When Ga'brin insisted on taking Tera back home to the Warren, she 
was more than willing to agree. Stopping just long enough to inform 
H'nry that he wanted to get her back to be checked over by a healer, Ga'brin
mounted Preston and then gave the order for both dragon's 
to teleport.

Knowing how his mate would balk at a trip to the med center, 
Ga'brin had Preston contact Lofflossit and asked if his rider 
would please make sure to have Sarrine waiting at their apartment 
when they arrived. Tera couldn't say no to having her mate's mother 
check her over. Sarrine wouldn't allow it. After all she was the 
babe's grandmother.
***
(Tera and Ga'brin's apartment later)

"Both mother and baby are doing fine," Sarrine told her worried 
son after leaving Tera in the bedroom to get dressed. ""But if 
they want to stay that way, she's going to have to curtail these 
kinds of activities." the healer's voice was scolding, as was the 
'you should take better care of you mate' look she throw at her 
son.

"Believe me mother," Ga'brin swore. "Next time I'll keep her tied 
to the bed and have Preston sit on Sundellath too keep her from 
going."

"I'd like to see that Love," Tera quipped as she came out of the
bedroom. Her flying leathers having been replaced by a lose 
flowing blue caftan. She was in the process of tying her long 
blond hair back into a pony tail. "That's something we haven't 
tried yet," 

Sarrine laughed out loud at the look of pure shock that came 
across her son's face. 

"Well you'll just have to wait until another night to try it," 
she chuckled. "I want Tera to get a good uninterrupted night 
of rest. Strictly rest." Her dark gray eyes sent a warning glance 
in her son's direction.

"Hey tell her, it was her idea," he protested, meeting his 
mother's eye with a wide eyed innocence that didn't fool his 
mother for a second. The thought of having his mate tied to the 
bed, helpless to stop him as he gave her pleasure, was doing 
things to a certain part of his anatomy. Then another more 
sobering thought came to mind.

"Mother, how will the baby affect us from doing...Ah...will it 
be safe if we.. " he fumbled over the words he wanted to say. 
Sex was something he'd never talked to his mother about.

"Yes son," Sarrine teased, knowing full well what he was trying 
to say, but having to much fun watching her strong confident son 
stumbling around the subject of sex like a teenager  learning 
about it for the first time.

"What my silver tongue mate here is trying not so suddenly to 
ask," Tera joined in, elbowing her mate as she sat down on the 
couch next to him, "Is how much will the baby be affected by us 
making love?" 

Sarrine took pity on her son, knowing just how the first time 
father felt. Gabben, her own mate had been just the same way, 
when she herself had been pregnant with Ga'brin, and if the son 
was anything like the father...Tera was in for a lot of spoiling, 
as well as a few other things Sarrine would warn her about later 
when her son wasn't around.

"It won't harm the baby any," she told them in her best healer 
tone of voice. "But as the baby grows it may become a little 
uncomfortable for Tera." she saw the tender look Ga'brin gave 
his mate. "That doesn't mean you'll have to stop loving each 
other, you'll just have to be more careful and....inventive. I 
have some books in my office that you can come by and look at 
that might be of some help, " she offered, barely surpressing 
the chuckle that threaten to give way at seeing the look on 
Ga'brin's face.

"Or," she couldn't help teasing. "You could just ask your father 
to tell you what he did at the time."

"Mother!!"
****

Later that night while the Shadow and his men were pulling off 
the big caravan swap, Tera and Ga'brin were entertaining a few 
friends who had stopped by to see for themselves that Tera was 
all right.

Lyonnia had stopped by briefly with Ga'brin's younger brother, 
Ben'sar to pay her respects and upon finding out about the baby, 
she was thrilled. But when Tera reminded her friend that they 
still needed to have a talk about the 'other thing' that 
happened, Lyonnia got a little quiet.

"It was nothing," she told Tera then escaped back to Ben'sar when 
Tahlaya showed up. The two of them left afterwards.

Tera had Sundellath contact Cloud to invite his rider to their 
little party. She figured that if Laya was ever going to find out 
if anything happened the night of the beach party it might as well 
be tonight. She was playing match maker, she knew, but it didn't 
matter. She was so happy living with Ga'brin that she wanted her 
best friend to be just as happy. Laya seemed to like Storm, so why 
not throw them together as see if anything came of it.

When Storm arrived, just a little confused by the invite, one look 
from Tera in Tahlaya's direction was all it took for him to 
understand her reasoning. When she brought a bottle of red wine 
and two glasses over and sat it down on the table between the two 
of them, Storm and Laya, then told them the time for truth had
come.....Storm just laughed and Laya's look told her to expect some 
kind of pay back. She just smiled knowingly back at them and went 
back and sat next to Ga'brin on the couch.

Much later after their guest had departed, while Tera laid wrapped 
in her lovers strong embrace, the two of them talked about what 
happened earlier. About Trap showing up when he had, "and don't 
think I'm not grateful that he did," Ga'brin told her, "But now 
that we know who the men were who were trying to kill you, I can 
rest a little easier."

Tera snuggled closer to him, "Don't I know it," she sighed, 
agreeing with him. "I just wish this whole thing with Trap were 
over and he was back here at the Warren where he belongs. I'll 
feel a whole lot better when H'nry finds out the Trap was working undercover
with the Warrens against the raiders and not as a 
raider. Maybe then he'll be able to forgive himself for Nia's 
being taken."

"That might take awhile love," Ga'brin sighed, knowing how much 
his mate hoped that her brother would be welcomed back with open 
arms as the hero. "No man likes to be taken and made to look like 
a fool. That's what Trap did to H'nry. It may take awhile for 
H'nry to get over it, even knowing the truth."

"That's what I'm afraid of," Tera said softly, knowing her mate 
was right. "Worst than that, is how H'nry's going to feel when 
he finds out that the man he's considered his good friend knew 
about it all along and didn't tell him." Thinking about Sandor.

" I guess only time will tell," Ga'brin said. "You though need 
to get some sleep, so that when you're rested we can try out 
what you wanted to do earlier."

Tera moved against him in a very suggestive manor, "What's wrong 
with trying it out now," She smiled wickedly.

"Oh no," Ga'brin laughed swatting her bottom. "You heard what 
mother said ..rest.. and tonight you'll get your rest...even if 
it kills me."

***********

Nrpg:

Kat: Tera hasn't forgotten that she has something to tell you. 
You'll have to decide if you want to hear it or not. IF not, Tera 
won't understand why you won't talk to her....after all you're 
her friend.....

Sarah: Have fun with Ben'sar....don't stay up to long though. 
*grin* 

And Lea.....Well what about Storm....and Pay back :)


*****Submitted by:*********************
Barbara
Voices of:
Warrenlady Jayleigh & Queen Viktory (Daere)
Tera & Sundellath (Telnor)
Ga'brin & Preston (Telnor)
Dan'yar & Shinner (Soon of Cleft)
"The Shadow" (Parts about to be known :)
Dragonlands

Fatala of Kindis Weyr