An Au With Slight Canon Divergence. Everything Is Going According To The Novel Except Penelope And Callisto

An Au with slight canon divergence. Everything is going according to the novel except Penelope and Callisto in the heat of the moment do the devil's tango in the cave during the hunting arc. Things proceed as normal but low and behold Penny is pregnant.

At first, she didn't think anything was wrong considering she never had a regular period cycle, to begin with. So to her, it was not a problem that her period hasn't started.

By the time Yvonne is brought back to the duchy, she is already getting morning sickness and nausea. Only then does she consider the possibility of her being pregnant, but she doesn't get the chance to confirm it. She is rightfully horrified, I would be too if I found out I was pregnant and the father told me that he sees no value in love.

Anyway, later she is confronted by Laila who was initially going to stay hidden and steal the mirror shard to carry out her evil plan yada yada. Laila basically confirms that she is pregnant and tries to brainwash Penelope in her moment of shock.

However, her wizard blood and the magic of the golden dragon prevented that from happening stunning Yvonne and giving Penelope time to flee to her room. Once there she packs an emergency bag with the mirror shard and map and teleports to a random far away town near the sea.

There she meets an older woman, an apothecary who offers to let her stay the night at her home to get her bearings together. The next day Penny asks the woman if she can do a pregnancy test for her. The woman agrees and Penelope does the test.

While waiting for the results, there is a knock at the front door the apothecary is occupied in another room with the test results so Penny answers the door. Only to wish she didn't because right on the other side is none other than Callisto Regulus himself, who tracked her down with the copy of the magic map. He is furious and invites himself in, demanding to know why she ran away all of a sudden making everyone think she was kidnapped.

The apothecary oblivious to the commotion walks into the room and loudly announces that the test results came back positive and that she is in fact pregnant. YAY!

Silence. Absolute silence, Callisto is stunned at the news and Penelope is terrified about what he may do next. The older woman is putting the pieces together and realises that he may be the child's father and leaves to give them privacy.

They do talk but it quickly escalates into arguing both of their emotions are running rampant at the discovery. Callisto realises that they conceived that night in the cave and realises that she was pregnant throughout the past months and keeps asking how did she not realise this soon such and such. Meanwhile, Penny is on the verge of a breakdown crying and yelling out all the things she's been keeping bottled up before reminding him that he said he did not love her.

They finally calm down enough to have a more civil conversation, Penelope states that she's not going back to the Duchy for a while. He is curious as to why she ran away in the first place and gets her to explain everything specifically about the fact that Yvonne is Laila among other things.

Anyhow the event of the original novel happens faster here minus the coming of age part. Penelope and Callisto find the magic wand to defeat Laila who at this time is beginning her attack on the kingdom to use the golden dragon to revive her clan etc. Laila is defeated, Penelope and Callisto get hitched and months later Judith is born. YAY!

PS. sorry if everything seems rushed coming down to the end. I have an exam tomorrow but wanted to post this before I went to bed.