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Chapter 24 – Facing The Truth

Sam felt a hand patting her face, and a cool feeling on her forehead, she managed to open her eyes slowly and glanced around the room, her eyes struggling to recognise where she was.

"Mrs Turner, are you alright? Does anything hurt?" she heard a familiar voice say as she suddenly realised that she was in the doctor's office

"I'm pregnant?" she asked quietly

"Yes, not very far along though, and given your history you need to take things slowly, but you are indeed pregnant" Dr Pascoe said as he held out his hands to Sam

"I will be careful" Sam replied as she pulled herself up of the floor and went again to leave

"Mrs Turner, what are you going to tell your husband?" Dr Pascoe called after Sam as she began to disappear

"I don't know" Sam replied bluntly

"You need to make yourself an appointment to see another doctor; I can call you with a recommendation and forward your medical records for you"

"Thank you" Sam managed to utter, her mind unable to concentrate on what was happening

"I will have my receptionist call you later today; I assume that work is the best place to reach you"

"Yes that would be best" Sam replied quietly, as she wandered out of the office closing the door behind her, as soon as she was out of sight, she leant back against the wall and closed her eyes, what was she going to do now?

Sam was pregnant once again with Phil Hunter's child; history was repeating itself once more. Sam was confused; she didn't know what to do about this baby. In an ideal world, she knew she'd want to keep the baby. She knew that she wanted another child, Stuart couldn't give her that and perhaps, this might be her last chance.

However, this wasn't an ideal world. The other option open to her was to have an abortion, Stuart couldn't have kids and maybe, they just had to accept that they weren't meant to be parents together. Sam still loved Stuart, she knew that she did. Even now, she still loved him and somehow, even after finding out that she was pregnant with his child, Phil still seemed to be the riskier option. She didn't know how Phil truly felt about her, he'd told her he loved her but all Sam could think about was how many others he'd said those words to, and how many of those he'd let down. Sam didn't know what would happen. She had to make a decision and whatever her decision, it would have a big impact on her future.

Sam opened her eyes and looked around; she was still in the hospital corridor. Somehow, Sam hoped that everything that had happened this morning had been a terrible dream. It wasn't though, it was real. She sighed quietly to herself once more and began to walk down the corridor, towards the car park.

Sam parked her car outside Sun Hill Station about 20minutes later. She got out of her car and went upstairs to the main CID office. One thing she noticed was that Phil wasn't in the office, she sighed quietly to himself, maybe he was just out on a job but she thought that he might have just got out of the office to get out of seeing her. She still hadn't been able to rid herself of the look on his face when she ended things with him. Sam hadn't seen him since they'd had that conversation and she had no idea how he was coping.

She entered her office and sat down behind her desk, sighing quietly to herself once more. Sam was just about to open her desk drawer and pull out some paperwork when a knock on her door disturbed her from her thoughts. She half-hoped that it might have been Phil; she looked up and saw Jo stood in the doorway, 'what can I do for you Jo?' Sam asked.

'I've just had a case brought up to me and I was wondering if you wanted to help me out,'

Sam thought for a moment, 'yeah, why not Jo,' she said. 'What's the case?'

'Well, PC's Stamp and Hollis nicked a suspect who was in possession of counterfeit goods and we need to find out who's supplying him with the goods,'

'Sounds relatively stress-free,' Sam said, remembering what the doctor had said to her, about taking things easy.

Jo nodded, 'shall we go then?' Sam asked.

'Yeah, why not,' Jo replied.

Sam stood up and followed Jo out of her office and CID.

As predicted, the day was fairly stress-free for both Sam and Jo. The suspect gave up the name of his supplier, he was a shop owner who was trying to stop his business from going under and they were both charged. Sam finished writing up the paperwork for the job at about 5:30 that afternoon, she hadn't seen Phil all day, maybe he was avoiding her because of what she'd said. She sighed quietly to herself, she had hoped to see him today, just to clarify a few things in her head, the baby was now an issue too. Sam picked her stuff up and left the office, to head home to her husband, who in the end, she had chosen over her lover.

Sam pulled up outside her house about 10minutes later, she saw the lights on in her living room and Stuart's car in the driveway, meaning he was already home. It was raining so Sam ran from her car to unlock the door and entered the hallway, putting her bag down on the bottom of the stairs as she did so. 'Stuart!' she called as she walked down the hallway.

She peeked around the kitchen door, he wasn't there. 'In here!' Stuart finally called back.

Sam went through to the living room and saw Stuart sat on the sofa. 'Hey babe,' he said as he saw Sam stood in the doorway.

'Hey,' she replied as she sat down beside Stuart on the sofa.

'Sam…' Stuart started. 'I'm sorry about missing the appointment this morning, what did they say?'

Sam looked at him for a moment, she knew she couldn't tell him the truth, about his low sperm count and her pregnancy, she didn't know what he'd do, 'ummm,' Sam started. 'They said they needed a bit more time to look over the results, just to make sure their findings are accurate,' Sam lied.

'Did they say when?'

Sam shook her head, 'the doctor said he'd ring,' she said.

Stuart nodded. Silence descended between the couple. 'I'm gonna go out for a bit Stuart,' Sam finally said.

'What for?' Stuart asked

Sam stood up, 'I just need to clear my head,' she replied.

'But it's raining,'

'Then the rain might help,' Sam said vaguely as she left the living room, picked her bag up from the hallway and left the house.

Sam got into her car and drove off; she knew exactly where she was heading.

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