Hey guys sorry it took so long to update, with everything that was going on my muse didn't want to work with me but its back and I hope you enjoy. Please review and be blessed.


Mercedes made her way down to the kitchen, she grabbed her bag, as she glanced around the boxes in her new place. She was almost unpacked up completely, which was a good thing. She sighed trying not to go over the last 5 months in her mind which was difficult since so much had changed. Some for the better, some for the worse, but Mercedes was determined to look to the future and not the past.

When she woke up in that hospital, she was happy to be back, happy to see Sam there and even happier to have gotten some sort of closure even if it was just a dream. Her life was back to where she envisioned it. Until Quinn showed up, everything about Quinn made her uneasy. She didn't trust the girl and Sam was somehow taken in the moment he felt the baby kick. Ever since that fateful day, things between them started to fizzle out.

He had helped her out of the hospital and told her she could stay with him while she was recovering. She was glad to be near him but whenever they managed to have some alone time, Quinn found some way to be apart of them or to come between them.

The final straw came three months ago, Mercedes and Sam were supposed to go away for the weeknd, just the two of them, and Quinn called saying she was going into preterm labor. Sam rushed to her side and even though the contractions had stopped, Mercy still maintains they were just early braxton hicks, since she was only 5 months pregnant Quinn was put on bed rest and quilted Sam into letting her move in with him. Sam didn't even ask Mercedes if she could, he just moved Quinn in and gave her the guest room. It was then that Mercedes realized Quinn would always come before her because she was the mother of Sam's child. She moved herself out and the night she told Sam about it, he told her not to make him choose between her and his child. So she didn't.

They hadn't really spoken in the last three months. He tried but every time they really started too Quinn showed up. Mercedes didn't want to hate the blonde but she did. To the point where she could no longer stay in the same vicinity as them. Mercedes loved Sam, she did, so there was no way she wanted to be around to watch them fall back in love and raise their child and be the perfect family.

So when she was offered a job in Maryland, Mercedes couldn't turn it down. Santana and Kurt were heartbroken, but the understood why she had to go, and if they weren't both in loving and committed relationships, she would have begged them to come with her.

But that wasn't the only surprise Mercedes had endured. A three weeks ago she was met with a very big surprise and the way Sam handled it, damn near broke her heart.

Mercedes hadn't been feeling well, she assumed that because of the moving and running around, her body was telling her to slow down. But the moment she passed out while packing, Santana and Kurt had finally convinced her to see a doctor. She was more than surprised to learn she was four months pregnant. She was happy and sad at the same time. She even remember the day it happened. After she had gotten home from the hospital she had gotten an infection and needed to take antibiotics. The course was seven days and even though by day three she was better she completed them. By day eight she was back to her old self and she and Sam celebrated in style.

It was a risk she knew, because she was on antibiotics and Sam didn't have a condom but they hadn't been together in so long and the sexual tension was killing them. After a few weeks when she showed no sign of pregnancy it was more of out of sight out of mind. And now here she was being pregnant with Sam's second child. He was going to have two baby momma's.

She made her way over to Sam's place and rung the doorbell feeling extremely weird about that fact. Standing out in the cold she wrapped her arms around herself as she knocked again. Turning to leave she heard the door open and frowned when Quinn answered.

"Lexus what are you doing here?"

Mercedes frowned weight the cost of hitting a pregnant woman.

"My name is Mercedes, and I am here for Sam."

"Oh? What do you want with my fiancé?"

Mercedes stared down to the ring. "Your what now?"

She smiled smugly. "My fiancé. He asked me to marry him, last night in bed and I could refuse."

"Is Sam here?"

"No and I would appreciate it if you didn't come by here any more. You were the rebound and we all know rebounds never last."

Mercedes turned away, refusing to speak on the ring on Quinn hand. Making her way to her car, her vision was blurred. Getting in, she wiped her eyes not wanting cry over him anymore it wasn't worth it.

Someone knocked on her window and she sighed seeing Sam.

"Mercedes, what are you doing here?"

She rolled down her window but refused to look at him. "I needed to talk to you."

"About what?"

She took a deep breath before stepping out of her car and looking at him. God she missed him. All she wanted was to take him in her arms and hug him. "Well I got an offer to work as charge nurse at Johns Hopkins."

"You're taking it?"

She shrugged, "I did but."

He cut her off angrily. "You did? You took the job just like that? Did you even consider me in your actions. Consider us?"

Mercedes laughed. "That's funny cause in all this you have never considered me! You got your ex pregnant and you came to me promising that things wouldn't change but they have! You are all about Quinn and the baby."

"She could have lost him!"

"I know Sam, and I am sorry that she was so stressed out that happened. But did I have to lose you so that you could keep them?"

Sam laughed. "Wow. I mean are you really that insecure that you walked away because I want to be a great father?"

"Me? Sam you should be a great father, every child needs that, but you, I could have been there I wanted to be there but every time I turned around you were doing everything in your power to be there for your child and not making time for me. You broke dates, you cancelled trips."

"They needed me Mercedes."

"And I needed you too! I need you too Sam."

He folded his arms. "Obviously not, considering you are leaving. So go, leave run away from me like you have wanted to do since day one!"

"If you would just listen to me!"

"I have been listening! I can't help that I have to step up as a father!"

Mercedes was about to respond when Quinn came out. "Sammy we are hungry. And I can't be on my feet for much longer."

Sam looked over to Quinn then to Mercedes.

Mercedes sighed. " We need to talk Sam."

"Sammy come on!"

Sam shook his head. "I gotta go and it seems like we have talked enough don't you think?"

"Wow, you know what? Have a nice life Sam."

She opened her door getting into the car and peeled out of the driveway. She didn't look back. She tried to tell him that she was pregnant but once again he prioritized Quinn ahead of her. So she would raise the child on her own. She didn't need him. She didn't need anything from him.


Sam was miserable. Not only was Quinn driving him insane, but he missed Mercedes terribly. She changed her number upon leaving and the two people who knew her change of address, wouldn't tell him where she lived or give him her number. That last few months without her were hard and he wished he could take back everything he said that day. Once he really sat back and thought about it. He realized that Mercedes was right. He was so preoccupied with making sure that the baby was okay, he didn't consider Mercedes in all of it and now it seemed he lost her for good.

The only choice he had was to go to Johns Hopkins and find her and beg for her forgiveness. The only problem with that was, Quinn was due soon and he couldn't miss the delivery of his child. He was stuck between a rock and a hard place with no real exit in sight. If he missed the birth of his child he would forever regret it, but if he didn't try and find Mercedes he would miss out on someone he truly loved more than anything.

As he was deep in thought a knock came to his door. Looking up he gave a slight nod to Artie. "Hey Artie, whats up?"

"Nothing much, you know me livin that good life. I would ask how you are doing but the look on your face and bags under your eyes tell me everything. Care to talk about it?"

Sam shook his head. "Nothing to talk about. I tried to step up and be there for Quinn and our child and I ended up losing Mercedes. Simple."

"Well damn, I mean I knew you and that sexy temptress had some issues but I am sure you didn't lose her."

"She moved to Maryland to get away from me."

"Shit. I mean damn. Sam you are truly an idiot. A woman like that doesn't come around everyday."

Sam stood from his seat. "Don't you think I know that! I am lost without her but I have to be there for my child. I can't be a dead beat."

"Sam please don't nobody around here believe that child is even yours but you and Quinn."

"She wouldn't lie to me about that!"

"Quinn is a woman who lost the man she claims to love, uh yeah she would lie. But hey you go ahead and think what you want and when that baby comes out looking nothing like you don't say I didn't warn you every step of the way."

"And if I abandon her and the baby is mines, then I may never see my child again."

"Well then I hope it works out for you, because you may gain a child and a crazy ass baby mama, but you lost Mercedes and I am going to call her and hound her until she picks me even if that means I move my ass to Maryland."

Sam sighed sitting back in his chair as Artie left. His phone rang and he smiled seeing it was his mother.

"Hey ma."

"Don't, don't you dare Hey Ma me! Why Samuel, why did I have to hear from Mercedes that you and Quinn got engaged!"

Sat up strait. "What?"

"Yes son you know damn well I ain't stutter! Color me surprised when I call Trident Hospital to talk to my would be future daughter in law and I learn that she is no longer there. That she moved to Maryland. And After talking to Santana and Kurt, they gave me Mercedes number. Now I called her to see why she was there and not with you and I was shocked to learn that you guys were no longer together, in fact it had been months since you were official. Its funny cause I talked to you last week and you said she was busy and told me hi."

"Mom can we please go back to the I am engaged part?"

"Don't rush me boy! So she proceeds to tell me how she understood that you had to step up as a father to that child no one believes is yours, but how she couldn't come in last any more."

"I never meant to make her feel that way."

"And yet you did. Then she comes over and sees Quinn wearing your ring talking about you guys are engaged. Sam its bad enough you invited the devil into your home, you have to marry her too?"

"Mom, Quinn is only living with me until she has the baby, we are not engaged."

"Then you better put that heifer in her place before I come down there and do it. She left you, left you when you needed her the most, and Mercedes was there for you, every step of the way. Now I booked you a flight, with your emergency card that I have a copy of and you leave tomorrow night. You go to Maryland and you fix your relationship."

"Mom she moved away, she gave up."

"Sam you listen to me, there are things you don't know, things I can't tell you, things you need to see for yourself. You catch the flight and you get her back, and if she can't go back with you, then you move your ass down there with her."

"And what about my baby?"

"Get a damn DNA test and if and I mean IF the baby is yours then work out a plan with Quinn. But trust me you gotta see Mercedes and do it before its too late."

Mary hung up the phone and Sam looked at it wondering if he was going to fly to Maryland or not. He wanted too and now he had the ticket but he couldn't leave Quinn. He shook his head thinking about her. Sam wanted to believe that Quinn was telling the truth. God help her if she wasn't.