i could have killed braden, but aww... 
 (view spoiler)[i have issues with this novella, the main one being: wasn't joss on the pill? i supposed with the amount of sex these two have, it is not entirely unbelievable that they would hit the 0.1% of no-effectiveness of the pill. it's a problem of probability, but normally the no-effectiveness happens because of external causes, which weren't described here... so... (hide spoiler)]