Chapter 25

The EMT's rushed through the doors of the ER pushing the stretcher. "Patient is a sixteen year old female. Approximately five months pregnant." one of them filled in the doctor that came over to them.

They wheeled her through on of the doors and Manny, Jay, and Sean tried to follow him. "I'm sorry I can't let you guys back here yet." the doctor told them as the doors closed. Sean sighed as he sat down in one of the chairs. Manny sat down next to him and rubbed his back before wrapping her arms around him.

They sat in silence for a moment until Jay spoke up. "Did anyone call Simpson or her mom?"

Sean's eyes widened just a bit. "It's ok, Sean. We'll take care of it." Manny said trying to keep both herself and him calm. "Jay?" He nodded and went into the waiting room to call Emma's parents.

"I shouldn't have yelled at her, Manny." Sean said quietly. "I should've just let it go. Now I could lose the both of them."

"You can't think like that." Manny said not wanting to think of a world without her best friend in it. "Both of them are gonna be fine."

Jay walked back into the hallway. "Spike's on her way. She has to drop Jack off at Joey's first."

They all sat there waiting for the doctor to come back through the doors. Not too long after Jay called her Spike showed up. Sean, who had been pacing, looked over at her when he heard footsteps behind him.

"Is she ok? What about the baby?" She asked Jay who was sitting next to a sleeping Manny. She then realized who else was there with them.

"It's ok. I already know." she breathed a slight sigh of relieve knowing that she hadn't let her daughter's secret slip.

Jay shook his head. "No one's come out and told us anything yet." Just as he said that one of the doctor's came out of the double doors. Jay shook Manny's shoulder slightly to wake her up.

"Are you all here for Miss Nelson?" he asked walking over to them.

"Is she alright?" Spike asked him.

"We're still running tests to see what caused her to faint but she is awake right now." he said before sighing. "There is some bad news though. We have yet to pick up a heartbeat from the baby. We haven't told her as of yet so when you go back to see her please act as if everything is normal. Also she's been asking for someone by the name of Jay."

"Can we see her now?" Manny asked with tears in her eyes.

"As soon as we have her set up in her room I'll send one of the nurses to come get you." As the doctor walked off Spike walked over to Sean and wrapped her arms around him as Jay held tight to his girlfriend.

"It's gonna be ok." she whispered as she felt hot tear drops fall onto her shoulder. "She's going to be ok. Their both going to be alright." she said holding tight to the sobbing boy.

After what felt like hours to the four gathered in the hallway a nurse finally came out to take them back to her room. They all went back the room they had put her in. The nurse had told them only one at a time for now. They had decided since Emma had asked for him to let Jay go in first.

Jay walked into the room and saw her laying there. She looked so small. "Hey Greenpiece." he said getting her attention. "Gave us quite the scare today."

"Yea I guess I did." she said smiling slightly. "Is the baby ok?" she asked him.

Jay hesitated not wanting to be the one to give her the fate of her unborn baby. "Yea the little guy's fine."

Emma glared at him. "Don't lie to me Jason."

Jay sighed. "I'm already dealing with two people freaked out about it right now. Just listen to me for once. He is going to be fine." Emma sighed and decided to just go with his explanation for now.

While Jay was in the room with Emma the doctor came up to Spike, Sean and Manny. "The results are back from the tests we ran earlier."

"Is my baby girl alright?" Spike asked him.

"Your daughter has a condition called pregnancy-induced hypertension. It occurs a lot in young women during their first pregnancies. Has your daughter had a lot of stress on her lately?" When the doctor asked Spike that Manny glared over at Sean who sunk down in his seat.

"She has finals at school coming up but other than that I don't think so." Spike told the doctor still worried bout her daughter and her unborn grandchild.

The doctor nodded. "Once she's released she's going to need to be on strict bed rest. I'm also going to prescribe her some medication to control her blood pressure. Soon we're going to give her an ultrasound and hope we can find the baby's heartbeat."

Spike sighed. "What if it's still not there?"

The doctor looked at both her and the two teens sadly. "Then I'm very sorry for your loss."

About twenty minutes later Jay came out of the room and let Sean go in. "Hey Em." he said walking in and handed her the bouquet of flowers he had bought down in the gift shop.

Emma rolled her eyes and laid the flowers on the table beside the hospital bed. "I thought I told him to send in Manny."

"I'm sorry about what happened earlier." he told her. "I was just scared and upset."

Emma sighed. "What did they tell you guys about the baby?" she asked him hoping he would tell her.

Sean tried to pick up her hand to hold in his but she pulled it away. "They can't find the heartbeat." He said quietly. "They're going to try again though just to be sure."

"What? No your lying!" she said as tears came to her eyes. "No it's still there. It has to be!" Inside the room the two teens grieved for the possible loss of their first child.

TBC...