Hillary decided that it should be Alex's responsibility to tell Lara the news. He gave Alex a look that said 'she's all yours' and walked into the kitchen, dragging Kurtis with him.

Alex stood up and walked closer to Lara. She looked at him with curious eyes, wanting to know what had happened. She couldn't remember anything and that was a bad sign.

"Lara, we need to talk." Alex said, his serious streak taking over. Lara instantly became worried.
"Okay, what is it?" Lara asked timidly. "Alex, please." Alex looked uncomfortable before he gained his composure.
"I'm really sorry Lara. Really sorry. This is my fault, if I'd have just thought about how you would feel then maybe this wouldn't have happened..." Alex said before he was interrupted by Lara.
"What do you mean by 'maybe this wouldn't have happened?' Alex, what's going on?" Lara asked, she had started to become hysterical. Alex took hold of her hand.
"Lara, do you remember last year? About the...err...the baby?" Alex asked timidly, not wanting Lara to be forced into remembering. Lara gingerly placed a hand over her mouth as tears slipped out of her eyes. She began sobbing.

Alex took Lara into his arms and let her cry into his chest. This not only hurt her but it hurt him too. Lara wiped the tears from her face and tried to even out her emotions. She looked at Alex with wide, tear-filled eyes.

"So you're saying what...that I'm pregnant...again?" Lara asked, looking Alex in the eye. Alex nodded solemnly. Lara looked away and laughed. She couldn't help herself.

Looking at her confused, Alex raised an eyebrow in pure Lara style. She looked at him and smiled a full heart warming smile.

"Alex, is this not a good thing?" Lara asked suddenly, her smile fading. Alex looked into her eyes and saw the hurt that she was feeling, thinking that he wasn't happy about it. The truth is, is that he was scared, scared that if the same thing that happened last year happened again then he would lose her. He would lose that bright, intelligent, funny, caring woman that he loved so much. That's when he realized that he had been so long in his own thoughts that Lara had wandered off.

Lara had left Alex in the lounge. She didn't know what to do. She was pregnant again and the supposed 'love of her life' who was the father had not in so many words just said that he wasn't happy about it. Dashing into the kitchen, Lara saw Kurtis sat at the table drinking a mug of coffee. When he looked up and saw her, he put the mug down and stood up. She rushed at him and hugged him tightly and cried. He looked down at her, concerned at the fact that she was crying. He assumed that this was supposed to be a happy time.

Kurtis wrapped his arms around her, giving her a sense of security. He felt the pain and hurt that she was feeling and just wished that he could take it all away. He didn't like to see her like this especially when he knew that Alex was the reason.

"Lara, you can talk to me. Don't bottle it up." Kurtis said sincerely. Lara just looked up at him, at a loss at what to say to him.
"He's not happy, Kurtis. I don't think he wants it." Lara said, her face leaning into Kurtis's chest.
"What d'you mean? Do you mean the baby?" Kurtis asked before continuing. "If it is then I'll be there for you, and the baby." Lara weakly smiled at him before shrugging away and walking into the garden, with the intention to go to her father's grave.

Walking down the stone steps, Lara began to remember how she had gone to her father's grave after the triangle of light fiasco. She sunk down to her knees, wondering how life had gotten so bad. She used to love her life with her adventuring and now all she could think was that the people in her life, who don't die, are always pushed away.

She stood up, just as Alex walked out the front door to find her. Since she had wandered off after he told her the news, he had become worried that she was going to leave him – he was he one who messed up after all. He didn't make a mistake though, no, he loves Lara and having a child with her shows her that he's committed to their relationship then that's what he would do.

Alex had big plans for the future – he wanted to make an honest woman out of Lara for starters. He had wanted to have children, further down the line. But everything had changed last year when he had found out she was pregnant. They had been through so much together; the triangle of light, Terry Sheridan...Alex knew that that was a major part of him and Lara getting together. If he hadn't have left Lara then she would never had been with Sheridan in the first place.

He spotted Lara sitting on a lone bench not too far from her father's grave. She was hunched over with her head in her hands. He strolled up to her and knelt down in front of her, taking hold of her hands.

"I'm sorry, Lara." Alex said, staring deep into the abyss that was Lara's eyes.
"Sorry is getting old with us, isn't it?" Lara stated, her face set in stone. Alex's eyes widened when he realized what she was saying.
"Yeah, it is. Lara, I love you and I'll do anything to make this work." Alex replied, his eyes unblinking. "You and me are having a baby and I'm hoping that when the time comes, Lara, you'll be my wife." He smiled at Lara's shocked expression.
"Okay." Was all Lara said in reply to what Alex had said. She smiled and hugged him.

Alex knew that all Lara needed was the reassurance that he was going to be there for her – through everything...