One day, when Hallie wanted to see Randall and he had blown her off again that morning, and he didn't come to lunch, Hallie was so upset that Sulley saw it and he invited her to dinner with him, Mike and Celia that evening.

She accepted the invitation.

They went to a restaurant uptown. Hallie was eventually going to tell them too, but wasn't going to say anything tonight.

While they were having dinner, the doors opened and surprisingly, it was Randall. He ordered himself a coffee and a steak to go. But he then heard some familiar voices and he turned around and he couldn't believe what he was seeing.

What he saw shocked him, but suddenly made him so mad. He stormed over to the group.

"How could you betray me like this?!" He demanded to Hallie.

"Randall? I didn't know you were here. And we're just here as friends."

The others couldn't believe they were seeing him treat her this way.

"If you're with them, then you're against me!"

"I am not! This has nothing to do with betraying you!"

Their fighting went on a few more minutes before Randall got his food and stormed out.

"How long has that been going on, him treating you like that?" Sulley asked.

"A few months. I hate it. It might actually be over between us." Hallie said.

"We told you he was a jerk." Mike said.

"He was actually quite the gentleman for awhile. But something changed him."

They told her it wasn't her fault. She went home upset and cried herself to sleep. She didn't know she would ever get the chance to tell him what he needed to know. And then, maybe he didn't want to know. Maybe it was over.

…..

Randall was so mad when he got home that he just put his food in the fridge and didn't touch it. He had never thought his girlfriend would betray him like this.

He went to bed and went to work the next day, steamed over what happened, but after a few days, he began to calm down and he began to feel bad for saying what he said to her, but she had needed to hear what he had felt about her being with his rivals.

When Saturday finally came, he spent a good portion of his day thinking about how he could make it up to her. He still cared for her, but he had taken her for granted lately, but the thought of losing her to his rivals was not something he wanted to deal with.

He had just been under so much pressure from Waternoose to get that stupid machine finished and he had just been pushing himself to get it done that he was ignoring Hallie and a lot of other outside things. When the machine was done, things would be different. But he did want to make it up to her about what had happened.

He thought he would surprise her. He bought her some flowers and some chocolates. He knew these kinds were her favorites. He knew he had been hard on her and he was willing to do anything to make up for it.

He tried to go over in his mind what he was going to say, and hope she would accept his apology and hopefully let him be with her again.

Randall had made it to her apartment and he nervously knocked on her door. He listened. He heard footsteps coming. He hoped she was alone. His heart felt like it was going to pound out of his chest, he was so nervous about talking to her.

The lock was undone and it was opened a crack. He saw it was Hallie.

Hallie had heard the knock and she went to answer it. She opened the door and she was shocked at who it was. But she didn't want explanations right now. She saw that he had a shy smile on his face, but she slammed the door on him before he could try to force himself in.

"Hallie, please let me in. I'm sorry for what I said. I'll do anything to make it up to you." He said.

Hallie heard his words. "Not now, Randall. You have no idea how much you hurt me."

"Please, let me make it up to you. You can do whatever you like to me. I deserve it. I'm sorry." He tried again.

"Just go away, Randall." He heard on the other side. "GO AWAY!" She then yelled.

Her response was evident to him she wanted him gone. He just hoped they weren't over.

"Okay. These are for you anyway." He said.

"GO!"

He laid the items down out on the wall and then stepped away. He walked around the corner and waited a few minutes. He peaked around and saw that the door didn't open. He sighed and left the building.

He walked around town the good portion of the evening. He would get her back. He didn't care how hard he would have to work at it to earn her trust back.

…..

Hallie sat away from the door and locked it. She wasn't about to let him in after what he had done. She began to cry.

Her hands rested on the slight baby bump that was starting to appear. She left the door and went to her room.

The next morning, when she was going out for a walk, she saw the flowers and chocolates. They were no doubt left by Randall. She picked them up and took them in. She read the note. It said he was sorry and he still loved her.

The sentiment was sweet, but he would have to earn it back. She couldn't forgive something like that so easily.

She did keep the flowers and put them in a vase. She would eat the chocolates in her own time. But not now.

…..

Randall still felt ashamed for his actions towards Hallie, but he had to work on Sunday, as usual. The machine was finally ready for testing and tomorrow night would be the big night for testing it on the test subject.

Waternoose was ready see if this project was a success. He was tired of working with Randall on this thing. Aside from this project, he saw Boggs as nothing more than a loser. It had taken two long years to make this thing.

…..

The next day, Randall went to his job and did his usual things. He did make fun of Mike in the locker room. He again avoided Hallie, trying to give her more time to cool off, but he hoped she would come around again.

Things went on like a typical day that day. Until that evening, when he was supposed to get his test subject for the scream extractor. Some bratty little girl that was afraid of him.

But then, that was when all hell broke loose that night, that a child security breach had happened. He went searching for the kid all night, but he never found her. He was so tired and grumpy the next day. He only thought about trying to find the girl rather than anything else.

Waternoose hadn't been pleased the night before when the girl had been gone. He had chewed the lizard out so bad.

Randall was tired of working this project for his boss and hoped it worked. He just needed to find the kid first. Whoever had let it in was going to be dead meat by the time he was through with them.

He later found out it was his rivals that had let her in and after helping Waternoose banish Sullivan and Wazowski to the Himalayas, he felt satisfied that they wouldn't return and he could get on with his work. And his boss once again gave him a lecture he didn't need.

But, once again, Sullivan had to thwart his plans and ruined his beautiful machine. He had put in that hard work for so long and now it was ruined. Waternoose ordered him to stop him and he had wanted revenge for so long from everything.

His anger and desperation toward him and his friend took over and he wasn't thinking of anything else but revenge. He was still mad too at them for trying to take his girl away too.

In the end though, when Sullivan had caught Randall by the throat after he had tried to kill him for the second time in one day, the girl had jumped him and helped him to get his hands on him.

After all the running around through the door vault, and being hit on the head and told he was now out of a job, Randall gulped. That was one thing he couldn't afford to lose. And his head was hurting a good deal from all the hits and pulling.

He finally snapped out of the anger and feared something worse. "What are you going to do? Kill me?" He asked after the blue one got his hands off his throat.

"No. Banishment." Sullivan said.

They were soon on a platform and Mike forced a door open.

Randall tried to get loose one last time, but Sullivan had his arms restrained.

"Please, no, no! AAAAAH!" Then he screamed as he was thrown through the door.

He landed hard on the floor and pushed himself up. He had to get back. But when he went into the living area, he was spotted by humans.

"Mama. Another gator got in the house." An older kid said.

"Another gator! Give me that shovel! Come here!" A female voice shouted.

Randall was trying to look for a way out, but it came too fast. Something big and sharp came at his head and he cried out and it kept coming down on him. He kept on crying out.

He could hardly think of anything else as the shovel kept on pounding into him but the pain. Soon, he blacked out.

…..

Mike and Sulley were pleased with what they had done and were soon confronted with the CDA and them taking Waternoose away when it was also found out he had been involved too. He was arrested and taken away.

Then it was found out that Roz was the head of the CDA and Sulley was allowed to take the little girl home. That part was over with, but now, there was the crisis of what was going to happen to the factory.

Hallie was out there too, watching the ordeal. It was alarming. But then, she wondered where Randall was. She didn't see him.

Everyone went home a little earlier that day and she told her parents what happened. They were aware of the child, but were glad it was over. But they hoped she would still have a job. If not, she could find one elsewhere.

Hallie waited awhile and tried to call up Randall later in the evening and there was no answer. Maybe he needed time too after she hadn't let him in.

But a few days later and there was still no answer. She went over to his place and using a key to his home, she got in and found there was no trace of him. Maybe he was just out?

But even days later, she still didn't hear from him. She would go over nightly and he still wasn't home.

Soon, more than a month passed and Mike and Sullivan soon had things up and running again for the factory, only now, the monsters hired would be making kids laugh instead of scare them. Hallie was glad for her job back as kitchen help. She would need it when her maternity leave came.

One day, she confronted Sullivan. "Sulley, I have to ask, do you know anything about Randall's whereabouts? I need to know."

"With how he was treating you, you shouldn't be worried about him. He can take care of himself." Sulley said.

"He tried to come see me one last time before the child incident. I need to see him. Do you know where he is? I have something he needs to know about."

Sullivan could tell she wasn't going to let up. "He tried to kill me twice and more in one day, Hallie. He deserved what he got. Mike and I banished him."

"What?!"

"He was a danger to us and he might have been to you too. We saw how he treated you."

"You really shouldn't have done that. He needed to know something first and I didn't get the chance to tell him." Hallie said.

"Tell him what?"

"As you know by now, that I'm expecting, Sulley, but the child I carry, is Randall's." She gave him the sad face.

He was stunned silent for a moment. "Why didn't you tell him?"

"He was always so busy for me to tell him. And the one last night that he came to me, maybe if I had let him in, I might have been able to tell him, but I was still mad at him. If he had known, he might have tried to change."

"I doubt that. He was just too dangerous to stay here, Hallie. I'm sorry. But I'll be here for you in whatever you need for you and the baby." Sulley said.

Hallie knew that her friend did have a point. If Randall had tried to do those things, he was dangerous and maybe he shouldn't know about the baby. If he had been dangerous to a human child, he might have been to his own too.

Though there was still a part of Hallie that felt that her child shouldn't grow up without knowing its father.

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