Sarah sat Quietly slowly digesting the news she just received, while Cody paced around mumbling to himself, Suzy watched them quietly for a few minutes before handing Cody her phone with 'Grandma' on the screen.
"You want me to call mom and dad?" Cody asked as Suzy nodded her head.
"Good call, if I have dragon blood in me then Dad or mom would know about it," Cody said as he started the call.
Cody walked away as Suzy rested her head on Sarah's lap and looked up at her asking mentally, *
Are you okay Sarah?*
"Yes I'm just thinking about my future, I never planned to have kids anytime soon or even try to find someone to have kids with, I moved here in order to get away from my family who wanted me to marry someone rich," Sarah said as she started to pet Suzy carefully.
*
I see, I know dad won't force you to keep it because of how he is but as his child. I know he would be a wonderful father and boyfriend if you let him,*
Suzy said as Sarah pulled her hand away and looked over at Cody.
"I got that feeling from last night and this morning, but I'm nervous and scared about having a child and especially one with draconic blood. It's one of the few ancient bloodlines that hold a lot of power," Sarah said as she held her stomach and shivered.
*
What do you mean?*
Suzy asked Sarah as she gave a gentle coil around her tail to hug her.
"There are five ancient bloodlines, you have the dragon, phoenix, leviathan, behemoth and fey. Each one is incredibly powerful that with proper training or pure blood can let people level mountains or create vast seas, even shifting whole deserts could be possible. It scares me to think my child could possibly have that much power," Sarah said as she started to shake lightly.
"That kind of bloodline brings danger and safety in equal measure," Sarah whispered as Suzy hugged her tail tightly and used her upper body to comfort Sarah.
"Thank you for the support and I'm going to talk with Cody before I make any decisions," Sarah said as she hugged Suzy and watched Cody as he talked with his parents.
When Suzy started talking with Sarah, Cody held the phone up as it started to ring, after three rings a woman picked up the phone and said, "Hello son why did you call so early? Normally you would call around noon."
"Hey mom is dad there? I need to talk to both of you," Cody said as he sat down in a chair.
"One moment," His mom replied as she called for his dad.
After a few moments he heard his dad on the phone, "Hey son what's up?"
"Put me on speaker phone please," after a moment Cody then said, "I just found out I got a girl pregnant," Cody said leaving out some details.
"Where is she now?" his Mother asked.
"Sitting with Suzy looking scared," Cody responded but before he could say anymore his dad interrupted.
"What is she?" he asked.
"So you guys knew that I wasn't completely human?" Cody said, sounding slightly hurt.
"Son we have free time today, give us an hour and we will come by and explain everything I promise ok," His dad said.
"No tell me now!" Cody demanded.
"We can't explain over the phone son and we will need to explain everything to you and your lady friend otherwise things will get confused or misunderstood, just talk to her and help keep her calm if she's a demi and knows about your dragon blood it will scare her more then you realise," Codys mother said in a tone that brook no response as she hung up.
Cody looked over as Suzy was comforting Sarah who looked terrified, He stood up and walked over to them and reached out his hand but stopped when Sarah looked up at him with a tear stained cheek, "Did you learn anything?" she asked him.
"No but they're coming here in person to explain everything, I'm hoping it goes well and we both get the answers we need," Cody responded as he sat down across from here and shook his head.
"I'm sorry Sarah I had no intention to put you or anyone in danger and I didn't even know about this until now, I'm sorry for dragging you into something that scares you this much," Cody said as he put his head down on his arms and closed his eye thinking of various things
"It's ok Cody, Suzy was helping me feel a bit better and I'm hoping that you can help me now," Sarah said nervously.
"How can I help?" Cody asked as he raised his head looking nervous.
"What would you do if I decided to stay here with you and have this child? And what would you do if I left and didn't have the child?" Sarah asked Cody while twisting the end of her tail nervously.
Cody looked surprised and sighed heavily, after a few moments Cody looked up and responded with, "If you chose to leave and not have the child it would break my heart but I can't force you to have the child. If you chose to stay and have the child I would do everything I can to make you feel safe, loved and taken care of," Cody said adamantly without breaking eye contact.
"I see and what if your parents want me to have a child when I don't want to?" Sarah asked Cody.
"I would tell them to leave you alone and let you be, I don't want you to be forced into anything you don't want," Cody said as he sat up straighter.
"What if I told you I don't have anywhere for me to live because I moved here recently and wanted to live off you?" Sarah said a bit more calmly, Suzy was still wrapped around her and was now watching them both closely.
"I would support and care for you and the child but if you wanted to leave without the child after it's born I would let you go. If you wanted to visit it we would have to talk about that afterwards," Cody explained as he looked around and reached for his drink on the counter.
"You're a very open minded person aren't you?" Sarah asked as Suzy uncoiled herself from Sarah and got herself and Sarah a drink, Sarah took the water and sipped it while Cody responded.
"Well I kinda need to be when I work a snake rescue and a reptile store and Vet clinic, all sorts of people come and go so I've learned to be comfortable with anyone. I was also taught old fashion honor from my mom and dad, they would both kill me if I started to beat my partners," Cody explained as Suzy started to rub his back with one of her coils.
"I see, and would you consider marriage if I wanted it?" Sarah asked Cody seriously.
"If we both loved each other and both wanted it then yes I would. But if we did work well together but didn't love each other then no I wouldn't get married," Cody explained as they all jumped as the doorbell rang.
"It's only been thirty minutes, damn their fast and Suzy can you let them up?" Cody asked as he stood up and Sarah raised her body up.
As the elevator rose Cody took a drink of his coffee but sputtered and spit it everywhere nearly hitting Sarah as his parents came into view.
His dad looked like his normal self at six feet tall and eight inches dark black hair and chiseled features but what was different was that his eyes were gold slits instead of his normal green, his nails were elongated and sharp with a hint of scale on the back of his hands. He had two inch horns protrude from his forehead and turning upwards over her forehead, he was wearing his usual dress pants and dress shirt combo.
What Shocked Cody more was that his mother had large wings and a long thick tail with bright red scales, her arms where covered in scales with claws and her feet had three forward claws with one back claw with scales going under her business skirt, her bright red hair moved slightly as if in a small breeze and her normally deep brown eyes looked like fire with slits, her face had small scales on her cheeks and forehead that matched her red tail and wings.
"Holy shit!" Cody said as his cupped fell to the floor.
Sarah stared at Cody's mother as she walked in and dropped her shoes beside her husbands, before they said anything Sarah said loudly "I thought dragonewts were extinct!?"
"Hello to you too, and no where not but my family is now protected and hidden by Amell's family," Mina said as Amell walked up to Cody and shook his hand.
"Hey dad, thanks for coming so quickly," Cody said somewhat shocked as she looked at his transformed father.
"It's ok as a parent I need to be ready for stuff like this," Amell said as she relaxed and undid his transformation.
Suzy hissed happily and coiled Mina, Mina laughed and hugged Suzy back, "Hello darling it's good to see you again," Mina said as she walked into the kitchen and sat down on a stool, Amell sat beside her as Cody and Sarah sat on the opposite side, Suzy rested her head on the end of the counter listening in.
"What would you like to hear about first?" Amell asked Sarah and Cody.
"Why didn't you tell me that I had dragon blood in me?" Cody said, sounding hurt.
"I'll explain that as I explain a bit about our family," Amell said as he sighed deeply, he looked Cody in the eyes and started to explain everything.
"Our family history goes back at least two thousand years, it was started by one of the dragon clans in what we call Germany today. Back then most family members could change their forms freely but as time passed we lost our ability to become full dragons then lost the ability to change forms. It was around nine hundred years ago that we realised to stay safe and hidden that we needed to blend in with humans and we have done so," Amell said as he pulled out a thick and heavy leather bound book.
"This is our family tree and history from over fifteen hundred years ago when we decided to start keeping hard copies, this will explain a lot about our past, but as to why we didn't tell you is simple. Had you never slept with a demi human your dragon blood wouldn't have awoken and you would have stayed a very healthy human, until about eighty or ninety years old where you would have been awakened and brought into the elders hall," Amell said as he opened to a page near the beginning and pushed it towards Cody who read about the elders hall.
