Chapter number 21. Mothers love

"Knock knock" Ruth called out as she knocked on the front door of Martha's apartment with Brett close behind her.

"Come in" Martha called back getting up just as the door opened and her mum's head appeared.

"Hey" Ruth squealled running to hug her daughter.

"Hey mum" Martha grinned, hugging her back before looking to see who was behind her, she guessed he was her dad.

Without any hesistation, she fell into his arms that were wide open, "Hey dad" she whispered looking up at him.

Brett smiled it was the first time he'd heard someone call him dad before, and he liked it. "Hey princess" he beamed.

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Later that night: 7:03 pm

Ruth and Martha sat in the loungue room of the appartment above the diner, Brett had left a few minutes before to book a hotel room since there was only one spare room in the appartment and they'd agreed that Roo should have it.

"Mum can I ask you something?"

"Yeah of course you can sweety" Roo answered, ready to listen like she always had been when Martha needed her.

Martha hesitated for a minute, trying to find the right words, but then decided to say it how it was, "When you had me, did you... did you ever consider having an abortion?"

"Well not really, your father suggested it but-" she stopped to think. "not that he doesn't want you now, he-" she shot out, before Martha stopped her.

"Mum it's ok, I get it, he was younger then and had other priorities" she giggled.

"Yeah" she sighed. "Anyway, why do you ask?"

"Well... Mum, I've done something really stupid" she started.

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Jack walked into the front of the Hunter/Holden house sliding his feet along the ground as he walked and dragged his bag along the ground behind him.

"Hey mate how's it going?" Tony asked poking his head out of the kitchen and coming into the living room.

"Yeah real great" Jack started sarcastically, "I've had a mountain of paper work to do, I slept with my best friend, Sam's never coming back and my lifes a complete nightmare. Yeah dad things are real great" he finnished, walking straight past him into the kitchen and getting a beer out of the fridge.

"Jack-"

"You don't need to feel sorry for me dad" Jack shot out, before storming off to his room like a todler having a tantrum.

"God help me" Tony sighed to himself, this was just great.

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"I had no idea" Ruth said sympathetically, "you should of called me, you know I would have been over here on the next flight". She'd just heard everything, right from Ash, to sleeping with Jack.

"Yeah I know, I guess I was just bottling up, I wasn't admitting I needed help from anyone" Martha explained, her eyes starting to fill with tears. "And I still keep doing it too. After Jack came and found me crying to pulled myself together again and pretended I was fine, and then you and Dad came I guess I just blocked it all out again" she added, "I don't know what to do".

"Well I don't know eather" Roo told her calmly, "I wish I could tell you how to handle it but I can't". Martha just nodded as Ruth pulled her into a motherly hug. "Let it all out" she soothed rubbing her hand up and down her daughters back, "let it all out".

The two girls stayed like that for a few minutes, the only sounds were the ones coming from Martha as she sobbed. Slowly she started to calm down moving away from Ruth and sitting up again grabbing a tissue from the tissue box on the coffee table and blowing her nose.

"I know I said I couldn't fix anything for you, but there one thing I can fix for you" Ruth told her, digging for something in her handbag.

"What's that?"

"Well if you slept with this guy thismorning you've still got time..." she drifted off.

"Time for what?" Martha asked, puzzled at what her mum was trying to get at.

"Here we go" she said, pulling out a small bottle of pills, "morning after pill" she explained, opening it and getting one out, putting it in Martha's hand.

"Thanks" Martha smiled through her still slightly watery eyes, "so what are you doing with those then?"

"It's a long story" Ruth shot out, "but how about I go and get us some dinner from downstairs, your father should be back soon".

"Yeah, sounds good" she replied, getting up off the couch and walking to the kitchen to get a glass of water to take the pill with as Roo dissapeared out the door.

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