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* A variation on this happened in ''[[Myst]]: The Book of Atrus'': Atrus' mother [[Death by Childbirth|dies giving birth to him,]] and his father Gehn leaves for the ruins of D'Ni, cursing his mother Anna as he leaves, who ends up raising Atrus in his stead.
* Played with in an ''[[Apprentice Adept]]'' book by Piers Anthony. It has been prophesied that Lady Blue will have "a son by two"—her second husband—so protagonist Stile marries her just before going off to do something dangerous, leaving the marriage (temporarily) unconsummated as a little extra insurance for his survival. It works.
* In ''[[The NightsNight's Dawn Trilogy]]'', notorious womanizer Joshua Calvert uses a business trip to a planet with self-imposed limits in technological and social progress to seduce and deflower the teenage daughter of his business partner. After he leaves the planet again, she finds out she's pregnant and he finds out he does not forget her as easily as his other affairs. Both are greatly chased around by the plot, so for the majority of the trilogy the trope applies. Fortunately for them said plot seems to wrap up quickly enough that they are reunited even before the pregnancy is immediately recognizable.
* A genuine wartime version of this trope occurs in Margery Allingham's [[Albert Campion]] series. Campion marries his longtime fiancée just before going overseas for three years of dangerous intelligence work. He is overcome by a strong emotion nine-tenths pure embarrassment when he finally gets home to Amanda, to discover a small, blond person not quite three years old playing in front of his home.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' Eddard Stark got his new wife Catelyn pregnant before riding off to fight in Robert's rebellion. When he returned she presented him with his son, and was rather less than pleased to discover that he'd [[Heroic Bastard|brought another one home with him.]]
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