Somebody To Love

Another Stab To The Heart

It's a morning like any other. Harmony is in her chambers, reading a book by the window, trying to stay away from everyone and everything. Ever since she had caught Jensen with Lady Teagan, Harmony had shut down even more and there was nothing anyone could tell her that would change what she was feeling.

A knock on the door interrupts her reading, making her sigh in disappointment, since she is just getting to the good part of the book. She looks at the door and sees Jensen walking in. Harmony stands up and tries to walk past him, ready to leave the room.

-"Harmony, wait, please. I need to talk to you." - Jensen pleads.

-"We have nothing to talk about."

-"Yes, we do and it's important. Please."

-"Fine."

-"There's no easy way to say this, so here goes. Lady Teagan is pregnant."

-"I'm sorry, what?" - Harmony wants to scream at him, but she doesn't have the strength.

-"I just found out. I'm sorry, Harmony. Truly."

-"What do you plan on doing?"

-"What do you mean?"

-"I'm gonna assume that the child is yours, and if that's the case, and considering that you are not married to Lady Teagan, that child is going to be branded a bastard, unless you claim them as yours."

-"I know. Is that what you want me to do? To claim the child as my own?"

-"You can do whatever you want, remember?" - She throws his own words back at him. -"But, that's the right thing to do. A child shouldn't have to pay for the mistakes of their parents."

-"If that's what you want me to do, then I'll do it."

-"It doesn't matter what I want. At the end of the day, it's the right thing to do. Unless you want your child to be ostracized their whole life. Now, if you'll excuse me."

Harmony stands up and leaves Jensen in their chambers, her heart broken into tiny pieces. When he asked to talk, she had been half expecting for him to bring up their estrangement, but never, not in a million years, had she expected him to tell her that his mistress was pregnant.

Harmony shakes her head at the thought, knowing that, if she hadn't been feeling as defeated as she is, he would be on the receiving end of quite the tongue lashing. She hated herself for not even having the strength to argue with him about what he had done.

Deep down, she knows this is all on her. She has pushed him straight into Lady Teagan's arms and now there will be a child that is going to be a constant reminder of just that. She will never take it out on the child, and she will treat them the same way she has treated Justice from the beginning, but there is only so much that Harmony can take and right now, she can't handle this new information.

Harmony finds the door she has been looking for. The door that will lead her to the one place where she can be truly alone and sort her thoughts and feelings out without anyone coming to claim a moment of her time. The old tower.