Chapter Six! I'm so sorry I haven't updated in so long, I was watching other shows and not getting any inspiration. I however am back on the Office so I've got inspiration!

"Jim why did you let her leave that easily? Getting pens if a personal outing and should not be done on company time!" Dwight said loudly. Jim looked up from his desk. The more he thought about it the more he wished he'd stopped her. Getting pens? That's was the worst excuse she'd ever come up with and he knew for a fact she kept a box of her favorite uni-ball pens in her top left drawer. Originally he'd let her go thinking she's just using an excuse so everyone doesn't like she's going home sick and panic but upon further thought he figured there was no way she was going home. If she had wanted to she would have taken his offer to ditch with him. Something was up. "Jim didn't you hear me? Are you going deaf?" Usually he would have pretended he was and needed Dwight to yell but he was too worried about Pam to even catch his chance to mess with him. "Jim!"

"She's getting them as a present for Micheal but she doesn't want everyone to know and tell him." Dwight bought the lie quicker then he'd bought the magic beans.

"Oh, okay" Dwight went back to work.

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"Dad's shouldn't want to kill their kids. It's not right." Honus felt his stomach drop as he heard Stefani finish her story. He shouldn't have been eavesdropping especially on something so personal, but he had and what's done is done. Stefani's dad had wanted to kill her. Kill her. Honus felt a surge of anger at the man he'd only seen, never even talked to. The man with the stupid 3D glasses with the lenses punched out and the plaid shirts and the scruffy hair and stubble. Ryan Howard. "We should be going" he heard Stefani say and foots steps start. Honus panicked if he didn't move he was going to get caught. He turned to run up the stairs his lace-less sneakers (the only thing his father let him keep on) catching on the stair and with several thuds he was in front of Cece and Stefani. "Honus Shrute were you spying on us?" Stefani said horrified.

"I was just, uh, no! I was walking down the stairs and I tripped. I didn't hear anything!" he said, standing up quickly.

"Hear anything?" Cece asked. "We weren't even talking!"

"Yes you were! I..." Honus paused realizing he'd just fallen right into her trap. The two girls looked at him.

"If you ever repeat anything you heard today. I will take it upon myself to make sure to tell everyone, every little detail I know about you and then make some up" Stefani said harshly. She didn't mean it and she'd never do that, but she'd needed to make 100 percent sure no one would ever hear about it. Honus nodded.

"I won't" he promised. "I won't tell anyone!"

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Ryan Howard sat in his closet making a spreadsheet when the door opened and light came in. "Did you know your daughter is here!" Micheal said, he'd returned a few years back after Holly's parents had been put into a nursing home.

"Okay" he said. Micheal waited for more, but when Ryan didn't say anything else, he left. Oh god Stefani was here? He was going to half to hide in his closet all day to avoid those looks she gave him. He pretended he didn't mind but on the inside every single hateful look was like someone was punching him. Everyday since he'd had that... discussion with Kelly he'd regretted it. He had been scared. If Kelly had agreed with him, he still wouldn't have been able to do it once the appointment was set and it was all becoming real. He didn't really want to lose his kid, but Kelly had gotten full custody after she told the court what he'd said during a panic attack...

*Flashback*

"Is it true you wanted to abort the pregnancy Mr. Howard?" The judge asked him.

"Yes, but..." The judge cut him off.

"I'm sorry Mr. Howard but I'm going to have to grant Miss Kapoor full custody" She hit her mallet signalling the case was closed and the jury rose and started to leave.

"You can't do that!" he yelled. "Stefani is my baby girl! I'm her father!"

"You didn't want her Mr. Howard"

"But I do now! Please your honor!" he begged, she rose and beckoned him forward.

"I am pro-life Mr. Howard and I can not in good conscience give you any rights to that child" she whispered and with that got up and left the room. She was biased against him! It wasn't fair! They couldn't take away his baby girl from him!

"Kelly please." His voice broke and tears formed in his eyes. She stared at the broken man untill they were the last two in the room.

"I'm sorry Ryan." She grabbed her bag and left him alone in the room. He was breathing deeply trying to get enough air as the tears flowed and his throat got tight. He'd just lost his baby.

*Flashback Over*

As much as he wanted to curl up in his closet he had to talk to her. He loved her more than anything else in the world he just didn't know home to show it. He got up from his desk and slipped out of the closet.

I should call this the "angst chapter" from Jim freaking out about where Pam went, to Honus learning Stefani's story, to Ryan's flashback. Angst all around! That was hard to write. Ryan is hard in general but Ryan and that sensitive topic? wowza! Can I get like 3 reviews, just so I know people are still with this story after almost a month?