For business or for pleasure (part one)

Then there were three

The doctor reentered the room after a few minutes while Payne and Roman were talking; he was standing up straight from kissing her forehead a moment ago. Payne sat up a little more when she saw him enter and Roman said, 

“So what’s wrong with her?” 

“Nothing, she’s perfectly healthy.” He said flipping through his clip board. 

“I don’t understand why did I feel dizzy and faint and why did I feel nauseous?” Payne said. 

“Well that’s common symptoms for a pregnant woman.” The doctor said smiling at Payne. 

Payne looked at him like he was crazy Roman wiped his hand over his mouth looking shocked and looked at Payne then at the doctor, 

“Yeah that may be common for pregnant women but I’m not pregnant.” She said a little panicked.  

“Am I?” 

“Yes but you’re not that far along just about a three weeks.” He said. 

Payne started thinking; just three weeks ago she was injured in a match and wasn’t medically cleared to fight. Tonight was actually the night she was cleared to come back, she looked at Roman, 

“There’s no way I can be pregnant.” 

The doctor looked at her confused and asked her if she was told that she wasn’t able to conceive. Payne looked away from him and to the ground; Roman wrapped his arm around her shoulder. Payne didn’t look at him even when he pulled the hair that was blocking her face behind her ear. 

 “I’ll give you two a minute to talk.” The doctor said. 

After he left, Roman walked around the bed to look her in the face and asked her, 

“Did a doctor tell you, you can’t have children?”  

“You know how you keep asking me about that scar on my right hip?” 

“Yeah.” 

“When I was sixteen my father and I got into a fight, I don’t remember what it was about. We were up in the attic and there was this old bed post we’d been planning to throw away it was all broken up and useless, anyway his PTSD started acting up and he started getting me confused with some of the men that killed his team. So he pushed me, and I tried twisting my body so that I could catch myself when I fell but I ended up getting stabbed right in the hip with the bed post. The wood actually went in a diagonal line and my dad left me to bleed to death. My brother found me and took me to the hospital and the doctors told me after my surgery that the post had actually damaged my right ovary. She told me that it was impossible for me to get pregnant in the future,” Payne chuckled a little while she scratched her head and finished, 

“Maybe that’s why I’ve never really wanted to have kids.” 

She looked up at Roman and smiled trying to hold back her tears but they fell from her eyes anyway. He put his hand on her cheek and wiped them off then gave her a hug. 

“I’m scared. How do I know that something bad won’t happen?” Payne said. 

“It’ll be okay because I’ll be here for you, no matter what happens I promise everything’s going to be okay.” Roman said holding on to her. 

“Don’t make promises you can’t keep.”  

He wrapped his arms around her tighter and she buried her face in his chest. After a few minutes, Payne and Roman went to meet Dean and Seth in the waiting room. Dean and Seth stood up asking her if she was okay. Payne smiled and laughed noticing that they cared; she nodded and told them she was fine. Dean gave her a hug and told her he was happy she was okay he slapped Roman on the back and said,