Chapter Fourteen: Broken Pieces

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♤ You laid your head on Ace's chest, attempting to match your breathing to his. You were hoping that this would quell the nausea a little.

"Hey, I'm so sorry." You said. "I know that you came here for the first time in a while and instead you find me sick."

"It's okay. I never get to take care of you when you're sick because I'm not around a lot of the time." Ace smiled.

It had been a month since you'd seen him, and three months since he left the Whitebeard Pirates to search for Blackbeard. He wasn't happy with how his search was going, and had probably come here to cool down and relax with you. You had left Issaquah Island with him to come live here with Nana. The small cottage was on top of a mountain so no one really bothered you up here.

You had worried about Ace's state of mind for a while after Thatch's death, but he was fine now and his sole purpise was to destroy Blackbeard. There was nothing you could do to dissuade him despite the bad feeling you had about the entire situation.

You stood up abruptly and ran to the bathroom to throw up again.

"Why am I like this?" You sighed as he held your hair up.

"You said that it has been happening ever since you moved here, right? Maybe the water here doesn't agree with you." Ace suggested as you washed your face.

"It could be." You said falling back down onto your bed. "But I've been boiling the water for the past week and nothing's changed. The only thing I seem able to keep down is chocolate cake."

"Maybe it's the chocolate cake that is making you sick. I mean do you have anything else to eat in this house besides sweets?" Ace pointed out sternly. Geez, it was strange being lectured on your eating habits by your gluttonous boyfriend.

"I love chocolate cake." You protested.

"Well you are eating too much of it." Ace said. "We need to go down the mountain because you need to go get some medicine. We can stop by Nana's hospital to see how she's doing."

"That sounds like fun." You groaned burying your face in your pillow trying to stifle the oncoming wave of nausea.

"What really is wrong with you anyway? You never get sick like this." He sounded legitimately worried.

"It's probably just some stupid stomach flu or something." You sighed, then giggled. "Or maybe I'm pregnant."

Ace sat up so fast that you swore the room temperature suddenly went up.

"Man, relax." You said "I'm joking Ace, it's just a joke you don't have to hyperventilate!"

"Shit! Don't joke about that okay? Are you trying to give me a heart attack?" He gasped, a hand on his face in distress.

"Okay, I won't. I'm gonna go wash up now." You said cautiously watching the panicked expression on Ace's face slowly disappear. You hadn't meant to tease him about it since you knew how strongly felt about the issue.

But then as you stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom, you thought about it.

When was the last time you saw your period? A month? Two? You'd  started on birth control ever since you and Ace started sleeping together, but you never knew when Ace would come by and you weren't always consistent. 

It was not far fetched at all, you really might be pregnant.

You felt like you were going to faint but you pulled yourself together well enough until you arrived at the clinic.

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