It has been hours, since Peter, Gamora and Drax has left with Ego to his homeworld and after Peter had unintentionally gave away Sarah's secret to Rocket and things were pretty tense.
It was almost nighttime on the planet and the two have not talked to each other at all. Rocket has been trying to busy himself with fixing the ship and Sarah has been sitting in the same spot by the trees and not moving, after she had finished crying and only got up to walk around their ship to get the feeling back into her legs for sitting after so long on the ground. Baby Groot was alternating being near the two and was really hoping that his mommy and daddy would talk to each other and not be sad anymore.
Sarah sighed as she stared at the trees in front of her with her hand on her necklace, lost in her thoughts that are filled with possible outcomes of Rocket's decision on the baby.
Would he help her with raising the baby and try to be a good father or will he break things off and leave her and take Groot with him, the thought causes Sarah to hold back a whimper and clenches her necklace, even tighter.
"I am Groot?"
Sarah looked up from her knees to see that Baby Groot was looking up at her with sad little eyes and the terran could tell that her and Rocket not talking and staying from each other is hurting him to which hurts her.
"Hey Groot."
Sarah held out her hand to the little twig, who then climbed on to it and was lifted to the woman's knee to which Groot hopped onto, before sitting on.
"Do you want another piece of candy?" Sarah says as she reached up and rubs his head with a finger with a slight smile. "Sorry, but I don't have any more."
Baby Groot shook his head and using both of his arms, he holds on tight to Sarah's hand.
"I am Groot..."
"Oh?" The terran tilted her head to the side. "No candy?" Baby Groot nods rapidly, "What do you need then?"
Baby Groot tighten his grip on the hand, "I am Groot."
Sarah frowned, before shaking her head at the little tree.
"I don't think that is a good idea, right now." She looked down at her lap, biting her lip. "Rocket wants to be left alone for awhile and I don't want to make him more angry."
Baby Groot shook his head, before pointing at the ship with his stubby little arm.
"I am Groot."
Sarah blinked at him, before following his hand and froze at the site of Rocket staring right back at her, but there was no anger on his face, it was face that she knew.
The serious look in his eyes told her, that basically said that he wanted to talk to her.
Her attention went back to Baby Groot, who started shaking, much to Sarah's worry.
"I am Groot..." He whimpered, before looking up at her with tears in his eyes to which made Sarah's heart clench.
Sarah bit her lip in thought as to how the conversation will go as her previous thoughts came back, before she shook her head to get rid of them.
After a moment of silence, Sarah sighed as she gently picked up Baby Groot from her knee and placed him on the ground, before standing up from the ground and dusting from her pants. She stood still for a moment and then slowly made her way to Rocket, who finished spraying and placed the spray gun on the ground, before he crossed his arms and watches his girlfriend coming closer to him.
As she moved closer to Rocket, Sarah glanced to the side to see that Nebula was watching them, before looking away. The young woman looked back towards her boyfriend, who was glaring at Nebula and then turned back to her as she reached him and took a seat on a piece of the ship with Baby Groot sitting by her leg.
It was silent for a few moments as nobody said anything at first, Sarah was clenching her necklace and Rocket was just staring at the ground as Baby Groot was looking between the two of them, worried if this was a bad idea.
Sighing as she saw that Rocket would not make the first move, Sarah decided to start it.
"Listen Rocket." She says, making Rocket look up from the ground. "I know that it was wrong for me to keep the pregnancy from you, but I honestly wanted to tell you. It's just..." She looked to the side, before looking back at him. "I was just so scared about what your reaction would be."
Rocket grumbled as he rubbed his face, "I get that this is a really deal, Sarah." He then gestured towards her stomach, before laying a paw on her knee. "But I wouldn't leave you alone in something like this."
"We only have been dating for four months and I honestly didn't think that I would be a mother this early, Rocket." Sarah shook her head, before leaning her head against the ship "I mean we are not even married and yet... I do think of having kids with you in the future...should we ever talk about it!" she added, hastily and raising her hands after seeing the wide-eyed look on Rocket, before she sighed "I guess it was my fear of you leaving me...that prevented me from telling you the truth sooner."
Rocket crossed his arms, "Why does Quill know?"
His girlfriend sat up straight in her seat, "Because he just happened to be flirting with a woman, who worked at the medical center on Xandar and that is how he found me as I was getting checked up." She groaned and rubbed her forehead. "I can't believe that you had to find out...from Peter of all people."
Rocket was silent after that and Sarah was wondering what was going inside of his head as he started pacing back and forth in front of her for a few minutes, muttering to himself as each minute felt like a hour, before he stopped and sighed.
He then walked over to Sarah, before climbing onto her knee and stood on it, so that he and her were looking at each other in the eye.
"Look...I am not mad..."Rocket said with the most serious tone that Sarah has ever heard coming from him. "I am flarking worried and terrified about having a baby...cause of what we and the others do." He then placed a hand on her cheek. "Hunting criminals and doing dangerous jobs for people and the units that we get...they don't even last a week and we are already have to deal with Groot." He then wrapped his arms around Sarah, who hugged him back as he nuzzled into her shoulder. "I just don't know what to think..."
Sarah gently pulled back and cradled Rocket's head in her hands, "We still have the batteries, if we can disable the tracking chips and sell them in Xandar, then we will be fine." she smiled as she combed her hand through the top of her boyfriend's head, causing him to close his eyes in content. "If we do end up having the baby, wouldn't Groot become a big brother?
Baby Groot, who was hugging Sarah's leg had perked up at this and looked up at his parents, before he smiled brightly and jumping around.
"I AM GROOT?!"
Sarah and Rocket chuckled at the little twig's excitement at the possibly being a big brother, before they glanced at each other.
Rocket sighed as he scratched his ear, "Do you really want to go through with this?"
"...Yeah" Sarah said, leaning her forehead against Rocket's own and brought him close. "...I'm sure...what about you?"
Rocket was silent as he glanced away, breaking eye contact with Sarah, who watched him think for a few moments and could help, but think to herself about what Rocket's response is gonna be.
Then her boyfriend pulled a bit away from the crushing hug that she was giving him and looked at her, right in the eye.
"Before I even make a decision...we're gonna go to the medical center on Xandar and getting you checked up again...just to make sure that you're really pregnant."
"Second times the charm." Sarah laughed and nodded, "Okay, I can agree to that."
Rocket smirked, before he leaned in and kissed her, causing Sarah to return the kiss. One of her hands came up to cover Rocket's, while her other cupped his cheek, pulling her closer to him and appling more pressure. Rocket growled in response, pressing harder in return.
Their lips moved in sync, opening and closing against each other. Waiting till she had opened her mouth again, Rocket slipped his tongue into her moist cavern, smirking at her breathless gasp. Both moaned softly as their tongues dueled for dominance. Rocket won and celebrated, leaving Sarah even more breathless than she was before.
"Sarah..." Rocket said, trying to regain his breath after he broke the heated kiss. "...keep this up and I will not hold back.."
His girlfriend's eyes widened, before they narrowed as she gave him a devious smirk. "If that is the case..." Sarah then leaned in and bit Rocket's ear, causing him to groan and curse. "...what are you waiting for?"
Rocket growled heatedly and before he could say anything, he was cut off by a whimper.
The heated spell broke as the couple looked down and were horrified to see that Baby Groot was covering his head using his hands to block the sounds and his eyes were shut that he more then likely did to ignore the heat session between the two, who forgot that they're little twig was even with them.
"Oh crap!"
Sarah quickly picked up Baby Groot, who was still whimpering and stood up, just as Rocket hopped off her leg and watched his girlfriend walk away, whispering apologies to the little twig. Rocket was pulling his fur as he was trying to think off a way to apologize to Baby Groot, like maybe buying him tons of candy or sweets and then he hears Nebula chuckles, mockingly.
"So much for watching your little friend, rodent."
Rocket sneered at this and without turning his head, he used his device to send a bolt of electricity from his weapon nearby at Nebula, who stopped laughing and started screaming in pain, causing Sarah and Baby Groot to look up from their conversation at the sound of the screams, but Rocket just turned around and walked back to the ship to continue of the repairs after he sent a small smirk to Sarah, who rolled her eyes and shook her head, smiling slightly and when her boyfriend turned around, Sarah started snickering, quietly to herself and Baby Groot looks at her confused about what she is laughing about, unaware of Rocket's predicament.
Rocket bents down to pick up the spray gun from the ground and was about to start spraying, but he then looked down to notice his problem to which he turns and sends a smoldering glare at Sarah, who was snickering at him, before she sent him a wink.
Rocket growls as he adjusts himself, before he went back to work on the ship as he tried to control his problem, since he could not take a cold shower.
