Chapter 10
A/N:Chapter Double Digits! Woohoo! Thankies for reviewing!- All of you guys are great… Anyways, I think it's pretty obvious who she'll end up with… But you never know, I might throw in a twist or two! So read on to see if I do or not…
"I did what last night!" It was the second time in 24 hours that Seany had heard Chris use that loud voice. Drowsily she looked over at the clock on the stove- 9:30 in the morning… They would probably leave at about noon or so; but John had told her about an hour ago that Chris would wake up any minute.
So she had fallen asleep at the kitchen bar- only to wake up to the sound of John's uncontrollable laughter; something that she had gotten used to over a short amount of time. Slowly she made her way to the living room, falling over on the couch. Napoleon gave a slight meow, pouncing on her side and curling into a ball.
"Hey you guys." She greeted the two, gently starting to stroke Napoleon's small body.
John smiled and waved, having the look on his face as if he had just forced himself to stop laughing, and was still fighting to contain it. Chris, on the other hand, looked as if he were avoiding Seany's gaze, looking away from her and John. Chris was sitting halfway in the recliner, one leg draped over the arm of the chair. John was standing a few feet away, leaning against the fireplace.
"You ok?" Seany asked, slipping into the chair beside Jericho. He turned slightly to look at her.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Chris assured her quietly, as Napoleon jumped onto the coffee table beside them and then onto the recliner.
"Hey Pocahontas." John grinned, picking up Napoleon and looking over at Seany and Chris. "I'll just uh- leave y'all two alone." It seemed like John was finally realizing how stressed the tension was in the room- not that his presence helped ease it.
"I'm sorry," Seany hugged his arm closest to her, and Chris sighed.
"It wasn't your fault… I'm a dumbass when I'm tired." He admitted, turning all the way around. Seany knew that there would have to be some serious talking going on; something that she didn't enjoy as much as cuddly people and furry animals.
"And you sleep talk." Seany giggled a little as she reminded him. "But I like you just the way you are." She confessed, smiling. "And we have to like each other for everything to work."
"But what if I more-than-like you?" He asked, and the question almost made her laugh again. She had already figured out how hard it was for Chris to talk about things like this; although it wasn't the easiest thing for Seany, she could actually use words.
"Then you need to tell me!" Seany pushed his shoulder lightly. "That's what trust is all about- and we have to trust each other Chris; it's a rule." She smirked a little at the last comment, while Jericho's attitude didn't seem to change.
"I can't! I told you that last night!"
"Aww… Chris, c'mon, tell me how you feel." Seany urged him, laying her head on his shoulder and looking up at him. "You're supposed to- it's a rule too."
"Ok, so I more-than-like you; there, are you happy?"
"Yes, I am."
"Good." Seany had no clue how Chris could turn the conversation around to seem so casual and easy flowing. Seany still didn't know how she would handle it- some part of her hoped that it might turn into something more. Somehow she expected it to because of the baby; but now she wasn't entirely sure.
"Now that I'm happy; we need to decide what we're going to do."
"What is there to decide?" Chris asked.
"Look- do you want to be with me or not?" Seany asked, straight forward, but forcing the point without Chris trying to bring up anything else.
"I- I dunno… I," He looked at Seany out of the corner of his eyes, noticing the stern look on her face that screamed at him to hurry up. "Ok, yes- I said it, I do." He conceded, and Seany once more seemed content.
"Ok; then that's that. We'll just have to take it slow and see where it goes from there." Chris seemed to be relieved and Seany was a lot more pleased than she had been before; and the thought of her past didn't hit her at all.
"You want to be with me?"
"No, Chris- I want to be with John." Seany said sarcastically and rolled her eyes. "Let's just see how it goes, k?" She asked, squeezing his arm and standing up. "Besides, we need to get ready to leave."
"Dammit, here you go and steal my whore." John muttered in a fake cold tone as Seany passed him, he still stroking Napoleon. Seany grinned at him and flicked his arm, Chris giving no reply.
"You don't have to talk about me like that John," Seany said jokingly, halfway down the hall.
"I wasn't- I was talking about you stealing Chris."
Seany had to muffle the sound of her laughing until she could get to her room. She knew that Chris would probably be furious by now. It probably wasn't that John had made the comment; but most likely because he had been eaves dropping and caught Jericho at a very vulnerable few moments.
She was still confused as to how easy they had decided on their future. It had taken only a few mere words… And it seemed as if they were talking about something as simple as the weather or the baseball game- but not the one that occurred at midnight the night before.
2 hours later…
"I thought you guys were leaving."
John was at the counter, once more drinking a Gatorade. He had been sitting there drinking different energy drinks since Seany had gone to get ready- or at least that's what he had told her.
"We are, I'm waiting on Chris." Seany informed him, sitting down in the chair beside him like she had earlier that morning. The sound of someone hurrying down the stairs was followed by the sight of Chris, who looked like he normally did- which didn't make any sense to Seany.
"You spent all that time on nothing?" Seany asked, walking closer to him on her way to the door. She stopped, leaning over. "You smell good."
"It's called a shower- try one sometime." John muttered from the kitchen, laughing a little as the door closed behind Seany and Chris. She rolled her eyes, but knew not to take him seriously. John made insults and jokes like that more than he made a normal sentence.
"You excited?" Chris asked, buckling up his seatbelt on the driver's side. Seany sighed- she had already gotten buckled and shut her door; but she could tell that her 'butterflies' were quickly building up into a tight ball in her stomach.
"Sorta- I'm nervous." She looked out the window as they passed the gate. "You had to frickin' move my appointment." She muttered jokingly, although it did surprise her and up her giddiness.
"And you think I'm not?" Seany smiled as Chris replied. She hadn't thought about it much; but it was probably wearing on his nerves too- not to mention that when they eventually had to tell Shawn, Chris would be the 'guy who got her pregnant'.
45 minutes later…
"I can't believe I'm doing this."
The first few moments in the waiting room weren't too bad; but as the time wore on, Seany felt like she was sitting there waiting for the Grim Reaper to come out of the door. Chris didn't seem worried at all, although when he was leaning his head against the wall with his eyes closed, Seany really couldn't tell.
"I'm not the one who went and got pregnant." Jericho replied, and Seany noticed his foot tapping on the floor impatiently. She was the same way when she had to wait forever to go to the doctor- but this time, she could take all the waiting they could give.
"Seany and-" A younger man in a long white coat and dark hair had appeared at the door, lifting up a paper on his clipboard as he read aloud they're names. He paused as if he couldn't find it. "Chris." He finished, smiling with almost perfect teeth. Chris got up almost instantly, but Seany was a lot more reluctant than he was.
It almost felt as if she were a kid again, going to the doctor for something that her house maid had made up. She sighed, realizing that she couldn't just sit there until the whole band of nurses had to carry her into the other room. Subconsciously she took Chris's hand, a habit of hers when she was nervous or scared. He didn't object, but tugged on her hand, walking towards the door. Slowly she followed him, looking at the doctor twice before he shut the door behind them.
"Hi, I'm Doctor Rivers." The man said, shaking both of their hands. "Right this way- Are you coming too?" The doctor asked, looking over to Chris. Seany squeezed his hand threateningly.
"Yeah, sure, why not?" Jericho shrugged, and they were once again walking through the whitewashed halls of the office.
"Alright, right in here." Doctor Rivers opened a door and led them in; the door shutting on its own. "Ok Seany, if you could sit up there." He gestured towards the patient's table, and Seany once again silently obeyed him. Chris almost fell over into the chair in the corner, casually sitting in it.
"Great- great, first we're going to have to measure your blood pressure." The doctor took down the device, sliding the sleeve over Seany's bare arm and adjusting it to her. He began to pump it, every second it getting tighter. Seany winced slightly as it tightly pinched all around her arm, and then suddenly deflated. "Ok, it looks-" The doctor read the gauge and wrote something down on his clipboard. "Looks good and normal."
"Yay," Seany said softly, patting her lower stomach.
"Alright- next we'll need to take some blood."
"Some what!" Seany asked, immediately clasping her hands together silently. Doctor Rivers looked up from his clipboard. Seany hated to give blood- even if it was just a prick on her finger.
"Blood; not a lot, just a few drops from one of your fingers." He assured her, walking over to the door and calling someone in. Moments later a nurse entered, carrying a small device that frightened Seany more by the second.
The Doctor continued at his desk while the nurse approached her, taking out a sanitary wipe and cleaning off one of Seany's ring finger. "So; what about your family history? Diabetes?" He asked, looking towards Seany and then Chris. Jericho shook his head.
"Only with my Great Grandma." Seany answered, wincing and having a sharp intake of breath as a needle punctured the tip of her finger. The nurse pulled on it as if milking it, letting the slow drops of blood splatter into a tiny vial. Although she hadn't known her real family's health history for a long time, Shawn had eventually given her doctor the file a few years back- whom had in turn told Seany all about it.
"Any twins?" Chris once again shook his head, and the Doctor didn't seem phased at all by Seany's reaction- he actually looked as if he didn't hear any of it. Chris mouthed an 'are you ok', and Seany merely nodded back sadly; like a child after a shot.
"Oh, let's see… My Great Aunts were identical twins." She replied, refusing to look at her finger. It was sore, and she still couldn't believe that the woman was still getting blood out of her. The nurse mutely attached a Band-Aid to the spot, leaving the room without a word and a slight smile as if it were required.
"Heart disease? Birth Defects? Anything of the sort?"
"No- not that I know of; those are all cleared." Seany responded once more, and Chris gave the same slight shake of his head.
"Good," Doctor Rivers stood back up and walked over to the other side, where Seany realized something there that hadn't been before; a scale. "If I could get you to step on over here," He said, adjusting some of the settings.
"Ok." With another sigh she followed him, glaring at the smirking Chris on her way over. He smiled back, a taunting 'I-don't-have-to-and-you-do' look.
"Alright, everything looks normal so far. When was the last day of your menstrual cycle?" He asked, once again writing notes on his clipboard.
"Ummm…Oh God," Seany said to herself, trying hard to think back. "I think it was June 26th." She paused, realizing that he would probably want to know everything about them. "It's normal- every 28 to 29 days."
"June 26th? Alright then, you are due on…" He paused, writing down a few numbers and obviously calculating something before looking up and reading his findings aloud. "April 3rd." The nurse entered the room once more, carrying a few forms.
"Doctor?" She asked, as if it were a polite way to interrupt. "She's positive." She informed him, then promptly leaving once more.
"Well, good then- Seany, you are pregnant." The Doctor assured her, and then gestured towards the table once more. "We need to do some talking and get a few things down real quick." Seany nodded, not attempting to try and question anything. She hastily made her way for the table, climbing onto it again.
"When you got pregnant- have you had any symptoms since then?" Rivers asked, staring at his clipboard as he asked the question.
"Yeah," Seany answered, counting them off on her fingers. "I can smell a lot of stuff, my stomach aches every once in a while, I'm tired very often-" Although 'often' wasn't a word that Seany ever used much, she thought it might be nice to try and talk to the doctor in a more sophisticated way than a teenager. "And uh.." She stopped, eyeing Chris in the corner; who was patiently watching her.
"Breasts are tender?" The Doctor asked as if to correct her, and she sheepishly nodded. She had no clue why- but it just didn't seem like something to talk about when Chris was well within earshot. "Anything else? Any medicine?"
"Not really- I've avoided morning sickness so far; and no, I was waiting to ask you about that." Seany explained slightly proudly, having been told by Shawn's wife that the morning sickness wasn't something that Seany would want whenever she got pregnant.
"Ok, moving on. You or your partner doesn't have any sexually transmitted diseases or infections, do you?" Rivers asked, actually looking up at Seany to ask the question. Chris grunted.
"Hello no." He answered, although he really didn't know what Seany could have gotten herself into; but she also shook her head.
"Have you been pregnant before?"
Seany bit her lip and shook her head. "Nope, this is my first."
"Alright then, are you allergic to anything?" He asked, looking down at his clipboard for what seemed like the thousandth time since he had called their names.
"Yes- penicillin." Seany was slightly prideful about it; she had never met anyone else allergic to it, and didn't think she ever would- but it didn't effect her life greatly.
"Have you ever had surgery or been hospitalized?" Seany shook her head once more in a silent response to his question. He jotted her answer down.
"Any smoking, drinking, or drug use?" The last two words hit Seany like a brick. She was glad that the doctor was looking down at his clipboard like the idiot that he was- or else he would have caught the worried look that Seany had when her eyes met with Jericho's. Chris didn't say anything, or even move; but they way his eyes danced she knew that he would probably support her with whatever she chose to tell the doctor.
"No." It was then that she remembered that she was completely correct. Jesse hadn't been on the drugs, but rather dealing them. He wasn't stupid, and knew that his cop girlfriend would have caught him the moment he stepped through the door with so much as a lingering effect of the smoke on his shoes. She smiled and winked at Chris, trying to tell him that she had figured out that she was right after all.
"Alright- I'll be back in a few moments," The Doctor put his clipboard under his arm, leaving the room as the nurse walked back in.
"Hi Seany; I'm Doctor Baker- I'm going to be doing your pelvic exam."
Seany tried hard to avoid Chris's look during the whole process. Ever since the words had left the woman's mouth, Seany had seen the interested look on his face and felt like she could have died. It just wasn't something that Seany was used to- getting undressed in front of men and letting them watch another woman poke and prod then give her a somewhat 'erotic massage'.
"Well, everything looks good- I'm off to see some of your results from your blood." Doctor Baker informed her, snapping off her gloves after Seany had finished dressing once more. The door closed with a bang, leaving Chris and Seany alone.
"I know you just loved that," Seany shot across the room as Chris chuckled once more.
"I can't deny it, I did- although the assclown was blocking thebest view, I could at mostsee your bare legs." He smiled mischievously, leaning his head against the wall and closing his eyes as if to try and picture it once more. "How long did it take you to shave those?"
"Long enough." She snapped, yet she couldn't help but let the ends of her mouth curve up slightly in what could be barely called a smirk. She should have known that something like that would happen- it always had, and she knew it always would.
"Seany, you are having a wonderful pregnancy so far- no sign of any problems, or anything of the sort." The Doctor hurried handed her a few pamphlets after emphasizing how great it was to feel as sick as a dog. "I'm so sorry, but a patient is going into labor- here are these to finish up our appointment; I'll make sure you get a longer than normal appointment for any extra questions."
"What about sex?" Chris asked casually, and Seany was surprised at first that he actually said the word aloud, in a room with other people, and in front of her.
"Out of question- go ahead and go for it, you can't hurt anything fetal-wise." Rivers answered, nodding to them both after a few moments and then rushing out of the door.
Seany laughed a little as she hopped off the side of the table, picking up her purse and winking at Chris once more. "Here you are in a room with a naked woman and another woman feeling her up, and you get those kinds of thoughts? I don't see what could have provoked that." She joked, letting him open the door and she lead the way out.
"Yeah, I need help." He muttered in response, looking both ways down the hall as if he were lost. Seany had no clue what she would do when did have the baby- but one thing was for sure, she wasn't going to let Chris raise it alone.
A/N: Ah! I'm so tired! I bet this was boring because of all the questions and crap that he had to ask, but it was close to what really would have happened; so sorry about that . I hope you had a great time reading it, and once again, please read and review!