It was late at night, most of the occupants of the camp were asleep except Kuvira. Kuvira paced back and forth she was tired, stressed, and nervous. Kuvira had always been an organized person every detail planed out, but now something had come up that had really thrown her off. She didn't know exactly how to handle this situation just yet, and she needed Baatar this concerned him as well.

She had really big news to tell him, Kuvira had called for her fiancé thirty minutes ago but still he hadn't come to their personal quarters. So while she waited for him to come, she paced letting her mind drift. Kuvira stopped her pacing when she heard footsteps outside. Turning to face the door, Kuvira hoped that it would open and reveal Baatar but, to her disappointment the footfalls receded. "It must have been the night guard patrolling" she thought to herself.

Where was Baatar usually he came right away whenever she called for him, Kuvira was about to go look for him in the engineer section of camp when the door opened, in stepped a haggard looking Baatar.

"Oh, finally you're here." Kuvira said she could feel her heart rate increase slightly now she was going to tell him the news, which made her nervous. "Where have you been I called for you more than thirty minutes ago?"

Baatar drew in a breath before answering her, "Huh? Umm sorry I just lost track of time I was working." Baatar had been working tirelessly on the spirit vine project as well as blueprints for other projects. He had gotten her message when one of the officers brought him her note. It read,

I need to see you now it's urgent.

Baatar had scoffed, great now what? He had thought to himself, normally he would have gone straight to her but instead had pushed it aside; he had other things he needed to get done. With Varrick gone it was up to him to get the spirit vine project up and running but so far he had been met with failure even with Zhu Li's help nothing he seemed to do was working. Baatar only remembered Kuvira wanting to see him when he spotted her note under one of his many blueprints. Pushing away from the desk Baatar stood making his way to his and Kuvira's personal quarters.

"So what's going on your message said it was urgent." Baatar said as he crossed his arms over his chest. He felt himself getting irritated mainly because he had little to no sleep the past few days. The longer he went without sleep the angrier he seemed to become, even the littlest things set him off.

"Well…umm…it's just huh…" Kuvira didn't know exactly how to tell Baatar this; this was something they hadn't really talked about much before maybe only a couple of times, "I have something to tell you."

"Ok what is it?" Baatar felt his patience wearing thin.

"Baatar I…" Kuvira faltered, just tell him she thought to herself it really shouldn't be this hard she tried again, "Baatar I'm…I'm..."

"Just say it Kuvira." Baatar exclaimed, anger was seeping his way into his voice and he felt sorry that his anger was about to be directed at her.

She locked eyes with him and said it, "Baatar I'm pregnant." And then silence, Kuvira and Baatar stared at each other. Kuvira tired to read his expression but his face remained expressionless.

Pregnant? Her words hit him but it took a moment to process what she was saying, taking off his glasses, Baatar pinched the bridge of his nose slightly shaking his head, this was not good. The silence in the room was deafening it was killing Kuvira she needed Baatar to talk or say something. "Look Baatar I know this isn't the ideal timing for this but…"

"You think Kuvira? This is the worst timing in the world for this to happen, great, this is just great." Baatar snapped moving his hand away from his face cutting her off.

Kuvira had expected him to shocked but angry? Sure she knew he was tired and overworked but so was she, she felt her blood starting to boil with anger.

"Look are you even sure you're even pregnant this isn't just some stupid false alarm is it?" Deep down a voice told Baatar to stop talking he had a feeling that if he said anymore he was going to make this far worse than it needed to be. I'm sorry Kuvira can we discuss this tomorrow I'm just too tired to think about this right now and I know you are to. This is what Baatar wanted to say but instead he let his emotions talk.

Was she sure? Of course she was, Kuvira had begun to feel a little off a couple of days after she had fought Korra. At first she just thought it was the tiredness of overworking herself and pushing too hard. Kuvira remembered the moment she had discovered that second heartbeat.

It was the middle of the day but Kuvira just felt so tired but she needed to focus there was paper work that needed to be done. Getting back to the task at hand Kuvira willed her eyes to focus but, after a few seconds she felt her eye lids getting heavy the words on the page seemed to fall away.

"Kuvira, you should take break your tired you need to rest." The sound of Baatar's voice brought Kuvira out of her trance, looking up she met his eyes; Baatar sat on the opposite side of the desk he too was working.

"I'm fine Baatar."

"Really what is the report about?" When she didn't answer Baatar continued, "See if you can't remember what you just read, then it's definitely a sign that your too tired, just take a nap sweetheart." Baatar said as he leaned in closer.

"Baatar thanks your concern but there's a lot that needs to be done and taking a nap would mean losing hours that I could have used for work."

Baatar sighed leaning back into his chair, "Ok if you say so."

Kuvira smiled to herself and proceeded to get back to work, she let her head rest on her left hand. Once again Kuvira tired to focus but her mind was just not computing what she was reading. Ever so slowly, she felt her eyes getting heavy, it wasn't until she felt the weight of her armor come off and her being lifted from her chair did she realize Baatar was moving her. Kuvira didn't have the energy to protest, Baatar was right she was tired but she wouldn't admit that to him.

Baatar laid Kuvira down on the bed that was in their private quarters, he then removed her boots and pressed a light kiss on her temple as he moved away her hand caught his wrist, "Stay with me?"

"I have work to do Kuvira you know that."

"Please?" Baatar smiled it was rare that Kuvira begged him to do anything so of course he stayed. Once he was next to her, Kuvira laid her head on his chest wrapping an arm around him.

When she woke up a few hours later Baatar was gone, he had left a note saying he had been called away. Her bare feet hit the floor as she got off the bed that was when she felt it, a second heartbeat much faster than her own. Stunned Kuvira slammed her foot against the metal floor, her seismic sense wasn't as good as Suyin's but she could do it if she tried hard enough. Sure enough the faster heartbeat continued. Immediately Kuvira wanted to find Baatar and tell him but, she second guessed herself so she waited a few days and sure enough, the persistent heartbeat continued beating. Plus Baatar hadn't returned that night; he was still away with the engineers. And she had also been busy with her work as well they hardly saw each other for the next couple days.

It was also that last time that they had spent quality time together.

"Yes of course I'm sure Baatar, I won't have called you here if I really wasn't pregnant, I wouldn't joke about something so serious." Kuvira retorted stepping closer to Baatar, "I don't really like your tone and as your commanding officer I suggest you check yourself."

"No don't you dare pull rank on me Kuvira," Baatar said through clenched teeth as he also took a step towards her their faces mere inches apart. "Because right now you aren't the Great Uniter and I'm not your second in command, this is about you and me just Baatar and Kuvira. And this situation that we're in is just…your fault." Baatar muttered the last two words as quietly as he could but Kuvira had sharp hearing and heard him plus she was standing very closer to him.

"My fault? This isn't just my fault Baatar so don't you put the blame on me for this you were equally involved. Look I know this is really rotten time but maybe we could…"

"Could what make this work out somehow? Are you out of your mind Kuvira the Earth Empire may be united but it's still in pieces and you think that we can raise a child in the midst of this think again because we can't."

"Oh yeah then what do you suppose we should do?"

"I don't know get rid of it!." Baatar snarled backing away shaking his head turning his back on her. Get rid of it? Those words hurt, she felt tears prickling at the back of her eyes but she refused to cry right now. How could have he suggested that she end the little being that they had created together. Kuvira's hand drifted to her stomach but she refrained from touching the place where her unborn child was because if she did, she knew she would break.

"Where do you think you're going?" Kuvira demanded when she saw Baatar moving towards the door.

"Anywhere but here, I can't deal with this right now, it's just too much." Baatar said as he opened the door and slammed it shut.

Kuvira had half a mind to go after him but couldn't bring herself to move. Tears of frustration and sadness ran down her checks this was not at all how she had thought things would go. After allowing herself to cry Kuvira wiped away her tears getting back to work but, her mind and heart just wasn't in it, giving up on working, Kuvira went to bed. She lay awake for a long time her mind was restless she never slept well without Baatar. Kuvira had always felt relaxed and comforted when Baatar was with her, the way he would wrap his arms around her, made her feel safe and secure. Some nights his rhythmic heartbeat would lull her to sleep but, now without him she couldn't fall asleep. Thinking of nothing else to do Kuvira placed her hand on her lower abdomen focusing and waiting then she felt it the heartbeat of her child it was faster than Baatar's but it did the trick in a few minutes Kuvira was asleep. She hoped that tomorrow things would get better.

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