Hide Your Heart

Telling The Others

It was positive. Paul didn't know how to react so he stood there in silence. He finally managed to send Gene, Eric, Bruce and Pat a text to come over. 

As soon as Gene walked in, he was handed the test by an upset Paul. Gene had him in a hug when Eric entered which set off a round of heated questions. Pat headed to check on Tommy as Bruce patiently waited to be told what was going on.

"Is this yours? " snapped Eric. "Are you and Gene gonna be parents?"

"What!?" "NO!" snarled Gene. "It's Tommy's, so yeah, Paul's gonna be a daddy. Not me!" "You jealous ass!"

Eric slapped Gene and walked out. "You are too!" "I'm 6 weeks along!" was his parting shot.

Gene nearly fainted. Bruce wound up having them both sit down.

In the bedroom, Pat was holding Tommy as he cried some more. "I can't tour now!" 

"Sh. It's better that you don't, you're not healthy enough to do that."

"But Pat!" "I'm the lead! My husband is onstage flaunting himself to everyone and I'm gonna be stuck here!" "If he's gone, I can't know if he's showing off for people!" "I forbid him to go!"

Pat knew that wouldn't work if Tommy told Paul that. "Let's focus on getting you to feel better right now."

Bruce, meanwhile, was trying to get Eric to come back inside. "I know you're emotional right now, but please come back in. You and Gene need to talk." "One diva's bad enough. I can't deal with three."

Eric calmed down and came back to talk to Gene. "Congrats Paul. Geneie, I'm sorry. Let's go celebrate."

After Gene and Eric left, Bruce got Paul calm as Pat got Tommy to rest. 

Pat came out and pulled Bruce outside. "He's emotionally wrecked. This couldn't have happened at a worse time."

"He can't go on tour..." Bruce began. 

"But he can't stay alone either." finished Pat.

"I'll tour in his place." said Bruce. "Is there anyway you can keep him close until it's over?"

"I can, but he has feelings for me too, so it's gonna be rough."

The two of them decided that it might be best if Pat went on tour with them. Bruce said he'd talk to Gene and Paul and get back to him.