Posted by Lieutenant Natasha Daye (Doctor) in Knight and Daye: Time to Play

Posted by Lieutenant Natasha Daye (Doctor) in Knight and Daye: Time to Play

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Moving to the full-length mirror, Nat looked herself over and spun around a few times. The south forty seemed to be in order but her midsection definitely looked like she had not seen a sit up in a few months. As her eyes drifted to her north forty they stopped immediately on one section. “Dante,” she said in a slow drawn out speech. “Do I look more.....round,” was all she could say. Her mind was fuzzy like she was waking from a hangover and trying to piece the bits together into a cohesive story. As she spun around Dante would not be able to miss that somehow in the middle of the night a certain fairy had visited that all men dreamt of after the age of sixteen and replaced the tooth fairy.

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He stopped and looked at what she was referring to, and had to admit that she was right. “Well, you definitely seem to have been blessed overnight in more ways than one. Twice blessed, I’d say but,” he moved to her and gently turned her around to face the mirror again, standing behind her so he could wrap his arms around her and put his hands over her belly softly, but also so he could whisper in her ear. “Baby, yesterday morning when we woke up this wasn’t here. Or at least yesterday as I remember it, unless you ate a whole damn bunch of bacon sandwiches when I was sleeping. You’re the doctor my girl, why would you have this,” and then he raised his hands to her seemingly newly acquired assets, “or these in just two days? Epic level bloating and gas? You need to listen to me and trust me, something isn’t right.”

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“Ascites or IBS but I feel fine,” Natasha started to self diagnose. It was then she took a breath and placed her palm on his cheek. “Dante I want this too. God, you have no idea but this isn’t what you think. It can’t be,” Natasha pressed her lips to his in a soft kiss. She let them linger for a moment longer than necessary. Mainly to get her emotions under control. If she didn’t take a moment she would start to cry. Having children meant everything to Dante. He always spoke of a family. That was always in their plans but life often threw you curve balls and some things you never got a second chance at bat for. You picked yourself up by your bootstraps and found a new normal. Letting her lips leave his she swallowed hard and looked up at him. “I will never stop trying but it has been two years of constant trying. I knew it was a one in a million chance now and I have been off all birth control for the past two years. I even lied on the paperwork everywhere.” Leaning in she wrapped her arms around his waist and laid her head on his chest. It always felt good in his arms. No matter what was happening to them if she was in his arms then Natasha belonged to Dante and that meant her world would right itself.

“So you can see it too,” he said to her gently as his arms circled her and one hand rose to softly stroke her hair. “I thought..” he couldn’t finish the sentence, he had thought having children was going to be impossible for the two of them. “How, Tasia?”

“I took you off all contraceptives a year ago when we boarded the Saracen. I have been off them since the Outpost and it didn’t happen,” her voice caught in her throat. “I am sorry this happened to us. I am sorry I did this to us. If I could change it I would but I can’t. Please don’t leave me,” she said barely above a whisper.

“Stop.” His voice was firm, but not angry. It was far from angry. “There is nothing to be sorry for, you did what you could to make a family for us, something we wanted for ever. How am I ever going to be angry at you for that? I wouldn’t change this for anything. Baby I love you, and if by some miracle we are having a baby and that isn’t a bad reaction to bacon sandwiches I have just become the luckiest man in the universe.” He dropped his head to hers and gently kissed her temple. “I’m not leaving you, I have never left you and I never will. No matter what, you are my girl, my only girl.”

Deep in conversation neither Nat or Dante noticed the door slide open. Neither of them noticed the man and woman that entered the room with their lunch trays laden with food. She heard the wife begging her husband to stay. She heard the end of their conversation and had to do something. “I’m not supposed to say this but it will be okay. He doesn’t have to leave. He can stay here with you,” the woman said softly staring at the tray as she spoke. Too many times she had seen this scenario play out. It always broke her heart but maybe just maybe it would give this couple hope that their future was not as bleak as they thought. “Just try to enjoy the time you have and make the decision that is right for you both.”

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Dante turned and looked at the pair, then down at his fiancee, raising her chin to him and smiling. The pair couldn’t see it, but his smile hid the look in his eyes that only Natasha would see. The look spoke of a firmness, a determination and an anger that she knew from their arguments and of dealing with difficult alien diplomats. It spoke volumes that he was about to do something, and he expected her total compliance because he knew what was best at that moment and wasn’t going to debate anything.

“See my love, I can stay. I’m not going anywhere.” He let her go and turned to the pair, and nodded his thanks at the womans reassuring words as he walked to her and took the tray from her, then turned and took a step towards the table. “Let me get you some coffee Nat, I think we both need a break.” With those words Dante let one end of the tray go, resulting in a loud clatter as the plates of food and pot of coffee dropped to the ground, shattering. In the same movement he spun back towards the woman, lifting the metal tray in both hands and connecting the flat surface with the side of her head.

He didn’t watch what happened to her after that as he dropped the tray and spun on the shocked looking man, throwing a short punch at him up under his chin with the aim of taking him out in one movement. It worked, the mans head snapped back and he fell unconscious on the bed behind him with Dante standing over him making sure he wasn’t getting him, fist clenched, then looked back down at the unconscious woman. Seeing she was out cold as well, he hook his hand and looked at Natasha. “Ow, I forgot how hard a mans chin is.”

He took her hand and looked at her firmly. “This isn’t our hotel room, we are some kind of prisoner here and by the looks of you, we’ve been here a while. Do what I say baby, we are getting out of here. Don’t argue ok, just do what I say. This room is probably being watched with camera’s.”

Pulling her with him, he didn’t stop for anything in the room and walked to the open door, walking straight out into a long sterile white painted corridor with doors closed on each side. “When in doubt, always go right.” he said, and began to walk. “I’m getting us out of here, whatever happened they must have removed our memories. Tell me if you don’t feel right baby. We have to be quick.”

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