I'M SO SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG! My bad...

"Creedy should know he's going to be a father."
"H-how did you know?"
"I'm not stupid Ali. You've been sick in the mornings. And depressed people don't pass up a free drink unless there is a good reason like being pregnant." Quinn kneeled down in front of her.
"Ali he needs to know, you can't keep it from him forever. Keeping it from him won't help anything." She felt like she was living in a soap opera.
"Quinn, I've wanted to tell him, believe me I've wanted to so badly."
"Then why don't you?"
"Because I'm afraid. He might not want anything to do with me or this baby." She said quietly keeping her head down. Quinn lifted her chin and looked her in the eyes. He felt his heart tighten slightly at the emotion he saw clearly written on her face.
"Ali he needs to know, no matter what he needs to know. He is the father. I know he wouldn't turn his back on something like this." She sniffed and nodded, Quinn was right, she was just paranoid for no reason.
"Everything will work out in the end. I promise you." He said.
"What do I say? What do I tell him?" She asked.
"The truth."

It was actually three days before she finally mustered up the courage to find Creedy and tell him. Two times she had been at his door and never been able to make herself knock, once she had bumped into him in a hallway and darted around him to get as far away as possible. Quinn had grown tired of it and finally shoved Creedy in front of her one day directly after dinner before either of the two could make an escape.
"Creedy she has something to tell you, I'm going to go talk to AJ for a while." He didn't give either one time to protest, Ali looked pale and Creedy uncomfortable. Whatever it was Quinn knew about it, and it had to be something big.
"Can we talk somewhere private?" Creedy nodded and led the way to his room without a word.

Once inside both were silent for the longest time, Ali really didn't know how to tell him at all. Could there possibly be a right and wrong way? Creedy cleared his throat.
"Quinn said you had something to tell me?" She could tell from his tone he wasn't exactly thrilled to be there with her.
"I really don't know how exactly to say this."
"Then just say it, whatever it is." She took a deep breath. 'Here goes.' She thought.
"I'm pregnant." He gaped at her for a minute, her words sinking in.
"How? Ar-Are you sure?" Part of her wanted to smack him upside the head and go 'No April fool!' Sarcasm, however, didn't seem like the best method at the moment.
"Creedy I'm positive and I'm pretty sure you know how." He admitted to himself that wasn't the brightest question to ask, so he asked the next obvious one.
"How long?"
"I've been sure since August. I didn't think anything about being late in July." He didn't know whether to be overjoyed or mad.
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?"
"I tried Creedy. I just kept waiting and waiting for the right time, it just never happened. I wanted to tell you." He sat down on the edge of his bed, his face in his hands.
"This is just a little much, don't you think? It's a shock for me. I mean we haven't even talked and here you are telling me I'm going to be a father." That was a bit of a shocker, she had to admit that.
"What are you going to do? I don't want you to feel obligated to me, just because I'm the mother of your child."
"Our child." He corrected.
"Creedy, there hasn't been a 'we' since August."
"Then we'll start over, a new and better us."
"You think that just because I tell you I'm pregnant everything is automatically alright? That things will just go back to what they were before?" He hadn't exactly been such a dreamer as to believe they could just pick up like nothing happened, but this, this news of him becoming a father was like a slap in his face. Everything he had missed, everything he could and would miss out on if he just stood there and let it slip through his fingers hit him like 10 basketballs in rapid fire to the stomach. He touched her cheek, gently tracing her jaw line with his fingers.
"Ali, those months, all that time away from you has been a mistake." She backed away from him after a moment hesitation, she missed his touch.
"Maybe all of this is just a mistake, maybe we are the mistake." He almost growled, how could she say that? When they had been together had been one of the happier times in his life. It had to of been a high point in her life as well. She sat down on his bed, just sitting there, studying her feet. He joined her and turned her head to face him, he looked her dead in the eye and used all the sincerity he could muster. She had to know what he thought, how he felt.
"We aren't a mistake Ali. We never will be." He was already thinking of ways to make the doubt in her mind dissappear.

Everyone that mattered now knew she was pregnant, Isa had nearly had a conniption, then all of a sudden had smiled and said something about being a grandmother and gave Ali a hug. She had talked with Creedy about telling the kids, they had decided to tell them sometime later that week. The hoodlums couldn't keep their mouths shut and by telling them they would tell the whole castle, it was 'free advertising.' For now things remained as they were, Ali stayed in the room with Isa and Mattie, but she and Creedy made no attempt to avoid each other. Things were looking up.

Quinn heard a curse and a clatter, a few various objects came rolling out into the hall. Curious he walked forward and cautiously peaked his head around the corner to find Creedy covered in dust and coughing.
"Need a hand?" Quinn asked, Creedy turned and gave his friend a grin. Hard to believe he was going to be a father in six months.
"Yea, I could use the help." Quinn came in and together they moved the boxes. Creedy didn't say exactly what he was doing in there covered in dust, Quinn didn't know what he was doing exactly.
"What are you looking for?"
"Remember a few years back, when we found that crib in here? I'm looking for it."
"What are you going to do when you find it?" Creedy heaved a box into the air and found his target, he set the boxes down and moved more out of the way.
"Going to fix it up and make it nice. Surprise her with it." The object of his desire was in poor shape, covered in years and years of dust and cobwebs. It was tipped at an odd angle because a leg was severed but laid inside the crib itself. At one time it had been lovely crib with a large headboard and big rocking legs. Even in its current cripple state he could see a little Creedy asleep in it one day soon.

Ali was folding the clothes and putting them in their proper drawers when Ben and May scampered in. They jumped on her bed and attempted to help her fold what was left of the clothes. That didn't go to well. She smiled at them as she corrected their folding and crawled into bed to sit next to them.
"Daddy told us to come. Said it was a surprise." She nodded at them, where was Creedy anyway? He said he would be there when she had told him she was going to tell the kids tonight.
"Hey you two, I've got something to tell you." Ali sat up in bed, getting ready to spill the beans, when Creedy walked through the door. It was nice to know she wasn't alone in explaining this.
"You told them yet?" He sat down on the edge of the bed.
"I was about to." He nodded and got quiet.
"Tell us what?" Ben said impatiently.
"The surprise, it's a good one." She looked at Creedy when she said it, smiling softly. Ben, impatient as ever, tugged on Ali's sleeve and gave her a dose of his big innocent eyes.
"You're going to be a big brother and sister." They stared at her blankly their mouths slightly open in the 'huh' expression.
"Ali's going to have a baby." As soon as Creedy said that May let go a few tears, Ben pulled his knees to his chest and got a panicked look. Ali and Creedy just sat there, they really hadn't known what to expect, but this wasn't it.
"Shh what's wrong May?" Ali pulled her close and stroked her head, letting her sob.
"You won-won't want us a-anymore if you have your own baby!" May wailed clutching tighter to Ali.
"That's not true May, we will always want you, both of you." Creedy said as Ben curled up in his lap.
"As far as we're concerned you are our kids, and we wouldn't trade you for anything." May stopped sniffing but didn't release her death grip on Ali.
"Really?"
"Yes really, we love you. Nothing will change that." Ali nearly suffocated when May hugged her, Ben jumped over and hugged her as well. Ali 'oofed' when they squeezed her. She caught Creedy's eyes as he sat there watching like a hopeful dog sitting under the table at thanksgiving, just wanting a scrap of the love. She motioned for him to join as well, he was after all, a part of the family.

This could very well be my last post for a while...I shall not forget about it though! Expect updates at random times, holidays etc. Who knows you might just get another chapter before monday/crosses fingers/