J O U R N E Y
Chapter 5: Scientifically Impossible
Written by: BeneathTheSurface
Summary: Sequel to E X T R A H E L P. Twenty nine year old Gabriella Montez and her girlfriend twenty two year old Sharpay Evans are making a new chapter in their lives. Gabpay; femslash; GabriellaxSharpay
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It's been four weeks since the two women moved into their new penthouse. It's been four weeks since their encounter with the woman. They should be happy, right? Wrong. Sharpay's album dropped and has been jumping up on the Billboard charts, but she decided to take some time off and relax with her girlfriend. With the whole making of the album being such a strenuous process, she needed it.
So there they sat, watching television; bored out of their minds; at least Sharpay was. She decided to lay her head down on Gabriella's lap as the brunette flipped through channels absentmindedly.
Gabriella really was too busy thinking to actually settle on an actual station. She wanted to talk to Sharpay about the whole baby thing again. Four years ago, they went through a terrible struggle with that, but she thinks that they're ready to take that step. Of course, she wanted to get married first and with her luck and Sharpay's unremarkable bad timing, that'll be another four years.
"Shar," Gabriella finally said in a mere whisper. Sharpay moved her head to acknowledge her "Do you think we're ready for that baby now?" she asked, even though that wasn't the right question. No the right question would be 'when the hell are you gonna ask me to be your wife?'
"Absolutely," Sharpay shot up from her position on the couch, pulling herself on top of Gabriella, making her giggle. "Let's start making that baby," she said now fully on top of the brunette.
"You do know that is scientifically impossible, right?" Gabriella replied, as Sharpay kissed her lightly with Gabriella's arms wrapped around her neck.
"Yes, but no one said I couldn't pretend," Sharpay whispered into Gabriella's lips, kissing her deeply, finally having something to do on this wonderful Saturday afternoon.
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Monday came as well as Gabriella's first day of her internship. She was pretty nervous, but she kept telling herself that if she just remembered everything she learned in school as well as the firm back in Boston, she'll be okay.
Once she walked in, a receptionist sat at the front desk and looked up just as she walked towards her. "Hello I'm Gabriella Montez, I'm here to see Mr. –,"
"Jones, yes he's been expecting you, come this way," she said, walking out from her place behind the desk, bringing her towards Robert Jones's office. She knocked on his door and once she received the confirmation to open it she did so.
"Mr. Jones, Gabriella Montez is here for you," she told him.
"Oh excellent send her in," he replied with a smile, as Gabriella scooted her way into the office "Ah Mrs. Montez it is a pleasure," he smiled.
"Actually sir, you may call me Gabriella," she said making him laugh.
"Well all right then you may call me Rob or Robert," she laughed, but agreed nevertheless. "So I hear you are from the Boston firm where our founder resides,"
"Yes sir. I was in law school at the time and since I just graduated Mr. Bunker felt that I should get a feel of what it is like to be in the field," Gabriella explained as he nodded along with everything she said.
"Well that's fantastic; I actually paired you up with one of our best lawyer. Let me just get him, excuse me," Robert said, walking out of the office, coming back in no time with a man with him.
"Gabriella this is Mark," he introduced them, making her smile.
"Mark?" she questioned noticing it was her friend Mark Gregg from back in East High. He mentioned he had a law degree, but became a teacher to be closer to his mother during her sickness.
"Oh my God, Gabriella, wow look at you," he said, pulling her into a hug as their boss watched on with curious eyes, but they didn't care.
"Me? Look at you, you're still as handsome as ever," she complimented, making him blush ever so slightly.
"And you are still as beautiful. I assume you're interning?" He said and Robert thought it'd be great for him to step in.
"Yes she is and you'll be her mentor, if you will. I must let you know very briefly that, we don't allow office relationships here –,"
"Oh no, you won't have to worry, I'm taken," Gabriella said quickly, making Mark laugh.
"Yes sir and even if she wasn't, I'm not her type," he told their boss, making her push him slightly.
"I see," Robert said clearly confused by what he meant.
"I'm taken by a woman," Gabriella said hesitantly, being that she didn't want a repeat of the woman in the elevator incident, but she knew with Mark there she had nothing to worry about.
Robert laughed. "Oh well, then I won't have to worry. That's great, well with that said, I guess Mark will show you the ropes and some of the cases he's working on so with that I'd just like to welcome you to the team Gabriella," Gabriella nodded, thanking him as she and Mark walked out of the office, leaving their boss still laughing at the way they interacted.
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Gabriella made her way to the penthouse after a long day at work. She unlocked the door to see Sharpay occupied, writing on the couch, bouncing her head up and down which meant she had a beat in her head, which also meant she was writing a new song.
"Hey," Gabriella said wrapping her arms around Sharpay's neck from behind, kissing her lightly on the cheek.
"Oh hey, so how was your first day?" Sharpay asked placing the notebook and pen down on the coffee table.
"Very good, turns out Mark went back to working as a lawyer. Apparently, his mother past two years ago, so he said there was no reason to be working as a teacher making no money at all," Gabriella said.
"So he works at the firm?" Gabriella nodded "And he's showing you the ropes and everything?" Gabriella nodded again. "Sounds fun," Sharpay smiled
"It's great that he's there. I don't know what I'd do if he wasn't," she told her making Sharpay smile even wider. "So what have you been up to today?" she asked her blonde girlfriend.
"Writing, watching television, thinking," Sharpay listed.
"What were you thinking about?" Gabriella asked curiously.
"Um…well remember when you asked me about if we're ready to have that baby yet?" Sharpay asked uneasy; Gabriella nodded. "Well I really do think we're ready, I mean I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I want a family with you," Sharpay babbled, causing a growing smile to appear across the brunette's lips.
Gabriella got up from the loveseat as Sharpay continued to babble, pulled Sharpay's lips to hers, kissing her with a deep passion. "I think you just proposed to me as well, did you not?" Gabriella asked now on top of the blonde.
"I don't know. Maybe I just stated a fact, that just needs to be proven with this," Sharpay said, pulling a box out of her sweatpants, handing Gabriella it. Gabriella's eyes widened when she opened it to see an 18 carat diamond engagement ring. "I know this isn't much of a romantic proposal, but I promise if you say yes I'll make it worth your while,"
Gabriella was speechless, yet happy. She's been waiting for this moment for two years, but was so happy that it came as fast as it did. She felt tears well up in her eyes "Can you do one traditional thing?" Gabriella asked as the emotions took over.
Sharpay laughed slightly, grabbing the box back. She got out from under Gabriella and leaned down on one knee in front of the emotional woman "Gabriella Maria Montez, will you marry me?" Sharpay asked, as Gabriella nodded frantically.
"Yes," she whispered, pulling Sharpay up by her hands, kissing her passionately "A million times yes,"
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Within the next few days, Gabriella was nothing but smiles as well as Sharpay. They were happily engaged, which is what Gabriella wanted. The first person they called was Ryan, only because he predicted it would come. He and Chad were both happy for them, as well as their parents. They just hope they'll make it a long engagement, so both women can get their priorities straight.
Today, Gabriella and Sharpay had an appointment with an OB/GYN in order to find out information for Gabriella to become fertile. They sat in the office, with Sharpay holding Gabriella's hand. Sharpay felt eyes on her, since there were about five teenage girls there in the waiting room.
Since her album's been released she's been getting recognized more and more, yet people didn't expect that she was with a woman. She never mentioned anything of the same or opposite sex in her songs, just directed it as 'you', which was how she liked songs to be.
"Gabriella Montez," a nurse said, causing them both to get up and follow her into the back. They followed the nurse until they reached a room that had a big seat and ultrasound machine already in there. "Place this on and the doctor will be with you shortly," she instructed her, handing Gabriella the gown, then walked out.
Gabriella began pulling her shirt off when "All my stripper friends all my ex-boyfriends we all want the same things, we all want the same things," came into ear. Gabriella turned around and faced the blonde who was laughing hysterically. "I'm sorry, I'll shut up now," she said still giggling.
Once Gabriella got into the gown without anymore of Sharpay's stupid comments, she sat on the big seat, while Sharpay held her hand, giving it the occasional kiss to show she was there for her. The door opened as the doctor came in with Gabriella's file. She gave them a warm smile.
"Gabriella," she said, as they both nodded "Hello I'm Dr. Paige," she introduced herself.
"As you already know, I'm Gabriella this is my fiancé Sharpay Evans," Gabriella introduced, as Sharpay placed her hand out, shaking the doctor's hand.
"Well it's nice to meet you both. I assume this will be your first child, correct?" They both nodded. "Well as you know the only way to allow a woman in a homosexual relationship to become fertile is to artificially inseminate them with a sperm donor, but there has been a test of a new way for both women in a homosexual relationship to give their unborn child their genes," Dr. Paige explained to them, sitting across from them on her stool.
"I heard about that, that you take an egg from both women and form a whole entirely new egg by combining them together, then you use a blank sperm," Gabriella said.
"Well what is a blank sperm?" Sharpay asked curiously.
"Well Sharpay a blank sperm is sperm that has been taken from the donor, but what we do is we block all the genes from the donor that way both women's genes can become dominant in the baby," Dr. Paige explained, as Sharpay nodded slowly.
"Is it effective?" Sharpay asked "Have you done it before? What have been the results from your past patients?" she asked, knowing she didn't want Gabriella to do a process that will not work.
"I've only done the process twice for two lesbian couples and they each have gotten fantastic results out of it. One had twins since her spouse was a twin herself while the other couple had a baby boy and are going through the process a second time," she explained to the blonde, who was still skeptical, but at the same time may be considering it.
"Well I know I want the baby to have my genes and Sharpay's, but I'm not entirely sure on this," Gabriella said, which Sharpay agreed.
"Well you don't have to figure things out right away, why don't we take a look at you and we'll see if everything is okay for you to carry a child when the time comes?" Dr. Paige suggested, as Gabriella agreed, grasping Sharpay's hand tightly.
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Gabriella was changing back into her clothes as Sharpay stood against the far wall, thinking about everything that happened in the appointment "So do you think we should do that process?" Gabriella asked now in her jeans and bra, pulling her shirt on.
"I think it'll be interesting, just to see if it works. I mean if those other two couples can do it and have great results, why can't we?" Sharpay said, as Gabriella turned around to face her. Sharpay looked like she was set on her decision, that they should try the new fertilization process.
"Okay, we'll do it. God knows it'll be interesting to see how that baby looks like when it comes out," Gabriella said, making Sharpay smirk.
"Come here," Sharpay said, causing Gabriella to walk towards her. She pulled the brunette towards her kissing her deeply, as Gabriella grasped her waist. "Love you and I imagine the baby will be beautiful, just like its Mom," Sharpay whispered, kissing Gabriella lightly again.
"Yes it will," Gabriella agreed before they left the office to tell Dr. Paige they'll be doing the procedure. They made another appointment to do the process in two weeks that'll consist of Gabriella being injected with both the newly formed egg and blank sperm, then the rest was up to life to give them their child…
Okay, I know I updated AGAIN! I'm crazy.lol By the way, I don't think that procedure is real, but hey it's 2018 in this story and new things are developed everyday; anything is possible.
Also in this story, I'm making that California still stuck with their decision to legalize Gay Marriage since in November they go back to discuss it again. Um...drama will most likely start next chapter, if not the one after that and you will discover what that secret was in the next few chapters.
Thank you so much for the reviews before on the last chapter. You guys are amazing and I can't thank you enough, so please review on this chapter and let me know your predictions and just basically what you think.
