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Ranger lifted me from the car.

"I need help!" He yelled. Nurses started to run up.

"Here!" One said, pointing to an empty room. "What's wrong?"

"I don't know. She was writhing in pain and clutching her stomach." Ranger stopped and looked at the nurse.

I looked between the nurse and Ranger.

"What?" I asked him.

"There was blood on the sheets."

The nurse nodded. "Okay, I'm going to need you to wait outside while we check her out."

"No, I'm not leaving her." He said, crossing his arms and standing there in his 'don't fuck with me' stance.

"Carlos, I'll be okay." I said, squeezing his hand. He looked at me for a moment and then nodded and left.

The nurse took some blood and finished her preliminary examination. "Okay, I'm going to get the doctor."

"What's wrong with me?" I asked.

"I can't be sure, but after the exam and when the blood test comes back, we can be sure. But I think you're having a miscarriage." She said. She left to find the doctor.

A miscarriage? I was…pregnant?

I wasn't sure how I felt about that. It seemed like hours, I just sat there, blinking until the doctor and Ranger came back into the room. Ranger immediately came to my side.

"Okay, I'm Dr. Forest and we're going to a pelvic exam and an ultrasound."

"Why?" Ranger asked. No one was giving him any answers. The doctor looked at me.

"Carlos," I said. He looked at me.

"I might be having a miscarriage."

He stared at me for a moment, closed his eyes, and then gently kissed my hand.

First, the doctor did the pelvic. Ranger was no more excited than I was that he was poking around down there. He situated me into the stirrups and performed the exam. When he was satisfied, he moved onto the ultrasound. The doctor squeezed some gel onto my stomach and proceeded to spread it over my stomach with the probe. He studied the monitor for what seems like ages.

"There isn't a heartbeat and there is blood around the cervix and vagina. I'm so sorry, but you're having a miscarriage."

"What are our options?" I heard Ranger ask. I was still numb.

"We can keep her here and wait for all of the tissue to be released or we can do a D&C, that being the quickest. We would go in and remove any remaining tissue and fetus matter."

I wasn't thinking. Ranger glanced at me. "Can you give us a moment?"

"Sure." Dr. Forest said.

"Babe," he said. I closed my eyes at the word. He gently kissed my stomach. "What do you want to do?"

What did I want to do? I didn't even know that the baby existed! Sure, I was a few days late, but that happens sometimes, right? I couldn't believe this was happening to me.

"I'm sorry." I whispered.

"Why?" Ranger asked.

"I didn't mean to get pregnant." Tears were threatening to escape.

"Babe, don't be sorry. This isn't your fault."

"How can it not be? It was in my body, living and I didn't know."

"No one knew, Stephanie. Don't beat yourself up over this."

"You don't want more children. You said so yourself. What would you have done if I had the baby?"

Ranger didn't answer me.

I looked over at him. "What?"

"What if I said I did want children?"

"What?"

"Remember when I said if you wanted to get pregnant, I would help?"

"Yeah…"

"I wasn't kidding."

I was shocked. Ranger did want children. "You want a baby?"

"Only with you. And only when you're ready."

"What if I'm never ready?"

He shrugged. "I still have Julie. And we can get a puppy."

Just like that. When Joe wanted us to have kids, he always wanted me to see it his way. Ranger just wants me to be happy.

I wasn't sure what I wanted. On the one hand, I'm not so great with kids. Don't get me wrong, I love my sister's kids, but they go home with my sister. This would be my kid. It'd be with me 24/7. I wasn't sure I wanted to give up my independence just yet.

I looked over at Ranger and wondered what our children would be like. Would they be athletic, smart and health nuts like their father? Or would they be more like me and eat cake? I shook my head.

Ranger squeezed my hand. "You don't have to make a decision tonight. We have all the time in the world."

I blew out a sigh. "I want to go home."

He nodded and went to the door to speak with the doctor. A few minutes later, I was being wheeled to have the D&C.

When I woke up, Ranger was sitting at my side, giving me a sad smile.

"Hey." I said groggily.

"Hey. The procedure went well. We can go home as soon as the doctor checks you one last time."

I nodded and went to close my eyes again, but the doctor chose that moment to come check on me. He checked me out and said we could go, but to keep an eye for the first few days, in case of a complication. He wasn't expecting one, but that it sometimes happened and it's easily fixable. We nodded and Ranger picked me up to walk me back to the car. I saw Bobby and Lester leaning on the SUV behind the Porsche.

"Are you okay?" Lester asked.

"Fine. I want to go home now."

"Glad to see you're okay, Bombshell." Bobby said. I smiled at him.

Ranger gently placed me back into the car and we were off for home.

"You're place or mine?" He asked.

"What?"

"Where do you want to go?"

"Why would I want to go to my place?"

"I thought that you'd want some time to be alone and think."

I rolled my eyes. "I can do that in the bathroom. Home, please."

He smiled softly at me and nodded. I squeezed his hand. "Everything will be okay." I said.

"I know."

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew that everything was going to turn out okay.