Paternal Bonds Shattered

Disclaimer: Do I need to say it? I don't own iCarly

A/N: You know I have over 30 chapters of this already written...

Chapter 10 (Pregnancies)

Valerie walked to the basement of their mansion in Oregon, it had been a long trip. She knew Jonah was alive, since he had contacted her. This made her very happy. She hadn't told him what Jeremy was doing to her the day after his departure, she didn't want to worry him. Although, she knew he still had to be pretty damn worried. He also said that he was going to make damn sure no harm ever came to her family. He didn't know what he was going to do though, since the police didn't care anymore. There was no one he could go to, nothing he could do.

"Victor and Hector have people all over," Valerie repeated his words to herself and sighed. Basically if he went out in the open in Seattle, he risked being seen by one of Victor's men and being killed. Everybody was at a standstill now. Not only that, but Hector did have them all on strict surveillance. Hell, she didn't even know where exactly the mansion was, all she knew was she'd been blindfolded for several hours.

Gibby made good with his promise, he talked to Hector who issued a 'no touching' rule for Sam and basically along with Gibby, Jeremy could not be next to Valerie. Valerie sighed as she entered the dark and musty basement, there was no light but a window. She frowned as Sam looked up from her binds. "Great, what do you want?" Sam asked as she looked away. She knew Valerie helped her sometimes, but the fact that she was with the guys made her extremely distrustful to her. "You know, I'm sick and nobody seems to care."

"That's not true." Sam had been very sick lately. She was throwing up, getting nauseous, and feeling very under the weather. Everyone basically had a bad feeling as to what this meant, so they could only hope it wasn't true. "Um…Sam?" Sam looked at Valerie with hopelessness in her eyes as Valerie clenched her pants with her hands. She felt really bad to have to break this news to Sam, but it had to be done. "T-The police…" Sam frowned, she knew what was coming. Valerie was going to say they stopped looking for her, wasn't she? She was going to say the police gave up, that she wasn't important enough. At least Sam didn't think she was. Valerie hated to have to lie, and she was sure no one was listening in. "Victor paid off the police so they would stop looking for you!"

"What?" Sam's eyes widened and the fear started to rise inside of her. At least it wasn't exactly what she thought it was, but it still hurt. It hurt that the police were this corrupted. "What about Freddie's dad? He's not a bad cop…"

"I know, but the Chief forbade the police from investigating. I don't know if Mr. Benson is going to continue or not, but it seems like he doesn't want to give up the chase." Sam smiled weakly and closed her eyes. Freddie and his father, they were two men she knew she could trust. "By the way, Hector informed me to get this…"

"What? Another torture device? Another plaything for the boys?" Valerie frowned and shook her head as she slowly lifted a pregnancy test from the bucket. Sam's eyes widened considerably and she looked away, ashamed. If she was pregnant, that would be the worst thing her father could ever have done to her. "It has to be done."

"Fine, but do I get to be decent or do I have to do it while chained on this wall?" Valerie frowned and looked down at the second bucket, filled with water.

"Hector told me that I was to make you drink all this water until you peed. When you peed, I had to hold this in place." Sam frowned as Valerie slowly stood up. She really didn't want to do that, but she also knew that defying Hector meant the possible death of her family, or even herself. "I'm not going to do that, but I don't know if they'll know or not."

"Look, I already have to go to the bathroom. Just drop my pants, put the thing under there, and be done with it." Valerie slowly nodded and opened the container. After preforming the pregnancy test, they had to wait. After a few minutes, the results were in. Valerie stared at the results and Sam waited anxiously to hear what they were. "Well? Well what does it say?"

"I'm sorry Sam…" Sam's face fell and she looked down at her belly. She was pregnant. With her father's child. Tears came to her eyes and her body jerked with each sob. Valerie closed her eyes and frowned as she slowly, carefully, poured the water down a nearby drain. She walked up to Sam and looked sadly at her. "Sam…"

"Please go. I want to be alone." Valerie nodded and left as Sam started bawling loudly. "Why? Why! Oh god Freddie…I'm so sorry…I didn't mean to. I didn't want this." She sobbed again, crying until her tears dried up. She was going to have a baby, whether she liked it or not. At least, there was no way they were going to kill it. She need to get used to the idea, she knew she had to, she had no choice but to give birth. Maybe, just maybe, when the time came, they'd take her to a hospital.

"What's the news?" Hector asked as Valerie walked into the main living room.

"She's pregnant." Hector frowned and Jeremy laughed, he couldn't believe it. Gibby and Nevel stared at each other with frowns, they weren't aware that Hector had touched Sam in any other way. While it didn't bother Nevel too much, it greatly bothered Gibby. He hated when people did such evil things.

"Is it Hector's?" Gibby asked quietly. It was a stupid question. After all, who else's could it be? It couldn't have been Freddie's, they had a 'no sex' rule issued when they started to date. Valerie slowly nodded and walked over to the couch. She felt like she was going to be sick, and it wasn't exactly just the thought of Hector having impregnated his own daughter. She bowed her head and slowly the tears started to come. Gibby looked over and frowned, he wanted to know what was wrong with her and if he could be of any assistance. Sure, he intended malice against Sam, but never anything against Valerie.

"Is something the matter?" Gibby whispered. Valerie closed her eyes and slowly shook her head, she couldn't tell him. She couldn't tell anyone what was on her mind. Hell, she couldn't trust a single person in this room. "You know, Hector lets us have one time during the day we can be away for like three hours. That's each of us. Maybe you'd like to get out of the mansion? De-stress a little?"

"That would be nice," Valerie said in a quiet voice. Gibby smiled and nodded his head as he looked over at Hector, who was busy talking to Nevel and Jeremy. He cleared his throat and walked over to Hector.

"Hey, Valerie and I would like to get out of here for a while. Walk around. Is that all right?"

"Yeah, do whatever," Hector said quietly. He knew he'd have his people monitoring them closely. He didn't want them doing anything out of the ordinary.

"Thanks." Gibby and Valerie left the mansion and started walking down the street, it really felt nice to have a bit of fresh air. They were still basically chained to that mansion, if they tried to escape, there was nothing they could do about it. "I'm sorry you got dragged into this fucked up mess, Val. You have no business being here."

"Why the hell do any of you care anyway?"

"I know we seem like bad people…"

"You are. Do you not see what's going on?"

"You know, you're not the only one being forced to stay here, you know. I just saw one of my best friends go ballistic weeks ago and convince an ex-convict to kidnap Sam. How do you think I feel? I know I went a little crazy too, but I didn't want anything this bad to happen."

"You should have known, though." Gibby frowned and pushed his hands into his pockets. He supposed she was right, but what could he do about it now? He had been too crazy before to really know any better, and he just kept going further and further into the muck. He didn't really want to talk about it, he wanted to discuss other matters with her. Anything other than what they were doing there. He looked back and frowned, he wasn't sure if anyone was within earshot or not, but it seemed nobody was.

"Valerie, you don't mind me asking this…" Valerie looked at him carefully as they rounded the corner and walked into an alleyway. This was the only way Gibby could know that nobody was in earshot. "How um…How far along are you?"

"What?" Valerie's eyes widened and she scoffed, laughing lightly. How far along was she? What kind of question was that? "What on earth are you talking about? Okay maybe you have lost your marbles." She laughed again, nervously, and started to walk away. Gibby frowned and grabbed her arm, holding her back. She grunted and looked back at him.

"Valerie, I saw them. You kept them hidden from everyone else, but I saw you throwing away pregnancy tests in a plastic bag then a dumpster." Valerie frowned as he released her arm. She couldn't hide it anymore, then. No one would know, since she probably wouldn't start showing. It was in her family, nobody seemed to show whenever they got pregnant. She fell against a wall and slowly sank to the ground, burying her face in her hands. "Valerie, I'm not going to hurt you, and I won't tell the others. I promise."

"I know, it's just…I shouldn't be here! What am I going to do when I have the baby? What's going to happen? I can't lose my baby, Gibby. I just can't!" Gibby slowly nodded his head and placed his hand on her shoulder. He would help her any way he could. Right now, they knew Hector was volatile, so they weren't exactly sure what he would do. He didn't seem like the type of person to want any harm to come to babies, but they weren't sure. They would have to find out.

"Just answer my question. How far along are you?"

"Three months…"

"Wow. Does Jonah know?" Valerie rolled her eyes and crossed her arms, staring away.

"He's dead, isn't he?"

"Valerie, I'm pretty sure he's alive. I mean, we didn't find his body and his family hightailed it out of town." Valerie chuckled lightly and smiled, her eyes lighting up with the joy she felt whenever she heard from Jonah. "So, does he know?"

"No. I never got to tell him. I was actually two months before all this started, and I didn't find out until after Sam was taken. I wanted to tell him, but I didn't get the chance. I'm actually eleven weeks into the pregnancy, I think."

"You think? We should get you to a gynecologist."

"Can't, remember? Kind of trapped here with a creep who has an iron fist. There's nothing I can do…"

"You'd do anything for the baby, wouldn't you?"

"Yes, what mother wouldn't?"

"Well somehow, you need to contact Jonah and let him know about this. I don't know how you're going to do it, or when you're going to do it, but you need to do it." Valerie slowly nodded her head as Gibby gave her a friendly hug.

"I'm scared Gibby. I really am."

"I know."

"I don't know why you're being nice to me. It's like there's two sides of you, the nice side of you and the cruel side of you when it comes to Sam." Gibby frowned and looked up into the sky. He couldn't explain it, really. Whenever Sam was in his presence, something just triggered inside of him and made him lose all control. Then he would lash out at her. He hated Sam, he really did. He thought she was the bane of his existence.

"I guess when it comes to people like you, and little babies, I must have a soft spot." Valerie laughed as Gibby smiled and helped her up. They decided to continue their walk and get home later, fortunately, as Gibby wanted, nobody heard the conversation. They didn't want anyone around there finding out about Valerie's pregnancy until the time was right.

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