"Well, I have a reason ta stay now," she said quietly, seriously. "I... didn't imagine this happening so quickly, but soon we will be a family." She placed her hand over the one that wasn't at her shoulder. "I couldn't tell ye how I have longed to have an intact family. If that makes any sense," she said the last sentence after a brief pause. She moved so she was sitting sideways to face him, her eyes searching as they peered into his. "I must talk to me brother when I see him next... I will need to talk to him first before we do anything. He's very protective of me, ye know? I figure if I speak to him first, perhaps it might soften the blow." Because it would be a blow for sure. There was going to be a fight regardless of the outcome. Pony would not like that another man had found his way into the picture, but perhaps he would be more accepting if he know that Fred was not a doctor.