Thanks to everyone for your reviews stagediva23, arubagirl0926, katie, emily, maddie, caroline, mackenzie, whitney, anna, kelly, melissa, sb1218, simy, lauralynn3 and kelly.
One reviewer, Kelly, asked me to tell you all this: if you support another season of OTH, please leave messages for the CW on their website feedback page & on twitter to renew OTH for a season 9. I know some criticize the show for 'going longer than they should with seasons' but I say we can NEVER get enough of these characters EVER. People can be so critical of this show, but relax guys... this show is for our enjoyment, so just enjoy it! Personally i do hope there is a season 9 :)
I'm back to school now :( so don't be mad when my updates take longer. I'm in for a grueling semester, I can tell already. Uhhhhhggg
Fanfiction reading and writing is my only release this week since OTH doesn't have a new episode until the 25th. Bummer.
Can't wait for Brooke's bachelorette party hangover! THEN THE WEDDING YESSSS!
Chapter 37
Brooke stood in line at the registers at the super market tapping her foot. Julian had just shopped here last week and had bought a ton, but they had already gone through most of it. So here she was. She shopped fast because she couldn't stand the grocery store, ever. But today especially.
She had taken a pregnacy test this morning, before anyone else was awake. She had been up all night thinking about it. Her period was a mess these days, but she kept saying stress, stress, it's stress. She tried to block out Haley's question but she couldn't. The dark of night made her thoughts go negative. Well, maybe it wasn't a negative thought but the 'getting her hopes up' part was scaring her. Surprise pregnancies were never typical for Brooke Davis. She had a bad feeling about it even if it was true. But she had to take a test to find out. She did it in the guest bathroom that none of her family members typically used, only guests did and she would take out the trash ASAP, as to not leave evidence behind, especially for Julian to find.
Too bad she didn't know it was already too late.
She took the test, but in the end, she didn't have the guts to look at it. She threw it away when she heard Julian calling to her when he woke up and came out to the kitchen.
Brooke paid and left the store. She put the grocery bags in the back of her SUV and started driving to the gas station. Brooke was a bargain shopper when it came to gas prices, so she went out of her way to go to the cheapest place. On a back road, suddenly Brooke felt a harsh pain in her side that wouldn't go away. It started as a cramp but grew quickly. Her palms began sweating and she shifted in her seat more. The pain was so bad she thought she was going to crash. So she quickly pulled over onto the right shoulder of the road and put the car in park. Not many cars were ever on this road so it was okay to stop there.
Brooke tried to talk herself down, hoping that maybe things would be better if only she could get home. Home would fix her. Sure it would.
But the pain was only getting worse. There was no way she could drive anymore.
"Come on, come on, come on, come on, come ooonnnnn" Brooke repeated to herself as she doubled over in her seat and shut her eyes.
She was panicking now and attempted to find her cell phone. She stretched out to try to locate it on the passenger seat and hissed in pain.
She hit the speed dial #3 and begged someone to pick up the phone. The house phone went right to voicemail for some reason... probably because the little boys were really into calling random numbers these days and, regardless of Brooke and Julian telling them not to, Bentley and Jeremy had accidentily left the phone off the hook when they finished this time.
Brooke yelped out in pain again. This was not her damn day.
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Julian looked down. "Then how do I explain this? Who else is there?"
LIGHTBULB.
"Mom..."
Nolan said it for him. Julian continued to look at the stick and for the first time during the fight, he smiled.
"Dad? What's going on?" Jordan asks, finally brave enough to step out of the room again. His two eldest daughters stood there, looking to him for answers.
Just then Julian felt a buzzing in his pocket. He and Nolan were still motionless, dumbfounded at the knowledge that this was Brooke's pregnacy test.
He shook his head suddenly and pulled out his cell phone.
"Hello?"
"Julian... ahhh. Help me..."
Julian's initial smile faded fast.
"Brooke? What's going on?"
"You need to come get me. I'm on Shurban Road and I can't drive."
"What happened? Are you okay?"
"I don't kn-" Brooke bit her lip before she could scream.
But Julian heard her stifled cry anyways. He sprang into action and started walking towards the front door. "I'm coming baby. Okay, hold tight."
"Don't hang up, please!"
"I'm not, I'm not..."
Brooke heard Julian mumble something to Nolan about being in charge, and Nolan argues. Julian and Nolan fight some more. She hears Jordan yell too. Then she heard some doors slam: one to the house and another to his car.
"Julian... I don't know what's wrong...it hurts so bad..."
"What hurts, Brooke?"
"My stomach, I can't even see straight it hurts too much...everything's getting fuzzy."
Julian looked down as he drove. He saw the pregnacy test sticking slightly out of his pocket. This was bad. Nolan sat in the passenger seat, staying completely silent. She fought to get to come and they left Jordan at home in charge, but now she began to regret it.
"Honey are you still in the car?" Julian asked Brooke.
"Yeah..."
Julian turned to Nolan, motioning for her to give him her phone quickly. Nolan shook her head, cursing herself for leaving it at home in her room; she left it there before she and Julian started the whole argument over the pregnancy test. Julian sighed angrily, looked back to the road and kept talking to Brooke.
"Try and lay the seat back, okay? I'm gunna be there in two minutes but I'm gunna hang up so I can call 911 for you okay?"
"No!"
"Brooke you need to trust me.. I'm on my way. I won't leave you."
Brooke took a sharp breath and wiped her eyes. "I trust you."
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Julian ran to Brooke when he got out of his car. He left Nolan in the car with the cell phone, talking to 911.
"Brooke!"
Julian rips the door open and finds Brooke doubled over in pain. He pulls the lever that lowers the seat and tried to ger her lying down comfortably on her side.
"Julian...I..."
"Sssshhhhh you're gunna be okay. I'm here now and the ambulance is on its way. Are you dizzy?"
Brooke's silence and the way she swayed back and forth answered 'yes' for her.
"Don't worry honey, I got you. You'll be good as new in no time."
Brooke looks up as Julian strokes her arm.
"I think I might be pregnant. I took a test but I didn't read it. I left it at home."
"I know" Brooke looks up at him, "I found it."
Brooke doesn't even ask whether it was positive, she now knew what was causing her pain.
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The ambulance team worked fast and in the blink of an eye, they were at the hospital. Julian followed Brooke's stretcher into the ER and he got to stay when they examined her. They immediately gave her ultrasounds and IVs and blood draws. A nurse tried to reassure them, but still didn't tell them anything. Brooke's pain wasn't going away either.
"We've paged Dr. Travers; he should be here any second, okay?"
This new doctor did, in fact, come quickly. He introduced himself and immediately re-did the same ultrasound that Brooke just had.
"I'm sorry to tell you this, Mrs. Baker. But you are having pain caused by an ectopic pregnancy, which is when the embryo has attached itself in one of your Fallopian tubes, rather than in your uterus."
"What does that mean?" Julian asked as he felt Brooke's hand go limp in his grasp.
"It means that we need to remove the pregnancy before it hurts your wife any further. Her Fallopian tube has ruptured and is causing her pain. I'm sorry. But from what I can see, laproscopic surgery is your best option so we can stop the internal bleeding."
"No..." Brooke whispered. She didn't want to kill her baby.
"She's bleeding internally?" Julian asked. The last part of the doctor's sentence worried him the most. He was scared for Brooke's life now, nevermind his unborn child.
"I'm fine, Julian. I'll be fine and we can have this baby." She said calmly.
"Brooke, no. This could kill you!"
"This pregnancy will not be able to survive regardless of your decision due to it's loction in your reproductive system, Mrs. Baker. This is about saving your life now."
She heard his words but couldn't accept it; it didn't escape her that the doctor never refered to this pregnancy as an actual baby, just something that needed to be removed. Brooke cried as she held her stomach, she was both in pain and trying to hold her unborn child.
"Not again... please not again..." Brooke cried. She went through so much emotional pain with her last miscarriage. Granted, it was almost ten years ago before she had a large family, but she knew it would still hurt the same now.
Julian and the doctor kept talking but Brooke didn't hear a word. A nurse came in and started changing Brooke into a light blue hospital gown. She was soon wheeled into an operating room and put under general anesthesia.
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Julian and Nolan sat in the waiting room waiting for Brooke to get out of surgery. Like father, like daughter- they sat the exact same way: bent over in their chairs with their elbows on their knees and their faces in their hands. They were both worried about Brooke but the doctor assured them that Brooke would be fine once they removed what was hurting her. Their minds traveled back through the events of today. Julian spoke up first.
"So you're on the pill?"
Nolan met his glance. "Well actually I have the pill, but I haven't started it yet."
"Oh."
He didn't question. He just accepted it. There was too much on his mind.
"I'm sorry I jumped to conclusions. You didn't deserve that, Nole. I know I can trust you and I'm so proud of the woman you're becoming. I just jumped to the worst thought, that's all."
"Thank you. Maybe I'll accept your apology when my new car comes in..." Nolan joked. She'd completed driver's ed over this summer and couldn't wait to get her license. She hoped that little license also came with a gift-wrapped car-shaped present from her parents. A girl could hope, right?
"Keep dreamin', my little money shredder."
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Julian was allowed back into Brooke's hospital room after a few hours. Dr. Travers assured him that he had stopped all Brooke's bleeding and that she would make a full recovery. He said he had to remove her ruptured Fallopian tube therefore making another pregnacy almost impossible with one less tube, but it was already highly unlikely before anyways. As long as Brooke was okay... that's all Julian cared about.
He found Brooke asleep but tears still streaked down her face as she restlessly slept off the anesthesia. He sat by her beside, holing her hand until she woke up.
"I didn't even know, Julian." That was the first thing she said. "I didn't even really know..."
"I know."
Julian rubbed his thumbs along the top of her hand.
"We didn't get to celebrate it or bond with it or love it..." Brooke cried.
"I'm so sorry sweetheart. I'm here for you. And Nolan is too... she's out in the waiting room. And Jordan called a hundred times because she's worried too."
"I didn't mean to scare them."
"I know you would never do that on purpose. But they know you're going to be just fine."
"I don't know about that..."
"Haley is here too... she told me about how you told her you thought you were sick and you didn't want to tell me or go get checked out..."
"I'm sorry."
"I need you to promise me that you won't keep things inside, especially if it could risk losing you. The kids and I couldn't bare that."
"I know."
"So promise me you'll go to the doctor if you ever feel that something's wrong again, regardless of anything inside that stubborn head of yours that is telling you not to..."
"I promise."
Life isn't always a guarantee, even when it hasn't begun in the first place. But Brooke knew Julian would help get her through this. This kids would help her rebound. Brooke thought about how she would feel if Julian kept a health concern from her, and how horrible it would make her feel; how helpless and upset she would be to know that he wasn't including her in something as serious and important as his health. She new keeping things from Julian was a dumb idea and that she would never do anything like that ever again if it meant risking her life or affecting her family negatively.
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So what do you think? I know some of you wanted a Brulian pregnancy and some didn't, but this had been planned in my head for awhile, since someone asked for a misscarriage and put ideas in my head lol. I will jump ahead a smig for the next chapter so you can all see how this lss has affected Brooke and the family.
Thanks in advance for reviewing! :)
~ Haley :)