Havoc (Hostiles Sequel) 3/3

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"Hey"

Lachlan soothingly says to Makenna, who had been standing by the window looking into the pool in deep thought for far too long

"Lach... I've been thinking." She sighs as he pulls her into his arms and kisses her head affectionately 

"What's on your mind?" He pries as she turns around to face him 

"You." Makenna sighs softly, looking into his beautiful eyes 

"Me." He prods gently, filling the silence between them for her 

"I know this isn't a good time...and that it's never been a good time for us...but... I love you." She mumbles so softly only he can hear what she's saying 

"Makenna..." he sighs affectionately

"I know you have every right to not believe me...to think this is some kind of escapism and the worst possible timing my being pregnant with someone else's kid and probably on my way to jail for a crime I didn't commit... I know this is possibly the worst of times and this is me in my worst state pregnant with a dead husband...and I understand that it's asking a lot of you to take this...me...and my baggage on...again... and I know that I've asked you to do that before and then turned around and hurt you so I understand...believe me, I understand... that you'd be skeptical of me and my intentions but I can't... I can't be sure that I'll see you tomorrow or the next day and I don't... I don't want to go on without you knowing I'm in love with you." Makenna confesses, her voice shaky with emotion and her eyes watery as she speaks 

"I... I didn't say it enough to Dio and now he's gone and I won't... I won't hold myself back from saying it to you... so forgive me if I say it with fear and guilt and shame in my voice...and I don't expect you to say it back after all I've put you through... and there's no point in trying for anything, I know, seeing as I might be going to jail for the rest of my life..." She softly mumbles up at him

"You're not going to jail Ken, I won't let you..." Lachlan assures the nervous mumbling woman in his arms 

As if on cue, Sao rushes into the house, banging the door open and shouting "They found him! Puta que pariu they found him!" (holy shit)

He was holding his phone in his hand, waving it around as Effie and Seneca and Makenna and Lachlan rushed to him. The man in the photo looked very little like Dionysius Plutarch but there was also no denying that it was him! 

"Where is he?" 

"Who found him?"

"Is he ok?"

the questions pour in as Effie falls to her knees. Her baby was alive! 

"They're flying him to a hospital as we speak, they haven't made the announcement public yet and the chopper will be here to pick us up in a few minutes to take us to him." Sao says through happy tears as everyone starts hugging and crying

Myrtle was in her airbnb, her body flush with adrenaline from her stellar performance in the interrogation room. Her first though was of course of the devious bitch Makenna Lewasi Plutarch and that ugly pergnancy rumor. She'd searched online with no sighting of Makenna, not since Dio's disappearance and not with a baby bump. Was Makenna hiding a pregnancy or was she actually pregnant? Myrtle had challenged the superintendent to find out, to push for a paternity test so the truth would come out. She was missing Dionysius' beautiful face enough to pull out her laptop and switch to the CCTV live feed of the cottage. She'd decided on a break from practicing her followup witness confessions for tomorrow and all she wanted to do was spy on her baby daddy and see how he was doing.