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Linney looked at Cody and sighed. She knew she had to talk to Matt. She had to have him hear the truth from her. She didn't know how he would take the news. He would be disappointed in her. There was a knock on the door and the doctor entered.
"How are you feeling?" he asked.
"Better. When can I go home?"
"In a day or two. But I don't want you to be alone. You have to be with someone at all times. Right now why don't you just rest?" She nodded her head. "Would you like anyone to stay with you tonight?"
"I'm staying." Cody spoke up. The doctor nodded and left the room. "I will go get us some dinner and get a change of clothes and I will be right back okay?" Linney nodded. "I meant what I said before Linney. I love you." He kissed her on the forehead and walked out.
Cam looked at the ring on her hand and then at Matt. She could see that he was worried. But not just about his sister. About their relationship and whatever it was this secret was causing between them. She broke out of her thoughts as Cody walked into view.
"She is stable. I'm going to stay with her tonight. Doc says he doesn't want her to be alone. She has to be with someone from here on out."
"Thanks Codes. I trust you with her. Please give us a call if you guys need anything." Cody nodded.
"I am going to go get us some dinner and a change of clothes. You want to go see her while I'm gone?" Matt nodded and grabbed Cam's hand dragging her in the direction of his sister's room. He knocked on the door and felt Cam tense as Linney said come in. She smiled when she saw it was Matt but her smile quickly faded when she saw that Cam was with him.
"Hey guys." She said weakly forcing the smile back onto her face.
"How are you feeling?" Matt asked her.
"I'm fine. The doctor said everything is fine. I just have to rest." She replied looking from Matt to Cam.
"I'm glad everything is okay." Cam said softly.
"Yeah thanks."
Matt sighed at his sister's attitude toward his future wife. He wished he knew what happened between them.
"I'm going to go. Matt, call me later." Cam said kissing him and walking to the door. She knew Linney didn't want her there and she wasn't going to cause her stress. She wouldn't do that.
"Cam, wait a minute. I will be right back. "He told his sister before going after his fiancée.
"Yeah." Cam said stopping just outside the door.
"Why are you leaving? I want you here."
"I know you but Linney doesn't and I'm not going to cause her stress. Just stay with your sister until Cody gets back and then call me."
"Cam."
"Matt, it's fine, really. She needs you." Cam kissed him before pulling away. "Just call me or come by afterwards."
"Alright, I love you." He said to her.
"I love you too." She kissed him again and headed out. He sighed and headed back into his sister's room.
"Cam leave?" Linney asked.
"Yeah, she did." He said sitting down. "So are you ever going to tell me what happened to cause you to dislike my future wife?"
"It...it's in the past Matt. Can't we just leave it there?"
"No. Just tell me what happened so we can move past it. I love her Melinda. More than I have ever loved anyone else and I need you to support me on that. But you can't full support me if you hate her."
"Alright, fine. You wanna know what happened? She killed my baby." Matt sat there looking at her a little stunned.
"What do you mean she killed your baby? The doctors said you were fine."
"Not this baby. The one before." she said turning to the window with tears in her eyes.
"You...you were pregnant before?" she nodded. "Lin, why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I didn't want you to be ashamed of me. I didn't want you to say that you were disappointed in me." she said wiping the tears from her face. He wrapped his arms around her and held her to him for a second before pulling back and looking at her.
"I could never be ashamed of you or disappointed in you. I love you sis." she smiled at him weakly. He kissed her on the forehead and she settled back against the pillows. "Why don't you just rest until Cody gets back? I will be by to see you tomorrow."
Matt left and headed to see Cam. He hoped she would tell him what exactly Linney was talking about. He arrived at her apartment and headed in.
"Hey, I wasn't expecting you so soon." Cam said when he walked in. She had given him a key months before.
"I talked to Linney and she told me that you killed her baby in college. What was she talking about?"
"What? I didn't kill her baby." Cam said quickly. "I just told the father she was pregnant. He had the right to know and take responsibility for it. I only wanted to help. I thought I was."
"So what happened after you told him?" He said sitting down.
"He told her that she should have an abortion and call her a whore and caused her a cheating on him. She got so angry with me. I only wanted to help. She was leaving to come to your house when she doubled over in pain. She lost the baby."
Matt wasn't sure what to say. He saw his sister' side but he saw Cam's too. She had only wanted to help. The father did deserve to know and he should have taken responsibility.
"Matt, I promise I wasn't trying to hurt her."
"I know. This is a difficult situation."
"Yeah, it is. She will always hate me and I'm sorry about that." Cam sighed. "She can't have stress during this pregnancy so I'm going to stay away."
"I don't see how you can seeing as we're engaged and she's pregnant by your brother."
"I guess I will just do my best to avoid her."
"Cammie, please. You guys can talk and work this out."
"I don't want to stress her out." She got up and walked to the window. "Matt, I know how much she means to you and how close you are. I do understand if you don't want to marry me because of this. If you want to take back this ring and give it to some your sister likes."
"My sister has nothing to do with us. I love you Cam. You are the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with. Nothing is going to change that. You have that ring because you have my heart."
She turned to look at him, tears in her eyes. He was perhaps the sweetest man she had ever known and she loved him more than anything. But she also knew that he would never have peace as long as she and Linney were fighting. She missed Linney. She missed the friendship they used to have.
"Can you honestly sit here and tell me that you would pick me over her? She's your family Matt. The only family you have left. I refuse to be the one responsible for coming between you."
"Will you at least talk to her? For me?" Cam nodded her head and Matt walked over to her giving her a hug. He only hoped that they could work things out.
Linney let her tears fall as she remembered the fight with Jake. Their baby would have been almost 7 now. She often imagined what the baby would look like. What color eyes and hair it would have. She'd thought about names and she had never gotten the chance to use them. She cried a little harder when she remembered the conversation she'd had with Cam right before Matt had gotten to the hospital. Right after they'd told her the baby didn't make it.
Cam knocked on the door but Linney didn't answer it. She just kept staring straight ahead willing the darkness to surround her.
"Linney, I called Matt like you asked. He's getting on a plane now. He should be here by morning." Linney still didn't respond. "The doctors told me about the baby. I'm so sorry."
"You should be. It's all your fault." Linney said turning to look at her for the first time. "If you had just kept your promise and not told him, I would be having my baby. But... You had to tell him. You had to go and stick your nose where it didn't belong. Like always. Cam why couldn't you just leave it alone?"
Cam stood there tears streaming down her own face.
"I was just trying to help. You seemed so depressed and I thought if Jake knew that..."
"What? We'd get married and be one big happy family? Life is not a fucking fairytale Cam. Everyone you love leaves you. The key is to get what you can get and get out before you get hurt too bad. You know that's what happened here. I got in too deep with you. I considered you my sister. My family. I should have known better. I put my trust in you and look what that got me. Just do me one last favor. Just leave me alone. Forget you ever knew me and that we were ever friends. Just go." she sobbed. Cam walked to the bed and sat down sure that her friend was just stricken with grief and really hadn't meant what she'd said. She pulled Linney to her only to have her pull away. "NO! Go away. I hate you! You killed my baby!"
Cam stood up more than a little stung by Linney's words and walked back across the room toward the door. She stopped for a second to try and compose herself a little before she spoke.
"I called Matt but I didn't tell him the real reason you were in here. I told him it was your appendix. Have a nice life Linney."
She had been really harsh on her friend and she hadn't meant half of what she'd said. But by the time she'd realized it, Cam was gone and Matt was there. She'd forced herself over the years to believe it was true. That Cam had been the one to ruin her life. But here in the privacy of her room, she knew that wasn't the case. She wiped her eyes as the door opened and Cody came walking in.