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Day 512 AF?

Castle Lethe

Do you not know you're pregnant?

Do you not know?

Do you not know?

I sputtered, "I-Iwhat?" Tick-tock

Tick freaking tock I'd been struggling to wrapto decide if Mattheas bent on driving me crazy

Now this?

Aric's blond brows drew together "You're carrying our child" Though he sat beside e of the bed, he soundedwhy you hadn't told me Clearly you had no idea"

This Could Not Be

I was seventeen, riding out an apocalypse and counting on a one-way trip against Richter I clutched the sheets as the bed seemed to spin "I didn't know--because it can't have happened I' There's no way"

"There must have been Paul tested your blood"

"You let him take my blood when I was passed out?" The idea of the two of thenancy test on me rankled

My reaction seemed to surprise Aric "Yes After my wife lost consciousness, I bade our medic to determine what ailed her" When he put it like that, I sounded ridiculous to question his actions "You were out for an entire day"

"That long?" I glanced out theA blizzard raged in the never-ending night Lightning fla

shed as brightly as daylight, illu the dense shower

Last I knee'd been hightailing it away fro up with Finn Then Matthew had contactedme hear Jack

Matthew could have pulled up an oldhe lived But why?

"Sieva, when you lost consciousness, I was frantic"

I turned back to Aric Silvery rays of light shot through the blinds, accentuating how tired he looked He obviously hadn't slept "Soround--wouldn't I be able to tell if so inside of me?"

He frowned "Not necessarily"

"So how far along does Paul think I a inthis?

"His test could only confirative I was so stunned that I asked him to run it twice"

Of course Aric would be stunned He'd longed for a kid Yet even when he'd wanted to try to start a family with me, he'd doubted Death could help create life

My heart twisted for hi to you I took a shot Rehted that I'd pre with him

"We did But I have to wonder how you're pregnant if a contraceptive was administered"

"He must've faked the test results" I kne insane this sounded, but I still expected Aric to trust et ?"

See to choose his words very carefully, Aric asked, "Why would he lie?"

"I don't know" Paul had always been the reat care of randmother that I could've nominated him for sainthood

"During that tih intense stress And you adotten confused in your mind"

Before the Flash, I'd been prograrara that my brain felt like Swiss cheese

Or a bloody battlefield

"Perhaps they have again?" Aric offered gently "Are you so certain of your own memories?"

Ugh! I wished I hadn't admitted my memory issues to hi the shots Paul had left, figuring that Lark ht want some once she found Finn"

What if Paul had given me a dummy shot? No! I refused to believe that Because it wouldthere

God, I didn't need this right now; I needed to find out if Jack was alive What if I'diined Matthew's call?

Aric said, "I think you have been through too edy How could it not affect you? Especially during a pregnancy?"

I could kill Paul for this! Not because I believed I was knocked up, but because Aric did This would crush the knight

Though he'd adored his parents, Aric had accidentally killed theh one of Matthew's visions, I'd experienced Aric's harrowing grief Even after two millennia had passed, he still carried it "You told ainst Richter, but you're taking Paul's word over erous Yet you're letting him walk around free!"

"When I realized his version of events was vastly different froo, I asked Lark to monitor his movements with a creature"