Once the initial shock wore off and all the questions of how this meeting was possible the group assembled in a more comfortable location. Their future selves got right to the point of the plan they had been working on for years and exactly how their present selves were needed.
She watched the pair closely looking for hints at what her life will, or was it would, be like in the not so distant future. Both of them were much more serious and didn't allow for fluff or side conversations, which made them harder for her to read.
They really did have everything planned out though; from everything that they hoped would happen to everything that could go wrong. Any question a team member had they were able to easily answer. It was clear this was all the future team had been thinking about since that fateful day in Chinatown.
Once everyone was confident and comfortable with the plan they decided to call it a night. Tomorrow they would set everything in motion, but for now they needed to rest especially after the day they had.
As everyone moved towards their respected bedrooms he pulled her back and whispered into her ear, "You're taking my bed tonight, there's no way I'm letting you sleep on the couch."
Any other day she would have been grateful to have her old bed back, but tonight she was annoyed.
"You can't tell me where to sleep." She shot back.
"Lucy I'm just trying…"
"No you don't get to Lucy me. You can't suddenly start to care just because I told you I'm pregnant."
"I never stopped caring about you."
"You had a funny way of showing it."
"I know I screwed up horribly, but I want to fix it Lucy. We're going to have a baby!" he sat back down as the words resonated with him again. "We're going to have a baby."
She sat down next to him, "yeah we are."
The meeting was the first time in days that she had forgotten about her pregnancy. In all the confusion of meeting their future selves and the excitement of having a plan to get their friend back it was easy for both of them to forget about their conversation right before the lifeboat landed.
"How long have you known?" he asked after a moment.
"Since we came back from 1981, Agent Christopher bought me a test and then took me to the doctor's the next day."
"You've known about this for weeks and didn't tell me?" his voice started to rise again.
"I'm sorry, but I never found an ideal moment to tell you! Especially not when your wife was always by your side, or you know when she announced when she was pregnant."
"You're right, I'm sorry." He sighed, "It's just a lot to take in right now."
"Tell me about it."
"What are we going to do?"
"I'm pretty sure we're going to have a baby."
"I know that, but I mean after we have the baby. This isn't the most ideal place or environment to raise a kid. Plus all the time traveling…wait should you even by traveling in the lifeboat? You said you went to the doctor's was everything okay?"
She quickly grabbed his hand before he could spiral too far. "Yes everything is fine. We told the doctor I have a high-risk job, but didn't go into detail. She said that so far our baby is healthy and thriving."
He leaned back against his chair in relief, it was the exact same reaction she had when she had learned the same news.
"May I?" he asked, his eyes darting back and forth between her eyes and her stomach.
She nodded her head knowing exactly what he wanted to do and thankful that he asked before he touched. Gently he reached out his hand and placed it on her still flat stomach his eyes wide in awe. She couldn't help but smile; this is what she had been dreaming about since the idea came into her head. The dream that she didn't let herself to dwell on for long knowing it could never come true, until now.
"I can't believe this came from one time." He whispered.
"From what I remember it was more than just one time." She joked trying to lighten the mood.
He chuckled and she watched his eyes shine as he remembered their night together. "I guess we did have a fair amount of chances for this to happen."
She nodded her head in agreement.
"I guess now we'll just have to take it one day at a time." He thought aloud not taking his hand off her stomach.
"Yeah, one day at a time. We'll figure this out, we always do. And tomorrow starts with saving Rufus."
The two shared a smile before he said, "If that's where we're starting at you really need to get to bed. We have a long couple of days ahead of us, plus you're growing a baby. You really need your sleep."
He stood up from the chair and offered her a hand up, which she happily took. As they walked down the hallway to her bedroom he didn't let go. The other woman who shared the room was not present, they both knew she was not going to follow orders and had probably gotten started on her part of the plan.
She walked over to the bed and lied down not realizing how tired she was until that very moment. She felt him pull the blankets over her and gently tuck them in around her.
"Where are you going to sleep?" she mumbled already half way under.
"I'll take the couch, I deserve it after all. If you need anything please come get me or send Jiya if you can't."
She nodded her head in agreement and fully closed her eyes allowing the pull of sleep to finally wash over her.
She woke up in the middle of the night with a start. It took her a few moments to collect herself and realize the cause. Her stomach gurgled uncomfortably and she curled herself into a tight ball hoping to make it stop, but it only got worse.
As quickly as she had awoken she was out of the room and into the bathroom just in time to empty the contents of her stomach into the toilet. Her morning sickness had been all over the place, especially with the time traveling, but this was the first time it had woken her up.
She sat next to the toilet catching her breath and waiting to see what her stomach decided. Once she was sure she was not going to get sick again she got up from her spot and went over to the sink to wash the awful taste from her mouth.
She was about to head back to her room and try and go back to sleep when a voice from behind her said, "Morning sickness huh?"
She jumped out of fear and quickly turned around to see her future self standing behind her.
"Sorry I didn't mean to scare you, but I heard you make a run for it and knew there could only be one reason for that."
She continued to stand there in shock trying to process everything. She still wasn't used to seeing her future self, granted it hadn't even been a full 24 hours since her arrival. Then of course she knew about the morning sickness, which made sense since it was her future self. Suddenly all the pieces fit together.
"You have a baby...my baby." She thought aloud.
"Come with me." Her future self grabbed her hand and led her back to the bedroom.
The room was thankfully empty. Her friend was mostly likely still at the computer working on the plan, and the baby's father must have left sometime after she had fallen asleep.
The pair sat down on her bed and she immediately asked, "so I...we...really do have a baby."
"Yes we do." She smiled, "though not so much a baby where I come from, more of a toddler."
"Wow."
Unconsciously she put her hands to her very flat stomach. Yes she had tons of evidence to point out the pregnancy, but it still did not feel real, other than the constant need to throw up of course.
"I don't envy where you are right now, the first trimester sucks. But I can promise it will get better."
"Even with all the time traveling?"
She laughed, "No that part never gets better."
"And the time travel doesn't..." she started finally stating her worse fear to the one person who fully understood and could answer the burning question she had since the moment the test was positive.
"Nothing out of the ordinary yet."
"So the baby is healthy."
Her future self's eyes shown with such love and pride, "very healthy and so perfect."
She leaned back against the wall with a huge sigh of relief. "Thank you."
"That's your only question about the baby? You don't even want to know the gender?"
"What like you were going to tell me? I don't want to ruin or change anything about our future. Plus you know we always wanted to be surprised about the gender."
Her other self laughed again, "yeah we did. Well if that's all you need to know you should go back to sleep. Trust me you need as much rest as possible. I will let you know we have a mostly uneventful pregnancy, but growing a baby isn't easy."
Now it was her turn to laugh, "thanks again for talking."
"Anytime." She pushes herself off the bed and headed towards the door. "Goodnight Lucy."
"Goodnight Lucy." She parroted back.
The two shared one final smile before the door was closed and each woman was left to try and get some more sleep before the sun came up. With the knowledge that the future of her baby was bright she laid back down with her hands still over her stomach and a smile on her face.