Lucy burst into apartment 2J almost knocking Katie off the stool she sat on at the counter where she was doing some studying.

"Is your brother home?"

"No."

"James, Carlos, Logan?"

"No, no, no, and my mom's not here, either."

"Good. I need to talk to you."

Katie closed her textbook and turned around to her brother's best friend's girlfriend.

"Promise you won't tell James?" Lucy sat down on the other stool.

"What is it?" Katie asked excitedly.

"Promise you won't tell James?" Lucy repeated.

"I promise," Katie sighed.

"And you won't tell Kendall, Carlos, or Logan?"

"I promise."

"You won't tell anyone, not even your mother, but especially not James?"

"I promise! This has got to be good."

Lucy gulped. She pulled somethings out of the inside pocket of her leather jacket and showed them to Katie who's eyes turned the size of dinner plates.

"No!" Katie exclaimed. "Is that?"

Taking a deep breath Lucy replied, "Yeah."

"Are you…? Is James…? Oh my gosh!"

"Yes and yes. Back when the guys were having their 'feud', around Christmas, we, um, we did it for the first time and a few times after that," she sighed wondering why she was talking to a fourteen year old about her sex life. "And we may not have always used protection."

"What are you going to do?"

"I don't know. I want to keep it. I guess. I mean, I haven't really thought about it. I only just found out about an hour ago. I don't know what James wants to do. Promise me you won't tell him?"

"I won't tell him, but you'll need to."

"I know. I don't know how." Lucy picked up one of the pregnancy tests she had placed on the counter. There were two. One to tell her the news and the other to confirm it. "He has mentioned wanting kids, but one day. I'm sure not now, not in the highlight of his career. Hell, what am I supposed to do? I'm supposed to go on a North American tour this summer. Sure as hell can't do that with my belly out to here." A tear escaped down her cheek. "I'm such a wuss crying about this."

"No, you're not." Katie wrapped her arms around Lucy. "James is one of the sweetest and most caring guys I know. He loves you and I'm pretty sure he's gonna love this baby."

"Yeah?" Lucy picked up the other test and placed them both back in her jacket pocket.

"Yeah. If you need anything just remember I'm here for you."

"Thanks. It is much easier talking to you about this than the guys." She stood up. "I'm gonna go lay down, I think." She headed for the front door. "Thanks."

"Everything's going to be okay," Katie assured. Lucy nodded as she opened the door.

Stepping into the hall she bumped into James and Kendall. She stumbled back a step and her hand flew to her mouth. She thought James said something but her head swam so much she couldn't make it out. All she could do was dash to her apartment.

.O.

"Ready for our date tonight?" James asked as he bumped into his girlfriend, Lucy in the hall. Today was Valentine's Day and he and Kendall were returning from the pool to get ready for their separate dates. Lucy looked up at him with worried brown eyes. That wasn't a good sign. Immediately, her hand went to her mouth and she fled the scene.

"What was that about?" James asked.

"I think you just made her sick," Kendall joked.

James dropped the towel around his shoulders and ran after Lucy. He found her door unlocked so he was able to just go on inside.

"Lucy?" He called out.

No answer.

"Lucy? Are you here?"

He was answered this time by a noise coming from the bathroom.

"Oh, Lucy." As he came upon the scene of her throwing up into the toilet, he bent down, and held her long brown and red hair behind her back. "If you're sick we don't have to go out tonight. Hey, yeah, I'll cancel our reservations and cook you something." He wasn't sure he'd ever made a real dinner before and wasn't quite sure what he'd do now, but if his Lucy was sick, he'd take care of her.

She turned to smile slightly at him before releasing more contents from her stomach into the porcelain bowl. That was when she noticed something on the floor, something that had fallen out of her pocket, the inside pocket of her favorite coat. As she went to grab it, she saw James's tan hand go for it, too.

"It's positive," she coughed.

"P-positive?" James fell back against the bathroom wall. "You mean you—we—us—you—"

Lucy nodded. She wiped her mouth with toilet paper and flushed finally feeling done with being sick.

"Happy Valentine's Day." She looked at him weakly.

"H-how far along?" James tried calculating the days on his fingers. "We, um, haven't done it since New Year's, right?"

"I don't know. I just found out earlier."

"We need to make you a doctor's appointment."

"Yeah." She fell into James's arms, which he wrapped around her. "You're not mad?"

"Mad? No. Surprised, yeah. We didn't exactly plan this. But, mad? No. Luce, we're going to be parents!"

"You're okay with this?"

"I'm going to be a dad. Oh my gosh, I'm going to be a dad!"

"You want to keep it?"

"Of course! You weren't, um, you weren't think of getting rid of it, were you?"

"No, no, of course not. I just didn't know what you wanted."

"Yeah, yeah."

"Do you think we can handle it?"

"Yeah. BTR's doing well now and you've got your career."

"That's what I mean. We're both in the midst of booming careers. We don't have time for a baby."

"We'll make time." He pulled Lucy's face up to him. "You're the most important thing to me and now so is this baby. There's nothing I won't do for you. I'll be here for everything you need even if that means I have to leave in the middle of a concert or recording or give up a photo shoot or whatever. You come first." James wiped away a tear falling down her cheek. "Don't cry."

She smiled watery at him. "I—it's just—I can't put my career on hold for 9+ months. I have a tour this summer. A tour, James! I can't go on a tour when I'll be about to pop."

"Shh, don't stress yourself out." He rubbed her back. "Everything will work itself out. It's going to be okay. And I'm going to be right here with you every step of the way." He pulled Lucy to her feet. "Why don't we go somewhere more comfortable?"

They left the bathroom for the beige couch in the living area. The two kicked off their shoes, which was much easier for James since he had on flip-flops and Lucy wore her black boots, and cuddled together.

"My manager's not going to be happy about this," she admitted.

"At least he won't kill you." James shuddered at the thought of how Gustavo would react to the news.

"Can we not tell anyone just yet?" Lucy asked laying her head on James's muscular chest.

"I think they'll eventually find out."

"I know but I'm just not ready for the news to be out there. You know how the media gets."

James kissed Lucy's forehead. "I think we need to tell a few people soon, though."

Lucy sat up and looked at him with the most worried expression on her face. "No…"

"Which would hurt them more? You telling them or them finding out from a website or a TV show?"

"But not right now."

"OK, not today."

Lucy laid her head back down on James's chest.

"I'm not exactly looking forward to telling my mom, either." He placed his chin on top of her head.

There was a knock on the door. James and Lucy shared a look.

"Come in," Lucy called out.

"Hey, just checking to see if everything's okay?" Kendall stepped into the room.

"Yeah, yeah," James replied. "We're just going to stay in tonight. Have a little Valentine's date in 2I, just the two of us."

"You sure everything's okay?"

"Everything's fine." He looked down at Lucy and then back at Kendall. "When do you plan on returning from your date?"

"I don't know. Why?"

"Um," James rubbed Lucy's shoulder. "I'll talk to Carlos and Logan but how about we have dessert in 2J later, like about 10?"

"OK…are you sure nothing's up?"

"Everything's fine. What do you want me to get for dessert? Ice cream? Cake? Tiramisu from the coffee shop?"

"If you two are staying in Jo and I can just pick something up."

"Is that okay with you, Luce?"

She nodded slowly.

"OK, cool, see you at ten."

"I don't care what he gets," Lucy said once Kendall left the apartment. "But, why did you do that?"

"We're going to tell them tonight."

Lucy sat up abruptly.

"What the hell?"

"We have to tell them eventually and it'll be good to have them in our corner when we tell our managers. It'll also warm us up for having to tell our parents."

"No." She sighed. "Well…"

James clasped his hands together under his chin.

"OK…okay. We can tell them and only them tonight." She lay back down against James. "Maybe we should also tell Mrs. Knight. Don't want her to be the only one in the apartment who doesn't know."

"Katie?"

"That's where I was coming from when I ran into you."

.O.

Lucy stirred the spoon of the sundae she shared with James. If she took a bite she knew she'd be sick and most likely it would come out before she made it to the bathroom.

Sitting around 2J that night were Mrs. Knight and Katie at the counter, neither of them having dates, and Carlos, Alexa, Logan, Camille, Kendall, Jo, James, and Lucy around the table, all sharing containers of strawberry sundaes.

"You okay?" James whispered leaning in closer to Lucy.

"A little nauseas."

"You wanna lie down?"

"I just want to get this over with."

"Hey, lovebirds," Logan spoke up. "Why did you gather us here tonight?"

James grabbed Lucy's hand. "What makes you think we have a reason besides just wanting to hang out with our friends on the most romantic day of the year?"

"I dunno, do you?"

"We have something we'd like to tell you."

"Whatever could it be?" Katie asked. Lucy wanted to smack her but she refrained. For one thing, she was too far away. For another, she didn't want to make her mad and lose her support system.

"I can do this," Lucy cleared her throat. "We're—I—we're…"

"We're having a baby!" James finished.

Kendall froze with his spoon halfway to his mouth. Carlos performed a classic spit-take with the ice cream in his mouth. Logan's went the other way causing him to cough as he choked. Katie continued eating her ice cream like nothing happened. Mrs. Knight looked at the couple in shock. Jo, Camille, and Alexa ran over to Lucy and enveloped her in a tight hug.

Lucy's response when the girls let go was to throw up on the floor in front of them.

Welcome to the sequel of Big Time Break. As you can see this takes place a month and fourteen days after the last one ended.