Feeling a bit down.

[Corsair]

[font=Times New Roman]Harriet Janeway was commended for her efforts on Baltimore Shipyard; after her debriefing and award ceremony, she made contact with Jack again. He had arrested the Bretonian shipwright who had gone to visit the station. On a hunch, Jack had pretended to be Matthias. The shipwright, actually a Rheinland agent, handed over the security reports that he had collected. Jack had arrested him then, and later learned that this agent was responsible for the Monarchal Bombing. They talked about Matthias, and Jack did his best to console the grief-struck woman. She began to tell him of her past love lives, which had been short and tragic. Matthias had been everything she wanted- honest, strong, and willing to indulge her fantasies. She fell for his story easily because she wanted to believe it. She then told him something that shocked him; she was pregnant with his child.

She felt it was a fitting irony. She had killed him, but he had given her new life and a taste of love. She would carry the child to term, but didn't know what she would do with it afterward. She couldn't keep the child and continue her work in the LSF, at least not easily. She could send the child to Rheinland but that would be a mistake. The most likely option is that she would put the child up for adoption. She had been adopted, and turned out alright.

No, she couldn't do that to her child. She would find a way to stay in the LSF and be a mother. Matthias was her enemy and her love, and she couldn't just dismiss that. The child would stay with her. For now, nobody but her and Jack knew of the pregnancy; and she intended to keep it that way for as long as possible. She was being put on a new assignment, soon. Something about rooting out a Cardamine smuggler. Maybe she would find someone else to love like she had loved Matthias, but she would be a lot wiser about it now. She had already killed two of her loves. Third time, in this case, would not be a charm.

// Now, what to do with this character. Write more stories about her, make her an in-game character..? I have a feedback thread open. Go ahead and write your thoughts there.

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