He caught her easily upon leaping into his arms, letting out a soft noise of affection as her kissed her temple. “I missed you too sweetness.” His hand came up to carress the waves of blonde that fell in wisps down her back.. taking in her scent and-..wait.. what was that..?
As she kissed him, he returned the sentiment- Though his mind was turning elsewhere.. that scent, it was all too familiar. His stomach knotted up. “Ah-” he stumbled over his words when questioned, trying to recover from his realization. Darius was pretty sure he knew why Kate called on him now. “It went well I think.” Sheepishly he rubbed the back of his head as they made their way to the sofa.
“the recruiter was welcoming enough, mentioned that he’d known my father and all that. I’ve got a physical eval in a week or so and then I’ll be given books for the schooling and proper etiquette.” His dark eyes had been bouncing around the room for a while, trying to hear himself up for the reveal..it made sense, with how weak she’d been the morning sickness and exhaustion. It was everything his mother went through when carrying charlie.
Taking a deep breath, he finally looked at her, his dark mahogany eyes held an air of sadness though it was clear he wanted to support her. “And I love you, more then anything.” He mmumured.. upon seeing her shake, Darius took both her hands into his, warming them and offering security for the other. “…” When she finally revealed what he already knew…Darius took a slow breath, leaning in he kissed her forehead and then her temple and cheek. “You’ll make a wonderful mother Kate.” His voice was unbelievably tender, his hands gliding up her arms to touch her face. “You’re shaking so much.” His thumb stroked against her lower lip.
“I’m not angry sweetness.” He then slipped his arms around her and pulled the other close. “I knew this was going to happen, we both did.. all I can say is.. I’m here, for you..and..for your baby.” It would hurt, it would always hurt that she would give birth to someone else’s child. But.. it’s what Darius signed up for, and he had no intention of abandoning her now.
Soon Kate knew there would be no hiding and her smell would give her away, but she didn’t expected to happen this soon, everything already smelled and taste different so she really couldn’t tell if she did as well but by the way he started to act Kate figured he had picked up already.
She wanted to hear more about his day, how everything had went even though she knew it had gone well. “I can you study if you would like.” She offered, after all proper etiquette was something a princess had to know well, she knew he also had learned when he was little, but helping him study was more like an excuse to just spend more time with him.
Kate took a deep breath as he got her hands, sure they knew this was going to happen but not this fast, not this soon, at his words she gave him a small smile. “You always take news better than I do.” She said moving to hug him tight nd rest her head into his chest. “Good, because I can’t do this without you my love.” Kate told him, he did had the key to her room for a reason, she wouldn’t be able to leave to the city as walk around as she normally did until she manage to feed again, and she wanted him to use that key as much as he could to be with her.
She closed her eyes as some tears fall over her cheeks, she hated all this uncontrollable crying, although she wasn’t sure if they were tears from sadness since she knew she was going to hurt him or happiness because he still wanted to be by her side, regardless what it was her heart was beating fast and in that second she was just happy to be in his arms. “I know it might take a while… But maybe when this happens again it could be our baby.” Both Kanopia and Ian had child with someone else after they were marry so it wasn’t like any of them could complain about it.