A/N: Okay, as many of you know I've really been putting out several chapters, so I need to get one out for this story to. I hope you like it.
A young woman was waiting in a doctor's office and she was clearly nervous. It was all she could do to keep herself from pacing.
"What could be takin' him so long?" she whispered to herself. Almost in response to her answer the doctor entered the room. He had a smile on his face and looked pleased.
"Have a seat Sarah," he told her. She almost didn't comply but she sat down anyway.
Finally she couldn't contain herself anymore. "What is it Doctor?" she asked. "There's something wrong with me ain't there?" Her nerves had her completely unaware to the fact that he was smiling.
He laughed at her response and then opened the folder in his hand. "No, Sarah nothing is wrong with you," he told her in a calm voice.
"How can there not be? I've been getting sick and…" the doctor cut her off by raising her hand.
"Calm down Sarah," he told her. "Things like that are completely normal for someone who is pregnant."
"Wait, what? Pregnant?" was all she was able to get out in her shock.
"Yes, pregnant, as in with child. I'm sure you know the term," he told her. He wasn't being rude; he was just trying to get her to calm down.
Sarah blinked a few times, as she absorbed this information. "I'm goin' to have a baby?" she asked as if to confirm what he was saying.
"Yes, you are."
Slowly, her shocked expression turned into one of pure joy, she couldn't believe this was happening.
"Congratulations are in order I believe," the doctor said. She realized that he was smiling now and it only caused her to smile even more.
"Thank you doctor," she told him.
"Now I know you probably want to go home and write your husband about the good news, so I'll let you go. About a month from now you'll need a checkup but that's all," he told her.
Sarah, still smiling, nodded and then stood up to leave. Before she left she looked at the doctor and said, "Thank you."
He just shrugged and said, "Don't think me. I didn't do anything other than give you the news, go thank your husband."
"I'll just do that," she said and then left. As she walked out of the building she couldn't stop thinking about what was happening. She had only just gotten married before her husband had been shipped overseas. In fact it was why they had gotten married so soon. Her and her husband had known one another for a long time, they had grown up together and once they became adults their friendship had turned into much more. When he had been drafted, they decided to get married. It was only a little under a month and then he had to leave, but during that time Sarah was the happiest she could have been. However, after he left it had been rough. His family was taking care of her but it didn't make the loneliness go away. So far she had just lived off of his letters, but now she had so much more to live for.
Sarah touched her stomach when she thought about this. Nothing was showing yet but she knew there soon would be. She could only hope that her husband would be home by then.
"What's goin' on?" asked a young man, when she finally got to the truck.
She smiled at him and then gave a hug. "Andrew, you are goin' to be an uncle!" she practically yelled out in joy.
"Gonna be a what?!" he asked rhetorically.
"An uncle!" she told him again.
Now he was smiling as well and hugged her. "That's fantastic Sarah!" he told her.
"Common, I wanna get home and tell your parents the news, and then I wanna write your brother," she said.
"Yes Ma'am," he said, still smiling and then got into the truck. She got into it as well.
After a moment he glanced at her and then asked, "What do ya' think it is?"
"Well really I dunno," she said. Then she leaned her head back and closed her eyes, "and I don't really care as long as it's happy, healthy, and gets to spend lots of time with its daddy.
"Yea'," he said and then smirked. "I bet it'll be a girl."
Sarah looked at him and asked, "Why do you think that?"
"I dunno," he said and smirked even more, "I just think it would be funny to see my brother's face when a whole bunch o' boys are chasin' after her."
This caused both of them to start laughing and Sarah shook her head slightly. "Well seriously, think about it," he said. "He's overprotective. He 'bout had a fit anytime our sis even talked to a boy, I won't even mention how he got when you talked to one."
Sarah laughed even harder before she said, "That ain't bein' overprotective, that's bein' jealous."
"True but I know that if another man came around you now, he'd break their arms if someone didn't hold him down," Andrew told her, grinning. "That is bein' overprotective."
"Alright! I give, I married a very overprotective man but I love 'em anyway," she said.
"Well that's good cause I don't think you'd have a say in the matter now," Andrew teased.
"Fine with me," Sarah said.
As they finished their friendly banter, Andrew pulled into their drive.
"Looks like they're already waitin' for us," Andrew commented when he saw that his parents and sister were outside.
"Yea' it does," she said but as they came to a stop, she realized that something wasn't right. Their expressions looked like they were upset and she knew it wasn't because of them being worried about her. Deep down, Sarah knew that something was truly wrong.
"What's goin' on?" she asked them as she got out of the truck.
"Sarah come here and sit down, you to Andrew," said Andrew's father. She did as she was told, and didn't like the fact that she was being told to have a seat for the second time that day. She knew this time wouldn't bring good news.
"There's no easy way to say it, so I'm just gonna say it," he told her, as he handed her a letter. "This was delivered today." He paused and took a breath of air before he continued. "Sarah, Daniel was killed over there."
Sarah shook her head, she could already tell she was about to start crying. "No…no that can't be right. It can't," she said shakily. "That can't, it can't happen."
"Sarah I know this is hard, we are all hurting to…" her father-in-law tried to say.
"It just can't happen, not after today. I'm…I'm pregnant. Daniel has to be here, he has to be here for his baby!" she said as she started to cry. Daniel's mother wrapped her arms around her and tried to comfort her. However, there was nothing that could be done. Daniel was dead and there was nothing that Sarah Jackson could do to bring him back. She would have to live without her husband, and their daughter would have to live without ever knowing her father.
A/N: Okay, I think I'm going to go cry now! I didn't realize how sad this chapter was going to end up being. I'm even asking myself how I could possibly be so cruel, and then I remember why I'm writing this in the first place. It's because I want to show how much other people suffered, and because I want to show what could have happened and did happen to other people…okay, that doesn't make me feel any better. Yup I'm going to go cry. I hope you all don't hate me for writing it like this and I will warn you, it won't get any better in the other chapters.
