This all stemmed from a little idea that wouldn't leave me alone. Let me know if you'd like me to continue :)

She sighed as she sat on the closed toilet lid, her head held in her hands as she watched the seconds tick by, she'd never known three minutes drag by so slowly. She swore under her breath as she finally gathered the courage to look at the white plastic stick, the blue plus sign staring back at her. She couldn't believe she'd been so stupid. She wiped at her eyes and dropped the test back into the box, the box joining several others in the depths of her handbag, she'd been hoping that the first test had been wrong, a mistake, so she'd taken another, and another, and another and then another, one test being wrong was a possibility but the fact she now had five positive pregnancy tests meant she had to believe it, she knew the facts, one text could be wrong, there was no way all five of the tests she'd taken were wrong. She had to face up to the facts, she was pregnant. She was having a baby. Now all she had to do was tell the father, right now, before she lost her nerve.

She took a deep breath as she approached the man who was stood hunched over the nurse's station, "Dylan, can I have a word?"

He looked up and nodded, "yes, what is it?"

"Not here, can we go somewhere more private?"

Dylan nodded and followed her down the corridor and into the smaller of the two resus rooms, "well…?"

She said nothing for a moment but busied herself with taking some tissue from the dispenser on the wall and laying it on the bed, "I erm, I'm pregnant." she eventually confessed, dropping all five of the positive tests onto the tissue she'd laid out, "I thought you had a right to know."

"I beg your pardon" Dylan frowned as he tried to process the information he'd just been given, "are you sure?"

"How much more certain would you like me to be?" the woman gestured to the five positive pregnancy tests spread out on the bed in the middle of the room, "I've been having symptoms for a couple of weeks but I didn't want to believe it, I hoped it would be something else but…" she shrugged, "I'll get what you need to do a blood test if you like? Or I'll get the ultrasound."

"And you're sure it's mine?"

She sighed, "as much as I hate to admit it I don't have a great sex life, before you it had been...well, lets just say if the last person I slept with had got me pregnant I wouldn't just be finding out about it now."

"We'd had a lot to drink, I'm not even sure we…"

"We did. Believe me we did."

"What are you going to do about it?"

"It?"

"It" Dylan gestured to her stomach.

"You mean the baby?"

"It's not a baby though is it, not yet"

"Really? Do you really think now is the right time to argue about semantics?"

"What are you going to do?" Dylan repeated.

"I don't know, I thought it was a decision you had a right to be involved with."

"Well I couldn't have it live with me, there isn't room on the boat, and there's no telling how Dervla would react to…"

"Dervla?"

"Yes, she's my dog..."

"I know who Dervla is Dylan, maybe I was wrong thinking I could have had an adult conversation about this with you. I could have said nothing, I could have had an abortion and not said a word to you, you'd never have known about it. I didn't though, I thought you might appreciate being told, I thought you might appreciate having a say in the matter, I thought you might actually care...how stupid was I?"

"Is everything okay in here?" Connie asked, stepping into the room after hearing raised voices.

"Fine" Dylan answered quickly.

"Oh yes, absolutely perfect." came the woman's sarcastic reply as Connie raised one eyebrow, "so perfect Dylan here thinks it's completely acceptable to put the feelings of his dog before those of the woman who's pregnant with his child" she spat, grabbing the pregnancy tests and storming out of the room before Connie even had time to react to the revelation.

"Did she…?" Connie frowned as she watched the nurse fleeing down the corridor.

"Ah, yes, that" Dylan said sheepishly, "it appears that one night, whilst we were both under the influence I erm, I may have impregnated Nurse Freeman."