It was when Angel picked Claire up what was happening really sunk in, and it was also then when she began to panic.
She couldn't have a baby. She wasn't ready to have a baby. The family wasn't here. She had been awful to her own mother - she had practically killed her own mother, how could she become a mother.
Once on the bed, she grasped at the sheets, trying to stay calm. Why did this have to happen? Why couldn't Thomas have stayed with me and we could be a family? Oh God, oh God...thoughts were running rapidly through Claire's head.
"...baby" she managed once Katara came into the room. "This can't be happening!"