"Excuse me, what exactly do you mean by that?" Dr. Roberts was a failry tall guy and within a few strides he was in front of Ryan, and he seemed bigger than Ryan had thought, but he didn't flinch.

"I have a feeling Summer didn't just start magically bleeding on her own." Ryan stated, staring Dr. Roberts straight in the eye.

"Ryan, you can't go and acuse someone of - well, whatever it is you are acusing him of," cam from Sandy behind him.

"Get out of my face kid." Dr. Roberts made a move to turn and walk away, but Ryan grabbed his shoulder.

"Tell me, Dr. Roberts. Were you so disgraced by your daughter you were kicking her out? Did you push her at all?" Dr. Roberts just stared at Ryan. "Her suitcase was lying on the floor outside your house when we got there, clothes were falling out of it. You kicked her out didn't you? And even if you didn't do it by meaning to - by actually physically kicking her out, I bet you didn't help her with her suitcase, did you, Doctor?"

Dr. Roberts looked to the ground. Sandy pulled Ryan's arm, guiding him away, and Neil Roberts saw his oppertunity and made his escape walking quickly away.

"Not denying it are you?" Ryan called after him.

"Ryan, even if he did kick her out then it's not his fault -" Sandy began.

"Not helping a pregnant girl with her suitcase - a highly emotional pregnant girl - a pregnant girl carrying his first granddchild? He may as well have physically kicked her out."

Ryan couldn't be more eager to see someone in his life, when the doctor came and said he was about to explain to Summer what had happened, she had requested he be there too.

Ryan walked into the room and found Summer's gaze straight away, "Ryan," she said his name in a small, vunerable voice, but the relief was also noticable, glad he was there and that she was not on her own.

He moved quickly towards the bed and clasped her smaller hand in his as he sat down next to her. Opening his soul as he looked at her, hoping his eyes could convey all he felt, "it's okay. I'm here."

She nodded, and then turned to the Doctor, "okay, tell us what you can."

"Ok, I'm going to try and explain this the simplest way I can; but we have done an ultrasound and the baby is around 13 weeks old and alive, for the moment." Ryan squeezed Summer's hand tighter, he couldn't believe it was only yesterday he discovered she was pregnant with his baby, only this morning when they had decided to keep it, only a few hours ago that he told Sandy and Kirsten - hell, he hadn't even explained to Seth and Marissa yet and there was already a risk he might lose it.

"We have done a blood test to detect placental hormonal levels, you have a low level which indicates that there is a high risk of miscarriage. Unfortunatley, there is nothing we can do other than suggest you stay here to be monitored over the next few days and when we release you, you carry on with bed rest. We will be giving you iron supplements to boost your haemoglobin level. I'll leave you and give this time to sink in, please get one of the nurses to call me if you have any questions." the Doctor leaned forward and gently touched Summer's shoulder, "there's a chance your baby will be born absoloultley healthy, I know it's silly for me to say, but try not to worry too much, it wont help."

He excited quickly and quietly leaving Summer and Ryan alone. After a few minutes of silence and hand clutching, Summer turned to Ryan; "I was so scared, Ryan."

He reached and took her other hand in his, so he held both tightly, "I talked to your dad. He told me what happened."

Summer looked down, "he pratically man-handled me out of the house, and throwing the suitcase at me... I knew the second it hit, it hurt our baby... he didn't mean it though, Ryan, he was just upset with me."

"I knew it."

"What?"

"I acused him of such, well, not actually doing anything physically to you, just adding to your emotional state by kicking you out and I told him I didn't think he was the type of person to have helped you with your suitcase... so he did hurt you?"

Summer shook her head, "no... yes... oh I don't know."

"You don't know, Summer?" Ryan realised he spoke rather harshly, and softened his tone, "How can you not know?"

"He's my dad, Ryan." Ryan's blood boiled again for her father.

"This is your baby, Sum." He paused, taking a breath, "if he did something to hurt your baby - our baby..."

"He didn't do anything really, he wouldn't have done anything if he had known what would have happened - he wouldn't have hurt me, hurt my baby on purpose."

"So, tell me what happened?"

"I told him about our one night stand, about being pregnant, wanting to keep the baby and he went ballistic. He told me to get upstairs and pack, walked me up the stairs with him and put a suitcase on my bed. He didn't say anything while I threw as many clothes in as I could then when it was nealry full, he reached for it half zipped it up and grabbed my arm and marched me down the stairs. He put the suitcase next to me at the bottom of the stairs, in the hallway and told me to leave, opened the door for me and waited. So I picked it up and I froze. I couldn't move, so he half-pushed me out. I made it down the driveway and then I had a cramp and as I put the suitcase down to ring you... I noticed the blood... I don't really remember much else..."

Ryan nodded, "you were in shock, you didn't make much sense on the phone. First you asked me to come get you, quite normally, then you started rambling about telling your dad and blood and asking me to come get you again and again and sobbing... you couldn't have scared me more."

He studied her for a moment, "the Doctor said not to worry yourself over this, you look tired. Try and sleep for me OK?" She nodded, but a second later, gasped, Causing Ryan to jump up "what is it? What hurts?"

Summer shook her head, "sorry, nothing hurts... just, we haven't told Seth and Marissa yet. Maybe tomorrow, you'll have to get them to come here and then we can," she saw Ryan was shaking his head, "tell them then. Why are you shaking your head?"

"If you think I'm going to let you subject yourself to any more stressful situations you've got another thing coming. I'll deal with Marissa and Seth, don't you even think about it. They may see what we did as terrible, but we were with neither of them at the time, drunk and lonely and they will have to just get over it. If they are our true friends they will, no matter how much they think we have wronged them." He stroked her hair, "I think Marissa will come around quickest, you guys were friends long before I came, she'll call you on your mistake, but she'll forgive you for it."

"Seth will be harder." Summer stated.

Ryan nodded in agreement, "he took me in as his brother and I have got the only girl he ever loved pregnant - I also think he still expects you two will be together again one day, thats why its going to be so hard. He'll have to admit that will never happen."

Ryan leaned forward and kissed her cheek, "get some sleep, if you can."

Summer gave him a weak smile, "thats going to be hard."

"You're strong Summer, yu can get through this, I know you will."

"You'll stay?"

"Of course."