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Tory pov...

I am spending a week with my Great-Aunt Tempe, you may have heard of her Dr. Temperance Brennan she is an anthropologist working for the Jeffersonian Institute. Her husband Seeley Booth and daughter Christine are away for the week visiting his son Parker, Tempe was going to go but I asked to visit so she said to come that week. Parker will come stay for a week once I leave so she can still see him.

Now I would be going to work with her but my sense of smell is altered and the scent at the lab makes me want to throw up. Then again for the past few days I felt like I was going to be sick.

I spend the day reading, researching and finishing an assignment for school. I log into conference mood to talk to the guys. We talk about anything until I hear Tempe get home, I say goodbye and log out of the chat.

I go into the kitchen where Tempe is getting food out so we can start cooking dinner. We are making a salad and fish.
As the fish cooks the smell gets to me and I run to the bathroom to throw up. Tempe holds my hair back for me and rubs my back. I finish and she asks "are you alright?"
I say "I don't know, I've been feeling sick the last few days"
She asks "what's wrong"
I say "it's not much, mostly just stronger smell and nausea".
She shakes her head and says "I'm shocked to ask my niece this but are you pregnant"
I think about it for a minute and say "it's a possibility"
She opens the bathroom cabinet and pulls out a box and gives it to me. I see it's a pregnancy test, I nod and she walks out of the room. I take the test and wait for the time to pass.
All I can think is am I ready for this, what would Ben and I do and the main concern, what about the virus Ben and I both have. Will a baby get the same thing as it is part of our DNA,  we couldn't even get a doctor to check or else they would learn about us.
I suppose you are wondering what I'm on about. A nasty supervirus infected my friends and I. Resulting from an illegal experiment crossing two types of parovirus it created a new strand infectious to humans which we caught of my wolf dog Cooper. The virus rewrote our genetic codes and we now have canine DNA mixed into our chromosomes. The virus got us 'flaring' and now we have special abilities. Our senses go into hyperdrive, we become faster and stronger, we can send messages and images to each other in our minds and we can get access into minds to see or think what the person is seeing or thinking. I can even communicate with Cooper. Our abilities have now stabilised and we have complete control.

A timer goes off pulling me out of my thoughts and I look at the test. Positive, I am pregnant if this is accurate. I walk out and over to Tempe. She looks and me questionably and I nod, she hugs me and says "do you have any thoughts on what to do?"
I say "not really, I don't want to give it up but I will need to talk to Ben about it"
She laughs and says "he will be here in a few hours, it was meant to be a surprise but in this situation you need to know"
I nod and ask "do you think I am stupid and irresponsible for getting pregnant at 16?"
She shakes her head and says "no you are very smart and these things can happen even when precautions are taken"