CHALLENGING THE TIME SEEMS TO BE NOT A GREAT IDEA BUT, COULD BE ANY OTHER WAY TO TRY TO SAVE FREDDIE'S LIFE WITHOUT EXPOSING YOUR OWN SKIN? DO YOU WANT TO FIND OUT HOW FAR OUR HEROINES ARE WILLING TO GO TO ACHIEVE THEIR HIGHEST GOAL?
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Wish and her throbbing post time travel headache joined me in the flight back to Munich. As I was stroking self-absorbed her silky redheaded hair spread over my lap, I was recalling every single step within my last hours.
I had my own suspicions a long time ago but given that my period since I joined Turn back the time had turned so terribly irregular, I played it down till I had to really care about it. As doctor Scott told me I was 4 weeks pregnant, I laughed and cried at the same time. This second pregnancy arrived the same way as the two former ones, completely out of the blue. The first one I was unaware till I had my miscarriage in the future, the second one took place in the middle of our wrost crisis and this one... Freddie and I were not an ordinary marriage either. Anyway, we never were.
There was no room for a new child in my mind right now but I should have taken care before having unprotected sex with him. Unsafe sex. Once in a while we had been careful but most of the time we didn't use any condom. And the last times we didn't.
So the next thing to do as soon as I returned home was dusting off my load of HIV rapid tests and test myself. I trusted blindly to test negative and therefore I also trusted Freddie could be still free of the virus.
This time around I was wrong. This time playing with fire took its toll. And now I was a seropositive pregnant. Something quite dangerous.
Being HIV positive was something that deep down, despite in 1977 I really thought I was infected, I thought never could happen to me. But it was rather a self defensive attitude because it was clear that having sex with Freddie wildly in the middle of Munich period, was highly risky. And there you go, the brainless Elideth finally was infected.
After the initial fright, I forced myself to think fast. I was infected and so Freddie too, but I was gonna avoid that my second baby could be born with our disease. I gotta go back to the present time to work this out. I knew I could take the 2021 antiretrovirals but spending my risky pregnancy in 1984 was a different kettle of fish. AIDS was still a total enigma. They hadn't developed yet any drug against it and just recently it was beginning to regard it as an epidemy and they had tracked the kind of virus. I was not going to take a risk and so something could fail. My future child was now my number one priority. I should spend my whole pregnancy in the future.
I talked to Fooling but I avoided to start explaining what happened. It was clear sooner or later I gotta do but what I needed the most is he could talk to Wish and tell her to return. The mission was not finished yet and if I had to vanish I needed Wish and Amandine to take care of everything. Wish taking care of Sally and Amandine taking care of Farrokh. And then I could leave peacefully.
But not before letting Freddie know about it.
Mr Bad Guy album hadn't been yet published in October. Things got a bit messy in the studio and it was gonna be issued sometime along 1985. Freddie found himself at Musicland working and I waited patiently for the end of the session.
