OMG OMG OMG YOU GUYS NEED TO HEAR THIS I CRIED
I am SO gonna use this song as inspiration! Look up on YouTube called Cars 3 Trailer Music Emergence. It's so emotional! I can imagine this playing during/right after McQueen's crash!
But also I'm back and with more things out of the way, that means more time to do this! I actually kinda teared up a little while writing this because I was listening to Emergence and Cars 3 Trailer #1 music Ruth.
If you don't want a health lesson on female organs you are welcome to skip this chapter because in the next chapter you'll maybe get the same effect :)
Now for a little bit of answering questions.
(Guest) Sam Fraser: Nope, it wasn't Doc's death, to me he died in 2008 (When his voice actor died). But I don't know if I really want to make the crash a news report sort of thing. As for all your other questions, I have answered them in previous chapters. And also thank you for your kind words, I'm still developing Jackson's personality though!
LivvyLeopard: Well, there's only one way to find out if you're right!
(Guest) CarsGeek24: Aww, thank you! And that stinks, not having an account. But I can't believe this little thing is actually a favorite!
(Guest #1): Oops, sorry about that. And I'm glad you like my DeviantArt :D
(Guest) Mr. Brown: Thank you :)
Dusk was approaching and Lightning had gotten back from the movie theater with Mater and Ramone. Ramone personally didn't like movies, but his excuse was that he was bored out of his mind. As Lightning said goodbye he saw the town was surprisingly rather empty. He decided to check up on Sally to see how she's doing at the Cozy Cone. He drove over to to the lobby and noticed that all the lights were off and the front office was locked. Huh, Lightning thought to himself, maybe she closed up shop early today, I guess it is a some sort of holiday, I think. No one would most likely be out today. Lightning then left the Cozy Cone to go to his house.
When he opened the door to his house, he noticed the downstairs was completely empty. Lightning drove through the living room and peered up the ramp that led upstairs. A light shown dimly from behind the closed door of the nursery. Several months ago he and Sally had set up a nursery for a baby. But why was the light on now? As Lightning drove up, he heard soft sobbing from behind the closed door. Lightning put his cab to the door trying to hear more. When he leaned into the door, he could hear the sobbing with the occasional hiccup more clearly. It was most definitely Sally crying. Lightning's face turned from confusion to concern before opening the door as quietly as possible and came face to face with a sight that felt like a stake through his heart. Sally was in the back of the room clutching and sobbing into an ocean blue baby blanket. Lightning drove over and took the baby blanket away from the tear stained Porsche. He went up to her right side and pressed his side against hers.
"Sally, baby, what's wrong?" Lightning softly asked his wife while pressing against her.
"That...t-that's just it!" Sally exclaimed through a hiccup as she continued to stare at the ground and sob.
"Honey, I don't understand. What's just it? Please tell me?" Lightning said while stroking Sally's tire. He was caught off guard by the cold but pained glare when she looked up at him. In her emerald blue eyes there was pure devastation and sadness.
"W-we're not…h-having…." Sally trailed off before she could finish and burst into tears again. Lightning already knew what came at the end of that sentence. His stomach lurched at the thought but a part of him was hoping that she was just playing a very cruel joke on him. However he had a feeling that she was sadly being serious.
"Sally," Lightning began even softer than before, "please tell me it's not true, please tell me this is some sick joke." Lightning felt his throat swell up and tears pricking his eyes as he looked at Sally.
"It's true….my doctor said that it's extremely unlikely." Slow streams of tears rolled down Sally's fenders as the previous events came flooding back to her.
"Sally McQueen?" The nurse called out into the waiting room. Sally looked up from her magazine and drove towards the room the nurse had led her to. As she entered the doctor's office, she saw a rather young, possibly Sally's age, silvery white minivan with elegant black pin striping on her sides.
"Hello, I'm Doctor Wheelster and I assume you must be Sally?" The silver minivan asked while shaking Sally's tire.
"Yes ma'am." Sally replied respectfully trying to be polite.
"Oh no need to address me with this fancy stuff, just call me Carol." Carol cheerfully said. "Looking at your records, it appears you're just getting a check-up?" Sally nodded while sitting in a waiting chair. "It's also says you had a birth control implant put in 12 years ago and it's been a problem so you've gotten it removed correct?"
"Uh-hu, I got it removed four years after I had it placed too." Sally responded truthfully.
"M-kay, now for the basic questions..." Carol asked simple questions like have you taken non-prescription drugs, are you pregnant, or has had any mental issues like depression or suicidal thoughts. Sally gave them all a 'no' as they continued. "Have you been sexually active in the past year?" Carol asked as she looked through her papers on her clipboard.
"Yes, but that's the problem." Carol looked up from her papers at Sally.
"Could you please elaborate on that Sally?"
"Well, I just can't seem to get pregnant!" Sally said with a slight exaggeration in her voice.
"Hmm, when was the first time you had sexual intercourse with your husband?" Carol asked while looking through another set of papers.
"Oh uh, hold on let me think. 2008 maybe? Yea, it was around February 2008." Sally replied looking up at the ceiling trying to think.
"Ok, ok, let me just preform some tests and I'll look at the results. It should take about twenty minutes to an hour depending on how many tests I need to do and when the results will come in." Carol said before heading out of the room to gather supplies.
About an hour later, after many different tests Carol came in with a sheet of paper on her hood. She had a flat expression on her face that Sally knew wasn't her normal cheery face. Sally could tell even though she had just met Carol and hour and a half earlier. She didn't want to know what Carol was going to say.
"I'm very sorry Mrs. McQueen," Carol began. Sally's face turned a pale blue; that was never a good thing to hear, especially from a doctor. "I have found the cause for your struggles on being able to conceive. It appears that your endometrium is almost always to thin to support an egg, much less a baby itself. I say that it's thick enough maybe once or twice once every uh, about three to five years or even more." Sally's jaw dropped in shock. "It's extremely unlikely that you will ever have a child of your own. I'm sorry Sally, I truly am." Sally didn't move an inch when Carol give her a sorrowful hug. Her eyes began to sting, she swallowed hard and spoke up.
"T-thank you Carol. N-now you h-have a nice d-day." Sally said with a fake smile. She knew Carol could see right through it because she gave the same exact smile back.
For the first time in what felt like years, Lightning didn't know what to do. He wanted to cry as well but felt the need to be strong for Sally. She was shaking slightly as she pressed up against his side while her tire wrapped tightly around his.
For the next couple of minutes, the young couple sat in silence with Sally's gentle sob which eventually subsided to soft sniffles and hiccups.
"I-I'm sorry..." Sally suddenly spoke breaking the silence, "I'm s-sorry I'm making such a-a big deal about this. I-I didn't think I'd be this emotional about it." Lightning pressed his side further into Sally and closed his eyes.
"Sally listen to me," Lightning turned around and looked directly into her eyes. "You have every right to cry. It is a big deal, we've been wanting this for months, and to have that suddenly taken away hurts. But no matter what, we're sticking together and getting through this." As Lightning said this, he saw her face soften and allowed the last couple of tears to roll down her fenders. "Now, would you like me to get you anything? How about I make you some tomato soup and grilled cheese...without burning down the house." Lightning said trying to get her to lighten up slightly at the very least.
"Thanks Stickers, I would really like that actually." Sally gave a soft but sad laugh. She wiped the last of her tears with the blanket and draped it over the crib edge. Lightning gave her a small comforting smile before leaving the room. Sally followed closely next to him with red eyes from crying. He could tell that she was still depressed but at least she was moving. He was devastated himself but he wasn't has heart broken as Sally.
The next day Lightning offered to take care of the Cozy Cone and Wheel Well for the day to give her a break. It was about mid afternoon when anyone actually came to check in or check out. After the last couple of customers checked out, Lightning decided to get some brunch.
"Afternoon Flo, been busy?" Lightning tried to strike up a casual conversation as to not raise suspicion.
"Sure have been, now here's your morning oil, since you didn't pick it up today." Flo said while coming out of the cafe. Lightning thanked her and continued to sip his oil. As he was left to his own thoughts he realized how much of an impact not having a kid really had on him. They had assumed that they would have be able to have a child like everyone else. It didn't even come to mind that they wouldn't be able to even have one! Just then Mater popped up out of no where.
"Howdy buddy!" Mater said jumping in front of Lightning.
"Chrysler Mater! Don't do that to me! I almost spilled my oil all over you." Lightning exclaimed while pushing the can further to his side.
"Daww, I didn't mean ta' scare ya Mr. McScarrdypants." Lightning gave a half frown at Mater's new nickname for him. "Now I's was wonderin' if you'd ever get out of ta' cone. An speakin' of cone, ya know where Mrs. Sally is? Ah haven't seen hers all darn day!" Mater said while rubbing his bumper as if he had a beard.
"Oh, yea about that." Lightning quickly tried to come up with an excuse as to not cause a lot of commotion. "I said she can take a day off and rest." Well it wasn't all a complete lie, what he said was true but it just wasn't the full truth.
"Well all right. See ya later pal! Ah's got some work ta' do!" Mater said before going off tow his junk yard.
The day was still quiet and there wasn't much for Lightning to really do right then. He spent the rest of his day reading Piston Cup newspapers in the Cozy Cone lobby until the shift ended. Apparently Jackson Storm wasn't the only new rookie joining the Piston Cup, a few others such as Daniel Swervez and Tim Treadless. But Lightning thought nothing of it, instead he closed up shop for the hotels and headed back to his home. Even though he hated to admit it, he was actually terribly worried for Sally, when he came home all she did was just sit in the backyard and stare off to the distance. She was definitely making progress from yesterday but now he was just worried about how she would heal.
Hahaha I pulled an Up on you guys! :D
Anyway I actually finished a chapter yay! I kinda struggled on the very beginning and very end of this chapter because I didn't know how to start or end it! It is currently 12:45 am and I feel like I'm making a habit of posting these new chapters extremely late XD
Anyways, thanks for reading and stay tuned until next time!