Jack sighed as he lay there in the bed of Katelynn, and brought his hand up, in his half sleeping mind he expected to find Katelynn’s body still there. He could remember, in his half awake mind, the night before and it made him smile softly. But when he finds nothing, and feels against the bed more… he finds nothing. His eyes open, and he looks at the empty space besides him.

“Katelynn?” he asks, sitting up and looking around. “K… Katelynn?” he pushes the blankets off of him and gets to his feed, momentarily uncaring of his nudity, as he walks through to the other rooms. She’s not here. Where is she? Why would she leave without waking him first?

Then he makes his way to the bathroom and stops when he sees a box on the floor. “Huh?” he crouches and picks it up, closing the medicine cabinet door since it was still open. What was this, in his hands…? Oh. The Pill. That pill ladies take that helps them not be pregnant. Katelynn had mentioned it last night and whilst he believed a condom was the safest bet, he had trusted her that time.

The memory of losing himself within her suddenly leaps up in his mind and he blushes. He was just about to replace it when the same fact that had surprised Katelynn all but jumps out at him.

When starting birth control pills, it will usually take 7 days for the pill to become effective at preventing pregnancy.

He reads that line a few times. Katelynn said she’d started taking the pill.. but when? Surely not seven days ago, she was still in hospital, they hadn’t even made love for the first time seven days ago, and he’d worn protection then.

Realization hits him. 

Jack drops the box and backs away from it as if it were suddenly a lion, eyes wide. “A-a week?” he asks, voice shaking. It hadn’t been a week. He’d ejaculated inside his girlfriend. His sperm may be over half way through her uterus by now, seeking out an egg to fertilize! Was his genetics even compatible? What if they were? What if they weren’t? Oh my God.

Oh my God.

He races back into the bedroom, finds his pajamas, pulls them on, and races out of the door to get to his own apartment where he can freak out in the privacy of his own home.