Mouse
Mouse finished her bout of morning sickness, cursing the doctors of Quantico inside her head.
^Lovemother.^ They sang inside her. ^Sorrymotherlovemotherwarmth.^
"Brats," Mouse mumured, one hand on her stomach.
^?????^
"Nevermind." Mouse went downstairs after getting dressed. She got herself a cup of black coffee and moved out of the kitchen before the cooking smells prompted her to renew her acquantice with the toilet bowl. She could sense Diana's eyes on her back and froze for a moment. Oh, dammity damn damn damn. She sipped from the black coffee, mind spinning. Diana knew. Or at least suspected. Oh, *merde*. Baises. Foutre.
Taylor
Diana watched Mouse with concern, before Taylor suddenly came around the corner and bumped into her.
"Oh, sorry mom."
"That's ok Taylor," she smiled slightly, brushing herself off, "I need to talk to you."
"Really? Um... can it wait?" Taylor asked nervously, feeling Mouse feeling sick.
"No it can't."
Taylor shrugged.
"Shoot."
"Mouse is pregnant, isn't she?"
"She can hear you you know," Taylor's eyes darted.
Mouse
"Geez, rude much?" Mouse snapped, tears springing to her eyes. "You could ask me, you know, but noooooooo. Ask him. Of course. What if he hadn't of known? Well, he did but that's not the point!" Fafnir got up, growling. "Stand down, Pack."
Hurting you! He protested. I-
"Will not growl at Diana!" Mouse pointed her finger at the now cowering wolf, eyes spitting sparks. "Do not mess with me at the moment! I am *so* not in the mood!"
Ok, not messing with the pregnant bitch. Sorry.
^MOTHERMOTHER!^ ^What'shappening?Whymadangryupset?^ ^LOVEMOTHER!^ ^FATHER!HELPMOTHER!^ The voices wailed.
"Shh, shh." Mouse put her hands on her stomach and concentrated on soothing emotions. "Not you, never you..."
Taylor
"Sorry Mouse," Diana apologized.
"Mom, wait," Taylor held up his hands.
"I'm sorry Taylor," she shook her head, "I thought..."
She covered her mouth with her hand as she looked him in the eyes.
"What?" his searched hers, completely clueless.
"I thought that Zac's own experience would have been enough to dissuade..."
"MOM?!" Taylor cried, backing off a little, "you think... I... What the...?" he shook his head, "I didn't do anything!"
Mouse
Mouse's vision went red. "Do you think so little of me?" She whispered, and Diana looked at her. "Do you really?!" Her voice soared upwards. "Holy Mother of Jesus bloody Christ and all his bleeding angels!" She slammed an open palm down on the kitchen bench top and Diana stared at her wide eyed as the usually mildmannered girl blew her top. "This is exactly why I agreed with Tay *not* to tell you. I knew you would naturally assume the worst!"
"But, Jane-"
"SHUT UP! Shut the HELL up and listen for once in your pitifully bigoted narrowminded existence!" Diana's mouth went slack. "I have not slept with Tay, have not even got close to that, dammit! Tay has nothing whatsoever to do with this! He is just being his normal supportive loving self as I try to cope with the fact that the labs are going to have a far more reaching effect then we all first thought!"
^MOTHERMOTHERMOTHERMOTHER!^ The three wailed.
"Jane, what..."
"Let me explain this slowly." Mouse bared her teeth, and Fafnir and Bets both snarled loudly. "I am pregnant. Not to Taylor. I haven't even had sex once. Still very much with the virginity here. I don't know WHAT the HELL is in my stomach, but it doesn't matter because I love them very much, and I WILL *HURT* YOU if you threaten me or my babies."
And we will kill you. Fafnir promised. The pups are to be kept safe, no matter who, what or when.
"They are MINE and they love me, and I love them. It doesn't matter how they got here, but they are mine. I don't care what they look like, or what they are, they are my babies, and I will kill to keep them safe." Mouse looked at the older woman steadily. "Even you, if I have to. So, I really hope you don't give me cause."
^^^FATHER!MOTHER!^^^
"Shh, shh..." Mouse placed both of her hands flat against her stomach. "We're both here."
Taylor
Taylor looked between them, his eyes wide. He saw his mother's eyes well with tears.
"Mom?" he cried, his eyebrows crinkling as he came forward.
"Don't touch me Taylor."
Taylor stopped short and bit his bottom lip, not knowing what to do.
"Mom... she's only worried. I... You know what she's going through. It has nothing to do -"
"Taylor, please," Diana held up a hand, looking him sternly in the eyes, "I have never in my life been accused of trying to hurt someone in that way, and I hadn't intended to start."
"I know mom-"
"Don't. Just... don't."
Diana waved him off, and headed for the stairs. Taylor sighed and ran his fingers through his hair.
"Oh man..."
Mouse
Mouse had slid down the wall and was whispering to her unborn children, then she looked up. "She just made me so angry," she said quietly. "I can't believe she just assumed..." Mouse just shook her head. "But I did mean it. These are my children and I will be damned before I let anyone take them from me. She would if she thought it would be the best thing for you or me..." She offered him a twisted smile. "And you know she would. I'm finding this is tapping into my more wolvish side."
Taylor
"Only because she's sick," Taylor shook his head with a gulp, slowly walking towards her.
He leant against the wall beside her and slid down next to her, putting his arm around her shoulders and pulling her into him.
"I know it was wrong for her to assume, but you know... put yourself in her poisiton. She did give you and Christian that sex talk, so she must have been worried about it before... maybe something just clicked."
He leant his face on top of her head, breathing in the scent of her hair. He closed his eyes.
"If she was in her right mind, she wouldn't even consider it. She'd believe it was our decision... like she has with Zac and Julie. It's up to them. This is up to us... and I leave it to you."
Mouse
Mouse sighed, closing her eyes, exhausted now the adrenaline rush had left her. "Let's move. If she's going to...look at me and still think that, cos she hasn't changed her mind about how I got preggers, you know. I want out. Don't care how, I just want that soon." She leaned into his comforting warmth and the canines crept up as well, Bets laying her head across Mouse's lap and Fafnir across Taylor's. Mouse scratched their ears.
Taylor
Taylor rested a hand on Fafnir's side.
"If we can get out within the next couple of weeks... before the end of the month... we'll be fine. Before the tour."
He kissed her again.
"I'll talk to Dad and Ash. They can set us up somewhere."
Mouse
"Good." Mouse ruffled Bets's ears. "I still want to come with you on tour...but, gah, nasty magazine news tv type people."
Taylor
"I'll talk to them within the next couple of days."
Then he cringed.
"Oh yeah. Rumours. This out to be good... I get two girls pregnant within how long? Yeah, and neither was my fault either. Well, I didn't get either of them pregnant."
He chuckled a little.
"Fun times ahead. Mom might come on tour, she might not. Dad will use it as an excuse to get out of work, he does allt he time. Ash will come, Ike and Zac of course... maybe Faith, if Zac asks. Jess, Avie, Mac and Zoe... depends if mom's going. Jess might stay either way. Malory's almost ready to 'move in with her'."
MOuse
"I don't want to leave you. Everytime bad stuff happens. I'm not with you." Mouse fiddled with Bets's fur. "I'm so scared a SWAT team or something's gonna show up and take me back. Cos, I'd guess they'd want to observe how their experiment is progressing. What use is this to them if they can't get their data?"
Taylor
Taylor shuddered unintentionally.
"Like I keep thinking the Eye wants something else translated, and thinks I'm an easy target now because I've done it for him before," he closed his eyes, trying to wipe the thought from his mind.
"I don't want to leave you either. That's the main reason I want to move out. To be with you every moment I can. I'll have to come back for band practice and stuff but... Well, I don't want to pressure you. You can have some space then," he smiled slightly.
Mouse
"I am so over alone time." Mouse shivered. "I have had enough alone time..." In her head she was chained to the bed in the basement again and she pressed in closer to Taylor. Bets whined and licked at her hands.
Taylor
"Well if you're that desperate you can always come with me then. I don't mind. Every second of the day I sepnd with you is another second I don't have to worry."
Mouse
"Good." They sat together for a bit longer.
^HAPPINESS!^ ^TOGETHERFORVEREVEREVER.^ ^LOVEMOTHERLOVEFATHER!^
Mouse smiled. "I better go and do some of my school course." She kissed his cheek and went to her computer, feeling a bit better now.
Taylor
Taylor sat back, watching her leave, then sighed.
"Together forever," he repeated, thoughtfully.