Piece of Mind
12 weeks pregnant
Three weeks had passed and not a word or spotting of John Cena or Jake Miller. They were clearly not hiding anywhere in town since not only did the local PD knock on literally every door in town but the FBI was out in full force in town looking for both Cena and Miller. They were not happy about the shady behavior from one of their own and it all scared Levesque and his people who were now being probed by the FBI as well.
"Are you sure this is ok?" AJ asked Punk as they walked back into their apartment with Charger after being in a hotel for 3 weeks.
"They're long gone." Punk told her. "Doesn't mean we're going to stop looking."
"I trust you." She said simply then looked around the apartment and frowned. "Phil our stuff is gone."
"Oh yea I guess it is." Punk said looking around.
"Were we robbed?" She asked him alarmed. "My comics!" she yelled running into the spare room.
"AJ relax." he laughed. "I moved our stuff."
"Why?" she asked suspiciously.
"Because we're moving." Punk said to her simply. "We're just here to back some essentials."
"Phil were are we moving?" AJ asked him curiously.
"Your house." He said with a grin.
"How is that even possible?" AJ asked him. "It can't be right."
"Turns out while the Feds were looking for Cena the money he used to buy your house was 'borrowed' from Levesque I'm sure they just wanted him near, the money was pulled the house went back on the market and yours truly snuck in and purchased it." Punk stated proudly.
"Are you kidding?" she asked him.
"It would be a pretty cruel joke wouldn't it?" Punk teased. "Come on our bed and stuff is there plus I went to storage and got some of your old stuff out- "
"Is this for real?" she asked crying, crying was something AJ found herself doing a lot. The most famous incident was when Punk ate the last slice of pizza a week ago. She was very, VERY hormonal.
"Yes for real. Thankfully Cena barely moved anything and that's when I started moving stuff in." Punk said to her. "It was a quick process."
"How come you didn't tell me?" She asked him.
"Because I wanted to surprise you, not make you cry." He smirked.
"I'm crying happy tears." she grinned leaning up and kissing him.
AJ stepped into her home and was thrilled to see it looked pretty much the same. The small rug by the door was back, her living room furniture was back, the kitchen was the same- it was amazing.
"Come upstairs." he said grabbing her hand and leading her upstairs. "Only issue was that our big bed that you insisted we have didn't fit into your old room."
"It only fit in my mothers room I'm sure." She said standing outside her mom's door.
"I put it in there and set our room up there but if you want it moved I understand." he said to her.
"Let me see." AJ said and Punk opened the door and the room was completely transformed, freshly painted and with her and Punk's furniture from their apartment. He even added a nice chair for the corner of the room and a picture of the two of them on her side of the bed along with a photo of her mother.
"What do you think?" he asked.
"I really like it." she smiled. "It's perfect."
"Are you sure? I can change it back and we can get a smaller bed and move across the hall." He offered.
"No this is right." She said to him wit a smile.
"You want to see what I did to your old room?" he asked her.
"How did you get all of this done?" AJ asked him. "Were you not at the police station when you said you were going?"
"Well in all fairness I had help." Punk said stopping outside her old room. "Shawn, his sons, a few guys from the station."
"Let me see the room. That's the baby's room right?" she asked him.
"It's not much because we're still not sure what we're having." he warned her.
"Just open it." She grinned bouncing on the balls of her feet.
The room was painted a light gray which would be fine for either a boy or a girl and there was only a large reclining chair in the corner and a changing table in the room. There was a lot of room for toys, crib and more.
"The chair is for those late nights." Punk smirked. "Didn't want to pick a crib without you and the changing table is from Shawn and Cheryl. They used it for all of their kids and say it's good luck if you believe in that."
"I remember it." AJ said running her hands over the wooden table.
"We're also going to get something smaller for our room." He told her. "But it's still really early."
"It is but this is going to be perfect." She said to him. "Do you think we could put carpet down in here?" she asked looking at the wood floor.
"Yea of course." he said to her. "I was thinking the same thing."
"And we can paint the walls something that doesn't remind me of a hospital?" she asked.
"It's just a base coat." He smirked. "Whatever you want to do."
"I do like the chair a lot." AJ grinned falling into the comfortable chair and placing her hands on her stomach.
"You're starting to show." Punk said nodding towards her small bump.
"I know I realized it this morning when I couldn't get my jeans on a few days ago." She smirked. "I can't believe I'm home again."
"I promised you, didn't I?" he asked her.
"You did." She had to agree. "You haven't let me down yet."
"Why do you seem so hesitant?" Punk asked leaning in the doorway.
"It's just all too good to be true." she said to him. "I mean after Jake was arrested the first time I still lived in constant fear and just waited for the day for him to finish what he started."
"He's not getting in this house." Punk said to her. "Not only am I getting all new locks put in and a great big fence for the yard-"
"A fence?" she frowned.
"Yes AJ because we're going to have a baby and I don't want the baby running off." He smirked. "Also this way Charger can spend more time outside and it's ten times safer. I promise you'll love it."
"I trust you." She smiled.
"Ok so big fence and state of the art alarm system for inside the house." he said to her.
"What about the windows in here? We're going to get them child proofed right?" she asked him.
"That I can do myself." Punk said to her and she smirked. "What? I can do it myself I'm very handy."
"You couldn't even fix my coffee pot." she snorted.
"Give me some credit here." He laughed. "I'll take care of everything but like I said we have plenty of time."
"I can't believe you bought this house." she said to him. "I always wanted my children to grow up here despite what happened because my mom made this the happiest place for me regardless."
"I know and I know how important it was to you. Your dad tried to buy back the house, thought you should know that." Punk said to her. "I don't think he's pleased he lost to me."
"Does he know?" she asked.
"I think so." Punk said to her.
"This will be the first place Jake looks for me though." AJ noted.
"Stop thinking about him." Punk said to her. "Trust me this town is on FBI lock down it's the safest it's been in years."
"What do you think happened to John?" She asked him.
"Hopefully got killed by Jake." Punk said bluntly and AJ glared at him. "He's a marked man AJ he's wanted by the FBI, Levesque, this department and probably Jake Miller- he's not coming back so stop worrying about all of this." he said to her.
16 weeks pregnant
The house was finally done. They added new furniture, pictures on the wall and worked on the baby nursery. Punk was back at work and so was AJ who still insisted on working. Even though the house was back her allowance from her father was still gone and she didn't feel right asking Punk for money when they weren't even married.
"Hey is Detective Brooks around?" AJ asked the officer at the front desk.
"Him and Detective Michaels are interviewing a suspect but you can have a seat at his desk." the officer told her.
AJ sat at his desk and twirled in the chair slightly and looked around the quiet station. Things were really back to normal in town and now she was just focused on preparing for the baby. Her cell phone rang and she smiled when she saw the name on it.
"Hi Roe." AJ greeted Punk's mother who literally called her twice a day to check in on her and AJ always had a ton of questions and she was so helpful. "Nope no kicking yet just fluttering still." she told her. "No he hasn't baby proofed yet but I don't think he even knows how to." AJ didn't realize Punk was standing over her now.
"Who is that?" Punk asked her.
"It's your mother." She mouthed to him.
"Give it." He said holding out his hand.
"She called to talk to me." AJ said to him annoyed. "I have baby questions."
"Oh ok." Punk said to her with a roll of his eyes.
"She's at your desk more than you are." Shawn teased settling into his chair.
"So sex is really ok?" AJ asked loudly and Punk's face dropped as Shawn held back a laugh. "No we have, it's just a few weeks after I got sick he's been such a prude around me."
"Jesus AJ really? That's my mother." Punk hissed at her.
"I know and I keep telling him that Roe..." AJ trailed off ignoring him. "...soon I'll be too big and then he'll want sex and be so disgusted by me that he'll find it with another woman!"
"AJ!" Punk snapped.
"Your mom wants to talk to you." AJ said holding the phone out to him.
"I'm going to kill you." He mouthed to her. "Hey Ma." He greeted walking off with the phone.
"You're driving him nuts." Shawn laughed.
"It's a gift." AJ shrugged with a smile.
"Getting excited huh?" Shawn asked nodding towards her still small bump.
"I am." She admitted. "I just wish my mom was here."
"Oh she's here." Shawn said without hesitation. "She's keeping you and that baby safe."
"Really I thought that was Phil." She teased.
"How do you think he got here?" Shawn smirked. "You know I believe everything happens for a reason."
"So there hasn't been anything on Jake or John?" AJ asked him.
"Nah." Shawn said to her. "A lot of people are starting to believe that Levesque took them both out so they wouldn't talk."
"That would make sense." AJ said to him.
"I don't now how much Punk believes it but the more time that passes the more likely it seems." Shawn said to her.
"Did you really call my mother to talk about sex?" Punk asked passing her back her phone.
"Phil I have needs." AJ said simply. "You wouldn't listen to me or the doctors so I thought your mother could help."
"Here's a tip honey having my mother tell me to have sex with you isn't going to get you laid." He smirked.
"I'm a Christian over here." Shawn pointed out with a laugh.
"Sorry." both Punk and AJ mumbled. "What are you doing here anyway?" Punk asked AJ as he pulled a chair over so he could sit at his own desk.
"I got off work early and you had the car so I walked over here." she said to him.
"I'll give you a ride home." He said to him.
"Take the rest of the day." Shawn insisted. "I'll finish up here."
"Are you sure?" Punk asked him.
"Yea I just have to finish the paperwork." Shawn assured him. "Have a good night."
"Can we go out to dinner?" AJ asked standing up. "My treat."
"Sure." he smirked
"Vicki's?" She suggested.
"Is there anywhere else?" He mocked.
Punk and AJ were both waiting for their food while AJ looked at baby cribs online to order.
"What about this one?" she asked passing him his phone.
"That one is ok." Punk said to her. "What about this one?" he asked showing her a different one.
"Whatever you want." AJ shrugged.
"What's wrong Ape?" he asked folding his hands and leaning over the table.
"It's nothing." She shrugged mixing her water and ice with her straw.
"It's obviously something." He said to her. "Are you going to make me interrogate you?"
"No." She said with a faint smile.
"Seriously what's wrong with you?" he asked her.
"If I wasn't pregnant would you still be with me?" she asked him.
"What? Of course." He said to her.
"I feel like our entire relationship is consumed by the baby and don't get me wrong it's great and all but our entire lives are going to be consumed by the baby and I kind of want us time." she said to him.
"The sex thing makes me nervous since you've been so weak." He admitted.
"I'm not though anymore." She assured him. "I'm passed that stage and now I'm in the new stage."
"What's the new stage?" he asked her.
"The horny stage." She said bluntly and Punk looked around to make sure no one was listening.
"We'll have sex ok?" He whispered. "You've already ratted on me to my mom about it."
"I don't want you to do it because you feel forced into it I want you to want me like you used to." she said to him. "When we first met you couldn't keep your hands off of me and now you barely kiss me."
"We've been busy and like I said you've been tired and fainting all over the place since you got pregnant if I start kissing you I won't be able to stop." he said to her.
"Is it because I put on weight?" she asked him.
"Of course not." He said to her. "You're gorgeous."
"My boobs have even gotten bigger! See?" She said pulling her shirt down slightly.
"Yes I see and so does everyone else here." He said to her.
"I thought that was you." Nick greeted walking over to the table.
"Nick." AJ smiled. "It's been a long time."
"Yes it has, Detective." He greeted Punk who just gave AJ's ex an annoyed head nod. "AJ you look fantastic there's definitely something different about you and I'm not just talking about that great hair cut you got."
"You noticed." AJ blushed running her hands through her slightly shorter hair that Punk clearly never noticed.
"You put on a little weight and I'm not knocking you, you look absolutely ravishing." Nick smiled telling AJ all of the things she wanted to hear.
"That's really sweet." AJ smiled.
"She put on weight because she's pregnant- with my kid." Punk informed Nick annoyed.
"Oh." Nick said with a nervous smile. "That's great, congrats."
"Thank you Nick." AJ smiled.
"I'll uh- see you around." Nick said quickly and walked off.
"Why did you do that?" AJ asked Punk.
"Why were you letting him hit on you like that?" Punk asked back.
"He was just saying nice things it's nice to hear once in a while." she said folding her arms. "Saying things like that to me goes a long way."
Late that night AJ was in bed already when Punk came out of the shower and let out a defeated sigh as he got into the bed.
"Ape." he said shaking her shoulder.
"I'm awake." She said looking at the wall.
"Could you turn and look at me?" Punk asked her and she reluctantly turned around to face him. "I get it ok? I've neglected our relationship and you in particular."
"You've been great to me, getting me back my home and helping with everything I just miss our connection." She frowned.
"Or is this because of something else?" he asked her.
"Like what?" She asked.
"Are you upset because I haven't proposed or something?" he asked her nervously.
"No." She said to him. "I like where we are- or at least I did. Besides if I'm feeling this way the last thing I want is to get married."
"Ouch." He remarked coldly.
"I just want to go back to normal." She said to him. "I want you to touch me and be with me. Sex isn't everything but it's important and it makes me feel attractive and wanted and it makes me think I'm contributing to this relationship."
"You're the one carrying the baby so your contribution is the most important." he smirked. "I told you I've just been nervous I don't want to make you or the baby sick."
"The baby and I are a lot stronger." She said to him. "So now I think it's because you're sick of me."
"Trust me if I was sick of you I wouldn't be here, I wouldn't leave work early whenever I could to just come home to you." He said to her. "I have been really
busy trying to get this place together for you as well."
"I know." She sighed. "I just don't want you to get bored and leave."
"Bored? You think you bore me?" He laughed.
"I'm pretty boring." she said seriously and he let out a laugh.
"You are anything but boring." Punk grinned. "You are the most exciting person that I know."
"Not really. Exciting and scary things just happen to me." she corrected.
"No way. You own every comic book that I do, you're exciting." He laughed. "And beautiful." he added kissing her. "And smart." he added with another kiss. "And brave." another kiss.
When the kiss began to deepen AJ pulled away and looked at him carefully.
"Really?" he asked annoyed.
"Are we going to have sex because you want me or because you feel pressured into it?" she asked him and he rolled his eyes.
"What do you think?" he asked grabbing her hand and placing it against his hardening member. "I love you." he told her honestly. "You and the baby are my life now."
"So even if I don't look the same after the baby you'll still love me?" she asked him.
"I'd love you just as much if not more." he said to her seriously.
AJ grabbed his face and rolled onto him as she kissed him. Punk made quick work of stripping her and she returned the favor as she ripped away at his clothes. They kissed for what felt like hours as she ran her body up and down his stomach and his hands pinched and grabbed anywhere he could.
"I really have missed this." He said to her.
"I've missed having you like this." she smiled kissing him again. "Pretty soon I'll be too big for this." She smirked and adjusted herself so her back was to him.
Punk laid back and watched as AJ laid her body forward and stroked him. She began to suck on him a bit and her ass was right in his face. He ran his hands over her rear and placed kissed there as she continued to play with him.
"Uh babe." He warned and she lifted her head and looked over her shoulder to look at him. "You're gonna have to stop that if you want anything out of this night."
"I was just getting to the good part." she frowned.
"Really?" He mocked.
AJ lifted her hips and with her back still towards him slid onto him so she was reverse straddling him. AJ began to rise and fall over her all the while making the sweetest sounds, it had been a long time for both of them. Punk sat up and wrapped his arm around her waist and laid back so she was laying across his body and lifted his hips into her so she can relax and he could do most of the work for her. Punk's hand that was at her stomach moved south and began to massage her in her sensitive nub while moving his hips rapidly.
"Oh fuck." she groaned feeling herself cum already.
"Sensitive huh?" he asked in her ear and she just nodded.
"Keep going." She encouraged.
Punk kept moving but slowed his pace as he continued to gently massage her. Her head rested against his chest and she had the cutest smile on her face. Punk moved into her and played with her for a longer period of time until she came again and he finally gave into his own release as well.
"That was good." Punk admitted feeling a weight lifted off him as he basked in the afterglow of great sex. "Let's make a pact to not go this long ever again." he said but when she didn't respond and when he turned his head he saw she was already sleeping and snoring lightly. He had to let out a small laugh as he rolled onto his side and kissed her cheek before fully covering her with the blankets.
18 weeks pregnant
"I have to leave early today." Punk told Shawn the minute he entered the station.
"Something going on?" Shawn asked.
"AJ has a doctors appointment." Punk said to him.
"How is she feeling?" Shawn asked him.
"Well she eats like animal and still barely looks pregnant. Is that even normal?" Punk asked him.
"Some women carry small, Cheryl carried big but my sister only looked pregnant in the 8th month. AJ is already tiny." Shawn said to him.
"Well it's a big appointment because I want to make sure she's really eating right also we might find the sex of the baby." Punk told him and Shawn smiled wide.
"So you two want to know?" Shawn asked him.
"AJ is the most impatient woman I have ever met in my entire life and she's busting to know for sure." Punk said to him. "She keeps googling ways to figure it out without a doctor, if you're carrying high the myth is it's a girl."
"She is carrying high." Shawn noted.
"But then she has other symptoms of a boy." Punk added. "She's going nuts."
"Maybe twins." Shawn laughed.
"If she is having twins in there then we have a problem because she's so small." Punk said to him. "She's excited to find out."
"What about you?" Shawn asked.
"I want a healthy kid." Punk shrugged. "And I may or may not be a little excited."
"Do you have any thoughts? Any guesses?" Shawn asked casually.
"Why?" Punk asked warily.
"There may or may not be a bet going around at the station on whether you're having a boy or a girl." Shawn said to him.
"Are you kidding me? You guys have nothing better to do?" Punk asked him.
"No." Shawn said simply.
"What's winning?" Punk asked him.
"Boy by a landslide but you keep referring to the baby as 'her'." Shawn said to him. "So that's where I dropped my fifty."
"Fifty bucks?" Punk asked.
"We're not big into football here." Shawn shrugged.
"Here." Punk said reaching into his wallet. "Put a $100 on girl."
"I picked the right gender." Shawn said happily taking the $100.
"So now that you're inching closer how nervous are you?" Shawn asked.
"You know what? Not at all." Punk said to him.
"Really? I remember freaking out when Cheryl was carrying Becky. Would she hate me? Would I be able to keep her safe? Would she meet a terrible man and replace me with him?" Shawn said remembering it.
"Thanks for all those fun questions." Punk said annoyed. "I will tell you this, the longer Jake Miller is gone I wonder if my kid is ever going to have a run in with him or if I have a daughter will she have the same issues as AJ did?"
"April didn't have a father." Shawn pointed to him. "I'm not saying if Robert actually took an interest AJ the Miller incident wouldn't have happened but I do wonder how it would have played it out differently."
"I've thought about it too." Punk admitted. "It's a shame. When really Robert getting the RO against Jake is what really set him off to begin with."
"Again not saying he was wrong." Shawn added. "And April's mother did a fantastic job raising her but maybe if she had a present father Jake Miller wouldn't have gotten as far as he did and I have a strong feeling that if it was your daughter you would have ended Jake Miller before he sniffed her hair the first time."
"You're not wrong." Punk admitted quietly.
"But hey, go back to being positive and happy!" Shawn laughed.
"You just put all of this terrible stuff in my head!" Punk argued.
"Detectives!" Officer Daniels yelled dramatically racing towards them from across the station, even tripping and dropping his paperwork but picking himself back up and running towards them.
"Woah there." Shawn chuckled. "Something you want to tell us Daniels?" he teased.
"Jake Miller." He stated out of breath.
"What about him?" Punk asked.
"I just got a call from Glenda on Howser street- she saw him!" he shouted.
"He's on the street?" Punk asked standing up as did Shawn.
"He was in a car and stopped at the stop sign to let her pass." Daniels told them. "He was heading east on Brunsiwick ave."
"Get everyone on it." Shawn ordered as he and Punk raced out of the station.
"I've got to get to AJ." Punk told him as it hit him the first place he'd go would be to AJ.
"She's home?" Shawn asked getting into the car.
"No work." Punk said to him. "You hit the street and I'll go get her."
"Alright call me when you've secured her." Shawn said to him.
Punk opened the door to the hardware shop that wasn't locked and panicked when he didn't see AJ.
"AJ!" He yelled out but the story was completely empty. He saw her purse and phone behind the counter and made his way towards the bathroom and saw it was empty as well. "Oh my god." he muttered as his shaking hand reached into to his pocket and called Shawn. "She's not here. Her stuff is here- but she's not- he got her!"
AJ slowly came to and she realized she was tied to a chair with something around her mouth to keep her quiet. Her head was spinning and she felt like vomiting as she tried to remember what happened.
"You're ok." A voice assured her.
AJ's eyes slowly moved across the room and there was Agent John Cena giving her a serious, yet concerned face.
"Everything is going to be ok." John promised not moving from the dark corner of the room he was in.