Walking into the school after having seen it properly destroyed only a few months ago, was... strange. Wandering toward the room she shared with one gender shifting mutant, one who's grave she'd visited in a dream, was even stranger. But on top of it all the circumstances leading her to the visit were the most awkward.

Megan had a lot of explaining to do, about a lot of things...as well as more than a few questions for her roommate. She wasn't looking forward to any of it.

...Maybe he/she wouldn't be home. Out with Ami, or something.

Half hoping she was right, Megan marched down the last hallway, and stopped before Gawainya's door. "... This is gonna suck so bad..."

Holding her breath, she steeled herself, slapped a crooked grin on her lips, and stepped inside.

Finally a moment of peace.

Maya took a long shower after training. Lately there had been so many things happening with the team, the riots, the X-kids, Becca, new students... she started to feel like an adult. It sucked. Also, there was the whole deal with Sam, which made everyone else on the X team step up.

Angua drummed on the floor with her tail when the door opened, and made happy whining sounds. Maya wrapped herself in a towel and combed the wet hair out of her eyes, hoping to all gods that it was not someone who should have seen her fully dressed. Then again, they just walked into her room, so it was on them anyway.

"Megan?..." she blinked as her long-lost roommate entered the room. Maya grinned in disbelief "Where the hell have you been, girl?! They almost assigned me another roommate!"

Gawa--..er... Maya-clad-in-towel, appeared before her. Glancing from the happily whining canine, to her freshly showered roommate, she shut the door behind her. "Dead?"

Laughing at her own joke, she threw herself onto her bed and huffed. "They could have tried, but it wouldn't have stopped me from coming back. The unlucky fellow just would have had to learn how to share a bed, is all." Man, her bed felt great! That lumpy piece of crap she had at her other place was a bed of rocks compared to this.

After glancing at all of her stuff, she returned her gaze to Maya. All of the humor dropped away suddenly, and she realized that this was the first time she'd spoken to the girl since that goddamn dream.

"...It's.... nice to see you alive and well. I missed ya for a long time."

...Stupid tears... pricking at her eyes and junk. She contained a sniffle, beating back a wave of emotion with a stick.

...Stupid fetus, making her all hormonal.

>>"Dead?... They could have tried, but it wouldn't have stopped me from coming back. The unlucky fellow just would have had to learn how to share a bed, is all."

As someone who had been dead recently, technically, theoretically, maybe, Maya snorted at the joke. As if anything could have killed Megan. She was one tough chick.

Maya proceeded to get some panties on and a shirt, to look less naked. She was not bothered my her roommate's presence. She had seen worse.

>>"...It's.... nice to see you alive and well. I missed ya for a long time."

Shrugging the shirt over her head, Maya blinked as she looked at Megan. Was she serious this time?

"I missed you too, Megs." she smiled, plopping down on the bed next to the spider girl. "So... ya've lived the dream too, huh?"

Aiming a half smile at Maya, she nodded. "Unfortunately, yes." Her expression turned sour for a moment, and she playfully punched her roommate in the arm. "Way to go and die on me, team leader!"

Sifting through her memories for happier ones (and not finding much), she snorted. "...It was probably for the best though. Whatever that was, it was hell on earth. I wish I had died, too." Forcing a smile back on, she shrugged and fell silent, patting the bed so Angua could hop on up too.

>>"Unfortunately, yes. Way to go and die on me, team leader! ...It was probably for the best though. Whatever that was, it was hell on earth. I wish I had died, too."

"Yeah, people keep telling me that..." Maya muttered, turning red a bit partly from the memories, partly from... other things. "Got a shiner from Maxine that lasted a week and a half. Queen can pack a punch."

Angua hopped up on the bed and curled up on Megan's other side. Maya smirked.

"Well, it's over anyway, and it ain't gonna happen in real life. I can promise you that. It's gotten all too real already anyway."

"Tell me about it." Megan muttered back, scratching the dog beside her behind the ear. She'd made a similar promise the day after waking up. Frowning at a wall on the other side of the room, she sighed and plopped an elbow on one knee. She didn't feel much like talking about stuff like this right now, seeing as she was just happy Maya was alive and well.

The near constant feeling of nausea and dizziness, though, reminded her that there were still things that needed saying. Only thing was she wasn't exactly sure how to say it. She sure as hell knew she wasn't about to divulge the full story, though!

...Hmm.. maybe she could still avoid the whole thing and just skip town for, oh... nine months? A year?

"Wait... did you say Maxine?" She only knew that name from one place, for one reason. The Amazons. A group that her dream self and the Judge knew well, and had more than one discussion about taking them down. 'or die trying, as I recall...'

Squinting at the mirror walker, she pondered just what kind of woman the real life Maxine was. "You sure do know how to pick em', Maya."

>>"Wait... did you say Maxine? You sure do know how to pick em', Maya."

'You. Have no **** idea." Maya sighed, smirking as much at herself as at the idea of her 'picking' Maxine. As if.

"It's not like she... I mean we... um." she shook her head "Whatever. It's complicated."

It was always complicated. Maya sighed and looked at her roommate.

"So. What mischief have you been up to?"

"I'll bet it is." It seemed like every girl Gawainya knew had "it's complicated" tacked onto her name somewhere. Well, maybe except for Ami. They seemed to do pretty well together. With a chuckle, she took a deep breath and rolled her shoulders back, battling away the ill feelings as best she could.

"So. What mischief have you been up to?"

Megan cringed, and rolled her eyes to the ceiling. Now or never, right? "...oh.. you know, the usual. Getting into trouble... getting out of that same trouble..." She wiggled on the spot, fiddling her hands in her lap. The stupid ring on her finger glinted in the light, and she cringed again.

"I may have... um.. gotten myself into something I can't get out of."

>>"...oh.. you know, the usual. Getting into trouble... getting out of that same trouble... I may have... um.. gotten myself into something I can't get out of."

There was something off about Megan. She was a lot more... tame?... than usual. She looked paler too, ever for her, which suggested that she had been,or was going to be, sick. Maya tilted her head and followed the girl's nervous gaze to the ring.
...
Wait a second.

"Meeeegan... what the hell?!"

Nerves got the better of her for a moment, and she scratched the back of her head.

"Meeeegan... what the hell?!"

Glancing at her friend, she followed her gaze and balked. "oh! Oh god no, not that!" That was a whole different story all together... "I mean, that's something, but it's not the issue here." Turning to face Maya on the bed, she calmed herself and crossed her arms over her chest. With every ounce of control in her body, she schooled her expression into a blank slate, and made sure not to fidget or bat an eyelash as the next few words left her mouth.

"Maya... I'm going to be a mommy."

>>"oh! Oh god no, not that! I mean, that's something, but it's not the issue here..."

"Oh thank God" Maya sighed, laughing a bit "Because if I found out ya got hitched and didn't invite me ya'd be in..."

>>"Maya... I'm going to be a mommy."

"... big trouble my friend, wait, WHAT?!"

Mommy. As in, mother. First the ring, and now... that was just...
Maya blinked, several times, and leaned closer, looking Megan in the eyes, trying to guess if she was being serious, or pulling the joke of the year.

"Um... you are kidding me, right?..."

She did not look like she was kidding.

"Wait... are ya... ya're saying ya're actually pregnant?!"

Slowly, Megan nodded.

Then hormones kicked in and she burst into tears. Big, goopy tears. "...#$@% my liiife." A second later, her mood shifted, and she took a spike of anger out on an innocent-bystander-pillow.

"..Goddamn mood swings are going to be the death of me... I nearly punched an old lady in the face on the way over here!" Of course, that lady may have deserved it... Who pats someone on the tummy and asks, 'How far along are you?' without expecting a black eye?

Old people, that's who.

"I'm not made to be a parent, Maya. Kids make me want to break things." Sniffling, she got her emotions back under control temporarily, and hugged the pillow to her chest.

>>"...#$@% my liiife."

Whoa. Tears. Actual, real tears. Maya was more stunned than ever.
The mood swing almost caught her off guard, but her combat reflexes saved the day. she held up a pillow that promptly got punched. Maya knew she was probably not the main target, but tensed for defense anyway. The male side of her brain was ready to be blamed on a primal level.

>>"..Goddamn mood swings are going to be the death of me... I nearly punched an old lady in the face on the way over here!"

Ow.

>>"I'm not made to be a parent, Maya. Kids make me want to break things."

Maya blinked again at the sudden change, then decided to go the safest route.

"So... who do I need to murder?"

"He--... Eh...You probably wouldn't know him."

Maybe it wasn't the best idea to out Nate while she was so upset. She didn't want her baby-daddy getting tarred and feathered before it was even born.

"Besides, if you killed him, who'd I pawn the kid off on all the time?" Managing a lazy grin now that the secret was out in the open. Well, one of her secrets, anyway. There was still Trent, Vicente, and a hoard of unmentionables lurking around.

.. Not to mention all of that Roach drama.

Megan felt dizzy again, paled considerably, and sighed. "...A better question would be how am I going to tell him he's a daddy?"