The Vixen & the Fox II

Chapter 209

Davina checked in on Kol who was passed out like the dead, Freya wasn't in a much better state. Elijah and Klaus had gone to get the Quads and Hayley. Davina was very excited to see Hayley. Rebekah, Marcel, and Henrik were finishing the clean up of Nadia Petrova's body. Finn was off with Mikael watching the other vampires in the area, Davina wasn't going to question that at all, and she and Monique were both studying the residual magic in Nadia's blood at the kitchen.

Monique rubbed a hand over her belly as they worked, and Davina cringed internally at what Dahlia could've done to her and Kol. It was not an aversion to children, but rather an aversion at this point in her life.

"What is it?" Monique finally asked, which had Davina yelping as she fell off her stool and pulled herself up the counter. "I'm so sorry," Monique giggled as Davina pulled herself back up. "But you just... you keep giving me weird looks," she mused as Davina sat again.

"I just... do you... being a mom," Davina trialed off lamely. Groaning she rested her head in her hands then. "I don't know how to say this without sounding like an ass."

"Well, just say it."

"Don't hex me."

"Okay."

"Do you think you've missed out on life now that you're going to be a mom? A teen mom?" Davina asked. Monique flinched a bit. "I'm sorry, I just... things happened and I'm just, I'm still processing it, and I know it was Kol and I's plan, but it was so not our best plan, even though it worked, but I'm a little curious now, but not on the baby fever train, I just... I'm not explaining this well."

"It's okay, Davina," Monique caught her hand then. "It's okay. I'm not an idiot, even if I didn't know what you and Kol were fully up to I do know the appeal you two would've held to a witch after the first borns of the Mikaelsons. I'm not an idiot."

"I'm sorry," Davina grimaced. She knew she sounded like a bitch or a brat, and she didn't want to offend Monique, but they were the same age, and if things had gone differently, Davina might've found herself in the same boat, and that terrified Davina.

"We just took different pathes," Monique stated. "I mean, you're still the best friend I could ask for, everyone else back home is giving me those judgy looks, you know the ones. And I know Henrik and I aren't in a relationship, but this is our baby so we have to figure out how to be in some sort of communication, beyond friends with benefits. But to answer your question, I just... I never planned this, but it happened, and I don't know, I just think we'll have different lives, but I don't think I'm missing anything yet, it'll just be different. And you kind of proved to me that different is okay."

"Me?"

"Davina, you are the very definition of 'different and that's okay', you like defined it, especially after the Harvest. I don't know, you just kind of decided to bravely be you, regardless of everyone else, and I've been learning to do the same. Being a teen mom was never my plan, but it's happening now, and it's just... it'll be different," she said softly. "I'm still going to figure out college, and family, and travelling and being a witch, but it won't be the same as you, or Cassie or Abby."

"Are you scared? To be a mom?"

"Terrified."

"Then why?"

"I don't know, Henrik and I created this life, it didn't ask to be made, and I don't know," she shrugged. "I thought about abortion, seriously thought about it, because I can't give up a baby to adoption, supernatural beings don't belong in the mortal world only, and it wouldn't be fair to dump the baby on unsuspecting mortal parents. I thought about aborting the baby, because I'm seventeen, I'm young, I had barely survived the Harvest, I'm so not ready to be a mom. I didn't discard the thought because of Pro-Life people or anything like shame, because only I'd have to really live with what I would've done. And I was so scared."