Is it a curious thing to learn more about your spouse than you knew before the wedding?
Is it wrong to keep certain things from each other?
I know the relationship will progress as we go along, but lately there's been a lot of new experiences for both of us. First thing we learned? How to be a married couple in the eyes of the church. This week's Mass was a mess of unreadable glares from the Father and his expectant wife. I didn't particularly care if Father Eamon looked down on Adagio and myself, but as long as he took no stabs at us, I intended to do the same.
He seemed distinctly upset with us when we asked him to marry us in church, but I stand by my initial words and thoughts. If the man was willing to see our relationship as something honest and go as far as to suggest a blessing of the union, why is marrying us such an impossible thing? It's hypocrisy, but I'm not holding that to the church, just Father Eamon.
The wonders of parenthood are also a new phase for us. Fluffy's adopted daughter, Arwen, is currently in my care. She's four years old, very smart, and a bit of a mini terror when her curiosity takes over. As Elliena's eldest daughter, she's a tiger hybrid.
Unlike her mother,
Arwen's fully prepared to fight when backed in a corner...maybe a little too ready.
I think that's a welcomed change if it can be controlled. She could prove to be a fine adult later in life.
As far as Adagio and I are concerned, she's an enjoyable start to our road as mothers. It gives us a chance to really learn what we may face with our own son later. Simple things like eating together, playing together, reading a bedtime story - in a way, it's like treating Arwen to the childhood neither of us had.
I can teach her to hunt properly with skills I learned once I escaped the facility.
I can teach her how to use a weapon, but more importantly, when to use a weapon.
Adagio more than likely can train her in dance or gymnastics, something that tones her growing body as she ages.
Adagio, being the health nut she is, has already gotten Arwen on the path to liking one item on her hated vegetables list.
It may be most beneficial for Adagio, who never learned this sort of life. She was created, rapidly grown, then trained as an assassin in a short amount of time. I'm still surprised that she was the first to bring up having kids ourselves, giving that she's not well versed in caring for young.
Naturally, raising a child in the slumbag city that is Midian garners the need to protect said child from the evil and depraved of the streets. I owe it to Elliena to raise the one girl of hers in my care to be safe and healthy. I can give her the things Elliena never got the chance to do. One such situation would so present itself.
A hybrid type creature I've never seen in the city before tried to rob the child of her phone. It tried to steal her PDA for reasons I didn't care to know. Arwen got her phone back after a long fight with the creature, but I'm now nursing a stab wound, a bruised shoulder, and a possible punctured lung. At least, my right arm is undamaged.
All this is happy and whatnot...
but aren't you forgetting something?
Don't start.
You took the first step in telling her.
Isn't that worth noting?
Shut up please.
You told her, didn't you?
About everything.
I hate you. Please just shut up already. Why must you always bring up the negative in my life?
I see this as a positive. So why don't you?
You vowed to be honest to each other and not keep secrets. You kept that promise.
So why are you so ashamed of it?
How is this a positive?!
Adagio knows....she knows about him now. I have every reason to be ashamed of it. My wedding, my marriage, are all lies. Even Adagio's listing as my owner on the mainland is false. It will come under dispute if Dr. Foster rears his ugly head.
Not like she hates you for it.
It sure sounded like she was willing to take that Foster on to protect us.
You will need help if you wish to protect this family, even Arwen.
She doesn't know what Dr. Foster is capable of.
Yeah, but we do.
And if he is searching for us still, I think it's best to tell our wife the truth.
Would you rather she find out at the last minute?
Oh God no.
So what's the problem?
She knows the complications a pregnancy would warrant and
she still wants to defend our marriage.
The loyalist to the World Union is willing to defend us
in light of a clear violation of the World Union's laws.
Don't tell me that's not a wonderful thing.
Dr. Foster is still my registered owner to the World Union's eyes. An owned hybrid who fled doesn't nullify the fact that they were owned. If he finds me, he'll take me away from her. And if I'm found while pregnant, he can claim the unborn baby as his. It was always my biggest secret within the facility, the fact that I was not sterile like the others. It's not my fault I became immune to the drugs they used, but they would have killed me if I had stayed there. All that work to get away and keep myself
It's deeper than that, and you know it.
Be quiet already! Who the hell are you anyway, mouthing your opinions like some fucking God?!
Yes, I told her the truth, and to be honest, I probably made things worse by doing so. She'll have her radar on. I don't even want to think what political position this will put Adagio in with her UAC friends.
I'm you naturally, and I doubt a political standing will deter Adagio.
It's not natural to argue with yourself.
And yet you are...furiously I might add.
You could not stay there for another reason, and it wasn't just fear of death.
Curiously, you didn't tell Adagio that part.
Why are you trying so hard to drive me mad? I don't want to remember that. I don't want to remember any of it. Not the darkness, not the testing, not that man - none of it!
Please just be quiet.
I'm trying to drive you to speak up.
Tell them.
They will protect you, not look down on you.
Oh don't you dare. I'm not telling the Pack or anyone else about what happened to me. Only Ayr, Fluffy and Lily know and that is enough. If Dr. Foster does find me, I just have to kill him before he gets to me.
You can't even function at the sound of that man's voice.
How will you kill him?
I'm finally happy. I have a life and a family here. I won't...I can't lose that to him. I can't go back to being a lonely toy in a cage, waiting for the next moment I'd be let out for testing. It's not happening.
Not again...
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