"Do you think we should tell the others?" Tex asked Church as she laid her head on his bear chest.
"At some point." he said after his breath caught up with him. "But lets wait until they start saying something about it." he answered as he closed his eyes to sleep.
"Alright I can live with that." she said. "But you still need to get up."
"Why?" Church questioned. "Unless you want to go again?" he said with a wink.
"No, twice is good for one morning." she gave him a kiss. "But its almost noon and you have to meet with Simmons about the remolding. Remember?"
"Yea, but that not till later." he said. "Plenty of time for a nap."
"Put your pants on and get your lazy ass out of bed." she order.
"And what, may I ask are you doing?" he said as he got up and started getting dressed.
"I'm going to take a shower so I don't smell like sex all day." she said, still lying on the bed as their black covers hide her naked body form him.
"I taught you liked that smell." he said with his back to her and a smile on his face. He felt her arms wrap around him.
"Only when Im with you." she whispered. Church turned around and kissed her before she walked over to the closet to get clean clothes. He couldn't help but watch her walk around the room in all her naked glory. He pulled his shirt over his head, not even brothering to put on his armor, no one really did unless they were leaving the base anyway. He went over to her and kissed her.
"I"ll see you later then." he grabbed his book and went to the commons room to read. He had an hour until he had to met up with the red know it all and it only took about ten minuets to get there by warthog. He sat down and opened his book.
"CHURCH!" Church looked up from the one whole sentence he was able to read out of his book and saw Tucker coming into commons room. It was a gray room with two couches, an arm chair, coffee table, and TV.
"What is it now, Tucker?" Church asked. He was starting to get the feeling that he was never going to be able to finish his book.
"You got to do something about Tex, I think she may be anorexic." Tucker said.
"Is she going to turn into a spider? I don't spider." Caboose said from his chair.
"No, she is not going to turn into a spider, Caboose." Church said running his hand though his short, black hair. "And shes not anorexic either, Tucker."
"Then shes sick or something. For the past week shes been eating twice as much as normal and then throwing it back up." Tucker said. "And of course she decides to do so whenever I want need to use the bathroom."
"Gee Tuck and here I thought you cared." Tex said from behind him.
"OH hey Tex. What's up?" Tucker said trying to save his skin. Tex could read his eyes that said something like "please dont kill me." She sighed and sat down next to Church.
"I think we should tell them before they get any other great ideas." she told him.
"You sure?" Church asked taking her hand into his.
"Tells us what?" Tucker asked.
"Is it a secret? I like secrets." Caboose said. "I wont tell anyone, not even Sid."
"Who the hell is Sid?" Tucker asked not really sure he wanted to know.
"Sid is my friend, he lives in the space between the floor and my bed." Caboose said. "But sometimes he is very mean and scares me at night."
"Whatever dude." Tucker said. "Now what is so important that we're not being told."
"I'm pregnant." Tex said.
"I know it, I know you could caught pregnancy." Caboose said standing up and freaking out. "First Tucker and now Tex. It's spreading."
"Caboose, remember the talk we had." Church asked..
"Yes, wait no, was that the one with the shovels and the dirt, and you were really quit and Tucker was trying to sell your stuff to the orange guy?" Caboose replied.
"No, that was my funeral that you caused." Caboose continued to surprise Church every day. "We need to have another talk, Caboose, and this time listen."
"What the fuck, why are you guys bring another baby into the base." Tucker said. "Between Junior and Caboose I think we have that covered."
"You think we planed it?" Church yelled at him.
"Maybe." Tucker started. "For all I know you could be making this some big scam!"
"It doesnt matter what you think, Tucker!" Tex yelled at him. "We are not getting rid of it so your just going to have to suck it up." she stormed off and slammed the door to her room behind her.
"Great, see what you did." Church said to Tucker.
"No I don't!" he replied. "I was just saying. . ."
"Well don't." Church cut him off. "You think Tex is bad during her time of the month just think how shell be with her mood swings and baby hormones." Tucker shut his mouth. He remember how Tex hung both him and Church off the top of the base for saying something wrong. "I'm going go check on her." Church said as he left the room.
"Whats all the yelling about?" Sister said walking in.
"OH Tex has caught the pregnancy and Tucker is angry that . . ."
"Ah can it Caboose!" Tucker yelled as he picked up his helmet. "I'm going over to Red Base for awhile." and with that he left.
"Gee, whats his problem?" Sister asked sitting next to Caboose.
"He is mad that mean lady, Tex and my best friend, Church are having a baby." Caboose said.
"Oh ok." she answered. "Want to go draw on the cave walls?"
"Ok" he said as they too left.
Church opened the door to find Tex sitting Indian style in the middle of their bed, holding a pillow to her chest, and her head down. Church hated to see her like this, but at the same time enjoyed it. She always put up a front and wouldn't let others see pass it. When she is like this she shows who she really is. Church was the only one in the whole canyon to know that under her black armor was a sweet and caring woman, who always hide her true self. But he couldnt blame her for that. He knew she had a hard childhood and a broken family so of course the taught of having her own family scared her. Church laid back on the bed behind Tex and waited. She laid back and rested her head on his chest making them a T on the bed. He put his right hand on her stomach and gently rubbed it, while he played with her long red hair with his left. She put her hands on his right one over the baby and rested them there. They stayed like that in silence. Tex didn't want to talk about it and as long as Church was there she was fine. Church knew this and waited for her to be ready to talk. It wasnt long before he noticed her eyes were closed and her breathing had soften. He smiled at her sleeping form. "It'll be alright Al." he whispered. "I will take care of you and the baby. Tucker is just a little hot headed. Youll see. Soon well have a beautiful baby and things will go back to normal."
"Things can never be normal." she said.
"I'm sorry, did I wake up?" he said.
"No, but." she tighten her grip on his hand that rested on her stomach. He brought her hand up and kissed it.
"It'll be fine. I promise." with that Tex and Church smiled at each other while she closed her eyes again.
"Hey Tucker!" Grif said as he entered the base.
"Yea, Hi." he answered.
"You seem grumpy today." Grif reported. "Want a talk about it?"
"No." Tucker replied.
"Alright, well what brings you by then?" Grif asked as they walked to the red common room. It was basically the same as blues but thanks to Donut, it was more colorful.
"I just had to get out of my base for awhile and taught I'd hang with you guys." Tucker said as they walked into the room.
"Hey Tucker." Simmons waved. "I was just about to head over to Blue Base to talk to Church about remodeling the bases before command sends the other survivors here. Is he up yet?"
"Yea hes up." Tucker bit back at him.
"Gees someone woke up on the wrong side of the bunk." Simmons noticed. "Want a talk about it?"
"No, I dont want to fucking talk about it." Tucker almost yelled.
"Alright, well Im off to see Church then, later." Simmons left the base and head to the other end of the canyon.