Title: Baby, It's You
Author: PurpleOrchid85
Rating: PG-13 to T
Fandom: The Middle
Pairing: Axl/Sue (Heckcest, Axsue, Lumberjack Lawyers, whichever shipping name you prefer)
Spoilers: All of Season 4, Heckcest 'twisted' Season 5
Summary: Sue and Axl drunkenly sleep with each other, resulting in a surprise pregnancy.
Warnings: Sibling incest, incest pregnancy, kissing, occasional swearing.
Disclaimer:
Axl Heck & Sue Heck and every character that is mentioned in this Fanfiction in relation of The Middle are copyrighted by ABC and its creators/producers DeAnn Heline and Eileen Heisler.
AN: In this universe, Brad works at Spusy Malone's, not the Great Hot Dog Adventure.
AN2:The Church doesn't take the van back because they know Sue's pregnant and would require proper transport to school until she gave birth.
Chapter Ten: The Visit
Sue lay back on the adjustable hospital bed her gown pushed up and As Melody put the cold gel and the sonogram wand running across the belly. Doctor White announced as she watched the screen "Your baby is developing at 22 weeks and congratulations you're halfway through your pregnancy. You should be starting to feel fetal movement possibly at the end of the month, and should feel more energy and eating more heartily and there should be fewer mood swings…" She then continued to list the important developments both physical and emotional that would be happening during this week.
After a while, Sue was allowed to sit up properly and Melody handed the new sonograms to sue who had a teary-like smile upon her face. Frankie, who was sitting next to her holding Sue's hand throughout the whole experience gently tugged a copy of the sonogram out of Sue's hand and glanced at it. "Aww, look at that!" Frankie exclaimed.
She tried to give it back to Sue who said "That one's yours, Mom." Frankie smiled and tucked it into her purse.
"Come on, or we'll be late for Church." Frankie said. She helped Sue get up from the adjustable bed then waited politely for her to change back into her maternity clothes that still were Sue-like.
Then they walked out to the waiting room where Mike was intently watching the pre-game discussion regarding a Colts game, and Brick was reading a maternity magazine. When Frankie noticed, she power-walked over to Brick and snatched it out of his hand and hissed "Read something else!" and put it back upon the pile of magazines that was on the coffee table and nervously smiled at the taken aback pregnant women that overheard the moment.
Sue was at the counter organizing another OB appointment, turned around and saw the clock and her eyes nearly bulging, she said "Mom, let's go or we'll be late for church or Reverend Hayver would give us that look."
Frankie looked at the clock and nearly yelped "Come on, hurry up!" she pleaded at her son and husband. Mike sighed and got up, while a annoyed Brick had yet another magazine pulled out of his hands (this time, it was People magazine) then they were all hurrying towards the elevator and waiting impatiently.
Fifteen minutes later, Frankie was muttering angrily at the car in front of her since it was driving slow. Finally after the car in front of her turned, everyone clutched at their seatbelts as Frankie quickly sped up. Mike said "Frankie, slow down; after all you've got a baby on board."
Frankie in an exhausted tone "I know, Mike."
After a few more minutes, she finally turned into the Church carpark and with some luck she found a park right in front of the Church. They all scrambled out of the car and hurried up the stairs and into the Church and quickly found seats.
"We just made it in the nick of time." Frankie muttered to Mike as Reverend Hayver began opening his mouth.
"Verse 8 says, 'charity never faileth.' Everyone here today has been touched by the church's generosity - some more than others. What precedes charity is faith and hope. You have faith in the object of your charity, and you hope that someday, it will be returned to you." Reverend Hayver gives the Hecks a pointed look.
Frankie whispered from the edge of her mouth to Mike "Crap. They want the van back."
After the service finished, everyone tried to hurry towards the Church van.
But then the Reverend was standing in front of the van, with two 'toadies', one on each side, his arms folded. Frankie began mock cheerfully "Reverend Hayver. Oh, great sermon today. It was entertaining, but it also made you think."
"We want the van back, Frankie." Hayver said.
Sue piped up and said "What about me? I need transport to school." She put her hands on her hips in a stubborn move.
Hayver stared at her, blinking then turned back to Frankie. "Fine. You can keep the van, Frankie. However…" he paused dramatically then finished "Young miss Heck has to be the only one who drives it. Then when the baby is born it has to be returned."
Frankie gave an exasperated sigh "Fine."
Frankie gave the keys over to Sue under the gimlet stare of Reverend Hayver and walked around to the passenger side.
Sue gave Reverend Hayver a hug and said "Thank you so much." The reverend was flustered and looked embarrassed by Sue's overt display of emotion.
Then they were on their way home. Frankie said from the passenger seat "Thanks for the save, Sue." Brick said "Yeah, your pregnant state certainly saved us a long walk home." Right about then, the car started to stall, and the car started sounding weird. With a surprised look from Sue to Frankie, she began to pull the car over and just as she did, the engine died.
"No, no, no!" Frankie panicked as she unclasped the seatbelt and got out to hurry around to the hood, with Mike following with a worried and serious look on his face. When the hood was popped up and Mike was looking at the engine, Frankie said "I should have known God was on Hayver's side. He probably made us break down."
Mike, head still under the hood, as he figured out what the problem instantly retorted in a sardonic tone "God made the fan belt break? I don't think so."
Frankie groaned and said "Mike! I told you to take the van in for a service last week."
Sue said in a panicked tone "I can't go back to riding the bus. Do you realize how big of a dork I'll be if I get back on that bus?" then she started petting her tummy in an effort to stay calm. There was an awkward silence, and then Brick piped up "I miss Axl." Sue cut a glance across to him silently agreeing. In a way, Axl's sarcasm always had calmed down and focused Sue in a way.
When they finally arrived back home, they entered and heard Axl say in a strident tone "There you are- finally!"
Frankie sighed and said "Axl, what's going on? Why aren't you at college?" Axl started to rant "I have the world's worst roommate. I'm not kidding. The guy is a total pig. He leaves his crap everywhere."
Frankie said in an exhausted tone "Really?"
Axl barreled on "And he farts constantly, even though he's like two feet from my head!"
Sue said "Really?" in a cranky tone as she shifted her sore feet, and rubbed her back.
Axl continued "It's impossible rooming with the guy! He acts like I don't even exist."
Brick then piped up incredulously "Really?"
Axl barreled on insisting that the parents kick in some money for a single dorm, then getting annoyed when they refused with Frankie following with some advice "Axl, look. Why don't you just talk to your roommate, be diplomatic? You can be very persuasive and charming when you want to."
Axl sighed huffily "You're no help." Then he shoved off the couch and shambled into the kitchen to grab some more food, leaving the others to sort out their problems.
Two nights later, Axl crawled into Sue's bed. Due to her deep sleep cycle, Sue never noticed as her bed dipped as he crawled in an slumped next to her. In the morning, Sue tiredly woke up and did not notice her new acquired bed partner and stumbled out into the kitchen wearing her long pink unicorn night shirt that stretched over her belly and grabbed a glass then poured her apple juice in it while Frankie handed her a bowl of porridge made with milk and flavored with a pinch of cinnamon. Sue cheerfully burbled "I'm going to visit Brad at work. He's working at Spudsy Malone's. Apparently he's saving up to buy a car." Then Axl came in and grabbed her glass and drunk it in one go.
"Mom, Axl stole my juice!" she grumbled out automatically.
Axl, give your sister the juice back." Frankie said, not realizing Axl already drunk it. And the fact he was there.
"Whatevs." Axl said as he rolled his eyes and reached for Brick's cereal bowl.
"Mom!" Brick said as Axl stole Brick's breakfast bowl."
Automatically, Frankie said "Mike."
Then Mike automatically said "Axl."
Then everybody froze and looked up to Axl, who was sitting at the bench and eating Brick's cereal bowl as nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
Mike said "Don't take this the wrong way, but what the hell are you doing here?"
Axl said "I couldn't spend another minute with my nightmare of a roommate, so I drove home last night and slept in my bed." He finished, lying. Sure, he had came home, stood in his room staring at his bed then undressed down to his boxers and snuck into Sue's room and climbed in and went to sleep straightaway.
Brick muttered "I thought I saw a strange man standing in my room." Sue then internally thought why didn't I notice him in my bed last night? He didn't wake me up for a make out like usual...
She tuned in time to hear Frankie say "Axl, you can't just come home anytime you want. And, Brick, in the future, if you see a strange man in your room, you should probably scream or run."
It was now after three in the afternoon and a few hours after school had finished for the day and Sue was standing in front of Brad who was in his work uniform and manning the cashier at Spudsy Malone's.
"Sue, did you hear about Courtney and Debbie slapping Brian Jones today?" Brad said excitedly, sharing a piece of gossip he was holding in all day.
"Actually, yes." Sue said in a surprised tone as she scanned the brightly lit menus behind Brad, and continued "When I was sitting in Chemistry class, I could hear Courtney and Debbie were complaining about Brian and how skanky he was from behind me. Apparently, he cheated on them with the hot student from Finland." Then her eyes landed on the week's special, the tuna and cheese potato, and then said "Brad, I'll have the special." Then rummaged in her bag for her money while Brad went to collect the potato and returned rolling his eyes and saying "They'll get over it and glom onto someone else. After all, they are total airheads." Then he clapped a hand across his mouth, as he realised he was bad-mouthing two Orson High students. Sue picked up the potato take away box and opened it and put a fork into it while rolling her eyes and said "I can't believe Axl went out with them, thinking he dated one of them but ended up dating both of them." Then scooped a bit of the potato onto her fork and stuck it into her mouth.
As the flavoured potato hit her tongue, she let out a contented mumble groan "This is so good!" she backed off to sit at a nearby table to relive her sore ankles. She didn't notice Brad's incredulous expression as she ravenously ate the potato, but he didn't say anything knowing not to upset the pregnant girl.
She instantly ordered more to take home for the family wanting to share the golden mine of awesome tuna and cheese flavoured potatoes.
"I made dinner!" Sue announced as she burst into the house, her take-away bags held aloft. Within minutes, the bags were taken from her and noises of chewing reached her. "I was visiting Brad at his work, Spudsy Malone's and when I decided to taste the special, which was tuna and cheese, and liked it I knew I had to bring it home for everybody."
She did not notice Brick and Frankie discreetly spit into a napkin after taking a bite of the odious tasting flavoured potato, nor Axl's grimace as he forced down a forkful, then discreetly tucking it away and taking a swing of the soda provided.
"This is terrible." Mike said straight away after taking a bite, forgetting that Sue could clearly hear him.
"Mike!" Frankie said in strident tone, noticing Sue's excited and encouraged expression had crumpled into tears and ran to her room and slammed
Axl groaned and said instantly "Dad!" then he went off on an angry and incoherent rant, making Mike and Frankie exchange surprised glances at each other. Brick then piped up "The maternity magazine I read said not to upset a pregnant woman. I have interpreted it to that it's better to lie rather than tell the truth." ((better to lie))
Axl pointed at Brick "See?!" then after letting an annoyed shout, he stomped off and started to bang on Sue's door.
"What's up with Axl?" Mike asked. Frankie shook her head "I don't know. Maybe he's maturing and wants to look after his sister?" she suggested. Then they looked at each other and laughed, knowing Frankie's statement sounded ridiculous to them.
It was the next afternoon, and Sue was at the birthing class. She had persuaded Frankie not to come, citing that she has a new friend in the class and that she would be okay by herself in the class, but then Frankie had sarcastically said "Well is your friend going to be there for you when you go into labour?" but then she gave Frankie her pleading look making her slump her shoulders and mutter "Fine."
Shaking off the memory of the morning's conversation, she sat next to Sally upon yoga mats and was trying not to stare at Sally's new boyfriend, named Brock. He was talking loudly and gesturing with his hands to the next yoga mat's partner who was nodding rapidly. He was big, burly and muscular. She could not put her finger upon why he was familiar looking. Other than reminding her of Emmett Cullen from the Twilight movies, that is, she chided herself.
But then when the memory of Axl and Hutch's 4th July bash they all threw back in the summer floated into her mind, her eyes widened. She now vaguely remembered him there, and realised he was one of the East Indy footballers.
"Didja see that awesome running back in that IU game last week?" Brock exclaimed to the other man.
Sue leant sideways towards Sally and said lowly "Where's Carlos?"
Sally waved an hand dismissively "He couldn't make it. He has a tango competition down in Indy, so I brought Brock instead."
Sue raised her eyes in surprise. "How did you meet him?" she curiously asked eying the burly footballer.
"Oh, I was tutoring him in English but instead, he tutored me in the language of lurve." She said and wriggled her eyebrows.
A sharp clap sounded from the front of the class. Ms Evans was dressed in her usual flamboyant outfit, scarf included.
"Today we will be viewing a birth video to prepare you all for the reality of the actual birth."
There were groans or muttered complaints among the class, but Sue was curious what the video contained.
Ms Evans rolled in a tall metal frame on wheels that held a TV and a VCR and inserted the tape into the VCR and walked back across the room to switch off the lights.
As the opening credits showed on screen, there was an introducing voice over in a monotone "Welcome to the wonderful delights of childbirth…"