There is no Plan B

She barely even had a moment to take in Siren's stunned and surprised reaction to the news when she heard a familiar, deep voice behind her. She quickly spun around, finding Chimera there in the doorway, accusing and irritated questions falling from his lips. She was so caught off guard and startled by his sudden appearance that she struggled to do more than stand there frozen, her ears pinned back against her head. She went from dealing with mysterious, glowing beavers, to being examined by Aliana, to standing here in the span of an hour or so and it felt like in that time her whole world had been turned upside down. Part of her was almost irritated in return at Chimera for making such demands of her when she was still simply trying to get her bearings about her, but she knew that Chimera already had a distaste for her anyway. She wasn't really surprised any more when he approached her with hostility.

What she really didn't like was the hard gaze he turned toward Siren. It was hard to fight her natural instinct to guard the delicate woman beside her and to step between her and Chimera, but she had a feeling that would only make things worse. She glanced toward Siren when she insisted that they would have come to tell him together and then met her two toned gaze when she asked to confirm that she would want to keep them. Dalila gave a nod in response. That much she already knew and had decided when she was talking to Aliana. No matter how uncertain she was about the whole situation she knew she couldn't hurt these pups that had somehow managed to begin growing in her womb and she would find a way to make this work for them. She lifted her pale gaze back up to Chimera as she drew in a breath to steady herself.

"I was going to tell you," she told him once she was able to gather some of her thoughts. "I went right to Aliana to be examined like you said and she confirmed that I was pregnant just a little bit ago. I... I'm still trying to wrap my head around it so I wanted to have a moment to think before I came to you, but I was planning to in the morning." She gave Siren another glance before looking to Chimera and adding, "I do want to keep them... I don't want to hurt them." They would grow up with Siren and Aliana's pups, her and Aliana would get to give birth nearly side by side she imagined, and at the very least she knew that by being Chimera's children they would always have a home here in Fenmyre whether he liked her personally or not. But... she didn't want the contention between them to make raising these pups more difficult than it had to be. She more or less hadn't grown up with parents and she didn't want that for these pups nor did she want the divide between her and Chimera to make their pups feel as if they needed to pick a side between them.

Dalila uncertainly stepped past Siren, giving her lover another glance before she walked over to where Chimera was in the doorway tipping her head up to look at him. This was her fault, not Siren's, and she couldn't keep hiding behind Siren forever... especially not now. She kept having to remind herself that she was no longer the slave that he and Siren had fought over once upon a time. A lot had changed since then no matter how hard it was for her to acknowledge it. She reached up to gently tap her nose under his chin as some small gesture of the peace she was wishing to seek between them. "I said I was yours and I'm not going to go back on that," she told him softly. "If... If you want me to kill them I will. I won't go against your wishes. But I'd like to raise them with you and have them grow up with your other children."

"Dalila"