By Mary
Rating: K
Disclaimers: I do not own Ugly Betty or any of its' characters. I am not making any money off this story. This is for profit only. No infringement is intended.
A/N: Thanks to Tracy, Teri and Ginger from the forum (you guys rock)!!! They lit the fire under me with their kind reviews so i could try another story. Please read and review, however no flames!!!!
Some scenes from this story taken from the season finale, "East Side Story"
Chapter One
Henry sighed as he hauled his suitcase from the carousel at Tucson International Airport. He rubbed his eyes tiredly behind his glasses as he looked around for Charlie. He half turned to see her coming up behind him, pulling her smaller suitcase on wheels as she studied his expression.
"Well, here we are again. Home sweet home." Charlie said with a smile.
Henry couldn't return her smile or comment. After she squeezed his hand on the plane and he refused to reciprocate, she withdrew and turned away from him, leaving him to his thoughts and the person who he knew would consume them for a while.
Betty... he couldn't get the image of her out of his mind. The look on her face when he saw Charlie at her house and she took him outside to talk. Betty had looked so wounded, so defeated. Then, after Charlie had dropped her bombshell and he texted Betty; she was at once grateful, heartbroken, then accepting. It was the accepting that hurt Henry the most. He knew he loved Betty, loved her more than anyone in the world, except for his mother...and the baby.
His baby. Henry had never quite thought of himself as a father. Oh, maybe somewhere down the road, he imagined one day he'd meet someone who would want to settle down with him and mother his children. Someone who didn't care he was a huge geek, head full of bits of trivia. And then he'd found her.
But she wasn't carrying his baby. Charlie was. And now she was staring at him.
"Henry, are you all right?" Charlie asked, sounding concerned.
"I'm fine Charlie." Henry replied, "let's just get out of here so i can drop you off." He pulled up the handle on his suitcase so it rolled behind him as he walked off towards the revolving doors to the rental car shuttle. Charlie smiled wickedly as she hurried to catch him. She was pleased with how well her plans were progressing with her geek in shining armor. She knew Henry never had it in him to deny a baby, and she hid her scheming smile under a look of concern as she followed Henry out the revolving door and into the hot Tucson morning.
TBC...