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The Situation
"Sam" she shouted as she entered the bedroom smiling "I've just been given my dream I'm performing at the Savoy in England I'm finally doing Waiting to Exhale" Mercy burst in saying tears in her eyes
"That's great babe" Sam said looking around as he spoke "When did you get back?" he asked grabbing for his sweats
"Leave them off I'm coming in" she said giving her giggle making him smile as she jumped on the bed and went in for a kiss
"Hold up babe let me go freshen up" he said almost bouncing out the bed as she got in "I'm not really up for this right now I've been feeling a bit off for a few days" he informed her as he got to the bathroom
"Babe" she said following him to the bathroom determined to get what she wanted "Sorry to hear that but I can make everything better" she said giving her seductive look as she reached in and turned the shower on. Sam grabbed the toothbrush and cleaned his teeth for the longest time, things going round in his mind "Babe" Mercy said pulling him into the shower and he went willingly "I need you so bad right now" she said touching herself as he watched her for a while.
"That's my job" he finally said grabbing her leg and throwing it over his shoulder as he always did in there, falling to his knees to deliver pleasure and gratification to his wife, before she peaked she moved his head swung him round, let the water run down his body before pleasuring him orally until he nearly peaks "I want you so bad babe" he whispered in her ear as she finished kissing up his body.
Mercy saw the door opening and swung Sam around to put his back to the door he opened her up "I love you Babe" he said before he thrust into her as Mercy smiled at the woman standing at the door
"Babe" she said making him look up at her "I hate you" she said as Sam's face changed here he was about the peak and she was telling him she hated him
"What?" he asked stopping for just a second
"Get the fuck out of me I hate you" she said as he stood frozen wondering what was happening here. As he looked back at Mercy he noticed she was looking past him and he turned round to see Hayley standing with a breakfast tray naked at the bathroom door
"Fuck" he said "Mercy she was nothing I swear to you a one night stand I don't even know what I was thinking" he quickly said
"In our bed, in our house a one night stand and making fucking breakfast Sam" she shouted back crying outright "Get out" she shouted at the woman standing there, who took her time doing that
"Get out" Sam finally shouted after her and she moved quicker
"Did you use protection?" she asked
"Yes of course"
"Just so you're clear on this Sam, there is no coming back from this everything we said we are to each other is broken" she cried
"Babe I'm sorry I really am you mean the world to me"
"Your world is very fucking small" she said getting angry now as they stood in the shower with the water still beating down on their bodies
"Ok Truth" Sam said grasping at straws
"No more truths Sam we've broken everything" she warned him
"I've been with her twice over the past month or so we met at work and obviously the first time was pure accident but I'll admit, this time she's found me"
"And it never crossed your mind to mention me or even mention it to me, I had to come in and find some naked bitch cooking in my fucking kitchen?" she said slapping at his chest and he stood taking her anger, she slapped until she started kissing him again and suddenly she was climbing back onto him and he didn't argue anything she needed to do to stay was fine by him, they carried on until she was screaming with ecstasy.
"Babe I'm serious, I love you please don't leave me" he asked not putting her down or allowing himself to detach from her
"I need you to remember that when you're out getting all the gratification you can handle. I want you to remember the very last meaningful sex you had with someone who loved you with all their heart" she said forcefully removing his hands from her as she climbed down off him and left him standing in the shower. She got dressed, grabbed her already packed bags and left.
Sam stood in the shower crying, banging, angry, singing and sorry for the longest time not wanting to leave the bathroom to face th reality of Mercy leaving him
"Pretty Wings" by Maxwell (Adapted)
[Verse 1:]
Time will bring the real end of our trial one day there'll be no remnants
No trace, no residual feelings within ya one day you won't remember me
Your face will be the reason I smile But I will not see what I cannot have forever
I'll always love ya, I hope you feel the same
[Hook:]
Oh I played you dirty, my game was so bad I toyed with your affliction
Had to fill out you prescription found the remedy, you had to cut me loose
Away from you to see clearly the way that love can be
When you are not with me you had to live, I had to live you had to leave, you had to leave
[Chorus:]
If I can't have you, let love set you free To fly your pretty wings around
Pretty wings, your pretty wings Your pretty wings, pretty wings around
[Verse 2:]
I came wrong you were right transformed your love into light baby believe me I'm sorry I told you lies
I turned day into night sleep 'til I died a thousand times I should've showed you
Better nights better times better days I miss you more and more
[Chorus:]
If I can't have you, let love set you free To fly your pretty wings around Pretty wings, your pretty wings
Your pretty wings, your pretty wings around So pretty wings, your pretty wings around
Your pretty wings, your pretty wings around So pretty wings, oh, pretty wings around
Pretty wings, your pretty wings around
[Repeat until end:]
2 days later Sam was still sitting in his house, crying angry and banging expecting Mercy to cool down sometime soon and come back to him at least to talk they'd always got through everything, never adultery, but everything else.
'Congratulations' he got pinged from Klaine on the group sapp and sat thinking I don't think losing the love of your life deserves a congratulations but yeah I've been a prize prat
'Yeah great to hear couldn't wait any longer secret is out' Brittana sent "What secret?" he asked the phone
'We wanted to be first to welcome little Evans' Tike wrote "Little Fucking Evans?" Sam said still looking at his phone
'What are you all talking about?' he wrote back to them
'Come on three days it's not even a secret anymore your pregnant Evans we all know' StBerry wrote back
Sam threw the phone down, he couldn't believe what he was being told "Pregnant" he finally said as if saying it made it real How could Mercy have not told me this? Why would she leave knowing she had my baby in her? There is only one reason your girl wouldn't tell you that Evans and you damn well and know why He told himself as he stood up in the realisation that Mercy was planning on getting rid of it. He grabbed his phone and called her number knowing she wouldn't answer but he would leave a message
'Mercy I'm begging like I've never begged before babe and I know this is a big chance I'm taking but, I'm asking you to try and remember what we were when we were good, I mean really good babe I mean Human Nature good or even New York good, Wedding Day good babe because we know what this means to us. I can accept that we won't be a conventional family babe but I'll play my part I promise I will and, I know you don't think very much of those right now but, I swear on your life I will make good for our child if you just do me this one big favour and' "Damn" he said when he heard the phone go dead redialling the number 'This big favour babe and keep our child, I know I didn't show it in doing that to you but, I do love you, you are the love of my life and I'm already regretting my actions. I'm not asking for another chance for me just yet babe, I know I've got a lot to do to get there but, I am asking for a chance for our baby' he finished taking a breath before saying 'Please Mercy call me"
'Sam please tell me my girl is lying to me' Quick sent
'Sam answer us' Artie wrote
'Dude not cool' Tike wrote
'Yeah I did that and yeah I'm ashamed, and I've lost her for good which means she's probably going to get rid of our child so guys nobody, and I mean nobody, feels worse than me right now' 'She didn't even tell me' he wrote crying now for the mess he'd made of his life
Mercy's POV
Mercy had walked out not a clue where she was headed but she had a lifestyle to keep up she had fans to fend off and she had a husband that cheated on her, a breaking heart and a baby to contend with "Recipe for miscarriage" her Mom had said when she called her as she sat in the music room after seeing some random in her kitchen naked singing and cooking.
"I'll be cute about it but don't hate me for my choices Mom" she'd said as she left her bags in the porch and dared to venture upstairs. Every step was like a death sentence, do I really want to know this? Should I just walk back out and let our life go on? "You ain't no damn fool girl deal with this shit" she told herself and she opened the door and was surprisingly happy. Truth he looked fucking eatable and I thought why not I'm never going to get it again so I might as well have a piece of my pie. She noticed his eye movement as she got close scanning the room, at least he went to wash his rank ass before I touched him. She knew what she wanted a soon as she saw him and she was going to get it that bitch in her kitchen was going to see what he really liked before she left her to him.
Yeah her man was giving it to her good she was loving it even forgot about the bitch downstairs until the bathroom door opened and she saw standing there 'What the fuck is this bitch looking at, standing in my bathroom you love me do you Mr Evans well "Sam" she said smiling at her thoughts "I hate you" now cum on that you bastard in fact "I hate you now get the fuck out of me" I don't want anything from that bitch on my baby she thought looking at the woman with scorn.
So two days on and she's sitting in her motel with only her mother on the phone for company, Sam hadn't mentioned anything so she wasn't going to either. She'd told their friends about the results because she wanted them to book a date in their busy calendars for a celebration of some sort before the baby came, she was doing one last show before her 12th week and then that was it she was closing Mercedes Jones diva down until after the baby was here and she'd spent some time getting to know it.
"No" she shouted at the phone when she saw Klaine's message "I don't want him to know" she shouted again already it was too late he'd got the message the same time, this was her fault for waiting for him to pass on the current news, he'd never say they'd finished voluntarily but, he needed to know they had so she called Quinn and told her everything about their break up only to see seconds later a full on confrontation to Sam on their shared page. At least he'd admitted blame she thought looking at his reply on her phone before noticing a message icon in the corner. Mercy pressed her voicemail and listened to the message tears streaming down her face, she knew what he meant, she'd told him a baby might be the one thing she'd ever put in front of him at any time in her life and here she was stoked on getting rid because well, one she didn't want to do this alone, two he'd cheated on her and three how was she going to manage a baby and a career alone. All she had left now was her career, she'd never love again she knew that before she walked out that door, she hadn't got it in her to love anyone else but Sam had destroyed her faith in everything.
"Sam" she said when he answered the phone "I'm just calling to say please don't call me anymore you have no right to ask me to do anything with my body and I'm filing for a divorce this week" she said and put the phone down before he could respond, he hated when she did that, she smiled to herself for the things he'd be throwing around right now "Your turn to spin bastard"
Real Time
True to form Sam was in his living room throwing things around talking to himself about the situation he'd put himself in. It took him a good while to calm himself down to call her back and leave a message 'leaving you alone is fine, for now, I want a say in my child's life and I dare you to take that away from me Mercy Evans and the divorce thing, cold day in hell Mrs' he wrote "Calm enough for you?" he asked Mercy out loud "I was wrong I'm not disputing that but you're not leaving me for it I don't give a shit how avatar I have to go" he said throwing his phone down
'Dude we're coming up' Puck wrote to him the message blip alerting him
'Why?' he wrote back
'Because Mercy is going to kick your fucking ass man what you doing talking to her like that?'
'Like what?'
'You sent that last message on the group Dude' Artie wrote
"Shit" Sam said to himself
'Is that the shit our girl's been dealing with from you?' Rachel asked
'No it is not calm down people, Sam's a pussy cat but. I am going to kick his fucking ass' Mercy wrote
'In a bit Dude" Blaine wrote as Sam's phone rang he saw Mercy's face come up and clicked it off
"I'll play your game" he smiled as it rang again "What?" he shouted down the phone
"Fuck you Sam Ev…" he clicked the phone off
"You want to speak to me do it to my face I dare you Mrs. Evans"
"Fucking child" Mercy said angrily to her mobile, she couldn't rest she needed to see Sam, call him a bastard and slap him in that fucking cute face of his sharpish just to get some instant gratification and she was in the fuck with him mood anyway. He'd messed her life up and maybe she could have some fun messing his up for a while the next 8 months anyway. She grabbed her coat, bag and keys and headed back home. She didn't knock the door she just used her key and walked right in
"No bitch" she fired at him as she walked up to him, Sam knew she was going to hit him but he stood and waited for it anyway, truth he was just glad to see her Diva full blast or not. She got to him and stopped just looking at him her look of fuck me hard on her face Sam didn't need telling twice he took her there and then, quick and semi rough "You bastard" she said slapping, punching and kicking him hard when they'd finished "I am going to get over you Sam believe me" she said
"But not just yet?" he asked but she didn't answer "Mercy I'm not giving you a divorce, I'm not discussing it because it's not happening" he said getting up to sort himself out "I'm not giving up on us without a fight, and I mean avatar style and I still love you"
"I hear all of that Sam but all I see is your random in my bed, house, man I can't forgive you for that and, right now I'm not even trying to get there" she said fixing her clothes as she spoke "Are you still sleeping with her?"
"No not since that day"
"You talk like it's been a few years or so we're talking days here Evans" she said getting mad again
"Ok calm that shit down I don't want you stressed with the baby" he said going towards her "Here's the thing no one else for me until we finally split up I mean divorced and everything, on your life" he smiled
"You just said you weren't going to give me one" she looked up at him saying
"So there you have it" he said kissing her anyway and she fell into it
"I do believe you're my baby craving Sam Evans" she said kissing him deep again as they fell back into old roles again "I need to go before I'm sucked in" she jumped up saying "We're not getting back together Sam you're a craving remember that" she said walking out of the house
Sam smiled when she left he was in a comfortable place, she was pregnant hadn't said she was getting rid of the baby and at the moment anyway he was her craving. He'd got about 8 months to talk her back into their house, bed and life and he was going to work hard to make sure that happened
The following day Puck, Mike, Artie, Blaine and Jessie turned up "Hi Guys" Sam said in rather high spirits "Where are the others?" he asked referring to the girls
"Bro did you want a full throttle slap down or you just got a death wish" Jessie said "We had to talk the girls into leaving you to us and going to support Mercy so they called she gave them her secret destination and they're all there"
"What the hell were you thinking?" Mike asked
"I don't think I was it was on a plate and I took it"
"Dude we passed through on a plate at school, college what happened?" Puck said not having his answer as final
"You know the modelling thing Dude bitches be looking fine and offering the world and shit and, don't get it twisted, I knew I had my world at home, I just got caught up in it all you know, everyone was doing it and never getting caught and I just got pulled in"
"Pulled in till you took a bitch home Dude?" Artie asked "and don't get me wrong I'm not condoning what you've done"
"She just came here actually, that was the first time in our home and the last, I don't even know how she found out where I lived although, it's not something hidden in our circles, she just turned up woke me out my sleep I was more or less ready for it anyway and she was there"
"So what are you going to do?"
"Seriously I really don't know, Mercy's got me as a craving for now so that's cool but when the baby comes I guess if I haven't earned her trust back by them I'll be kicked to the curb" he said looking around "She asked for a divorce yesterday broke my fucking heart hence the sapp" he said as Blaine touched his shoulder
"So what's happened since?" Blaine asked
"Well she came round, had her way with me several times and then left and I haven't heard anything from her today" he replied
"Dude it's only 9 a.m." Puck replied "And the girls just got there" he said as they all sat figuring out a way for Sam and Mercy to get back together again
The door opened as they sat in consideration Sam knew who it was but the rest of them sat looking "Hey guys" Mercy said giving them all a big hug "My place is so small I thought I'd come and use my Music room" she announced "Make yourselves at home" she said to the girls looking at Sam "I need you to come with me" she said to him walking past him and grabbing his hand as she did making their way upstairs
"What's that about?" Tina asked
"He's her craving, don't worry he's the one being used" Mike announced
"Poor Mercy fancy having a cheating partner as a craving" Sugar announced, as everyone else, having been unfaithful at some time in their life, held there head down "What?" she asked when no one answered
"I don't think anyone in this room can comment Sug" Quinn informed her
"Was Sam alright?" Kurt asked Blaine
"A bit rough but seems alright why?" he asked
"Because I think something's wrong with Mercy she's being erratic, laughing a lot, crying for short bursts and she evades the conversation about what's happening but she needs to get to Sam, it's just not right"
"I was going to say I think she's flipped the lid I think this with Sam has really hit her hard ad she's not coping" Brittany added
"We'll just have to look out for her and him" Puck added
A few hours later Mercy and Sam came back downstairs, Sam with a red face as Mercy said what she needed to say to the Guys before leaving the room with her girls to have their visit "See what I mean?" Sam asked as he showed the guys the marks on his face and back from her physical abuse of him after she'd had her way "She gets so damn mad it's not good for the baby"
"I don't know what to say, this is not Mercy but a few days ago I'd have said it wasn't you either" Jessie added
"I've tried begging, pleading, rough sex, soft sex, firm talk, calm talk, just letting her do what she needs to do with me but, it always ends up with violence and this isn't just from one sitting Dude, she'll go like this after every session and we have a few" he said looking around his guys "She just won't talk and I'm scared to push her for her finishing things"
"Dude you need to push her now you're at an advantage you're her craving whatever happens she'll come back right now don't risk leaving it until that changes because once she walks then she's gone" Mike suggested
"It's safe right now we're all here just go do it now and get it out of her, we'll take everyone to the pool" Puck suggested as everyone nodded
"Seriously scary stuff" Sam said
"I know Dude been there" Puck replied as Blaine, Jessie and Artie agreed
"Here goes shit, everything I do now is not me" he announced as he got up
"Mercy" he called from the music room door "Could you come here please?" he asked
"I'm with my girls"
"Just come here" he said sternly making her get up and go to the door as he grabbed her hand and led her out of the room and down to the day room "I know you want everything on your terms and if I'm honest they are but this" he said pulling his top up to reveal marks and bruises from the past 2 days "is unacceptable and I just need to know what's going on with you"
"Are you for real" she asked "What the fuck is going on with me let me see" she said venom in her voice "My heart is broken I'm reminded of that every time I look at your fucking face, I love you and you're a bastard and I'm reminded of that by your face, our baby will not have its father around all the time and somehow that's going to be my fault, you broke every fucking promise you ever made me, you slept with a bitch up in our bed, I come in to tell you I'm fucking pregnant and you've got a bitch up in our fucking bed" she said lashing out at him again as Sam just stood and took it, scared at how avatar she was going
"My God" Rachel said as she walked in on Mercy going orbital on Sam "Call a doctor"
"Mercy you need to stop the baby" Quinn went running towards her as Puck's hand pulled her back
"Let Sam deal with it Hon" he said as he pulled her
Mercy finally fell into Sam's arms exhausted but clawing at his clothes and he pulled her to him knowing what she wanted to do right there in front of everyone was not going to happen "Mercy, I'm sorry" he said tears in his eyes at what he's done to her. He held her for the longest time as everyone stood around watching Mercy broken and Sam helpless to do anything about easing the pain of the one person in the world they knew he loved
"You did this" Santana said looking at him with pure evil in her eyes "You broke her"
The doctor arrived and prescribed her some depression medication, which Mercy refused to take because of the baby so he gave her some very mild sleeping tablets to help her get some rest, Sam took her upstairs to the spare room and lay her down "Why wasn't I enough Sam?" she asked clinging onto him "Why?" she said looking into his eyes for an reply "I tried my best, if you'd have told me I was neglecting you I'd have sorted it out, honest I would" Sam couldn't answer, it was all he could do to wait those few minutes for her eyes to finally close before he burst into tears himself.
Mercy drifted in and out of sleep for the rest of the day and Sam spent most of his time at her bedside as the crew came up in their twos and threes to see what was happening
"What are you going to do Sam?" Brittany asked as they sat at the dinner table just looking at each other nobody really eating their evening meal
"I want to just take the whole thing back, none of it was worth just one day of this but; as she said it's in her head and that shit I don't think will ever go away for her" he said looking up from his food "I love her with everything I am and she me I'm going to have to think about turning what we have into something new we've never really done the bullshit stuff so I guess it's a bearing of the soul move for us and maybe if friendship is all she puts on the table after this that's what I'll have to take"
"You think you can be friends?" Tina asked
"I hope we can at least be that in the future" he said "But, I'll never give her a divorce she belongs to me, and I belong to her in whatever forms we take"
"Food" he heard from behind him "I need me some of that" Mercy said walking up behind him as he moved up the bench for her to squeeze in and grabbed her a plate
"How you feeling, no don't answer that" Sam said as he laughed alone "Someone else ask"
"How are you feeling sweet" Kurt asked cutting his eye at Sam
"I'm feeling rested for the first time since this shit started" she laughed looking at Sam
"Don't tell me you found what he said funny?" Rachel asked
"Yeah I did actually" she said as her laugh turned to a giggle and she nose kissed Sam "He's still my best friend lousy husband mind" she smiled at him
"Best Friend, Sexiest wife, insatiable lover, and I mean it I'm not letting you go"
"Sam we spoke about this already, I am leaving as soon as your no longer my craving" she warned "Talking of which" she said grabbing his hand again as they set off up the stairs
"Can you two not even be discreet about your shit" Artie asked as they wondered off
"Hey three days ago I had some random bitch up in my bathroom watching us go at it, if I can't share this with my friends something's wrong" she shouted as they got further away "Hey" she said stopping as she thought about it, looking at Sam smiling before she said "Most of you know what he's giving me anyway" and laughed before carrying on up the stairs
"Tablet" Kurt mouthed to Sam as she spoke
"Something is wrong with our girl" Brittany said as everyone just sat at the table considering
"Mercy I'm not adverse to giving you what you want babe but you've got to be nice about it" Sam said as she roughly threw him on the bed "Stop Babe" he said holding her hands as she went to undo his trousers and sitting up "I understand totally that I'm to blame for all this and I'm going to try to put it right but babe" he paused waiting for her to look at him "Stop telling people your leaving me because listen" he said grabbing her attention again by holding her face by her chin to look at him "I'm not letting you go, do you hear me?" he asked
"Yeah" she said grabbing at him to get what she wanted as he let her hands go to do what she wanted "Do you love her?" Mercy came out with as she sat on him riding away seemingly enjoying herself
"What?" he asked shocked
"Do you love her, your random two timer?"
"No"
"So why did you do it Sam?"
"It was on a plate and I took it, I didn't think about you not that first time, well I did enough to know you weren't around but that's not an excuse or anything I just messed up Mercy, it was just sex" he said going flat as she held him inside her
"Your fucking right you better be going down thinking about her while you're dealing with me" she snapped giving him a slap
"There's never been any mistakes there babe I make love to you" he smiled shyly "and I do love you Mercy despite what I did"
"I'm not going to say it because you don't want to hear it but it still applies" she said jumping up off him "I'll save the rest of that for later" she looked at him lying there saying "Plus I don't want to get my bitch on just yet" like it was a threat. 20 minutes later they were back downstairs with their friends
"Mercy" Rachel said concerned for her mental well-being "Do you want to start us off and sing how you feel?" as everyone nodded in agreement
"Yeah I'll sing" she said jumping up picked her song and turned the music on as everyone listened to her singing her version of 'You Lost Me' Christine Aguilera
"What he fuck?" Puck asked when she'd finished looking at a pale faced Sam, more angry than shocked because he'd just told her it wasn't going to happen and she'd agreed, he thought
"I'm sorry to bring this up but, what did Sam actually leave you girls for?" she asked as if it was general conversation, no one answered her "It was all about kissing and shit yeah nothing drastic like fucking some man in his bed or anything like that was it?" she asked as everyone sat looking at this unrecognisable version of Mercy "Didn't think so" she said going back to sit next to Sam
"Sam do you want to sing how you feel? Blaine asked
"I'm not in the singing mood to be honest but, I guess from the heart I will" he said as he got up and walked over to the player and cranked up his song as she started singing his version of 'Come back to me' by Akon he sung the whole song looking at Mercy as she sat almost oblivious to his efforts
"I know you don't want to hear it so I'm not going to say it" she smiled at him
"Will you fucking stop with the bullshit Mercy" he went towards her saying flinging the coffee table across the room
"Oh so you hear something you don't want to fucking hear and the table goes across the room but, I see something I will never forget and I've got to fucking snap out of it and what take you the fuck back because hey he's fucking Sam Evans. Well sorry Sam fucking Evans but not fucking Sorry fuck you" she shouted at him as he walked around wiping glassware off the sides to the floor as she followed him shouting "So what you wished that was me?" she asked when he wiped their picture off the unit
"I didn't fucking mean that and I'm not mad with you, I'm mad with my fucking self if you must know" he said stepping on the broken glass to get through the patio doors
"You know what Evans?" she asked making him spin round
"Do you know what Evans you need to get the fuck off my back right now" he said to her
"I need to what? You need to .."
"Mercy stop pushing buttons" he shouted back slamming the door as he left
"Don't you dare walk away from me" she shouted as Quinn and Santana went and hugged her
"Leave him for a bit Mercy let him calm down" Quinn suggested
She sat down as they requested but kept her eye on the door where Sam was standing "Sam" she said not very loud but loud enough
"What?" he asked suddenly standing there
"I need you" she said crying into him as he hugged her
"I'm sorry Mercy" was all he could say "Babe something's wrong we need to get the doctor back" he whispered to her
"I can feel it babe, I'm spinning" she whispered back squeezing him "Can I sing some more?"
"You feel safe there babe?" he asked as she nodded "Mercy wants to sing again, I've just got to make a call" he said almost passing her over to Tina and Kurt
"What do you want to sing Mercy?" Blaine asked
"I want to sing to Sam because he thinks this is easy for me but my head, it's all mushy and he's the one I love but he's the bastard that hurt me so bad I just feel like I'm dying over and over again. I'm with him in body but my mind seriously is saying something completely different and I feel like I have no control over either" she looked around the room to see Sam standing with the phone in his hand but not speaking "What's up Sam?" she asked not waiting for an answer as she went over and found the song and started singing 'Sleeping with the one I Love' by Fantasia
"Is that one in the same person Mercy?" Brittany asked
"What?" she asked looking confused
"Who were you singing about?" Sugar asked
"Sam" she said
"Sam and who?" Sugar asked for clarification
"Sam the good and the bad" she laughed
"Sam she's gonna need a reply, believe me Dude this is healing" Mike said "Diva only understands music right now"
"Doctor's coming in a bit" Sam said as he walked over to start a song "I'm not even interested in this right now Dude something is seriously wrong with her and I need her sorted" he said looking at her smiling at him which made him smile "Hey" he said to her "I'm here" he said, making her smile, as the music started and he did his rendition of 'Lay Me Down' by Sam Smith
The door knocked as they got to the end of the song and Sam left the group to let the doctor in, he went into depth about the events of the past 4 days, Mercy's behaviour and his concerns. Sam went back into the room where everyone was, and got Mercy for the doctor to examine her, she was a bit confused about the whole situation but she stayed close to him and somehow got comfort from him being there "She has depression maybe brought on by the shock of everything that happened on that day, hopefully we can rectify it with a good diet" the doctor advised
"What can I do to help her?" Sam asked
"Make sure you keep her as happy as you possibly can, that she's eating regularly and healthily some extra vitamins might be good too, some vitamin E will bring change fairly quickly so the sooner you get that started the better"
Sam gave her the mild sleeping sedative and waited for her to get to sleep before going back to the others to let them know what was happening with her "So in effect my actions put both my wife and child's life at risk" he concluded
"Sam, why don't you go get some sleep" Puck stated
"I don't know that I can, I haven't slept since this shit started" he said
"Maybe that's why you're walking around smashing everything up" Brittany added
"So do we have a plan then?" Artie asked
"Well for now she just needs a lot of support and I plan on being here for that so dare I say I've got it covered, hopefully with the diet change the abuse should stop and if it doesn't I'll suck it up, and I'll call if there are any drastic changes"
"Repair her heart Sam and everything else will be alright" Brittany advised the following morning before they all left for home
"Will do" Sam said shutting the door and taking a big breath for what was ahead of him.
So they carried on being in but out of each other's lives, Sam would attend antenatal classes with Mercy, she'd attend work functions with him and then they'd go their separate way at the end of the night unless Mercy felt otherwise and then she'd end up at their home sleeping in the spare bedroom having kicked Sam out after she'd finished with him. They never really mentioned splitting up again and Sam saw that as a good thing but every now and again Mercy would do something random like book a weekend away without telling him, he'd call her up and she'd remind him that what she did was none of his business.
"Sam" Mel shouted from her desk at him as he passed through the office one day
"What?" he asked having not really spoken to her since that shameful day nearly 8 months ago
"Has your wife calmed down yet?" she laughed
"No she came home that day to tell me she was pregnant" he said walking away from her
"So you lost your baby too?" she asked shocked
"Yes I did" he said the hurt coming to his face at that realisation but he carried on moving. He had no time to stop today, Mercy was moving back into the house she was too near her due date to be alone and he'd booked 6 months off work to support her. She'd asked him to look for a permanent home for her and the child as, by the time he went back to work she wanted to be settled in her own home, he'd agreed but only so he could go at a snail's pace on it.
So they sat in the living room tired Sam more so for moving things up and down the stairs "What do you want to eat" he asked an almost sleeping Mercy, her depression was under control but, then he'd spent a lot of time paying her attention and enlisting the help of family and friends to make sure she didn't really get time to think about the bad things. The doctor had told him there was the possibility of post-natal depression and he had read up on things to do to try and keep it at bay
"Can we have pizza and sex?" she asked
"I can get you the pizza but, the sex thing might be difficult, I don't know how to do that with you" he laughed
"I'd hardly call it making love with this attached" she said without thinking pointing at her belly, as Sam grabbed his phone ad made the call for delivery
"Only one slice thought babe, so do you want any salad to go with that?"
"Yeah" she said sounding sad
They had their meal and Mercy got her love and they both lay on her bed exhausted "Sam I know you really don't want to hear this, and it seems to you like everything is getting back on track because I've moved back in and everything, but this is purely for the baby, there's nothing between us as such. I've come to terms with you not letting me go and that's fine I don't want to see anyone else but babe where I am today we are not going to happen"
"Ok" Sam said climbing out the bed
"Sam" she said grabbing at him "Can you stay close please I just need to know your close right now, and 'm sorry about these mixed messages, I'm just scared about the labour and stuff" she said as he nodded an ok.
D Day was fast approaching, their parents had arrived and some of the friends, who were performing in LA that week, had passed through to see them and the house just seemed busy in preparation. The moms were busy preparing the nest while the dads were cussing Sam out again for the situation he'd found himself in
"I know baby girl she is not going to change her mind" Dad Jones announced
"I know Sam and he has the willpower to stick in there until she does" Dad Evans replied
"She still loves me, she tells me all the time" Sam dropped in
"Son you know love and trust is not two in the same thing" Dad Jones reminded him
"She's not shifting, you're still out Sammy" Mom Evans came into the day room saying "I could slap you honestly but I know she's done enough of that" she added "And I still love you too sweetheart" she said hugging him as he went to her
"I miss my Mom" he said kissing her on the brow as Mercy entered the room hurriedly
Mercy seemed to have made her nest in his arms, she just wouldn't leave him alone she went everywhere with him, not that he minded and she kept him in bed more than out, having the family around seemed to make her happy in more ways than one. Sam was busily trying to ensure she ate the right foods, kept her liquids up as well as her mood high and he was doing a pretty good job of it even if he said it himself.
"Sam" Mercy said on D day as they lay in bed him fast asleep exhausted after the marathon night Mercy had him on she was going for gold. "Sam" she repeated nudging him this time
"Humm" he said turning over in his sleep
"Sam" she said a bit sterner
"Babe can I just get like an hour more I'm exhausted" he said without opening his eyes
"You can if you want this baby born here" she replied
"What" he jumped up saying "Of all the days" he got out of bed saying "How do you know it's time?" he asked pulling his sweats on as she drew the covers back to reveal a very big wet patch
"My waters broke"
"Shit don't push" he said trying not to go into panic mode "Do you want a bath or a shower?" he asked
"Shower might be safer" she said as he went in and turned it on before coming back out taking his clothes off again picking her up and taking her into the shower washing them both off and bringing her back to the bed. Putting on her underwear and sweats as agreed before dressing himself, within 30 minutes they were in hospital and 7 hours later baby S J was born a beautiful baby boy. As you'd expect the family doted on him and it was about two weeks before Sam and Mercy were actually left alone. They'd had the makeshift naming ceremony, wet the baby's head, planned the christening and first birthday party before everyone left and that first night alone they both slept in the nursery wrapped in each other's arms talking about their new family.
Just after the Christening Sam's 6 month leave was up and he was preparing to return to work "Sam when am I moving in?" Mercy asked
"Probably 2 weeks, still waiting for the nursery furniture to be built" he replied
"Couldn't I just move what they have here over?"
"And what do they use when they come to me?" he asked
Mercy's house was bigger than their house it had 6 bedroom upstairs and 3 downstairs, Sam had bagged one room at hers for himself, in the hope that one day her craving may just become an need then a want and he'd more or less done that behind her back before telling her two days before the baby came, she didn't stress about it she was fine with it, he called it progress.
Sam finally went back to work knowing this just wasn't what he wanted to do anymore, he was a father now with a big responsibility and, did he really want his son to grow up thinking stripping down to his underwear and taking pictures was a cool thing to do, to aspire to do no, his life had to change. He went home dusted out his old drawings and headed up to Marvel, snagged himself some freelance work as a regular spot and started working mainly from home, within the month
"How come your always at home Sam don't you work anymore?" Mercy asked him the day before she was due to move out as they packed her things to go
"I work from home now" he announced
"How do you model from home?"
"I don't I draw and caption" he laughed
"You changed jobs and you didn't even tell me" she laughed "I'm so proud of you that's exactly what you always wanted to do, with Marvel yes?"
"Yes" he smiled
That night after dinner Sam made a last chance plea to Mercy asking her to stay, promising to change and even sang 'Stay' by Tyrese for her, she cried but still insisted on moving to her new home, telling him she still loved him, and maybe always would, but the trust had gone
The following day everything went in the delivery van, Sam put Mercy and S J into the car and they drove over to her new house just 20 minutes away, unpacked and ate Lunch and after he put S J to bed that evening about an hour later he left.
"Mom" he cried on the phone when he drove down the road from her house "she's gone, she left me" his Mom could do nothing but cry for him for their hurt "I'm gonna die Mom I can feel it my heart's breaking I can't breathe" he said heavy breathing in the car as his Mom tried to talk him down over the phone "This is too big Mom, I've lost too much, I can't take it, I'll call you back" he said slamming the phone down as he stepped out the car and gasped for air grabbing his chest feeling his heart about to explode "Mercy help me" he said falling to his knees in the street. He cried for a long while before coming to the realisation that this was how Mercy felt when she walked into the house to find Hayley in her kitchen "God" he gasped at the physical pain he was feeling, "Mercy I'm so sorry" he said to the heavens before finally getting up an getting back in his car. He got in the house and all he could do for release was smash things and the more he smashed the worse he felt "I'm ready to die" he said to himself going upstairs to fill his bath with water
Mercy sat in her studio thinking about all the years she'd spent with Sam as her vocal point, he'd been the centre of her world for almost 10 years in total she'd disregarded everything else for him made him her anchor put him on such a high pedestal even she didn't see this coming he was a saint "You made him one" she told herself laughing at herself. He's just a man flaws and all and like you he's bound to make mistakes "but girl he made you spin" she said shaking her head Mercedes Jones wouldn't let any man treat her that way why is Sam Evans so different why did he get to do that to me and live to tell the tale? He literally broke your heart girl but he climbed right back up there and fixed it again, she smiled at her thoughts. "I need to change I need a new me" she said as she sat at the piano playing a melody which quickly turned into 'Brand New Me' by Alicia Keys "Don't be mad it's just a brand new time for me" she said when she'd finished singing as she pulled her phone out "Mom I made my mind up please don't hate me for my choices"
"Girl you're a grown woman I'm sure you can fix your own mistakes and, you know we're here, all of us" she replied
"I've moved out S J and I" she told her
"I'm sorry Mercy" her Mom said crying down the phone
"Yeah I reflected and I knew I had to do this" she said "Sam needs to know how much he hurt me"
"I'm sure he does, it must have hit him now" her Mom said they had small talk for a while before the call was closed down
Mercy looked at the time 9.30 p.m. she should express some milk before she went to bed she thought as she mounted the stairs "My first night in my new home" she said taking he phone out
'Come home our baby needs feeding' she wrote on the group sapp and sent it
Sam threw everything in his pocket on the bed getting undressed for his last bath, went to the bathroom and closed the door. About to step into the bath he remembered the photo he'd taken of eth three of them and went to get it, noticing a message on his phone he picked it up. 'Come home our baby needs feeding' he read grabbing his clothes he was at Mercy's house in less than 10 minutes as he approached the door he saw a note on it
"Note please do not touch this key if you have no intention of being a part of the change that needs to be created to make this house our home. Please be warned the woman you will find in this house is not the woman who left your house this morning. If you accept the challenge I mean to turn a new page with you as Mrs Sam Evans because you'll have promised to be faithful to us for the rest of your life
Sam grabbed the note off the door with the key let himself in and ran upstairs to the nursery where he found Mercy and his son he sat at the foot of the feeding chair just taking in the scene, none of them said anything until S J was settled
"Mercy I'm sorry for spinning you I hear everything you say and on my family's life there will never be anything to harm any of you again"
"You spun?" she asked
"Like a mother fucker" he cried as Mercy hugged him
THE END
(I tried to split them up but it was too upsetting maybe next time)