"Yes Nic." She sighed. "Well it's our baby, not yours, but It's more yours than Sean's." She sighed, wringing his sheets in her hands. Stupid sheets, stupid sex, stupid Dani. "I'm… I'm due in July, we think, at the beginning. I don't… I mean… I know it will be your child, but… I can't. I can't tell Sean. We can't. It would just be stupid. So… we can't… I mean, no one can know it's our baby. Sean can't find out."

A mixture of emotions played across his usually stoic face, a veritable kaleidoscope ranging from joy at her affirmation to anxiety at her repetition of keeping it from Sean. He would have been stupid to imagine this would change anything between them, it had been a affair. A good, long, sordid, horrible affair that in the long run - wasn't worth Sean's friendship. These were all things that the man had gone over in his mind a thousand times but when faced with her there and willing, in the moment it seemed like they weren't actually doing anything wrong. There had been too many such moments.

In spite of himself, of all the roiling emotions surrounding his betrayal, all the things that conflicted with Nic's moral code he cracked a smile that wouldn't go away no matter how hard he tried to straighten his face. Nic Roman was going to be a father. The very concept made him slightly dizzy, and in truth - at the time it didn't really matter who the mother was, no offense to DanI. The fact that it was her, a good friend, only made it better.

"I.. Wont say anything to Sean. Relax DanI, we'll work it out." He comforted, sliding onto the bed beside her and daring to pull her familiar body into his arms. A hand slid down her back and then up again as he pressed her into the safety of his strong arms and pulled her cheek against the smooth bare flesh of his chest. The sound of his pounding heart was as loud as a drum against his ribs. "I'll keep this secret from him because I know you love him, I know how much… But I want to be in my child's life DanI." His tone was sympathetic but final.

"I'll have to tell him eventually, I just I want to do it on my time. And if someone else tells him. So I hear Dani's having Nic's baby, he might get pissed off."

Nic sighed. Pissed was the most fantastic understatement that had ever been spoken during their many conversations and he had no illusions about what Sean's reaction would be. Despite what DanI was saying, the feeling that she was speaking with - He couldn't bring himself to agree to that. "If you're going to tell him DanI, you have to tell him early on. Tell him before the baby is born or don't tell him at all." He said against her hair, considering how ugly things would get between he and his former best friend in the following months.





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