Kelly Jenkins (Wild Cards) - Reunited

Reunited

By the time Kelly and Tachyon were all too briefly reunited, several months had passed. Desperate to regain her true form before giving birth to Kelly's child, Tachyon had managed to book passage on a Network ship back to Takis. Accompanied by Captain Trips and Popinjay, Tachyon arrived too late to have Blaise arrested. Kelly and Tachyon's mutual tormentor had already usurped rule of the Ilkazam's enemies, House Vayawand. It wasn't until the traditional yearly observance of armistice between feuding Houses that they both actually stood in the same room. Amid the alien equivalent of Yuletide, they sought each other out, drawn together by their mutual unhappiness as the rich and powerful of Takis celebrated all around them. Now in her third trimester, the telepathic powers of the fetus Tachyon carried had sufficiently increased to pick up Kelly's self-taught telepathy. Though standing close by, Blaise's own telepathy (geared toward brutal control rather than mental subtleties) was unable to detect the unspoken communication.

Realizing there would be no way to switch back in time, they discussed the future of their mutual daughter/granddaughter instead. Kelly warned the expectant Tachyon of her female body's numerous drug allergies, which might complicate delivery, only to learn that natural childbirth was a component of the Takisians' "survival of the fittest" philosophies. In return, Tachyon offered Kelly some brief pointers on how to hone his unorthodox style of telepathy. As with their brief reunion in Tachyon's cell on the Rox, Blaise brought Kelly's curiosity to an abrupt end. On Takis as on the Rox, bloodshed soon followed and the Takisian World War intensified further.

Months after finally giving birth, Tachyon brokered a deal with Blaise to return her and Kelly to their rightful bodies. Kelly was somewhere between irritated and delighted when, upon being jumped back into her true form, she discovered Tachyon had managed to get her body pregnant with a second child (a boy this time) in the weeks prior to their return to normal.