Hey guys, sorry it's taken me a while to get this new chapter out to you. There's been a lot of drama going on around me. But I know that you are all pushing for a happy Dean/Abigail reunion. I'm not going to give anything away but I will just say, that things are going to get worse before they get better. So without any further comments enjoy the chapter! Expect the next some sometime this weekend!
Telling Lies:
A phone call, easy simple, quick and direct. That would be the easiest way to just get it over with. Abigail thought to herself. All she had to do was say it and then hang up and it would all be over. It's not like she had to look in his eyes and see the expression on his face when she actually spoke the words. She could always send a text too, but that just seemed too cruel.
In the three months since Dean and Sam had left Andover, she thought her life would become less complicated, but the adverse had been true. After the boys left, she quickly got to falsifying the documents for Rebecca, and she started school the following week, enrolling as a senior at Merrick High School. In most other aspects Rebecca and Abigail's lives seemed to parallel. Both of their parents had been killed by something supernatural, and their worlds had been turned upside down by the Winchester brothers. In different ways the Winchester had been the best and worst things that had ever happened to them. For Rebecca it was her chance to become free of the demon living inside her over the 5 month period. Now she had most of her life back and she could do what she wanted. And for Rebecca that meant having a long distance almost relationship with Sam.
Abigail smiled pleasantly at the girl when Sam phoned in to talk to her. Sam unlike Dean was very adamant about making sure he called when he said he would. Abigail wanted to warn Rebecca about the dangers of falling for a Winchester but she knew it would just fall on deaf ears. No one would have been able to convince her 6 months ago that loving a Winchester was a bad idea. Even if they told her that this is where she would be, she still wouldn't have believed them. She still couldn't believe that this is where her life was now. Abigail had talked with Dean a few times since they had left, and she had to admit that he really was trying to be a better friend towards her, but the truth was, as time went on, and Dean got more involved with his work, he started calling less and less frequently. It didn't matter that Sam was calling Rebecca once a week and asking Dean if he wanted to talk; it was evident where Dean's true interests were. And Abigail couldn't really complain, he can't really complain that someone doesn't call you enough when they're out saving innocent people from the things that lurk in the dark.
Sam had even been back to town a few weeks after they had left, for Christmas. Dean had stopped in Cicero to spend the holidays with Lisa and Ben and Sam had taken the car and continued up to Andover to spend the holidays with Rebecca. Abigail spent the entire visit hid away in her room; conveniently she had gotten sick towards the end of his trip and didn't have to deal with the awkwardness of saying goodbye.
All these thoughts brought her back to her original thought, making this phone call. Rebecca sat across the room from her in the desk chair, staring intently at Abigail as she sat on the edge of the bed, phone in hand.
"Do you just want me to call Sam, and drop the bomb on him?" Rebecca finally suggested after sitting in an awkward silence for a few minutes.
"No," Abigail responded quickly. "I'm a big girl, I can do this."
"That's good, considering this whole thing is kind of your fault." Rebecca said sarcastically.
"You know you look all cute and innocent; you'd think that the sarcasm was the demon's trait." Abigail snapped back.
"When are people ever going to understand, just because I look like I'm twelve doesn't mean that I can't come up with a snappy comeback." Rebecca said standing and moving towards Abigail grabbing the phone out of her hand and pressing the send button. "You can have the phone back in a minute." Abigail leaned back on the bed letting out a heavy sigh, waiting for Rebecca to start speaking. "Hey Dean, this is actually Rebecca. No Abigail's fine, she just had to step out for a minute to take care of something, but she'll be back in a second, there's something that she wants to tell you. Oh here she comes now, it was good talking to you Dean." Rebecca covered the mouth piece with her hand and handed the phone over to Abigail. "Now, simple clear and direct, just say it and get it over with."
Abigail took a deep breath before putting the phone to her ear. "Hi, Dean." Abigail said simply.
"Hey, Abs sorry I haven't been able to call in a few weeks, it's been pretty crazy out here. We actually just had a massive demon attack, a couple nights ago. It was pretty intense." Dean explained.
"Yea, Rebecca mentioned something like that, to me. But you guys are safe right, you're good?" Abigail asked, trying to sound interested. In reality it had happened 3 weeks ago and Sam had called and given Rebecca a full explanation on the phone that night, but none of that was the point. She didn't call to give Dean a hard time. "Actually there's something I need to tell you." She waited to give Dean a chance to say something before continuing. "So we're friends, and friends are mostly honest with each other, and there's something happening that you should know about. I mean, it's not that big of a deal, and I don't want to make a big deal of this it doesn't have to be a huge deal, but I just need to tell you, so that you know."
"Babe would you just say it already." Dean voice came over the phone, scaring her slightly and sending her brain spiraling.
"Okay, it's just that." Abigail started; images of Dean's last visit, from the memories in the shack to his bedroom, to the cemetery when Sam shot Dean quickly flooded her mind, reminding her of how she got to where she is now. "I'm dating someone." She blurted out. "It just started a while ago and we're friends and I just thought you should know."
"You know I just want you to be happy Abigail. So I hope you are." Dean said, he tried his best to keep the disappointment out of his voice.
"Yea, well that's all I had to tell you so, I hope you're good. I guess I'll talk to you later?" Abigail said needing to end this conversation quickly.
"Yea, good luck Abigail." Dean said before hanging up.
"Well that went well." Abigail said putting the phone back down on the bed.
"Sure, you could call it that except—"
"Becca, I really don't want to hear it right now. He called my Abigail, he hardly ever uses my full name. What did I just do?" Abigail asked shocked.
"You just got Dean Winchester out of your life for good." Rebecca said moving to sit next to her. "Isn't that what you wanted? I mean you did want to move on."
"Yea, but this isn't the way I thought I would be doing it." Abigail tried to reason.
"Then what way would you have done it, told him the truth?" Rebecca said bringing up the elephant in the room. Neither one of them had spoken the word since Abigail had told her. Saying things out loud made them real, and as long as you keep your mouth shut things stayed hidden. At least that was the thought process.
"The truth wouldn't have helped any Rebecca, and you know that. How do you honestly think that Dean would have reacted?"
"He would have tried to do the right thing?"
"And what is the right thing nowadays. The world is now shades of grey there isn't any set sign of black and white or right and wrong." Abigail said her voice rising as she spoke more.
"Well, I think we can both agree that lies would be the black bad side. If you learned anything from Dean it would be that?" Rebecca said, bringing back the memories of that night. The night the lies had been revealed. She knew that wasn't what she wanted.
"Okay, I agree with that, I just, I can't tell him though." Abigail cried.
"It's not like he hasn't heard it before. This doesn't have to be something bad." Rebecca said. "I mean he already has—"
"He didn't know, it was another lie. And see, that all turned out okay." Abigail tried to joke, turning her mood around. "So maybe I'll just wait a few years and then tell him the truth."
"So you just want to lie, what am I supposed to say to Sam? Or what are you going to do when he comes to visit?" Rebecca asked being the logical thinker.
"Fine, I should tell him the truth." Abigail finally conceded picking back up the phone.
"Plus, I think hearing that you're pregnant with his child will make him completely forget the anger of you telling him you're dating another guy." Rebecca joked as she turned and walked out of the room, closing the door behind her.
Pregnant, she was pregnant. For the last 2 months, she woke up every morning thinking that it could be a brand new day, and every day she was reminded that she was pregnant. It usually came within a few moments of waking up in the form of morning sickness. She wished that Dean had known just so she could blame him for doing this to her. But she couldn't. This was her choice and this was what she got for having sex. Eva had probably handled the news better than Abigail had. Of course she wasn't happy that her only granddaughter was having a child out of wedlock but as she said "every child is a gift from God regardless of how it was conceived."
A child that was the reality, in 6 months there would be a little girl or a little boy walking around. Possible a carbon copy of Dean Winchester. While it broke her heart to think about keeping her child from Dean, she had to think back to what Lisa had said, and her reasoning behind why she separated her life from Dean's after their last visit. She might have been a hypocrite for keeping this secret from Dean, but she wasn't only thinking of herself anymore, she was thinking in the best interest of her unborn child. That's how she could justify this lie.
It wasn't for her safety, if was for their child's. And someday, if Dean ever did find out, that's what she would have to tell him.
She just hoped he would understand.