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Chapter Thirteen: Joshua's Reaction

"Wait for what?" I ask, surprised.

"You're pregnant, I double-checked just to make sure, but you are 100 percent, no doubt about it, pregnant," Belle says.

"Thanks for telling me." I sort of whisper and speak at the same time.

"Do you want me to tell Joshua?" She asks.

"No, I'll tell him, I would rather he hear it from me. Thanks for offering though."

"You're welcome and good luck." Belle says. I walk back into Josh's room and he is sitting on his bed.

"Josh, I have to tell you something."

"What, what's a matter?" He asks concerned.

"I'm pregnant." I mumble. He looks at me with a blank stare. I can't tell what he feels. And he starts to worry me.

He walks up and kisses me. I pull back.

"So, you're okay with this?"

"Okay, I'm over the moon." I kiss him and pull him close. I feel his hand on my cheek and smile under his warmth. I put my other hand on my stomach and Josh keeps his arms around me. I feel his forehead against mine, we both smile.

"Why are you so okay with this?" I ask after letting him go. "Aren't you afraid of what could happen? After the baby is born? We after all don't have a safe place to call home to raise him/her."

"I think that together we can figure out how to get back to the house where Qwin is, the house that you father gave us if we are still in California. And there we have a safe place to raise the baby after he/she is born. I think that after all we've been through that we can protect and raise the baby together. Remember we can accomplish anything as long as we stick together." Josh answers. I smile. I hug him close.

"We're going to have to convince Belle to come with us, since neither of us knows how to deliver a baby. And we need to have someone with medical training to take care of any wound or injury we get while we're traveling back to the house." I say, and Josh shakes his head up and down in agreement. I walk to the door and ask Belle to come into the room.

"Did everything go okay?" She asks me.

"Yes, I want to ask you something. Keep in mind that you can totally say no."

"What?"

"Could you possibly come with me and Josh on our journey back home, since you are the only one of us with medical training. Josh has some, but he doesn't remember much of it. What do ya say?" I ask.

"I would love to, but you are going to have to teach me to defend myself, as a doctor I never really needed those skills."

"I'll teach you. You already have some skills though, after all you did knock me onto the ground more than once while training."

"Thanks."

"Josh can you go get me one of our guns? I have some stuff I need to talk to Belle about."

"Sure." Josh answers. He walks out the door and down the hall.

"What is it you need to talk to me about?" Belle asks.

"Can I show you something?"

"Sure." Belle answers. I take off my shirt and let her see my wounds from the whip, they've mostly scabbed over but they're still there and they've been hurting lately.

"What happened?" She asks, surprised. "May I touch them?"

"Yeah. Before Josh and I were brought here we were captured by another servant of the master of this whole entire thing. We believe his name is Max. When we got captured by this man, he whipped me with it multiple times and it was lined with a poison, it made me feel like I was dying, and Josh found an antidote. I'm cured though but they've been bugging me lately. I was just curious if you could look at them."