Long way from Conway (39 part 2/?)

[glambertrock]

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A/N: Okay, I'm sorry in advance for giving you yet ANOTHER cliff hanger (hold on tight cunningdeb! lol), but it just had to be said. Sadly, you'll probably have to wait until next weekend to find out what happens next! As said, this chapter is shorter than the one before (I think....lol) but it is pretty eventful. It might get a little sad at the end, but trust me, once the whole Hailey/Crystal shooting showdown happens and the baby is born, this will get much happier. A baby always brings happiness! :) Plus, you'll get to see a little payback to Crystal ;) Karma will come back and bite her in the butt, basically. So, anyway, enough with the previews, read on and enjoy!

Oh, and GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!! XD

Previously....

"GUARDS! GUARDS, PLEASE, HELP ME!" She screamed, thanking God that they came to see what was wrong. One guard, a girl, saw her clutching her stomach and looked at the others with a slight bit of fear.

"Crystal, is your stomach hurting?"

"Bad," Crystal yelled, wincing as another shot of pain hit her. The guard immediately sent for the doctor and made Crystal lay down.

She may have been one of their worst criminals, but the guard knew enough to not let a defenseless child suffer or even die because of it.

"Everything's going to be alright," the guard said soothingly as tears streamed down Crystal's face."

"It'll be okay."

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Lying down on her back on the cold, cold 'bed' they had made for her, Crystal had a few thoughts on her mind.

First, she thought about what was going on.

How could the baby be like this? She was eating fine, she hadn't been smoking or drinking, and she wasn't impaling the kid, for pete sakes. Heck, the doctor said she and the baby were fine at her last check-up! It just didn't make sense.

Second, she thought about the baby itself. Was she still alive? Was she breathing? Was she hurt? Did this hurt her? Did she have a deformity now? Would she have metal retardation or something now? What was going on inside her stomach?

Third, and finally, she wonders what she was going to do if the baby was gone.

She hadn't told Kris yet. She wondered about how she was going to go through the torment of telling Kris that the baby she'd been keeping from him died. She didn't know what she was going to do about the shooting, either. The baby was her main motive for Adam dying. Well, not her main one, but it was the one reason she clearly had thought out.

Right now, she needed this kid to be alive.

The doctor, Dr. Eve Lopez, soon came in, smiling a bit as she entered the cold room. Crystal growled.

"Are you just going to smile or are you going to help me?"

Dr. Lopez rolled her eyes, but she went on with her work, spreading out the text results from earlier about the baby across her small worktable in the room. She'd dealt with girls like Crystal before, but not to this extent,

Crystal was a killer. A killer who had a young life in her hands.

A killer who had a young life in her hands and was only seventeen.

"Okay, Crystal, time to tell you what's going on with the baby."

"About damn time," she snapped. Dr. Lopez just passed off the annoying quips from her as hormones and looked at the results undisturbed.

Little did she know, that was normal.

Slowly, a sigh bubbled to Dr. Lopez's lips, and Crystal prepared for the worst.

"The baby's alive and well," she said, causing Crystal to sigh in relief, "but you need to be more careful. You are getting too stressed, and it caused the baby to become stressed. That's not good at all. Whatever you are thinking about that is causing you this pain, you need to stop thinking about it. I mean it, Crystal. If this means we have to put you into a long cell with almost no human contact, then we will work to get that in place immediately. This baby does not need your carelessness to cause her problems later on. Get that in your mind or else."

Crystal snorted and folded her arms. "I love my baby and I'll do anything for her, but something her father is doing is stressing me out, and I have no way to help it."

"Well, stressed hormonal teenage potential killer girl, I'm pretty sure there's nothing you can do about that, so why don't you just shut up and stop risking your child's life?"

The words hit Crystal like individual trains slamming into her at top speed. She didn't want to risk her baby's life, much to Dr. Lopez's thoughts, and she didn't  want to shut up.

Screw this.

"You know what? I'm not going to shut up! My baby will be fine because she doesn't have to see your FACE! Owwwww!"

Suddenly, the pain came back to her stomach, and Crystal decided that she didn't care about that.

She decided that having a baby wasn't worth missing the opportunity to put this girl into her place.

"YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A HORRIBLE DOCTOR-OWWWW-WHO JUST LIKES TO PUSH PEOPLE DOWN! OWWW!"

In a flash, there were many guards and various doctors pinning her down, causing Crystal to freak out even more. Things became tense, and for a moment, it seemed like Crystal was going to kill the baby with all the stress.

Then, she relaxed.

Dr. Lopez re-appeared next to Crystal's arm with a syringe in hand panting breathlessly. All the doctors breathed a sigh of relief.

"I've got her on enough meds to have her knocked out for the next twenty minutes. Now, I'm going to take a few tests and stuff first, and then when I'm done, we need to have her taken to a high security room alone, without any guards or cellmates to talk to. Do I make myself clear?"

All the people in the room nodded and then began to disperse. Yet, not all of them could get out before Dr. Lopez could snatch one of them by the arm. She brought the girl close and then whispered into her ear.

"Do we know who the father is to her baby?"

The girl nodded. "A Mr. Kristopher N. Allen. We took a paternity test without her knowing at her second check-up, Dr. Lopez."

"Do we know if he knows this baby is alive?"

'Ummm, I don't think he knows," the girl replied quietly. "Do you think we should tell him, Doctor?"

"Yes," she replied, "and make sure he knows about what is going on. In fact....have him come here. Tomorrow. Noon."

"Yes ma'am."

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The next morning came with a nice hew to it. It was the day before the prom, much to the boys liking, which meant two more days of school before they were Seniors and that they were almost done with the hell-hole they called high school. Adam woke up quietly next to his sleeping lover, who's face looked so calm at the moment, and then got up to put on his pajamas that were laying on the floor from last night so he could head downstairs to the kitchen and his mother's wonderful cooking. As soon as he got down there, he smelt no food cooking and heard not even the TV blaring. Then, he noticed his mother sitting on the couch in tears.

"Mom?" He asked, getting closer to her before she could wipe away her sadness. "Mom, why are you crying?"

"I...I failed you," she sobbed into a tissue, letting herself fall into Adam's arms.

"How could you fail me, Mom?" Adam asked in confusion, holding her closer to him. "You're the best Mom this world's ever known."

"No I'm not, Adam, and you're gonna....you're gonna' d-die because of it," she choked out, bursting into more tears as she finished. Adam shook his head and wiped her tears away as best he could.

"Kim and I went to go try to convince Hailey to not go through with this and.....she said she had to. I'm sooooo sorry, sweetie."

Adam shook his head at Leila's crying and shook her slightly so that she would look up at him, which she did after a minute. Adam sighed.

"Mom, did you try your hardest?"

"Yes, but-"

"And did you say everything you could possibly say?"

"I think so, but she-"

"Then," Adam silenced her with a loving smile, "that's all I could possibly ask from you. Mom, you aren't Superwoman. You can't.....you can't always save me from all my demons. This is beyond something you can save me from, Mom, and I know how much you hate that, but we have to face the facts. Crystal is crazy and unpredictable. Hailey, though, is somewhat smart. She's just confused. If she suddenly realizes this isn't right, well, we'll be okay and this will all end. But, if she doesn't, well....then we'll have to face it. I'm strong enough, Mom, to face the facts. I don't want you to have to suffer with the fact that my days may be numbered. I know that's hard to do, but....well, if I can deal with it, can't you?"

"Adam.....I don't think I can," Leila confessed with a sob. "I can't bear to think of you gone. It's just not something a mother want to think of. Please, sweetie, don't make me have to hide something I can't possibly hide."

"Mom.....you've done all you can to try and stop this. Sometimes...things aren't possible for some of us to accomplish. We're only human. We can't force Crystal to stop and we can't force Hailey to stop. I can't force you to just forget this is happening, but I'd love it if you could try. I don't like seeing you like this. I really don't."

"You've grown up so much in such a little time, huh Adam?" Leila asked with a sad smile. "When you first started high school I wouldn't have even thought you would be this mature. Now look at you, being all mature about, of all things, death. I.....I love you so much, sweetie."

Just then, Leila wrapped her arms around Adam tight, letting her tears flow, and hugged him with all her might and love. In-between sobs, she whispered "I'm sorry" to Adam, but he didn't listen. He just hugged back and tried to comfort his strong mom.

Little did he know, Kris was already up, and was going through the mail in the dinning room without their knowing, about to find something that would change their lives forever.....

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To be continued........

Comments

[glambertrock.livejournal.com]

Oh come on *grumbles to self* It'll be okay, stop staring :P

Heck yeah she is!!!!!!!! :)

Yup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How? lol I like Krissifer <3333

Yup ;D Glad you did!

[saar-fantasy.livejournal.com]

Kris is for the packers :p
that's why I said you were against his team ;)

[glambertrock.livejournal.com]

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooh.

*grumbles to self* First not having enough bb making time with Adam, then going for the packers who made Glee late.....*picks up bat* Oh Krissifer.....lol

On a totally unrelated note, Allison Iraheta just came on the radio.....cool :)