Beautiful Disaster
Chapter: 11
Pairing: Robert\Holly
Rating: PG
Robert quickly scanned over the picture again and then it hit him. He was looking at a sonogram picture. Holly? Pregnant? No! Impossible! His heart started racing. He looked down at the picture again, taking in the image before him. Everything was spinning. When he lifted his head he saw Holly standing on the stairs. "Holly." he said softly as his eyes traveled over her. "You're pregnant."
Holly descended down the stairs slowly and walked over to where Robert was standing. He never took his eyes off of her the entire time she was walking toward him. A lingering silence filled the room. He watched as she stopped a few feet in front of him. Holly was glowing, she was positively radiant and he was certain he had never seen look more beautiful. "Hello Robert." she said softly.
"Holly." he managed to breath. "You're...Mine?...From the night in..." Robert could barely form a thought much less a sentence.
"Yes." she answered.
"Yes." he repeated.
"Yes to all of it." she told him.
"Wow." he replied, still in shock. "This is certainly the best welcome home gift I've ever received."
Holly smiled. "Well, I'm glad you like it."
Robert hesitantly reached out to touch her stomach. "May I?" he asked.
She took his hand in hers and guided it to her rounded stomach. "He's gotten really active over the past few weeks." she told him, holding her hand over his. "He was kicking like crazy earlier."
"He?" Robert asked. "It's a boy?"
"Well, we don't know. Every time I go in for an ultrasound the baby is never in the right position." she explained. "But Robin thinks it's a boy."
"You should be sitting." Robert told her. "Come on, sit."
Holly sat down on the sofa and Robert took a seat beside her. "I'm so glad you're back." she confessed. "I was afraid that you were going to miss everything."
"I'm here now." he replied. "And I'm staying this time."
"Really?" she asked. "No more ghost chasing?"
"No more ghost chasing."
"Good." she said softly as she reached for his hand and placed it back on her stomach. "The baby's kicking."
"Those are some powerful kicks. I think he's going to be a football player." he laughed. Robert gently rubbed her stomach, fascinated by the life inside. A life that they had created. "So we're what? Six months?"
Holly inward let in the breath she said been holding. Robert was beyond excited with the news of their baby. She had been hoping for this moment for months. "Yes." she answered. "25 weeks."
Robert moved his hand from her stomach to her face, gently caressing her soft skin. "I'm so sorry I missed out on the beginning."
That inward breath that Holly had just let out just re-inflated. "All that matters it that you're here now. I really didn't want to have this baby alone."
"So when did you find out?" he asked
That was the question that she had been fearing that he'd ask. "Find out what?" she asked.
"When did you find out that you were pregnant?" he clarified. "In July? After I left?"
Holly's heart began to race. She had a feeling that what was about to happen wasn't going to be pretty. "No." she answered.
"No?" he asked. "Then when did you find out?"
"June." she answered softly lowering her head.
"When?"
"Early June." she repeated just as softly.
Robert tilted her chin up with his hand. "Holly, look at me." he demanded. "When did you find out?"
She turned her glance toward him, her eyes filled with unshed tears. "June the 1st."
He took a deep breath and let it out slowly as he absorbed the information. "So you knew that day at Kelly's." he stated rather than questioned. "Why didn't you tell me?" he asked, raising his voice.
Holly was silent.
"Why didn't you tell me?" he yelled. "I deserved to know."
She jerked out of his grasp and got up from the sofa. "I know you did." she told him. "I should have told you right away." she said as tears began to fall down her face. "I wanted to."
"You wanted to!"
"Yes!" she yelled. "But I couldn't."
"You couldn't!" he asked as he got up and walked toward her.
"No!" Holly answered. "You were leaving again to search for Anna and Faison."
"I would have stayed!" Robert told her. "If you would have told me I would have been here with you the entire time. You know that, Holly. Please, tell me you know that."
"I do." she cried. "It's just that..."
"What?" he asked. "Please tell me what else."
"You said it was a drunken mistake." she said as she continued to sob. "You said it shouldn't have happened. What was I suppose to say after that Robert?" she asked. "Something like: You know that night you regret, the night that you wish would have never happened, well I know this is inconvenient for you, but we made a baby." she yelled. "Would that have made you happy Robert?"
"I never said I regretted it!" he told her. "I said it shouldn't have happened like that, with both of us drunk."
Tears streamed down Holly's face. "You said it was a drunken mistake." she cried.
"Holly." Robert said softly as he approached her. "You need to calm down. Come on and sit down." he said as he took her hand.
She flinched away from his touch as though she had been burned. "Don't touch me!"
"Holly." he said again. "Please sit down."
"Don't tell me what to do!" she screamed. "I've been doing..." she trailed off. A look of anguish spread across her face and she immediately clutched her stomach. "Robert, something's wrong."
tbc...