Disclaimer- I don't own Degrassi TNG. I do however own Elizabeth and James.

Summary- Liberty and JT had sex the summer after 10th grade. She got pregnant and told her mom, who told her dad. When he found out he was furious and sent Liberty away before she ever told JT. He was heartbroken, not knowing where or why his girlfriend disappeared. It's now a year later and Liberty has just turned 18. She made the decision to return to Degrassi now that her parents couldn't legally keep her away.

"Okay so I'll be here to pick them up at three." Liberty told the daycare worker.

"Okay Ms..." the woman checked her paper, "Yorke."

"It's Van Zandt." Liberty corrected.

"Oh I'm sorry, their names..." the woman apologized.

"It's fine." Liberty said as she reached down to kiss her children, "I love you both."

"This is it Tobes." J.T. Yorke said as he entered the hallway with his best friend Toby Issacs, and his girlfriend Mia Jones, "The start of our last year of high school."

"Hard to believe we're starting another year." Emma Nelson said walking up behind him, with her own best friend Manny Santos.

"Hard to believe we're starting a year without Liberty." Manny said.

J.T. froze and glared at her, Manny held up her hands in mock surrender, while Mia piped up, "Whose Liberty?"

"No one." J.T. said through clenched teeth.

"Doesn't look like no one to me." Toby said as the four friends saw a person they never thought they'd see again.

Liberty paced outside the school, "Okay Liberty, you can do this." She took a deep breath, and walked through the door.

"Liberty?" Emma was the first to speak.

Liberty sucked in a breath, and turned around to face the people she left behind, "Hello Emma, Manny, Toby...J.T."

"Oh my god!" Manny said as she and Emma hugged her, "What happened to you?"

"I temporarily relocated, but now I'm back to finish up my education at the school I started it in." Liberty said as J.T. avoided her glances.

"So you're back for good?" Emma asked.

Liberty nodded, "For the remainder of this school year."

"I'm Mia." the girl Liberty didn't know spoke up.

"Liberty Van Zandt, former student council president of this fine school." Liberty held out her hand.

"For like a month, before you disappeared." J.T. muttered.

"Circumstances being what they were, I had to resign." Liberty stated.

"I'm Mia Jones, J.T.'s girlfriend." Mia said wrapping her arm around J.T.'s shoulder.

Liberty froze temporarily before turning to Emma and Manny, "Well this has been fun but I have to get to the principal's office to get my schedule."

"Try to get into Mr. Simpson's home room, like old times." Manny said as she and Emma waved goodbye to their friend.

"Wow." Toby said.

"What?" J.T. asked.

"Liberty Van Zandt." Toby said.

"Yeah?" he asked again.

"Toby's just surprised she's back after a whole year." Emma said when she noticed Mia looking curiously at J.T., "Let's get to homeroom."

Liberty paced in front of the media emersions classroom door, trying to drum up the will power to walk through the door and face the love of her life/ father of her children and his girlfriend.

"You planning on joining us Liberty?" Mr. Simpson asked opening the door.

"Yes, sir."

"Welcome back." he said giving her a quick hug.

"Thank you sir." she smiled as she headed for the empty seat near Emma and Manny.

"I can't believe it." Emma said, "We thought you were gone for good, last year. What with the whole leaving and not saying goodbye to anyone, not even... J.T."

"He was heartbroken Lib." Manny said.

"Yeah it shows." Liberty said sarcastically looking at J.T. and Toby, "So where is Mia? Not in our homeroom?"

"Try not in our grade. She's only 16." Manny said.

"Yeah J.T. started dating her a few months ago. The first few months after you left he just wouldn't believe you were actually gone. He claimed you'd be back any day to tell us you were conducting some kind of experiment on all of us and you'd really never left." Emma said.

"Finally the last month of school this girl shows up, and at first we think, 'oh cute kid.' But get this she's a teenage mother, doesn't know who the father is, and she's busy making J.T. into instant daddy." Manny continued.

"I'm sorry ladies, are we interrupting you're chat?" Snake asked crouching down next to the three girls.

"No, sir." the three answered automatically.

"Cause we could wait, if you have something to share." he said.

"No, sir." they repeated.

"Good."

Liberty looked over at J.T. as the lesson continued. He had missed her. Yet here he was playing house with some girl. Of course she didn't blame him for his lack of involvement in her children's lives. She blamed her parents for that and always will. It's just that she had some sort of irrational school girl fantasy of walking into the building and seeing J.T. and him seeing her, and they'd run over to one another and embrace and she's tell him about the babies that he'd be so happy they'd skip the first day of school and picked them up from daycare so they could all be together.

It was stupid, she knew. But she didn't expect to find him with a new girlfriend. She expected him to wait for her.

Her first few classes went by in a whirl and before she knew it, it was lunchtime. After locating her locker and dumping her books she caught up to Emma, Manny,Toby, and J.T.

"So how much did you not miss the food from the caf?" Emma asked as they paid for their lunch.

"Oh so-" Liberty started to answer Emma's question when she tripped over something on the ground and fell. Luckily her food remained on the plate but her purse spilled every which way and where.

Emma, Toby, and Manny reached down to help her pick up her stuff, while J.T. held out a hand to her.

"Thanks." she mumbled, trying to gather her things.

"Oh Lib!" Manny said looking at some pictures that fell out of the purse, "Cute kids. Are they your niece and nephew?"

"No." Liberty mumbled grabbing random items off the floor.

J.T. reached over and picked up a blue oxford health card, but before handing it to Liberty he glanced at the name, 'James Yorke' and realized it must be his, but then the date of birth caught his eye, 2006. He was 18 years old and this card was saying he was one.

"So who are they?"

"They're um..." Liberty was at a loss for words, when she saw what J.T. had in his hands, "J.T.!" she said grabbing the card from him, and covering her mouth with one hand.

J.T.'s eyes widened in realization, "Oh my God."

'Brilliant Liberty. This was the perfect way for him to find out.' she thought to herself as all they could do was stare at one another, while Toby, Emma, and Manny only looked on trying to figure out what was going on.

Okay that was chapter one. Please tell me what you think. Mia isn't going to be like she is in the show, she's gonna be very OOC. J.T and Liberty will have a confrontation next chapter, so review if you wanna read more.

-Em