AUTHOR: trista groulx (dustytiger)
DISCLAIMER: alex, jimmy, kim, bobby, bosco, yokas, sully, davis, DK, walsh, lombardo, carlos, doc, ect NOT MINE don't own 'em, it's unfortunate really, i'm just borrowing 'em, letting them play a little, and then returning them (reltivly) unharmed, still not working, so don't sue, all you'll get is my credit card debt and two bratty calico cats!
RATING: PG-13, T, TV14, if you can handle the show you can handle this, just adult situations and language warnings, nudity but it's fic you don't see anything unless you've got a graphic imagination!
CONTENT: so far... alex/jimmy sex, bobby/kim r, kim/bosco sex, bosco/jimmy feud, walsh/alex ust
SPOILERS: anything and everything up to a rock and hard place
SUMMARY: just wait and see what kind of mess jimmy's firm handshake gets him into
AUTHORS NOTES: rabbid rabbit of doom has some surprises for amlmost everyone, keep reading, the referance for the chapter title is explained in this fic, it'll make sence once you get to that part, i want it to be a surprise to everyone so it's a very obscure referance that my little sis and her fiance use hehe
DEDICATION: to my sisters, for the inspiration for this, you'd have to know them for this to be a spoiler hehe
Alex had been frantic since she had gotten the result back. She could hardly believe that this was happening. She had had fun with Jimmy, but that's all she wanted from him. That's all he wanted from her, they had both been happy when they decided they just stop seeing each other.
It hadn't even been strange at work, since they had stopped messing around. They were both happy with the way things had ended. They were back to just being their usual selves. Though it did bug Alex that he liked to joke about her wanting him back.
This was going to change everything. She knew she needed to tell him, but first she needed to talk to Kim. She would understand what she was going through, after all Kim had been through it too.
"Kim," said Alex upon finding her. "I really need to talk to you."
"All right shoot," Kim replied.
"It's kind of girl stuff."
"I'll go inside," said Bobby taking the hint.
Bobby went inside the firehouse. Alex sat on the bumper of the bus that Kim and Bobby has just cleaned and gotten ready for the day.
"What's up?" Kim asked.
Alex was starting at the ground. "What?"
"You said you needed to talk to me, what's going on?"
Alex wasn't sure if she should tell Kim now, but she knew that she had to tell someone. The only person she trusted with what she had to say was Kim.
"Kim, I'm pregnant," she stated matter-of-factly.
Kim's jaw dropped. "Are you sure?"
"I took two tests before I left this morning."
"And you know it's Jimmy's I'm guessing?"
Alex nodded. "Yeah, it can't be anyone else's."
"When are you going to tell him?"
Alex shrugged. "I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to."
"He'll figure it out."
"Not if, I - you know."
"If you can't even say it, how the hell are you going to do it?"
Alex shrugged. "I don't know what I want to do, actually. I don't even know how to tell him."
"The best way is just to ask him to talk to you, alone, preferably, and tell him."
"How did you tell him?"
"Everyone suspected that I was pregnant, because of the way I was acting, and cause I couldn't keep anything down. So after a shift one day we bought the test, and did it at my place."
"Were you that sick?" Alex asked her friend.
"Oh yeah, if your love for your child was based solely on how good your first trimester went, I'd hate my son."
Alex laughed. "Yikes."
"Quit changing the subject, you have to find a way to tell him."
"Your way sounds a whole lot easier, then having to get him to actually talk to me alone."
"That's not the way this one is going to go, unfortunately." Kim smiled at her. "What's so hard about talking to him alone?"
"Mister Macho has to start cracking jokes about me wanting him back, anytime I try to talk to him alone."
"Is that what it's about?"
"Hell no!"
"Then there's no problem there is there?" Kim smiled at her friend. "Eventually you'll have to tell him, and it would be better if everyone wasn't watching."
"It's not cause he treated me like shit or anything like that, really. It's just, I didn't want anything serious with him. I mean it's not even weird working with him or anything. I know he does that cause he's in group of guys and he has to play for the crowd."
"Yeah, Jimmy can be an ass when he's with guys. Which is why you should try and tell him alone."
"I know that I should. I will, eventually. Thank you for listening."
Kim smiled. "Anytime."
Just then they heard yelling from inside the house. The two women let their curiosity get the better of them, and went in to see what was going. DK and Walsh were watching the fight between Jimmy and Lombardo. Bobby was nowhere to be seen.
"There's no way!" Jimmy yelled.
"That's what she said!" Lombardo screamed back, angrily. "She says it's more likely to be yours then mine!"
Kim clued in to what they were arguing about. Lombardo's girlfriend, Linda was pregnant, and she thought Jimmy was the father.
"I- I – look, Joe, I'm sorry I never thought. It- maybe – " Jimmy stammered, unsure what to say.
"I can't fucking deal with you right now!" Lombardo thundered, and went upstairs.
Everyone knew better then to follow him upstairs. Jimmy had sat down in a chair at the table, unsure what else to do.
Alex couldn't believe what was going on. Now she knew that she really did have to talk to Jimmy, and it would be even harder to do get him alone. She wondered how he was going to react to having someone tell him that she was pregnant, and she knew it was his.
Kim could hardly believe what was going on. Now she was going to have to explain to Joey that he had two half siblings on the way. Not only that, but they had two different mothers, neither of whom Jimmy were the woman he was married to.
"How do I get myself into these things?" he mumbled to himself.
"It must be those firm handshakes before bed," chuckled Kim.
"What?"
Kim shrugged. "Someone told me once, that her mother had told her on her wedding day that babies came from a firm handshake before bed."
Jimmy shook his head. "You're not helping."
"Sorry. There's not anything you can really do right now, is there Jimmy? I know you well enough to know that you'd never suggest to get rid of it."
"I know, it's not like I haven't been through this before."
"And we all saw how well that approach worked," she muttered under her breath.
"What did you just say? I didn't hear you."
"Nothing much, just thinking that it could have turned out far worse the first time right? You know learning form your mistakes and such."
"Well, maybe."
She smiled at him. "From the time Joey was born to now, trust me, I'm impressed with how much you're learned."
"Coming from you, that means a lot."
She smiled at him. "You know I wouldn't say it if it weren't true."
"Do you really think I can handle another one?"
"I think you'll be able to manage somehow. Besides Joey's been bugging me for a brother or sister for months now. This way he gets one, and I don't have to through everything again."
He smiled at her. "By the way, Kimmy, don't worry, I'll tell Joey about it, all right?"
"Thank you," she said. "See you are learning."
He smiled at her. "I'm trying anyway."
She was surprised to hear him say that, even though he had been trying harder of late to actually take responsibility for his own stuff where Joey was concerned.
The last time Joey had gotten sick, what she had said had really sunk into his think head, and she was glad. She couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him about the news he was going to get at some point from Alex.
Alex knew that she had to tell Jimmy about what was going on fairly soon. She knew that Kim would keep it a secret, but she needed him to know the whole story before he talked to his son.
She was worried about how he might react, but she knew that she would just have to come right out and tell him what was going on. Hopefully he would agree to talk to her alone without too much of hassle.
Part of her wanted to invite him over to her place, and tell him in private, but she didn't really want him there. Kim had warned her about his ways of persuasion and she felt safer telling him at work.
Not to mention she didn't want to listen to the guys for the time between her asking him over, and him telling them the real reason why she had had him over.
"Hey, Jimmy can we talk?" Alex asked.
"I'm really not in the mood right now," Jimmy grunted, getting up.
"It's kind of important, I'd really like to talk to you."
He was worried for a moment that she was looking for something more. But the train of thought soon changed tracks, and he wondered if this had anything to do with the fight he had just had with Lombardo.
His mind was racing, could have that bad of luck to have two women, neither of whom were his second wife. He felt a headache coming.
"What's up?" Jimmy asked Alex.
"I'd rather not tell you in front over everyone."
He was fairly certain that she had news for him that he would not really want to hear about, but would have to do deal with.
"Just tell me now, everyone's gonna find out anyway," Jimmy muttered. "The walls around here have ears."
"Jimmy I'd really rather tell you alone."
He shook his head. "Look, I don't give a rat's ass if everyone finds out all right? I have a damn good idea what you're gonna tell me, so just tell me."
Alex looked helpless, standing in front of Jimmy. She glanced over and Kim to see if she could get any kind of guidance from her. Kim simply nodded, as if to say, just tell him, he's not gonna change his mind.
"Jimmy," she said. "I'm, uh, pregnant."
"And it's mine?"
"Of course it's yours!" she snapped, angrily.
Everyone who was within ear shot, gasped upon hearing Alex's news. They were even more shocked to hear Jimmy's question. Alex was not the kind of girl that slept around, and everyone knew that.
"All right," said Jimmy, not knowing what else to say. "I'll deal with it, just give me some time all right?"
He got up, and went outside, he needed to think about everything that he had been told. He didn't know how to deal with it, but he knew he was going to have to.
For some reason Kim couldn't stop herself from following him out to talk to him. Despite everything she still cared about him, and knew that a lot of times he would open up to her.
"Jimmy," she said.
"Kimmy leave me alone," he warned.
"Talk to me?"
He stopped dead in his tracks. "What the hell am I supposed to say and do?"
"You have to deal with it Jimmy, it's not going to go away."
"How the fuck am I supposed to explain this to Joey?"
"As best you can."
"I'm not gonna ask you to deal with this, Kimmy, I promise."
He walked toward her, and before she knew what was going on he had her in his arms for a very close bear hug that she could not get out of.
"Jimmy?" she squeaked, just able to breathe.
"Kimmy," he whispered, calming down, running his hand through hair.
"This is the kind of thing that got you into trouble in the first place. Please, Jimmy, stop."
He didn't for a long moment, they just stood there. She was unable to move, as her ran his hands up and down her face.
"Jimmy, please," she said, hopelessly, knowing that he was not listening.
She just hoped that things didn't get too out of hand, and that Bobby didn't see what was going on and get mad at her. She stood there, feeling trapped, hoping he would let her go soon.
tbc... next on up we have lesson 16; prince charming
end notes: a cliffhanger! sorry folks, kristen made the bunny do it! laugh promise it won't be long before the next one's up, hope 'ya like it, oh and the sisters dedication, they're both pregnent and due within six weeks of each other hugz and kissez trista