Their Mate!

Chapter 24

I stand there confused with Sophia in my arms as she sobs for a while. I eventually break the hug and look around to see if anybody is taking pictures or anything along that way. Sophia's make up is a bit messed up, but she could pull it off as smokey eye if it would get fixed correctly.

"There's a lake nearby. We can rent a small boat and talk there for a while, without people being able to eavesdrop" Sophia says with a raspy voice. Not knowing what to say I just nod my head and follow her as she drags me off to a small lake. How is this even here? I clearly know very little of London and it's my future home and all. I can see Sophia take small looks at me while we walk along the small trail. Sophia ends up walking a bit ahead of me, saying that she will quickly rent a boat for me. I walk up to her and she had even managed to fix a life vest to me. We end up a bit out on the lake.

"My friends are actually quite close to me, but I can't talk to them about this... Werewolf thing" she says and looks down at her hands. Her hand eventually goes up to her stomach rubbing it.
"I'm pregnant" she says and a sob comes out and she drags me closer to her, crying again. I slowly stroke her back, still not fully understanding what's going on.
"That's just great. I don't understand why you are sad about that" I say and she takes a deep breath.
"We were happy to have a child, but Liam's wolf came out" she says and takes a tissue out from her purse and wipe her tears off.
"Liam's wolf got into a rage fit. Talking about that he only wanted his mate's pups. He went on about how he accepted that Liam rejected you, but me getting pregnant was crossing the line for him" she says and I open my mouth a bit to try to come up with something to say.
"Once Liam had gotten control over his wolf. He had destroyed all my things in the house. I slept in a hotel last night because Liam had to get more in control and he feared what his wolf would do to our child. But for the sake of my child I decided that the best way was that we broke up and wouldn't see each other any more" she says and looks up at me again.
"But what about Liam?He would love to see his child. You couldn't possibly do that to him" I try to reason with her, but she just breaks into tears again.
"I'm just breaking up with him at the moment until I fully believe that his wolf wont do anything to my child. I really want this child Maya" she says and touches her stomach again. I finally look down at her stomach again and then look up at her again.
"You know that werewolf children develop faster than human ones?" I ask her in concern of her health.
"And that humans can sometimes not even handle the birth of one?" I say and she nods her head silently. I can see myself slowly connecting the dots together to see why it got like this.
"What were you guys talking about before Zalfur appeared?" I ask her and she looks up at the sky with a frown on her face. Then she looks back down at me.
"My health if I managed to give birth to the baby. Liam said something about how humans who give birth to werewolf children can't handle the process mentally and end up rejecting the baby or its life" she says. I then nod my head as I understand the whole situation.
"I think Zalfur is doing this because he doesn't want you to die because of his child, or well you and Liam's child. I think he wants you to be healthy and the mate thing was a lie to cover it up. I think it would hurt his pride if he said to get an abortion, so he might have used that tactic to hopefully have you and Liam to do it by yourselves. So that he would get the blame for it and that you would stay healthy and by his side" I say trying to put my theory into words, thinking that it came out more as a poop wash. Sophia blinks a couple of times.
"Remember the camp site where we all decided to go to?  Zalfur was present most of the time. He sticked to you with a happy face even though I was there" I say and Sophia's eyes weaken with joy.
"I have to go to him then" she says and stands up in the boat.
"We need to get back on land so I can be with him" she says and the boat wiggles a bit.
"Careful.. If I remember correctly you can't swim great and the water seems quite deep here" I say and Sophia falls down in the boat hitting her head along the way.
"Maya... I think i hit my head on something sharp. Help me" she begs and I carefully walk over to her side. I look at her and in shock I see blood behind her head. I don't know if she can see it in my face but Sophia suddenly got a concerned face as she looked at me.
"Am I bleeding? Because I feel something sharp near my head and I'm too scared to move" she whispers as all the colour in her face vanishes. I slowly lift her head up to see a small nail in her head. Not all the way, but the bleeding made it seem all worse.
"It doesn't seem that bad, but we should get to the emergency clinic just to be sure" I say and  sit down on the boat and start rowing to the shore again and Sophia still looks pale and it concerns me a bit.
"You should call Niall and say that he should pick us up and drive us to the clinic, okay?" I say and makes sure that she is still awake in case the situation is worse than it should be. She pulls her phone up and then scrolls a bit through her phone and puts it against her ear. She talks a bit on the phone and then she ends the call.
"Niall said that he would soon be there. In fifteen minutes or longer" she said and looks at me.
 "I just hope that your theory on why Zalfur's acting is true and that it's because of his concern to me" she says and leans on her hands and with her elbows on her legs. She sighs and looks bored as I row the boat a tad faster.
"While I row there, I want to say something" I say and she looks up at me.
"Mei has actually fixed everything needed to make me pregnant with all of their children at once" I say and Sophia just stares at me.
"Mei is the witch, right?" She asks and I nod my head simply.
"So you would have triplets?" she asks again and I nod and stop rowing for a while because my arm aches. She looks at me and my arms as a way to ask silently why I stopped rowing. I stretch my arms a bit trying to get the ache to go away.
"Man.. triplets and it's your first time to give birth. Ah that... Sucks" She says and a small laugh comes out. I laugh quietly with her too and I start rowing again and she puts one of her hands in the water and smiles.
"I hope it's a girl. I would like to name her Elizabeth or Ginny" she says and I freeze at the name of Ginny. She notices my stillness and she takes my hand in hers.
"Is one of the names something bad to you?" she asks and I snap out of it shaking my head faster than usual.
"I like the name Ginny more. It's a very honourable name in my opinion. It has a lot of meaning to it" I say and row again and she smiles even more brightly now.
"I honestly got that name idea from Harry Potter and liked that name ever since" she says as if she is ashamed of the fact where the name idea came from.
"I wanted to name my first born child Cookie when I was younger because I liked cookie dough and the Cookie monster. I think I have had worse name ideas than you" I say and she laughs.
"When I was younger I wanted to name my child.." she says and looks around as she is really even more ashamed by this.
"I wanted to name my child.. Pig. Seriously, I wanted my child to be named Pig. I thought it had so much meaning and that it was somehow deep to have a child named Pig" she says and the last bit of rowing ends with us laughing and saying random words as we spoke to each other. I carefully bring Sophia up and take one of my old scarfs out to her as to cover the back of her head so that it would not bleed that much and in case somebody wanted to take a picture of it. When we sit in the car I send a long message about the whole situation to Liam and he even ended up at the emergency clinic before us, taking Sophia in his arms and guiding her in.
"Thank you Maya" Liam says and they carefully walk through the clinic. Niall takes a look down at me and he brings me in for a hug and kisses the top of my head.
"I'm glad you are okay" he says and holds me by the waist while we walk to the car. He opens the car door for me and we drive around a bit through London before Niall got the impulse to need to buy stuff for me.