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SECRETS

Suddenly, the door exploded and when William looked away from Eve, he found himself looking straight into the barrel of a gun. Holding the gun stood a stunning woman with impossible electric blue eyes.

"Get away from my daughter." Said the leather-clad vampiress with a British accent. Right behind her stood something blue with black eyes that growled at William.

"Uh…" he gulped.

"Mom, don't!" he heard Eve and felt a gush of wind and suddenly Eve was between him and the gun. Selene hesitated, but she saw the pleading look in Eve's eyes, so when she was lowering the gun they heard two guns click.

"Who are you and why the hell are you pointing a gun at my son?" Scully's voice was filled with steel, so different than the person who had greeted Eve at the door only hours ago.

Michael immediately stood between the guns and Selene, protectively. Both Mulder and Scully, who were pointing the guns at them from the other side of the living room looked aghast at the creature in front of them.

"Mom! It's ok!" William, Scully and the man covering Scully's back were all surprised by the term of endearment, spoken for the first time by the boy to his birth mother, but this was not the time or place to delve on that. They would talk later.

The first to recover from the moment was William. "This is just a misunderstanding! You can all lower your guns."

Although Selene and Michael could've taken both humans easily, Eve's pleading eyes and the fact that she seemed ok stopped them from doing it, so as soon as the agents lowered their guns, Selene looked at Eve and demanded.

"Explain."

"I…I-I… I called William, because I thought…" she stuttered under her mother's scrutiny "I was lost, ok! You never tell me anything!" All the girl's frustration was keeping her from making her point. "I thought you would die." She hiccupped wiping a tear when her voice broke.

Selene looked at her daughter, who looked so vulnerable and small and thought about what she had just heard, Eve was worried about HER, she was crying at the thought of loosing HER, she furrowed her eyebrows and all her anger was replaced for a will to embrace her daughter and make her demons go away but she didn't know what to do so she softened her tone. "Why would you think that?"

"You think I don't see you vomiting every day? Dragging yourself through the house, barely leaving your room? You barely even train anymore! And when I ask you, you say you're fine! You always say that! And I know you are not!"

"Seems like someone I know." Mulder, William's dad Eve supposed, mumbled lightly looking at Scully lovingly. She only raised her eyebrow at him so he shut up.

Selene signed, resigned.

"So I called William, because I trust him. I called him because I couldn't get anything from you, so I was going to start searching if there was a cure… for whatever you have." Eve ended her explanation and came back to sit on the sofa.

Suddenly, Selene felt tired and just sat on the armchair near Eve. She looked at the people inside the house. William, who had been the subject of most of Eve's stories from school, who was now surreptitiously trying to reach for Eve's hand in support. William's parents, who should've looked more surprised at them or even fainted, but were now only standing by William protectively. And finally at Michael, who was now in human form shrugging lightly and nodding almost imperceptibly at her.

"You won't have to look for a cure for me, Eve… What I have, have already happened to me once although unfortunately I can't remember… and it will pass in a couple of months."

Eve looked confused at her. "I thought we didn't get sick."

"Well, we don't. Usually… but in my current state, we do…"

"I'm not sure I understand, Mother…"

"I'm pregnant."

Confusion crossed the young hybrid's expression. Selene seemed like she couldn't bring herself to say it either, so Michael squeezed her hand and continued the explanation.

"Eve, how much have you learned about… how babies are born?"

"Hum I think I read something in a book… two gametes, one from a male and one from a female meet and..."

"It's kinda like that… well, when a woman gets pregnant, she gets nauseous and tired because it takes a lot from her body to, well, grow a… whole person, that's why your mother's been…"

"Feeling like roadkill." Selene completed sincerely.

"Oh." Eve said, a million thoughts reeling through her mind. "Are you going to be ok?" She asked Selene.

"I think so… it's been known to happen once and I've been ok the first time, so…" There was so much love in Selene's voice while she caressed her daughter's hair that Eve felt brave enough to continue her questioning.

"So… there's going to be a baby?" both parents nodded uncertain how she would react to that.

"Yes… You are going to have a brother or sister…" Selene answered.

"Wow." She smiled and the three of them exhaled in relief.

"Are you happy?" Came the careful question from Michael.

"Yes… I thought I was going to lose someone I love, and it's actually the opposite, so yes I am happy." She said trying to imagine a brother or sister. "Do you think it's going to be like me?"

"Probably… we won't know that for certain until it's born…" Michael said.

Eve nodded.

"We just want you to know that no matter what, you are still our kid and that this one isn't for just one minute, more important or less important than you." Michael said looking Eve into her eyes. "Just because we are going to get to raise this one, it doesn't mean that it's more our child than you. Or that it deserves more from us. We are all going to be learning with this… and we don't want you feeling left out. But we'll need your help in case you do feel left out. We need you to tell us before you run off and don't answer your phone." He looked at her gravely.

Only then, Eve realized she had forgotten her phone in her jacket's pocket and that was probably why her parents had come barging in the way they had. She widened her eyes and patted her blouse then blushed.

"I'm sorry… I didn't think…"

"Eve, it is very important that that doesn't happen again." Selene was dead serious. "When we realized you weren't home, we thought the worse. We thought the lycans had taken you." They could have killed innocent people because of that. Selene didn't have to say the words, Eve only looked guilty at William and his family.

"I'm sorry, mom… that won't happen again." She looked ashamed then she realized something. "How did you find me?"

"There's an app in your phone... so we could triangulate your location in case the worse happened." Selene said.

If it was any other teenager, that would've been the end of the world. But for Eve, it didn't even go through her mind to be mad at that invasion of privacy. She knew this was important and it kind of made her feel loved and protected.

"Can we start training?" She asked hopefully.

"How did the conversation come to that?" Michael laughed. It had been an issue with them. Selene had wanted to start training her because she needed the skills. She had proved capable of holding up to herself by sheer strength. She could hold her own against a lycan in its wolf form, but not against a Death Dealer who was trained to kill. And although she knew the importance of that, she didn't want Eve to become her.

Michael, on the other hand, wanted his child to have some stability, something that could at least for a little while resemble a normal life. The school had been his idea and it was a struggle for her to do that, some adaptation was needed, but in the end it had been a good thing, she had liked it. She had met William there. She had learnt a lot there.

Eve always thought she would be pushing her luck by asking something though. In Antigen, choosing was never allowed. Wanting was never considered of her. She was a lab rat and lab rats didn't get to choose which test they would be subject to. She used to react. She fought when they hit her, she cried when they broke her, until she learned, at the age of five that it didn't matter how much she fought, she learned that if she kept silent and still, it would end faster. "It's worse if you try to fight it." Those words still rang in her ears and would give her chills every time she would speak her mind.

"I want this, Daddy." Selene and Michael shared a surprised look at her she had never spoke that.

"Maybe this isn't the place to start this discussion…" Selene intervened very conscious of the Mulder family trying to not look out of place in their own home, but Eve didn't care.

"I'm big enough to help protect our family too… I'm strong enough, I want to help, I don't want to be a burden…"

Selene and Michael looked at her surprised and sad.

"You will never be a burden, Eve. You may have been a surprise, but you were never a burden. You are the reason we fight…" Selene said cupping Eve's cheek.

"You know… we never talked about having kids before we had one, but the most important thing in our lives now is you. We would go crazy if we lost you… that's why we broke William's parent's door on our way in." Michael looked apologetically at Mulder and Scully who just shook their heads nonchalantly.

"If she wants, she can come here and learn with us, my parents are FBI agents…" William was aware of his mistake as soon as the words were out of his mouth.

Selene and Michael looked on alert as they put Eve behind them.

"EVE! How could you be so careless?" Selene hissed.

"Hey…" Mulder raised his hands in a sign of peace. "We mean no harm. You are safe here. I heard of what happened in Budapest in 2003. That was barbaric. And don't worry Eve… William never told us anything, it's just that Scully and I worked with this kind of stuff when we worked at the FBI."

"You worked with vampires?" Michael couldn't believe his ears.

"Well, Scully and I did, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, aliens, you name it, the rest of the FBI, more like worked against us." Mulder said sarcastically and Scully smiled.

"What Mulder means to say is: we know what being persecuted is, we lost a lot because of what we do, we lost… William, for a while, because of what we do, and that's why we would never do it to other people." There was so much pain in Scully's eyes that Michael and Selene couldn't help but believe her words. They knew how it was to be robbed of raising their own child.

But still, Michael and Selene looked suspicious. There was one way they could know for certain Scully's words were true, but they would never accept that. A million thoughts and escape routes were already running through Selene's head even if they were telling the truth, how could they trust these people?

"No, you don't have to go! There's one way to prove it." William interjected her thoughts desperately. "When I was reading about vampires in Europe, I read that they could see memories through blood… what if I could give you a drop of my blood to prove what she's saying? At least about me…" He would never offer their parents blood.

Selene looked wide-eyed at him. "I never said anything about running out loud."

William looked caught. "Shit."

"You can read minds?!" Michael gasped and the Corvin family looked wide eyed at William.

"Told you I knew how to keep secrets…" William said to Eve blushing.

"Can you read mine?" Eve was blushing.

"I try not to… it's just that you mother was almost yelling escape routes… and I didn't want to… lose you." William concluded sadly.

Mulder and Scully were both standing protectively near William and Michael sat at the sofa, tired.

"So many secrets…" he signed tired.

"We'll tell you ours if you tell us yours." Mulder quipped.

A/N: Hey… sorry this took sooooo long! RL stuff getting in the way of the important stuff :D

I hope you like it and it's not too out of character hehehe

AWD: Yep, I didn't see it coming either kkkkk it was kind of a spur of the moment thing, you know?