Chapter 3
Shawn/Mimi/Belle/Philip
AND A NOTE TO YOU ALL...OF COURSE I MOVE THINGS ALONG FAST...WE NEED TO GET SOME MORE INTERESTING STORIES HAPPENING! AT LEAST IMO...
The hospital room was really light and Lexie walked in with a folder, a folder that would change everyone's lives forever! Philip sat in a chair, waiting to know the results. After Mimi had told Belle that Claire was Shawn's, well, Belle just had to know if it was true, and she also had to know how.
As Lexie walked in, everyone braced themselves. Mimi especially. Lexie looked at them all like the news was very serious.
"Well," Lexie opened the folder. "Claire is Shawn's daughter, most certainly." She announced. "I thought after she needed that blood transfusion, that most of you would have guessed that Shawn was her father by now, but I do know that Shawn and Philip are related, so there was always that chance that she was Philip's." Lexie nodded and remained quite calm, unlike Philip who was giving Shawn a really angry look.
"And what about the babies we are carrying?" Belle asked. "How are they doing?"
Lexie took a deep breath and shook her head. "It appears that the baby you are carrying is doing quite well Belle. But, the sperm looks too large to be Philip's."
"What are you saying? My wife could be carrying some random man's child?" Philip sounded so upset. His life was falling apart around him.
"No. It appears that Mimi and Philip will be having a baby with whatever surrogate they chose and Shawn and Belle will be having another baby." Lexie explained.
Shawn gulped. "This is all happening so fast." He remarked, his head spinning. "I mean, I am Claire's father...And I am going to have another baby with Belle, and all this time my wife, whom I trusted with everything, knew that Claire was my child! Why? Why didn't you tell me? If you had just told me bedfore we got married or something..."
"I couldn't have! It would have hurt everyone so much." Mimi replied.
"Well, it's hurting even worse now! I wanted a life with you, I wanted us to be together forever, and now, now that can't happen because I can't trust you." Shawn shook his head and sat down. "Besides, you and Philip are having a child now, that is, if you still want biological children."
"Shawn, I wanted them with you!" Mimi protested.
"Well, we're over!" Shawn shook his head as he stared at her. He removed his wedding ring. "It's all over now. You shouldn't have kept this from me, you shouldn't have lied ot me! You should have just been honest. But instead, you just randomly tell Belle one day because you feel like you are going to explode, you have all of us go into the hospital for a DNA test, and low and behold, it turns out I am a father!" Shawn was upset, and he had every right to be. He sat down and rubbed his forehead. "I'd like some time with Belle." He said rather calmly.
"No, no way!" Philip protested, but Shawn looked up at him with eyes that said he would kill him if he even tried to prevent him from seeing Belle.
Belle looked at Shawn, he looked so broken, she had never seen him like that before. Everyone left the room and gave them the privacy that they needed. "Hey," Belle was standing right in front of Shawn, but she wanted to just hold him and never let him go.
"How can this be happening? Our lives are spinning out of control..." Shawn looked up at her from where he sat and then reached out and wrapped his arms around her waist gently. "And we are having another child."
"Yes, we are." Belle began to cry and Shawn pulled her onto his lap.
"We're in this together, no matter what. This is going to be our family, it should always have been our family." Shawn kissed a tear drop as it rolled down her cheek. "Do you want to be us again? Or do you still want Philip?" Shawn asked.
"I want you." Belle leaned into him, feeling for the first time in a very long time the love that Shawn had always had and always would have for her. "How do you think we got Claire?" She asked.
"It must have been the barn." He replied gently.
Belle nodded in agreement. "It's the only possible way."
Shawn held her tighter and closed his eyes, relaxing for the first time since they had recieved the news. A knock on the door prompted him to open his eyes, and they turned angry once again.
Belle started to stand up, knowing it was Philip that had knocked. "We gotta' get out of this position." She and Shawn both stood up and then told Philip to come in.
"Ready to go?" Philip asked her.
Belle gulped and shook her head no. Shawn took her hand in his. "I think both of our marriages are over now." Shawn told him bluntly.
Philip pursed his lips, he looked so hurt. "Just because of the children?" He asked. "Or is there something more?"
"I have always loved Shawn, and you and I, if Shawn had been..." Belle couldn't speak the words.
"If Shawn hadn't been locked up by Jan then you would have married him, is that it?" Philip asked her.
She nodded. Tears once again began to flow down her cheeks as she tried to look at Philip but couldn't.
"So I was always your second choice." He stated, his voice full of anger and shame. He walked out of there, his blood boiling.
He turned to look at Mimi, she was standing against the wall, her head spinning just as much as everyone else's. "How did it go?" She asked.
Philip only replied by kissing her deeply, obviously trying to get back at Shawn and Belle, or maybe just trying to see if any feelings would come out of it. He had always been able to talk to Mimi, always been able to be good with Mimi, and now they had a child that was theirs somewhere just waiting to be carried to term!
He backed away. "Sorry." He said quickly.
Mimi just looked up at him, confused. She too was full of emotions. "It's fine." She replied. "So, Belle and Shawn are together now?" She asked, her arms crossed over her chest.
Philip nodded. "Yea." He stated quickly.
"Oh." Mimi turned to him once again. "Well, we do have a child in the lab back there just waiting to be carried to term. Do you want to pick a surrogate?" Mimi asked him.
"In time. First it seems we both have to get divorced." Philip replied.
"Well," Mimi began, "Father Jensen has already declared my marriage a lie because I was not honest with Shawn."
"Ah. Well, maybe I can go confess to him too and he will declare my marriage a lie as well."
"But there is the whole legal aspect of it all." Mimi said casually.
"Yea, there is that." Philip agreed. "But I have the connections to make to go along quickly."
"Now, how to decide who lives in what flat?" Mimi joked.
"Hmmmm...Rock, paper, scissors?" Philip joked.
Mimi laughed for the first time that day and she and Philip left together. There was hope for them afterall. And there was hope for Shawn and Belle too.
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