Ok first of all I don't think I can tell you all how freaking sorry I am that this chapter is so late, I mean its been like four months since I last updated. So I'm really, really sorry, it's just now that this is my final year of school before University and if I don't pass my exams then I can't go to uni and well I can't dissapoint my family. I'm sorry if I dissapointed you all though but until I know that I have a place in University, I just don't know when I'm going to get the time to update again. BUT mark my words, I will finish this story, I will finish all of my stories. So thank you for your reviews and without further ado. The next chapter...
"Yes...well I suppose that wasn't the best way to tell you..." he muttered to himself.
"You think? Oh my Aunt and Uncle are going to freak if they find out...they might even want to kill you, they might want to kill me!" she stood and started to pace frantically. "I'm so not old enough to have a baby! I was never good with kids, how am I supposed to do this? What if I mess up, what if I screw our kid up beyond belief?!"
"Nyx," Nuada stopped her, "you mustn't worry about this, I am sure that this type of stress will not be good for the child."
Nyx stared at him for a minute before her hand came up to her stomach and she sat down in disbelief, "I'm having a baby..." she whispered.
"No, we are having a baby," Nuada smiled at the idea and Nyx looked up at him sharply.
"What do you mean 'we' correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this baby going to be making its way out of my body, you know by force, there is no 'we' about having the baby, I'm having it, you're just gonna get lucky and have a cute kid without dealing with the pain." She was pouting now and Nuada kissed her softly and she pulled away, "Oh no mister, that's what got me pregnant in the first place."
Nuada groaned, "Lover you are already pregnant, you cannot get any more pregnant than that."
Standing up she turned to leave "I'm going to see Almira, she is here isn't she?"
"She is in De'Rowgh's wing, I do not know whether you have been there before."
"I've been there before, Bye!" she dashed out of the room before he could say anything. Nuada watched her leave with a soft smile, 'I'm going to be a father...'
Nyx tried to push the doors leading to De'Rowgh's wing of the palace open but they wouldn't budge, she could feel a resistance that only came from a magical lock, 'That's weird,' she thought 'De'Rowgh never locks his wing...' shrugging it off she headed around the corner to his room and knocked on the door. He opened the door and gave her a breath taking smile when he saw her, "My Lady, it is good to see, how are you faring?"
"Much better than can be expected De'Rowgh," she smiled up at him and he moved aside for her to come in.
Tilting his head to the side he noticed a glow, almost, about her, her smile was one he'd only seen after she had finished her love making with Nuada and ventured out into the dark palace beneath New York City for a walk. "Something is different about you," he stated.
"You're right, but I think Mira would kill me if I told you before I told her...I think Wink would kill me too actually..." she was teasing him, she didn't even know whether she could tell this to Almira without getting into a fight with her.
"You're not going to see your cousin until you tell me what I want to know," he stated blocking her way into the rest of the wing.
"You really want to know?" when he nodded she continued, "Okay, what's different about me is that...I finally found out... that you suck. Now out of my way," she tried to move around him but he stopped her.
"That's not very nice My Lady, I thought we were friends," he gave her pout and her eyes widened.
"De'Rowgh don't give me that look! That's evil using it against me," she whined. He added some almost puppy dog-like eyes to the picture and she knew she was gone. Whether it was the fact that she knew without a doubt if she wasn't so enamoured with the Prince, De'Rowgh would have been her choice, or maybe it was the fact that the six foot four Drow, a warrior by nature, was standing in front of her with one of the most adorable looks on his face that she had ever. "Seriously you suck; I'll tell you okay, just stop giving me that look." When he did she shrugged, "I'm just, you know, pregnant, now if you'll excuse me."
She made a move to leave but De'Rowgh grabbed her by the waist and spun her round, "My Lady, this is excellent news! I shall have a tiny protégé to teach, his strength and prowess with a blade shall never be matched!"
Nyx laughed at the Drow's enthusiasm and accepted his hug, "I think you're forgetting that Nuada just so happens to be the father, I doubt he'll let anyone teach this child but him, and anyway who said that the child will be a boy? It could be a girl."
Almira had been stuck in her room for two hours now, and she loathed it, it wasn't as thought the room wasn't beautiful, because it was, but she was so close to De'Rowgh's room, 'That annoying, gorgeous, sexy elf! Why can't I get him out of my mind!' of course she wasn't expecting an answer from her mind, she wasn't like Nyx, she was lucky enough to only have one voice in her head. Sighing she stood up and headed over to her door, she was bored and hungry so she supposed she should go and see De'Rowgh...
She hesitated when she was just outside of his door, should she knock? The royal part of her told her yes, she should, it was polite. But the naughty part of her reminded her that he might be changing and she could get a glimpse of his lovely body if she just opened the door. She doubted that he would mind if she just went in, so shrugging she listened to that naughty part of her, and when she did open the door, she felt an insane stab of jealousy run through her. There was Nyx wrapped in De'Rowgh's arms, both were laughing and smiling. Pushing her jealousy down she reasoned with herself, ''Nyx is clearly infatuated with Nuada you stupid woman, she doesn't want De'Rowgh...and you shouldn't even be jealous, he is nothing more than an arrogant, sexist, pig...who just so happens to have an amazing ass, and arms, and shoulders and...Damn it! You're doing it again! Cut it out!' she was yelling at herself now, because she just couldn't be attracted to the Drow, arrogant and domineering was so not her type. It was just after she'd finished ranting at herself did she notice that the pair hadn't seen her yet so she cleared her throat. They separated and turned to look at her, De'Rowgh's smile turned into a leer while Nyx's smile disappeared altogether, Almira shouldn't have been surprised, had she not warned Hellboy that Nyx had the power to control metal then her cousin would have never been shot, and probably would have never needed to make a deal with a God of Death to save Nuada.
"Nyx...ho-how are you?"
Nyx resisted the urge to snap at her cousin, she had come here to tell Almira of her pregnancy, but she couldn't help still feeling betrayed by the girl, even in their lives in the world where the fey didn't exist, Nyx had taken care of Mira, she'd never let any harm come to the younger girl and yet Almira had decided that she couldn't trust Nyx and ran off to join the BPRD. "I'm fine, you?"
"I'm good, Nyx can we talk?"
"We already are."
Almira wanted to roll her eyes at the answer but neither of the girls were friends right now "I meant in private."
Nyx turned to De'Rowgh, "Go and congratulate my lover, I think he may be in shock." Smiling he nodded his head and left, "So talk," Nyx said turning back to her cousin.
"Nyx you have to believe me when I say I'm so sorry, I honestly felt like I was doing the right thing, I thought you would have done anything Nuada said, I believed that you would let him destroy the world. I had to go. I'm sorry, it's my fault you got hurt I know that but please, can you forgive me?"
Nyx ground her jaw, "It's your fault I get hurt a lot of the time, but that's not why I'm angry, you don't trust me, after everything I've said and done for you, you still don't trust me and that hurts. I left my family for you! Both here and in our old world and you still can't trust me!"
"I know I'm sorry-"
"Stop saying you're sorry! It doesn't help! But did you really think that I was going to let the whole go to hell just because of Nuada? Do you have so little faith in me?"
Almira was crying now, she dropped to her knees and put her head in her hands, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," she sobbed and Nyx's gaze softened.
There was just something inside of her that could never see her cousin like this, she never could, joining Almira she wrapped her arms around the younger girl "It's ok, I forgive you."
"I'm sorry, I swear I'll trust you from now on, I'll never doubt you again I swear."
"It's alright," Nyx said wondering if it ever would be alright again.
Regaining her composure Almira sat up straighter and looked at her cousin, "If you forgive me, then will you tell me what you and De'Rowgh were talking about? What did you mean when you told him to congratulate Nuada?"
Nyx smiled softly, "I'm pregnant."
Almira's eyes widened before she let out an excited squeal, "Really?! When? How? How far along are you?!"
"Yes really, I would have thought you knew how people got pregnant and as for the when and how far along, I'd say just a few weeks, given that I haven't been with Nuada long."
"You mean I'm going to be like an aunt?"
"Well yeah I guess."
"Wow..." her eyes locked onto Nyx's in surprise, "You told De'Rowgh before me?!"
"He asked, and besides I wasn't even completely sure I was going to tell you then."
"Right, sorry, but you are okay aren't you?"
"I'm fine, could be better, but I'm fine."
"Your wings-" she stopped herself from saying anything more.
"Are gone, and probably won't come back, but I'm not talking about this now," Nyx finished.
"Okay, so what do you think it is?"
De'Rowgh strode inside the Prince's chambers and rose an amused eyebrow when he saw Nuada sat on his bed with a smile on his face almost as if he was frozen in shock. He opened his mouth to say something but was cut off by Nuada "I'm going to be a father De'Rowgh."
"Yes you are, which means little Princeling that you must take your rightful place among your people, you
must protect your family Nuada, you cannot allow your child to live in this world, a world that has been completely overrun by humans but at the same time you cannot allow your child to grow up in times of war. Neither of us were raised during war times yet we have seen what war can do to our kind. You cannot allow your child to grow up without a father, for that is how he or she will grow up if you declare war on the human race."
"What would you have me do then De'Rowgh?" Nuada stood and looked at his long time friend, "How am I to make a world safe enough for my child to live in and not wipe the humans from this planet?! I cannot allow the humans to continue to spread their disease across these lands, soon even the ancient cities will not hold enough magic to support our kind!"
"Don't you think I understand that Nuada, but you must make a choice, will you let your family grow in a world filled with hate and anger, or a world filled with peace, whatever you decide I shall follow you, you are my Prince. But you are also my friend and I will not lie to you when I say that our people are tired of war, they are tired of the fighting, between our kind and the humans, they just want peace." As Nuada watched De'Rowgh, he saw a tired Drow, and elf that was built for war but one that wanted to have a peaceful life, much like his father.
"The last we tried peace with the humans they broke the pact, they cut down our forests, destroyed our lands killing many of our kind in the process, they cannot go unpunished."
"That is true, they must be held accountable for their actions but we are at as much fault as they are. We stuck to the shadows for too long Nuada, in the two thousand years that passed since the treaty humans have died, generations of humans have died and without anyone to prove that we are real, how are their kind to know that we aren't just stories, passed down from generation to generation." De'Rowgh sat down on the bed and looked at the Prince, "You and I remember when the treaty was made, but what you are forgetting is that we allowed this to happen, we could have made ourselves known a long time ago but we didn't. It is why so many of our kind do not wish to go to war, because they know that had they done something this never would have happened."
"And now we are fading," Nuada replied simply.
"Yes now we are, we will find a way to take back what is rightfully ours Nuada, but we will find way that does
not incur a massive loss of life on both sides." Nuada sat down heavily next to his friend, he knew the Drow spoke the truth, now that he had a child on the way, he had to think of a way take care of his people while taking care of his family.
