Disclaimer: I own nothing pertaining to 7th Heaven, nor do I have anything against T-Bone other than the fact that Ruthie chose him and he isn't Martin
A/N: Based on my theory of why Ruthie chose T-Bone in the series finale might be a one shot unless you guys review and tell me you want more.
Trapped
Ruthie was trapped. She had to choose T-Bone. She hated it that he had been the one who caught her, but if she didn't choose him he would destroy her, and Martin. The only thing Ruthie regretted was that she and Martin had gotten pregnant after they slept together, and then when T-bone discovered the pregnancy test in her bathroom's trashcan she'd known her and Martin were doomed. T-Bone had always creeped her out a little the way he stared at her while she was in her pajamas, she felt like he was imagining them together in bed. That was not something Ruthie wanted to happen. Especially since the time that T-Bone had hit her. Sure, she hadn't told her parents or Lucy, but that was because she didn't think that they'd believe her. He was always a perfect gentleman in front of everyone except her. It had disgusted her the first time the Camden's had left them alone in the house. She'd gone to tell T-Bone about their next assignment only to find him jerking off looking at a picture of her that he must have taken out of one of their photo albums. And if she told Martin he'd just kill T-Bone which wouldn't be good either.
He loved her in a way that no one else could. She let him see the part of her that was vulnerable. The part that ached when things weren't fair. She told him everything. He was her best friend and the man she loved. Life, Ruthie had recently decided, is full of fucked-up shit. No one should have found out that she and Martin had slept together. But because T-bone had found out she was screwed. She and Martin had driven to the clinic to get an abortion. They were too young to have a baby, and even if they did have it they had no means to take care of it. So they went. When she came home she found T-Bone holding up the test. "So you're pregnant," he said his rage obvious due to the fact that though Ruthie had gone out with him only once, he still considered her his. "It was that son of a bitch Martin wasn't it ?" The way he screamed scared her. It scared her almost as much as the time he'd pinned her to her bed and it seemed like he was going to rip her clothes off, and take her there. Thank God Martin had shown up when he did. If he hadn't Ruthie knew that T-Bone would've raped her then and there.
"I'm not pregnant," she chose her words carefully not wanting him to know where Martin had just taken her. "We just came back from the clinic and they confirmed that I wasn't pregnant."
"But you slept with him," T-bone screamed landing his right hand firmly against her abdomen. "You belong to me and if you ever go back to Martin." He spat the word out as though it was vile. "I'll tell your family your little secret, Ruthie. We both know you were pregnant. You just had an abortion to get rid of the evidence. Stay with him and everyone will know about it, and who fathered it. Break up with him and become my girlfriend and know one will ever need to know."
"What do you mean be your girlfriend," Ruthie asked disgusted with herself for considering it.
"I just want you to do the same things for me that you do- did for Martin," he replied. "The dates, the hand holding, the kissing."
"And that's all you want?"
"Well we can't forget the sex now can we," he answered.
Ruthie was trapped.
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