(Disclaimer in part 1).
Chris Draper lay on the bed in Hook's Kingdom in the arms of the man that she loved, a man who was currently staring at her back intently with concern evident on his face. Though she was laying with her back against his chest, holding his arms around her tightly and with her body fitting against his like they were a perfect match, he could tell that there was something on her mind and had taken it upon himself to give her the biggest death stare that he could muster to try and get her to open up about it. He hated to see her so sad, and he could tell that she was hurting about something. He would do anything he could to fix it because he loved her more than he had ever loved a person in his life but no matter how hard he had tried to get her to open up she wouldn't. He felt at a total loss and he hated being in a position where he didn't know what to do.
"Please tell me what's wrong." He leaned over and whispered into her ear, kissing her cheek softly and resting his cheek against hers. "Is it us?" he then asked, almost afraid of the answer.
Chris felt as though her heart was breaking when she heard the fear in his voice that had come from his thinking that he was losing her. She immediately turned over so that she was facing him and cupped his cheeks with her hands.
"It's not us. I promise you that. We're good." She reassured. "How could you even think that it's us that's worrying me?"
"Because you won't tell me what is." He replied. He leaned over and kissed her on the nose. "That generally means that what's bothering you involves the person that you're with."
"Not today it doesn't. I love you. You make me happy. It's not us. Cross my heart." She told him, taking his hand in hers and placing it over her heart. She meant every word. She hadn't been looking for a relationship and as she'd told him back at the start of theirs she'd just come out of a difficult one, but something about him had swept her away and once she had found her way into those arms she never wanted to leave them again.
"Then tell me. Please. Maybe I can help." He whispered, stroking her hair away from her face and taking her hand which was still entwined in his to his lips and kissing it softly.
"You can't. I can't. No one can. It's an awful situation." She whispered, sighing as he pulled her close to him and kissed her on top of the head.
"What is sweetheart?" He asked and when she looked up into those eyes so full of love and concern she knew that although she should keep it to herself she couldn't. She needed to know how to help Lona and she needed to know what to do for the best in regards to the man whose baby Lona was carrying inside of her.
"Lona Massingale...she...God I shouldn't be telling you this. Forget I ever..."
"Listen to me. " Hook soothed as a tear rolled down Chris' cheek. "This is obviously hurting you. Whatever's going on with Lona you want to help her. Let me help you to figure out how..."
"She's pregnant. She's pregnant and she's terminating the baby this afternoon...and I'm not sure she even wants to. I think she's doing it for totally the wrong reasons and in the long run she's going to end up finding it incredibly hard to live with the fact that she's terminated that child."
"Wow." Hook whispered, momentarily stunned into silence. "Lona's pregnant? I didn't see that one coming. Who's the daddy? Do you know?" He asked her softly and when she looked down at her feet he knew that she did.
"Who? It's not Steg is it? The last thing we need is the spawn of Steg being..."
"It's Elmer Traff." Chris interrupted and once again Hook was stunned into silence. "She's carrying Elmer's child."
"Does he know?" Hook asked, the shock still evident on his face.
"No he doesn't. There's the problem. She's not even going to tell him that she's pregnant. She's going to terminate it and pretend that it didn't even happen. It's going to eat her alive if she goes through with the termination. She cares for that baby. I could see it in the way she sat there with her hand on her stomach...like she was trying to protect it from herself or something."
"Poor Elmer." Hook commented, sitting up in bed and rubbing his hands over his face.
"And poor Lona...and their baby...What's worse is she cares about him. About Elmer. She's so afraid of what people will think and that it won't work that she won't even give it a chance. They could be a little family but she's so scared..."
"It is an unlikely match." Hook commented and Chris sighed. "But then they made a baby and that's...that's amazing."
Chris noticed Hooks glance fall on to her own flat stomach and she knew that he was thinking about their having their own family one day. It was something that she thought about too. Something that excited her. Thinking of him fathering their child felt so right to her. She couldn't help but wish Lona was so sure about her little girl.
"Do you think Elmer would be a good father? You spend more time with him now than anyone. Do you think he could be a good father to his child?"
"I don't think he'd be bad. He loves Lona...even now after she pushed him away he worships the ground that she walks on. He would do anything for her. I think that if he knew that she was carrying his baby...a little person that they made...I don't think that there would be anything more perfect in Elmer's eyes. That boy's grown up so much already. Helping Mary gave him purpose. This child could be what makes him the man that we know he could be."
"I'm not sure he'd ever forgive her if he found out that she'd terminated his child. I'm worried about what it would do to him. In so many ways he's still so fragile. The fact that she cares so much about both Elmer and the child makes it so much worse."
Hook got up out of the bed and pulled on a pair of trousers and a shirt. He brushed his hair down and kissed Chris on the cheek tenderly.
"Where are you going?" She asked him quietly, though deep down she already knew the answer.
"To find Elmer. He deserves the chance to fight for his child and Lona needs to see that he's going to do that."
"Do you think that he will?" Chris asked, propping herself up on her elbow and watching as the man that she loved made his way to the door.
"Do you think I'd leave the bed containing the woman that I loved if I didn't think so?" Hook replied, blowing her a kiss and mouthing a love you before climbing onto his cart and making his way back into the hospital where he hoped he could find Elmer before Lona made a terrible mistake.