Trading Places
Mercy sat reliving the whole scenario in her head "What were you thinking?" she asked herself
Flashback
She'd just finished with Sam because she'd found out he'd slept with some random girl when she was away at university. It wasn't really about him sleeping with the girl, he'd done that so many times with her permission she'd grown a thick skin to that sort of stuff but in the past he'd always found the time to tell her about it and they weren't even together. So now they had made that commitment she really couldn't get her head around him doing that to them, she'd cried, laughed, sung, prayed, slapped and shouted about the whole thing and she'd tried to put it behind them and carry on, clean slate and all that, but things just weren't the same. She'd taken to following him about just checking, he'd started to question her actions, thinking she'd get him back for that some day and once the trust had really gone they sat down and sort of agreed it was over
"I love you Sam, I guess I always will, but the trust has gone and I can't live like this"
"I know your right Mercy, but it's really hard to walk away I don't think I'll ever love like this again"
"Please don't" she smiled "Love like this again" she told him
"I'm not joking Mercy"
"Neither am I, don't break another girls heart the way you broke mine Sam that's not love"
They'd walked away from each other that day with heavy hearts neither of them ready for this road less travelled. They'd been together on and off for well over 9 years, through school, college and University and now they were qualified and ready to start their life together he had to go and mess it up.
Mercy had been moping around the house for weeks, didn't see any friends, she couldn't they were friends to both of them and she didn't really know who Sam was using for his crutch. They were all linked up anyway and she felt funny to go sit in the midst of them as a single person
"Girl you need to go find something to do with yourself before you make yourself ill" her Mom had said so many times Mercy started rolling her eyes as soon as she saw her coming "Go see Sam" she'd say obviously wanting her to get on with life
"Sam's fine Mom" she replied
"Go see your friends" her Mom said one day and Mercy was that fed up of hearing it, she did just that
So she found herself sitting in Tina's kitchen listening to Tina and Santana going on about their other halves 'How fucking insensitive' she thought as she listened to them "We should go out" Santana said looking at Mercy
"What?" Mercy asked not really listening to any of the conversation at the table
"What if we went out?" Santana repeated
"What to a club?" she asked as Tina nodded
"A fucking Club Mercy, what you think we're gonna go cook something?" she asked
"I haven't been to a club since..."
"Yeah since the last time with Sam we know" Tina replied "You got to get back out there, surely the grass is going to be greener" she laughed
"I know what you were getting with Sam was good Mercy, you told us every time we saw you but you need to move on and at least try and find Mr Right Now" Santana encouraged her
"Yeah it's been 4 months since we split up I guess that's time enough" Mercy replied breaking a smile
"We're going out then" Tina shouted clapping her hands "Bring out that sexy diva tonight she needs to chillax"
"Or climax which ever comes first" Santana said laughing "Get it?" she asked as Mercy and Tina stood looking at her for a while before the laugh they were trying to hold burst out.
So the visit finished and the girls went about getting ready for their night out on the town meeting up at 8 pm loud, sassy and looking the shit
"Whhoo you are going to get it tonight Miss Thing" Santana said to Mercy as she walked towards her in her Purple flop front thigh length dress gathered as the belly button, fitted to her skin everywhere else with a strap across the top that sat on her neck with Black accessories. Just one snap by some crazy ass boy and the whole thing would be laying on the floor in a heap. Santana had on a black body stocking that had a shade darker material in the parts that mattered and Tina had the green wet leather look with no back in the dress and the hem way too high for Mike to have seen her before she left the house.
"Party" Tina said nodding in approval as she put her hand out for a passing cab, 30 minutes later they were standing in the cue waiting to get into the club Lemonade
"I'm ready to party" Mercy finally said getting in the mood
She remembered getting in the club even being chatted up by a few guys, they expected it the way they were dressed and they blew them off, she didn't know how many drinks she'd actually had or even what drinks she'd had all she knew what that she woke up in some random guys flat Santana coming out of a bedroom and Tina sitting crying for losing her life
"What the fuck went down last night?" Mercy sat on the couch asking
"We went down girl" some loser looking guy popped out the kitchenette saying
"Do I know you? Wait Dan" she said rolling her eyes "You have got to be fucking kidding me" she said holding her hand up "Santana, Tina we got to go" she shouted through the apartment "Grab your shit and come on" she said holding her head for the vibrating noise she was getting as Santana made her way over to the couch attempting to sit down "No time for that we got to go" she informed her grabbing her up before shouting Tina one more time and making for the exit
"Shit how did we end up like that?" Tina asked as they jumped in the taxi
"What happens in Lemonade stays in Lemonade" Tina said as they jumped in the cab for the ride home "Mercy we'll drop you home first and we stayed at yours" she added as they all nodded
"Just to be safe, because I'm guessing nobody remembers, morning after pill ladies" Mercy announced as she got out the car and waved them bye
Unfortunately that behaviour had started in school and never really left the crew, Tina and Mercy had adopted the behaviour more recently Tina since Mike had admitted to having feelings for his new dance instructor he'd hired, now a days he wasn't even hiding it, he was there every waking hour, Santana and Brittany had always had that arrangement because of Britt being bi-sexual anyway and then Sam had cheated on Mercy and about a month after she adopted the attitude although she didn't openly tell anyone about it and never did anything about it until last night.
She got in her flat and flopped on the couch "What the hell are you doing girl forget him and deal with yourself" she said before pushing herself off the couch and heading to the bathroom. "Where are my damn draws?" she asked her self as she became aware of the fact that she was actually going commando right now, going in to take a long soak. When she came out in just a little more than a towel Sam was sitting on her couch staring at the bathroom door "Sam!" she shouted as she held her chest in shock "What are you doing here?"
"I went to my friends place this morning" he said holding her knickers up for her to grab "I recognised them, as I brought them" looking at her hard before a hurt look came over his face
"Thanks" she said as she stared back at him while snatching them off his fingers
"Mercy I know I don't have any right but..."
"No damn right, you got that right" she spat at him
"What are you doing babe, please think about what you're doing"
"Why, did you think about what you were doing?"
"My reputations already ruined babe please think about..."
"I know what I'm doing Sam, I'm looking for someone, anyone to show me something, love, appreciation, honesty, trust anything and yes I know it doesn't exist but like you I'm planning on having a good time looking"
"You already have all those things in you babe it's me that lacks them"
"I don't need it in me Sam I want to find it in someone else" she spat "And will you stop calling me fucking babe that shits long gone"
"Mercy, it's been four months, how long is this going to take?" he asked
"How long is what going to take?"
"For you to forgive me and let me come back"
"Hold up" she giggled with disbelief "You're expecting us to get back together?"
"We've tried the without each other thing it's not working, we only work right together"
"I can't see you laughing" she laughed out loud
"That's because I'm not"
"Get the fuck up and get out of our house" she said pointing at the door
"I'm not leaving babe I mean Mercy, I'm going to fight to get you back" he smiled
"Not this shit again" she said rolling her eyes "I've slept with someone last night Sam and if you move back in I'll sleep with more I swear"
"I pay the utilities and half the mortgage on this place, it's just as much mine as yours, I'm fed up of living in hotels, I'll take the spare room for tonight because you've been with Dan"
"For every night you spend in this house I'm gonna sleep with one of your friends" she warned
"Do your worst" he smiled
"What?"
"Do your worst, and make sure it's worth it because they'll be near dead the next day just like Dan" he smiled
"You attacked that guy?" she asked "You hurt him?"
"No Mercy you hurt him not me, you're the one running it like some sort of fucking gas station, you know I'm not going to put my hand on you, but I'll break every fucking bone in those guys bodies"
"I don't fucking believe you Sam, you cheated on me not the other way round"
"I know I did and I so regret it I told you as much, but you keep pushing me away"
"Sam we split up, amicably"
"I know but we still love each other we agreed that, and all that was missing was the trust and well, I'm willing to earn that back so as far as I'm concerned this can be fixed, it has to be fixed Mercy" he finished as she flung herself down beside him
"I know it's lonely Sam, I'm lonely but we're not good for each other"
"You're good for me Mercy, you're it for me"
"Sam you just brought me back my draws from some random guys house how are you sitting there telling me I'm the one?" she asked
"I know what you're doing Mercy I know, but I made you this way, the way I treated you made you this way and I'm sorry" he said as a tear fell on his shirt "I'm sorry"
"I don't trust you Sam we've tried the trust thing it didn't work" she said getting upset at his upset "Please Sam don't do this, I'm not coping as it is and you being like this just ..."
"I'm sorry" he said wiping his face "I swear to you on my life, your life, our children's life even, if you have me back I will never do anything to hurt you again"
"I ca..."
"Just, at least think about it please?" he asked
"Sam" she said giving him her sad eyes "You make this so hard for us" she said throwing her head back and rolling her eyes in submission to his request
"I'll make breakfast" he said jumping up knowing her thoughts better than she knew them herself, he eventually came into the living room with breakfast on a tray with a wild flower in a vase and a smile on his face "The wooing starts now" he announced as he put the tray down and went over to put 'Complete Me' by Marques Houston on the pod, one of her favourite tunes as he pulled her up to dance to it while he sung bits of the song to her and spun her around eventually making her smile and join in.
"Samm" she moaned when he'd spun her one too many times "I'm tired, still hung over and empty, I need food and my bed" she giggled
"Your wish" he said feeding her breakfast before picking her up and taking her to her bed"
"Thank you" she said before rolling over to fall asleep
She woke up feeling as horny as hell and not surprised when she saw Sam eating away at her just as she was ready to explode on his mouth "Sam" she said, she meant to shout at him but it came out all turned on as if she was asking for more and maybe she was, if there was two things this boy knew to do this was definitely one of them, she thought fully opening up to him. He was clever with it too just took her to beg stage before asking her if she wanted more and of course she did and he gave it to her as she smiled, she'd missed it and if there was one thing this boy knew to do this was definitely one of them. Mercy was so turned out she rolled over and went straight back to sleep when he'd finally let her explode and her body was able to relax "I love you Sam" she said as she turned, her way of giving him permission to hug her so he did.
That was his game throughout the night, she moaned about it a couple of times and even made mention of going to her Mom's once but by 2 in the morning they both knew she was going nowhere and what they both wanted so the marathon went on for over 48 hours food, drinks, bath, sex, sleep in that order. Mercy answered the phone once to tell her Mom she was fine and another to tell Tina she was in negotiations with Sam. On the 49th hour she got a call from Santana
"Girl Britt's back tomorrow and I wondered if you wanted one last night of freedom with us" she asked
"Who's us?" Mercy asked
"Quinn and Me" she replied
"Sam's here I'll let you know later" she said looking back at the pillow at a sleeping Sam and lay back down
"Who was that?" he asked with his eyes still closed
"Santana" she said as her head hit the pillow
"You going out?" he asked
"Probably" she informed him
"I'll run you a bath" he said jumping out of bed, as Mercy lay wondering what was going on for him, putting up with this "Mercy I understand whatever we decide to make this it has to be on your terms, I'm not being a fool about this, I know I did wrong and I should be punished, I'm not going soft or anything like that and believe me there will be a time when I'll think payback is enough" he said popping his head round the door "I know you're wondering" he said flashing that drop dead gorgeous smile of his that put dimples in his cheeks "your bath's ready"he said nodding her towards the bathroom as he walked back in the room
Mercy went in had the longest soak before deciding that she wasn't going out Sam was acting too strange "I've decided to stay in" she announced when she came out the bathroom
"Up to you, but when you do what you're doing, don't forget to play safe and take your safety pill"
"I never do..." she said thinking back to the last time she heard that 'Did I take that pill?' she asked herself remembering what had happened that random morning two days ago "God please tell me I took that fucking pill" she said exiting the bedroom for the bathroom again "Shit I didn't take the damn pill" she whispered to herself as she stood in the bathroom staring at the mirror hoping the packet was the wrong one
"What's up?" he shouted after her
"Just needed the bathroom again" she shouted "You do know that all this changes nothing Sam, we're still split up"
Sam jumped up off the bed making his way to the bathroom himself "I know that was a lie Mercy, what's up?" he asked totally ignoring the last part of her conversation
"I suddenly needed a dump" she said rolling her eyes as she looked at him still standing there "Something else?" she asked
"No carry on" he smiled
"Really?"
"Yeah you come in when I'm on" he laughed
"No you walk in regardless of the fact that I'm using the bathroom and take your dump there's a difference" she smiled
"Call it payback" he said still standing there
"Why don't you go make dinner or something?" she laughed "I'll be out in a bit, geek"
"You sure you're not going out?
"Yeah the fact that you might show me up by basically beating any poor guy I speak to to death sort of puts me off" she said louder as he walked away
Sam stood naked in the kitchen cooking up a storm for Mercy singing 'One Dance' by Drake making Mercy laugh as she walked in naked herself to see him pumping two ladles as if they were thousand pound weights
"Sam Evans you are crazy" she giggled
"I'm crazy" he swung round saying "OB1 never told you what happened to your father?" he mimicked
"My father, you serious boy?" she asked laughing "I'm gonna tell him that" she threatened
"No don't do that he's already going to kill me don't tell him that Mercy" he said as he walked towards her with eggs in his hand
"Sam no" she said running away from him "No please" she begged in full scream mode
"You said I was crazy and now you want to tell your dad on me" he made chase after her saying as she screamed through the house
"Okay I take it back Dad will never know" she shouted as she tried to slam the bedroom door shut before he got there
"These eggs are yours babe" he said making light work of pushing the door back open
"Sam my hair" she said walking backwards
"Yours babe" he said smashing them on her head as she screamed running off to the bathroom leaving him laughing in the bedroom
"I'll get you back for this" she shouted through the closed door as he went back to the kitchen to finish cooking
30 minutes later and Mercy emerged with a towel covering her wet hair "That was not playing nice Sam" she smiled as she walked towards him "But I liked it" she said as he bent down for his kiss on the mouth
"Dinner's ready babe" he said as Mercy grabbed the cutlery and made her way to the table, Sam opened the wine and brought the glasses to the table before serving the dinner. If there were two things this man knew to do this was one of them, they sat ate good food, laughed and sang through dinner which ended up in their favourite place, Mercy fell asleep feeling totally loved and Sam absolutely smug
The next morning he was up early dressed and ready for work "Monday morning babe" he said as he walked towards her with her early morning coffee
"I'm in at 11 today" she said sleepily
"Okay I'll see you maybe later" he said getting up to leave
"Come here babe" she sprung up saying
"What?" he sat back down saying
Mercy gave him her best promise kiss, if there was two things she knew to do this was one of them "Thank you for force feeding me over the past few days, I didn't know how much I needed you around"
"I wished I hadn't got up now" he came out of the kiss saying with a giggle
"Get to work" she said shooing him out and he left
Mercy grabbed her mobile and contacted Santana "Girl I need to do a test and if that's the case I need a clinic quick" she said before Santana could say how are you
"You forgot to take your damn pill?" she asked
"Girl it gets worse" Mercy told her a cry coming out with the last word "I didn't take it after that random the other day, Sam sort of distracted me"
"Shit" Santana spat "Right get ready, I'm on my way we'll deal with this"
25 minutes later Santana and Tina turned up on her doorstep with testing kit in hand, Mercy opened the door and burst into tears "Come on girlfriend we'll sort this" Tina said hugging her and walking her back into the house. They sat and listened to her version of what happened once she got back home and how it totally slipped her mind to take the pill, what Sam had been like, what she felt and what she was going to do if negative or positive before giving her the test and watching her walk off into the bathroom. Mercy took the two minutes to say the strongest prayer she'd ever said in her life opened her eyes and checked the stick "Two fucking lines" she said devastated at the outcome. She didn't know how long she'd sat there taking this in, coming to grips with the fact that she'd actually lost all chances of ever being with Sam again, her life crumbled around her, it was at that moment that she realised she still loved him enough to want their life back, his children, marriage the whole nine yards "Pregnant" she said blowing air out her lungs hard. She got up and delivered the outcome to the girls waiting in the living room, cried a lot and then started making plans for termination
"You gonna tell Sam?" Santana asked
"Answer that damn question for me T" Mercy said sarcastically
"No Santana she's not going to tell Sam, just like you didn't tell Britt" she said sarcastically "We know the drill lets get this done" she announced as her mobile rang "Shit it's Mike" she said accepting the call as she got up and moved away from the girls. Returning some time later with a red face she'd obviously been crying
"What's up T?" Mercy asked
"Mike's back home, he wants to talk, so I guess this is it the divorce talk, I don't even know why I'm shocked it's been on the cards since that bitch turned up" she said before bursting into tears again "I got to go, I'll call and Mercy" she said hugging her "Good luck"
"Come on" Santana said to Mercy "We might as well get this sorted and be back home by lunch" as they got up and followed Tina out the door
Tina & Mike
Tina walked into the house and got her mad on if he was leaving her she wasn't going to be proper about this "in here T" she heard him shout from the kitchen and followed the noise "I thought I'd cook up a storm, we haven't eaten together for a while" he smiled as he walked over to her and kissed her on the cheek
"This is nice" she said looking around the counters at the array of food Mike had prepared
"It's part of my way of saying sorry for the neglect and that stupid schoolboy crush thing I guess I had on that damn instructor, thankfully nothing happened" he laughed
"Nothing happened?" she asked
"Of course not I'm a married man" he turned to say "Hold up my phone's ringing" he said grabbing it and answering it "Sam" he said and Tina cut off from then. He came back into the kitchen a short while later with phone still in hand "T have you seen Mercy?" he asked "Sam's worried"
"No, well yeah but yeah" she said thinking she'd said too much already
"Sam I'll get back to you in a bit" Mike said putting the phone down "T where's Mercy?" he asked
"She's with Santana"
"So why was that so hard to tell me just, come on, I know you, what's up?"
"I can't say Mike"
"Sam's not going to like this, I could call him now and you girls will have to deal with his Avatar, we're talking his girl here, you know how he is, just tell me" Mike said looking at Tina "Just tell me T" he said in a louder tone than before
"Okay but please Mike don't tell Sam" she begged
"I'll be the judge of that" he said standing waiting for her to divulge the information
"She's gone somewhere with Santana" she offered
"T please don't make this any more painful than it is already, just give me the facts, and if he needs to, Sam will deal with it"
Tina rolled her eyes knowing when she divulge the information it was going to bring more questions and she'd have to come clean about her own misgivings, just now when he'd decided to wipe the slate and start again "We went out the other week, Mercy, Santana and I and ended up with some random guys the next morning, we were all too drunk to even know if anything happened so we agreed to take the morning after pill when we got in just in case. Mercy got distracted by Sam and forgot to take hers and now well, now she's pregnant and she's decided to get rid of it"
"You slept with someone?" he asked
"None of us knew if we'd slept with those guys we were too drunk"
"Did you take that pill?"
"Yes I did just in case"
"But that's not how you and Mercy roll what's happened?"
"You with that fucking instructor Mike, that bitch is all you ever talk about now a days, you're at work more than home and you had that spring in your step, you were sleeping with her and I just had to get my own back"
"We're not talking about me we're talking about you" he shouted
"You just told me you slept with that woman Mike" she shouted back "Right there in that sentence you told me" she said as tears came to her eyes
"Once I had sex with her once, it really wasn't all that and we parted company"
"Is that why you suddenly have all the time in the world for me right now, why what I've been doing suddenly becomes important to you, like you always gave a shit about it"
"T I always give a shit, I just have problems showing it sometimes" he said walking towards her "Can we forget about random's, just focus on today and the rest of our lives we both fucked up and I vote we call that quits" he said getting to her and hugging her in, she took it, he hadn't been that close to her in a while and she needed the contact "So what's th..." he got out before his phone rang "Shit it's Sam" he said answering the call "Sam yeah, you're not going to like this bro but I know you like straight" he said walking away from Tina again and out of ear shot, coming back about 3 minutes later saying "Sam wants to know where they've gone" holding the phone for Tina to give the information
"I don't know" she said "I left them talking"
"Sam you heard tha..." he got out before looking back at his phone to find Sam had hung up "and don't you think you're going to call either one of them right now to give anybody a heads up on this" he looked at Tina saying
Brittany
"Britt" Sam said when she answered the phone "You're girls taken my girl to get an abortion and I need to know where they are will you find out and let me know as soon as, I need to stop this" he asked
"Whose pregnant?" Brittany asked
"Mercy's pregnant Britt and she's trying to get rid of my babe, I need to stop her"
"I'll find them" she said putting the phone down on Sam and calling Santana immediately "Tan where are you" she asked upset in her voice
"I'm just with Mercy doing some shopping, what's wrong Britt?"
"I need you, where are you?"
"What's wrong Britt?" Santana asked a bit more anxious for Britt's mood "I'm at the shop next to the … Delves Clinic, I'll wait here for you come to me Britt"
"I'm on my way" she said putting the phone down 'If Mercy was at the clinic looking at abortions she could bet her bottom dollar San had been getting down and dirty too, no way was that baby Sam's Mercy would never go that far there was more to this and she was going to get to the bottom of it' she thought grabbing her bag and heading to her car. As she started the car she remembered Sam's call and called him back to pass on the information,before making her way to Santana
As she pulled up outside the shop she noticed Santana standing in the doorway waiting, drove past her and pulled up in the clinic car park, making her walk towards her "What's up Britt?" she came towards her saying as Brittany got out the car and walked towards her
"I don't need you to lie to me right now because I know where my head is and you know where this shit could end" Britt told her no hello nothing "What are you doing here?" she said looking at the clinic
"I'm" she said before blowing out defeated "I'm with Mercy she's in the clinic, she forgot to take the morning after pill and well now we have a situation"
"Situation?" she asked "So why isn't Sam here dealing with his situation as you call it?"
"Because" she said rolling her eyes "He's not the only one in the running, if you know what I mean"
"So she's in there right now doing what?"
"Waiting to be seen by the nurse for her talk" Santana answered just as she saw Sam's car come on the car park "Britt did you tell Sam?" she asked alarmed
"Of course I told Sam" she said "What you need to be thinking about right now is that fucking random you didn't tell me about, and where that's going to take us"
"Britt" Sam came running across saying "Where is she, am I too late?"
"She's in the clinic and I don't think so" she replied as he turned and ran towards the clinic doors
Sam & Mercy
Sam burst through the door to find eight pairs of eyes on him and none of them belonging to Mercy, he searched the room for the reception area and headed towards it "Excuse me Miss, I'm here with Mercy Jones, I'm running super late, is it possible for me to go straight in at this point?" he asked flashing his love me eyes at the receptionist
"Sorry Sir you can't get in that bit and I can't give you any information about any of our clients, but you might want to take a seat" she smiled
It was the first chance Sam had got to think since his search for Mercy began as he looked around the room seeing women of all ages he wondered what would bring a woman to this point to actually consider getting rid of their baby. Mercy and he had their bad days, hell they were having a bad year so far, what with his fuck up, but he knew she understood that the love was still there, what would make her consider this an option? What did she expect me to say? Why the hell would she want to do this? He had a task on his hands because if she's here then she's already made her mind up.
"Sam" he heard jolting him out of his thoughts
"Mercy" he looked up saying "I heard we had a decision to make"
"I have a decision to make Sam"
"No babe" he said looking around the waiting room "Can we just go outside for a minute?" he asked as Mercy followed him out and stood waiting to have the hardest conversation of her life "Let's go across to there" he said pointing at a cafe across the road, to which she agreed.
Mercy looked around the car park for Santana but couldn't see her 'The bitch just left me' she thought as she rolled her eyes and came to the realisation that she was in this on her own. She was aware of Sam grabbing her hand as they somehow crossed the road, she felt like she was just floating along with things and her head was super fuzzy "Mercy are you alright?" he asked her as they got to the other side of the road. She couldn't answer, she was spinning the pressure was too much, "Mercy" he called again and she remembered nothing else until she woke up laying on a couch in the cafe "You're alright babe" she heard Sam say his voice very close to her ear
"Sam I nee..."
"It's fine babe we'll deal with whatever this brings, and yes the choice is yours"
"I..I nee"
"It's alright babe just lay still for a bit, I've got you a drink coming" he smiled "I'm not questioning your actions babe I know where we are at the moment, and understand why you'd think this was the logical answer, but you know I'm going to try don't you" he giggled nervously
"Sam I need to talk..." she said, trying to raise herself off the couch
"Wait for your drink babe, don't get up just yet" he said lowering her back down. The drink came and he held it while she sipped for a while eventually she sat up and a while later stood up
"I guess it was the shock of seeing you standing there" she smiled as she straightened up her dress and fixed her hair as Sam nodded approval and smiled at her
"Babe" he said giving her the eyes "Please don't kill our baby, I'm here, I'm always going to be here, we love each other, regardless of how I've treated you I still feel we're end game. We just finished 48 hours of great love making and this is how you really want to end that? Surely this is God's way of telling us we're it and this is really end game?" he asked as Mercy's eyes welled with tears "I love you babe with everything I am and I know you feel the same. If we decide to do this family thing together, I swear on our life I will never do anything to hurt you or our baby; never, please babe just do me this one thing and keep our baby"
Any other time, any other situation and this conversation would not be necessary all she ever wanted was their family and yes he had cheated on her, but really, could she be holding that against him right now with the child of some random man inside her? At that thought the tears burst their bank and flowed down her face as Sam hugged her and let her cry
"I'm sorry babe but I got to try" he said as he held her
"It's not that Sam" she said pulling away from him "Stop treating me like I'm special, I'm not" she said getting up angry "And stop acting as if what I did was just trivial I slept with another guy Sam, you slept with someone too, this is not a functional relationship, this is not healthy" she said as she reached the door, opened it and went through it leaving Sam sitting at the couch
"Okay" he said to himself before getting up to go after her "Mercy" he shouted when he got out the door "We're going home"
"What!" she asked "I'm in the middle of something here" she replied looking back at the clinic
"It'll be there tomorrow" he said as he reached to where she was and grabbed her hand "We need to talk"
"I thought you agreed this was my decision?" she asked as she went with him back to his car
"This is your decision and I'm respecting it, but that just then was nothing to do with our baby and we need to talk" he said as he let her into his car and took the silent drive home. Once in Mercy sat and cried for the conversation there was no way she was going to get out of right now, and the disappointment she'd finally been to Sam after all this time waiting for him to let one stupid drunken fumble, that she couldn't even remember, ruin everything. "So" Sam finally sat down in front of her on the footstool saying as he put two hot drinks on the table beside them "Talk to me"
End of Flashback
She stared at him for a while as her mind went into orbit "What were you thinking?" she said out loud without even hearing herself
"When?" he asked
"What?"
"You asked what I was thinking, when?"
"No I was asking myself what I was thinking" she said making him smile
"Come on Mercy spit it out, it's not like you to do something like this, what's going on for you?"
"Its not like me to sleep with random men but I guess subconsciously you brought me to that"
"I guess I did and I'll forever be sorry for that"
"You have no idea how long forever might be"
"What do you mean?"
"You think we're end game yeah?"
"We are we can get through anything I truly believe that" he smiled at her "Anything" he said grabbing her hand and bringing it up to his lips to kiss it "I love you Mercy"
"Okay so lets see how true your word is" she said looking at the floor before looking back up at him "I don't know who the father of this child is"
"What!" he said pulling away from her hurt in his eyes, as she grabbed for his hand but he moved it
"End game really?" she asked as she looked at him through water filled eyes everything blurred
"I...I... I got to think Mercy, I got to get out of here" he said as he moved away, but not before she saw tears fall down his face
Mercy sat on the couch and ugly cried, she'd just truly destroyed the only man she'd ever loved and her life was never going to be the same again. He'd be back and when he came back he'd be angry, hellish and demanding and she'd seriously have to suck it up because he'd had to all this time about his random. All she could do was sit and wait for him to get back, she called Tina "T I told Sam, he caught me and I had to tell him and he's been gone for the longest time, I'm scared"
"I spoke to Santana a while ago, Mike left after he made a call to Brit,t and she said, Britt left the house a while ago"
"Are they with Sam, he'll tell them about our random night?"
"I told Mike already and Santana told Britt" Tina replied breathing before carrying on "I was the one who told Mike, who in turn told Sam"
"You" Mercy said raising her voice a bit "So much for the sisterhood"
"Yeah, Santana said she told Britt too and Britt told Sam where you were"
"Bye" Mercy said abruptly and put the phone down 'they call themselves damn friends' she thought
Britt, Mike and Sam
Mike got a call from Sam asking him to come to the police station and bring him a good lawyer, of course he called their lawyer Brittany and headed to the police station "What happened?" Mike asked as they finally got time in the interview room with Sam
"I blacked out, Mercy told me she might be pregnant for this random and I blacked out"
"So where were you when you came to?" Britt asked
"I was standing over Dan in his flat, he was on the floor and I was being held by the police"
"So how did you get to his house?" she asked
"I've just told you everything I remember, that's it"
"Let me go find out about this guy and then we'll know what's happening here" she said getting up to go speak to the police officer
"Bro" Mike said "I know Satan had a scare like this when they were courting once and God Britt was in pieces I remember but they got through it and you guys will too" he said looking at a very broken Sam
"If I've killed this guy there'll be no life for us" he said holding his head looking down at the table he was leaning on
"Are you still thinking there's a life for you and Mercy then?"
"She's my life bro, I brought this behaviour on for her, I'm blazing mad about this, I don't even know how I'll cope with looking after someone else's child, but I know I love her and everything she is, so if that means bringing up this child as my own, that's what I'll have to do, and this will be a constant reminder of what I did to her"
"No Sam that's wrong, she did wrong how is that on you?"
"Living proof that two wrongs don't make a right" he said as Britt re-entered to room "So what's the situation?" he looked up asking
"That guy Daniel Wright isn't in a good way Sam, what were you thinking?" she asked
"Like kill the bastard so I don't have to keep dealing with him every time this shit gets on my damn nerves"
"Don't say things like that, it could get you in so much trouble, seriously what were you thinking?"
"That he'd slept with my girl and not taken enough care to use protection and it's a baby but it could have been anything and we were together that same night, I knew she'd been with him but I thought they'd be at least careful, I was devastated"
"So why was that his fault and not Mercy's?" she asked
"Really?" Sam asked Britt "I'm not going to slap the shit out of my girl am I?"
"Can we have a word Mrs Pearce-Lopez?" the officer put his head round the door asking, as she got up and went to see him, returning 10 minutes later with news for Sam
"I don't know how you always manage to come out smelling of roses, but Daniel said he fell down the stairs three days ago, and records show he did, and broke his arm so that wasn't down to you. He said he saw you coming towards him and got on the floor himself, and you got maybe two slaps in before the police turned up, you were more talking than anything" she smiled "Why would he get on the floor for you walking towards him?"
"Because I beat him up the night Mercy stayed there and told him if anything went wrong I'd be back I guess he saw me coming back"
"So you were there three days ago?"
"No comment" Sam smiled
"They said there's no charge to answer but stay away from Daniel" she informed him
"That's fine for now" he replied
"Oh and he said Daniel said to tell you, that didn't happen, whatever that means"
"What does he mean?" Sam asked as he sat in the interview room waiting for further instruction Inside he was leaping for joy, Dan had said it previously but really, when he found Mercy's underwear in his bedroom he couldn't take that as the truth, Dan wanted him to believe they hadn't slept together that night Mercy had been too gone to even remember he was there and he could have taken advantage but he knew she was Sam's girl so he just let her rant and fall asleep on his couch. He still couldn't explain the underwear in his bedroom but Sam was pretty sure, when he finally got home and dealt with Mercy, that she hadn't slept with anyone else. Her, coming to him with this newest revelation, made him think Dan had lied to him, because he knew Mercy wouldn't lie so, he went for him, to kill him. So after two beatings he was still sending the same message he hadn't slept with his girl, so it was in Mercy's head then some guilt trip she was sending herself on for doing it in the first place, he knew how that felt. "Okay" he said out loud
"Okay what?" Mike asked
"Okay I'm manning up whatever Mercy decides I'm there and we'll sort this out together" he announced "Get me out of here" he turned to Britt to say
"Fighting talk I like it" she smiled "That's were I went when Tana did this to me"
"What? she wasn't pregnant?" Mike asked
"No but we thought she was and I had decisions to make"
"Drama" he said shaking his head "Your girl's a bad influence, T and Mercy would never have dreamt of doing something like this, it had to be her don't give a shit attitude that caused this" he finished
"I'd really love to have someone else to blame but I know my girl's got her own head, and dude I did everything to deserve this believe" Sam replied as the officer came to tell them they could go and 35 minutes later they were leaving the station
Sam looked at his phone, it had been 7 hours since he walked out of the house leaving Mercy with her thoughts, upset and alone "I got to go folks, thanks for your help, send the bill and I'll see you all soon" he said calling a taxi to go pick his car up and get home
Sam & Mercy
"Sam" she said letting out the biggest breath when she saw him walk through the door "I'm sorry Sam" she got out before crying again. She seemed to have been doing that all day, every little thing set her off and the look on his face had done it this time "I'm so sorry" she said finally looking up at him as he came towards her stopping as he got to the footstool to look at her
"You need to take care of yourself if you're going to have our baby"
"Did you hear what I said before you left?" she asked
"Yeah why?"
"Because I can't live with myself bringing this child into the world, and if by some chance I still have a choice about this, I choose you"
"I choose us too"
"So clinic first thing tomorrow?"
"I've been locked up all this time, I just got out and came straight home, I went to see Dan" he said looking at Mercy as he spoke
"Sammm"
"Hear me out" he said grabbing her hand "I went to see Dan had a black out and the next thing I know the police are holding me, I didn't hurt him this time but last time I think I broke his arm and so because he covered for me I got off" he smiled "He told me the other day that nothing happened between you two and I believed him, that's why he was still alive but, when you told me that I just thought he'd lied to me and I blacked out" he said holding her hand tighter "But even after this he's still telling me nothing happened, and so I need to ask you, and I'm not meaning anything bad by this but what happened?"
"Seriously" she said looking at him "We went to Lemonade, I wore that purple dress you told me not to without you and we drunk, a lot, I remember crying on someone's shoulder but I don't know who. We got a lot of attention for what we were wearing and I remember we sung 'Hold up' by Beyonce but that's it then I woke up on the couch in some random guys flat I was mortified and got out quick. It wasn't until I got home I realised I hadn't got any underwear on and truly I was shocked when you came in with them in your damn hand"
"Did you feel like you'd been with someone?"
"No and I was so up for it when you laid it on, I figured it couldn't have been significant" she said making him smile
"I want us to have it, I think it's mine, and even if by some freak of nature it turns out not to be, it will still be ours" he smiled "I own it Mercy it's a part of you I have to love it" he said tears in his eyes
"Sam I can't keep something that's not yours, I'm sorry" she cried "And no damn way am I expecting you to look after it, I draw a line"
"Mercy" he said his top lip getting thin so she knew he was about to pull rank on this one so she rolled her eyes
"Sam you said it was my choice"
"That was before and this is now it's our baby Mercy and I can't believe your thinking about destroying us like this" he shouted getting up off the couch
"Sam I truly believe that if I have this baby it will destroy us even more"
"Mercy I know if you do this thing it will certainly break my heart and how do we come back from that?"
"Sammm" she said giving him the eyes
"Mercy" he said giving her back the eyes and she knew he wouldn't back down on this and those eyes, if there were two things this man knew to do, this was one of them, she thought giving in to his demand
"Okay but we..."
"There are no buts, this is it, we do this thing and if our child is full black we'll know but we'll never say it, because from this moment on we are pregnant"
"I've got to tell the truth Sam I don't know that I can love something that's not a part of you"
"That's fine because I know I love everything that's a part of you, and I know this child is mine"
"Are you gonna hurt that guy if this goes wrong?" she asked
"Yep" he said no smile just a serious response
4 Months Three Weeks Pregnant
"Babe did you get any sleep last night" Sam shouted to Mercy who was in the bathroom still throwing up
"About an hour" she finally got out
"You're not going to work today are you?"
"Yeah I've got to finish this album before this bump gets too big" she shouted back at him
"Go this afternoon, I'll call in for you"
"No babe, I'd prefer to get it done this morning and be home early instead"
"You sure?" he asked listening for the reply "You sure?" he shouted again before making his way to the bathroom rolling his eyes at her diva. Mercy had been super depressed at the beginning of the pregnancy when he'd more or less guilt tripped her into keeping their child, she'd hit him after her first bout of morning sickness which he'd promised, after reading various books, would go away soon. Now she was in her fifth month, more or less, throwing up more than usual and living on plain crisps and orange juice, not happy with her lot and of course blaming him for everything. She still talked about the possibility of termination every now and again and panicked when she got her feeling that the baby belonged to someone else. "What's up?" he asked standing in the doorway
"This is the last week for us to change our minds, I'm just" she paused taking a sharp breath "I'm still not sure Sam" she said finally looking at him
"Well I am, and we are, that baby is mine" he said walking away from her
"Why is this never a fucking conversation, why do you always get what you want and fuck the rest of us?" she walked after him saying
"Your bad, I don't feel guilty about my choice, actually our choice and that's the end of it" he spun round saying "Go on" he instructed
"Go on what?" Mercy asked thinking he was telling her to go ahead and do it
"Have your Diva fit, it's not going to make a damn bit of difference"
"I don't have diva fits" she said almost smiling at his command
"Come here" he instructed as Mercy went without questioning him "Listen to me" he said as she sat beside him on their bed and he grabbed his guitar and sung his rendition of 'Ruin' by Shawn Medes
"But darling, don't you know that I'm the only one for ya" he sung to her
"But darling, don't you know that your the only one" she sang back to him pointing at his chest as she sung
"Not tryna ruin your happiness at all" they both sung hugging at the end
"Babe I'm so scared about this" she said as she lay on his chest "And so ashamed"
"Hey" he said lifting her face up to look at him "This is our baby" he smiled
"Okay" she smiled back
"And no work, get some sleep" he ordered
"Okay" she said as he took his phone out to make the call to work
"We're telling the parents too tonight just so you stop all this not mine stuff" he announced as she rolled her eyes "Yep I'm making another decision" he smiled as she rolled her eyes "Try and tell me different"
9 Months
"Sam, where are you?" she asked over the phone in a panic
"I'm getting your food, what do you mean?"
"I think you need to get back here, quick" she shouted
"What's up babe?" he asked concerned
"I think it's time" she said as she heard the phone go dead and less than 5 minutes later Sam was charging through the door
"Have your waters broke?" he asked
"No"
"Contractions"
"No"
"What then?"
"I just realised, It's the day isn't it, so I don't think you should leave me" she said sitting on the couch rubbing her bump
"Babe don't do that to me, I'm seriously panicking" he said relieved as he sat on the couch beside her "I know its the day" he finally smiled "I can not wait for little man to make an appearance" he grinned excitedly
"It is getting exciting isn't it?" she grinned before getting serious "But Sam; and this is the very last conversation I'm ever going to have about this I promise" she said as Sam rolled his eyes "I need you to be honest with me about how you feel all the while because I'm aware this is a big thing we're taking on especially if you know what"
"You know I will but I'm fine seriously" he grinned
Two days later Mercy was in hospital having their baby boy, after 7 hours of labour, two serious prayers, some cussing on both sides, a fifteen second nap high on gas and air followed by some serious I love you's being flung about, Mercy and Sam sat crying at he sight of their perfect child laying in Mercy's arms
"Thank you Babe" Sam cried with his tear filled face
"Thank you for stopping me" Mercy sobbed as they both looked at a miniature version of a mixture of themselves with Sam's blond hair and green eyes and their lips with Mercy's smooth chocolate brown skin but two shades lighter and her button nose
"I guess we'll cross each others minds every day" Sam smiled
"No way our happiness gonna be ruined" she smiled as he took their first family photo and sent it out
The End