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CATASTROPHE & THE CURE

CHAPTER 9:

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Month Later

"Now mums-to-be should be sitting comfortably, against their partners with a pillow for support," the instructor told them as she wandered about the room amongst the other couples. "But before we start why don't we go around and introduce ourselves, we have one new couple"

After three couples introduced themselves it was Alison and Emily's turn "Hi I'm Alison and this is my wife Emily"

"And…" The annoying instructor pushed for Alison to continue

"Well we're having a boy, and I am 36 weeks pregnant" She added placing her hand over her protruding bump.

"Lovely, As you can see here, we have many different types of families here," she said speaking to the entire class.

"I feel like I'm in an AA meeting" Emily whispered against Alison's ear, whom had to bite her lip to prevent herself from laughing. "Let's hope Peanut gets here early so we don't have to come back again," she said as the instructor told them to change positions.

"Oh no we're not coming back here" Alison said shaking her head, "Not even if it takes another four weeks for him to show up". Emily laughed out loud this time.

"I'm sorry.. is something amusing to you?" The instructor asked sounding offended. The other couples around the class gave them strange looks. Clearly none of them had a sense of humour.

"Umh no I'm sorry" Alison apologized trying her best to hide the smile that was plastered across her face.

Thankfully for both of them the tension was broken when three women walked through the door, "Sorry we're late"

"Oh it's okay Dr. Torres we're just getting started," The instructor smiled

"Oh thank god, somebody sane has joined our group," Emily sighed looking over seeing Dr Robbins,

"Oh hey you guys I didn't know you came to this birthing classes" Arizona greeted them as the three of them sat down next to Emily.

"We've avoided it for as long as we could. We're not much for this type of thing." Alison admitted adjusting herself against the pillow in her wife's hands.

"Oh believe me, you'll be happy you came when you're in labor" The brunette next to Arizona replied "I'm Callie by the way"

"Nice to finally meet you Callie, Dr Robbins has told us a lot about you & your daughter Sofia," Emily said "We didn't know you were expecting again?"

"Well it's pretty new and we we're waiting for the first trimester to be over" Arizona explained

"They've been killing me with kindness since I took the pregnancy test," the third woman added. "I'm Rita," she said extending her hand to Alison and Emily.

"Nice to meet you," they said in unison, "I'm Alison and this is my wife Emily" The blonde added

"How far along are you?" Rita asked

"About 36 weeks" Alison smiled

"Oh so you're almost there"

"God I wish" Alison sighed

"But I heard that around 36 weeks babies are ready to come out, aren't they Arizona?" Rita argued

"Well normally yeah, but this is a special case, so we want that little guy to stay in there for as long as he can don't we?" Arizona explained looking over at the blonde and the brunette.

"We do" Emily said squeezing her wife's hand.

"I'm sorry but did you pay for this class or not!" The instructor interrupted looking more cross than before.

The five women were silent, "Yes, but this isn't supposed to be so uptight, have some fun for crying out loud," Callie sniggered.

The other four laughed, "I think the 5 of you should leave my class. Giving birth is no joke."

"Lighten up lady." Alison said "Em help me up," The brunette stood up helping her wife to her feet following Callie, Arizona & Rita out the door.

"So now that we've been kicked out how about we go get some lunch?" Arizona suggested.

"Sure we'd love to" Alison said "Wouldn't we Em?"

"Yeah of course, as long as it's not Thai food," Emily assured before her phone started ringing the hospital's name popping up.

"Umh this is work I have to take it" Emily excused herself

"Emily Fields" She picked up the phone

"Sorry to call you, but a patient has requested that she see you. A...Maya St. Germain." The woman said slowly probably looking at the paperwork.

"Um sure, I'll be there as soon as I can," she said hanging up, "Ali, I'm sorry to do this to you again but I have to go. Duty calls,". Alison pecked her wife on the lips.

"It's okay, I'm sure it's important" She assured, before she walked away with Arizona, Callie and Rita.

-x-

"You're here" Hanna exclaimed a little too loudly as she saw Spencer walk towards their table. Sitting next to Aria

"What took you so long?" Hanna asked

"Marion wouldn't let me go at daycare, she had a tantrum and wouldn't stop crying. What's with the text message though. 'Come to lunch, I've got big news' all about?"

"Order a drink first, you'll both need it." The blonde told her friends shoving the wine list in their faces.

"Besides where are Alison and Emily?" Spencer inquired

"Yeah we never get together without them," The smaller brunette added. "And the last few time's Emily has left suddenly"

"Two words...Maya St. Germain."

Spencer and Aria exchanged confused looks. "What?"

"Han she's dead"

"Apparently not. She was one of the hostages in the boathouse. Seriously Spence don't you watch the news?"

"Do you?" Spencer spat irritably

"I'm not kidding, Emily told me!"

"Does Ali know about this?"

"No, Emily made me promise not to tell her" Hanna sighed

"Well someone should tell her," Aria added swirling her wine glass in her hand.

"We can't I promised, I'm not supposed to tell you either" Hanna argued

"Wait is she having an affair?" Spencer asked. Aria gasped.

"Don't be stupid! Emily would never!" Hanna argued back.

"We all thought our parents wouldn't cheat on each other and look what happened to them," Spencer reminded them

"Exactly, besides why wouldn't she tell Ali?!"

"I don't know, but I really don't think Em would do something like that, we've seen them together they really love each other"

"Maybe we should ask Emily about all this instead of jumping at each other's throats," Aria suggested as they paid for their bill.

"I'll call Ali see where they are" Spencer agreed dialing Alison's phone as she stood up from the table, appearing a couple of minutes later, "Guess what" the brunette asked standing next to her friends.

"What?"

"Emily bailed on the birthing classes and lunch, because she had to go to work" Spencer informed them

"Ok now I'm worried, Emily doesn't leave Alison's side for anything these days, why now?" Aria said thinking outloud.

"Because she's having an affair with Maya" Spencer concluded.

-x-

"I don't get it, I thought she was dead" Alison sighed as she sat in front of her friends, after lunch Alison had received a text from Hanna asking her to meet her at Spencer's which was where she was right now.

"Yeah well, like it or not she's alive and she's here to stay. She's been transferred to Welby for psych evaluation,"

"Why wouldn't Emily tell me?" Alison said "and how do you know so much Han?"

Hanna shy-ed away not saying anything else.

"How long have you known?!" Alison asked a little to harshly being able to read her friend's face.

"Ok fine, I've known for a month! Alright! Emily made me swear not to tell you so you're lucky I'm telling you anything,".

"Oh thanks for giving a chance" Alison snapped "is there any way I can earn the honor of knowing if my wife is cheating on me?!" She added even more harshly.

"Ali you know as well as the rest of us Emily wouldn't even look at another woman let alone anything else." Spencer soothed trying to calm down her clearly distressed pregnant friend.

"Then why wouldn't she tell me? Why would she spend a month sneaking around huh?" Alison inquired.

"Maybe she has her reasons, just give her the chance to tell you herself before you jump to conclusions, you tend to overreact to things," Hanna argued which made both Aria and Spencer look at her.

"I'm sure that's not what Hanna meant" Aria stated "What we're trying to say is just that maybe you should talk to Emily, see what's really going on" she added.

"Damn straight I will." The blonde answered, a vein in her head about to pop. As they all heard Emily pull up in the driveway. "I think you should all leave" Alison said waddling off to the front door, her three friends happily obliging not wanting to get caught up in their fight.

"Hey babe, I just ran into the girls outside everything okay?" Emily smiled walking closer to her wife.

"How's Maya?" Alison asked bitterly. Emily was taken aback for a moment by her wife's question.

"...Wh-Hanna told you. Of course she did. I'll kill that girl."

"Oh no, Hana's not the one that screwed up this time. Why do you insist of keeping me at arm's length?" Alison snapped

Emily rolled her eyes walking past Alison further into the house to grab a drink, "Because! It's a sensitive case and legally I'm not allowed to release information that could-"

"So you're allowed to tell Hanna but not your wife" Alison said daringly "Emily I'm going to ask you once and I want you to be completely honest with me. Are you having an affair with Maya?"

"If you have to ask that then I don't think we have much else to say."

"Well you've proven that you're capable of doing a lot of things I didn't think you were in the last couple of months" Alison stated placing her hand protectively over her bump and Emily knew exactly what the blonde was referring to.

"You did not just say that. Don't you dare throw that in my face right now. Don't you dare. This isn't about Peanut. I'm sick of having to prove myself to you."

"Yeah well I'm sick of you lying and sneaking around" Alison screamed.

"First of all, I didn't lie, i just didn't tell you. There's a difference & second you don't tell me everything that goes on at the school either so we're both at fault here."

"How is me trying to make sure I have a job after peanut is born the same thing as sneaking around to see your ex?!" Alison shook her head furiously

"Oh don't bother pretending you don't know what I'm talking about," Emily scoffed

"I have no idea what you're talking about!" Alison defended.

"Harry!"

"Who?"

"Harry Peters, the school's new Science teacher. He's been hitting on you ever since he started there,"

"Oh god! Seriously?! You're going to try and distract me from the fact that you've been lying to me for a month saying you're going to work when you've been in the hospital visiting Maya?!" Alison screamed "Un-freaking-believable"

"I'm not visiting her by choice! It's my job!"

"Yeah I can see what a chore it is for you," Alison spat her eyes like daggers at Emily, "we're having a BABY Emily! And you're sneaking around with your ex" the blonde added furiously " Why couldn't you just tell me?!"

"Hanna didn't give me the chance!"

"YOU HAD A MONTH!" Alison argued "When were you going to tell me? When he's born?! Or on his first birthday?! Oh wait I know! How about on our anniversary?!"

Emily shifted uncomfortably on her feet getting more agitated by the minute, "When was i supposed to tell you? The time we went to another ultrasound? Before or after having sex? Or in the middle of lunch with Callie & Arizona only to end up fighting like we are now? No, I would have told you when the time was right!"

"And what would you have told me huh?!" Alison asked.

"Well I would have sat you down and told you calmly about the case & how the girls were all doing ok but there was something you needed to know,"

"What is it that I need to know exactly Emily?!" Emily flinched at the tone of her name, since Alison rarely called her by her name and not any of the several nicknames she had.

"Maya's alive & she has no-one else, her parents are gone who knows where, we've tried contacting them & none of her friends are at any of the previous addresses," she explained.

"So you're doing this for all of the girls you found?" Alison asked and Emily stared back at her silently "That's what I thought"

"She means nothing to me. Not now, 7 years ago maybe but not now, how can she? It's you Alison. It's always been you and that's not going to change just because she's back."

"You didn't stop loving her Emily! She went missing! How can I be sure those feelings won't come back," Alison argued as a tear ran down her cheek.

"You're just gonna have to trust me." Emily whispered wiping away Alison's tear,

"You're making that a little bit difficult" Alison confessed

Emily's face softened bringing her wife into her embrace, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you, I didn't mean for you to find out the way you did. Ask me anything I'll tell you anything you want to know,". Alison leaned into her wife's chest, letting more silent tears fall, drenching Emily's shirt.

"I just couldn't deal with it if I lost you to someone else Em,"

"Hey," Emily said cupping her wife's face in her hands, "I know we fight like bitches sometimes but that doesn't mean I'm gonna give up and leave you when things get tough,"

-x-

It was Sunday evening; the last week of spring & Alison was sitting in the nursery rocking chair with a glass of ice-tea fanning herself by the open window. "Why does it have to be so hot, it's still spring," she sighed placing the chilled glass to her sweaty forehead. Emily entered the room dampening herself with a small cloth "Hey why don't we get you into that sarong I bought you at the mall the other day, the material breathes better than those pants you're wearing. Plus I think peanut would appreciate it too, and you'll look amazing in it."

Alison's gaze fell upon her bump, Peanut's due date was fast approaching even though they weren't expecting him on time, she was happy they would be seeing him soon. In a week or so Dr Robbins had told them during their last appointment. Both Alison & Emily were getting extremely excited, Alison was well into the 'nesting phase' of her pregnancy. She had single handedly moved every piece of furniture in the nursery to a different spot and back to its original spot at least 3 times this week, possibly more if Emily hadn't been asleep at the time. Each time she had woken from sleep in the early hours to the sound of Alison grunting & the dragging wooden legs across the floorboards of the nursery.

"Ok, if you can get me up I'll go get changed, you might need to help me,"

Emily's eyes widened at the prospect of helping her wife out of her clothes, a smile spreading across her face.

"Em, it's too hot to be thinking about that right now," Alison laughed noting the look on her wife's face.

"How do you know what I was thinking?"

"You can't stop gawking at me like that for one thing."

Emily blushed, it was true. Emily couldn't help but stare at her beautiful wife every chance she got and every time she got caught trying to undress the blonde with her eyes. Emily moved over to the blonde helping her stand "Can you believe we are weeks away from being parents?".

"I know. It's gonna be amazing but I'm so nervous too. We haven't even picked his official name yet,"

"Maybe we should go through that book again & pick 10," Emily suggested.

The blonde nodded excitedly, "I think it's sitting in the kitchen,".

"Do you wanna change first?" Emily asked as her eyes raked her wife's body

"Ok,"

Soon Alison was sitting comfortably in her sarong at the kitchen table flipping through the baby book of names as Emily made them a light snack. "I know i should be in bed but it's just too hot in our bedroom,"

"Don't worry, Toby's bringing over that fan we can plug in during the night to make you more comfortable. So what names have you got?" Emily asked curiously setting down a plate of sandwiches.

"Well, I like the names; Tom, Zachary, Sam, Isaac, Xavier, Charlie, Camden, Josh, Riley, Dylan & I was thinking Wayne after your dad for his middle name,"

Their son kicked at the mention of each name, Alison quickly grabbed Emily's hand holding it at the site, his little feet poking her hand, "He's getting stronger isn't he. He's just so perfect. What about your dad? Shouldn't his name be in it too?"

The blonde was silent as she contemplated the idea, "I guess peanut could have Wayne & Kennith as two middle names,"

Emily agreed biting into one of the sandwiches she'd made. "I like all those names, it's a pity that Peanut isn't a girl, I would have liked to honor Dr Robbins in there somewhere," she giggled "Maybe the next one will be," the blonde said winking

"How many do you want?"

"We've had this discussion before Em, we agreed on 10 remember?" she replied biting into her next sandwich.

By the time they had settled on their son's name (Sam Wayne Kenneth Fields-Dilaurentis) it was dinner time but they were pretty sure they'd still end up calling him peanut right up until he left them for college.

Alison was in the bathroom again emptying her stomach of the sandwiches she ate earlier, while Emily rubbed her back. "Wanna have a relaxing bath before bed to freshen up a bit? I didn't think ham & cheese would make you sick,"

"It's ok Babe, Peanut's been pretty good lately, I did eat that banana bread for a late breakfast, maybe lunch pushed him too far but a bath sounds like to much work tonight, I'm quite tired,"

"Well let's get you back to bed, we haven't exactly been following the doctor's orders of bedrest lately,"

-x-

"Any updates on the girls?" Emily asked Morgan the next day at work, rain pelted the windows of the precinct opposite them.

"Naomi Zeigler, Riley Wolfe have been released from hospital but are still undergoing therapy with Dr Sullivan, Bridget Woo is still being held in care as her next of kin haven't been able to be notified yet. Garcia has been searching but no leads yet."

"What about Maya? How is she doing?"

"She's adjusting, she's still in Welby but we managed to contact her father, her parents split after her disappearance so we're still trying to contact her mother. The doctors say she's improving but it's still early days."

"I haven't seen her for a while, I might follow up with Dr Sullivan,"

"She's in the lobby, she came to get some papers" Morgan told Emily who nodded in return before she jogged down the stairs.

"Dr. Sullivan" Emily called out as she spotted the tall woman standing next to the vending machine

"Emily, Hi" The doctor greeted "How are you? I last I heard you and Alison were expecting"

"Yes" Emily smiled "Any day now"

"Oh that's marvellous" Dr. Sullivan smiled, "but that's not why you approached me now is it?"

"No" Emily confessed "Umh they told me you're treating Maya St. Germain, and I wanted to see how she was doing"

Dr. Sullivan nodded "Well she's doing better for the amount of trauma she endured, however she won't stop asking for you"

"For me?" Emily inquired "I umh…"

"I understand you've been visiting her, but she claims that you stopped about two weeks ago" Dr. Sullivan explained "And I hate to say this but her progress has slowed down a bit"

Emily stared at her blankly so Dr. Sullivan continue "I know you have your plate full, between your job and the soon arrival of your child but if you could manage to squeeze in a visit or two I'm sure Maya will be very greatful"

"Yeah of course" Emily nodded "I can actually go right now" she added looking at her watch "I have a meeting at four but I can head over now"

"Oh Emily!" Dr. Sullivan smiled "that'd be amazing"

After she finished her talk with Dr. Sullivan Emily got into her car and began driving to Welby, she jumped when she heard her phone ring through the car speakers, Alison's name popping up on the screen.

"Ali? Is everything okay?" Emily panicked her mind running through a million scenarios most of them involving the blonde going into labor.

"No, I'm not in labor don't worry" Alison chuckled when she heard Emily breath out in relief "I was calling you to let you know that Dr. Robbins called and changed today's appointment for tomorrow so you don't have to rush home"

"Oh that's great" Emily sighed I can stay longer with Maya she thought to herself, "I umh-" she stopped mid sentence not sure if she should tell Alison she was going to go see Maya.

"You what?" Alison asked concerned

"I'm on my way to go check out some crime scenes so I have to go" Emily said as she pulled up on Welby.

"Okay be safe, we love you" Alison said

"I love you too" Emily smiled "Both of you" she added before she hung up.

She took a deep breath before she headed down to the nurses station. Asking for Maya's room and getting her special pass before she walked down the hall. Maya was sitting on the edge of the bed a book in her arms, and she instantly looked up when she heard the door open.

"Emily you came" Maya muttered

"Of course I am" Emily smiled walking closer to the bed, "How are you feeling?"

"I'm better, I'm-I'm be-tt-er" She muttered in response "But I'm tired of talking about me, ho-how a-are you? Wh-hat's u-up wit-th you?"

Emily smiled doubting whether or not to tell her about what was really going on in her life, but she decided there was no need to lie it had been almost eight years since they were together, "I got married three years ago and we're about to have a baby" She couldn't help the smiled that popped to her face at the simple thought of her wife and son.

"You are?" Maya asked confused

"Yeah I am" Emily confirmed

"Why?" Maya asked getting crossed

Emily was thrown off by both the question and Maya's tone, "Because I've alway wanted a family? I'm-we're ready"

"Is that why you don't come anymore?" Maya inquired

"I-umh" Emily muttered not knowing what to respond.

"IT'S YOUR FAULT! YOU DON'T COME AND IT'S YOUR FAULT I'M HERE" Maya began screaming making Emily take a couple of steps back, however in a second the room was flooded with nurses and doctors. That eventually pushed her out of the room leaving her standing out on the hallway by herself until Dr. Sullivan walked out of the room.

"So things got pretty heated in there" Dr. Sullivan told her "I don't know what exactly she said but she doesn't mean it okay Emily?" the brunette just nodded in return her eyes still locked on the hospital door, "Emily she's been through a lot she's just mad at the world"

"She seemed pretty mad at me" Emily sighed

"She just used you as an outlet for her anger that's all" Dr. Sullivan explained,"Go home Emily, don't think too much of this okay?"

-x-

"Just keep pushing Alison just one more" The unknown doctor encouraged as she sticks her head in between Alison's legs.

"You hear that? He's almost here" Emily whispered as she placed her lips against Alison's forehead, the blonde nodded before she let out another fearful scream.

"Here he comes! Here he comes" The doctor announced before Emily heard the piercing cries of a baby.

"Oh my God Alison he's here" Emily panted looking between the infant and her wife, but suddenly she felt Alison grow weaker in her arms before her eyes completely closed and before Emily could say anything the crying stopped.

"What's happening?!" The brunette screamed as she held her wife's lifeless body "What is going on?!"

"What did you expect?" A familiar voice said from behind her, "It's what you do, you give up so easily on people they eventually give up on themselves as well"

Emily turned around stunned when she saw Maya's face "No, no this isn't happening"

"Oh Emily I wish it hadn't but let's face it dying is inevitable when someone gets involved with you"

"NO" Emily screamed as she sat up in bed, desperately trying to catch her breath,

"Em.." Alison reached out to touch her wife's shoulder which made Emily practically jump out of her skin, "Hey, hey, it's me. You were dreaming" the blonde soothed

"Yo-ou, pe-peanut yo-u w-were de-ad" Emily cried her body shaking in fear.

"Emily look at me I'm right here" Alison said taking Emily's hand and placing on top of her bump "and he's fine" she added as she felt her little boy kick.

"It was my fault…" Emily muttered "She was there and she said it was my fault"

"How can it be your fault?" Alison asked "Who told you it was your fault"

Emily sighed, she knew there was no way around it she was going to need to tell Alison about Maya, there was no other way to get it out of her system. After all who better than Alison to comfort her right now. "Maya"

"Maya?" Alison looked shocked as to why her wife's ex would appear in a dream about her and their son.

"I umh went to see her today" Emily admitted as a tear ran down her face, "I know I should've told you bu-"

"I'm not mad" Alison interrupted the brunette because she very well knew that now was not the time to get into a fight with her clearly perturbed wife,

"You're not?" Emily asked

"No, I get it. She's alone and she needs someone to talk to to" Alison said "I'm not thrilled it's you but I'm not about to take that away from her too. She's been through enough already"

"Well I went to see her today and umh" Emily continued

"What happened Em?" Alison inquired concerned.

"She told me it was my fault-" Emily's voice broke "That everything that happened to her was my fault" she added tears now running freely down her cheeks.

"Em.." Alison wrapped her arm across Emily and pulled her in for a hug, "What happened to her isn't your fault. You thought she was dead"

"But she wasn't and she spent the last eight years stuck and I did nothing about it" Emily argued

"You did, you found her didn't you? You and your team found her and set her free" Alison reassured but Emily's eyes were still locked on the mattress, "Hey look at me" Alison ordered placing her hand on the brunette's cheek "You did everything you could, none of this is your fault"

Emily finally nodded in return "What if I can't protect you and peanut?" she whispered

"Em you protect us more than you could ever know"

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