GOOD HEART, BAD TEMPER - keene, robby

forty-two

SEASON 5 SPOILERS:

"Mom?" The girl stood in shock as the faintly familiar woman stood beside her father. "What the hell is going on?"

"Calm down." Vicki walked towards her, but the teen backed away.

"I— No." The girl stuttered. "Don't— I mean— I... what the—"

"Rory, we'll explain everything." Ben speaks up. "Just sit down."

Rory dropped her karate bag, making her way over to the couch opposite from where her parents were sitting. She sat, waiting for an explanation.

"What's going on?" she repeats her question from earlier.

"Vicki... bailed me out." Ben starts.

"How'd she even know you were in jail?" Rory crosses her arms over her chest.

"One phone call, baby." He tells her. "That's why I didn't call you. It took her a while to get the money together and come out here."

Rory scoffed as she stood up. "Do you even know what he did? Do you know what kind of monster you let out of jail?!"

"Rory, I understand your frustration, but everything is going to be different now that I'm here." Vicki tries to calm her daughter down.

"You're staying?!" The girl shouts. "Why don't you two just run off together? I've never had you in my life, and I don't need you now, Vicki. And I was better off without you here, Ben."

The girl ran upstairs before the two adults could say anything else. Vicki sighed as she sat down. "That went well."

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Rory woke up early to go to the doctor's office without being stopped by her parents. She had the worst morning sickness and her stomach pain had kept her up all night.

She stopped by the drugstore first to get a pregnancy test just to make sure it wasn't that. She waited in her car, not wanting to see her future inside a disgusting, low-quality, drugstore bathroom.

After three minutes, the girl turned the stick over to see two lines. Her eyes widened as tears filled them.

"No." She whispered. "It's— It's lying."

She ignored the test, stuffing it into the glove department and heading towards the hospital.

The girl sluggishly entered the back room with one of the doctors. "So, Miss Sommers, what's been going on with you?"

"Um, I've been having some bad stomach pain lately and I've been nauseous too." The brunette explains.

"Okay, um, I'm gonna ask a pretty personal questions, but... have you been sexually active?" The doctor questions.

Rory drops her head, avoiding eye contact. "Yeah. So what?"

"And when was your last period?" The doctor writes on her clipboard.

"A few weeks ago. I was supposed to have my period last week, but it's late." Rory looks back up at the doctor. "I'm not— I can't be."

"I'm gonna order an ultrasound, I'll be right back." The woman gives her a soft smile before walking away.

Rory leans back as tears fill her eyes. The last thing she wanted to be was pregnant. Especially if she didn't know if it was Hawk or Robby's kid.

After a few minutes the nurse walks into the room to see Rory wiping her cheeks. "Oh— I can come back later."

"No, it's fine. Let's just get this over with." Rory sighs.

"Alright." The nurse sets everything up. "This might be a little cold—" The teen hisses slightly as the gel is applied to her stomach. The woman apologized before moving the monitor around.