It seemed that recently, all Spencer Grey had was terrible luck.
To shorten the story:
Spencer's late father, Alec Grey, murdered her mother, Sybil Montgomery-Grey, upon discovering that he was not Spencer's biological father. To make matters worse, her mother's murder investigation solved a cold case involving the murder of one of Spencer's close friends. Further into the case Spencer's paternal DNA revealed to be Patrick Doyle Jr. Which is how Spencer ended up living with Maura Isle's…her sister.
It had been 1 month since Spencer had moved in. To Maura'a surprise, Spencer was no trouble at all. She seemed to be coping quite well considering the circumstances.
Spencer is 17, a senior in high school. She was extremely intelligent, Jane could easily see the similarities between the two sisters. Spencer was wise beyond her years, she had this gracefulness to her, although you could see a hurt in her eyes; a feature on her face that was hard to avoid. She was slender, about 100 lbs, 5'4", her hair long just past her breast, sandy blonde a little darker than Maura's. She had bright grey eyes, they almost seemed to change color sometimes being a light blue, sometimes being a deep grey. She always looked like she had hopped out of a page of Vogue magazine, a quality both she and Maura shared.
Jane sat at her desk going over a case file when a slender figure approached her. She was surprised to look up to find Spencer. She looked a little shooken up.
"Hey." Jane said sounding surprised.
"Hey, sorry to bother." She said a bit apprehensive.
"No, no bother at all." Jane could see that Spencer was a little uncomfortable, "I was about to grab a bite to eat, care to join me?" she closed the file on her desk and grabbed her blazer from her chair.
"that would be good." Spencer responded, she gave Jane a smile but Jane was no fool, she could see that something was clearly pending in the young girl's brain, something was up.
They were silent the whole elevator ride down to the café. Angela seated them in the far corner so they could have some privacy, just as Spencer had requested.
"I needed someone to talk to." Spencer said, looking out the window avoiding Jane's eyes.
"You know you can always come to me no matter what." Jane said trying to make Spencer more comfortable. For the past few minutes they had sat there, Spencer had just played with the tea bag in her cup, staring out the window or at the cup, not looking up at jane at all. "Everything ok?"
"I'm pregnant." Spencer said, finally looking at Jane.
Jane was silent. Angela appeared with Jane's lunch order. She could sense something was off.
"Everything ok, Janey you look like you've seen a ghost." Angela said. Spencer had a doe-eyed look.
"Ma, can you give us a minute?" Jane quietly yet professionally said, realizing Spencer was on the verge of tears.
Angela took the cue and backed away.
"Sweety, look at me." Jane said in a low whisper, placing a hand on Spencer's which was now trembling a little bit. "We will work this out. Ok. We will work everything out." She stood up and pulled Spencer up off her seat, embracing her in a hug, a very necessary hug.
Angela saw the way her daughter held the teenager that stood before her. Her heart just melted. She had grown very fond of Spencer. She was very reserved for a 17 year old. Very organized and goal oriented. Even with what had happened to her, she watched that girl continue with her life, privately dealing with her grief but not allowing it to disrupt her life. She was strong.
"I don't know how to tell Maura." Spencer finally said after a few silent minutes. "I just- incase- umm-.." she paused for a second, composing herself, "incase she asks me to leave-"
"whoa, whoa." Jane interrupted, "Maura would never do that." She paused but didn't hesitate to ask, "who-"
"Toby," she said almost to a whisper. "he's coming into Boston tomorrow. I just had to tell someone, I don't know how to even wrap my mind around this."
"are you 100% sure?" Jane asked realizing with all that's been going on, Spencer could just be under too much stress.
Spencer reached into her pocket book and slid a small envelope towards Jane.
"I feel stupid, I didn't put two and two together. I have been feeling different, I just assumed I was depressed, stressed, something." Spencer said releasing her hand off the envelope
"we all make mistakes, you can't beat yourself up over this." Jane said opening the envelope. Inside was a sonogram. She wasn't a doctor but it didn't take a Phd to see the full formation of a baby on the sonogram meaning Spencer was well in to this pregnancy.
"13 weeks. 14 on Monday. So technically 13 and a half." She couldn't help but notice Janes eyes drop down to her abdomen. "I know. It's hard to believe that's in there."
Jane could see a glimmer in Spencer's eye, it was a small glimmer of happiness. Jane didn't know what to say. She knew the statistics of teenage pregnancy, but she knew that Spencer wasn't any average teen. She had been through hell and back still standing strong. She also had the Rizzoli's and Maura by her side and although they had only known her 1 month, she had made her way into their hearts.
"Promise me you'll keep this a secret." Interrupting Jane from her thoughts. "I will tell Maura, I mean I can't hide this much longer. I just would like for Toby and I to talk about this first."
Jane understood where Spencer was coming from, but she knew it wasn't going to be easy to hide this from Maura let alone her Mother.
