Chapter Text
Unexpected
Chapter 1
I woke suddenly, mouth dry, heart pumping, unsure of where I was. A movement to my left caught my attention halting my breath, the shadows played over the covers and the decidedly man shaped blob shifted in his sleep as my brain caught up.
My name is Cassie Palmer, former part time tarot reader and now full time Pythia, and it says a lot about my life that the presence of my half demon boyfriend in my bed made me wake in terror. I tried to steady my heart rate with slow breaths, staring at the man I’d chosen. His crazy hair was falling over his face and he looked so peaceful, something I never thought to see. He had told me recently he slept better next to me, of course we’d been sharing a bed ever since, I hadn’t told him but I usually slept better with him beside me too. The panic subsided, but a wash of nausea followed in its wake, making me dash from the bed into the cool blue bathroom to throw up. A minute or so into my ordeal rough hands gently pulled my hair away from my face and smoothed along my neck, his warm presence at my back steadying me as the nausea passed. He moved away cleaning up, and passed me a wet towel and some mouth wash.
‘Are you ok?’ He asked, concern across his face.
‘Yeah I guess, probably just a bad burrito, I’m sorry I woke you.’ I said as cleaned up and rinsed out my mouth.
‘Never be sorry’ he said, he stayed close as I cleaned up and once done lifted me up into his arms and back to bed; he kissed me as he joined me on the bed, curling around me protectively as he drifted back to sleep. I took my time returning to sleep, a weird fluttering feeling in my stomach, I actually hadn’t eaten any dinner today, I shouldn’t have been sick as I was running on empty. I fell asleep to weird dreams of carrying a chubby burrito in my arms.
Pritkin woke the next morning, as bright as a man without coffee and interrupted sleep can actually be, he dressed for training, kissed me again and left without asking me to join him. He was letting me off after last night’s bout of sickness. He’d been gone only a few minutes when the sickness came back, but there was nothing to bring up so I sat on the floor in the bathroom mind racing, stomach cramping.
It had been a little over a month since our return from Wales, we’d started our relationship quickly and never really looked back. We’d never discussed our sex life really, beyond confirming we were together, it just sort of happened. We didn’t use protection, didn’t seem to be an issue as even half demons are not as fertile as the average human, and I’d never thought we’d be able to get pregnant. Well actually I’d never really thought about it at all, but here I was sat on the floor of a bathroom feeling sick and realising I’d not had a period since we’d come home.
I threw on some clothes, black shorts and a red tank top, with a pair of comfy sketchers Pritkin has bought me after a training session where I complained about my feet a lot. I shifted to the Walgreens on the strip, bought a two pack of pregnancy tests and shifted back. I needed to know and it had to be now.
It felt like an age, three minutes staring at a stick, not really knowing what I hoped for. What would Pritkin think? I couldn’t get the idea of a mini us out of my mind. The alarm on my phone went off, the stick stared at me, ‘Pregnant 3+ weeks’
‘oh, shit!’