Ah…pure sop – or as close as I ever get. My heart has melted again. But it's Thea and Eric 'dabs eyes' they're too sweet, same with Galen and Keller, but can't exactly give them sop at the moment. I don't know if I mentioned this before, but this is going to be a very long story. Maybe 40-50,000 words lol.
She lay, staring at the boy who had just entered the room. From the look on his face, she could tell that a nurse had told him, he looked hurt beyond words, but the fact was that she'd only just been told, and she had no idea what she was going to do, especially if he didn't forgive her, they looked at one another in silence and the nurse fluffed Thea's pillow nervously, "I'll leave you two alone then…" she put her hand on Eric's arm as she left, "remember what I said."
The silence stretched on and on, then he smiled and it seemed to brighten the whole room, he stepped over, eyeing the spot where blood was seeping through her stomach and onto the bandage the nurses had put around her, then kneeled on the floor beside her, reaching for her hand. Blindly, she reached back and caught his, feeling the tears well up in her eyes, this was Eric, of course he would forgive her, it was a given. He looked as though he was going to cry, but it was from relief, not sadness. Leaning down slightly, he kissed her hand, "thank god, Thea… when they wouldn't let me in, I thought…I assumed…"
"I'm okay," she whispered, because she could barely raise her voice to beyond that; she hadn't been killed, no, but the agony in her stomach was enough to destroy her, even though they'd given her enough morphine, she'd really need some witch healing when she went back to the mansion, "But…I assume they told you?"
He nodded, his eyes clouding over, and he raked one hand through his hair, "I'm not going to ask, Thea…if you'd wanted to tell me, you would have."
She was overcome with irrational feeling that he was going to leave her, and she grabbed both his hands although she was he was her only link to life, "I didn't know! Goddess, Eric, you have to believe me, I didn't know! Wouldn't you have known through the soulmate link if I'd known?"
"I believe you," Eric said simply, and he did. Thea had never lied to him since he found out about the Night World, and even before that she'd only lied to save his life. Thea wasn't a good liar, she was no good at denying him, and he could see in her eyes that she was telling the truth.
Thea was quiet for a moment, just enjoying the feeling of being alive and being with her soulmate at the same time, Ash would never see Mary-Lynette again, Blaise would never be able to go out and find her soulmate like she threatened to do every time she saw Eric and Thea together, she wondered what Blaise would say if she could see her now, injured for trying to help and pregnant, "I never thought we'd be parents so young."
Eric smiled and Thea knew it wasn't an act, he really was happy, "you'll be good at it, we'll be fine."
"Oh yeah?" she laughed weakly in her best attempt to tease him, "you're the insane guy who attacks people with punch and fights spirits when the witch isn't there."
"and you're the crazy girl who walks straight into a warehouse with a bunch of vampires and werewolves even though you knew you could die, just to help."
"I'd do it all again, if it did some good. If Holly survives," Thea pressed a hand to his cheek, "would you check on her later? The nurses wont tell me anything, I think they think it'll upset me."
He was doubtful, "I'll try, but they wouldn't even tell me anything about you until just then, I don't know if they would tell me anything about her," what he failed to mention was that if they did and it was bad, he wouldn't tell her either.
She nodded weakly, and Eric had the feeling that she knew what he had left unsaid, he gestured to her stomach, which was still almost as flat as ever – no wonder he hadn't noticed – "what should we call it?"
"Well…" she paused, tried to smile, "I don't know how you'll feel about it, but I was thinking, Blaise for a girl," she shrugged, "I just think she would have liked that."
"Then lets hope it's a girl then," he said, kissing her hand again, he wanted to stand up and kiss her properly, but that might hurt her and just knowing she was alive was enough. Other people hadn't been so lucky.
Nurse Gladys Denton smiled as she walked into Thea Harman's room, seeing her and her boyfriend holding hands and talking. There had been a few moments there when the atmosphere was so thick, you could forget cutting it with a knife, you'd need a sword at the very least, she had half expected she'd need to get them to a soundproof room, "okay, visiting time's over, you need your rest, young lady."
Thea nodded and Eric got up, lingering just long enough to kiss her on the forehead, "don't leave me," she whispered, but the nurse heard it and he nodded, "I'm not going anywhere."
Sweet kids, seemed so in love. Too much in love. how could they possibly know what they wanted at only eighteen? She smiled again and lead Eric outside, "you can stay in the waiting room, or we have visitor rooms, until then, your mother is waiting in the waiting room for you." She turned to walk away, but Eric stopped her, "how's Holly?"
Holly…that poor girl. The thought of someone that young… she shook herself, "she's not doing too well, Eric, she's in a coma, and the doctors don't know if she's going to make it – that blade must have been contaminated or something, there's some very strong poison in her body right now," a very strange one too, if all her years working in hospital care had anything to say – she'd never seen anything quite like it in her life.
"Eric!" Mrs. Ross stood as soon as she saw her son coming towards the waiting room, she had Rosemund with her, "how is she?"
He started to ask 'what are you doing here?' but closed his mouth. He had told her not to come, yeah, but she was stubborn, it was where Rosemund got it from, and possibly him too, "she…she's fine…" he broke off, wondering whether or not he should tell his mother about the other thing, "Uh, mom, I have something to tell you," he jerked his head at Rosemund, making it perfectly clear what he wanted.
"Oh no," the little girl hissed, "you can't join the boy trekkers because you're a girl, you can't hear what's wrong with Thea because you're too young…when is everyone going to stop being so prejudiced?"
Mrs. Ross shrugged helplessly and Eric nodded, Rosemund loved Thea almost as much as he did, she wasn't about to give this up, "Uhh…okay, before you get mad that we didn't tell you before, we only found out today. Thea was five months pregnant, with twins, only one of them survived," his mother's jaw dropped, Rosemund was silent. A rare occasion for her.
"Oh Eric, I'm so sorry, but have you thought about this?" Mrs. Ross said at last, "what about Davis? Your future? Both of you…you're only eighteen…"
he hadn't thought about it. He hadn't had time to think about it, and it wasn't as though he could do anything anyway. They hadn't planned for Thea to get pregnant, but he wasn't upset about it. Sure, they had both gotten into Davis and had both accepted (in Thea's case, only after Blaise had accepted responsibility for the earlier expelling), and would be off in September as long as Thierry didn't need them, and he supposed they'd need a new place to live seeing as how the other soulmate couples wouldn't be happy with a baby screaming and…
Okay, so he supposed maybe he should have thought about it.
"We'll work something out," he struggled for the words, feeling desperate, "I can work nights," what as, he had no idea, "or, one of us could just not go…"
"Eric," his mother's expression tendered, "you know me and the rest of the family will help in anyway we can, maybe you and Thea can organize your classes so that one of you is always at home," she paused, "but if we need to get a childminder, or if you want me to look after the child," she smiled, "we'll help."
Rosemund stared at him still, "Goddess," she'd picked up the habit of saying Goddess from Thea, "is the kid going to be like Thea?" he translated this in his mind to, "is the baby going to be a witch."
"how is Eric supposed to know?" Mrs Ross rolled her eyes.
He smiled at Rosemund and shrugged, "It's going to be a Harman, so I assume so."
