A/N: I try to update every day, but it just hasn't worked lately, with the storms and my whacked out sleep schedule. I'll try to get back on track. Anyway, without further procrastination...
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or make any profit from this.
"Your Mother wants you to come home." Aunt Rena told us nearly five days later. We had both been getting antsy, after all, school was about to start, and Aunt Rena had taken us school shopping because Mom wasn't supposed to do much, and she hadn't called to see if we would come home until the night before.
"We can still come back here if we tell her and she kicks us out?" I asked softly. "Because I'm not expecting a reaction of 'oh, honey you're in love, that's wonderful, let's talk boys!' from her."
Trowa gave a nod to confirm that he agreed with me on that. He was holding my hand, and I probably had a deathgrip on his hand that was cutting off his circulation, but he wasn't complaining.
I almost didn't want to go back home. Mom's house was home to us, but when we went home, I didn't want to have to sneak around with Trowa for any amount of time. But I also didn't want to give Mom the shock of her life when she was pregnant. Still, while waiting until the baby was born sometimes seemed like the safest situation for Mom and the baby, it seemed like it would be incredibly hard to hide our relationship for that much longer.
Especially when we had been ready to tell them on the night they admitted their marriage had gone rocky.
"Of course, you just call and I'll come pick you up, any hour of the night or day." Aunt Rena kissed my forehead and Trowa's cheek. "Come on, get packed up."
It took us a few hours to get everything into Aunt Rena's van. All our new school clothes had been washed, but were put back into the bags to travel. Our notebooks and other school supplies were put in our suitcases, crammed in anyway.
When we got there, we knocked and rang the doorbell... for fifteen minutes. The door was locked, and eventually Trowa picked the lock on the garage back door to see if the car was there. It was, which led us to believe that she was ignoring us.
"Her cell rings and she doesn't pick up." Aunt Rena sighed. "Trowa, you're the tallest, go look in her bedroom window. If we can't see her from there, then we're going to call the hospital. I should be able to see if she was admitted from there."
Aunt Rena and I waited while Trowa went to peek in Mom's bedroom window; she was supposed to be on bed rest, so she should've been in there.
Trowa came back around the side of the house, shaking his head. Aunt Rena dialed the hospital, but they had her on hold.
"Cathy!" Relena ran out from Milliardo and Noin's house, waving her arms to get my attention. "We tried to get a hold of you, but I think your cell is dead."
"Yeah, probably, why?" I blinked at her, studying her. "What's going on?"
"I don't know the whole story, but an ambulance came and took your Mom." Relena shrugged, her eyebrows furrowed. "We kept trying to call you, I'm sorry, I didn't know your aunt's number."
"Alright, thank you." I turned to Aunt Rena and Trowa, who were already getting back into the car. "Thanks, Relena, I'll talk to you when we get back."
Relena nodded, wished me luck, and then I hopped into the backseat of the van with Trowa.
Aunt Rena made a huge fuss, saying that no one called her when she's the next of kin, and she was on the emergency call sheet. Surprisingly, that put the hospital into high gear, and we were led to Mom's room within a matter of minutes.
Mom looked like hell. She was pale as the sheets she lay against, and she had an IV in each hand. Her eyes were closed, and even Aunt Rena, always the most emotionally stable, had to gasp and whisper, "Oh good God..."
I would've stepped back if not for Trowa holding me up. Even so, his hold on me twitched, he wasn't any better off about this than I was.
"She's asleep, right?" I asked softly. "Because she looks like..."
"Hello, Rena." A doctor smiled at our Aunt from just behind Trowa. "She's asleep at the moment, yes." The doctor behind us motioned for us to move so he could come in. "I'm very sorry about the misunderstanding and not calling you. But Ms. Bloom was brought in earlier today when she became dizzy and severely dehydrated. When questioned, she said she couldn't keep anything down due to her pregnancy, and she was brought in to be given IV nutrients and fluids. Both her and the baby will be fine, but it's likely they'll have to be kept here until her stomach has settled enough that she can keep a significant amount of nutrients and fluids down."
Mom cracked an eye open and looked at Trowa and I. "You two look snug over there, is there something you're not telling me?"
The doctor and Aunt Rena slipped from the room, leaving Trowa and I with Mom.
I decided to just come out with it and say it. "Mom, Trowa and I are dating."
Mom blinked, and then rubbed her eyes with her fingertips. "Why am I not surprised? Go home with Rena, I'll deal with this later..."
Trowa and I slipped out of the room, looking at each other. It was clear we were thinking the same thing.
One, she said she wasn't surprised. Therefore, she couldn't be that mad, right?
Two, she said she'd deal with us later, so how would she "deal" with us?
Three, would she try to split us up?
Four, we wouldn't be split up, no matter what Mom said.
A/N: I really wasn't sure how to do this chapter, but I wanted somebody to tell their Mother already. It ended up being Cathy because Trowa was unsure about it and Aunt Rena said she wouldn't. What did you think of this slightly longer chapter?