When she went back into town to see the doctor she left Dean back at Bobby's place. It had taken a few more days for Dean to really get used to Bobby but slowly he started to leave Mary's side to watch curiously as Bobby fixed her car and others.
Bobby, on the other hand, seemed to be hesitant to have anything to do with Dean. it was clear that the older man had no idea how to handle a kid, especially a kid that was starting to trail after him wanting to know all about being a 'car doctor'.
In all honesty Bobby looked terrified of a barely over three foot tall kid that weighed just under forty pounds. Combining that with Dean's innocent face that looked up to him in question just made her want to laugh at the look on his face.
Regardless of whatever Bobby had about children in general, because Dean was a darling and you had no choice but to love him, he was at the very least able to keep Dean alive and safe long enough so that she could see a doctor.
She would've taken Dean with her but she just...needed to be alone for this just in case the doctor told her bad news. She needed to be alone for that time, should it come, to compose herself before facing her son.
Her books said that she shouldn't be thinking negative thoughts like this, only happy thoughts for baby Sammy. Good thoughts brought good things, bad thoughts brought bad things.
Those books were garbage and she was very happy that she had read those books at the library when she had been pregnant with Dean and not wasted her money on them.
Being in the waiting room Mary glanced down at the notes she had jotted. She had left her medical records behind when she had left so whatever else she could remember she wrote down for the new doctor.
The important thing was this, that she was in danger of having a miscarriage, had already bleed twice due to it and was in pain pretty much every day in her lower back and body. She tried to remember her last bloodwork and what the numbers were but was coming up blank.
Her hand went to her stomach, just stroking the small bump. At the very least she was coming up on four months which meant only five months to go.
Five very long months to go.
"Mary Campbell?"
Standing up she grabbed her bag and followed the nurse, or whoever she was, into the back where the official offices were. She changed into the thin backless paper gown and threw her clothes into the chair next to one she was supposed to climb into.
The leg harnesses were already out and Mary threw them and the instruments on the counter a dirty look as she climbed onto it, already putting her legs in the stirrups just to get it over with.
There was no dignified way to do this, even the so-called gown wasn't long enough to cover what needed to be covered before the doctor had to look.
The nurse/assistant/whoever she was took her blood pressure, made noises about weighing her later on, and Mary handed her her notes, laying back down at the chair just wanting to get to the good part where she was told that her baby was okay and she could go back to Bobby's house.
The room was freezing and that was just another thing that they had in common, she was shivering when the doctor finally came in with a smile.
Mary greeted her and then fell silent as the doctor read the history notes she had written. She didn't like the look on the doctor's face as she turned to face her, it was one of those fake smiles that people wore when they knew something bad and were trying to hide it.
"Alright, so you're in a real big pickle." she said, clapping her hands as she reached for her machines. "And just to confirm, are you in pain right now?"
"Yes." Mary said. She never really talked about it but the pain was constant, to the point that it had just become a part of her life that she managed to put out of her mind.
"Okay. Anything else?" the doctor asked as she reached for the gel she needed to put on her stomach. Mary opened the gown to show her stomach, staring down at the bump.
"Not that I can think of." Mary said, letting the doctor spread the gel around on her stomach, staring at the machine. She leaned back in her seat and tried to relax as the doctor took the probe and started to move it around her stomach for a few moments, not saying anything.
The doctor's frown deepened and she gestured to the other woman, talking to her so quietly that Mary couldn't make out a single thing she said. The woman nodded and didn't look at Mary as she quietly slipped out of the room.
Mary watched her leave and then turned back to the machine's screen, trying to figure out what the doctor had seen. "What's going on?" she demanded, trying to remain calm.
"I'm just trying to figure something out." the doctor said, moving the probe around her stomach, pressing down a bit harder. The other woman returned and she was holding onto a few pieces of paper and pamphlets, just standing to the side for the time being.
"Either tell me what's going on or I'm going to do something you'll regret." Mary warned her.
The doctor looked at the other woman and then sighed, pulling the probe back away from her and quickly wiping down her stomach.
"I'm referring you immediately to the gynecological unit at the hospital, it's just a ten minute drive and I'll call the doctor there to let them know about you." she told her. "I can't find any readings on the baby."
Mary stared at her, a freezing cold going through her that had nothing to do with the chill in the air. "What do you mean?"
The doctor took a deep breath. "There is no fetal heartbeat." she told her. "So you need to get to the hospital immediately."
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