Cassandra Frasier sat in her room and kicked her feet in time with the music playing on her stereo as she flipped through a magazine. It was late Wednesday night and though her homework sat unfinished she wanted a break.

That was an hour ago.

"Sweet heart did you finish your homework?" her mother yelled out from the kitchen.

They had gone on a trip to visit her sick Grandfather for a week and even after being back for a few days she was still behind on some things.

Getting no response, her mother, Dr. Janet Frasier yelled out again, "Cassie?"

Sighing the much put upon sigh of a teenager Cassie yelled back the blatant lie, "Yeah Mom."

Going back to the intense study of her magazine her thoughts wandered away from schoolwork or parents and onto the serious subjects at hand. Like what young Hollywood actor is going out with whom. Thoughts of School though intruded once more as she realized that she had forgotten they had a field trip tomorrow.

She closed her magazine and stood up with a muttered "Crap!"

She walked to the door and leaned out "MOOMM!!, where's that release form I gave you for the field trip tomorrow?"

"On the desk in my office, sweetie," she yelled back.

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Beneath the Surface . . . of the Mind

By Verse12

Verse12@hotmail.com

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Disclaimer:

I do not own these characters nor do I claim too, this is a simple fan based homage. Their creators and the companies they work for and with own the characters and all that pertains to them. (I.E. MGM, Double Secret Productions, Gekko Film) This is just fans of the shows expressing their love for it for fun, no profit is involved or expected thank you.

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Chapter Nine

Mother's Love

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The next Day on the Field Trip

Cassie didn't pay attention to the guy in the bad suit as he rambled on and on about something or other. She had thought seeing the visiting Monet exhibit would be better than sitting in study hall all day. But that was before last night, when she found the file under her permission slip.

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(Flashback)

The night before.

"Where is that thing," Cassie had mumbled rummaging thru the papers on her mothers desk.

"HA," she yelled out in triumph grabbing a folded and unfolded paper from a pile.

But it is the name "Sam" written in black magic marker on a folder that was under her permission slip that really drew her attention. Since her mom never brought medical files home from the base.

She bit her bottom lip in an anxious habit as she glanced over her shoulder to see if her mom was coming. Not seeing her she stole over to the folder and after glancing around guiltily she flipped open the folder and peeked at the handful of papers inside.

"Huh?" she mumbled as she flipped through the papers.

"Cassie did you find what you where looking for?" She heard her mom call out.

The teenager jumped in shock only to sigh as she realized her mom must have still been in the kitchen. Remembering she needed to answer she hesitantly called back, "Uh, Yeah Mom I found it." Then trying to cover her slip she called out, "What's for dinner?"

Hastily she closed the file and covered it up with other papers and with that Cassie left the room quickly.

(End Flashback)

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Back in the Present.

Last night all she knew was it was some type of blood test. Worried that something might have been wrong with Sam since her mom never brought that kind of stuff home from the base she believed it must have been something really bad. She arrived early to school that morning before the group was to take the bus for the field trip. Going to the library she looked up the type of blood test that was in the file using the Internet.

But the result was not what she thought it would be. She thought it would be some kind of blood disease test or something. The results were anything but that and boy was she shocked, 'Pregnancy, Sam could be Pregnant.' Cassie wished she had had the time to read the file better so she could know the results of the test. She knew she should be happy, and she was but . . . the first thought through her mind was . . . 'jealousy.'

And that . . . made her ashamed, she was happy with her life and she loved her mom. But some small part of her has always felt abandoned when Sam didn't adopt her. And that has made her feel somewhat guilty at times.

'And now with a baby on the way . . . Maybe, what will Sam do? Will she give it up too?'

"Argh" she grunted in anger at herself and her selfish thoughts only to blush as the people near her started to look at her funny for her outburst.

'Enough of this Cassie,' she thought to herself. 'You need to get over this and grow up. If Sam is pregnant then she's going to need all the help she can get.'

Walking with the group she continued to ignore the guide and let her thoughts wander. 'But who could the father be? She hasn't been seeing anyone, cause she would have told me.'

She thought hard over this point before a spark of an idea occurred to her, 'Maybe the answer is in mom's secrecy, she obviously is trying to hide this from people by taking the file home. So maybe it isn't just the pregnancy that she is trying to hide. . . maybe its who the father could be as well.'

Smirking slightly Cassie giggles quietly and thought, 'Uncle Jack have you been a bad boy.'

Then smiling broadly, she thought 'it has to be' and out loud she mumbled "Its about time."

To be continued:

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End Notes:

Here is the next chapter, I know its kind of small, but I needed to get this added for future events. Let me know what you think please. Thank you.

Later.

Signed: Verse12