A/N:Hey guys I'm only a recent FNL adict but I've finished it all and am in love with the show,characters and is mainly just background information for you guys on the characters I've created.I hope you guys like it.
Richard Dawson was an intellectual man,he wouldn't let you know what he was thinking even if he knew you could be one of the reasons why he decided to give up his head coaching job and return to his only place where people could find out what it he was planning on doing.
The Dawsons had met in the 1980s when Richard was starting college in the prestigious Columbia University studying journalism and that he was going to use either of those in his if it went the way he wanted it to,he mainly choose Columbia because he wanted out of his town and to play had already been there for two years and only had another two was studying Spanish and Portugese and wanted to be a teacher.
She had been working in the café on campus to help her parents pay for college when he bumped into her and knocked the cups she was carrying onto the ground and became a blubbering mess when they smashed to pieces before he could say or do anything to stop it from continuously apologised and promised he'd make it up to her.
They went on a date or two and they just knew it was meant to biggest cliché in the world had happened but they were in love after only a month of knowing each relationship was never rushed dated for several years and finished college before they even moved in took another two years for Richard to propose to her and another three before they eventually wed,it wasn't that easy for them to afford everything with Richard not pursuing his career in journalism but instead opting for a career in the adventurous world of coaching High School football.
Carol got her teaching job at the school Richard was the assistant coach at and was the best Spanish teacher that school ever around children the majority of the time helped them both realise that they wanted a family of their so they tried,and tried,and tried and they succeeded when they brought into the world their beautiful and amazing son Ryan Thomas Dawson.
Ryan was a handful for the first while,keeping his parents up for days with his crying and somewhat gifted ability to make his parents argue over the smallest things.
Things eventually settled down when Ryan was two and started wanting to go out and make better friend than a brother he could boss asked Santa Claus for a brother that year but was disappointed when his parents showed him the red headed bundle that was wrapped in pink and looked slightly purple the day they went to the hospital because his mother had pee'd on the floor.
He didn't like her for the first few months she lived in his home,he even tried to swap her for his friends action figure but his mother wouldn't let Kate Dawson was a member of their family and thats the way it would be from then ran away that to stay in his best friend's house next door to their two story only lasted for twenty minutes but it still returned to his own home after Cody's sister Polly told him he should be happy he has a little sister instead of a monster for a brother who'd only break his things.
He said he was sorry for running away and that Leah was his new best decided to be the best brother any little sister could ask for.
The time flew by for Richard and them go from babies to kids to teenagers felt like a month but was actually years of listening to the two of them moan and bicker with each other and see a bunch of firsts brought home his first girlfriend when he was fifteen and she didn't even last a year old Leah had a 'talk' with was more like an interrogation instead of a talk,she quizzed her about the members of N Sync and what she wanted to do with her life along with her intentions for her failed miserably when the only members she could name were Justin and also said she preferred the Backstreet Boys which was a no no in Leah's opinion.
They went through their first move when Leah was fourteen and Ryan was dad had been offered a head coaching job at the top high school in New liked Texan accent made him sound like he was serious nearly all of the kids had to say goodbye to their friends,pack up the only home they'd ever known and go make new friends,join new clubs,find a new hangout,get Ryan on the football team and make sure there was at least a girls soccer team for thought he was blessed with two kids who loved sports.
Everything was settled into school,made friends with some nice felt good about the team too,the Spartans were doing good so far from what he was seeing in got a job teaching Spanish at the school and Ryan got on the was a Sophmore now and one of few who made the Varsity played second string wide receiver so he was basically the back up but that didn't first string wide receiver was in his Senior year so he'd get more plays in his Junior however,was causing a bit of trouble even though she was only in 8th grade.
At first she'd made friends with the girls on the soccer team but was then introduced to the cheerleaders who tried to get her to ditch soccer and join the listened to them and joined the squad and left the dad was angry,said something about giving up sports just to dance in front of a bunch football players was a stupid idea.
"You dont understand dad!I want to fit in!I want to be you hadn't moved us I'd still have Sarah and Josie!"She'd screamed at him the night they had that argument.
Being on the squad meant boys gawking at her which led to her noticing boys which led to stress for not only Richard and Carol,but Ryan sister would be a freshman next year and that exposed her to the Varsity Football team who didn't care if you were the coach's daughter or not.
She went on a few dates over her final year in middle tried to tag along to make sure "nothing happens to my little sister",he made sure to put emphasis on that whenever her date arrived to pick her up.
The Spartans won the New York State Championship that even got on the field and caught a that Richard had a State Championship under his belt lots of other places were interested in had offers from schools in Arizona and Iowa to go coach there but the only state he would willingly give up his life in New York for wasnt offering anything.
Leah got her first proper boyfriend her Freshman played for the basketball team and was a made the cheer squad and they were a power one wanted to mess with except the team's groupies who followed them was no getting away from always made comments about how he was probably cheating on her or she was such a prude for being a cheerleader and a didn't understand how their comments made her felt pressured and anxious and everyone else was having sex so why shouldn't she?
She lost her virginity at age fifteen in the back seat of his car at a cliché movie drive was awkward and she didn't even know what was happening before it was lasted less than five minutes but those minutes were the worst she'd ever had in her entire life.
Word got around that that red-haired cheerleader totally lost her v card to Tom Johnson.If Tom's broken nose and arm were anything to go by Ryan was beyond pissed off.
She was told accidents happen and sometimes they're good and sometimes they're one wasn' didn't now who to talk to or what to mother would tell her father who would freak out and kill Tom,her brother would kill Tom,and all her friends were on the squad and none of them could be trusted enough to talk to about this kind of stuff.
She was weeks late to be exact and school was over for the summer so she had no choice but to go back to some of the people she'd turned her back was captain of the soccer team and probably the closest thing Leah had to a friend when she first was could be trusted.
Leah showed up at Heather's house at 3am and tried to get Heather out of bed and then tried to convince her to quietly come took about ten minutes of insistent begging but it worked and they went on a walk to the park and sat on the swings.
"I really need someone to talk to",Leah said as they sat in silence,"I don't know what to do or who to talk to and I cant trust nobody not to blab on me" she looked at Heather and seen the blonde was trying to read her face for some tiny little bit of insight into what she was going on about."When I left the team the girls were nice to me at first but then I realised they were only being don't know the true meaning of friendship and I thought I did but then I went and fucked it all up."
"Whats going on Leah because I know you didn't drag me out here just to talk about your idea of what friendship is"
Leah sighed,"You were to closest thing I had to a friend when I moved here and I messed that up and I'm genuinely sorry for that okay?You're like one of the few people I feel like I can trust and the only one I can tell about this"
Her friend grabbed her hand and dragged her up off the swing,"About what?What cant you talk to your mom about Leah." Heather asked as she moved them over to a bench by a sun was starting to slowly rise and even though the park was completely deserted she felt like they needed privacy for this conversation."Whatevers wrong I'll try my best to help you you know I will"
Leah debated whether or not tell her for a few minutes but knew she had to tell someone and here was someone who would listen and hopefully not judge her.
"I think I might be pregnant"
"Pregnant?" Heather whispered in disbelief,"How?"
"You know how Heather" Leah said as she looked at her shoe covered feet in shame.
Heather looked at the girl in front of looked pale and tired,like she hadn't slept in probably hadn't if this has been bothering her.
"Who?"
Leah laughed at that," Oh come on Heather like you haven't heard the redhead cheerleader slept with the basketball star or hes probably given her aids or something you know because he gets around a lot well he gave me something alright"
They talked for another while and decided they should find out for sure if she was pregnant. The pharmacy didn't open til 8am so they opted to walk to the 24 hour gas station and Heather went and bought a bottle of water and five tests.
"How hygienic is this I'm gonna find out if I'm going to be a teenage mother in the bathroom at a gas station"Leah sarcastically remarked before downing the water and sitting on the toilet.
"Shut up and just pee on the stupid stick its cramped in here"Heather said as she leaned against the door to make sure no one could come in.
"You didn't have to come in here you could've waited outside"Leah moaned as she done as she was told.
The tests all came back positive.
"You have options Leah!We can talk to those ladies at the clinic and they can give us all the info you need!"Heather told her as she consoled the sobbing girl in the toilet as someone knocked on the door and asked them to hurry up their lesbian session so they could go.
Thats what they did a few days later when she got her head sorted out and Heather kept showing up at her parents seemed happy she was making friends again with the better half of the girls in town.
The women at the clinic seemed a bit suspicious when a fifteen year old and a sixteen year old walked in and sat down but they didn't say asked her to fill out a form and wait for her name to be called.
She was eventually called and made Heather come with woman in the room introduced herself as Sharon and told her she'd help her with whatever she started off by running a test to properly confirm what they knew was true and then they sat and had a chat.
"You've really got three main options to choose from Leah.I shouldn't be talking to you without a parent or guardian but rules are made to broken right" she smiled at the girl that looked frightened and terrified for her life,"the one girls in your situation usually go for is a termination and if you want to go for that option as well we can organise it for you but you'll need a parent to come with you for that"
"No thats not an option I wouldn't be able to live with myself" Leah told her.
"Ok theres the options where you can have the baby and keep it,we'll be able to sort out hospital appointments for you, or you could have the baby and give him or her to one of those couples who cant conceive,we could set you up with an adoption agency"
It was a lot to she be able to go through the whole process of having the baby and giving it away without becoming emotionally attached?Probably she be able to have a child and raise it whilst she was still growing up herself?Probably not.
"I'm going to think about everything and talk to my parents before I decide anything" she told her and her and Heather left not too long after that.
It took her a week before she got the courage to face had gone out to the movies with the guys from the team and her parents were both in the house so she staged an them sit down and listen to her tell them everything that happened.
They were were furious beyond belief but cooled down after a while of shouting at her about how stupid she was,that they couldnt believe their daughter could do something so idiotic and get herself into a situation like this.
Her mother sat down on the couch beside her and put her arm around her and kissed her on the forehead."What do you want to do honey?"
Thats when she broke cried and cried as her parents held her and told her everything would be 'd fix didn't need to worry.
"I'm going to keep it"She choked through told her they'd support fifteen year old was going to be a mother but they would support her.
Ryan threw a fit when he found threatened to go over to Tom's and kill him,beat the shit out of his car or break his window.
"How are meant you to go to college if you have a kid Leah!"He shouted at her as he paced around the room.
"We'll worry about that when the time comes son"Richard told Ryan.
That day a weight was lifted off her shoulders and she could breathe again.
She wanted a change of scenery away from the town that would judge of the state that would bring up memories and not make her feel at home even though it was the only one she'd ever known.
"I'll make a few phone calls,see whats going on" Her father said before disappearing into his office with the was a few hours ago and Leah and Carol had already been to see a doctor and picked up dinner and he still hadnt come was six weeks pregnant.
Richard came out of his cave at around 9pm and got everyone to gather around the table.
"Dad what are we gonna do I still have to think about football"Ryan inquired as he got comfy in his was a tall boy,6"1 to be exact and with his blonde hair and brown eyes he was quite popular with the ladies.
"I why I've spent the last five hours in there trying to find a place thats willing to take on both me and your mother" he told them and before Ryan could butt in again like he normally does he continued,"theres an opening for an assistant coach job at a high school in 're willing to take on your mother as a Spanish teacher because the old one just retired"He looked at them to see if he could tell what they were thinking.
Carol seemed daughter could get what she wanted and she still had a could work with that.
Leah was looking a bit cautious.Texas?Wasn't that all the way down in football mad territory?I suppose that could work for Ryan and was a place where towns were close knit so she could bring up her child and hopefully make some friends and still go to school.
Ryan however wasnt buying it at first."Assistant coach?You're going to go from giving the orders to being someone's lap not you dad"
"I know the new head and him go way back"Richard explained.
"Hows the team ranked?Am I going to have a shot at playing for college if I go there"he shot back.
Richard just grinned at his son because he knew he'd win him over with this."Best in the damn state son. You'll be playing for Notre Dame if we do good there this year"
That was was sold the house and said goodbye to everyone they hadnt gossiped about the baby and promised she packed up and headed off to their new home.
A nice little one story home with three bedrooms in the town her father forgot to mention he knew very were going to be living where Richard grew up,go to school where he to school,meet people he knew growing up.
They were living in Dillon Texas.