Steve watched Catherine leave and as he went to follow her, Lou and Danny grabbed him. No one wanted a scene and Danny knew just how ugly things could get between an upset Catherine and an emotional Steve. It took a second for Steve to realize whatever made her upset had come from the house. Lynn. He pivoted and sprinted straight to the house to find her and rip her a new asshole.
"Lynn what the fuck did you just say to her?!" Steve's in Lynn's face now, towering over her petite frame. But Lynn isn't afraid. She knows he's not a violent man, he's simply furious. She laughs in his face as Danny and Lou peel him away from her.
"Steve, Steve, calm down man. Come on now." He hears Lou holler above the yelling of his thoughts.
"I told her what I've been trying to tell you all along! I'm pregnant!" For a second the room goes silent. Danny signals for Tani and Junior to leave, this is none of their business. Junior closes the lanai doors to award his boss some privacy. Whatever comes out of this, he'll be around to witness the aftermath, and Tani could hear it from him. Now that the new people were gone the gloves came off.
"What? What are you talking about, Lynn? We've always used protection. And so now I'm supposed to believe that right after we broke up, you're now pregnant with my baby?"
"Fuck you, Steve! This baby is yours! Sorry, that bitch didn't like it. Tough." Lynn's in tears and Melissa is holding her. Danny is floored! Steve could be a dad – but he'd also broken up with Lynn. Danny didn't know if Catherine and Steve were trying again; he'd had no time to analyze their interactions before she went inside and then left abruptly.
"I don't understand; you're on the pill and I always wrap up." This is too much information for Lou Grover. Lou puts his hands up in surrender and walks out to the lanai to take his family home. Steve's personal shit is getting on Lou's last damn nerve. Tani catches a ride with the Grovers because this is too personal for her to witness about her boss.
"Yeah, well, I stopped for a bit and you didn't care that night. Remember? And now I'm late." Steve doesn't know what the hell she's talking about until it dawns on him that oh yes, he very much remembers that night.
~~~It was the night of Grace's big party and he'd been too drunk to drive home so Lynn drove his truck and he rode with Danny. Steve decided on sleeping in Mary's room because he didn't have the stomach for sleeping with Lynn in his bed. His mind was too wrapped around seeing Catherine that night.
When Lynn snuck into the room, Steve was on his second erotic replay of being in the elevator with Catherine. Except in this replay, it was only the two of them and much hotter than the reality of what transpired. Steve didn't say anything to her as he watched her size up the open bottle of scotch by the bedside. Lynn simply straddled him and kissed his tired, haggard face. He wasn't responding to her so she went lower with her lips. She devoted herself to giving him the best blowjob she'd ever given and he'd ever received. But as he was on the brink of coming, he made a fatal mistake, he called her the wrong name. He had shouted "fuck Cath, holy shit," but Lynn was most certainly not Catherine. He opened his eyes to see her shocked, enraged expression, his dick still in her mouth. Fuck he was an asshole.
He expected Lynn to bite his dick off or at least rip him a new one, but she didn't react. She kept sucking and swallowed when he was done. Steve was still on edge, sexually pleased, but also sufficiently embarrassed. He was anxious for Lynn to talk to him, but she just stared into his eyes.
"What does she do?" Steve is confused by her question.
"I'm sorry?"
"Show me what Catherine does in the bedroom that makes it impossible for you to forget her. Fuck me like you fuck her; I'm genuinely curious what's so different." Steve couldn't believe what he was hearing. She wanted what?! Lynn looked at him expectantly uncomfortably squeezing his now limp dick.
"Show. Me. How. You. Fuck. Catherine." She squeezes harder. "Pretend I'm her."
Steve had never been more confused; what sick trick was Lynn up to? He didn't know what to do—this felt like a trap. But here Lynn is on the bed, arms folded, waiting. And because Steve is an asshole, sexually frustrated from seeing Catherine at the party, he gives Lynn what she wants.
The sex is rougher than anything they've ever tried. He's fucking Lynn like it's Catherine's first night of shore leave and he hadn't seen her in months. He pulled Lynn's hair, he choked her while he stroked, he micromanaged the entire three rounds. He didn't use a condom and he nutted in her. It was the best sex Lynn and Steve had ever had, but if that had been Catherine, this time would have been barely memorable – at best. After they were done, Lynn left and they never spoke of what happened again. ~~~
"Have you taken a test?" Steve was dying to know the results; being late was not enough. Catherine had been late a handful of times in the sixteen years they were together, but here he is childless. Or so he was a month ago.
"I took three. Two positive, one negative. But sometimes you just know." She says softly. Melissa and Danny exchange looks. It's time to go, but Danny isn't leaving Steve here without checking in on his partner. Steve's gone through a lot in the last couple weeks emotionally and so much physically, he needs to rest. Danny is going to be by his side through thick and thin. He pulls Steve into the living room and signals for Melissa to take Lynn.
Steve tries to call and text Catherine for an hour while Danny makes dinner. When Grace and Charlie come inside, Charlie curls up next to Uncle Steve. His little, perfect brain can't understand what's going on. Grace and her father talk about what's been going on; also, intermittently calling Catherine who wouldn't answer. All this drama surrounding Steve had left Danny off kilter and he needs grounding. Danny decides to take a risk, he calls Rachel when Grace checks on Steve and tells her it's an emergency – they need to talk.
