Thanks to WAA01 for the edits
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"Janus?! What's the meaning of this?" Katherine asked, her tone was forceful as she glared at the woman as she surged from her seat. Her jealousy rose at the sight of her all over her son. She knew with Janus there John would force her out of his life.
"Johnny, did you have sex with Ms. Ginsburg?" Ray asked, feeling all his childhood dreams shattering before him. His blue eyes running down her body at how she held his brother.
"Damn bro when you told me about it. I didn't think you go and knock her up," Bill said, in disbelief.
"What's this about a baby?" Brandan asked, getting to his feet, noticing the fuming looks Ruth, Wanda, and Annie all had ever since Janus had mentioned the word.
"I'm sure you all know what being pregnant means," Janus said to them, yet her attention never left John's face who had remained silent. "Johnny I know this is life changing..." Her voice was stilled as John dragged her towards his room.
"Johnny we are talking here!" Katherine shouted.
"I need a moment!" Johnny shot back. Katherine jumped sightly as her son's door slammed shut. "I didn't hurt you or..." His green eyes softened as they darted from her face to her stomach. Trying to keep calm knowing that this was so life altering. His eyes flickered to his right at the pictures of Julia that sat on top of his dresser.
"Oh, Johnny, no," Janus cooed sweetly, closing the distance between the two of them. "You didn't hurt either of us," she said softly, her fingertips lightly trailing down his cheeks. "I'm happy that you're thinking about the both of us."
"I thought you said you couldn't get pregnant."
"I thought so too, I thought after every vile thing he did to me it made me sterile. But it seems I had a ten percent chance, as my doctor said, a ten percent chance is still a chance," Janus said, her green eyes glanced at his door hearing the clamor of feet behind it. "I know this is a lot to take in. You don't have to deicide anything now. I would like for you to be in our child's life, but I'll understand if you can't."
"I'm not going anywhere," Johnny said sternly, without understanding why, his hand reached out and instinctively rested over their growing child. He wasn't going to allow anything, like what was done to him, to ever affect his child.
"I'm glad to hear it," Janus uttered, feeling her cheeks heat. Placing her hands over his, so very pleased that John was accepting of the news.
"If it's a girl..." Janus's eyes widened as he whispered the name into her ear.
"If it's a boy?" Janus asked, with a teasing look. "I get to name him." Seeing John nod in agreement. "But I agree, if it turns out it's a girl, I can't think of a better name for her," she said, lovingly. "I think we can't keep them waiting any longer," Janus stated nodding to the door.
As soon as John opened his bedroom door, his mother along with his sister took him by the shirt and the females of the family boxed him in as they led John back to the living room. Janus could only giggle at the display. She too was escorted out of the room boxed in-between Bill and Ray while Brandan walked behind her. She wondered how they would take the news that she knew all about them and their incestuous lifestyle.
"Sit, Johnny," Katherine pointed at the seat. She fumed when Janus sat down beside him. Her cheek twitched as she took hold of her son's hand. "You care to explain why now, of all times, you decided to show up here, in our home and state you're carrying my son's child?" she demanded. Her irritation was clear as day on her face.
"Johnny, I wanted to be the first," Annie pouted as she sank down on the opposite side of Janus. "I am after all your girlfriend," she said, batting her eyelashes at him.
"I told you Annie, I'm willing to share," Janus cooed, draping herself along John's right side. Blowing softly into his ear, her right eye peered out of the corner of it noting how Bill and Ray were gawking at her. "Yes, I know all about the little extracurricular actives you all share in." Her seductive alluring smile spread across her lips as she rested her head on John's shoulder at his family's stunned looks. "You all weren't all that careful about it, wasn't hard to miss," Janus teased. "I know my coming here is abrupt and I'm sorry for that. Yet, I just couldn't wait to tell Johnny the good news. It seemed telling him in person was more proper than telling him that he was going to be a father over the phone."
"Wait! Johnny do you talk to this woman regularly?" Ruth asked, huffing, she crossed her arms just below her breasts as John nodded.
"Honey," lowering herself onto the table sitting between the couch and loveseat, "being a parent is hard work and very stressful. I don't think you're ready for that," Katherine said, being the voice of reason.
"You don't need to worry about how the child will be supported, Katherine," Janus said, leaning forward, lightly placing her hand on Katherine's left forearm. Noticing how Brandan and his other sons were trying to get a peek down her dress. "I can do that on my own. I just want Johnny to be in his or her life... well, maybe making me writhe on my bed like you did," she purred, winking at him as she peered back at him. Loving how John was blushing madly.
"How can we be sure that Johnny's the father?" Brandan asked, cutting in.
"Because I haven't slept with another man since my divorce from my abusive ex-husband," Janus answer, her eyes cutting towards him. "Johnny's the only man I've felt safe enough with to do it with given what he did to me."
"And just what exactly did this man do to you?" Wanda asked, stepping forward. Not eager to lose access to John since the two times, after the party, she's been able to ride him.
"That's personal," Janus said, her tone taking a hard edge to it. "It's the reason I thought I'd never be able to have kids. But it seems I was wrong," she sighed in bliss as she rested once again against John. "But if it will relieve your fears I'll get a paternity test to show you what I already know to be true," Janus stated, her fingers weaving with his, their palms pressed against one another's.
"Yes, yes, I think you should," Brandan said, in a stern voice, placing his left hand on his wife's right shoulder. "I know you mean well, and I'm glad you're someone Johnny can talk to," trying to keep the hurt from his voice, "but you can't honestly believe that's Johnny's child without any proof?"
"I see," Johnny finally spoke up, rising to his feet. "All I see are you all ganging up on her and attacking her, why?" he asked, narrowing his eyes at his father. Defending Janus like he should have done with Julia if he hadn't been locked in that cell. Looking down when his mother took hold of his right hand.
"We aren't attacking her baby," Katherine said, in a pleading voice. "We're just trying to protect you."
"From what? Janus?! She wouldn't hurt me, I trust her!" Johnny said, in a monotone voice allowing his innuendo to hang in the air. Turning slightly to his left when Annie took hold of his other hand.
"Johnny, sit," patting the seat between her and Janus, "they don't have our relationship to tell them Janus can be trusted," Annie said, burying his left arm in the cleavage of her breasts. "We've kept them in the dark for a reason. You know, why," seeing John nod in understanding, "they're just being protective of you. Can you be angry with them for that?" she asked, knowing how much this was probably hurting their mother. She knew it hurt her as well when she learned of his and Janus' relationship. What parent wants to know that their own child confides in another person, unrelated to them, their deepest secrets and not be hurt by the news? Throw in the fact that Janus had dropped a very, very large bomb on them with her pregnancy news and Annie was sure that was a huge blow to her parents. "Give them time Johnny, acceptance doesn't happen instantly," Annie said softly, lightly rubbing his arm. Seeing that her words were getting through to him.
"I have something to show you Johnny," Janus uttered, reaching into her purse and pulling out the ultrasound of their child. "That's our baby," she spoke, her red painted nail pointing at their child. Snuggling up to him, watching how his thumb ran lightly along the surface of it. Slyly noting how Wanda slapped Ray's chest, noting how he was staring at her chest, to the way Ruth fumed up at Bill as she stood beside him when he couldn't take his eyes off her legs.
"Promise me, the next baby will be ours, okay," Annie whispered, noting her parents' look when she said that. Rubbing her cheek on John's left shoulder, wondering how adorable their babies would be.
"Annie... I think you need to finish your college before you even start to think about children," Brandan said, in a stern fatherly voice. Feeling a chill racing up his spine as his daughter shot him a venomous look.
"May I, Johnny?" Katherine asked, in a warm tone. Knowing that they had already put John on the defensive and she had no wish to return to the silence of the past five years. "I promise, I won't harm it," she said, when those green eyes of his glanced up at her. Silently noting how Janus didn't pressure her son, only rubbed her hand on his upper chest when she sensed his distress. "Look Brandan," gazing up at her husband, "our first grandbaby," Katherine said, with a joyful smile. Hoping that if she was accepting of their relationship that her son wouldn't totally freeze her out of his life. She had failed her son once, when she wouldn't listen to his pleas about the horrors that were taking place in Raven Dale, which cost her son the love of his life at the time, she wasn't about to make the same mistake twice. Knowing if she did, John would never give her a second chance. Handing the photo back to Janus, who waved her hand telling her they could keep it, she had plenty of others. Katherine could see how elated Janus was at the thought of carrying their child to term. She wondered what could have happened in Janus' life that would make her think she would never have children.
"Johnny, I know how hard life has been for you. How life here has been equally," glancing back at Ruth who dropped her head, "hard for you. Yet please don't leave us out," Katherine pleaded taking hold of his hands. "I know you might not trust us right now, given your relationship with Janus," her eyes flickered over to the woman no older than she was, "but we're your family, I know we let you down in the past. I swear that won't happen again. Want to know why?" she asked, noting how those eyes of his were looking for something in her words that held deception in them.
"Why?"
"Because you're going to have a baby, and who better to help you into parenthood than your father and I," Katherine said, gently squeezing her son's hands. Praying John wouldn't shut her out now that he had someone he told everything to. She didn't know how she would or could take that. "If you let us, we would like to be a part of his or her life. I know we have a lot to work on. I swear to you, our grandbaby will be taken care of," she said, in a stern motherly voice. "After all, he or she will be a part of you," Katherine uttered in a loving light. "I can still remember how you felt in my arms after you were born..."
"Mom...?!" Johnny groaned, rolling his eyes.
"I bet he was adorable," Janus stated with a warm smile.
"He was," Katherine nodded vehemently. "Would you like to see?"
"Of course!" Janus chirped happily, with a wide smile on her lips. "I'll be back," she whispered, getting a quick kiss in before following after Katherine.
John smirked when he noted how his brothers' eyes were following the sway of Janus' ass as she left the room. Expect his father whose gaze never left him.
"Boys, Annie, give me and your brother a moment. We have something we need to discuss in private," Brandan said, in a stern fatherly voice.
"If you need me, you just shout and I'll come running," Annie whispered into his ear, seeing him nod in agreement before placing a kiss on John's left cheek.
John's eyes followed his father as his brothers, Annie, Ruth, and Wanda filed out of the room. He was sure Bill and Ray would be sniffing around Janus hoping that they could live out their teenage fantasy. Little did they know that Janus wasn't ever going to be shared, except for Annie. Listening to his father's exhalation of his breath as he plopped down on the seat beside him.
"Johnny, don't get mad, but I need to ask these questions, alright?" Brandan spoke, his hand rubbing the back of his head.
