> She smiled at the news her son gave her though. What mother wouldn't feel > the kind of happiness that came when their only son said those four words. > > "She seems very nice, Derek, and witty." she said, looking at him for a > moment before asking with quiet curiosity "But why do I get the impression > there's more to it than that? You're almost on pins and needles." > > "And where did she return from? Another House?" > "She died in Ireland a few years back," Derek told her. "At least I thought she had." It was too complicated to get into really and if Sloan hadn't already explained it to her he wasn't sure he wanted to get into it fully. "However, she was able to return to us." He then shifted in his chair again. "There's is more," he admitted feeling as though he were confessing for something he'd done as a child. A far more adult subject, but the feeling was the same. "We just discovered...that....Julia is pregnant." There he'd said it.
