What About Love
A/N: I don't know what city the movie takes place in, so since I don't know in this AU story Juno lives in New York. Anyways, this is a different take of how Juno got pregnant.
She had always been spunky, and Bleeker had always been her best friend. That was why she had lied to Bleeker. Well, she didn't really lie…she was pregnant, and when she told Bleaker, she hadn't known that Bleaker couldn't possibly be the father. It wasn't that she didn't have sex with Bleeker – she did. But when she went to the doctors office and found out how many weeks along she was, she realized that the baby couldn't possibly have been Bleeker's. Besides, she had used a condom when she slept with Bleeker. That was when she shivered; that was when she realized who the baby's father was. She remembered what she had so badly wanted to forget. Gruesome images taunted Juno, terrorizing her, bringing her back to that fateful day.
Flashback
She felt like she could do anything. She had stayed later than usual at school, rocking out on her guitar in the band room, totally out of it and totally happy and carefree. Nothing could stop her. Nothing could tear her down and nothing could take her spirit and burn it to ashes. After hours of playing reggae songs, Juno put her guitar in her case and dropped it off in her locker before stepping outside, taking in the fleeting breeze and trying to find shadows behind the moon's dim glow.
Juno loved walking on the streets of New York City during the night. The city lights were amazing. Unfortunately, they also distracted her. Suddenly Juno felt a bulky hand grab her behind. She started kicking and screaming, but it was no use. She felt a needle injecting a warm fluid into her shoulder, and suddenly she froze; she thought she was going to die. She felt sleepy, but she tried to stay awake, realizing more than ever before how much she didn't want to die. "Let me go!" Juno screamed, but her words were faint. He had drugged her, and blackness crept over Juno's eyes so quickly and her world turned to darkness.
When Juno woke up, she was in a dark, filthy basement that smelled of cow manure. "Where am I!!" Juno screamed. She noticed that her hands were chained to a black metal post in the wall. She tried to tug on her chains, no matter how much it made her hands ache, but the metal wouldn't budge. She kept trying, watching as her wrists became more and more red and swollen.
Then she heard a low, gruff voice. "So the dirty bitch is finally awake," a man said. He walked over to Juno and slapped her on the face. "You're going to give me what I want, or I kill you," he said, placing a knife on her neck and pressing down slightly, drawing a small amount of blood. Juno shook her head and tried to pull away. She was frightened when the man lowered his knife and cut open her shirt, ripping it off of her. He pulled off her jeans and panties and tossed them behind his shoulder.
"NOO! No, please don't do this, why are you doing this?!" Juno screamed. The man pulled his own pants down and threw himself on top of Juno. He put his hands underneath Juno's bra and squeezed. Juno turned to look the other way but the man grabbed her neck and forced her face in front of his and pressed down on her lips with his lips. Juno spit into his mouth and tried to scream, "Asshole!"
He hit her, pounding his body harder onto Juno's body. The cold cement floor hurt Juno's bare, bony back. He forced Juno's legs apart with his dirty hands, causing what would later become dark purple bruises. The man forced himself inside of her, pushing around and tearing the sensitive, pink flesh. After about what felt like hours, he got off of her and threw her on the ground. "I'll be back," he said.
Still chained to the wall, all Juno could do was lay there, naked and afraid, and cry. Her whole body ached, especially her thighs. She curled up into a fetal position and hoped that at least he wouldn't kill her.
The waiting was horrible. He came back one more time sometime in the night and raped her a second time before releasing her chains, shoving her torn clothes in her hands, and throwing her back out on the streets and threatening to come back and kill her if she told anyone. Juno quickly put her clothes on and ran home and snuck in the back window, washing off before anyone could see her or ask her where she had been. She wore long sleeves and jeans to cover the bruises on her arms and thighs, but the only way to cover the bruises on her face was to use a lot of make-up.
End of flashback
Afterwards Juno had trembled whenever she was around any man, and she knew that she had to get over her fear if she wanted to really be able to hide her secret.
Flashback (Bleeker's pov) (a couple weeks after the attack)
Juno and Bleeker were playing their guitars trying to write a new song. Bleeker noticed that Juno looked particularly sad and wanted to cheer her up. He stared at her face, noticing how beautiful she was. "You look down," Bleeker said.
"No, really I'm fine," Juno insisted.
"Are you sure?" Bleaker asked.
"Yeah," Juno said, faking a smile. Bleeker put his hand on Juno's shoulder and Juno trembled. She tried to stop herself from trembling because she didn't want anyone to find out her secret, especially not Bleeker because what if the man went after Bleeker and tried to kill him? Juno couldn't let that happen. Suddenly she realized that she might be in love with Bleeker. But she was scared, also. She didn't want to be afraid. She didn't want to let the man who raped her control her any longer.
"Are you alright? You're trembling," Bleaker noticed.
"No, no I'm fine," Juno said. "I…I think I love you."
"I love you too. I always have," Bleeker said.
End of flashback
After that, Juno and Bleeker had made love on the couch after kissing. The only way to get over one's fear was to face one's fear, and Juno had done just that. The only problem now was, she was pregnant and it wasn't Blake's. 'I guess it's harder to forget than I thought it was,' Juno thought. She could pretend that the baby was Bleeker's, but she couldn't lie forever, and she couldn't lie to someone she loved. Eventually, she would have to tell him. Just not now.