Things have been going great for Wade and Zoe for the past month or so. They got back into their regular routine, just as they had before….the routine being that they can't keep their hands off each other! This day had started out just like the rest with no reason to believe it would be any different.
Zoe woke up wrapped up tight in Wade's arms. He is such a cuddler, she thought. Who would have thought? She placed a kiss on his lips and he slowly started to stir. "Good morning, beautiful. How did you sleep?" he said. Zoe just smiled at him and said "Well, since you wear me out every night I sleep like a baby!" Zoe giggled and Wade blushed. "Sorry about that", he smirked. "No apology need on my behalf", she said. With that, she got out of bed and said "We both have to work this morning, so do you want to shower and head over to Lavon's for breakfast?" We haven't bugged him in a few days, so he's probably missing us". "Sounds like a plan to me", said Wade. "I could go for some scrambled eggs and bacon anyway, plus I need to talk to Lavon about something". "OK", said Zoe. Let's do it".
About half an hour later they walked into Lavon's kitchen to find him reading the papers and drinking his coffee. 'Morning strangers…haven't seen you in quite a while" he said. "Yeah well, we've been kind of busy", said Wade grinning. "No, no, no"..said Lavon. "I don't want to talk about what you do when I'm not around! You two are like rabbits." Wade and Zoe sat down and had their breakfast and Zoe got up to leave "Well, I have to get to work. I'll see you home later on". Wade gave her a big kiss and sent her on her way.
"Lavon, I need to talk to you about something", said Wade worriedly. "Sure, what's up" asked Lavon. "Well, I heard that Judson's case is coming up and Zoe hasn't said anything about it. Do you think she's going to push to get him charged with rape?" Lavon just looked at him "I don't think so. She would have done that by now if she was going to. She probably feels that she doesn't know what happened, so how could she actually go to trial about it?" "Yeah, that's true", Wade said. "I'm just afraid to talk to her about it". Lavon said "You two are in a really good place right now, so I think she'd be fine if you asked her. She seems like she's moved on for the most part…basically all because of your love and support". Wade just let thought sink in and said "I'll think about it. No need to push it, I guess. Anyway, I gotta head out to work. Catch you later." And off he went.
The day passed pretty slowly for Zoe. There wasn't much going on in the practice. She had a few patients with very minor injuries, but other than that she was pretty much just doing paperwork. It was just about time for her to get ready to leave and when she stood up, she was overcome with the feeling like she was going to throw up. She raced into the bath room and just made it in time. "Oh great", she thought. "I need a stomach virus like I need a hole in the head". She sat there for a while and when she felt a little better, stood up to start getting ready to head home and to Wade. As she was picking up her purse, she noticed the calendar on her desk. She always marked it with a big red X to show when it was 'that time of the month'. Well, looks like she missed it two weeks ago. Starting to panic, Zoe just paced back and forth trying to figure out if she just forgot to mark off the calendar. After this went on for a while she just said "The hell with it, I'll just grab a test and see what happens. There's no way that I'm pregnant anyway, but at least this will put that idea to rest". Zoe went into the bathroom and did the test then sat and waited for the results. When the five minutes were up, Zoe very carefully picked up the test to check the results…"OH MY GOD!", she yelled. "This can't be happening. How am I going to tell Wade about this? And worse yet…what if it's Judson's?" With that, Zoe totally broke down.