Trouble

20

"You're pregnant?" Michael is floored by this little bomb.

"Yes, dammit, I knew I shouldn't have told you. Just let me get dressed and send me and Blake home." Joanna says reading his emotions that he's left wide open. He lost control when he heard that she's pregnant.

She starts looking for her clothes and finds some to wear. She's getting dressed and nearly done when Michael finally comes back to his senses.

"Where do you think you are going?" Michael says confusion and anger mixed in equal parts.

"I'm leaving. This is the very reason I didn't want to tell you in the first place. Blake said you had the right to know though. I knew this wouldn't go good." She goes to leave and Michael blocks the door.

"You're not leaving until you tell me who the father is." Michael demands.

Now Joanna is furious and white with anger. "Figure it out yourself Einstein. Two months ago I was fucking living here with you, in this very bedroom before you decided to invite someone else to take my place."

Michael scoffs, "You expect me to believe the baby you are carrying is mine?"

"Well, since I haven't been with anyone else since Cole raped me, then yeah, I do. I told Blake this is how you'd react. Don't worry, Casanova, I won't ask for anything from you, not time, money or even recognition. You can keep fucking the girls and ignore that I even exist. It will be just like before I was regrettably brought to your attention." Joanna says then when Michael still won't move she sends out just a little of the pain he's causing her right now. It's enough to get him to move out of the way.

"Where's Blake?" Joanna demands of Jordan as she runs into him in the hall.

"Waiting for the boss in the study. Where's the boss?"

"Hopefully on death's door although I didn't send that much pain into him. Get me a driver and Blake. I want to leave, NOW!"

"Sorry, Joanna, I can't do that. Boss ordered that you have to stay until your injuries are all better. You may heal fast, but only vampires heal that fast."

"If I was a fucking vampire you'd all be dead.

"I'll tell you right now, Jordan, if anyone hurts Blake you will wish you were never born. And I will know. I will kill your precious boss first. Do you understand?"

"Yes, what the hell did he say to you?" Jordan asks more than a little scared of this side of her.

"I told him I was two months pregnant and he demanded to know who the father was. I'll be in my room. Send in Blake, unharmed after that bastard finishes talking to him."

Joanna goes into her room and collapses on her bed. He all but called her a whore. He's claiming that his child isn't his. He's the one that was fucking another woman the same day he made love to her.

Joanna doesn't hear the knock on the door due to the tears, but she would have sent Patricia away anyhow, she's not hungry. Just the thought of food makes her sick.

As time passes and Blake still doesn't come she sends out feelers for him. She feels his pain as they are hurting him.

The pain is almost unbearable. She manages to send out the pain to Michael and then Jordan. She isn't sure if she kept it at low enough levels to not kill them, but she doesn't care. Then she blacks out from the pain.

"Shit, make sure that they stop hurting Blake. Miss Greene is unconscious." Joanna hears the voice as if it's in the distance. The waves of pain carry her away once more.

"Joanna," the voice whispers and she moans in response. Her head is killing her. Then the pain from her other body parts make themselves known as well.

"Let me die," Joanna moans out.

 "I can't do that, the boss would kill me." The man's voice is familiar, but not familiar enough for her to place it immediately.

"He can die too." The venom with which she says that shocks all those in the room, including Joanna. She has to think about why she would feel that way. Then she remembers and her eyes pop open.

"Where's Blake?" That's the first thing she says when she doesn't see him in her room.

"He's unavailable right now." The man says, Joanna looks at him.

"Dmitri, I've always liked you, but if you don't get me Blake right now you will be joining the ranks of those on the die list." Joanna spits out.

Dmitri says nervously, "Who's on the die list right now?"

"Top of the list is your boss, then Jordan. I warned him about harming Blake. Now bring Blake to me."

"He's in bad shape, Miss Joanna. He can't leave my infirmary." The doctor says as he looks over the girl.

"What made you pass out, do you know?" The doctor asks kindly.

"Yeah, that asshole boss of yours ordered Blake interrogated. The pain...my baby, is it alright?" Joanna asks suddenly.

The others in the room are shocked and taken aback.

"You're pregnant?" The doctor and Dmitri ask at the same time.

"That asshole didn't tell you? I'm willing to bet that that's what he's interrogating Blake about. He wants to know who the father is. Since that bastard is the only one I've been with in the last four months and the baby is only two months along tell him who the damn father is, will you doc?"

"There is no sign of vaginal bleeding, so I'm guessing that your baby is fine. I'll get some prenatal machinery so that I can do a better check up on the little one. As for the boss, I'll try to tell him, but once he decides something it's hard to get him to listen."

"Good, I might let you live, if things go south." Joanna says fire flashing in her eyes.

In that moment there wasn't anyone that didn't believe her. Dmitri actually saw his life flash before his eyes.

"Doc, bring Blake to me. I can help him with the pain. I sure as hell don't want him loose where that bastard can get his hands on him." Joanna is serious and the doctor finds himself nodding his acceptance of her orders. He has no desires to be added to her kill list. He as well as the others all know that it isn't an idle threat. After all she took out Blake's old gang single handedly. Perhaps it's time to remind Michael of that fact.