I own no one but my own people. Dickie's POV
A/N Sorry for the long update, my computer wouldn't let me update. Second I don't know how long a paternity test takes, but in this story it takes like ten minutes.
I think, I'm going, to die. I groan then sit up as a giant hammer is crashing on my head. Oh god what the hell did I do last night? Wait a second, Nancy told me that the kid may not be mine, I got high, passed out, then Olivia found me and lied to my dad and mom.
Oh shit I'm in trouble. Oh god am I screwed. Okay D just calm down, maybe you can get Olivia to cover for you and tell them I was at a friends house or something. Oh who am I kidding I'm completely screwed.
I groan then put a hand to me head as I hear a knock on the door.
"Can I come in?" Olivia asked from the door way with a large bottle of aspirin and a glass of water in her hand. Ahh my savior!!
"Yeah, just try not to shout so loud." She chuckled then walked in and sat on the edge of my bed. Hmm, I'm only in a pair of boxers, and Olivia is sitting on my bed. I think that my life is almost halfway complete.
"Here" she said getting out some aspirin and handing them to me. "It'll stop the pounding in your head." I take it and quickly swallow then, wait a second. How the hell does she know what to do when someone gets high?
"Here" she said handing me a large glass of water.
Thanks" I said taking a drink out of it. I groan then turn to Olivia.
"Are you gonna ground me?" she shrugged
"I can't, I'm not your parent, but you can bet your ass your dad and mom probably will when they find out that I found you almost dead and you had just gotten high." I groan then Olivia gives me a small smile
"How about we won't say anything about it till your dad gets here okay?" I sit up then nod.
"Where's Nancy?" I ask a little bitterly. I really didn't want to see her right after this, I'd probably just yell at the little slut. I can't believe that I may not be the father after she's put me through hell for three weeks. Do you know how much that sucks?
"Her dad picked her up about half hour ago, me and her" Olivia paused for a few moments "well let's just say that me and her exchanged a few words and I had to talk a fellow cop out of arresting me." Holy shit! Olivia almost got arrested! Wonder if there was tearing of each others clothes and cold water involved?
"what'd you guys' say?"I asked excitedly, hoping that there would be some mention of cold water involved.
"We just had a few exchanges of words, then she called her father. No big deal" she said with a shrug. "Oh and by the way, you have a paternity test with Warner in like ten minutes."
"Nancy agreed to having a paternity test done?"
"No, but I told her and her father that unless she did then I would arrest her unless she agreed to it."
"Arrest her for what?" Olivia shrugged
"Anything, her fathers not a cop or a lawyer, he doesn't know the law." Ohh, she just lied to her, go Olivia!
"So come on, you better get ready, we leave in three minutes." She got off the bed and then left the room.
I groan then get off the bed and get dressed and run a hand through my hair then go out to the living room.
"Olivia what if the baby isn't mine?" I asked sitting down at the table.
"Then you wash your hands of it, come on, we gotta go." Hmm, why didn't that feel as good as it should have? I mean if the baby's not mine that I won't have to worry about it, but why does that thought seem really sad? I'm fifteen, I shouldn't be upset that I might not of gotten a girl pregnant.
We both stood up and walked out of the apartment and rode the elevator down to the bottom and we got in her car.
"Hey Olivia, you know how you said I could wash my hands of it if it wasn't mine? Well um, what if I don't want to?" Olivia looked at me in confusion
"D, your fifteen years old, why would you want to raise a kid?" I shrug, and keep silent. Hell I don't know, it just, gr. Why the hell is this so complicated?! I may not have a kid and I'm sad about it! Do you know how twisted that is?! I keep my mouth shut the rest of the way to the morgue and, oh shit. Who's car do I see outside of course, Nancy's dad. Why the hell does he have to do with this? Nancy's 17, she can do this by herself! Olivia must of noticed my nervousness and she placed a hand on my shoulder and gives me a smile before getting out of the car. Well here goes nothing. I get out of the car and follow Olivia to Warner's office where Nancy and her dad was waiting. Her father looked pissed and Nancy just looked embarrassed. I begin to feel really bad for her, this test is basically proving that she's a slut.
"Finally, can we get this over with? It took you long enough to get here. Where were you anyway?"he asked giving me a death glare making some kind of drug deal no doubt" Nancy's dad mumbled still glaring at me. Well maybe we wouldn't be here in the first place if your daughter wasn't such a slut.
"We're here on time, your the one's that were early, it's not D's fault" Olivia said a little angrilly.
"Shut up detective, frankly I'm still angry at you for this morning. How dare you imply that my daughter doesn't know the father of her child!" he yelled at her
"dad come on, just drop-" Nancy began quietly but her dad turned around and interrupted her.
"Shut up!" he practically yelled at her. I see Olivia give him the same death glare that he just gave me and was about to say something before Melinda came in.
"Whats with all the yelling?" she asked putting on a pair of latex gloves. Oh nothing, except my girlfriends father is being a complete and utter bastard!!
"Nothing, come on, I just wanna get this over with" he said taking a deep breath but still glaring at Olivia. I still don't know what Olivia did, but damn that girl must of pissed him off.
Melinda looks between Olivia and the guy and simply shrugs
"Okay, can you roll up your sleeves" she said pointing to Nancy's dad. Huh? oh shit, she thinks that the paternity test is for Olivia and Nancy's dad. Ha ha, oh thats shirt's funny right there, I don't care who you are.
"Melinda the test isn't for me, it's for her and D" Olivia said motioning to Nancy. She looked at me with slightly wide eyes
"does your dad know?"
"yeah but I, never mind, can we just get the test done?" I asked almost embarrassed. It's not fair, why did Olivia have to get the girl who knew me and my dad? Theres like fifty other medical examiners and she has to make Warner do it, stupid Olivia. She just looks at Olivia who nodded before she sighed and nodded.
"Okay, roll up your sleeves" she said trying not to seem like he's shocked at the fact that my dad's kid is having a paternity test done. I quickly stick out my arm and she pulls out the pinching string thingy and wraps it around my arm and sticks the needle into me and quickly withdraws blood.
"Oh god I hate needles" Nancy said a little sick. Well if you hadn't of been such a slut then you wouldn't have to deal with it.
"Okay, lie back and pull your shirt up" Warner said getting a new needle out
"this ain't gonna hurt the baby is it?" she asked a little nervously. She's actually concerned about the baby? damn
"no, I'm just gonna take a small amount of DNA from the womb and compare it to Dickie's." She looked a little apprehensive then laid down and then lifted her shirt up a little. Aww, shes got a little tiny baby bump, thats adorable! Ugh, I'm sounding like a chick.
Melinda put the needle in the stomach and then pulled out some blood and then Nancy sat back up and pulled her shirt back down.
"When will we know?" I asked and she shrugged
"probably about a week." A week?! I gotta wait a week to know if my life's gonna change?! that sucks dude!
"No, this needs to be done now!" her dad yelled.
"Well I'm swapped with cases, I'm sorry" Warner said, making it clear that she hated him
"Melinda, I need you to make this a top priority, it can't be a week."
"I'm sorry Olivia, but I still got that DNA test from the Williams case that unless I get it done within the next six hours, he's gonna walk free."
"I know that, and believe me I know what a priority that case is, but this needs to be done now. How long does a paternity test take anyway?"
"About twenty minutes but-"
"okay, how far away are you from getting a match to Williams?"
"I need about four hours, I-"
"So just hand the Williams case off to someone else, your almost done anyway. You aren't he only medical examiner in this building. Please? remember the Meloni case and you screwed up on the DNA test and they found out and I took the rap for it. You could of gotten fired if it wasn't for me, you owe me Melinda." Olivia looked at her really pleading for a second before Warner sighed. Yay guilt trips!
"Fine, I'll have it done in about three hours." "Good, lets go now" Nancy's dad said a little impatiently. Nancy jumped off the table and her dad grabbed her wrist and practically pulled her out of the room. Damn, he doesn't have to be so rough with her. Olivia glared after them and then turned to Warner
"thanks Melinda, see you tomorrow."
"see ya" I mumble before following Olivia out to the car. Why does this suck so bad? I might not be the dad, all those people on Jerry Springer and shit are usually happy when they find that out.
"You okay?" she asks turning on the car. I simply shrug then turn on the radio to my favorite station. Olivia turns it off.
"Tell me whats wrong"
"I'm fine" I mumble a little more pissed off then I should have. Olivia just pulls over and turns off the car. What the hell?
"We're not going anywhere until you tell me whats wrong?" Oh terr freaking riffic, now I got Olivia on my case.
"Nothing"
"yeah there is, whats wrong D, you can tell me." Oh okay, I don't even know why I'm upset an I'm supposed to tell you about it.
"Theres nothing wrong, and with all due respect, your not my parent, so will you please get off my case?" Oh thats thats nice D insult and be bitchy to the women who has helped you and has been nice to you this entire time. Oh shit, she looks sad, but she just shrugs
"fine" and she started the car and drives off. Oh terr freaking riffic! now shes pissed at me! why does this day has to be all sucky? After about a minute of uncomfortable silence I sigh
"I'm sorry Olivia, I'm just you now, nervous. I mean if I am a dad then like my life's over ya know. It's kind of a scary thought." She nods then she stays silent for a few seconds.
"Did I ever tell you that I had a child?" What the fuck? Olivia was pregnant!? why didn't she ever tell me?
"no, what happened?"
"I was a Junior in high school, the dad had just moved to Florida a month before, and I found out I was pregnant."
"So what happened to the kid?"
"I had it, I tried to raise Ethan, that was his name, for for like two months, and I couldn't deal. I mean none of my friends wanted to hang out with the girl who had a kid to hold her back, none of them would babysit when I tried to date, and my grades had turned from A's and B's to F's because I never had time to do my work."
"So what happened?"
"I gave it up for adoption, probably the best decision I ever made. I mean he was so much better off living with a could who wanted and was ready for a kid then being raised by a teenager who up to that point was only concern was my social life." Wow, Olivia had a kid, wonder if anyone else knows.
"So what happened to him?"
"Well the couple stayed in touch with me for about a year sending pictures of him and telling me how he was doing, and then the letters started coming later and later, and pretty soon they stopped coming. Last time I heard from them was about a year ago and they sent just a picture for him graduating UCLA with honers with a note saying congratulations." Wow, thats like, damn. How could she deal with knowing the fact that complete strangers are raising her kid?
"But don't you miss seeing his first steps, his first word, his first anything?" Olivia looked like she was thinking for a few seconds before she smiled
"truth be told no. I know that I made a good decision and that he had a really good life with the couple. Yeah it would of been nice to see him grow up, but I know I made a good decision for him." I see her start to get some tears in her eyes but she quickly wipes them away. Theres a lesson to be learned here, I'm almost sure of it.
"I take it theres some kind of message here isn't there?"
"I'm just saying that, this doesn't have to change your or Nancy's life, and that if you went with adoption, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea." Told you there would be a lesson. But I can't give me kid up for adoption, I don't want complete strangers raising my kid. The thing that I help create.
"I don't know Liv, I mean" I sigh "I'm just not sure about adoption."
"D I'm not saying you have to choose now, hell you don't even know if you have that right to choose that or not. But I'm just saying that you have options then raising it." Yeah, let strangers raise my kids, that a terrific choice.
"Can we just uh, drop the subject? I really don't wanna talk about it." Olivia gives me a warm smile then nods
"sure." Finally, oh man, this is seriously gonna suck. I don't want a kid but I kind of do, grr this is so complicated. I sigh and turn on the radio again and Guns N' Roses "Paradise City" comes on. Just then Olivia's phone rings.
"Benson. Oh hi Melinda, you got the results all ready? That was fast." Oh god, oh god, oh god, here it comes. what if it's positive? oh man what if it's negative? wait, thats a good thing. Olivia nods then turns to me.
"Thanks, I'll tell him. Oh and could you not tell anyone about this? Thanks." She hangs up the phone and turns to me.
"The results are in"
"and am I a dad or not?" I ask trying to hide the fact that I'm about to strangle her if she doesn't tell me. She takes a deep breath then speaks.
"D, the test is."
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