32. Dearly Beloved

Miss.Pardon's home eck... Today they were working with cooking, and as any pregnant woman, food tends to be your nemesis. Elizabeth was surprised that she was able to muck out the stalls and not feel the urge to puke her guts out, but she did when she smelt chicken. So today, Miss.Pardon was teaching how to make homemade chicken noodle soup, and raw chicken totally made Elizabeth bite her lip. She was doing a great job making the noodles and boiling them giving them their form, and then once the chicken came out, she made a vomiting motion when she smelt it, Regina and Charlotte were eyeballing her across the room, they gave each other a look, having a conversation with their expressions, and looked back at her. Elizabeth was able to stuff it out for a while, she started to cook it, Regina and Charlotte shrugged at each other and just assumed it was the smell raw meat gives off when it's first opened.

The smell kept getting to Elizabeth no matter how hard she tried to fight her urges, she kept making slight vomiting gestures, this catching the eyes of Charlotte and Regina. It was done cooking, her teacher went over and told her to smell it, she looked at her, eyes pleading for mercy. "Smell, it." Elizabeth cautiously brought her head down towards the steaming pot, she took one whiff and she was out the door. Regina and Charlotte had their mouths open and looked at each other and then back at the door.

"Elizabeth has been puking her guts out for nearly a month." Charlotte whispered to Regina, "what's going on?"

"I have NO clue." Regina answered shaking her head, "but I'm gonna find out." ——————5 minutes later... "Where is she!?" Charlotte's whisper was raspy.

"Still, I have NO clue."

"Do you think she has the flu?"

"No, Briar Rose Thornton can see the flu coming from a mile away, and the only time she gets the flu is flu season, it's the end of May!" Regina looked towards the door, no Elizabeth. "I'm gonna go check on her."

"I'm coming too."

"Wouldn't Miss.Pardon get suspicious?"

"Trust me, unless it has anything to do with romance or home eck, she doesn't care." The girls walked over towards Miss.Pardon. "Excuse me, may Regina and I be excused, it's a personal matter."

"Very well." She said, sighing and rolling her eyes.—————In the bathroom... Regina and Charlotte walked in to hear gagging sounds, and extra things they didn't want to hear, they also heard her curse words under her breath. Charlotte's mouth dropped when she heard the words, Regina rolled her eyes, being the daughter of a military man, she knew how some of them loved their swearing, but if Liz was doing it, she must have had her reasons, and in this case—she did.

"Elizabeth?" Said Charlotte, "are you in here?"

They heard the flushing sound of a toilet and walked to the last stall to see that it was cracked open, "Liz, what's going on?" Asked Regina when she saw her blonde friend, "and how do you have anything left to puke?"

"Elizabeth talk to us, we're your friends." Pleaded Charlotte, she then started putting some things together, and remembered what happened with the Thumb Buddies, "Elizabeth? Are you..." she lowered her voice, "pregnant?" She said her voice was barely audible.

She replied with a shameful nod, "Liz." Regina gasped, "why did you do that!?" She said remembering the promise they made to their grandmothers.

"It's not my fault." Elizabeth started.

"Liz, you did the dirty it's your fault unless—" her eyes narrowed and her face gave birth to an expression of rage, "did Henry!?—"

"No!" Elizabeth-Lillian said, cutting her off, "no he would never."

"Then how!?"

"I was told to go to the OBGYN, and then the doctor accidentally artificially inseminated me."

Their faces were blank, "does that Father know?" Asked Charlotte, and Liz nodded, "who is the Father?"

"Henry."

"Henry!?" They both gasped.

"Shhh!!! Keep your voices down."

"Wait, to get inseminated you need to have a man's specimen, which comes from the sperm bank." Regina informed, "how did Henry get there?"

"The hospital made a mistake, Henry wanted to take a fertility test, another man became a downer, Henry went to the bank and the other man went to the clinic. Then I got inseminated with a 25% chance of it working, and then it did."

"So that means there's gonna be a little baby Harton?" Regina said slyly. Elizabeth snickered, closed her eyes, and nodded her head. Regina and Charlotte then embraced Elizabeth.——————After school...Down in the Mancave... "where's Elizabeth?" Asked Ray.

"Taking over for Jasper upstairs." Henry informed looking over the monitors.

Ray looked at the screen, "and why are you doing a zoogle search on Elizabeth?"

"Because, I feel bad about missing her birthday, and I want to make it up to her, so I'm trying to find a gift that would mean a lot to her." He looked at the moniters despterly, "I got it!" Henry yelled, jumping up out of his chair.

"You got what?" Asked Charlotte coming out of the elevator.

"The perfect thing for Elizabeth." Answered Ray.

"What's the perfect thing?"

"Look here." Henry said, pointing at her biography.

"You had to do a zoogle search to help find a gift for your girlfriend?"

"What, no!...Shut up! Look at her siblings." He said pointing to the names.

"Yeah...they're a pretty big family." Charlotte said nodding her head, "so why are we looking at her siblings' names, we know all of them, or at least what happened."

"Actually..." countered Henry, "look at this one." He said pointing to the third name.

"Misty Thornton?" Charlotte said curiously, "who's Misty Thornton?"

"Exactly!" Henry remarked, "Elizabeth's never talked about this Misty person."

"Maybe she's just another dead sibling."

"Hey, the name's hyper linked!" Ray yelled, pointing. Henry clicked on the name and a biography came up about Misty, "what's it say?"

"She's...alive!!!" The three started cheering.

"So what are you going to do?" Asked Charlotte.

"I don't know, I can't ask Liz for her number."

"I can try to find one?" Suggested Charlotte.

"Yeah yeah that's good." Henry agreed.—————10 minutes later... "Hey hey! I got a number!"

"Really? What is it?" Henry asked, getting out his phone.

"555-615-2345" Henry dialed the number and began the call, "put it on speaker phone." They all huddled around the phone.====="Hello?"==="Hello, hey hey, hi hi, how are you? Hey hi!" Henry said, getting excited, "hi." He stated plainly from embarrassment.==="Hi." The voice said confused, "who is this?"==="Uh...my name is Henry, is this Misty Thornton?"==="Yeah, why?"==="I'm the boyfriend of your sister Elizabeth."==="You're Elizabeth's boyfriend?"==="Yeah, and I called to ask you a favor."==="What's the favor?"==="I missed your sister's birthday, so I'm trying to do something nice for her, if I'm correct you haven't seen each other in a very long time so I was wondering if you could come to Swellview."==="Oh."==="I know it's a lot to ask and you live all the way in California—"==="It's okay, I'll start packing."==="Really!?"==="Yeah, it's about time I pay my little sister a visit. I guess I'll see you in Swellview?"==="Yeah, Swellview, Wisconsin. They live somewhere called Snowbelle Ranch, on 165 McKenna road."==="Okay thanks." And she hung up the phone.===Henry looked at Ray and Charlotte, "she seems nice."

"Yeah," Charlotte agreed, "after all she does have amazing parents." ————The next day... The school year had ended and Elizabeth was informed that she had to go to LA to do some for "Super Girl" and then had to go to Texas to have a last viewing party with her cast mates and do some final press for "Growing Up Southern"

Henry was sitting in the kitchen with a goofy grin knowing that Misty was waiting for her little sister Elizabeth up in the bedroom. Jack noticed Henry, "what did you do Trooper?" He said strolling into the kitchen.

"What? What makes you think I did something?" Jack raised an eyebrow. "I invited Elizabeth's sister Misty into town."

"You did what!?" Jack and Briar Rose said at the same time.

"Whoa, calm down," Henry said raising his hands, "I just invited Liz's sister. I don't see what the problem is."

"Trooper where's Misty?!" Jack said getting into Marine mode.

"She's in Liz's bedroom, Liz just went up there."

Jack and Briar's heads jerked at each other at the same time, "Elizabeth Lillian and Misty are about to be in the same room in nearly three years!?" Briar Rose said.

"Oh my god." Was all Jack muttered.

Then they heard a scream from upstairs and Elizabeth came running down the stairs, repeating the same thing over and over, "the devil's in my room, the devil's in my room, the devil's in my room." She made a sharp turn standing in front of her parents.

"Now Lizzie, is that anyway to treat your sister?" Misty started clicking her tongue, "I don't think so."

Tae Dye as Misty Thornton

"What are YOU doing here!?"

"Relax Lizzie, what are you so worked up about?"

"I don't know? What about the time when I was three and you pushed me into the river!"

"I know, and I'm really sorry about that, I should've drowned you myself."  Elizabeth jumped up in the air only for Jack to catch her by the waist and restrain her, Misty tried to launch herself at Elizabeth but Briar Rose held her back.

Once they were calmed Briar began to speak, "girls please! This rivalry has been going on since the day you were conceived. You guys are so lucky to have the relationship you experience, I mean, you guys are quadruplets, you two, Abby-Belle, and Daniel." Mrs.Thornton said, "you two are the last quadruplets, you only have each other, and after ALL this family has been through can't you just let bygones be bygones and get along for once!?"

"I'll be happy to get along with her!" Blurted Elizabeth, "once she stops trying to kill me!" Elizabeth said, and Mr.Thornton returned his strong grasp on her again.

"Enough!" Yelled their Dad, "this has gone on long enough!" He said looking at them sternly, "you two are turning 17! And you can't get over some old childhood swabble? Your mother's right, this ends today. Elizabeth-Lillian, say something nice about your sister." Elizabeth looked at her Dad, "now."

She took a deep breath and walked towards Misty, "Misty, you have an amazing little sister." She said talking about herself.

A sly smile grew across Misty's face, "Elizabeth-Lillian, you have an even MORE amazing big sister."

"I know, her name's Jessica." Jack started laughing.

"Jack!" Yelled Briar.

"What? You have to admit it's pretty funny." Jack said innocently, Henry nodded in agreement,

"So why do you guys hate each other?" Asked Henry.

"I honestly have no idea." Said Elizabeth, "she's hated me for as long as I can remember, and I've done nothing at all but be myself, she's the one that fired the first shot."

Then Amanda and Topanga walked in the door, "Oh jeez." Amanda said when she saw Misty.

"Someone is gonna die soon aren't they." Added Topanga.

"Yep!" Said Amanda, "Misty, it was nice knowing you, Elizabeth-Lillian, see you behind bars."

"Why do you think I'm gonna kill her?"

"Because you're deadly!" Topanga reasoned, "well since we're here, we minus well get some front row seats." The twins dropped their bags on the floor and stood next to Henry waiting for the fight.

Elizabeth shook her head, "Anyway, why do you hate me so much?" She asked, desperate for an answer, "I mean, if anyone should be jealous it should be me, you're chilling on tan-sand beaches sipping your sparkling water, while I'm here mucking out the horse stalls."

"What's that?" Henry asked the girls.

"It's when we clean up after the horses." Informed Amanda.

"Oh, clean up what?"

"You know," said Topanga, "the muck!"

Misty started coldly into her sister's eyes, "why do you act like you don't have everything? You have a family who loves you, title, fame, wealth, a job."

"What are you talking about!?" Elizabeth cut off, "you still have a happy family! You're wealthy, you have your own fashion line, and you're a successful makeup tutorial icon, you even have your own brand." Elizabeth said, listing off Misty's successes, "I know it looks like it, but I'm not some strong woman with a perfect life and no troubles. I was constantly bullied, I fell through the ice on a lake and nearly died, I watched my brother AND sister die, I became disabled for three months, a matter of fact, I still have issues, I have PTSD." Misty looked at her sister through different eyes, "why do you hate me so much?" Misty walked over, smiled, and slapped her sister so hard across the face that Elizabeth stumbled backwards, and a handprint was left on her left cheek.—————Down in the Mancave... "Hey Ray you triple beeped us." Elizabeth said walking out of the elevator with Henry trailing behind her.

"Yeah there's a robbery at—" he stopped when he saw the handprint on Elizabeth's face, "oh my god what happened!?"

"What is it?" Charlotte said looking over from the monitors.

"Either Elizabeth has a very weird birthmark or she got slapped, really hard."

"What?" Charlotte walked over to see a handprint on her friend's face, "oh my god, what happened!?"

"Misty happened," Elizabeth informed, "apparently my old jerky sister is in town and she slapped me."

Charlotte examined the print and when she touched it Elizabeth winced, "does that hurt!?"

"A little," Liz shrugged, "but nothing I can't handle."

"So what did you do to make Misty slap you?" Ask Ray.

"I exist." She said with a tinge of hurt in her voice. "Anyway we need to go take care of the robbery," she blew a bubble, went to the tube and yelled up the tube.

Girl Danger went to confront the crime alone, she liked when she was able to fight somebody because she was able to let all of her angry feelings out, it was practically her way of crying. Ever since her siblings died, not one tear came from those sapphire blue eyes. ——————Present day... Girl Danger found herself approaching the crime scene, Captain Man and Kid Danger were nowhere to be seen, so she figured she'd be doing this alone. She approached the criminal and beat the fudge out of him knocking him out cold, she spoke to Kimberly Cross and then headed back towards the Mancave. ——————Down in the Mancave... Girl Danger came down the tube and saw everyone staring at her, "What?" She asked when she saw everyone staring at her, "do I have a booger?" She started covering her nose, "I know you guys think it funny but it's not." She said using her magic to get a tissue and deposit it. Everyone was still looking at her, "what!?"

"We need to talk to LIZ," said Charlotte, "NOT Girl Danger." Girl Danger shrugged, and blew a bubble putting her into normal clothes.

"Okay, what do you need to talk about?" She asked bluntly.

"Henry told us about what you said to Misty," informed Ray, "do you want to tell us what that's about?"

"What's what about?"

"I don't know, PTSD, watching siblings die, and according to Samantha getting expelled from you last school!" Said Charlotte.

"What!?" Said Ray, "you got expelled from your last school!?" Elizabeth just looked at him, "what did you do?"

"I got into a fight." She mumbled.

"Wait..." said Charlotte, "you got into a FIGHT, that's what got you expelled?"

"How bad was it? What started it?" Asked Henry.

"Oh it was pretty bad," Elizabeth said sarcastically while rubbing her neck, "minor injuries were suffered from both me and the opponent, couple bruises excetera."

"You got expelled over a bunch of bruises!?"

"The thing is, I've never done anything like that before, they didn't even bother to hear why, causing me to be expelled."

"I thought you were gonna say administration was racist." Said Charlotte.

"That too," she agreed.

"Well, what was the fight about?" Asked Henry.

Elizabeth sighed, "something bad happened at my school freshmen year, a person was saying cruel things and threatened to do it again, she even used this to her advantage and threatened Sam if she didn't do what she wanted, I had to stop her."

"What happened freshman year?" Asked Ray.

"Nothing you guys need to worry about." Then Elizabeth-Lillian's phone began to ring, "it's my mom, I better go." And with that, she left.

"I don't like that look in her eyes." Said Charlotte, Henry agreed, "and little Harton might make it worse or better who knows."

Henry jerked his head at her little Harton? He made up some excuse and pulled Charlotte into the elevator, "what do you mean by 'little Harton'?"

"You know, your and Elizabeth's baby."

"How do you know about that!?" He said, his whisper raspy, "is it that obvious!?" He started to freak out.

"No, she told me."

"But we agreed to not tell anyone without talking to one another first."

"I asked her, and she responded."

"Does anyone else know?"

"Just Regina. Who else knows?"

"My parents, Piper, Mr and Mrs.Thornton, Peter, Josefina, maybe the twins."

"Wow, this is insane."

"I know."

"So what are you guys going to do with the baby?"

"I don't know what Elizabeth's going to do?"

"Wait! YOU don't have a say in this!?"

"I do it's just—" he stopped and exhaled deeply, "We all know Elizabeth's been through a lot, from what I've heard she's worked her butt off to get where she is now. And this baby could change her entire life and—"

"It already has!" Charlotte cut him off, "don't you think that she's freaking out, wondering who she can trust!? And what's gonna happen in a couple of months? She's gonna get bigger, people are gonna notice something's up, all it takes is one smart person and BAM!!!" She said smacking her hands together, "all of Swellview knows, the press is notified, it gets all over social media, and I'm pretty sure you know the rest."

"I know but we're worried about providing and what if Elizabeth gets deployed and something happens, huh? What then!?"

"I've looked up her net worth and everything, she's worth over a million dollars. You and Harton would be fine for a while."

"That happens if she dies, what about the here and now?"

"She's in the armed forces, the performing arts, and will get child support from the state." Charlotte informed, "She's loaded! I know she has a majority of it in a bank account."

"Well what about—wait, How do you know all of this!?"

"That doesn't matter. What do YOU want?"

"Honestly?" He took a deep breath, "I want that baby."

"I thought so." Charlotte said smiling, "and I think Elizabeth does too, she just doesn't know it yet."——————The Thornton's house... "Liz, Eric's in town." Briar said walking into the room.

"Again? He lives all the way in New York, doesn't he ever go home?"

"I think it's time you tell him about the whole baby situation." Briar said cautiously.

"Mom, he'll kill me."

"You were worried about that with your Dad, and look what happened."

"Yeah, but Dad has his head screwed on right, who knows what will happen with Eric." Briar and Elizabeth started heading down the stairs, "Mom! I can't do this."

"Honey it's okay, he was incredibly supportive of my pregnancy—"

"That's because you were pregnant with him."

"And if he gets a little upset, that's what the meatball sub is for." She said waving a tin-wrapped sandwich. Elizabeth took the sandwich and thanked her mother.

They began to walk down the stairs and entered the sitting room where Eric and Jack were sitting. "Hey! There's my little Weasel!" He said smiling towards his little sister. Then he noticed the looks on their faces, "what's wrong?"

"Honey why don't you sit down," stated Briar Rose, "Elizabeth-Lillian has something she wants to tell you."

"Oh, what's going on?" He said sitting back down, "is it the twins? Are they sick? Did Abuelita have another stroke? Is that a sandwich?"

Elizabeth answered him, "Eric everyone's fine—"

"Is that a sandwich!?"

Elizabeth looked nervously at her mother, "Eric there is something that you should know," Mrs.Thornton said, walking Elizabeth towards her brother, "Elizabeth-Lillian."

"Eric, I'm pregnant."

Eric's eyebrows went up, "what?"

"Now! Give him the sandwich! Give him the sandwich!" Mrs.Thornton said loudly whispering.

"This must be some mistake," he said nervously smiling and walking away from her, "because you had to have sex in order to get pregnant."

"Eric, this didn't happen the way you think it did."

"Elizabeth, I can't believe this! You're the good one, you're a Marine!" He whined, "who did this to you?"

"Henry Hart," she answered knowing what he meant. She was about to continue until he cut her off.

"You stay here I'll be right back."

"Where are you going!?"

"Not right now I can't look at you!" Eric said, averting eye contact, then he left the house with a loud slam of the door.

"Wow." Was all Liz managed to say

"Yeah." Mrs.Thornton agreed.

Then Eric came back into the house looking down, shielding his eyes, and grabbed the sandwich.

Then he left.—————At Junk n' Stuff... Charlotte, Henry, Jasper and Ray were all upstairs socializing waiting for Thornton to return, only the wrong Thornton came into the shop, Eric Thornton. "You!" He said the words quick and full of rage.

"Me?" Asked Jasper.

"I don't know! Who are you!?"

"I'm Jasper, Charlotte, Ray, and Henry." He said pointing towards the people.

When Eric heard the words Henry he slowly turned his head where the blonde brown-eyed teenager was standing. "You!" He repeated.

"Me!" He said the exact same way, "I'm sorry, what's going on?"

"You!" He grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, "you got my baby sister pregnant!" Ray and Jasper's mouth dropped, and Charlotte just put her hands over her face. He put Henry down and looked the boy up and down, "you smell like chicken."

"Uh, thank you?"

"So what are you gonna do!?"

"I don't know!?" Henry said yelling from all of the tension in the room.

"Listen here Hart, if you don't know how to support Elizabeth the best thing you can do is to stay away from her! Just stay away from her!"

"I don't know what to do!"

"Oh! So you're gonna run out on my sister and leave her pregnant and alone!" Before Henry could answer Eric took Henry's shoe off his foot and smacked him upside the head with it.

"Owwww!" Henry yelled, clutching his head. Eric grabbed him by the back of his shirt and sat him down in the back seat of Mr.Thornton's truck.——————At the Thorntons' house... Eric soon burst through the doors carrying Henry by the back of his shirt. "Oh my god, Henry."

"Hey, Liz, good to see you."

"Eric What are you doing?" Said Mrs.Thornton

"Just what needs to be done!" He let go of his grip on Henry and began to speak again, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered her to join this man, and this woman in—"

"Ugh, Eric this is crazy!"

"Don't interrupt me when I'm talking to God!" He yelled at his mother, "Anyway where was I? Oh, do you Elizabeth Lillian take this man—"

"No!" Argued Elizabeth.

"Oh you'll take him!" Eric argued back.

"No I won't!"

"Hey, you don't get a say in this!"

"Yes I do!"

"Ahhh, I heard I do we're halfway there! Okay."

"Alright, Eric that is enough!" Mrs.Thornton said, pulling her 21 year-old son aside. "Look, as touching and moving as this ceremony is, this isn't legal. They don't have a marriage license, they don't have any witness..." she stopped when something caught her eye, "and the groom only has on one shoe."

"Yeah, he took it off and hit me with it."

"So what am I supposed to do!?" Yelled Eric.

"You're supposed to realize that they're practically adults, and they can make their own decisions." Informed Mrs.Thornton.

"No they can't, they were stupid enough to get knocked up!"

"Heeeeyyyyyy." Briar Rose said, offended. "Now, just because they're not getting married doesn't mean that this is going to be a disaster, maybe they have a plan."

"Oh, oooohhhh!" Eric said, getting dramatic, "now tell me what does the future look like for Elizabeth-Lillian and Henry."

They remained silent.

"Come on' kids a little help here!" Briar Rose complained.

"Elizabeth, if you're having a baby you should be married!"

"You see, this is why I didn't want you to know, because I knew that you wouldn't be supportive."

"So what? You're gonna raise the baby on your own, without a husband!? Elizabeth you can't be a single Mother! You're gonna ruin your life!"

"Oh excuse me!" Yelled Briar Rose, "did I ruin my life?"

"No, no, no, you were—and are strong and capable, and together, you're not some dumb kid that doesn't know what they're doing."

"Excuse me?"

"One woman who has conceived out of wedlock at a time please!" Eric whined. "Weasel, I just want what's best for you."

"And forcing her to marry Henry is for the best." Said Mrs.Thornton.

"Maybe."

"Eric, I am scared to death about this, but if I wanted to, I really think I could do it, I'm just gonna need a little help. And Henry's gonna be here the whole time." Eric looked at him, Henry gave him a reassuring smile, nodded, and took his girlfriend's hand. "Mom told me about how supportive David was of her pregnancy with you, now why can't you do that for me?"

"Because! You're my baby sister!"

"And you're my big brother! You're one of my favorite guys in the whole world! You know, I wasn't as scared as telling Dad as I was you."

"Well I'd be scared of him." He mumbled,

"And if I do keep it, I can't have this baby with you mad at me! I want it to have it's uncle Eric. Is my baby gonna have it's uncle Eric?" She asked sweetly.

Eric's Heart melted and he began to start talking but was unsure of what to say due to the emotions he was feeling. "Well of course it's gonna have its uncle Eric."

"We're gonna be alright. And even if I'm not married, no matter what happens this baby is going to be so loved. And not just by us."

"That's right, and it's uncle too." Eric agreed, Elizabeth looked sweetly at her brother again, "come here." He said, and hugged his little sister. "Wait," he said pulling his head up, "what do you mean by 'if I keep the baby'?"

"Well I—"

"How is this baby going to have it's uncle Eric if you don't keep it!?" He began to freak out. "I mean, what if the people who adopt it are horrible! What if it gets adopted by..."

"Who? Voldemort?"

"Shhhhh! Don't say his name!"

Elizabeth just rolled her eyes and shook her head, little did she know Misty was around the corner and heard everything. She went outside and made a phone call. "Hey this is Misty Thornton, Elizabeth-Lillian Thornton's sister. And you'll never believe what I just found out."

Ooooooooooo. What is she gonna do? Anyway, I did it again, I took another scene. This time it was from Friends. And I used a line form When Calls the Heart. Anyway, what'd you think? And should Liz keep the baby? Should it be a boy or girl? And if she does decide to keep it, what should it be named? I DO NOT OWN FRIENDS OR WHEN CALLS THE HEART. NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED.

Elizabeth tells Eric- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tu50TIHbSc Conversation of the baby- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yupBasr4c2M&t=190s