After a few days, Gabriella was still in the hospital, Troy was still recovering from his concussion but he was still okay. Gabriella was holding Baby Avery in his arms. Troy smiled, "Can I hold him Brie?"

Gabriella smiles, "Of course." she places the infant in Troy's arms, and Troy held him close, "He's so tiny." Gabriella smiled, "You think we can do this?" Troy looks at her, pecking her lips, "I know we can."

Then the doctor comes in, "Gabriella, we need to get baby Avery ready." she raises a brow, "Ready?" "For the adoption, his adopted parents are on the way to get him." Gabriella looks at Troy, "Troy...what is he talking about?"

"I have no idea." Troy moves to stand in front of her, handing Avery to her; she holds him tight but gently against her chest. "Doctor..." he looks at the doctors ID tag, "Baker, look...me and Gabriella, we didn't sign any papers-" "Uh.." Dr. Baker says, rifling through a couple papers before he pulls up a form.

"This was on my desk...it has both yours and Miss Montez' signature on it. See for yourself." Troy takes it from him, his eyes narrowing at what he saw.

His name next to Gabriella's...clear as day. He looks up, "we didn't sign this." "None the less," Dr. Baker says, "we need to get Avery ready-" "Like hell!" Troy says, "you're not taking our son!"

Dr. Baker looks at him, "Troy this has to be done-" "No it doesn't.. your not taking our son! that's final! I didn't sign these damn papers! Gabriella didn't sign them! so he's not going anywhere except home with me! where he belongs!" Troy throws rips the papers in half and then again, and throws them in the air.

Gabriella's eyes went wide, The hurt and anger never leaving Troy's eyes. Dr. Baker just looks at him, "I'm sorry Mister Bolton..." and he walks out the door.

Gabriella looks at Troy, "Troy-" "He's not getting taken away from us Gabriella.. he's ours." Gabriella looks at him, "What are we going to do? Who would sign the papers?"

Could he think of no one? No, he can think of just one person. "I have a hunch..." and he will be tasting that poor bastards blood if his hunch is right, Gabriella holds Avery tight in her arms. "Troy..please, I don't want to lose either of you.."

He leans down, kissing her forehead gently and then Avery's before looking into her brown eyes. "I will be right back. I promise. If not, I'll see you both tonight."

Before she can utter a protest, Troy turns and walks out the door, looking for the one man he knows is dubious, dark, evil and just a plain old asshole to do this. "You!" His father.

Jack turned to him down the hall. Troy begans to approach him, "Troy-" "Give me one damn good reason to not pound your face in right now." Jack looked at his son, "Troy..I did this for your own good-" "No! You did this for your own good!"

Jack sighed, "Troy, this baby was a mistake, especially with a knight! Troy are you crazy! Your a wildcat and your a father to knight baby?! It's sick!"

Troy shoves his father back, and before Jack could think to get up Troy was on him. His fists making contact with his jaw in a flash of flesh coloured madness.

"He's my son! Mine and Gabriella's!" Troy yells, grabbing his father by the shirt, "He will never be a mistake! When will you just grow up?!" "When you start realizing how sick you're being!" Jack yells, rolling over so fast that it's a blur and next thing Troy knows is that Jack had dug into his back pocket and pulled out a pocketknife.

Putting it to his throat. "I am your father Troy..." Jack growls, holding the knife to his son's throat. "You will obey. Me." "Fuck. You." Troy spits.

Jack growls, pressing the blade of the knife to Troy's throat, and Troy just glares at him. Daring him to bring that blade deep into his throat that it kills him. "Do it!" Troy yells, "You want to kill me dad? Just do it!"

Jack breathes heavily, his hand that holds the knife is shaking, and three doctors pull him up. Troy gets to his feet by himself.

"You're pathetic dad...now just stay out of my life. Gabriella's life. And my son's-" That did it, with a loud grunting yell, Jack runs at Troy, ramming the knife into Troy's side. Making him go down.

The nurses rushed over to Troy helping him up. The cops coming over and pulling Jack up and away making sure he was away from Troy.

Troy held his side, squeezing his eyes shut tightly, The nurses rushed him into the surgery room to work on him quickly.

Gabriella was putting Avery in his baby bed next to hers as she was packing her things to leave. Then her parents walked in. Gabriella turned to them, "Hey Mom. Dad." Her father wrapped his arms around her, "Baby something happened."

Gabriella looked at him, "What.." Her father sighed, Gabriella went to her mother, "Momma, Daddy's scaring me, what's going on-" "It's about Troy-" "Troy? what about him? is he okay? where is he?"

Her mother sighed, "He's fine.. He's just him and his father got into it and some stuff happened-" "What kind of stuff."

Timothy sighed, "He was stabbed-" "Stabbed! Where the hell is he? is he okay?" "He's fine.. he's in a room-" "I need to see him.." Her mother nodded, "Follow me."

Gabriella followed behind her mother going down the hallway to the elavator. As they got inside, her mother pushed the button and it moved up.

The elavator dinged, and the door opened and Veronica held Gabriella close and walking to the 3rd door on the left.

"This is his room? you wanna go in there alone?" Gabriella nodded, "Yes please." Veronica nodded, leaving her to be alone with Troy. Gabriella opened the door, walking inside. she made her way further inside to find Troy watching TV.

He looked up at her, "Brie-" she rushed to him, and buried her face into his chest and began sobbing. "Brie..baby what's wrong-" "I was so worried about you."

He looked at her as she looked up at him, the mascara running down her cheeks, "I thought something happened to you.." she whispered.

Troy groans, "I'm...I'm fine..." he winces at the pain in his side. "I'm fine." Gabriella shakes her head, looking at him. "no..no you're not-" "It's just a scratch, Brie." "Troy! Stop passing it off as something minor! It's...it's..you got stabbed-"

"Brie, right now, this..." he points to his side, where his bandages are blood soaked, "is minor. Avery is more important." "Troy-" "I want to see him, Gabriella."

Gabriella shakes her head, "Troy your hurt-" "I want to see my son, Gabriella..please, just let me see my son." Gabriella looked at him, and then looked down at their hands connected, she bites her lip, and kisses his lips, "Alright..I'll go get him."

Troy nods as she gets up and leaves. He leans back on the pillow, shutting his eyes, the pain going away in his side.

A few minutes later, the door opens, Troy looks to see Gabriella holding Avery in her arms. He smiles as she comes closer, "He's awake.. so wanna hold him and talk to him?"

He smiles, holding out his arms, "Yeah.." Gabriella places the infant gently in Troy's waiting arms. He smiles down at him, bouncing him lightly in his arms, "Hey buddy.." Troy cooes, "hey...yeah, Daddy got into a small fight-"

"Troy.." he looks up at her, making her be quiet with his eyes. "It's not as bad as it looks, Brie. Honest." She sighs, not believing him one bit. Troy looks down at his son again, and Gabriella looks at the bandage around his waist and on his side. "Troy, your bandage...that's a lot of blood."

Troy sighs, "It's not that bad...ooh.." he closes his eyes, grasping his side and closing his eyes. Just then a fat, gray-haired doctor comes in, "Mr Bolton..." "Doc," Troy says. "I'm fine." Gabriella shakes her head, "No he's not-" "Brie, It's a scratch-" "Mr Bolton, it isn't a scratch."

They both look at him, but Troy's vision is a little blurred.

Biting her tongue, Gabriella asks, "what is it then?" The doctor sighs, looking at the clipboard and then putting up Troy's X rays, "the artery here"-he points to where two string like things are severed- "was cut clean through. We tried sewing them shut...but," he looks at Troy's bandage. "It wasn't enough. Mr Bolton needs to stay here. The more blood he loses, the longer he needs to stay."

Gabriella covers her mouth, "Is..Is he going to be okay?" The doctor sighs, "We don't know yet.. we are hoping for the best Miss Montez." Gabriella nods as she comes over to Troy's side, and grabbing his hand. The doctor leaves to give them privacy.

Gabriella looks at him, "A Scratch, huh?" Troy smirks, She sighs and says,"You need to focus on getting better so we can focus on raising this little guy." she giggled as she played with Avery's tiny hands. Troy smiles, "I'll get better. I promise."

Gabriella smiles, "About the living arrangements." Troy looks at her, Gabriella sighs, "I don't know if we officially broke up, or if we're officially back together, We just need to figure out the living arrangements and stuff for Avery.."

Troy sighs, his hand still grasping his side, "Brie...we will figure something out, okay?" Gabriella sighs, looking down at Avery, "Troy...I don't want to lose you-" "You won't." "But what if-"

"Gabriella," he says sternly, "you won't lose me...I don't mean anything by this, but..I'm not finished yet. I'm not done breathing, not until the Wildcats beat the Knights at the championship."

Gabriella looks at him, "That's another thing too Troy.. The wildcats and Knights are not going to go easy on us-" "And we'll be ready for them." Gabriella sighs, "It's not that I'm worried about.." Troy looks at her, "Then what?"

Gabriella sighs, "You want to know half of the real reason why I wanted to give Avery for adoption?" Troy looks at her, she continues, "He'd be in a better home, a safer place.."

She takes in a deep breath, "Avery is part Wildcat-part you.. part knight-part me... the will try anything Troy to destroy you.. and that means trying to get to me.. trying to get to Avery.."

"Brie," Troy says, leaning his forehead on hers, taking Avery into his arms. "They will have to get to me before they get to you or our son."

She bites her lip, looking at the picture of father and son. She wishes that she has a camera. "I just want our son safe Troy.."

Troy smiles, "And he will be." he pecks her lips, "I promise you. he's going to be alright." Gabriella smiles, and kissing him more passionately.

Gabriella pulls away, and they both look down at their beautiful son that they made together.