Title: Baby, It's You
Author: PurpleOrchid85
Rating: PG-13 to T
Fandom: The Middle
Pairing: Axl/Sue (Heckcest, Axsue, Lumberjack Lawyers, whichever shipping name you prefer)
Spoilers: All of Season 4, Heckcest 'twisted' Season 5
Summary: Sue and Axl drunkenly sleep with each other, resulting in a surprise pregnancy.
Warnings: Sibling incest, kissing, occasional swearing.
AN: Since Carly's boyfriend didn't actually have a name on the show, (he was referred as the 'Hot Dog on a stick boyfriend' by Sue) I gave him one. Also it is unknown if Carly had siblings, so I'm going to give her a older sister who's at college.
AN: I'm not sure if the show outright said if Morgan Edwards was in Axl's year at school, but for this fic, Morgan is indeed a senior and graduated the same year as Axl, Cassidy, Darrin and Sean.
Disclaimer:
Axl Heck & Sue Heck and every character that is mentioned in this Fanfiction in relation of The Middle are copyrighted by ABC and its creators/producers DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler.
Chapter One: The Party & The Aftermath
"I cannot believe I've got my licence now. And it's been my sixth go at it." Sue Heck said, shaking her head as she sat next to her best friend Carly who nodded fervently. Sue eyed Carly's boyfriend Jason who was intent playing on his PSP and was oblivious to the girly discussion in front of him.
"We have to celebrate. How about fro-yo?" Sue asked brightly.
Carly bit her lip in thought "Well... actually Jason got an invite to go to the senior after party tonight, and he wants me to come too as well, but I don't want to go if Jason happens to ditch me by accident. So will you come with as well?"
"Me? I don't know…" Sue said uncomfortably.
"Oh come on, you've got to get out of your comfort space since you broke up with Darrin." Carly pointed out.
Sue sighed "Oh alright. But what am I going to wear? This dress seems…" she floundered for a word that described it but Jason spoke
"Looks like something my grandma would wear at her funeral." He eyed the flowered dress Sue wore.
"Jason!" Carly angrily snapped.
"No, he's got a point." Sue insisted.
Carly gave a glare at Jason who shrugged and returned staring intently at his PSP. Carly said "Well, it's a good thing Izzy's at college and she pretty much said I could borrow anything from her closet." She pulled Sue off her bed and guided her to her sister Isabel's room.
Within an hour, Sue was wearing a knee high blue sleeved dress and her hair was curled with the help of Carly. Carly wore a simple pink dress.
She, Carly and Jason enter the graduation after party, looking around in interest. "We gotta be careful. I know Axl's here somewhere. If he finds out I'm here, I'm dead." Sue said to Carly in a forbidding tone, giving her the swishing neck move. Carly nods nervously. The three of them meander through the crowd, seeing couples are necking with each other, drinking and otherwise being appropriately debauched. She doesn't notice Jason who has a beer in one hand had walked off while Carly was standing and staring agape at a group of grads doing strip poker, not noticing her boyfriend had wandered off.
As Sue walked through the crowd with an expression of disgust on her face as she watched the bacchanalia scene in front of her. "God." She muttered under her breath in disgust. Then she passed Darrin whose neck is being licked by girl. He saw her and was shocked, but before he would react anymore, the neck-licking girl who's just grabs him and kisses him.
Hard.
Sue winced.
It was difficult to see her ex with another girl, but it was her decision to break up with him in the first place so she had no business at all to tell him who to date or have a makeout with anyway.
She turned to speak to Carly, but she discovered that her best-friend had disappeared. Panicking, she goes through the crowd searching for her until a drink suddenly appeared in her hand. She paused and glanced around then shrugged and took a drink.
Sue grumbled as sunlight hit her eyes. She slowly woke up and discovered that she's naked in a bed. She heard a mumbling groan from next to her and she turned to see a naked and asleep Axl next to her.
"Oh my god. I had sex with my brother!" she gasped in realisation.
She indeed was feeling a slight ache and saw dried blood on the sheets. Wanting to escape, she bent over the side of the bed and found her dress and panties and quickly and quietly dressed and snuck out, keeping her eyes on the still-asleep Axl until she was free and clear of the room.
Using her previous cross-country experience, she quickly weaved through the living room, stepping over sleeping and unconscious bodies on the floor she exited through the front door into the bright sunshine. Wincing, she threw up a hand against the overly bright sunshine; she walked towards Carly's car. She let out a relieved sigh as she found a hung over, tired and sunglasses clad Carly in a slumping lean against her car. Carly instantly straightened as Sue approached and said concernedly "Sue! Where have you been? One minute you were next to me the next minute you were gone." Sue said "I would say the same, Carly."
Then Carly crumpled into tears.
"Carly, what happened?" Sue asked, pulling her into a comforting hug. Carly explained "When I lost you, I went looking for Jason and I found him he was making out with Morgan Edwards and then I had a yelling row with him and instantly broke up with him and went with hot guys and end up doing vodka jello shots with them."
"Morgan? What a jerk, and she's a huge bitch for making out with him when he supposed to have a girlfriend. Ever since she kept breaking up with Axl back in his freshman year, I've strongly disliked her." She said angrily.
Carly then asked Sue "What about you, what were you up to?" Sue says in an exhausted tone "Don't ask."
"Let's just go to Denny's for breakfast and work out what exactly to tell our parents since we missed our curfews." Sue offered. Carly nodded, and then winced her hand going to her head obviously suffering from a hangover.
Once they were safely enclosed in a booth at the local Denny's and were eating their breakfast, Sue suggested "How about we tell a half truth?" as she speared a piece of waffle from her halfway finished plate of waffles.
"What do you mean?" Carly asked, after she swallowed a bite of her half-finished omelette.
Sue replied "Well, just explain how you caught Jason making out with Morgan and had a fight with him and I ended up consoling you for the night and had my phone turned off. And unlike Axl, my lies won't unravel since Mom trusts me." She reminded Carly, thinking back to the time where Axl tried to get out of his Spanish exam with the sick-not-sick-sick-religious holiday-dead relative excuse and having Nancy Donahue, Mom and his Spanish teacher simultaneously catch him out and he eventually ended up being grounded.
Carly, with her fork in her mouth mumbled out a "Hmm." She then pulled the fork out, chewed and swallowed and said "That could work. That fact about Jason-" she spat his name like poison "cheating on me is true enough."
As both girls finished, they both threw down some money for the waitress and got up to exit out the doorway, a group of hot guys passed them and one of them yelled "Vodka girl! Glug, glug whoo, whoo!" the rest drunkenly cheered. Carly gave them an acknowledging nod and awkward smile.
Sue gave her the patented Axl eyebrow raise™ she picked up from her older brother and crisply said "Explain."
Carly winced "When I was doing the vodka jello shots with them, I kept chanting Glug, glug whoo, whoo at every guy that did the beer keg headstand." Sue shook her head, biting her lip to hide an amused smile. "Well at least everyone has one embarrassing drunken story; I guess that one's yours." She blithely said as she stood at the passenger door of Carly's car waiting for her to unlock the door.
Carly shot back "And what was yours?"
Sue sighed and said "Not going to say. Ever."
At that, Carly's eyebrows raised in surprise. Sue was the type to tell her and Brad her secrets, but apparently this secret was one was not to see light of day.
After minutes of a silent and anxious drive, Carly pulled her car up behind the Church van at the kerb in front of Carly's house. Sue put up her fisted hand and stuck out her last finger and said "Promise to keep the events of last night a secret?" Carly mimicked Sue's hand figure and moved it forwards to link her last finger with Sue's and said fervently "Promise."
Sue unlaced the small finger from Carly's and said with a small smile upon her face "Thanks." She dug out the keys from her bag, exited the car and got into the van all the while as Carly watched from her car.
Sue glanced at the review mirror as she saw Carly stop on the door stoop and swallow worriedly before entering her house, ready to face angry parents.
She pulled the van behind Axl's car at the kerb, exited and on autopilot, locked up and made her way up towards the house. Before Sue would take the house keys out of her bag, the door opened and a dressing gown clad Frankie stood there, with pyjama-clad Mike behind her with an exhausted and relieved face. Frankie asked rapidly "Where were you? Why didn't you call? You missed your curfew last night; I almost had to ring the hospital to check to see if you were there. Oh, I would expect this from Axl, but not you." Frankie ranted.
She winced then spoke "Mom. Mom. MOM!" she shouted the last crankily.
Frankie instantly stopped ranting with a surprised look on her face.
Sue then reeled off the answers to Frankie's rapid-fire questions. "I was at Carly's last night; I had to console her she broke up with Jason. My phone was turned off and I forgot to turn it back on. And I'm not like Axl, I just forgot the curfew time okay?" she finished snappishly. She spun and stalked towards the hallway, leaving Frankie to stand there, gaping wordlessly at her, with Mike giving Frankie a pointed look.
Once she arrived at her room and closed the door behind her. She leant against the door for a minute, and then as the event of the night sunk in, she sank down to the floor, still leaning against the door, sobbing heavily.
"Oh god, what did I do?" she wailed.