Disappointed eyes stared at her as she sat facing her father and her aunt. It was going to be a long day. She could feel it in her bones.

Mimi convinced her that sooner or later she had to come clean. Talk to them about her pregnancy and move on from there.

When she arrived, she had the comforting support of her cousin to ground it out, rip off the band aid. But, as she began to speak that comforting feeling vanished and was replaced with dread.

She tried for ways to break such a shocking news. All sorts of ideas popped into her head ranging from the absurd to the most logical.

Dad i'm pregnant and the father of my child is a 770 yr old Warlord.....

Dad I was tossed back into the past fell inlove with a Medieval Earl and now i'm pregnant....

Dad I dated a guy for a while we hit it off I got pregnant now he is no longer in my life.......

"Daddy, i'm pregnant."

Deflated and with nothing else to say she sat there for what it felt like an eternity of staring and giving her this heartbreaking look of disappointment that she wanted to cry.

"Pregnant?" he shook his head and slowly stood then began to pace.

She sat nervously waiting for him to speak.

"Daddy?" she swallowed at the lump forming in her throat.

His back was turned to her. Wearily her aunt stood and went to him but stopped as he raised his hand.

She looked down and backed away. She walked slowly towards her and insisted that Mimi go with her to the kitchen.

Now it was just her, her father and an eerie silence.

"Who is he?" his voice broke the silence.

She lowered her head.

He turned to face her.

She slowly looked up to him. How could she explain this to him? He would never believe her. 

"Who is he Tara?" he demanded again.

She shook her head. Overwhelmed with his question.

He pressed on.

"Why do you want to know?" she shook her head.

His incredulous look froze her in her place. The look of fury in his gaze only added to the impact.

"So I can crucify that son of a bitch," he blurted out under heated breath.

She gasped.

"I want a name. Now." he insisted enraged and beginning to pace again.

"Daddy, I can't" she trembled.

Her words angered him begond reason and an argument began that soon had Mimi and her mother trying to calm them.

She was in tears by the time he finished his tirade. Anguished and hurt he demanded the name again.

Her heart thumped heavily in her chest. The heartache and pain barreled down on her of having to mention the father of her child she will never see again broke her.

She couldn't take it. It was her breaking point and her father would witness this sufforing first hand as she blurted it out.

"I can't give you his name because you will never be able to find him. He is gone. The love of my life is gone and all I have to show for it and remember him is my baby. I....miss him so much....it...hurts..." her heartwrenching cry was too much to bare as she held her chest and trembled before him.

An overwhelming warmth flushed over her as she doubled over in pain with a scream.

Immediately they were at her side as she cried out in pain and slumped to the floor.

A white flash of light pierced her vision as they sat immobile watching her recoil in agony. Quickly her father stood and dialed 911 in a panic watching his daughter cryout in pain.

Heat rushed through her as visions of her and Duncan spiraled around her.

He stood before a woman as she sliced his hand.

She knelt at his side and watched as the words to a spell were spoken.

"My heart,
my soul,
I give all to thee.
Intertwined we are eternally.
I take your hand and you take mine,
With these words I will forever bind,
Our love from now until the end,
Into your time, I will ascend."

She watched as he repeated it 3 times.
A bright light erupted from him as he growled in agony and curled up in pain.

Another wave of heat hit her as he whispered her name.

Tara....

She called out to him as darkness swallowed her whole.

They began arguing around her yelling for Mimi to get water or find something for her as she slumped in her aunts arms losing consciousness.

All around her swirled and faded. Voices of paramedics that attended to her as she was checked out. She was weak and tired.

Her BP is low. One warned.

She listened in a far off distance as one questioned her father and he frantically answered inbetween sobs.

She was loaded into an ambulance then and her father sat at her side coaxing her to hold on. To wake up. Then begged her not to leave him.

Leave him.

Her mind toyed with that decision. She would be with Duncan again.

She faded in out of what was real and what was not. But her grief strickened mind could not tell the difference.

She stood off in a distance suddenly and watched as they frantically rolled her out in a gurney into the E.R.

A gentle hand landed on her shoulder.
She turned to face the stranger at her side.
Loving familiar eyes held her sad gaze.

"Mom!" she whispered.

A smile formed on her mothers lips as she pulled Tara into her arms.

She held her mother tight and whispered how much she missed her and needed her now more than ever.

"I know you do baby girl ," she rubbed Taras back.

Pulling back she looked up into her mothers eyes.
"....Take me with you..please.." she sobbed.

Her mother shook her head.

"I cant baby. It's not your time."

Tara shook her head and turned to face the myriad of nurses and then Doctors huddled over her body trying to stabalize her.

"I want to be with him. I miss him mom," her tears fell heavy as she shut them tight.

"You have to be strong honey, for him and for your baby," she lovingly held Taras cheeks in her hands.

Chaos broke out at a distance and she watched as they yelled for a crash cart. She looked away as they began CPR and used an AED on her.

"Clear!"

Her body jumped.

Once more the nurse yelled as they watched her vitals on the monitor.

Her dad shouted and Mimi ran into his arms. They cried out as they were pulled away by another nurse.

" Clear!"

Her body jumped once more and she suddenly felt that. She looked up to her mother confused. That knowing smile held her gaze as she gently pulled away from Tara.

Another jolt passed through her right before her mother placed a kiss on her forehead.

"I will be watching over you," she whispered.

"Mom no...wait," Tara held her hand tight but couldn't hold on any longer.

Another jolt and hot heat crawled through her as she doubled over in pain.

The searing pain settled and she lay still engulfed in warm white light long enough to feel warm lips press against hers. Her eyes opened and held his smiling gaze.

"Duncan," she whispered.

Before she could say anything he whispered the last two verses of the spell near her lips:

Our love now until the end,
Into your time I will ascend.

Passionately he kissed her and caressed her.

"I love you Tara, I will be with you soon. Be strong for us and our baby." he whispered slowly fading away.

Not able to reach for him, a sob escaped her lips as she too slowly began to fade.

"She's stable," a man announced.

Slowly darkness swirled around her once more and all she could remember were the light sounds of the incessant beats to the machines and his words.

Be strong. For us and our baby.

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