They just arrived home as Mary ran into the house when William stopped her when she entered into the hallway, "not so fast young lady."

Mary groaned as she turned around, "what are you going to do with me, send me to a nunnery?"

"Mary, that boy, you don't know him."

"I do dad. It's you who doesn't know him."

"Mary, you are just going through a…"

"I'm not going through a fucking phase! I love him and I am going to have his baby and raise it. I won't do what you did when Martha was pregn…" she said as she looked at Julia but stopped herself

William turned to Julia, "what did you do, Julia?"

"It happened 3 months ago, and she's a young girl."

William got furious, "you gave Martha an abortion?"

Julia and Mary speechless as Daniel went to the bar and gulped down a scotch, "easy son, we have church tomorrow" William said

Daniel shrugged, "whatever" and gulped down another scotch

"Julia answer me?"

"It was the alternative version with the drink, that would make her bleed. It's a safer way, invented by a suffragette female doctor."

"I see, and the boy was the father, wasn't he?"

"His name is Simon and no, it was another man, who wouldn't help her. Simon and Martha, their like brother and sister that's it."

"Well, still you will never see or talk with that boy or Martha again and when the baby comes, we will put the criminal's child up for adoption"

"William!"

"No, Julia, their bad influence on her"

"There not, dad. Meeting Simon and Martha has been the best thing that happened to me this summer and I am keeping this baby, whether you like it or not!"

"Mary, end of discussion"

"Or, what, send Simon to the noose, like you did to his father?"

Without a warning, William slapped her across the face, as Julia and Daniel gasped.

"Mary…swee…" he tried to say

"I HATE YOU!" she said and ran to her room in tears, as Daniel followed her, before he said something to William, "you seriously need to let your children be happy, and let them love who they love, father!" and ran to Mary's room

William looked at Julia who came up to him and slapped him, "I love you, William, but these days you have been a real asshole." And walked away before saying something, "and you're sleeping on the couch, tonight."

In her room, Mary crying into her pillow and holding her stomach, when she heard a knock on the door, "go away, mom!"

"Mar, its Dan, may I come in?"

"Why…you will just ask me to apologize to dad"

"Mary, please its important"

"Come in"

Daniel goes into her room and sits in the beside the bed, "dad, what he did was out of line"

Mary nodded, "he never hit me before" she said in tears rolling down her cheeks

"Mary, these past months you have been sneaking around and seeing that boy and helping mom with Martha…"

Mary rolled her eyes, "and you are going to tell me, what I have been doing is wrong and I need to stop"

"Actually, no. I was going to say I admire you."

She just looked at him speechless, "you, my perfect big brother, admire me?"

Daniel rubbed his forehead, "I'm not perfect, Mary."

"Yes, you are. You got into a college you wanted, became a detective, courting Maggie and going to church and confession with dad all the time."

Daniel took a deep breath, "actually, I only got into the college, because the father helped the dean's son escape the noose, and I only became a detective because I am the son of the famous Detective William Murdoch. But here is the truth about church and courting Maggie…I'm not courting her, it's a cover."

"Cover, for what?"

"Mary…back in January, I was at a bar that got busted and was sent to jail for the night and the next morning, father and mother bailed me out."

"That's it?"

"The bar was a bar just for males…" he said and trying to give her a clue

Mary looked at him in shock, "Dan, you're?"

Daniel nodded, "I'm a homosexual"

"What?"

"Yes, when father found out he forbade me to see Michael again, the man I love. To keep me on the force and pretend I am normal, I go to confession twice a week and church every Sunday. Courting Maggie is just a cover to see Michael."

Mary just looked at him speechless, "does mom know?"

Daniel nodded, "she knows about the cover and Maggie is only helping so she can see Michael's sister."

"Maggie is a sapphist?"

Daniel nodded, "so you see, I'm not perfect. But do you really know and love Simon?"

Mary smiled, "I truly do. I love him more than anything and love that I am having his child."

"Then, I'm happy for you, Mary" he said and gave her a hug

She hugged him back, "I love you, Danny"

He chuckled, "love you too, sissy"

Mary looked at him, "I can't remember the last time, we call each other Danny and sissy?"

"Since, I was 13"

"Damn your memory"

Daniel laughed, "what happened to us, Mary, we were always so close?"

"I don't know, but I would love us to be like that again"

"Me too"

"Then Dan, help me sneak out."

"What?"

"Please, I need to see Simon and convince him that we should elope. That way dad won't forbid us to stay apart."

"Mary, you're too young"

"Dan please, I love him. If you wanted to be with Michael, I would help you sneak out."

Daniel breathed out, "ok, I'll sneak you out through my bedroom window, come on."

Mary grabs her coat and puts in on, as they sneak past their parent's bedroom, and entered Daniel's room and opened his window and she went through it, landed safely onto the ground.

"So happy, dad designed a house with only a ground level"

Daniel laughed, "ok, now run, go"

"Thanks again, Dan" she said and ran to Simon's apartment