As the trucks rolled back in, the staton was quiet once again. The next shift were starting and everyone started to get there. Vic walked through the door and Travis looked at her,
'What are you doing here?' He whispered
'Working' she whispered back
He walked over her and pulled her into the closet, ' Travis, this looks very strange right now.'
'Why are you here?'
'I'm pregnant not dying'
'But do you not think you have some other things you should be handling before you come back to work?'
'He didn't come home, i slept in my bed alone, cried myself to sleep and now I'm here. It's a new day'
'The new doesn't replace what's happening in the past. You can't be working out there like this and you need to sort it out with him'
'He doesn't want to be a dad travis, I saw that on his face'
'Then why the hell did he call me last night asking me to be with you?'
'Because he feels guilty.. now we've got line up'
Vic busted open the door and walked out for line up, Travis followed not long behind. They lined up and Sullivan came out. He walked up and down and spoke to everyone, checking that everything was perfect. He got to travis and was talking to him, Vic could feel herself sweating and she wiped it off her face. She felt a wave of sickness come over her and she put her hand over her mouth. Sullivan stood in front of her and she looked at him, 'Hughes, are you..?'
She gagged and put her hand over her mouth as she went to vomit and she ran passed him to the toilet. 'Is she still sick?' He said looking at Travis
'She must be captain'
'Go and check on her... everyone else chores'
Travis ran off to go and find her while everyone went about their daily chores. Travis stood outside the bathroom door and knocked on it gently, 'vic.. it's me' he said
'It's open' she said
He opened the door and closed it behind him, 'well if this isn't deja vu' he laughed
'I'm fine Travis'
'People are going to start to notice something isn't right with you vic, and you need to talk to Ripley, he needs to know how you are feeling and if you are going to do this with or without him'
'I'm fine' vic walked past him and went to start chores,
'Hughes...' Sullivan shouted as she walked past
She walked into his office and stood in the door, 'come in and close the door' he said
She sat down opposite him, 'do you need to go home again?'
'No sir, im good. I promise. I've just had this sickness the last few days but im all good'
'Is this why Lucas is currently sleeping on my couch?'
Vic put her head in her hand, 'dammit'
'Hughes, look we all care about you here and we'll support you but you need to let us help you'
'Well you obviously know what is going on'
'I don't. He didn't tell me, he just said you had a fight but I'm not stupid, i can see what is happening, so as your boss, and a friend, can you tell me what's going on so I can help'
'I'm pregnant, I don't know how far along I am but yes it's happening'
'Thankyou for telling me. Now as you probably understand, you can't work out there anymore'
'Please, I need to be working'
'You can work, from in here. On the phones and you can help us when we go out there, you can be our internal ops person.. but i want you to be safe, for yourself and the baby'
'I don't even know what I'm going to do yet'
'And that's fine, but until you do, you can work from in here'
'What about everyone else?'
'They don't need to know everything, they'll just think I'm being hard on you'
'That won't be hard' she laughed, 'if i do decide to do this, no one even knows about me and Lucas, it's only you and Travis who know.'
'Yes, things can become a little tricky if more people find out but you're together'
'They can discipline us both, Lucas could lose his job'
'You have been together for months now, you live together, people are going to know eventually.. there's only one other thing you can do to make sure nothing bad happens when people find out'
'What?'
'Get married'
'Married?'
'They can't argue against married couples, you're protected'
'Great, if having a baby wasn't enough, now we've got to get married'
Sullivan pulled out some keys from the drawer next to him and slid them across the desk,
'What's these?'
'Keys to my place, he is there still, he was planning on staying tonight so go and speak to him and sort this out'
Vic picked up the keys, 'thankyou' she said as she held back tears. She stood up and opened the door,
'And Hughes?'
'Yeah?'
'You've got a few days of vacation left right'
'Yeah I have'
'Take them now'
'Thankyou sir'
Vic left the station and drove to Sullivan's apartment, she got upstairs and put the key in the door, she unlocked in and walked in. She's walked through to the living room and he was sat on the couch watching to. She was stood behind him,
'You're back ea... you're not Sullivan'
'Hey Lucas'
'Hey Vic, what are you doing here?'
'Sullivan gave me his keys and told me come to here'
'I didn't tell him'
'He guessed after I puked at work'
'Are you ok?' He put his hand and her arm and she pulled away
'I'm fine'
'We need to talk about this vic'
'What do you want to talk about?'
'This didn't go how I expected it to go and I want to apologise. I was shocked and I'm sorry that I just left. I didn't know what to think or what to do. I panicked.'
'You panicked... do you not think I have been panicking? I am pregnant, a firefighter who runs into burning buildings, and I'm dating someone in secret, so you can panic fine but im not exactly thrilled about this but I needed you and you left me alone'
'I'm sorry vic, I'm so sorry'
'You were being weird all week, not coming home, coming back late. Are you seeing someone else?'
'Vic please don't think-'
'No Lucas, if you are I just need to know'
'I'm not cheating on you Vic!'
'Did you know i was pregnant, when you left that morning?'
'No I promise you, I've just had things going on'
'Things going on... what could possibly be more important than the fact we are about to become parents.. your job, because i know your job is important but so is mine, and that is all about to change. So just tell me, if not I'm leaving and you won't have to worry about this, I'm strong enough to deal with this on-' vic walked into the bedroom and grabbed her bag,
'Vic please just listen to me-'
'NO, YOU LISTEN TO ME... I need your help and love and im not-'
'I'm sick...'
Vic placed her bag down on the bed, 'what?'
'I'm sick vic.. that's where I've been going... Grey Sloan'
'What's wrong?'
'They don't know yet, what's going on.I've been having tests'
'What happened?'
'I collapsed a few days ago, I was out for sometime before I woke up, they were worried that I was going to arrest'
'..Lucas..' Vic sat on the edge of the bed and he sat next to her,
'I'm so sorry I didn't tell you but I didn't want you to worry, especially with you being pregnant,the stress and everything'
'We are partners,together. You should of told me'
'I just wanted to know what was going on before I told you so I knew what to expect and what i could of told you. I'm so sorry that I made you think that I didn't want this baby but I was scared to face up to it being real incase I wasn't here when the time came'
Vic grabbed his hand and squeezed it, 'you can't think like that... we don't know what this is yet and you need to be positive' she stood in front of him and he stood up in front of her.
'I'm so sorry vic' he cried
He wrapped his arms around her and held her, 'I love you Victoria, I want this baby, I want to be with you'
'Look at me, I love you too and this baby is special but we need to be honest with each other from now on... so I'm gonna ask you one more time.. do you want this baby with me?"
'I want nothing more Vic'
'So we're gonna do this huh... have a baby?' She laughed
'I guess we are' he smiled.
'What are we going to tell people?' Vic said
'They don't have a choice in what we do in our lives so they're just gonna have to agree'
'But you can lose your job'
'Then I'll lose my job'
Vic stood up and looked at him, 'and do what? You're the fire chief.. you just gonna go and work a normal job'
'I'm willing to give that up for you and this baby vic and if I am sick, then that might have to happen anyway'
'Let's get married-' vic blurted out
'What?'
'We can get married.. they can't argue with married couples. We'd be protected'
'Married huh?' Lucas stood up and wrapped his arms around her, 'like right now?'
'I don't see why not'
'You don't have to rush into this if you don't want to'
'Look I love you Lucas and in our jobs, we don't know what can happen and each day when we go to work, we act as if it might be our last so why not'
He grabbed her face and kissed her, 'let's go and get married then'
Vic and Lucas grabbed a coat each and left to go to the courthouse to get married.
The next morning
Vic rolled over in bed on to her new husband, she snuggled into his chest and he stroked her hair,
'Do you think they'll give us a honeymoon?' He laughed
'Not in a million years'
'There's a fundraiser today at the station isn't there?'
'Yeah it's to raise money for all the wildfires that happened"
'I had it down in my calendar' he checked his phone and put it back down on the table,' gonna be late if we don't move'
Lucas got out of bed, 'wait you're coming to the station today?' Vic said
'Yeah, I have to show my face'
'Okay, are we going in together or?'
'You know we don't have to hide anymore right. We're married'
'Yeah but it's still our business'
'And people are gonna know our business very soon, you are growing a human'
'Okay i guess so'
Vic got out of bed and they both got dressed and drove to the station. The got out of Lucas's truck and walked in. Lucas and vic parted ways and she went to see Sullivan,
'Hughes, I didn't expect to see you back yet'
'I'm back to work boss, I'm good'
'You know your version of work now is going to be very different, you can't be out there not until you decide what to do'
'Not even on the aid car?'
'Not even the aid car, I can't risk it'
'What will I be doing?'
'Working around here, working the phones but i also want you to be our liaison when we're out on any big jobs and here working the operation from the inside like I told you the other day'
'Okay, I can do that'
'Is Lucas here?'
'Yes he is... I thought I should tell you first before everyone else finds out... I'm keeping the baby'
'Im happy for you Hughes and here if you need anything'
'Thankyou also after to speaking to you the other day I spoke to Lucas and we cleared the air.. and then we got married'
Sullivan smiled at vic, 'I'm happy for you'
'Thankyou... now let's get to fundraising'
'Just be careful and take some time if you need any'
Vic left the office and walked up to the kitchen, the whole team were in there,
'Vic!' Maya said running over to her, 'are you okay, Travis said you were sick'
'Yeah I'm better now thanks, back to work'
Everyone sat down to eat and miller put a whole bowl of eggs in front of vic, she covered her hand with her mouth as she inhaled and she pushed them away from her, 'some sickness bug' miller said
'Yeah I'm still a little fragile'
Sullivan and Ripley walked into the kitchen, everyone stopped talking, 'hey guys, we've got everyone coming in for the fundraiser today so we are off calls, we've got schools and members of the public coming in so let's give a good impression.'
'I like to think we always give a good impression' miller said dusting off his shoulders
Sullivan started at him and miller looked away, 'I guess not' he said as Andy pulled a face at him.
Ripely walked around the kitchen and said hello to everyone. Vic looked at him and pulled a face as if to ask him what he was doing.
"Ripley, didn't expect to see you here today" Andy said
"I thought I would come and see the fundraiser"
"Let's get to it everyone" vic shouted as she grabbed banners and ran downstairs.
Everyone started at each other and stood up. They spent the days greeting visitors, giving tours of the fire trucks to the kids and raising money. Vic was giving glances to ripley all day and she could tell he wanted to tell everyone. She shook her head at him to say no. Vic was talking to Travis in the store room,
"Sooo..." Travis said
"So.."
"What's been happening?"
"Well we argued and then got bank together and made up and I'm keeping the baby and we're happy about it and we were worried about everyone hating us because we're together and that ripley would get in trouble because of his job so we got married last night but no one knows" she said really quick
"Oh my god... oh my god! Vic"
"We're happy" she smiled
"That was just a lot but I'm happy for you"
"Thanks Travis"
They walked out the store room and Travis took some more helmets to Andy so she could show the kids. Vic picked up a box and walked down the stairs. She felt a sharp stabbing pain and dropped the box but as she did she tripped and fell down the stairs to the bottom. She hit her head on the step in the started bleeding. Everyone stopped and Andy ran over to her with Travis,
"Oh my god Vic" Andy said
Vics vision was a little blurry but she saw lucas running over to her and moved Andy and Travis out of the way, he got down on the floor next to her and grabbed her face,
"Don't move okay... we're gonna get you to grey Sloan"
"I'm bleeding"
"I know you hit your head on the step"
"No Lucas, I'm bleeding, I think I'm losing the baby" She grabbed his hand and cried, "Lucas, can we go please. Now. What if-"
"You're gonna be okay, the baby is gonna be ok"
Lucas scooped Vic up in his arms and carried her to his car. She didn't want anyone else and she didn't want to go in the aid car. He sped off and everyone stood at the doors,
"a baby?" Miller said
"Lucas ripley" Jack said
"Shut up both of you" Sullivan said, "let's get everyone out and home. We're done for the day"
"Captain, I'm gonna go to grey Sloan" Travis said
"Okay keep us updated"
Travis left and everyone tidied up the firehouse but couldn't stop thinking about Vic.
