Hello again, yes I know that it has been more than half a year since I've updated and I know that you're all annoyed with me but Fanfiction has been the last thing on my mind for quite some time. For quite a few months now I've been battling against depression and have been questioning whether my life is actually worth living. I've been going to that many therapy sessions and have even made several suicide attempts, so hopefully as you can understand Fanfiction hasn't exactly been on top of my to do list.

I'm still in depression so I'm not sure when I'll next update. But for now, heres the new chapter. I hope you like it. Sorry if it's not as good as any other chapter but this was just written of the top of my head in about ten minutes.

Chapter Twenty Five

Ruby's POV

I could only think of the same two words over and over again in my head.

Holy Shit.

Holy Shit.

Holy Shit!

I was pregnant, with T.J.'s child. I mean, I knew how babies were created and stuff but I didn't realise that this would actually happen after one night! It shouldn't be happening to me, anyone but me!

Sure Breeze could say that she's ready to have a child, but I'm not. I'm anything but ready.

If I described my feelings to anyone, they would surely say "Why don't you get rid of it then?". I couldn't though, that was one thing I just could not push myself to do; no matter how bleak the situation may look to me.

I didn't believe in abortion. I hated murder, and that's pretty much what abortion was to me. Murder.

I stared at the phone in front of me nervously. Was I really going to call T.J and tell him that I was going to be the mother of his child?

Yes, I was. I had to.

With my hands shaking, I dialled him and waited.

Please don't pick up. For your sake, for my sake, for the world's sake…

"Hello? Rubes?"

Damnit.

"T.J, I need to tell you something" I said, cutting straight to the point. I was slightly distracted, I could picture his face over the phone, the golden fur, the soft muzzle, the cute nose, the long bangs and those gorgeous blue eyes…

I mentally slapped myself to get back on track.

"Uh, sure. What's up?" he asked, sounding confused.

My throat went dry for a moment, the words were stuck in my throat but I quickly forced them out as though I were throwing them up.

"I'm pregnant and you're the only person I've ever had sex with!" I said in a rush, the tears started to fall from my eyes. I was so scared. What would his reaction be? What was he going to say? Oh T.J, say something you gorgeous, hot bastard!

"Holy shit" he whispered.

Funny how I said the exact same thing when I found out I was pregnant.

"Can you say something else?" I asked, feeling more ill by the minute.

Silence, then, "Well, I dunno… I mean… Shit. I really don't know what else to say" said T.J.

"Well, are you happy? Angry? Sad? Just give me something other than 'shit'!" I almost yelled. I just wanted to know how he was feeling about this, I needed to hear his opinion otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep all night.

He was silent again before murmuring, "I'll be right over". He hung up straight afterwards, almost causing me to yell out in frustration. I wasn't going to last, I wasn't going to last at all…

Ten minutes later, I heard a knock on the apartment door and I hesitated for a while even though I knew very well who it was on the other side. Slowly, I left the comfort of my couch and approached the door and opened it to see a slightly ruffled TJ who looked as though he rushed here as fast as possible.

We just stared at each other before he pulled me into a hug, I was still numb from the shock of being pregnant so my brain didn't comprehend to hug him back. I cried instead, feeling more confused than ever.

"Hey, c'mon Rubes; don't cry, please?" he said, pulling up my face to meet his. It was kind of funny, he's a few years younger than me and he already towered over me by half a head.

"But I don't know what to do!" I wailed, "I don't think I'm ready but I don't want to get rid of the baby, and then there's you and then there's my dad and then-"

"Hey, whoa! You're goin' a mile a minute here!" he chuckled as he walked us over to the couch. When we were seated he began speaking again, "You probably don't think you're ready 'cause you think that I'm not going to want to have anything to do with the baby, right?"

When he said that, it kind of made sense so I nodded. TJ pulled me closer in his hug and said, "Well you don't have to worry about that part then, 'cause I won't leave you. This whole thing with the baby is as much my fault as it is- Actually, it's mainly my fault if you think about it… It's my soldiers that make the move, not me"

I giggled and blushed at his remark, but his words made me feel a whole lot better. He wasn't going to leave me… we were going to be a family. Then I remembered the issue with my dad.

"Daddy's going to kill you, you do realise that. Remember what happened with Midnight and Sonic?" I said with a giggle.

TJ's muzzle paled considerably as he remembered too, but he swallowed and replied, "Well… You're going to have to do this sort of stuff anyway so what's the difference between now and ten years in the future?"

"Good point"

"But still… Maybe I should stay at least ten feet away from him for a while…" murmured TJ, causing me to laugh.

"So you mean it? We're going to go through this together?" I asked with hope, as if this was all a good dream that I was going to wake up from any minute now.

TJ smiled at me and then said, "Yep, you, me," he placed his hand on my stomach, "And the kid"

So this was why Breeze was so happy when she became pregnant. I could not put in words the way I was feeling. It was just pure happiness, and maybe even more than that. I was going to have a baby and my boyfriend was going to stand by me all of the way.

This is what it's like to have dreams come true…

Once again, sorry for the wait. But I can't guarnantee when the next update will be...

Thank you for you're patience and I hope that you can understand my reasons for not updating.