~~~Truth~~~

Beck spat blood out of his mouth and glared up at the woman standing over him.

"What the hell are you doing here?" he shouted, getting to his feet, heavily resisting the urge to hit her back.

"I might ask you the same question," Jade snarled. "Why are you here and not with Tori?"

Beck's jaw dropped and his eyes widened in surprise. "You decked me because I'm not with Tori?" he gaped.

Jade nodded. "I thought you were a better man than that, Beckett Oliver. I thought that you would have stuck it out with her. But no, you allowed her to leave! She is the best goddamned thing that ever happened to you and you let her go!"

Beck couldn't believe he was hearing these words come out of his ex-wife's mouth.

"Since when did you give a flying damn about Tori Vega?" he snarled.

"Ever since I found out she was pregnant!" Jade hurled back at him.

Beck's jaw fell to his knees again. He stared at her for a full two minutes before he found his voice.

"Pre-pregnant?" he whispered.

Jade nodded, fire in her dark eyes. "About eight months."

Beck's knees started knocking together. He lowered himself down on his shabby sofa and his head sank into his hands.

"Why didn't she tell me?" he whispered, finally lifting his eyes to look at her.

"You ignored her for the last few months of your marriage. You weren't there for her. You didn't die in that accident, Beck," she said quietly.

Beck looked away and stood up. He turned his muscular back towards her. "Yes, I did, Jadelyn."

"Well, then you look pretty good for a dead person, Beck. Cily's death was an accident. It was just that. An accident. What right do you have to let Tori leave like that? What right do you have to ignore Andie? What kind of a person are you? I thought you were better than me!"

Beck whirled around quickly. "You left me and Cily!" he snarled.

"I left her with you because I wanted her to have a better life than I could have given her!"

"Well, you made a mistake! I got her killed!" Beck's voice broke on the last word.

Jade's eyes filled with tears again. "You did not!" she shoued. "It was an accident, like I just said. It was an accident!"

"I wasn't paying attention. I should have been watching her. But I wasn't. I talking to Tori and I wasn't watching- I wasn't watching-" a sob escaped from Beck's lips.

Jade covered her mouth with her hand to stop her own sobs from escaping. "I just don't understand why you blame yourself. Why?" she let her sobs escape.

Beck swiped his hand across his streaming eyes. "Wouldn't you?"

Jade's mouth opened and closed wordlessly. "Yes, I would," she whispered after several moments.

Beck turned away from her again and stared out the window. Jade slowly approached him from behind.

"But in a situation like this, no matter how miserable I was, I wouldn't have left my family," she murmured.

Beck's shoulders began to shake in silent sobs. Jade gently placed a hand on the small of his back. "Tori needs you. You have a baby on the way. She needs you more than ever right now."

Beck twisted back around to look at her and discovered she was gone, leaving him wondering if he had imagined the whole thing.

Tori sighed, stretching herself out on the sofa. She had just gotten home from her final OBGYN appointment and was really tired. Trina had had to go into work so Tori had a cab truck her home. She was due in two days and was so excited. Even Andie was getting excited about the baby that was on the way. He wanted to be a big brother again.

She had decided against finding out what she was going to have. But she did have names picked out. For a boy, she chose Juan Carlitos Vega II after her dad. For a girl, she chose one of the oddest names out there. Trina hated it but she didn't care.

Jessamyn Cecily Vega for a baby girl. Jessamyn was a name she had been attracted to for a very long time. And Cecily... man, she mised Cily. Cily should be there to witness her baby brother or sister's birth.

Suddenly, the doorbell ringing pulled her out of her thoughts.

"Coming!" she shouted at the door.

She took a couple of minutes to heave her giant belly up off the sofa. She waddled over to the door and pulled it open.

"Beck?"

Beck's coffee eyes bored into her chocolate brown ones for a moment. They feasted on her beautiful face. Then they traveled down her body and landed on her belly. Her extremely pregnant belly. Despite everything, everything that had happened, she was still the most beautiful, amazing, gorgeous creature he had ever seen in his whole entire miserable life.

Tori's eyes took in the man she loved. He had changed so dramatically over the past nine months. The last time she had seen him, his eyes had been sunken in and looked like two chunks of black ice. Now, his face was fuller and more alive looking. He had even grown a beard. But his eyes...his eyes still looked deadened.

He was more muscular than she had ever seen him in her whole life. His shoulders were broader from the months of construction working, he even stood a bit taller.

The thing that scared Tori the most was his hair.

His beautiful black locks were gone.

He had cut off his gorgeous black hair.

"So it's true," Beck finally choked out.

Tori ran her hands protectively across her enormous belly. "Me being pregnant? Yep."

"It's-"

"Yours? Uh-huh."

Extremely irritated, Tori turned back into her home, leaving the door open. She crossed her arms across her chest, resting them on top of her pregnant belly. Beck slowly shuffled into the home and closed the door behind him.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked quietly.

"Because of all the reasons that Jade told you!" she snapped. "Why are you here, Beck? You don't have a responsibility to me!"

"But I had a right to know!" he snapped back. "You should have at least told me!" "Why, Beck? You were always gone."

"I was right there!"

"No, you weren't! You may have been right there but you were not! You were gone! I couldn't put myself and Andie through that anymore. You were a zombie," Tori snarled, tears of anger starting to brim in her eyes.

"If you had just told me, Tori, I could have found a way to be there!" Beck shot back.

"That's bullshit and you know it! You damn well know it! You were too pent up in your own goddamned grief over Cily that you forgot that you still had family. You still had me and you still had Andie. But you ignored that heartbroken little boy and you ignored me. You were gone!"

"I would have found a way!" he yelled back.

"No, you wouldn't've!" Tori snapped. "Don't lie to me, Beckett. You wouldn't have been there." The angry tears finally spilled over onto her cheeks. She quickly swiped them away with the back of her hand.

Beck stared into her tearstained face and realized she was right. He wouldn't have been there for her.

"Cily...Cily was my daughter. I had a right to grieve-" his voice broke.

"Of course you do," Tori's voice was softer. "But you acted like Cily was all you had. You still had Andie and me. But you forgot that. You know how Andie used to call me Momma or Mommy? He calls me Mom now. Or Mother. He won't call me Mommy anymore. It was like...like he was forced to grow up so much faster than he wanted to. He could still be a little boy before all of this happened. But not anymore! He's six years old and acts 30!"

Beck's jaw was clenched so tightly it was doubtful he would be able to unlock it. Now it was his turn for his eyes to fill up with angry tears. He had missed Tori and Andie so much ever since they had left but didn't allow himself to go after them. His stupid pride told him that he could make it on his own. That he could make it through this.

But he was wrong. The woman he loved more than life itself was standing right in front of him, heavily pregnant with his child. He had made the stupid, absolutely absurb mistake of letting her and that beautiful little boy go. If he had just fought harder, if he had just come to his senses sooner, he could still have his family.

"I'm sorry," he whispered, his voice cracking with the emotion. "Tori, I am so sorry..."

"Just get out," she breathed, swiping her hand across her face. "Please, just go away. I'm getting my life back together. My son...my son and I are doing fine. And so will this baby."

Beck opened his mouth and then closed it. He sighed and turned back towards the door. "Fine," he said quietly. "Fine."

With that, he walked out of the house and shut the door behind him. Tears stung his eyes and began to slowly fall down his face as he heard Tori yell in anger. But then that yell turned into a scream of agony.

"Tori?" He quickly ran back inside the house and found Tori collapsed on the floor, blood pooling beneath her.

"Beck, please don't let it happen again! Please!" she sobbed, letting out another scream of pain.

Love the cliffhangers! Haha!