Entering the apartment, his arms wrapped around her waist, keeping her close, she sighed as she slowly moved away and walked towards the couch, collapsing onto the piece of furniture as she shut her eyes and heard Rick shut the apartment door. Staring at his wife from the front door, he sighed as he noticed how her hands were still resting on stomach, tears falling down her cheeks even when her eyes were shut, his heart breaking as he noticed the obvious pain she was in when she sat up and looked at him.
"I'm going to go and change, I want my pyjamas" she whispered, her voice weak in comparison to the normal strength that she held in her voice when she was chasing criminals or shouting at him because he was doing something stupid as he walked over to help her off the couch, Kate shaking her head as she looked at him. "I don't need your help Rick, I can do it myself, I'm not ill" she warned, walking towards the stairs slower than he'd ever seen her do it before. Sitting on the arm of the couch for a while, he waited till he heard the door shut before he went upstairs, hating himself for making her feel weak but needing to be close, just in case something happened and she needed him to be there for her. Hearing her burst into tears, he slowly opened the door to see her holding the bear that her father had brought to the house only a few weeks before while sat on the end of their bed. The bear was old and she had explained that her mother had bought it for her when she was a baby and she wanted their baby to have it because it meant that her mom was close by. "You never listen do you?" she mumbled, Rick smiling as he walked over and sat beside her, taking hold of her hand quickly.
"I'm not going to stay away when I know that you need me, even if you won't admit it to anyone and anyway I don't like doing what I'm told" he whispered, pressing a kiss against her cheek as she continued to look down at the bear in her hands. "We'll try again, I promise" he commented, holding her close to him as she moved closer and allowed him to wrap his arms around her and keep her close, protecting her from everything in the only way he knew how. "We will have a baby Kate".
"What if I can't Rick? I've lost two babies already and I'm not exactly young am I, it's not going to be long until there's no chance at all?" she sobbed, her head resting against his chest as her hands continued to cling onto the children's toy that meant so much to her. "I want a baby Rick, I want us to have a baby together" she mumbled, Rick staring at her as he ran his fingers through her hair.
"We're going to have a baby Kate, I won't stop until we have a baby in our arms" he insisted, Kate looking up at him as he touched her cheek, bringing her close to him as she pressed a kiss against his lips as she groaned. Hearing the doorbell ring downstairs, he groaned as she stared at him, quickly clutching onto his hand as he sighed. "I'll go and see who that is while you get in your pyjamas, you can relax then" he smiled, Kate nodding quickly as she watched him leave the room.
Opening the front door he sighed as he saw Lanie standing there, smiling at him as she quickly entered the apartment and looked around, noticing how silent it was; worry immediately filling her veins as she turned again to see the exhaustion that was covering his face but also the fact he was wearing the same clothes he'd been wearing the last time she'd seen him.
"Rick what's going on?" she asked quickly as the bedroom door opened and Kate appeared at the top of the stairs, dressed in her pyjamas, her brown hair tied back as she continued to cling onto the bear that was still in her hands. "Kate what's happened?" she asked, staring at her friend who bit into her lip and slowly disappeared back into their bedroom. Turning back around to look at the man who was resting against the wall, she slowly approached him, confusion covering her face as she watched tears run down the normally strong man's face. "Rick?" she asked again, the worry clear in her voice as she watched the stream of tears that were covering his cheeks before he fell down the wall and sat on the floor.
"Lanie, could you please go away for the moment? I promise I'll tell you soon I just need to discuss it with Kate so it might be a couple of days before we're ready to tell everyone what's happened" he explained, Lanie quickly reaching for his hand causing the man to look up at her slowly as she knelt down beside him. Feeling the tears run down his cheek again, he groaned as Lanie quickly wrapped her arms around his neck and held him for a while, Rick staring at her slowly. "We had a son Lanie, we had a little boy and we lost him, we lost our little boy before he was even born" he admitted, Lanie holding him close as she felt a tear run down her own cheek, devastated for her two friends who she now knew were in complete mourning for the child they'd lost.