*The Next Day*

I heard the door open and I watched as Doctor Cameron entered the room, we both shared a glance before he looked over to the conjoining room to see that it was empty. Belle has just left a few seconds ago to go and get Adam and/or Ben to change over with someone sitting with me. I then watched as he looked over to me and I could tell by the look in his eyes that he had something to tell me, which made me pull one brow up at him as I started to feel nervous as I didn't know what he was about to say.

"Your Majesty-" he stated as he stood on my left hand side, and I put up my left thumb up in response. "I have something to tell you" he confirmed. "Do you want me to wait until His Majesty gets here?" he enquired and I quickly shook my head at this which made my dizziness suddenly get worse. I sensed that something was going on, and I didn't want to worry Ben. He's worried enough as it was, of course I will tell him but I wanted to know what it was first so it could at least come from me, no one else. "Ok" he nodded. "As you know we took your bloods when you came in" he reminded me.

"Yes" I croaked from underneath the oxygen mask.

"And we discovered something" he confirmed.

"Oh" I croaked further. "What did you discover?" I painfully questioned as my throat started to feel like I had swallowed broken glass.

"That you are pregnant" he advised.

"What?" I questioned in shock.

"You are pregnant" he confirmed. I then started to take in what he had just told me, I was pregnant! Yes me and Ben had talked about having children together, but we weren't exactly trying for a baby. But we weren't exactly being completely safe either at the same time, so if I was being completely honest the fact that I was pregnant I didn't think that it was a bad thing at all. Me and Ben had always said that after we had got married that we wanted some time together just being us before we added children into the mix, so me becoming pregnant at this stage was actually in our plan. I think that Ben would be happy with the news of me being pregnant, however at the fact I had Covid and was in isolation was only going to add to his worries.

"Really?" I asked.

"Yes you HCG indicates your pregnant" he informed me. "Also some other results are high, so we do need to push more antibiotics and oxygen therapy" he concluded.

"Wow!" I exclaimed with a smile, and we both heard the door open and we both looked over to see Ben step in.

"Hey your up!" he grinned.

"Yes" I nodded, and I quickly turned and faced Doctor Cameron and gestured that I needed him to come closer to me. He then brought his face close to mine before he pursed his lips together. "I want to tell him" I muttered and I watched as he nodded at this before he stood up straight.

"Is something wrong?" I heard Ben asked, which caused me and Doctor Cameron to look over him to see concern plastered all over his face.

"No" Doctor Cameron answered. "I'm just running through some test results" he explained with a smile.

"Oh" Ben nodded. "What's going on?" he enquired, and me and Doctor Cameron shared a quick sidewards glance at each other before we looked back at Ben. "What was that look?" he pressed as he pursed his lips together. I did feel bad hiding my pregnancy from Ben at the moment, but I wanted this to come from me. It was my news to tell him, and this wasn't exactly how I expected to tell him that we were expecting our first child. And I really didn't want this to be the time or place when he found out, I just had to find the best time to tell him and I wanted to be a little bit better before I told him. "What is going on?" he quickly asked after neither one of us answered his last question.

"Some results are still high" Doctor Cameron confirmed. "So we need to push more antibiotics and oxygen therapy" he added. This technically wasn't a lie, as he had just told me that this is what we needed to do moving forward. And hopefully Ben wouldn't fixate on the fact he thought there was something going on, as Ben could always ready me like a book.

"Oh" he repeated. "I thought something was wrong" he advised. I felt like I needed to reassure him further, so with this thought in mind I pulled my oxygen mask down and I watched as his eyes widened slightly at this.

"Nothing is wrong baby" I croaked at him.

"Mal should your mask be off?" he questioned slowly as he pulled one brow up at me.

"Probably not" I answered in the same hoarse tone.

"Then please put it back on?" he questioned as concern continued to show in his normally calm leaf green eyes.

"Fine" I sighed as I put my oxygen mask back on.

"You need to be a good patient" he teased and I held my right thumb up sideways. "Don't be a stubborn dragon" he chuckled, and I shrugged back at this. "Trust you to tease me at a time like this" he chuckled further, and I winked at him. "I wish I was with you" he pouted as he placed his right hand against the glass, and I shook my head at this. "What do you mean by that?" he questioned as he started to look hurt by my reaction. To help answer this question I pulled my oxygen mask off and quickly answered before he could tell me to put it back on.

"For you to be in here you need to be like me" I said in a painful and croaky voice. "I don't want that" I confirmed before I put my oxygen mask back on.

"I get that" he nodded. "I miss you" he told me, and I pointed to my chest before holding up two fingers. "When you get better we will have a holiday" he promised me and I smiled at this as I gave him a thumbs up. My mind then started to think about telling Ben that I was pregnant, and I couldn't help but think about how he was going to react. I don't think that he would kick off or storm out, Ben wasn't like that anyway. I think he is going to be overjoyed that we were putting another little Ben or Mal into the world. He was going to be such a good father and I couldn't wait to see this. He had told me everything that he wanted to do with our children, he wanted them to read like him and his mother. And every summer he wanted them to take a camping trip like his did with his father and grand fathers. And I was ready for all of it, this did then make about how I felt about being a mother. It did scare me being a mother, but I did know one thing for definite - I wasn't going to be anything like my mother. I was going to love and care for mine and Ben's children, and I would make sure of it!