<div style="text-align: center">《Sou》<br/>
<i>Abendblume conference room.</i><br/>
Addressing Hale<br/>​</div><i>'Oh shit!' </i>Her mind raced at this verification that Hale was requesting. She barely registered what she had just said; that she was a whore who was keeping Rebel down.<br/><br/>Sou's expression fell ever so slightly. She paled, even more than she already was, and cleared her throat. "You don't need to waste a test on me," she said, one hand moving protectively over her lower abdomen. "I'm not high risk. Just…wait thirty days. You'll see. I won't have a period."<br/><br/>She licked her full lips, her dark eyes daring to the man who was moving to fetch Mr. Frazier. "Rebel<i>loves</i>me. He won't be able to think straight if I'm not here," she insisted. "Who do you think convinced him to accept that outside patrol job when you didn't let him play police inside these walls? It was<i>me!" </i>Her hands flew to her chest, her eyes wide and pleading. "I'm the one who got him to play nice and accept you as the leader you are," she insisted.<br/><br/>Could she be pregnant? She had no idea. She'd certainly done her fair share of bedding people in the last few months, and her periods were never on time. Her gynecologist had warned her that staying as thin as she did had detrimental effects on her reproductive system, but Sou had always seen less periods as a bonus, not a bane. And once she ran out of the pill it was easy enough to merely do what everyone did. She went to the nurse when something happened that wasn't convenient.<br/><br/>Damn it, why had she gone five months ago? She could be safe now! Damn it, damn it,<i>damn it!</i><br/><br/>This was Rebel's fault. He must have told someone that she didn't come home last night, and now these misogynistic assholes were going to throw her out on her ass for exerting control over her own destiny.<br/><br/>She felt her heart pounding against the bird bones of her sternum.<i>'Oh fuck, oh fuck,'</i>she felt like she was going to die. "If Rebel finds out that you caused me to miscarry over this stress he'll kill you," she threatened. "I'm<i>his</i>woman. He's not going to let me go without a fight!"