Positive

It was a cold December morning when Mia woke quickly as she began to cough; she was startled to say the least. Before long, she had began to vomit ferociously. It had been a month since Gravity had left but this had became increasingly frequent to life in the mornings during the past week.

"Hey Mimi," her mother's voice came from the door as it slowly creaked open, "you okay?"

Mia drew a sharp breath, "seventeen."

"What?"

"Ask a stupid question, you get a stupid answer."

Susannah smiled as she parked next to her daughter, "I taught you that." Looking the younger Porsche over in the following silence she added, "Wow, Mia, you've gotten so big! Y'know, it only feels like yesterday I was watching you chew your tire while bringing Duncan into the world."

"That's fantastic," her daughter said sarcastically, "as much as I really wanted to hear that tale, I've got to go to Doc's for something." With that, she swiftly drove away, muttering a few words under her breath.

Susannah just sighed, her female offspring seemed much too fervent to get away from her and the family, but then she noticed something where Mia had once been parked.

Huh, looks like one of those adult magazines

She looked closer at it, on the page was a familiar Mitsubishi pickup, "Gravity," she muttered to herself, "he's a model…"

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"He's dead," Doc said simply above the unremitting beep.

Duncan looked to the dummy in frustration, now he would never be able to something like this in a real situation, or so he thought, "What did I do wrong now?"

"Stop playing with the engine and concentrate on the breathing. That's the whole point in CPR; you're supposed to get air into the system."

Before they could say anything else, a feminine voice came from outside, "looks like Hell just froze over!"

Duncan sighed as Doc went to get the door, "looks like the witch has arrived."

This made the Hudson laugh, he rolled over to where the voice had came from, but before he could make any attempt of letting Mia in, she had already barged into the clinic, without any greeting she had entered with her snow covered body. "Since when does this place have snow!?"

"Mimi?" Doc asked in concern and confusion, "what's the matter?"

Looking to her brother nervously she said, "well, I haven't been feeling too good in the mornings for the past week, plus me and Gravity… well, we got a little intimate, so I wanted you to see if I'm, well… y'know…"

The town's doctor frowned before saying sternly, "Mia, you're underage…"

"I know!" She yelled, "Doc, dad might be able to accept I'm pregnant but mum… dear lord, how would she act!?"

He looked at her, a hint of sympathy in his eyes, "Come on, Mia, there's something I wanted to tell you."

She parked where Doc wanted her and she looked down upon him as she was raised, "what did you want to tell me?"

"Your mother was scared of what her father would make of her pregnancy…"

"She was scared of Ramone?" Duncan enquired.

Doc shook his hood, "no, the one we thought was her father was called Lewis. Anyway, he had forced her into marrying someone who had tried to kill her. Your father made an objection, but Lewis had said that he had sold her she quickly drove away but Mater followed. From what I know, that's when your dad found out… and so did Lewis. Mater shouted too loud and Lewis overheard, then she almost lost you two."

"Well, what happened?" Mia asked intriguingly.

Doc sighed, "Your mother was abused as a child, so it was no surprise that he was furious, he tried to kill her… now, let's not waste any more time…" He trailed off, and before long he was talking confidentially to Duncan.

Mia sighed to herself; surely the test shouldn't take this long.

Then she felt something lingering around her tailpipe, she just looked into her side view mirror and growled, noticing this Duncan backed away and looked to Doc, he just sighed, "Mia, we have to do this."

She just growled more, looking to the wall in front of her, "there must be another way…" But then she felt something enter, eyes widened she stopped herself from screaming, but instead she gasped, "Oh! You son of a Buick Regal Racecar 86!" She was relieved when she no longer felt it; however her anger rose when Doc said:

"Right, Duncan, that's how you do it. Now, on with the pregnancy test."

"You what…?" She snarled. She got no answer; instead the two just began to prod at her undercarriage. "Will… you… stop… that!?" She yelled, beginning to struggle to get back onto the ground. However, she had no prevail.

"Mia," doc began sternly, "the more you struggle the longer it will take."

With a sigh of defeat, the Porsche Cayenne was still, her frown hardened as her twin continued to poke her. A few moments of nothing past, but it was broken when Doc sighed, "Mimi… the test… it's positive."

Silence. "Say what?"

"Mia, you're pregnant," Duncan said simply, over the following minutes he tried to figure out the atmosphere of the room as no one spoke.

"Lemme down," she told him, her voice no more than a mere whisper. So the Hudson did, once her tires were set back down on the ground she just sat there.

Duncan frowned in concern, "Mia? Are you okay?"

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine!" She exclaimed in a mixture of anger and sarcasm as she quickly turned to face him, "I'm fifteen, got a spit cup tow truck for a dad, a Porsche who thinks she's ev'rything as my mum, a pickup who wants a girlfriend yet is a hopeless case as a twin brother, I live in a hillbilly town and just found out I'm gonna have a baby! Y'know what, Duncan, my darling brother? Life's perfect!"

The Dodge Ram Pickup just backed away, contemplating to himself how he could be so stupid to ask his sister that question, Doc sighed again, "I can tell this pregnancy wasn't planned…"

"Oh no, Doc," she began sardonically, "I'm a teenager, I wanted to start a family. You got my reaction completely wrong."

The doctor was now beginning to get noticeably frustrated, "Mia!" He yelled, "You've got a small car in you! This isn't a game, this is real life!"

She briskly turned to face him and shouted angrily, "I'm aware of that! I'm not a kid anymore! I'm ready for this! Things and teenagers have changed since the world war!"

"Mia you should be nice to me," he began as the two glared threateningly at each other, "I'm gonna be there during the deliverance."

Silence. "I'm not pregnant."

By now, Duncan was also getting irascible at his sisters stuck-up behaviour, "Mimi, the test doesn't lie, you're gonna have as much as five to nine little ones… hey! I'm gonna be an uncle! Awesome."

Mia rolled her eyes pitifully, "oh, please. Doc… you can't make me go through birth, I don't want to."

Another sighed from the Hudson Hornet. "Mia Jolie Tow!" Doc vociferated, "You can't behave like that with babies around! You've got to grow up! You've got to become a fit mother! You've got to warn Gravity! You've got to announce it to everyone! You've got till August to do it."

She snarled at him again, "don't tell me what to do."

"Someone has to Mia! You can't expect sympathy all your life!"

"You've got no control over me, old man!"

"Both of you just shut up!" Duncan yelled at the top of his voice, the two furious cars turned their attention to him, both shocked by the tears that filled his eyes.

It seemed as if Mia was ready to ounce on Duncan and attack him as she barked, "Don't tell me to shut up!"

"No, Mimi! Doc! You need to be nicer to her! Mia! You're pregnant, just accept it! The middle of next year, you and Gravity are gonna be parents!" With them as his final words, he swiftly drove away, trying his very best to hide his tears.

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It was later that day when Thunder, Gabrielle and Chick had rolled into town. The younger Buick Regal looked around nervously, trying to find Susannah, and then his sights rested upon the baby blue Porsche Cayman S 2005, he silently thanked whoever had stopped Mater being with her at Flo's V8 Café, he turned to his family, "go to Wheel Well, there's a fancy restaurant up there, we'll meet you up there sometime soon."

In response, the two didn't say a word; instead they just began their way to their destination. Thunder watched them before going over to Susannah; she was quite taken back by his sudden appearance, "Thunder?" She asked, "what's the matter?"

Before she could even finish her sentence, he was already pulling her away, "look, I need you for a moment; I told Chick and Gabrielle that I had a girlfriend, but now they want to meet her. So, for the rest of the night you're name's Anna and we're happily in love, okay?"

However, there was no time to deliberate for her, not even to respond. They had already begun the drive to the terminus.

"Chick, Gabrielle. This is Susa- No!! This is Anna," Thunder introduced a very confused Porsche to his brother and sister-in-law.

Chick frowned, "don't I know you from somewhere, Anna?"

Thunder began to panic slightly at this remark, laughing nervously he said quickly, "yeah, I know what a huge coincidence? Ha, ha… looks exactly like Susannah. But Anna's a one of a kind, right?" He nudged her slightly, encouraging her to play along with the lie.

"Yeah," she replied, managing to fake a barely believable laugh, "Thundy, you mind if I talk to you alone?"

He smiled, "of course, I've been meaning to talk to you lately."

So, the two drove outside, when Susannah turned around, she did not look happy. At all. "What's the meaning of this?" She asked her tone stern and her voice hushed.

"Look… I'm sorry, I've just dug myself a hole of trouble with my family, okay? I just need you for tonight," he explained, seemingly desperate for her help to convince his family that their relationship was true.

She sighed irritably, "okay. Fine. Just for tonight…"

"Anna, will you marry me?"

She backed away, frowning angrily she growled, "That's it! You said nothing about marriage!"

He smiled, "just play along with it." He whispered before driving into her bumper, forcing her into a kiss, she was startled – to say the least – when she felt his lips upon hers. Looking at him, he had his eyes closed; she was surprised to feel her engine beginning to heat up…

…Not out of anger…

…but out of passion.

He pulled away, looking into her eyes as they slowly opened, "Thunder," she whispered, "don't do that."

He bit his lip, "you're right. I shouldn't have done that, I'm sorry."

"Thunder, I'm not Anna, so I'm sure as hell ain't gonna be Anna Hicks." She complained as he pulled her back inside to Chick and Gabrielle.

The Dodge Calliber laughed, "Boy, Thunder, what's your problem? I ain't ever seen you smile like this!"

Thunder sighed, looking over to Susannah with a dreamy expression upon his fender, "Anna's agreed to become my wife."

The Porsche smiled, nuzzling him gently, "that's right."

Seeing he was blushing slightly, Chick laughed, "so, Thunder, you're not into showing love in public, eh?"

Before his younger brother could answer, Susannah laughed, "Yeah, you better believe it! He's so shy, it's just so cute. You should see what happens when I kiss him!"

Gabrielle smiled, "Anna, you're so mean to poor Thundy."

"So," Chick began, "when can I expect to be an uncle?"

The three laughed – minus Susannah. "Sometime after tonight, I reckon," Thunder joked, nudging her tire with his own, however, Susannah was not amused. She simply got onto her tires and drove away.

Chick looked to where she had gone in confusion, "did I say something?"

Thunder sighed, "She's a bit sensitive to those kind of jokes, and I think this getting acquainted with each other is over for tonight… I'll go talk to her." He rolled outside to see Susannah just staring at the moons light silently, "Annie?"

She snorted. "Don't give me that 'Anna' crap."

Thunder sighed. "Susie… what is it?"

"What do you think?" She asked, not allowing him to see her tears, "its Mater. This is a romantic place, I mean, he proposed to me here, we even got married here," she looked to him, he was now by her side, "you're where he was, I was here."

Thunder looked to her, "really?"

She nodded, over the silence that hung between them, she found herself being lost in those seductive emerald eyes…

"Susannah?" Thunder asked in concern, "you okay?"

"Thundy," she whispered, "Damn, you're so handsome… cute, more so…"

By this time the two were facing each other, "I could say the same about you." Before she could realise what was going on, they both began to roll forward, then their bumpers met, once again her engine was heating up and it began to race. She backed away and looked him over and looking him over she whispered, "Thunder? Where are we-?"

He gently placed a tire on her lips, "no talking, I'm taking you to a little world of my own."

She smiled, allowing to be pushed against the wall where they continued the kiss – although it was twice as passionate – he nuzzled her fender roughly, "Susie…"

While he was rubbing his fender against hers, she continued to kiss whatever part of him was in front of her, she wasn't opening her eyes to find out.

"Thunder," she muttered, "is this your world?"

"No," he answered, beginning to move down her side, "this is."

A wide grin grew on her bumper as she felt her tires leave the ground, then his weight-

"Susannah!" Thunder hissed, hitting her tire hard and looking around nervously, "your husband might see and I'm totally touchophobic!"

It was only then that she realised her eyes were closed and they were fender-to-fender. Quickly backing away, she looked to him and muttered – just loud enough for him to hear – hurriedly, "sorry Thunder… I really should be getting home now."

Before any enquiries could be made or any sound could be heard, the Porsche was out of sight.


Hey mister, where you headed? Are you in a hurry? I need a lift to happy hour, say oh no... Addicted to Hitchin' A Ride by Green Day right now :-P... and Pirates of the Carribean

This is possibly one of the most important chapters of the story, first off. So, Susie could have the hots for Thunder? So awesome, only I could've thought of that (OMFG... ego or what?), yea, the part with Mia, Duncan and Doc was my bad humor. "Oh, you son of a Buick Regal Racecar 86!" is a little tribute to my big sis (she knows who she is!) plus it KA! xP The concept of trucks having more than one kid I got from DodgeSuperBee's story Retreads And Redemption (READ IT)... I hope she isn't offended at me using it :-(...

Also, I'm doing a character call, if you have a character who you want me to use, see my profile or for a detailed description of what I want see my dA account (Life-Is-A-Highway66)... you can also see if you're character has made it...

Tired x.x Damn you athletics teacher... gimme reviews... please?