Disclaimer: not mine still
I had my first visit with the doctor about two weeks after Ranger moved in. He and Joe had both requested a DNA test asap so that we could evaluate as a team what the best option was for all of us. Until then we had reached an impasse on the whole relationship issue. I still didn't know why it couldn't continue as it was, and every time I brought it up to one of them, they got tight lipped and close mouthed.
I'd gone to see Joe at his new apartment last week, and he apologized for trying to just insert himself into my life and my home without asking. I apologized for being a royal bitch and for throwing Carlos in his face. He took me to bed after, and I stayed the night.
I did the walk of shame into my own apartment the next day, and the look of disappointment that Carlos shot me was hard to fathom. I told him I wasn't doing the relationship thing, and I didn't know why either of them couldn't accept that. I wasn't property, and if I wanted to sleep with another guy it wasn't their business. At least, that's how I figured it.
At the doctors, they opted to do a CVS which was an invasive procedure I was not fond of. I preferred to wait, but both Joe and Ranger were serious about knowing as soon as possible. I had just entered the window where they could do the CVS and I was nervous. I hadn't thought I was eleven weeks pregnant, but apparently I was. It still didn't narrow down the paternity options.
We went back two weeks later, when I was thirteen weeks, and got the shock of our lives.
"A what now?" Joe asked the doctor, stupefied.
"A superfecundation pregnancy. Basically, you both managed to fertilize one of Ms. Plum's eggs. There are two babies. One has been fathered by Mr. Manoso, and one by you, Mr. Morelli."
Ranger was speechless. His mouth was gaping open like a fish, and I didn't seem to have words myself.
"How come you didn't notice there were two the first ultrasound, while you did the test?" I asked.
"Sometimes they hide behind each other, and that was the case then. I'm sorry, I know this wasn't the conclusive news you were hoping for."
Damn right it wasn't. It made an already tense and difficult situation ten times more tense and difficult.
When we left the office we were all still in shock, but as we pulled up to the loft, Ranger turned to me and said very seriously, "We need to talk, Stephanie. All of us."
Aw shit.