AN: I am SO sorry for the long wait. I have had so much going on – graduation, summer, and moving into college. I just got The Black Donnellys on DVD so I can actually update and have an idea of what is going on in the series.

I cannot promise this chapter is grand quality but I am trying to get back in the swing of the things and update. Try to enjoy. :

Oh, and I do not know The Black Donnellys and the title is thanks to Gaelic Storm.

"Come on, Kevin, we've got places to go. We've gotta find this Newton before noon and collect!"
"One more minute, Whitey, she should be home any minute, hold your horses!"

Kevin paced the living room, waiting for the front door to open and reveal Brigit. He thought she would have been home earlier, before Whitey got there, but she had not come home yet and he had to talk to her.

Finally, they both heard footsteps slowly coming up the stairs outside the door. Soon enough, the door pushed open and when Brigit looked up, her face showed what she was thinking. She had hoped she had missed Kevin. She had walked extra slow from the Diner so she could avoid him, she was not ready or sure if she wanted to tell Kevin anything just yet.

But now she realized Kevin thought he was ready to hear it and Brigit could not avoid it or him any longer.

"Whitey, go wait for Kevin outside."
"What? No, we've got to go now, we've got stuff to do," Whitey reasoned.
Kevin stepped up to correct Whitey but Brigit needed no help, "Excuse me but when I tell you to leave my apartment, I don't make it an option. I need to talk to Kevin so get out. Now."

Whitey decided it was better to lose this battle and quietly left the two alone.

Brigit collapsed on the couch and Kevin sat next to her, thinking it was just a simple explanation he was about to hear.

Kevin turned towards her, "I just wanted to make sure you were all right... that we were all right."
"That's still up in the air," she sighed.
"Why? Did I do something wrong? What's wrong?"
She grabbed his hand in hers, trying to steady the both of them, "Kevin, when I said I wasn't just thinking about me, I meant that soon enough it won't just be me and you in this relationship. And I don't mean years from now when we're married and settled, if that ever happens. What I mean is in less than nine months there will be more than just us to think about because... because I'm pregnant Kevin."

Kevin pulled his hand from hers and placed his head in his hands, trying to let everything sink in and make sense. It was not doing either. It was all just too much for Kevin to compute.

He got up, "I've got to go, Whitey's waiting for me."
"Kevin!" Brigit called out, trying to hold back to hurt and tears.
Kevin did not look at her when he opened the door, "I just need time to think this through, Brigit."

With the shutting of the door came her tears. She knew he did not need time to think, she knew it when he called her Brigit – he never called her Brigit.

Kevin threw himself into working, into lying. He did not want Whitey, Jimmy, or anyone to know that in reality, he was Newton and he was the one who had lost ten grand on a bet.

But when Tommy became so dead set on finding 'Newton', even going so far as to go to 'his' apartment, Kevin had to tell.

He did and in the end landed in the place Kevin had decided he would go to double the money – the racetrack. And after realizing Tommy put all the money on his first choice, Kevin was on a high.

With the lies about Newton out of the way, there was only one other thing left to hide or think about, for that matter, so on the way home, Kevin let the Brigit/baby issue spill. Kevin had been looking for older brother advice but he forgot that when it came to Brigit, Tommy stopped acting like his older brother and started acting like hers.

Kevin should have been used to the lectures and the fights by now. One occurred when Tommy found out Kevin had feelings for Brigit, one before her senior prom, another after Kevin asked Brigit out, and one every time Kevin was about to propose and lost the ring.

"I can't do that – I'm no good at lying," Kevin confessed on the way to Jenny's.
"Actually you're really good at lying. You don't think you lied when you took Newton's bets? And when you said you 'needed to think things through' to Brigit?"
"I wasn't lying. I took the money, I knew I was Newton."
"No, what you gotta do is stop lying to yourself and admit you're a great liar and that you want to marry Brigit and you want to have that kid with her."

Kevin pushed the thought out of his head as he entered the Diner with Tommy. But as Tommy conversed with Mr. Reilly, images of Brigit and him with a baby popped into his head. They had always been there but now that it was becoming a reality it was a little scarier. It had always been a dream, an idea. Now Kevin had to face his future and he was not sure he could do it.

At least not by himself. He would need Brigit – he realized he always needed Brigit. But did this baby really need Kevin – the seemingly unlucky gambler whose life was always at risk – as a father?

That night, Brigit left an empty apartment and came home to the same thing. She assumed that would be the case but she still hoped to open the door to find Kevin there.

She knew what it meant. Kevin had spent the night at his Ma's and he probably at the Firecracker now like he always was. But this time he had done all that without telling her where he was or where he was going or even talking to her in the first place.

Brigit picked up the phone and began to dial Sean merely to check up on Kevin until she heard a banging on her door. She threw the phone down and ran to the door, expecting to find her fiancé behind it but instead found a distressed Jimmy.

All thoughts of Kevin were gone as she pulled Jimmy inside, "Let me guess... Jenny?"
"Shut up."

Brigit merely rolled her eyes. She had always known Jimmy had a thing for Jenny, even when Brigit and Jimmy were together. It seemed everyone came to her when Jenny refused them – well, everyone being Tommy and Jimmy but that was enough.

None of it mattered though when Jimmy was actually crying in front of her.

Eventually Jimmy left and Tommy called. Just by the tone of his voice Brigit knew that Tommy knew about her 'condition'. The thought made her feel a little better because she knew that Tommy would at least try to talk some sense into Kevin.

Because of that she agreed to do Tommy a favor and so headed over to Kate Farrell's house to take Matthew out since Tommy had been banned by Dokey.

Brigit figured it would be nice practice anyhow for her future and it would be nice to catch up with Kate, let alone spend time with another girl since Jenny had been tied up with the Diner.

Matthew and Brigit did various things until much later Tommy came, drawing supplies in hand, and Brigit realized she had to get to work.

"Have you seen-"
Tommy cut her off, "I thought Kevin went home to you."
Brigit hesitated, "N-no, I meant Jimmy. Have you seen Jimmy? He okay?"
"Why wouldn't he be okay?"
Brigit readied herself to leave, "No reason."

The minute the door closed behind her, Brigit called Jimmy's cell but got no response – not a good sign.