Truth and Consequences



Disclaimer: nope, still not mine.



Lu's whole world came down to this one moment, her final moment of truth and she was ready for any consequences that came with it. Dana looked down at the paper once again and then back up at Lu, her eye's began to tear up. Lana put her arm around Lu as Dana read the results aloud.

"99.9% positive that Randolph Kilner"

Dana stopped in the middle of her sentence and took a deep breath.

"Is not the father of your unborn child"

Lu took a relieveing breath as Lana hugged her tightly.

"oh thank god"

Dana layed the paper's down on the table and went around to where Lu was sitting, Lu stood up and hugged Dana.

"congratulations, Lu"

"thank you".

Dana walked into her office and Lana walked back over to her desk, leaving Lu alone with her feelings.

Later that night, Lu was curled up on the couch with a bowl of poporn watching tv all alone when the doorbell rung. She carefully sat down her bowl of popcorn on the coffee table, threw the blanket off of her and walked over to the door looking out of the peep hole.

She unlocked the door and opened it.

"hey, handsome"

Peter handed Lu a stuffed teddy bear and then stepped inside.

"thanks, Peter.

"I ran into Dr. Stowe as I was leaving and she told me the good news"

"she did?"

"yeah, she seemed really happy for you"

"yeah"

Lu and Peter walked back over to the couch where she was sitting and took a seat.

"so, Lu, what are you going to do now that you know?"

"I'm going to raise this child"

"you're not going to tell Harry the results?"

"no, why should I?"

"why? because he's the father of this child, he deserves to know"

"you're right, I'll tell him but, not right now, I can't, I have too much to deal with"

"okay as long as you tell him before the baby is born"

"it's a deal"

"so what are watching?"

"Cheers, care to join me?"

"I'd love to"

Peter pulled Lu towards him, he wrapped his arms around her and she threw the blanket back overtop of them. Lu turned the volume on the tv up a little.

"this is a good one, it's where Sam proposes to Diane"

"which time?"

"the first time"

After hours of watching tv together they both fell fast asleep on the couch in each other's arms.

The next morning Lu arrived at the clinic earlier than normal, no one seemed to be there which was definitely a change for her although when she rounded the corner and seen her partner and her on again off again lover, Nick pressed up against the outside of Dana's office door, it was an awakening experience. Lu let out a sigh.

"you guy's need to get a room"

They never acknowledged Lu but, Dana did push the door open and they slipped inside. Lu walked over and into her office relaxing into her chair. For the first time, Lu placed her hand on top her slightly rounded stomach, she was slowly allowing herself to open up to the little life inside of her knowing that since it was Harry's she did'nt have another tremendous amout of emotional stress to go through in the next five months.

Then it hit her, she had five months, only five months to prepare for this child and a million things to do between now and then. And then there was Peter, who had been there for her since the begining and when they were talking last night about the baby's father, Lu almost wanted to ask him, if he would raise the child with her, she always thought he'd make an excellent father, only time would help her make her decision.



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