"Do you love him?" Sam asked.

"I honestly don't know. I did before he hurt me, but now...I just...it doesn't matter cause I can't take the chance of being hurt by him again," Marty explained.

"I think that he loves you. His entire face lit up when you walked into the office," Sam pointed out.

"Yeah I know, but it would never work out between us. There's just too much pain in our past and even if I could forgive him completely, he's never going to forgive himself."

"Is someone calling your name?" Sam asked as she heard faint shouts coming from outside.

"Shit," Marty swore under her breath as she heard him calling her name.

XOXOXO

"Marty!" He shouted over and over again as he neared the apartment complex. She was here he could sense it.

He climbed the steps and banged on the door as he shouted her name.

"Patrick, what the hell are you doing here?" Marty asked as she opened the door.

"I came to bring you home. I'm sorry that I hurt you, but it will never happen again. Please come home with me so that I can make it up to you."

"You can't make it up to me. You're the reason that our child is dead."

"WHAT?" Todd asked as he walked up the stairs.

"What did this asshole do to you Marty?" Todd asked as he shoved Patrick.

"It...it was an accident. I never meant for you to get hurt."

"We both know that it wasn't an accident Patrick. You've changed for the worst since you left Irene's compound. There's something ugly inside of you that you can't control...something that I can't have any part of any longer. I need you to leave or I will call the police."

"I'm not going anywhere without you," Patrick said as he roughly grabbed her wrist.

"Don't touch her ever again," Todd said as he roughly grabbed Patrick's other wrist and squeezed until he could hear the bones breaking.

Patrick let go of Marty's wrists as he cried out in pain. "This isn't over Margaret. I will never give up on you and I will be back," Patrick said as he walked down the stairs and drove away.

"Let's get back in the apartment," Sam said as she shuddered.

"What did he do to you? I want every single detail and I want it now," Todd seethed as he followed Marty and Sam inside of their apartment.

XOXOXO

"What did he do to you?" Todd asked again after a couple minutes of silence.

"It doesn't matter Todd, it's over with," Marty said.

"It matters to me. How did you lose your child?" He asked Marty.

"Patrick, he got drunk and we got into an argument. He beat me, I begged him to stop, but he couldn't stop. I tried to get away from him and I slipped on the stairs and fell. I had a miscarriage...I lost our little girl," Marty explained as tears streamed down her face.

"That bastard, I'm going to push him down the stairs and see how he likes it," Todd grumbled.

"Just let it go," Marty pleaded.

"I'm so sorry that you lost your child, I know what it feels like to lose a child. It's the worst thing that anybody could ever go through," Sam stated as she wrapped her arms around Marty.

"What if you could have another child? Would that help to ease the pain that you're going through?" He asked Marty and Sam.

"I think that it would help a little bit, but it's pointless...Jason left me for Elizabeth."

"Patrick and I are through," Marty stated.

"Thank god for that, but you don't need that hairy ape for this and Sam, you're better off without that emotionally stunted killer. I could make it up to you both by doing this," Todd stammered to himself.

"By doing what?" Sam asked.

"Would you and Marty consider having my baby?" Todd asked.

XOXOXO

"Would you and Marty consider having my child?" Todd asked.

"You can't be serious?" Marty questioned.

"I have never been more serious. If having another child would take away some of your pain, then why not?"

Todd, I can't be with you after..."

"Oh god Marty, no...I don't expect you to sleep with me after everything that I've put you through. You and I would obviously use artificial insemination to conceive our child," Todd clarified.

"I don't know Todd...we have such a complicated history and I'm not sure that I want to pull an innocent child into it."

"Marty, I understand your hesitation...I really do, but I promise that if we choose to conceive a child together, he or she will be your child. I will always make sure that you and them are taken care of financially, but if you don't want them to know who I am then they won't."

"Can I think about it?" Marty asked.

"Of course take as much time as you need. Sam, would you want to have my child?" Todd asked.

"Are you sure that you want to have a child with me? We barely know one another," Sam stated.

"I know enough about you to know that you would be an excellent mother," Todd stated.

"I'm not even sure if I'll be able to have another child," Sam stated.

"You'll have another child if that's what you want. I can pay the top fertility specialists to help us conceive. Are you in?" Todd asked her.

"Yes, I would like to have another baby to fill this hole in my heart."

"Then that's what I will give you," Todd said as he pulled her into a hug as he looked at Marty. He was thrilled that Sam agreed to let him help her, but he needed to find a way to convince the other woman that he had damaged to let him help her as well.

XOXOXO

A week later Todd took Sam to their first appointment with the fertility specialist.

"The first thing that we'll need to do is make sure that your swimmers are up to the task," the doctor explained as he handed Todd a plastic cup.

"While you leave a sample of your semen, I will examine Samantha and we'll go from there.

"I'll be back in a little bit," Todd promised Sam as he followed the doctor out of the room.

The doctor led him to another room that was filled with all sorts of porno magazines and movies. Todd flipped through the play boys and watched some of the porno videos as he stroked himself. Soon he had released himself into the cup.

XOXOXO

Mom, I know the truth. I know that my father is Todd Manning. How could you willingly conceive a child with your own rapist? It's disgusting...I'm a freak of nature. I hate him and I hate myself for being related to him, but most of all I hate you," the girl with blond curly hair and blue eyes said as she ran from the room.

Marty sat up in bed with sweat and tears streaming down her face. She desperately wanted another child, but she couldn't let Todd Manning help her conceive. She would have to choose another father...she only hoped that Todd would accept her decision to use another donor.

XOXOXO

"Will I be able to conceive?" Sam asked the doctor has he finished examining her.

"I'm not going to lie to you. From what I can see, it will be very difficult for you to conceive."

"So I won't be able to have another baby," Sam questioned as her eyes clouded with tears.

"It will be difficult, but it's not impossible. I want you to begin taking these fertility medications as soon as possible and we will schedule the first implantation when you ovulate next," the doctor explained.

"What did the doctor say?" Todd asked as Sam walked out into the hallway.

"I'm going to need to take these fertility medications and we're going to proceed with the implantation when I'm ovulating, but the doctor warned me that it will be very difficult for me to conceive another child," Sam explained.

"I promise that I will never give up until you are holding our baby in your arms," Todd whispered as he pulled her into a hug.

XOXOXO

Marty was looking through her list of potential donors when she heard the keys in the door.

"How did the appointment go?" Marty asked.

"It went as well as can be expected. The doctors said that it may be difficult for me to conceive," Sam explained.

"What the hell do the doctor's know? We're going to conceive Sam. I have amazing sperm," Todd stated as he looked at Marty. "So have you given any more thought to my offer?" Todd asked.

"I have...it's very generous of you to offer to help me have a child, but I can't accept," Marty stated as she looked back down at the forms of possible donors.

"I'll give you two some privacy," Sam said as she headed to her room.

"I thought that you wanted to have another child," Todd said as he tried to keep his disappointment from showing.

"I do...it just can't be with you. I've decided to use another donor," Marty explained.

"What do these bastard's have that I don't have?"

"Todd, I don't have a complicated history with these men the way that I do with you. I can't have a child with my rapist, no matter how much you have changed. It wouldn't be fair to anybody involved."

"That's complete shit Marty. We wouldn't even have to tell our child that I'm the father. Nobody would have to know."

"The truth has a way of coming out and that's not the point. You hurt me Todd and I just can't have a kid with you, especially when I know that our complicated history would hurt them. I know that you want to help but you just can't," Marty stated as she grabbed her papers and headed into her room.

"That's what you think Marty," Todd muttered under his breath as he left slamming the door behind him.