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Weeks go by and Daryl never moves or wakes, I know he's still living because his chest moves up and down, but he doesn't move in his sleep he doesn't make any noise or anything. It's been weeks and I have the pack running smoothly for him so when he gets back everything is perfect. I miss him a lot, I work through the day and I sit with Daryl through the night. I read to him or talk about the things that happened over the days, he's losing a lot of weight and no matter how many times we feed him through a feeding tube he's still not getting enough food.

I'm near the end of my pregnancy and I still haven't figured out a way to tell Daryl if or when he wakes. To see me have a child that wasn't his. That was still something I'd have to tell him when he woke, he could hate me for it later.

Then one day it happened. I was in Daryl's office when I felt it, water ran down my legs and I looked in the chair I was sitting on to see more water. "Crap." I mumbled.

"Luna?" Mallory said as she came into the office, Jake and her decided that they wanted to be closer to me and Mallory has been helping me through the last stages of pregnancy.

"Yeah?"

"You okay?"

"Sorta I think I peed myself again."

Yeah don't ask why it isn't the first time, pregnancy was different I couldn't control anything.

"Are you sure?" Mallory asked me, looking down at me as I grabbed a towel I started bringing with me.

"Why wouldn't I be?" I asked her, and I missed the point.

"Luna, you could be in labor." Mallory said coming to my side.

"What?!" I panicked.

"Breathe, any pain?"

I looked at her like she was stupid. "Right of course not if you're talking to me."

She made her way over to me, and took my hand. I didn't get why but then she started pulling me towards the door. "Let's just go see the doctor anyways."

And we walked but I still didn't feel any pain or know if this was the beginning of labor, I never saw my mom in pain when she had Ashley or maybe because after two sets of twins and me you don't feel the sixth child.

"Call my mom?" I asked. I knew she would want to know her grand-baby even if I didn't know if Axel or Jake told her, which I realized too late they probably wanted me to tell her and I never did.

"Of course Luna." Mallory said.

"You're not dilated," the doctor says between my legs.

"What? What does that mean?" I asked in a panic as I looked at Mallory.

"Means you're in laborish," Mallory tells me.

"No, it just means you have a long way until the baby comes." the doctor says looking sharply at Mallory who just shrugged her shoulders.

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A few hours later my mom was holding her first grandchild, I had to say that was the hardest thing I ever had to do, I was thankful my mom got there in time. I didn't want to go through that by myself, and when Daryl and I have kids he better be the one pushing it out cause never again.

"Can I see?" Jake asked when he came into the room holding his hands out of my son.

"No," my mother said.

"Mom, share the baby." I tell her she just keeps on looking at his angel face. "Come on Mom I haven't even held him myself."

Which was true as soon as I was done pushing. she all but grabbed the baby out of the doctors hands I didn't even get to hear I had a baby boy. I hadn't even thought of a name to give him, since I didn't want to know the gender before he was born.

"Fine." Mom said and handed off my son to Jake.

"Thought of a name for him?" Jake asked me.

"No, I haven't" I tell him, thankful that Jake stood close to me so I could watch my son sleep in his arms.

"How about Tobias?" Jake asked, looking at me.

"Tobias Reed, I love it." I tell Jake holding my arms out of him, Jake puts him in my arms and I start to cry.

"Oh sis," Jake said sitting on the end of my bed. "It's okay, he's beautiful."

"I know. I just wish Daryl was here," I cried. I know it wasn't his child but it could be if he accepted him.

"Well. . ." Axel butts in as he walks in the room. "I think he's awake."

"What?" I asked in shock.

Axel just looks at me and then walks back out of the room, when he comes back Daryl is behind him. He looks at me sitting in the bed with a baby in my arms, my family around me.

"He's not mine." Was the first thing he said.

"No," I answered. That was when my family got up out of some of the chairs that they had been sitting on and left the room letting us talk.

"Why didn't you just tell me you were pregnant?" Daryl asked, hurt.

"I didn't know." I asked as Tobias moved, opening his dark brown eyes, my eyes.

Daryl walks towards me, sitting on the end of my bed where Jake had sat when he handed me my baby boy. "I'll raise him. You are my mate, and your child is my child."

"You're not mad?" I asked.

"He'll need siblings someday." Daryl said to me.

I laughed. "Only if you push them out of your body."

He just kisses my forehead and then looks down at our son. We would be okay, he was awake and alive, and we would run this pack together.

I only wondered what ever happened to my brother Fred, we never found him. I wondered if he'd come back but that was for another day.

The end.