When he walked into the room she was facing the other direction, he took notice that she seemed to be in a trance staring at the monitors beside her bed.

The sudden sound of her voice startled him, he was not expecting it. "Mom, did the doctor say what the third line was for?" She asked not turning around to make sure that it was her that she was talking to.

"I could check for you, if it's important." He managed to get out a bit choked up on his words.

Rory quickly turned around to face her new visitor with a surprised look on her face. "Dean, what are you doing here?"

"Your mom called me, well she left a message with Kyle…I came as soon as I heard what happened." He waited a moment to see if she would say something back but she didn't. "Your mom told me that the doctor said that you're going to be okay."

"Yeah I guess so."

"Well how are you feeling? I mean obviously not very well, you were shot, but you're a lot more alert then I thought you would be." He asked walking a little closer to the edge of her bed.

"I feel okay right now, but just give it time, the drugs haven't worn off yet from surgery." She fidgeted with her hands for a second before speaking again. "Dean please don't take this the wrong way but why did you come here?"

"Rory last time we were together I meant every word that I said to you. You can't expect me to stay home and pretend that I don't care for you especially when something like this happens. That night when I came home I got your address from your mom and then I went home to pack a bag because I was going to find you and apologize no matter what it took but then I found your letter and it broke my heart. I made one of the dumbest decisions of my life that night; I should have never left you there alone."

"Dean there's something I need to tell you…" She was about to explain when the door to the room opened again and a nurse walked inside rolling a cart with her.

"Hello Rory, my name is Brenda and I'll be your nurse for tonight. It's nice to see you awake; we were especially worried about you when you came in." She talked as she got the contents on her cart ready for an ultrasound. "We already did an ultrasound earlier but you weren't awake for it so I thought you might want to see for yourself that your baby is doing just fine."

Rory looked over at a now pale Dean. The nurse took notice of the looks exchanged. "I'm sorry, if you don't want anyone else in the room we can have him step out until we're done."

Dean suddenly felt the urge to throw up but managed to hold it back. He felt like he was having a dream and he was going to wake up now at any moment. For the second time today he felt like his legs were going to collapse from under him.

"No that's okay, he should stay, he's the father." She explained without looking away from him.

"Okay, I just need to pull down the covers for a few minutes. I know its cold so we will be as brief as possible with this." She explained as she rolled the covers down and revealed Rory's pregnant stomach to Dean for the first time. "This gel won't help matters either."

Rory cringed when she spread the gel across her belly. It wasn't long before a swooshing sound filled the room and a blurry picture appeared on the screen. "Okay here we go; did you want to know the sex of the baby?"

Rory nodded yes and a tear slipped from her eye. Dean quickly wiped it away with his thumb and reached for her hand to hold at the same time.

"You're going to have a baby girl."

"Really?" Rory asked smiling through her tears now.

"Yeah, you see right here?" She asked pointing with a mouse on the screen. "Normally it's hard to tell this early because the baby isn't as cooperative as it would be further along in the pregnancy but both of you have gone through a lot of trauma today and it's causing the baby to be more active. That's the one thing that the doctor is worried about for you Rory."

"What do you mean?"

"Well in most cases when something this traumatic happens during pregnancy, the mother will go into premature labor. You were both very lucky this time; there is no way your baby would have survived if you had to deliver today. This also means you have to go through the rest of your pregnancy using very high caution. You need to be in an environment with no stress at all, this means you will not be able to work for the remainder of your pregnancy."

"But everything is okay; Rory and the baby are going to be fine right? I mean as long as she follows the doctors orders?" Dean asked suddenly speaking for the first time since the nurse entered the room.

"Yes everything should be fine." The nurse said smiling. "I'm going to print a few pictures of the baby for you to keep." She explained as she cleaned up the gel and helped Rory to get comfortable again in her bed.

"Thank you." Rory said when she handed her the pictures from the ultrasound.

"You're welcome…your doctor should be by within the next hour to check on you." She said before exiting the room with her cart leaving the two of them alone once again.

Dean took a seat in the chair next to the bed. He waited for her to say something first, he already decided that he wasn't going to be the first one to speak.

"I know I should have told you about this sooner."

"Yeah normally the father finds out a few seconds after the mother. How could you keep something like this from me Rory? I mean is this my punishment for not coming back that night?"

"No Dean, it's not. I've just been so scared about all of it. We weren't together and I didn't know how to tell you. After how I left that night I didn't think you would want to see me again. When I found out that I was pregnant all I could think about were the words I wrote to you in that letter and how much I regretted them."

"A baby changes everything Rory, we're not kids anymore and it's time we started acting like it." Suddenly realizing something Dean began to laugh out loud.

"What?"

"Now I get it, your mom has been pushing me to come see you now for almost a month. She's known all along about the baby hasn't she?"

"Yeah…she has also been pushing me to tell you."

"I really wish you would have Rory. I really want to be around for all of this, I'm actually a bit upset that I've already missed three months of it."

"You really mean that Dean?"

"Yeah of course I do." He tried to understand what she meant. "Did you think that I wouldn't want this baby, is that why you didn't call me?"