Jack's POV
I laughed out loud, unintentional, but it happened.
"Please, there is no way that Belle is your baby." I said and looked over at Rose.
"She didn't tell you?" Cal asked and let out a small chuckle.
"There's nothing to tell!" Rose yelled, and Belle started crying at the loud remark. I got up from where I was and walked over to the bed. I took Belle from Roses arms and started to bounce her slightly while turning back to face the others.
"There's plenty to tell." Cal smirks and looks directly at me.
"Tell him what happened, Cal." Ruth told him.
"Well, I think Rose should tell him, actually." He walked over to the edge of her bed, to which she responded by trying to scoot as far as she could to the other side of it.
"I don't know what you're talking about." She scowled.
"Well then!" he clasped his hands together, "I'll do it. Just before the ship docked, Rose and I made passionate love, for a very long time, one night. This means that the baby could very well be mine, and lets just say that Belle is too beautiful to be yours."
"Rose?" I turned to her, keeping calm seeing as Belle was in my hands.
"It's not true, he raped me!" she looked at me with a pleading look.
"Rape? Please, I wouldn't stoop that low." He turned and studied the art on the wall.
"He was drunk, it was right after you left, after I dislocated my shoulder." She was speaking directly to me, begging me to understand. I suddenly had a thought, and smiled at her.
"Belle can't be yours, she has blue eyes," I state, to this Hockley looked at me with a ridiculous face, "Your eyes are hazel, Roses are blue. Hazel eyes have dominance over blue, if she was your child, she'd have hazel eyes."
"You're trying to be smart, that's cute," he smirked, "but the recessive trait can also become dominant."
"Fine. We will just have to take the test then." I say, looking down at Belle. No way was she his child. Looking at her small face, you could already tell she had my nose, and Roses lip shape.
Roses POV
I had just given birth and there was already commotion about Belle happening. I was getting so tired of these two trying to ruin my life. A nurse walked into the room and stopped suddenly.
"The people in the room have doubled I see," She joked, but we all stayed silent, "well then, I just came to check and see how everything is going, which doesn't seem like it is." She eyed everyone in the room before stopping at me.
"Did you breast feed her?" she asked.
"No, I haven't had the time yet" I informed her.
"Both baby and mother need to stay healthy, you look terrible, and the baby needs to be fed," she stated honestly, "everyone needs to get out now."
"We actually have something to ask-." Cal started.
"Not now." Jack harshly interrupted.
"Come on people, out, out," The nurse demanded, "Miss, I will be back in five minutes to collect the baby and put you to rest."
"Belle" I smiled.
"Belle." The nurse repeated before she shut the door and left me in the dimmed room.
Jacks POV
The nurse exited from room 4 with Belle, and I stood up to follow wherever she was taking her, unfortunately so did Hockley and Ruth, though the nurse didn't seem to find this in any way strange or annoying.
The three of us came to a halt outside the nursery, as the nurse took Belle in and snuggled her up in one of the cradles.
"Excuse me?" I heard Hockley say.
"Yes, sir?" A nurse answered. I turned around and wasn't able to buy any more time before the next sentence came out.
"Is there any way to get a DNA test to see who the father is of that," he pointed at Belle, laying in the front row of the nursery, "little girl there?"
"We usually don't test babies that have recently been born." She looked at Cal with a curious face.
"I will give you a large payment if you can make it happen," he eyed her up and down, "looks like you need it."
"How much?" she asked.
"Enough."
With that, she went into the nursery and talked to the nurse about whatever she needed from Belle. Meanwhile, Cal and Ruth looked very pleased.
"I can't believe you're making us go through all of this, now." I scowled at them.
"It's necessary, if Belle is mine, you get kicked out of the picture and Rose and I raise a family together."
"Rose will never let that happen."
The nurse came out of the room with a strange tube.
"Follow me." That was all she had to say and all of us shot up after her, as she hurried down the hall.
We came to the end of the hall where we used the elevator to go down a few floors, and walked until we stopped at a room on the right.
"You two can come in, you can stay out here." The nurse said, urging us quickly inside the room, to which we complied.
Ruth's POV
I understood the grief Cal and I were putting on both Rose and Jack, but I didn't care. I loved my little girl, but I didn't give birth to her just so she could marry a poor gutter rat. I looked over at Jack who had just left the room where both Caledon and him had entered a few moments ago. He was eyeing me up and down as I sat comfily in a chair.
"How can you do this to Rose?" he asked.
Pursing my lips I replied, "I'm helping her get a better life."
He didn't reply anything to that, and shortly after Caledon exited the room and joined us all.
Jacks POV
I was eager to get back to my beautiful Rose, just to spend what precious time we had to together, together; so when the nurse entered the room after we had waited over half an hour for the results, I was relieved.
"I have good news," she smiled at us, which faded quickly once she laid eyes on Cal, "for one of you."
"The results state…."