Cinematic Universes United

Chapter 23

1 month later

Emily POV

I sit in my empty room. It has been this way for a month now. No Dean to comfort me. No Dean to whisper sweet nothings into my ear. It's all gone. He's gone. My lover. I found out I was pregnant yesterday, but I haven't told anyone. I don't fully understand what to do. This is my chance to remember the amazing man Dean was but at the same time it kills me to have to raise a child without him. It will only remind me more so if the fact that I will never get to kiss him again and he will never hold me in his safe and comforting embrace.

I hear a dreaded knock at the door.

"Em? Can I come in?" Jakie calls in her usual worried voice.

"Yeah," I answer in a raspy tone as if I haven't spoken in years. She walks in and sits on the bed.

"I... Uh..." she starts, "Emily, is there something you wanna tell me?"

"Uhhhh... I don't think so?" I respond confused and nervously.

"Emily, I found this in the bathroom..." she pulls out my positive pregnancy test from behind her back. "Wanna tell me what's really going on now?"

I burst into tears not being able to control my feelings anymore. Sometimes I wish I could hide my feelings as Jakie does. At least she has Newt to help her to make sure she doesn't hide too much. But my problem is 1: I can't hide anything from Jakie. She knows me too well. And 2: I no longer have a lover to keep me in check. Jakie does as much as she can. However, Dean was a one of a kind person for me. He was the ultimate cure for my pain.

"How do you know it isn't Brenda's?" I ask jokingly apprehending she knows that it's mine.

Jakie holds me close and almost endorse my pain as if she is taking it away. I look up at her acknowledging what her response will be.

She gives me an expressive look rubbing my back as I cry into her shirt.

"I-I... l-love.. you..." I sob.

"I know. I love you too." Jakie holds me tighter and doesn't let go until she knows I'm ready.

"What am I gonna do?" I wonder aloud and feel like I'm gonna start crying again.

"I honestly don't know, but all of us will help you take care of this baby." She offers to try to lighten the mood as we hear a knock on the door.

"Come in!" I call and wipe the tears that are silently falling down my face.

"Hey, how're you holding up?" Newt asks and I can feel Jakie give him a glare. "Sorry."

"It's fine," I mutter and pull away from Jakie who has embraced me yet again. That's when Newt finds the test sitting on the bed.

"Jakie? What's that?" He asks kind of worriedly.

"It's called a pregnancy test, and--" She starts. 

"I know what a bloody pregnancy test looks like! Why the fuck do you have one?!" Newt expresses anxiously.

"No! Newt, it's not mine." Jakie covers up, and relief washes over his face. I wearily nod at her to continue honestly, "It's Emily's. Emily's pregnant."

"Shuck... Okay... How are we gonna do this, raise a baby I mean?" Newt stumbles over his words and comes over to the bed, sitting down on the opposite side of the test.

"I don't know. Let's just see how the rest of the clan react?" I answer boldly and shrink into Jakie's arms trying to cower away from the little baby growing inside of me. "Why didn't you hide it?!" I hiss at my best friend and grab the test, shoving it in the trash. She apologizes and I curl up on the bed, away from the couple.