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I know I shouldn\u2019t be yelling especially not at him, but I couldn\u2019t help it. I was feeling helpless, couldn\u2019t even describe what I was really feeling\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a hospital? A human hospital where there are cameras everywhere, staff coming in and out constantly, records being kept of everything? Orion\u00a0<\/p>\n
shook his head. \u201cIt\u2019s too risky.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018I don\u2019t care about the risk\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I do!\u201d His voice rose too, matching my intensity. \u201cDo you have any idea what would happen if someone saw? If they documented you heating him with powers that shouldn\u2019t exist?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I knew. Of course I knew. We\u2019d grown up being careful, hiding what we were, making sure humans never suspected. Because humans feared what they didn\u2019t understand, and fear made people dangerous.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019d be exposed,\u201d I said quietly. \u201cThey\u2019d want to study us, experiment on us\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019d become lab rats,\u201d Orion finished. \u201cAt best. At worst, they\u2019d see us as a threat and try to eliminate us. And it wouldn\u2019t just be you and me, Athena.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It would be Sarah. Derek. Every other person like us trying to live quietly among humans.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was right. I hated it, but he was right.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo what am I supposed to do?\u201d My voice cracked. \u201cJust sit out there and wait? Watch him suffer when I could fix him in minutes?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wait and let him heal naturally. He\u2019s Alpha, Athena. His body is already working to repair itself\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Not fast enough! You saw him, Orion. You saw how much blood there was, how his leg was bent\u2026\u201d I pressed my hands to my face, trying to hold back the tears that were threatening. \u201cI can\u2019t just do nothing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not doing nothing. You\u2019re being smart. You\u2019re protecting yourself and those babies you\u2019re carrying.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
My hands dropped. \u201cWhat do the babies have to do with this?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything.\u201d He stepped closer, his voice gentler now. \u201cYou\u2019re seven weeks pregnant with twins. Do you know what using your powers does to your\u00a0<\/p>\n
body? The energy it takes?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I did know. Using my life\u2013giving powers might drain me, and leave me exhausted and weak for hours which wouldn\u2019t be healthy for the kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n
and\u00a0<\/p>\n
But this was different. This was Tristan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI can handle it,\u201d I said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Maybe. Or maybe it puts too much strain on your body and you lose the babies. Or maybe it triggers complications we can\u2019t predict because you\u2019ve never used your powers while pregnant before.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The thought made my blood run cold, lose the babies. God, I hadn\u2019t even considered that possibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Had been so focused on saving Tristan that I hadn\u2019t thought about the risk to the tiny lives growing inside me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTristan wouldn\u2019t want you to take that chance,\u201d Orion said, reading my face. \u201cYou know he wouldn\u2019t. If he were conscious right now and you told him\u00a0<\/p>\n
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you were thinking about using your powers while pregnant, he\u2019d tell you absolutely not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he\u2019s not conscious,\u201d I whispered. \u201cHe\u2019s in there broken and bleeding and I\u2019m out here doing nothing\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018You\u2019re keeping yourself and his children safe. That\u2019s hot nothing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The tears came then, hot and angry and helpless. I hated crying, hated feeling weak, but I couldn\u2019t hold them back anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Orion pulled me into a hug and I let him, pressing my face against his shoulder and sobbing like I was a kid again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t lose him,\u201d I said against his shirt. \u2018I can\u2019t, Orion. Not now. Not when we just found out about the babies, when we\u2019re finally building something\u00a0<\/p>\n
real together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou won\u2019t lose him. He\u2019s strong. He\u2019s fought through worse.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHas he? Have any of us been hit by a bike going forty miles an hour? Had our heads cracked open on concrete?\u201d I pulled back, wiping at my face angrily. \u201cAnd even if he survives, what kind of damage are we talking about? Brain injury? Permanent disability?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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