33. Monsters of the Past

Baby Boy?

Baby Girl?

Keep?

Give Up?

Names?

Ray, Charlotte, Jasper, Elizabeth, and Henry were up in Junk n' Stuff socializing.

"So you and Henry..." Started Jasper.

"Sort of." Answered Elizabeth-Lillian.

"Then how?"

"I'm just gonna tell you the quick and easy version, Henry went to take a fertility test to make me feel better if he came out to be infertile, but his specimen accidentally got sent to the sperm bank. My doctor was out of town so another one filled in, she was very emotional that day causing a medical incident to cause me to get pregnant with Henry's baby."

"Do you know who it would've been if my specimen was sent to the fertility clinic?"

After a long silence, Elizabeth-Lillian finally blurted out... "Mitch Bilsky."

Everyone gasped, "you would've had a baby Bilsky growing inside of you!?" Henry said disgustedly. Liz nodded.

"Wait, isn't Mitch that annoying kid that bullies everyone?" Asked Ray.

"Yeah."

"Ew." Everyone chorused.

"I know this isn't the best situation to be in, but I gotta say, you dodged a bullet there Liz." Stated Charlotte and everyone agreed.

"I know right." Elizabeth agreed, "could you imagine me being pregnant with Mitch Bilsky's baby?" Everyone shuddered as she placed her hands on her stomach.

"Doesn't your family have huge babies?" Asked Jasper. "Because I've noticed you have some PRETTY big people in your family."

"No Thornton babies are very tiny." Elizabeth informed, "especially the girls, I mean, I weighed barely four pounds."

"Whoa!" Yelled Charlotte.

"Of course part of it was because I was born three months early." Reasoned Elizabeth, "but yeah, we tiny babies. You guys have seen my Dad."

"Oh yeah, he's huge." Said Henry, "not in a rude way, he's just that he's tall and muscular."

"Yeah, how tall is he?" Asked Charlotte.

"6'9"

"Whoa!" Yelled Ray.

"What do ya' mean when Daniel was 15 he was already 6 foot."

"You know, all I'm getting from this conversation is that if we have a boy he's gonna be calling me 'little guy.'" Added Henry.

"Anyway, my Dad was barely 6 pounds when he was born."

"That's so tiny!" Gasped Charlotte.

Then a tall and handsome boy walked into the store, and when he saw Elizabeth a big smile grew across his face, "Hey Angel."

"Caleb!?"

"Uh...what's going on?" Asked Henry.

"It's so great to see you again." He said walking towards her.

"Well, I can definitely NOT say the same." She said walking backward, he kept walking towards her, "bfvbeveibvbvwkkb, don't you lay a hand on me because I have a restraining order!"

"No, you don't."

"That's right I don't!" Elizabeth yelled back, and everyone was so confused. "But I can get one! And if you touch me, well, it's not going to end well for you." She said, with her freaking out smile plastered across her face. He raised an eyebrow and looked down at her, that's when Elizabeth swallowed hard, "but I have a feeling it's going to end even worse for me." Her smile was gone and you could see genuine fear in her eyes. "So, isn't this a small world? And yet I never run into Beyoncé."

—————

15 minutes later down in the Mancave... "Okay, I'm gonna call my Dad 'cause he'll know how to handle this." Said Elizabeth coming out of the elevator.

"Liz who was that?" Asked Henry.

"Caleb."

"Well I got that part, but whose Caleb."

"Remember that ex-boyfriend I told you about who's a total psycho-abusive-jerk?"

"Yeah."

"That's Caleb."

"Oh, this is bad."

"Yeah, that's why I'm calling my Dad."

——————

Green Bay Military Base... Sergeant Major Jack Thornton and First Sergeant Andy Erickson were practicing their shooting when Jack's phone rang. "Oh hold up, I gotta take this."

"Come on Jack. We're in the middle of a good match!" Andy said getting up from his stance, "as your mentor and spiritual guide, I will not let you answer that call."

"I out-rank you."

"Still, I am your spiritual guide. So I will not let you answer that call."

"So, what are you gonna do if I do?"

Andy got something out of his pocket, "If you answer that call, I will light your shirt on fire." He said opening his lighter.

Jack scoffed, "You're bluffing." And Jack answered the phone. "Hey Flower, what's up?"

=====

"Hey Dad, we have a bit of a situation."

===

"Sorry, can you repeat that?" He said through the popping sounds of rifles.

Andy then raised an eyebrow, grabbed the back of Jack's MCCUU blouse, and brought the lighter's flame towards it.

===

"We have a bit of a situation." Elizabeth quickly jerked her phone away from her face when she heard yelling, the group of people all looked at her and she looked at her phone. "Dad?" She asked nervously, "Dad are you okay?"

Andy then answered the phone, "sorry Jack O' can't come to the phone right now. Please leave a message after the beep. Beeeeeep."

"Andy what did you do to my dad?"

"Uh...this is a voicemail, I can't answer that." Then he hung up.

"Voicemails don't automatically hang up." She said looking at her phone.

————

The Thorntons' house two hours later... They were all sitting in the living room when Andy burst through the door, "running from Jack, running from Jack, running from Jack."

"Andy, seriously, what did you do to Dad?" Asked Elizabeth-Lillian.

Then Jack Thornton walked through the door with his shirt tattered and burned off just below his chest, revealing his abdomen. Everyone's mouths dropped and Briar Rose had her hands covering her mouth.

"What happened to Daddy's shirt?" Asked Topanga.

"I have NO CLUE!" Amanda responded.

"Dad has abs!?" Peter pointed out.

"Uh-huh," Elizabeth answered.

"Jeez buddy what did you do?" Asked Andy.

Jack walked over and stared down at the six-foot man. "You. Set me. On. Fire."

"What!?" Briar screamed.

Andy walked over and touched the fabric, "you know, cotton doesn't burn that fast, oh, you got robbed this is flannel." (A/N their uniforms aren't just cotton or flannel they're a combination of multiple materials. I just liked this line and didn't know what to put :])

"You. Set me. On. Fire."

"Dad, you didn't wear an undershirt?" Asked Elizabeth.

"Nope, I did."

"Oh my gosh," Briar said, looking away.

Elizabeth walked behind her dad and saw a bunch of deep nasty wounds and burns on his back, "OH MY—!!!!!!!" Elizabeth jerked her head away. "Andy," she stated calmly, "did you happen to start the fire in the back?"

"Yeah, how'd ya' know?" He said smiling.

"Oh, I have my ways." Briar walked over to see what was going on.

"HOLY SHI—" Elizabeth covered her mother's mouth, and Briar covered her own. "Uh, Jack, why don't you clean up." Elizabeth walked over and placed a blanket over her dad's back.

"Hey, are we playing superheroes?" Jasper asked when he saw the blanket on Mr.Thornton's back.

"No Jasper, we're not playing superheroes." Mrs.Thornton stated irritatedly.

"Oh my gosh! Mr.Thornton what happened!?" Charlotte asked entering the house, with Henry following behind her.

"Do you guys remember when there was screaming over the phone?"

"Yeah."

"Well it turns out, Andy, set my Dad's shirt, on fire." Elizabeth stated plainly, "while he was still wearing it."

"Liliácea!" Abuelita yelled as she came up the stairs with another box. "Guess what I found in the basement!"

"I don't know, this is very difficult." Elizabeth said sarcastically, "is it baby stuff?"

"No. MORE baby stuff."

"Abuelita, I really appreciate you doing this, but I don't need all of this baby stuff in my room."

"What do ju mean?"

"I'm still unpacking from the old house."

"No, ju finished months ago."

"Misty is staying in my room. What about all of her stuff?"

"I checked the jour room, there's plenty of room."

"What about Molly?"

"Liliácea, Molly is a dear friend. As well as a dog. She doesn't take much room."

"Abuelita, are you making me go through all of this baby stuff so you can guilt trap me into keeping the baby?"

"Sí." That's when Josefina quickly ran up the stairs and into Elizabeth's room with Elizabeth and Henry running after her.

—————

Upstairs in Elizabeth-Lillian's room... when Josefina burst through the door the small beagle with a pink collar perked its head up. "Molly!" Yelled Josefina, "Can ju believe that Liliácea isn't sure about keeping her baby!" Molly barked, "ju see, even Molly thinks ju should keep the baby." Josefina said looking at her granddaughter.

"Or maybe she's saying you should give me some time to think about this and trust that I'll make the right decision." Elizabeth countered.

"Tpht, whatever." Josefina put the box down on Elizabeth's bed, "Liliácea, we still have practically everything, all ju need to buy is newer baby clothes, pacifiers, maybe a car seat, maybe a stroller. But otherwise jou're all set," she saw the look on her granddaughter's face and sighed, "at least look at the stuff."

"Alright." When Josefina was out of earshot she looked at Molly, "she's tryin' to guilt trap me isn't she Molly?" The dog barked, "you see that's exactly what I thought."

Elizabeth made her way into her room and Henry followed behind her, "you have the Marine Corps flag above your bed?" Henry noticed.

She looked at him as if he was speaking a foreign language, "well don't you?" She joked.

"Who's this?" Henry said, nodding towards the dog.

"That's Molly, I've had her ever since I was a baby. We practically grew up together."

"So you still haven't decided if you're going to keep the baby?"

"Not yet, but I have a doctor's appointment next week so that'll probably help. I can figure stuff out and try to make the best choice."

"You go to Green Bay offspring right?"

"Yeah."

"When's the appointment?"

"June 8th at 2. Why?"

"'Cause, I can be there. He said putting it in his calendar." A small smile grew across Liz's face. "So what's all this?"

"Baby stuff. Abuelita has been going crazy, my parents had no idea that we even had this stuff still." Henry pulled out a little knit yellow dress and bonnet.

"Who's was this?" Elizabeth made that small smile she did when she was trying not to smile and grew a little red in the cheeks. "Was this yours!?" Elizabeth nodded, "man! You weren't lying when you said you guys were small." Then Henry noticed a photograph in the bottom of the box, He read the back and saw the handwriting, 'Elizabeth-Lillian V. K. G. Thornton 3lbs 10oz December 30, 1999' Henry flipped over the picture and smiled and the baby with a full head of hair.

Elizabeth noticed Henry, "what?" She asked, smiling back.

"Three pounds! Ten ounces!" Elizabeth's mouth dropped open, "and what does VKG stand for?"

"Shhhh!"

"Why do you care if people know your middle names?"

"'Cause, can't a girl have a little mystery?" Henry shook his head and sat down on the bed.

"Why don't you wanna keep this baby?"

Elizabeth-Lillian sat down next to him, "I'm not very good with kids, and I'm also not a big fan when it comes to kids. When my friend's little brother was born, and I and some other friends went to go meet him, I texted Regina 'hey what do I wear to meet a baby? Do I wear a suit?'"

Henry looked at her and made a face, "seriously?"

"Yeah. It's that bad. And when we got there it only went downhill from there."

"Well, other than that, is it also because you're scared?"

Elizabeth jumped, "Jeez Henry!" She said putting her hands up, "don't use me and the S word in the same sentence!"

"Hey." Topanga said in the doorway, "is Henry saying no-no words?"

"In a way."

"Okay, stop it! Anyway, Daddy got a pizza. So you should better come downstairs soon before it's all gone."

"Okay, we'll be down in a sec."

——————

Downstairs... "Is this pizza organic?" Asked Misty.

"I don't know," Jack responded.

"How do you not know if it's organic!?"

"Here we go." Whispered Elizabeth.

"Why does it matter?" Questioned Jack.

"Because I can't eat it unless it's organic!"

"You know what they called organic stuff when I was a kid?"

"What!?"

"Food! Eat it while it's still hot!"

"Oh, Elizabeth, you're going to have extra flight training at base on Friday's now. If you keep it up maybe you can make the Blue Angels" her Mother grinned at her.

"Elizabeth-Lillian," started Misty, "if your goal is to look pretty, let me tell you, There is not enough makeup and time in the world to make that happen."

"Don't hate me because I am beautiful," Elizabeth said, then dramatically flipped her hair.

Henry smiled at her and kissed her cheek

"PDA!" Yelled Peter

"Shut up," Elizabeth told her baby brother and kissed Henry on the lips despite him.

"Hey! Hey! None of that!" Jack yelled

"Really Jack?" Asked Briar Rose

"Yes really! You'll thank me later, "sometimes the trials of this life, are Your mercies in disguise."

—————

The next day at 8:00 p.m. ... Elizabeth was struggling to stay away from Caleb, he made some huge advances.

Elizabeth was driving in an old car with Molly in the back seat. That's when she noticed a familiar-looking car following her, "Caleb?" She sped up trying to get away from him, but he did the same. "Ugh! Leave me alone!" She started changing lanes and he did the same. Molly started to fall off of the back seat, "sorry Molly." Elizabeth gasped when she was soon nearly running into cars and avoiding Caleb, next thing she knew, Caleb's car rear-ended hers, Her car jolted forward, she was so close to hitting someone else when she quickly turned the steering wheel causing her to hit something, making her car fly into the next lane and land upside down.

So. Elizabeth is in a very bad car crash. As well as pregnant. Man, doesn't life keep getting better and better!? Anyway, I used some lines and scenes. This time from 'A Dog's Journey' 'How I Met Your Mother' and 'Heartland' I'm pretty sure that's it, and if not... NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED. So what do you think her middle names are?  And let me know what you think should happen with the baby. Boy or girl? Keep or give up? Names. I DO NOT OWN A DOG'S JOURNEY, PEARL HARBOR, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER OR HEARTLAND. NO COPYRIGHT INTENDED.

"You set me on fire"- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RLaIHmeauCM

Car crash- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7MT7hl-50R8