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The next month seemed to pass quickly. Logan didn’t find himself pulled back to the other world. Instead he was still in the world where his and Aurelia’s unborn child was still growing. Aurelia continued to stay at the ranch with Alex. She at least held to her decision to not drink like that tequila fueled night. Logan was starting to wonder when she’d figure out that she was pregnant. She was throwing up for a few days after that tequila night, but she just blamed drinking three bottles of tequila for her stomach being so upset. After that she just blamed Alex’s cooking for why she threw up throughout the day. Since it’s called ‘morning sickness’, a rather deceptive phrase, she never seemed to connect that her throwing up throughout the day could be a clue of being pregnant. But having been around Nikki and Karmen during their pregnancies he knew that ‘morning sickness’ was really an all day event.

It was when Aurelia finally took time to notice that it’d been too long since her last period. Logan leaned in the doorway as she rummaged through a desk looking for something. “Where is it? I thought there was a calendar in here.”, Aurelia grumbled to herself. “AH HA!”, Aurelia explained pulling a calendar out. “Alright let’s figure this out…”, Aurelia said sitting down and flipping through the months. “When was the last one? God damn it why don’t I keep better track of this. Was it before the attack or after? “, Aurelia questioned herself. “Before pup.”, Logan commented. As Aurelia continued to look through the calendar she stopped to a month ago from the night she’d rather forget. “No, no oh please no.”, Aurelia said shutting the calendar and throwing it across the room. “I better get a test or something.”, Aurelia said grabbing her jacket.

“Alex I’ll be back in a few, I’m just heading to the store.”, Aurelia yelled before heading for her motorcycle. Logan of course followed. He had an idea of what was running through her head. The initial is she pregnant followed by the uncertainty of conception since they’d always been carefully and she might not remember how careful she was with that Nick fellow. “Aurelia it’s mine.”, Logan said wishing he could get her to hear him. She looked so anxious and pale, well paler than her normal complexion, as the worry about being a mother from a one night stand. Once she was at the local store he followed her as she quickly walked to the aisle containing the pregnancy tests. “It’s going to be okay Aurelia. You probably missed because of all the stress and such you’ve had since the attack. That’s it. It’s just stress that’s holding up my period.”, Aurelia said quietly trying to convince herself that this was just a false alarm.

Despite trying to talk herself out of the idea she still grabbed a box of EPT and used the self check out, Logan assumed so no one knew she was buying the tests. With her purchase made Aurelia speeded back to the ranch and locked herself in the bathroom. Aurelia followed the instructions and then waited, biting her nails with worry. Logan peeked at the stick and shook his head. “Positive pup.”, Logan said with a chuckle. When Aurelia saw the plus sign she didn’t laugh like Logan. “No, no no. Maybe it’s a false positive.”, Aurelia said before taking the second test that was in the box. A few minutes later the same result. “Alright I need to see a doctor. They can tell me for sure. I’ll go and they’ll just tell me the two tests were wrong.”, Aurelia said before discreetly destroying the packaging and the tests so Alex wouldn’t find them.

Logan followed her as this time she didn’t tell Alex she was leaving and just left. “Where are we going?”, Logan questioned of course not getting answer. But his answer was given as the pulled into a parking lot of a planned parenthood. “Ah yes, you want a doctor to have you pee on the same type of stick of the two that just told you that you’re pregnant.”, Logan said shaking his head following her inside. “You should just call Mikali. I’d rather trust you and our baby in the hands of my former student than some human quack.”, Logan encourage. “But you can’t hear me so this is just a pointless endeavor of me hearing myself talk.”, Logan grumbled. So he just quietly sat down as she filled out the paperwork and waited for her name to be called. “Aurelia Christian.”, a nurse called. Logan followed Aurelia as she went back.

Just as he predicted she was handed a little cup to pee in and then a stick to place in it. “Unless they are doing blood work to determine pregnancy everyone goes based on the pee on a stick test.”, Logan said shrugging as he waited outside the bathroom for Aurelia. Logan went to move as he heard her turning the handle but then the handle stopped turning and instead he heard vomiting. “Accept that you are pregnant already and let’s go back home. And by home I don’t mean the ranch. I mean go back to our home in Bayville. Our child should be raised around family. John and Sarael are back in Bayville.”, Logan encouraged. He still followed her into the office where the doctor came in looking at the test results. “Alright, Miss. Christian based on the results you are definitely pregnant. Can you tell me when was the first day of your last menstrual cycle?”, the doctor asked sitting down. Aurelia looked like a combination of disappointed and terrified at the news of being pregnant. “Judging by your expression this wasn’t a planned pregnancy.”, the doctor commented before looking at the ring on her finger. “Does your husband or fiancée know about the pregnancy?”, the doctor asked.

Logan groaned this wasn’t going to go well. “I’m right fucking here, but none of you can see me.”, he said in frustration. Aurelia looked down at her ring and looked as if she was going to cry. “My fiancée went missing in action nearly three months ago.”, Aurelia explained sniffling. “Oh I’m so sorry to hear that.”, the doctor said looking down at her paperwork to avoid eye contact. “As for my last menstrual, I don’t remember. With him going missing and such I’ve just not paid attention and been under a lot of stress.”, Aurelia explained. “That’s alright. If you’ll follow me I can do a quick ultra sound to get a rough estimate of how far along you are.”, the doctor said standing up. Logan followed along behind Aurelia as she was assured to a room with an ultrasound machine and an examination table. “Alright if you would please get up on the table. I will need you to just unbutton your jeans and pull your shirt to just under the bra so I can use the ultra sound machine.”, the doctor instructed. Aurelia nodded and did as she was instructed then laid down on the table. “This jelly is going to be a little cold and then you are going to feel some pressure and I move the wand across your abdomen to get a view at the baby. Depending on how far along you are I may have to perform an internal ultrasound which is a bit more invasive.”, the doctor advised before squirting the jelly onto Aurelia’s stomach.

Logan stood next to the table his eyes locked on the screen. They didn’t really do much of this back when his older children were fetuses. So for him this would be the first time he would ever see one of his children in this fashion. While the doctor pressed down on her abdomen Aurelia kept her eyes on the screen too. As the doctor continued to move around there was a sound, a fast rhythmic thumping. “What is that?”, Aurelia asked. “That would be the heartbeat. Sounds good.”, the doctor replied. Aurelia looked like she might start to cry as she just listened to the sound. Logan smiled enjoying the sound, but he kept his eyes on the monitor. Then there it was, it wasn’t very big but it was easy to see the skull, the body, the tiny arms and legs. And in the center of the chest was the blinking of the heart thumping away. “Alright let’s get some measurements and see if we can figure out how far along you really are.”, the doctor said starting to click on the keyboard taking measurements of the picture. Logan and Aurelia were both silent as they stared at the picture. “That’s our baby…”, Logan said finally. Aurelia remained silent but a few tears could be seen on her cheeks. Logan looked to her and saw the tears, but the expression didn’t say they were all from sadness.

“Hmm, well it’s really hard to tell Miss Christian. The baby could be anywhere between 5 to 11 weeks.”, the doctor said. “That’s a rather big difference. I need something more exact.”, Aurelia said looking away from the screen for the first time. Logan knew why she wanted more exact time frame. If it was only 5 weeks then she would think its Nick’s, but if she was further than that it would be his. Logan of course knew it was his just based on the other world he’d seen. “I’m sorry I can’t. Without knowing your last menstruation I can’t. The baby is on the smaller size but the heart rate is an indicator that its further along than the size shows.”, the doctor explained. “Of course it’s going to be smaller in size, it’s a Howlett baby. We have all been born at full term but looking like we were two months premature. Heck till my mutation kicked in a butterfly could flap it’s wings in Brazil and I’d catch pneumonia.”, Logan said shrugging not that his words could be heard. “I understand. Thank you.”, Aurelia said. “Here you can wipe the jelly off your stomach now. Would you like me to print out the pictures from the ultrasound?”, the doctor offered handing Aurelia a paper towel. Aurelia took the towel and wiped of the goop. “Um..yeah. Please.”, she answered as she got off the table and fixed her clothes.

The doctor turned to the printer and handed Aurelia a sheet of three pictures of the baby. “Here you go Miss Christian.”, she said. “Oh and here is some information you will need in regards to things that you should avoid during your pregnancy. I would also recommend starting to take prenatal vitamins.”, the doctor said handing her a folder full of paper. “Would you like to schedule out appointments with my office to be seen through your pregnancy?”, the doctor asked. Aurelia took the folder and then looked back to the doctor. “Um, that’s alright. I don’t actually live here. I’ve been visiting. I guess it’s time I head back home. I have a doctor there that will see me.”, Aurelia answered. Logan sighed in relief. “Finally we are going back to Bayville. Mikali and Kisa will take good care of you and the baby.”, Logan said following Aurelia out of the office. Aurelia kept looking at the picture and almost walked past her motorcycle she was so distracted. She tucked the pictures into her jacket pocket and sat down on her motorcycle. “Please be a Howlett.”, Aurelia whispered before leaving to go back to the ranch.

When she walked in Alex was standing there a worried look on his face. “Why didn’t you tell me you were leaving? I was worried you ran off again.”, Alex said. “I’m not in the mood to be lectured Alex.”, Aurelia said shaking her head. “Well I’m in the mood to lecture.”, Alex retorted. “You want to know where I went? Fine. I went into town to the planned parenthood. I’ve been sick for weeks and haven’t had my period. And guess what..”, Aurelia said holding up the picture. “Turns out I’m going to be a mom.”, Aurelia added. Logan felt for sure if Alex’s jaw dropped any further it would hit the ground. “So, before Logan di…disappeared”, Alex said. Logan knew what he was going to say before he changed it to’ disappeared’. “Apparently. So I’m going to pack up.”, Aurelia said heading for the rooms he’d been staying in. “Wait your pregnant so you’re leaving?”, Alex asked following her. “Yes, I have to go back to Bayville.”, Aurelia said as she pulled her clothes out of the dresser and closet and started throwing them into a suitcase. “But with Logan missing what is there for you? Here you have me and your parents are here too.”, Alex countered. Aurelia sighed and closed the suitcase. “Logan’s family is in Bayville. Our home is there. It’s time I went back to it. If I’m having a baby I want to raise him or her in the home Logan and I built. Not to mention there I can have two healers as my doctors so any possible complication normal or mutant related will be addressed without a problem.”, Aurelia explained.

Alex frowned. Aurelia sighed and placed a hand on his cheek. “You are my best friend Alex and I love you as a best friend. But I need to go back.”, Aurelia said giving him a kiss on the cheek. She turned and grabbed her back. “I’ll call when I get home. Don’t worry about me, please.”, Aurelia said. Alex pulled her into a hug before she could leave. “You better call me. And I don’t just mean when you get there. I mean after that too.”, Alex said before letting her go. Logan was very happy that finally they would go back to Bayville. He wasn’t able to leave Aurelia, both because he wanted to be near her but because for whatever reason she was his magnet. He wanted to know how his brother and other children were doing. It took close to a week to drive across the country, but leaving her motorcycle was not an option. So between the general driving and the constant need to pull over to throw up or pee it took a bit longer than normal. Aurelia hadn’t’ called to tell anyone that she was coming back to Bayville, but it was nightfall by the time she pulled up to the pub. As she got off the bike Logan went around front to look at the bar.

Any damaged done during the attack had been repaired. “John.”, Logan said with a smile. He looked around and took a deep breath. He had never really thought of any place as ‘home’. But of every place he’d lived this apartment with Aurelia above his pub was the one he’d call home. He remembered when he had bought the building and refurbished the two floors upstairs to suit his family. He’d given them a great master bedroom and set up two guest bedrooms so his children could visit. Though only Hudson ever really stayed for any long periods of time in the room setup specifically for him. Kirra had stayed a couple nights basically when she had a long layover during her travels. As he thought about the apartment he began thinking about what room would become the nursery. “I’m going to guess she converts Kirra’s bedroom into the nursery. I doubt she’d take over Hudson’s since well he’s still a kid and of the two he’s the one that accepts her as his mom.”, Logan said looking up at the windows to the apartment. Aurelia walked around the corner carrying her bag and stopped looking at the building. “John must have fixed the damage Pretender and her team caused.”, Aurelia said before turning the key to the private entrance and headed up the stairs.

When she got to the apartment door she stopped. “Can I do this? Can I really live here without him?”, Aurelia asked before reaching down to lightly touch her stomach. “I can live here with you and then we’ll be here when he returns to us.”, Aurelia said taking a deep breath before unlocking the door and stepping inside. Aurelia flicked the light on and sighed. “I will keep it together. I will not break down.”, Aurelia repeated as she continued into the house. Logan followed her inside and looked around. “Everything is exactly as I remembered it. It even still smells the same.”, Logan commented before looking to Aurelia who’d wandered over to a corner shelf with picture frames.

Logan looked over her shoulder and smiled a little looking at the various pictures. His eyes moved from the Amiko’s wedding picture to Xavier’s newborn photo, then to a picture of Cero from a rare father-son outing when they went ice fishing in Alaska, then a picture of Raziel with Skylair before they died far too young, next his eyes fell on Kirra’s graduation picture the smile on her face was priceless to him, then there was the pictures of Hudson one in his full royal attire including crown the other was just him flying a kite in the park here in Bayville, next his eyes fell to the picture of Sarael and John at their wedding at the estate in Alberta, and finally he found a picture of him with Aurelia. It seemed both him and Aurelia looked at the picture at the same time since they laughed at the same time. It wasn’t anything special they were just sitting on the sofa in the apartment. He had his arm along the back of the couch behind her and was bringing a beer to his lips to drink when Sarael had snapped the photo. He didn’t like his picture being taken, but Aurelia insisted the picture be framed.

Aurelia lightly ran her hand over the picture and sighed before walking away. “I will not cry. Hormones be damned I will not cry.”, Aurelia continued to repeat as she went into the bedroom. “Apparently John has also had someone cleaning while I’ve been gone. Not a speck of dust in this place.”, Aurelia commented as she set her suitcase down. She looked at the bed taking a deep breath before sitting down to remove her boots. She stretched out on her side of the bed, pulling his pillows close. “God they still smell like him.”, Aurelia said hugging the pillow tightly. Apparently it was all too much as she started to cry. Logan wanted nothing more than to comfort her in this moment, and his killed him that he couldn’t. Eventually and slowly Aurelia found sleep, mostly just from exhaustion of travelling across the country.

When morning came Logan heard someone else in the apartment. He looked to Aurelia who was still asleep holding his pillow tightly. So the noise hadn’t awoken her. Logan got up from the bed and headed out into the apartment to find out who had broken in. As he rounded a corner he stopped dead. It was no intruder. There in the living room with a duster was his brother John. “John?”, he said wanting nothing more than to hug his brother. John however just continued to dust the apartment. When he got to the picture frames John raised his brow as he noticed that a picture had been moved. “Who touched the picture of my brother and Aurelia..”, John questioned as he put the frame back in its place. Logan watched as John carefully crept through the apartment checking the two upper bedrooms first and then finally going to the master and carefully opened it. John went still when he saw Aurelia asleep on the bed. “Aurelia?!”, John exclaimed.

Aurelia startled awake at the yell of her name and looked at John. “John…you gave me a heart attack. What are you doing here?”, Aurelia asked getting out of the bed. “What am I doing here? The same thing I do every week since you left. I’m cleaning and keeping up the apartment. When did you get here? Why didn’t you call and say you were coming home?”, John asked. Aurelia looked down at her feet. “I kind of wanted it to be a surprise. And I got in so late last night I didn’t want to disturb you or Sarael.”, Aurelia explained. “Do you have any idea how worried we have been about you?”, John asked before pulling her into a hug. “Um, I’m sorry. I didn’t think..”, Aurelia said her voice trailed off when John hugged her. “Didn’t think what? That Sarael and I would worry. That we’d want to know where you are and that you are safe?”, John asked.

“Well I figured with Logan missing..”, Aurelia started to explain. “You would think because my brother is missing and declared dead that we would stop caring? Sarael is your friend. And my brother being gone doesn’t change anything between you and I. You are my sister, I don’t care if James didn’t get the chance to marry you. You are my sister.”, John retorted. “Really?”, Aurelia asked. “I just figured without Logan I was kind of void.”, Aurelia said shrugging. “Void? Are you kidding me. Do you have any idea how many phone calls I’ve gotten from Amiko asking about you? Hudson calls me every day to ask about you. And do you know what he askes?”, John said. Aurelia shook her head. “He asks ‘Have you heard from my mom’. So please never just take off again and certainly never think you stop being part of this family because James isn’t here.”, John said.

Between how accepting John was and being told that Amiko and Hudson were so worried about her, something inside just snapped and she began to cry. John gave her another hug. “It’s alright Aurelia. You’re home where you belong.”, John said trying to assure her. Logan knew why she was crying, she still had to tell John why she’d come home. “I… I need to talk to you and Sarael. There’s something important I came home for and I need to tell you both.”, Aurelia said sniffling and drying her tears. “Alright. I can call Sarael and she’ll come right over, especially when I say you are home.”, John said pulling out his cell phone. John quickly dialed a number. “Sarael. I need you to come to James and Aurelia’s place. Guess who’s home.”, John said his voice sounding rather chipper. Even Logan could hear Sarael squeal at the other end of the phone shouting Aurelia’s name. John nodded. “Yup. She said she’s got something to talk to us about. So tell Demitri you’ll be back later and get over here.”, John said. “Alright We’ll see you soon. I love you.”, John said his farewell before hanging up. “She’ll be here in a few minutes.”, John said putting his phone in his pocket.

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The next month seemed to pass quickly. Logan didn’t find himself pulled back to the other world. Instead he was still in the world where his and Aurelia’s unborn child was still growing. Aurelia continued to stay at the ranch with Alex. She at least held to her decision to not drink like that tequila fueled night. Logan was starting to wonder when she’d figure out that she was pregnant. She was throwing up for a few days after that tequila night, but she just blamed drinking three bottles of tequila for her stomach being so upset. After that she just blamed Alex’s cooking for why she threw up throughout the day. Since it’s called ‘morning sickness’, a rather deceptive phrase, she never seemed to connect that her throwing up throughout the day could be a clue of being pregnant. But having been around Nikki and Karmen during their pregnancies he knew that ‘morning sickness’ was really an all day event.

It was when Aurelia finally took time to notice that it’d been too long since her last period. Logan leaned in the doorway as she rummaged through a desk looking for something. “Where is it? I thought there was a calendar in here.”, Aurelia grumbled to herself. “AH HA!”, Aurelia explained pulling a calendar out. “Alright let’s figure this out…”, Aurelia said sitting down and flipping through the months. “When was the last one? God damn it why don’t I keep better track of this. Was it before the attack or after? “, Aurelia questioned herself. “Before pup.”, Logan commented. As Aurelia continued to look through the calendar she stopped to a month ago from the night she’d rather forget. “No, no oh please no.”, Aurelia said shutting the calendar and throwing it across the room. “I better get a test or something.”, Aurelia said grabbing her jacket.

“Alex I’ll be back in a few, I’m just heading to the store.”, Aurelia yelled before heading for her motorcycle. Logan of course followed. He had an idea of what was running through her head. The initial is she pregnant followed by the uncertainty of conception since they’d always been carefully and she might not remember how careful she was with that Nick fellow. “Aurelia it’s mine.”, Logan said wishing he could get her to hear him. She looked so anxious and pale, well paler than her normal complexion, as the worry about being a mother from a one night stand. Once she was at the local store he followed her as she quickly walked to the aisle containing the pregnancy tests. “It’s going to be okay Aurelia. You probably missed because of all the stress and such you’ve had since the attack. That’s it. It’s just stress that’s holding up my period.”, Aurelia said quietly trying to convince herself that this was just a false alarm.

Despite trying to talk herself out of the idea she still grabbed a box of EPT and used the self check out, Logan assumed so no one knew she was buying the tests. With her purchase made Aurelia speeded back to the ranch and locked herself in the bathroom. Aurelia followed the instructions and then waited, biting her nails with worry. Logan peeked at the stick and shook his head. “Positive pup.”, Logan said with a chuckle. When Aurelia saw the plus sign she didn’t laugh like Logan. “No, no no. Maybe it’s a false positive.”, Aurelia said before taking the second test that was in the box. A few minutes later the same result. “Alright I need to see a doctor. They can tell me for sure. I’ll go and they’ll just tell me the two tests were wrong.”, Aurelia said before discreetly destroying the packaging and the tests so Alex wouldn’t find them.

Logan followed her as this time she didn’t tell Alex she was leaving and just left. “Where are we going?”, Logan questioned of course not getting answer. But his answer was given as the pulled into a parking lot of a planned parenthood. “Ah yes, you want a doctor to have you pee on the same type of stick of the two that just told you that you’re pregnant.”, Logan said shaking his head following her inside. “You should just call Mikali. I’d rather trust you and our baby in the hands of my former student than some human quack.”, Logan encourage. “But you can’t hear me so this is just a pointless endeavor of me hearing myself talk.”, Logan grumbled. So he just quietly sat down as she filled out the paperwork and waited for her name to be called. “Aurelia Christian.”, a nurse called. Logan followed Aurelia as she went back.

Just as he predicted she was handed a little cup to pee in and then a stick to place in it. “Unless they are doing blood work to determine pregnancy everyone goes based on the pee on a stick test.”, Logan said shrugging as he waited outside the bathroom for Aurelia. Logan went to move as he heard her turning the handle but then the handle stopped turning and instead he heard vomiting. “Accept that you are pregnant already and let’s go back home. And by home I don’t mean the ranch. I mean go back to our home in Bayville. Our child should be raised around family. John and Sarael are back in Bayville.”, Logan encouraged. He still followed her into the office where the doctor came in looking at the test results. “Alright, Miss. Christian based on the results you are definitely pregnant. Can you tell me when was the first day of your last menstrual cycle?”, the doctor asked sitting down. Aurelia looked like a combination of disappointed and terrified at the news of being pregnant. “Judging by your expression this wasn’t a planned pregnancy.”, the doctor commented before looking at the ring on her finger. “Does your husband or fiancée know about the pregnancy?”, the doctor asked.

Logan groaned this wasn’t going to go well. “I’m right fucking here, but none of you can see me.”, he said in frustration. Aurelia looked down at her ring and looked as if she was going to cry. “My fiancée went missing in action nearly three months ago.”, Aurelia explained sniffling. “Oh I’m so sorry to hear that.”, the doctor said looking down at her paperwork to avoid eye contact. “As for my last menstrual, I don’t remember. With him going missing and such I’ve just not paid attention and been under a lot of stress.”, Aurelia explained. “That’s alright. If you’ll follow me I can do a quick ultra sound to get a rough estimate of how far along you are.”, the doctor said standing up. Logan followed along behind Aurelia as she was assured to a room with an ultrasound machine and an examination table. “Alright if you would please get up on the table. I will need you to just unbutton your jeans and pull your shirt to just under the bra so I can use the ultra sound machine.”, the doctor instructed. Aurelia nodded and did as she was instructed then laid down on the table. “This jelly is going to be a little cold and then you are going to feel some pressure and I move the wand across your abdomen to get a view at the baby. Depending on how far along you are I may have to perform an internal ultrasound which is a bit more invasive.”, the doctor advised before squirting the jelly onto Aurelia’s stomach.

Logan stood next to the table his eyes locked on the screen. They didn’t really do much of this back when his older children were fetuses. So for him this would be the first time he would ever see one of his children in this fashion. While the doctor pressed down on her abdomen Aurelia kept her eyes on the screen too. As the doctor continued to move around there was a sound, a fast rhythmic thumping. “What is that?”, Aurelia asked. “That would be the heartbeat. Sounds good.”, the doctor replied. Aurelia looked like she might start to cry as she just listened to the sound. Logan smiled enjoying the sound, but he kept his eyes on the monitor. Then there it was, it wasn’t very big but it was easy to see the skull, the body, the tiny arms and legs. And in the center of the chest was the blinking of the heart thumping away. “Alright let’s get some measurements and see if we can figure out how far along you really are.”, the doctor said starting to click on the keyboard taking measurements of the picture. Logan and Aurelia were both silent as they stared at the picture. “That’s our baby…”, Logan said finally. Aurelia remained silent but a few tears could be seen on her cheeks. Logan looked to her and saw the tears, but the expression didn’t say they were all from sadness.

“Hmm, well it’s really hard to tell Miss Christian. The baby could be anywhere between 5 to 11 weeks.”, the doctor said. “That’s a rather big difference. I need something more exact.”, Aurelia said looking away from the screen for the first time. Logan knew why she wanted more exact time frame. If it was only 5 weeks then she would think its Nick’s, but if she was further than that it would be his. Logan of course knew it was his just based on the other world he’d seen. “I’m sorry I can’t. Without knowing your last menstruation I can’t. The baby is on the smaller size but the heart rate is an indicator that its further along than the size shows.”, the doctor explained. “Of course it’s going to be smaller in size, it’s a Howlett baby. We have all been born at full term but looking like we were two months premature. Heck till my mutation kicked in a butterfly could flap it’s wings in Brazil and I’d catch pneumonia.”, Logan said shrugging not that his words could be heard. “I understand. Thank you.”, Aurelia said. “Here you can wipe the jelly off your stomach now. Would you like me to print out the pictures from the ultrasound?”, the doctor offered handing Aurelia a paper towel. Aurelia took the towel and wiped of the goop. “Um..yeah. Please.”, she answered as she got off the table and fixed her clothes.

The doctor turned to the printer and handed Aurelia a sheet of three pictures of the baby. “Here you go Miss Christian.”, she said. “Oh and here is some information you will need in regards to things that you should avoid during your pregnancy. I would also recommend starting to take prenatal vitamins.”, the doctor said handing her a folder full of paper. “Would you like to schedule out appointments with my office to be seen through your pregnancy?”, the doctor asked. Aurelia took the folder and then looked back to the doctor. “Um, that’s alright. I don’t actually live here. I’ve been visiting. I guess it’s time I head back home. I have a doctor there that will see me.”, Aurelia answered. Logan sighed in relief. “Finally we are going back to Bayville. Mikali and Kisa will take good care of you and the baby.”, Logan said following Aurelia out of the office. Aurelia kept looking at the picture and almost walked past her motorcycle she was so distracted. She tucked the pictures into her jacket pocket and sat down on her motorcycle. “Please be a Howlett.”, Aurelia whispered before leaving to go back to the ranch.

When she walked in Alex was standing there a worried look on his face. “Why didn’t you tell me you were leaving? I was worried you ran off again.”, Alex said. “I’m not in the mood to be lectured Alex.”, Aurelia said shaking her head. “Well I’m in the mood to lecture.”, Alex retorted. “You want to know where I went? Fine. I went into town to the planned parenthood. I’ve been sick for weeks and haven’t had my period. And guess what..”, Aurelia said holding up the picture. “Turns out I’m going to be a mom.”, Aurelia added. Logan felt for sure if Alex’s jaw dropped any further it would hit the ground. “So, before Logan di…disappeared”, Alex said. Logan knew what he was going to say before he changed it to’ disappeared’. “Apparently. So I’m going to pack up.”, Aurelia said heading for the rooms he’d been staying in. “Wait your pregnant so you’re leaving?”, Alex asked following her. “Yes, I have to go back to Bayville.”, Aurelia said as she pulled her clothes out of the dresser and closet and started throwing them into a suitcase. “But with Logan missing what is there for you? Here you have me and your parents are here too.”, Alex countered. Aurelia sighed and closed the suitcase. “Logan’s family is in Bayville. Our home is there. It’s time I went back to it. If I’m having a baby I want to raise him or her in the home Logan and I built. Not to mention there I can have two healers as my doctors so any possible complication normal or mutant related will be addressed without a problem.”, Aurelia explained.

Alex frowned. Aurelia sighed and placed a hand on his cheek. “You are my best friend Alex and I love you as a best friend. But I need to go back.”, Aurelia said giving him a kiss on the cheek. She turned and grabbed her back. “I’ll call when I get home. Don’t worry about me, please.”, Aurelia said. Alex pulled her into a hug before she could leave. “You better call me. And I don’t just mean when you get there. I mean after that too.”, Alex said before letting her go. Logan was very happy that finally they would go back to Bayville. He wasn’t able to leave Aurelia, both because he wanted to be near her but because for whatever reason she was his magnet. He wanted to know how his brother and other children were doing. It took close to a week to drive across the country, but leaving her motorcycle was not an option. So between the general driving and the constant need to pull over to throw up or pee it took a bit longer than normal. Aurelia hadn’t’ called to tell anyone that she was coming back to Bayville, but it was nightfall by the time she pulled up to the pub. As she got off the bike Logan went around front to look at the bar.

Any damaged done during the attack had been repaired. “John.”, Logan said with a smile. He looked around and took a deep breath. He had never really thought of any place as ‘home’. But of every place he’d lived this apartment with Aurelia above his pub was the one he’d call home. He remembered when he had bought the building and refurbished the two floors upstairs to suit his family. He’d given them a great master bedroom and set up two guest bedrooms so his children could visit. Though only Hudson ever really stayed for any long periods of time in the room setup specifically for him. Kirra had stayed a couple nights basically when she had a long layover during her travels. As he thought about the apartment he began thinking about what room would become the nursery. “I’m going to guess she converts Kirra’s bedroom into the nursery. I doubt she’d take over Hudson’s since well he’s still a kid and of the two he’s the one that accepts her as his mom.”, Logan said looking up at the windows to the apartment. Aurelia walked around the corner carrying her bag and stopped looking at the building. “John must have fixed the damage Pretender and her team caused.”, Aurelia said before turning the key to the private entrance and headed up the stairs.

When she got to the apartment door she stopped. “Can I do this? Can I really live here without him?”, Aurelia asked before reaching down to lightly touch her stomach. “I can live here with you and then we’ll be here when he returns to us.”, Aurelia said taking a deep breath before unlocking the door and stepping inside. Aurelia flicked the light on and sighed. “I will keep it together. I will not break down.”, Aurelia repeated as she continued into the house. Logan followed her inside and looked around. “Everything is exactly as I remembered it. It even still smells the same.”, Logan commented before looking to Aurelia who’d wandered over to a corner shelf with picture frames.

Logan looked over her shoulder and smiled a little looking at the various pictures. His eyes moved from the Amiko’s wedding picture to Xavier’s newborn photo, then to a picture of Cero from a rare father-son outing when they went ice fishing in Alaska, then a picture of Raziel with Skylair before they died far too young, next his eyes fell on Kirra’s graduation picture the smile on her face was priceless to him, then there was the pictures of Hudson one in his full royal attire including crown the other was just him flying a kite in the park here in Bayville, next his eyes fell to the picture of Sarael and John at their wedding at the estate in Alberta, and finally he found a picture of him with Aurelia. It seemed both him and Aurelia looked at the picture at the same time since they laughed at the same time. It wasn’t anything special they were just sitting on the sofa in the apartment. He had his arm along the back of the couch behind her and was bringing a beer to his lips to drink when Sarael had snapped the photo. He didn’t like his picture being taken, but Aurelia insisted the picture be framed.

Aurelia lightly ran her hand over the picture and sighed before walking away. “I will not cry. Hormones be damned I will not cry.”, Aurelia continued to repeat as she went into the bedroom. “Apparently John has also had someone cleaning while I’ve been gone. Not a speck of dust in this place.”, Aurelia commented as she set her suitcase down. She looked at the bed taking a deep breath before sitting down to remove her boots. She stretched out on her side of the bed, pulling his pillows close. “God they still smell like him.”, Aurelia said hugging the pillow tightly. Apparently it was all too much as she started to cry. Logan wanted nothing more than to comfort her in this moment, and his killed him that he couldn’t. Eventually and slowly Aurelia found sleep, mostly just from exhaustion of travelling across the country.

When morning came Logan heard someone else in the apartment. He looked to Aurelia who was still asleep holding his pillow tightly. So the noise hadn’t awoken her. Logan got up from the bed and headed out into the apartment to find out who had broken in. As he rounded a corner he stopped dead. It was no intruder. There in the living room with a duster was his brother John. “John?”, he said wanting nothing more than to hug his brother. John however just continued to dust the apartment. When he got to the picture frames John raised his brow as he noticed that a picture had been moved. “Who touched the picture of my brother and Aurelia..”, John questioned as he put the frame back in its place. Logan watched as John carefully crept through the apartment checking the two upper bedrooms first and then finally going to the master and carefully opened it. John went still when he saw Aurelia asleep on the bed. “Aurelia?!”, John exclaimed.

Aurelia startled awake at the yell of her name and looked at John. “John…you gave me a heart attack. What are you doing here?”, Aurelia asked getting out of the bed. “What am I doing here? The same thing I do every week since you left. I’m cleaning and keeping up the apartment. When did you get here? Why didn’t you call and say you were coming home?”, John asked. Aurelia looked down at her feet. “I kind of wanted it to be a surprise. And I got in so late last night I didn’t want to disturb you or Sarael.”, Aurelia explained. “Do you have any idea how worried we have been about you?”, John asked before pulling her into a hug. “Um, I’m sorry. I didn’t think..”, Aurelia said her voice trailed off when John hugged her. “Didn’t think what? That Sarael and I would worry. That we’d want to know where you are and that you are safe?”, John asked.

“Well I figured with Logan missing..”, Aurelia started to explain. “You would think because my brother is missing and declared dead that we would stop caring? Sarael is your friend. And my brother being gone doesn’t change anything between you and I. You are my sister, I don’t care if James didn’t get the chance to marry you. You are my sister.”, John retorted. “Really?”, Aurelia asked. “I just figured without Logan I was kind of void.”, Aurelia said shrugging. “Void? Are you kidding me. Do you have any idea how many phone calls I’ve gotten from Amiko asking about you? Hudson calls me every day to ask about you. And do you know what he askes?”, John said. Aurelia shook her head. “He asks ‘Have you heard from my mom’. So please never just take off again and certainly never think you stop being part of this family because James isn’t here.”, John said.

Between how accepting John was and being told that Amiko and Hudson were so worried about her, something inside just snapped and she began to cry. John gave her another hug. “It’s alright Aurelia. You’re home where you belong.”, John said trying to assure her. Logan knew why she was crying, she still had to tell John why she’d come home. “I… I need to talk to you and Sarael. There’s something important I came home for and I need to tell you both.”, Aurelia said sniffling and drying her tears. “Alright. I can call Sarael and she’ll come right over, especially when I say you are home.”, John said pulling out his cell phone. John quickly dialed a number. “Sarael. I need you to come to James and Aurelia’s place. Guess who’s home.”, John said his voice sounding rather chipper. Even Logan could hear Sarael squeal at the other end of the phone shouting Aurelia’s name. John nodded. “Yup. She said she’s got something to talk to us about. So tell Demitri you’ll be back later and get over here.”, John said. “Alright We’ll see you soon. I love you.”, John said his farewell before hanging up. “She’ll be here in a few minutes.”, John said putting his phone in his pocket.