Chapter 5: Tip-Toeing Around the Truth

Just then the doctor re-enters the room.

"Are any of you immediate family?" The doctors asks signaling to Jason and Spencer.

"I'm her husband." Jason tells the doctor grabbing Aria's hand.

The doctor nods at him. "And you miss?" She says signaling to Spencer again.

"A friend." Spencer says to her.

"Well, we need to do some more testing on Mrs. DiLaurentis. So I'm going to have to ask you to leave the room."

"Okay." Spencer says as she nods. "Aria, I'll be in the waiting room. Just text me if you need anything." Aria nods with a slight smile and then the doctor escorts Spencer to the waiting room down the hall.

The doctor returns to the room after about 5 minutes, while during the 5 minutes there is nothing but awkward silence between Jason and Aria. "Aria, in about 15 minutes were going to take you up to radiology to make sure there's nothing more going on here." Aria nods at her and then the doctor exits the room again just as Jason jumps up from his seat at the click of the heavy wooden door.

"Aria, what is going on? What are you not telling me?" Jason says placing his hands square on his hips. Aria starts to feel tears forming at the corner of her eyes. Just then Jason hears her sniffle. "Hey, hey it's okay." Jason says stepping forward placing his knuckles under Aria's chin and then kissing one of the tears running down her cheek.

Aria pulls away from his hand, looking at the floor. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." Says to him getting choked up by her own words.

"Aria, what happened?" Jason says sincerely placing one of his hands on her knee.

"You ask that question like you already know the answer." Aria snaps at him.

"Why didn't you tell me what was going on." Jason asks her.

Just then Aria busts it tears again. "I'm so sorry Jason."

Then, Jason envelopes her petite little body in a tight hold.

"Jason-"Aria begins to say but then the doctor re-opens the door.

"Jason, can you go get Spencer? I want her with me." Aria says to Jason and then looks at the doctor for approval. The doctor nods with compassion and then Jason walks out of the room.

"Is everything okay? I sense some tension." The doctor asks Aria while placing a hair net on Aria's head for her.

"I don't want him with me for this. I don't want him in the room." Aria tells her.

"May I ask why?" The doctor asks her.

Aria debates telling her the facts but, decides that they must have some kind of doctor/patient disclosure policy. Aria signals for the doctors ear and then whispers, "Because this baby isn't, wasn't his baby and I can't deal with that fact. I can't tell him, yet." The doctor looks at her with a little disgust but understanding facial expression. Then, Spencer enters the room, smiles at Aria and then meets her at the bedside and grabs her left hand.

"Are we ready?" The doctor asks but senses the look on Aria's face and then turns to Jason." Mr. DiLaurentis."

"Please call me Jason." He says to her.

"Jason." The doctor smiles at him. "We can only have one person accompany a patient in the radiology department. Your wife has requested Mrs. Cavanaugh to accompany her so I ask that you wait in the waiting room at the end of the hall. Just until we get back." Jason nods with smile and a little frustration and then tugs on Aria's big toe representing a good bye.

Three nurses and of course the doctor push Aria's hospital bed into the large elevator and then push the little silver circle with the red hue behind it sporting the little number 5. Spencer still has ahold of Aria's left hand, Aria feels so much comfort by it.

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Jason, with one arm around Aria's waist and his other hand holding her purse, he carries her into the house. Jason makes Aria comfortable on the couch with a mug of coffee, a heated blanket, and the television remote. "I'm going to go get Leah from your parents okay?" He asks her.

"Okay." Aria says to him shifting her weight on the couch.

"Get some rest but when I get back were talking about this." Jason says to her. Aria nods her head and then nuzzles her head into the blanket closing her eyes. Jason smiles and then leans down and kisses Aria's forehead.

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Jason arrives back at the house with Leah over his shoulder, she had fallen asleep on the way home from Aria's parents. Aria is asleep on the couch when Jason comes back down stairs from putting Leah in her bed. He smiles when he sees her and then walks into the kitchen, opens the fridge and grabs a brown bottle from the fridge and then walks over a drawer, opens it and then pops the top off the bottle leaving the cap inside the drawer before closing it. Jason brings the top of the bottle up to his mouth and just then he hears a scream coming from the living room. Jason rushes out to Aria.

"It hurts so much." Aria says to him wincing with her knees up to her chest and holding on to her stomach. Jason helps her stand up wrapping the blanket around her shoulders, Aria now in tears. Then, Jason picks her up, wedding style and carries her out to the car. Jason runs back inside to grab Leah. Now sporting a pink backpack and Leah over the left part of his chest and places Leah carefully in her car seat. Aria is now moaning in aches, "Were not taking her up there." Aria tells Jason still holding her knees to her chest.

"Where do you want me to take her? It's too late to take her to your parents without them asking questions." Jason says to her placing the key into the ignition.

"Can we take her to your sister's?" Aria asks him pleading.

"Which one." Jason says sarcastically.

"Jason not now." Aria says snipingly. Jason smirks at her before turning to pull out of the drive way. "Obviously, Alison." Aria continues.

"No, Ali's in New York with my dad." Jason says to her.

"Okay, let's take her to Spencer's then.

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There isn't a room available when Jason and Aria get to the hospital so Aria is placed in a wheel chair with a saline and pain killer IV in the waiting room. After about 15 minutes of waiting a little bit of Aria's pain has subsided but she's still uncomfortable. Just then a nurse opens the waiting room door, Aria and Jason look up. "Aria DiLaurentis?"