."
"But-," Jane started before startling back at the look Sarah sent her and the overwhelming surge of dominance from her through their bond and stumbled back onto the bed, laying back obediently under the stern gaze, trying to remember how to speak, her eyes wide.
"Get comfortable, I'll go make you your tomato soup and if you get up for anything that isn't related to the bathroom...you don't want to know what," Sarah said sweetly as she set the boots aside and pulled off Jane's jacket before setting it aside. "Ok?"
Jane nodded mutely, her eyes wide as her voice failed her completely, too shocked to argue and she didn't want to know what would happen if she disobeyed, and watched dumbly as Sarah trotted out to the kitchen before staring at the ceiling, wondering what had just happened and how it had happened.
In the Kitchen:
"Make yourselves at home," Sarah said as she started on the tomato soup, setting out the jug of lemonade and two glasses for them before focusing on the stove as she cooked.
"Thanks," Ella said eagerly, pouring herself a generous glass before letting Marina take the jug and toasted the other single loric before sipping happily. "Yummy, did you make this yourself?"
"Yeah, Jane likes it," Sarah said casually as she adjusted the heat on the stove carefully before starting to stir briskly.
Marina glanced at Ella before looking back at Sarah silently, sipping the lemonade as they watched her cook before making small talk while they waited for the soup to cook. After half an hour, Sarah served up the soup into a bowl with some buttered bread before disappearing in the direction of the bedroom, leaving the two to go to the security room and check everything was alright.
In the bedroom:
Jane sat up eagerly when she saw the approaching bowl of food in the hands of her mate and smiled appreciatively. "Is that for me?"
"All for you, babe," Sarah said with a smile as she set the tray table across Jane's thighs before putting down the bowl of soup and buttered bread. "Careful, it's hot."
"Not as hot as you though," Jane said with a grin, earning a tender kiss before starting on the soup hungrily, groaning at the flavour. "This is delicious; you need to teach me how to cook this."
Sarah raised a brow slightly as she sat down across from the loric. "Babe, you set the kitchen on fire the last time you attempted to boil an egg and now you're pregnant, I think you should just leave the hot cooking to me."
Jane scowled, her cheeks reddening slightly in a blush as she avoided Sarah's gaze. "But-."
"You also set the microwave on fire trying to make popcorn," Sarah said bluntly, barely managing to keep a straight face. "The neighbours called the fire brigade on us and we had to move and I really liked that place, there were so many things I wanted to photograph before we had to leave."
"Fine, I won't cook anything," Jane said shortly, clearly sulking as she remembered her failed attempts to cook, it was a miracle she and Katarina had survived. If it hadn't been for fast food and takeaway they would've died from starvation long before the mogadorians found them...unless the mogadorians saw the raging infernos their cooking attempts created.
Sarah choked back at laugh at the memories and thoughts she got through their bond before looking at Jane ruefully. "You're all warrior, aren't you?"
"I was," Jane said bluntly, running a hand over her abdomen, unable to stop her hand tremor and glanced up quickly to see if Sarah had seen before closing her eyes and leaned back against her pillows. "I'm fine, Sarah."
"You could've been killed, the baby could've been killed, you're not getting into anymore fights, the next time John calls everyone about the mogadorians you're going in the opposite direction-," Sarah said sternly before getting cut off by an outraged splutter.
"You can't-," Jane started before pressing back against the pillows at Sarah's expression.
"I can, you can't go running around putting our baby in danger," Sarah said bluntly, leaving no room for debate. "There's no way you're going out there and being a badass loric warrior, not while I'm still breathing at least, you froze up out there today because you knew you weren't meant to be there! Because the baby was there! And you won't go back out there because you won't put the baby in harm's way."
Jane hesitated before looking down at the hand on her stomach, feeling two sides warring inside her, the hardened loric warrior she'd been raised as, versus, this strange, highly emotional and tentative loric who'd come out of nowhere suddenly but was more than a match for her hardened loric warrior side. She set the empty soup bowl aside and shifted closer when Sarah laid down next to her before closing her eyes slowly when slender fingers started to stroke her hair slowly, dipping through to her scalp. "Mmm~."
Sarah smiled as she continued stroking, letting go of her anger and listened to the sigh of contentment as she drifted through her own thoughts until Jane's breathing steadied, signalling she was asleep and she slowly untangled herself from the loric, collecting the empty bowl before easing out of the room silently.
"Is she alright?" Marina asked anxiously when Sarah emerged from the bedroom, worried after hearing the loud voices earlier.
"She's sleeping," Sarah said quietly as she put the empty soup bowl in the sink before hitting the counter angrily, holding in her yell of anger to keep from waking Jane.
"Sarah, what's wrong?" Ella exclaimed at the sudden and violent actions.
"Luke is what's wrong," Sarah hissed, venom dripping from her voice at the name. "That arrogant, sick, bastard!"
"Shhh," Marina hissed, reminding them that Jane was asleep down the hall.
Sarah calmed down slightly at the reminder but her anger didn't go away. "What gives him the right to say those things? Jane is my life mate just like I'm hers, he should take a hint and go get hit by a truck already."
"I don't think that would happen, I think he'd throw the truck or jump over it," Marina said awkwardly, trying not to set the human off again. "And you can't think about that now, you need to think about Six and the baby-."
"You knew that Six was pregnant?" Ella demanded with disbelief before covering her mouth at the volume of her voice. "Sorry."
"We went to Adelina when Jane was feeling sick and she told us, Marina was there when she gave the news," Sarah explained quietly, slowly calming down as Marina forced a mug of tea into her hands. "She's about two and a half months, that's our best guess anyway, her legacies keep going crazy."
"How, um, did it even, um, happen?" Ella asked, blushing bright red and unable to meet Sarah's gaze and heard a snicker and glanced at Marina before glaring at her and her suppressed laughter. "No one asked you, Marina."
Marina rolled her eyes but the laughter didn't disappear from them at the redness in the younger loric's cheeks at asking such a personal question about the most respected and feared loric warrior in their limited ranks.
"We don't know how it happened but I know Jane didn't stray from me so...we're saying it's mine," Sarah said uncomfortably, her cheeks reddening slightly but she felt something telling her it was important to meet their gazes. She could see the start of grins on their faces, clearly thinking she was joking until she held their gazes steadily and watched the laughter disappear as they took her seriously and nodded, not even daring to question her.
"O-Ok then," Ella said nervously, clearing her throat and hoped Sarah stopped boring holes through her with her eyes. "Congratulations."
Sarah blinked, surprised at the word and smiled at the feeling it gave her as she looked at the teenage loric. "Thanks Ella."
Ella relaxed with a silent exhale, relieved the tension was gone and smiled warmly, stepping on Marina's toe discreetly.
"Ouch!" Marina yelped before gulping when Sarah's gaze turned on her and smiled meekly. "Yes, congratulations to you and Six both."
Sarah smiled happily before holding up her mug and clinked it against theirs when they raised their mugs before they sipped the drinks and chatted quietly, being sure to keep their voices down so as not to wake Jane.
An insistent beeping from the motion sensors startled them up, Marina and Ella drawing their weapons while Sarah snatched up Jane's, their eyes wary as they took aim at the door.
"It's Crayton and Adelina!" Crayton called through the door quickly, sensing the tension from his charge and dearly hoped they didn't open fire on him and his fellow Cêpan. "Don't attack!"
Ella slipped back into the security room to check the monitors and watched her Cêpan wave at the camera. "It's them."
Sarah relaxed before nodding to Marina to open the door and let the pair in while she set Jane's loric gun back in its place.
"How is she?" Adelina asked while Crayton locked the front door and followed his charge to the security room to keep watch.
"Better, she had some tomato soup and is sleeping now," Sarah said quietly, leaving out the part about having stern words with her life mate.
Adelina nodded as she thought before motioning in the direction of the bedroom. "Go rest, you look exhausted, we'll keep watch and make ourselves at home."
Sarah opened her mouth to protest before feeling a wave of exhaustion bear down on her and slowly closed her mouth with a nod, smiling tiredly. "Thank you," she said appreciatively before trudging back to the bedroom and eased into the room, smiling when she saw Jane curled up on the bed before carefully laying down behind her, cuddling up to her lovingly before allowing herself to drift off with a sigh of contentment.
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