poison ivy - the boys

seventeen

SEASON TWO
EPISODE SEVEN

          Jane was smiling as she looked around the sleek, white interior of the house that resided in the woods. She dragged John with her to meet the realtor and look at it as soon as the house came on the market. It was perfect.

After taking them on a tour, the realtor gave them their space to look over things. John was in the bedroom looking out the huge glass windows that went up and onto the ceiling. It made it feel like they were connected to the outdoors.

"Do you like it?" she said excitedly as she stepped beside him, entwining her hand with his.

"It's nice," he smiled tightly.

She picked up on it and started to frown, "What's wrong?"

"It has one bedroom, Jane," he stated simply.

"So?" she said in confusion. "That's all we need."

"Jane," he turned to face her before he explained. "You and I are going to build a family. A perfect, beautiful family."

He said it like it was set in stone that she was having his kids. She blinked in surprise. It had been so long since she even thought about kids.

"John," she carefully.

He put his hand against her stomach as he smiled, lost in his own fantasy, "You could even have my child growing inside of you as we speak."

"John," she got his attention this time and he moved his hand to her cheek as he tried to convince her. "Don't you want to have a family?"

"I have you," she said quietly as her eyes started to tear up. She didn't want to talk about this; she wanted to ignore it.

He dropped his hand as he cocked his head to the side in confusion, "I-I don't understand. I thought you'd want this. You'd be the perfect mother, Jane."

"John," she confessed. "I can't have kids."

"What do you mean?"

"They sterilized me when I was sixteen," she explained as a couple tears fell from her eyes as she avoided looking at him. "I will never have children. I can't give you kids so if you want that, if that's a dealbreaker...then I'm sorry."

She felt him gently wipe the tears away as he tilted her chin up to look at him. He pressed his forehead to hers as he smiled reassuringly, "I have you."

She sniffled as she smiled and she pressed her lips to his in short, sweet kiss. Then she clung to him in a hug as she muttered, "I love you."

John hugged her tightly and uttered those three words back to her softly like a lullaby. After a moment, he pulled away to look at her with a smile, "Come on. I want to introduce you to someone."

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Ivy held his hand as they landed softly in a backyard where two very important people were. She gripped his hand tightly as he smiled, "Hey, guys."