A Moment in Time (Adult Rucas AU)

Chapter Thirteen

Lucas felt his mind going a hundred miles per hour, his daughter was safe, but he couldn't protect Riley. He was proud that she had stood up for herself because he knew that this is what she needed the most in order to be able to move forward. All that he knew was that he needed to be there for her, so when she fell asleep in the ambulance his heart almost stopped, the paramedics told him that she was just exhausted and that she was alright.

They waited in the waiting room as they patched her up but he couldn't help but pace back and forth, he worried, for some reason that's what had kept him grounded instead of flying off the rails and rushing towards the room that they held that man in and strangling him to death. He had a daughter and his family, his life, but he knew that Riley would be angry with him for doing something as crazy as going after the guy who had tried to kill her.

"My daughter has always tried to see the best in people," a man with curly brown hair said to him.

Lucas hadn't noticed a group of people rush into the room, Josh had told him that they had been planning on a baby shower for Maya for Sunday and that their family had arrived that day but now he was facing the father of the woman he was in love with and didn't know what to do.

"Even in her ex she tried her best, but sometimes a person can't be fix," the man continued. "You on the other hand I don't know a thing about, and I hear from my wife, and my younger brother that you are in love with my only daughter."

Lucas felt himself gulp down air and held out his hand. "My name is Lucas Friar," he said trying to sound put together but his nerves were snapping inside of him.

"Oh I know, and while I want to berate you and say you're not good enough for my baby girl, I feel that my wife would probably beat me senseless right here and I would be in the bed next to Riley," he said with a soft smile on his face. "My name is Cory Matthews."

He took Lucas's hand and shook it before pulling him into a hug. "You hurt my little girl and so help me I will run you over with the truck she used on Evan and then to make sure you were dead I will tie your body to the truck and drag you through town."

"Cory," a woman yelled from behind them making the older man stiffen. "I swear you did not just say that especially since his daughter is sitting right behind you."

"Come on Topanga... Honey... Love of my life," Cory Matthews said to his wife, but all he received was a cold hard look.

"Hi Lucas, I'm Riley's mother Topanga," she said taking his hand in hers. "Don't listen to my husband he's a little over protective of Riley, even her brothers are the same since she's the only girl in the family, heck she's the only granddaughter in the family so all the boys treat her like she's breakable."

"She's not, she's the strongest person I know," he said smiling at Riley's mother.

They sat there in the room waiting as other members of the family came in and out, some were worried about Riley, while Josh just paced back and forth after a nurse had kicked him out of the delivery room for annoying the nurses because he was worried over his wife. His mother showed up with Missy's father who were both worried about Riley but Lucas didn't say a word to them because he was too worried himself.

"Lucas Friar," a nurse said after they had been there for six hours. Lucas looked up meeting the nurse's eyes, worried that something worse had happened. "Riley would like to see you."

"Okay," he said standing up. "Shouldn't her parents be the ones to see her first though?"

"She asked for you," the nurse smiled before walking out of the room.