"What colour of panties are you wearing?"
"Excuse me?" She countered
"I won't repeat the question again"
"Red. They're red" she swallowed
"Reach below your gown. Pull it. And hand it over to me"
"Why would you want it? It's just a piece of material...
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"What do you mean?" he coughed slightly
"Tell me I'm lying, and you don't wince everything you get around to saying that I'm pregnant?" Raven fired back at him, daring him to deny it. Praying that he did.
"Raven-- it's not that easy" he said testily
"You can't say it, can you? It's because I'm telling the truth. I knew this was a mistake, and you didn't really want to be a father" Raven blinked back the tears threatening to fall.
Gosh when had that even pooled there in the first place? Insecurity was a bitch.
"Well maybe you're right. Maybe I don't want to be a father. Maybe I shouldn't be a father. But that doesn't change the fact that I am excited that you're carrying my baby. Because there is no absolutely no other person for me, who would have been suited to do this role, other than you. But the same doesn't go for me, Raven. It's the sad truth. I don't think I'm good enough to be anyone's father. But it's not the same for you. You'd make an amazing mom. Because you're like the best of all of us, and if a baby is what you want--"
"What I want? So you're simply going to shirk out of fathering duties because you don't think you're good enough to be a father? Well guess what? You are. Because you were certainly good enough to engage in the act that created the child in the first place! Listen Mikhail, I'm scared too. The baby wasn't planned, in case that ever crossed your mind. This just happened, but you don't see me shirking or denying whether I should be a mom or not. I need you now, more than ever, for both myself, and for the baby. Yet all you have to say to me, is you don't think you can be it's father?"
"Half the things you just said, I never said them" he felt the need to point out.
"You implied them!" she fumed
"You will also keep quiet, and let me finish Moya zhenshchina"
Raven huffed, but she kept quiet, to let him speak
"Raven, did you hear me say that I was excited?"
"You mean right after you said you don't want to be a father? Yeah sure, I heard you say just how excited you were" she muttered sarcastically
"Raven, I didn't plan for this. What kind of influence would someone like me have on a child?"
"A good one. The influence of a father, his father, for starters."
"And I want our child, to have that. Truly I do"
"So? I guess we're on the same page then. Because that is what will happen. I am not raising this child alone, I won't let you do that to me" she asserted
"And you know me enough to know I'd never let you go through a process like that, all on your own. I love you, Raven. Today, forever."
"And I you, Mick. Today, forever" she finished off, reluctantly smiling. He didn't deserve to be forgiven this quickly and this easily.
