Who Knew:

Chapter 10: Silence

A few weeks later:

Matt and Emily were walking through the parking garage when they heard crying. Matt instictively pushed Emily aside and drew his gun afraid of what they were about to encounter. Emily not being one to scare easily pressed up against Matt's back before drawing her own gun. Matt lead the way around the oversized pick-up truck that blocked their view of the person who was crying. He peered around the tail end before holstering his gun and kneeling down beside Lia. Emily followed his lead. She knelt next to her friend. Lia was holding her stomach and there was blood seeping through her jeans.

"Matt, call an ambulance. Now!" Emily shouted after assessing the situation. Her worst fear being played out in front of her in Lia.

Matt stood and quickly did as he was told. He also called Duff, Cheryl and Frank knowing that they would need to be informed. A few minutes later with sirens blaring, Duff and Frank ran from the elevator as the doors opened, meeting the group just as the ambulance pulled up.

The paramedics quickly loaded Lia onto a stretcher and into the back of the waiting ambulance. Duff climbed in beside her as Frank clsoed the doors behind the paramedic who climbed in beghind them.

Emily leaned against the truck both hands protectively placed over her belly. Cheryl, Matt and Frank all looked at her. They did not seem to realize what Emily already figured out. Lia was losing her baby. Emily had that fear for sometime and woke up at least once a week in tears from dreaming about it. Matt always calmed her and she fell back to sleep never telling him what her dream was about. He was standing in front of her right now watching the internal battle he knew she was waging in her mind. He put both arms around her and pulled her to him. Emily sighed in relief as soon as she was against him, feeling the safety and security she always felt in his arms.

"Let's go she if she's okay." Matt whispered knowing that there was more to this than he knew.

"Okay. You drive." Emily replied taking the keys for her Jeep out of her pocket and handing them to him.

They walked over to her car, Frank and Cheryl following. Matt opened the door and Emly slid in. Matt closed the door and leaned against it.

"Frank, can you guys drive youselves?" Matt asked looking in the window at his fiancee.

"Yeah, but I figured we'd go together. What's wrong?" Frank questioned.

"I need to talk to Em before we get there. Something's going on and she'll open up more if you aren't there." Matt responded as he walked around to the other side of the car. He didn't wait for Frank to reply before starting the engine and pulling away.

Matt and Emily rode in silence for a few minutes before it began to drive Matt crazy.

"Em, what are you thinking?" He asked as he placed his hand on her knee.

"About Lia and how much she has been through. Matt, she's losing her baby." Emily said wiping tears that had begun falling as she turned to look at Matt.

"What? Em you don't know that." Matt replied rubbing her knee.

"Matt, I saw the blood. She's losing it." Emily was sobbing now. She placed her head in her hands as Matt pulled over in a parking lot. He unbuckled his seat belt and moved closer to Emily where he could pull her to his chest. Emily sighed and slowly calmed as Matt held her rubbing circles on her back.

"Baby, talk to me. What are you thinking?" Matt asked as he lifted her chin to look her in the eyes.

"I am so scared Matt. I don't want to loose our baby. I keep having dreams that she's gone and that you're going to leave me. Matt please promise me you won't leave if anything happens to our baby." Emily answered with new tears forming as she released the thoughts she had been holding in for weeks.

Matt lifted up Emily's left hand and kissed her ring finger above her engagement ring. "Em, honey, I put this ring on your finger because I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I love you. Our baby is going to be fine, now stop thinking like that, it's not good for you or the baby."

"Matt, it's just , you don't understand. I know what Lia is feeling." Emily whispered barely audible.

"Em, honey, what do you mean?" Matt questioned, nervous about her response.

"I've had a miscarriage. I know exactly what she's feeling Matt. I'm sorry I didn't tell you, but it's so painful to think about and I can't go through that again. Even though he didn't want the baby and we broke up over it, I always felt like I let myself down by not being able to do it on my own. I should have told you all of this when you told me your secret, but I was in shock that you would reveal that personal of a story to me. Matt I love you. I want our baby and possibly more than one. I'm not sure I can do this though." Emily inhaled deeply waiting for Matt to say the words she had always expected since they began this relationship.

"Emily, I want you to look at me. We both know that Duff and Lia have a long road ahead of them. We also both know that neither one of us is good at revealing too much about ourselves. Now that we're getting married Em, we've got to trust each other with everything." Matt said laying Emily's head against his chest before continuing. "You will never have to go through this on your own this time. I will be with you every step of the way. Emily I have faith in you that you can carry our beautiful baby and then bring it into this world successfully. I love you."

Emily smiled as she placed a gentle kiss on Matt' s lips. "I love you too. Now let's go to the hospital and visit Lia before we go home so I can show you how much."

The pair drove to the rest of the way to the hospital in a comfortable silence holding hands and thinking about the words of comfort they would need to speak to their friends.