Something New // Niall Horan

Congratulations

Jess' POV:

Earlier in the week, Cara and I had both made appointments for the doctor's around the same time because neither of us were feeling well.

So I drove to Cara and Niall's apartment to pick her up so we could carpool to the doctor's. I doubt she was feeling well enough to drive anyways.

I pulled up outside the apartments to find Cara sitting on a bench outside. Her name was called a few times before she finally looked up to notice me.

She stood from her position and tenderly walked over to my car, and I could tell she felt absolutely awful.

Cara finally entered the automobile and buckled up.

The drive to Dr. Eli's clinic was faster than I'd thought it'd be, only ten minutes or so.

Once inside, which was quite a task for Cara, who seemed weak and about to throw up any second, we had to wait another ten minutes.

I'd picked up a magazine and begun to sift through, but Cara just sat there staring into space, thinking.

She had barely said a word at all to me, and the worry was building up inside of me. I mean, do we have the same illness, will I end up as distant as her?

My thoughts were unintentionally interrupted by the receptionist calling our names to go see him; we had consecutive appointments so we might as well go in together.

She trudged down the hall to the examining room, where we yet again had to wait about two minutes for Dr. Eli to enter.

He toted a notepad and a pen with him.

"Which one of you is feeling worse?" he said in a strange-sounding accent.

"I am," Cara said quietly. He looked to me for confirmation and I nodded slowly.

"What do you feel?" I decided that his weird accent is closest to Mario's, since the second nearest would be Dracula's.

He began to examine me thoroughly, taking my heartbeat and feeling around my back for whatever they feel around for. He then looked inside my ears, down my throat, and finally took my temperature.

"A fever," Dr. Mario-Dr. Eli- declared.

"What about Cara?" I asked. She was getting paler and paler.

He started to look her over, and after a while, he poked her stomach gingerly.

"Hmm," he hummed, standing.

"Are you aware that you are pregnant, Miss Ribeiro?"

I feel as if a wrecking ball or an NHL player body-checked me or something with those words.

Cara, preggo? I didn't even know she and Niall "did it," like, ever! Unless....

Two weeks ago, at the party. That's when it happened. They were both so drunk and I remember Cara briefly mentioning that Chris had stopped by for a little "visit."

Her face dropped. "There must be some mistake" she looked worried.

"It's no mistake, Ms. Ribeiro. Go to a pharmacy and get a test"

"Uhm, okay thank you doctor" she said and rushed out the door as I followed. There were no words spoken as we drove to the pharmacy.

"Whatcha gonna name the baby?" I joked and she did not look pleased.

"This isn't funny. Niall is gonna hate me and leave."

"Don't be an idiot. You guys are a match made in heaven, he loves kids, he's gonna be a rich lawyer and you're gonna be a big happy family. The last thing he'd do is leave you" I tried cheering her up.

~

She bought the test, went into a bathroom and I checked it for her.

"Cara."

"Yeah?.." She looked worried.

"I'm gonna be an aunt!" I jumped in joy. She smiled and gave me a hug. "Time for you to tell Niall!" I was probably more excited than she was.

Caras POV:

Me pregnant. I was happy and worried at the same time. What if Niall leaves me to take care of a baby on my own. But what if he doesn't and we continue to live together and be happy. All these thoughts running through my head.

I knocked on the door because I forgot my key. There were butterflies in my stomach. He opened the door and kissed me.

"What's wrong? Do you have the flu or something?" He asked, closing the door.

"You might wanna sit down.."

"Okay, you're really scaring me. What's going on?" He sat down slowly.

I sat close to him and held his hands.

"Niall, i'm pregnant." I just came straight out with it. He stared into space then looked back at me smiling.

"What?"

"There's no pressure on you, you can be as involved as you want. I understand if you don't want to be there-"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." He cut me off. "What makes you think i'm not gonna be there? Of course I will. I'd love to have a kid, it's probably the perfect time. When did we..?"

"The party." I was so relieved. He was genuinely happy with the news and couldn't bring himself to stop smiling.

"Me. A father..." He kept saying.

~

Hours later we were cuddled up on the couch, discussing baby names.

"If it's a girl, Lily Rose Horan. If it's a boy, Ben Horan." I said.

"I like Lily Rose, for a boy I like Noah Jacob Horan. Noah is my great granddads name. Ben is so BLAH, Noah is so YAHH" he laughed, kissing my nose.

"Love that name Noah" I was in agreement. "I'd love a boy"

"I don't mind. I'm gonna tell my mummy the news!" he ran over to his desk and clicked video call. She answered seconds later.

"Niall! Me aul pal. What's the story?" Greg popped up on the screen.

"Ma and Greg. I have some news."

"What is it?" Maura wondered.

"I'm gonna be a daddy!" Niall was overjoyed. Maura and Greg looked so happy.

"I'm gonna be an uncle!" Greg said.

"And ma, you're gonna be a granny" Niall laughed.

"Oh i'm so happy! Congratulations" she smiled voluminously.

We all chatted for a few minutes and I decided to take a nap. Before I did Niall pulled me into a hug.

"Cara, I love you and I can't even put into words how happy I am that I have you in my life and that we have a baby on the way"

He has no idea how much I love him. I'm gonna cut Chris out of my life for good and focus on Niall and the baby on the way. It wasn't really emotional it was just pure happiness. He's happy, i'm happy, Jess is happy Greg and Maura are happy.


~ three days later ~

Caras POV:

It was the court date, the date upon which Chris', Louis', mine, and possibly even Niall's fates were decided.

The cool air brushed against my skin almost threateningly, and I leaned more into Niall as he wrapped his coat more tightly around my bosom.

He rubbed vertically along my arm, creating a bit or extra warmth of the freezing drizzly day. Typical London weather but I kinda like it.

We walked into the courtroom solemnly. I eyed Louis and waved, an the cheerful lad waved right back, making me smile.

Niall gripped me tighter and kissed my ear protectively, although he knew Louis definitely was not after me in any way, shape or form.

I pecked him lightly on the lips before taking a seat.

~

The court convened and the trail officially commenced.

"Niall James Horan, over the past collection of days, the jury has decided that both Louis and Christopher Tomlinson are not guilty, on the terms that you failed to provide enough convincing evidence," the judge proclaimed, smiling.

I can't believe we lost the case. Chris and his attorney were overjoyed.

After the bustle of people leaving the courtroom, Chris and Louis came up to us as we strolled outside into the drizzle.

I still couldn't help but stare at Chris' new assortment of tattoos and piercings, and had a thought that appalled me the instant it ran through my head.

'Chris looks so... hot.'

I shook the thought from my mind as he winked. Niall tightened his grip yet again, kissing the top of my head to assert possession.

I fight back the urge to roll my eyes at him, since Chris was standing in front of us.

"Hey, Cara," he said casually. "You know the judge? He's my dad."

His dad? THAT'S ILLEGAL!

And that's when Niall lost it.

His decked Chris straight in the jaw. He went off balance for a moment then steadied himself. He stepped towards Niall but Louis put his hands in front of them. Chris' attorney soon came over.

"There's no need to get aggressive, Niall."

"Yes there is! He's an asshole and so are you! And so is that judge! We should have won that case but the judge is your dad! And UGGH I FUCKING HATE YOU!" Niall shouted in rage and punched Chris in the nose.

Chris fell to the ground so Niall sat on top of him, still sending multiple punches at his bleeding face.

Louis pulled Niall off of Chris aggressively because Niall was quite strong.

"Mate, just calm down!" Louis said. Chris was there laughing as he got back up on his feet.

"Watch your back, Niall." He said and walked off, still laughing.

"How can you not see that he's an actual pshycho?!" Niall looked at Chris' attorney aka Niall's dad.

"Your behaviour with this case is disgraceful. You'll never make it as a proper lawyer."

"Listen you stupid cunt, I will be a more successful lawyer than you, alright? So you should just keep your mouth shut or i'll shut it for you." Niall grabbed my hand and we got a taxi to his apartment.

The minute we got there, he stood up on the kitchen counter and grabbed a handgun from the top of the fridge.

"What the fuck?! That better not be real!"

"Of course it's real." he hopped down from the counter. "It's my responsibility to protect us, so I bought this for when Chris comes back."

"This is crazy"

"D'ya wanna hold it?"

"No of course I don't wanna hold it." I stood back, a shocked expression on my face. "This isn't fucking Grand Theft Auto or one of those stupid games, Niall."

"I probably won't even shoot him. This is just to scare him, but if the occasion calls for it, I will." He put it in the back of his pants and locked all the doors and windows. "I'm making tea, want one?" He asked.

"One sugar"

He made it and handed me a mug filled of tea. The mug was pink and had my name on it.

"I got that made for ya the other day" he sat down on his computer chair, leaving the gun by his keyboard.

"I'm not gonna talk to you with that gun in my viewing range." I said.

Niall rolled his eyes and picked it up. There was a knock on the door and Niall cocked the gun and got in position.

"Oh relax it's just Jess and Blake." I opened the front door.

"Whoa, what the fuck?!" Blake looked at the gun and raised his arms in surrender. He looked at me in confusion.

"This is Niall's way of protecting us."

"What do you need to be protected from?" Jess asked, stepping on the mat to wipe her shoes.

"Chris. We lost the case 'cause his dad was the judge." Niall said and Blake walked over to him to check out the gun.

"That's so cool let me have a go" Blake admired the gun and Niall handed it to him.

"Put it down, you're not James Bond." Jess snapped the gun off him and gave it back to Niall.