10/23/1995, Cipriani house...
"Hello?" Gionna mumbles after answering the phone near her bed, Billy yelling drunkenly. "Don't you know what "Back off, bastard!" means?!" She snapped irritably, Billy hearing Dominic snoring in the background and turning confused.
"Who's that?" Billy asks, Dominic waking up and grabbing the phone.
"Hey, piss off! We're tired and trying to rest!" Dominic says, Billy hearing Gionna cringe in pain as she tried to move her legs and turning angry, yelling.
"Cool off, Billy! We didn't do anything wrong, no different than what you do with the hookers in Alderney!" Gionna says, Billy turning enraged.
"Billy, shut up!" Johnny and Angus shouted simultaneously.
"GIONNA FUCKED DOMINIC!" Billy yells.
"There are times I can swing you around by your dick until it breaks off! I know what you really wanted from me!" Gionna shouts, startling Billy. "I've known for days… wasn't hard to figure out. Stay out of my life." She says before hanging up.
(Present time)
"Except it didn't work." Juana says after Gionna told her the full story of what happened, Juana having been listening while writing things down on a notepad.
"Yeah… Billy never takes a hint." Gionna says, trying not to scratch her arm when the stitches dug into her skin. "Want anything to eat?" She asks.
"Well… don't know if it's the start of cravings but I'm dying for something with garlic." Juana says.
Gionna dialed the number to Drusilla's restaurant, Ray answering.
"Hey, kid." Ray says.
"Hey, Ray. Can you bring over a Sicilian deep dish pizza and a Spinach Alfredo one as well as some garlic knots and Jalapeno peppers?" Gionna says, Ray turning curious as Gionna usually stayed away from garlic knots.
"Not normally your style, Gio." Ray says.
"Spending the night with a friend, we both got hungry… hey, why would you ask me that?" Gionna says.
"It's just very strange for you, reminds me of someone having… you know, cravings." Ray says.
"She's not pregnant, you pinhead!" Juana says loudly, startling Ray.
"That's my friend, Juana." Gionna says.
(Meanwhile, Majestic Hotel)
"Calm down, are you sure it's yours?!" Brad asks.
"Yes I'm sure, she did a DNA test and everything!" Trevor says loudly.
"Maybe it's a mix up, maybe it's the other girl who's pregnant-" Brad says, Trevor cutting him off.
"You mean the road whore?! Maybe she is, maybe they both are, I don't fucking know! But if the stripper girl is pregnant then it's not mine, I haven't been near her with anything but aggression, there'd be no chance of any fuckery between me and her." Trevor says.
"Look, you're gonna give yourself a brain aneurysm if you don't-" Brad tries to say, Trevor hitting him.
"Don't tell me to calm down again! I just got told I'm a father, I'm not fucking calming down until this is settled!" Trevor yells.
"If she wants to keep the kid, there's not much you can do aside from walking away." Brad says, resetting his nose.
"You expect me to just leave it, have it forever on record that I have a child?! I'm not gonna let that happen! I don't want my name anywhere on that thing, whatever that means doing!" Trevor shouts.
"Then terminate your parental rights but don't harm this girl or her baby!" Brad says before leaving.
It took him a while to reach St. Marks but when he did, he found the brownstone and pressed the ringer.
"Hello, who's there?" Gionna answered.
"Call me Brad… we need to have a talk, urgently." Brad says.
"Alright." Gionna says, taking her finger off the button and pulling her coat on before walking downstairs and outside. "What's he done now?" She asks, lightly rubbing her stomach as eating the Jalapeno peppers too fast made it ache.
"He told me that whatever it takes, he doesn't want his name anywhere on Juana's kid. I told him that the best thing would be to simply terminate his parental rights but knowing him, he's not gonna listen or be very co-operative." Brad says.
"I suggest drugging him and taking him back to where you're from but I've been through hell today." Gionna says, lowering her hand and Brad seeing the angered and saddened look she had. "It's on your mind, ask me." She says.
"You really… care for Juana, don't you?" Brad asks.
"Yeah… we're a lot alike, in ways I don't think she even knows." Gionna says.
"Well… at least he or she will have a good family to grow up in, a caring one… I'll do what I can to keep Trevor back from going nuts but I'd suggest telling Juana to look at terminating his parental rights quite soon." Brad says.
"I'll do that. Normally, I'd say keeping a child from their father is wrong… I lost my own dad ten years ago." Gionna says, Brad's eyes widening in shock.
"Damn… trust me, keeping this child from Trevor is a wise thing. He's a good friend, an okay uncle but make him a dad… it wouldn't end well, that kid probably wouldn't end up in a good place." Brad says.
"Yeah. I'm… gonna head back into the apartment, you be careful." Gionna says, about to leave when Brad, feeling a strange need to comfort her, wrapped his arms around her. Gionna returned the hug, trying not to cringe as her injured arm brushed against him.
When Gionna walked back inside, she went over to the notepad and wrote something before showing it to Juana.
"Look into getting his parental rights terminated."
Juana smiled slightly and lightly rubbed Gionna's right shoulder, Gionna turning back a page to the one Juana was writing on earlier, finding a few names jotted down.
"I like this one." Gionna says, pointing to Camari.
"Was the name of my grandmother. I barely remember her, but… loved her to bits." Juana says.
Gionna saw a boy's name written down… and teared up a bit, Juana realising that Gionna and Toni's dad was named Leon.
"If it's a boy… it's after him." Juana says.
"Thank you… thank you so much." Gionna chokes out as they hug, Gionna crying into Juana's shoulder as Juana lightly stroked her hair.
"You can count on it… first boy I have, whether it's this baby or a future one… Leon." Juana whispers.
Gionna nodded, the two letting go and Gionna going to get cleaned off.
She'd let Juana have her bed… a night on the couch wouldn't hurt.
