Cemetery Drive

As we waited Gerard continued to hold my hand, not long after my parents showed up I felt a pair of arms placed on my shoulder and someone lean in from behind me.

"Good luck Frank, I hope everything works out for you." Pete whispered in my ear then took a seat behind me.

I turned around and offered him a smile that thanked him for being here for me, I saw Gerard do the same. About fifteen minutes later the doors to the court opened up and two prison guards walked in with Josh in-between the pair. As Josh walked in his eyes locked with mine, his eyes dropped to my stomach that was shielded by Gerard's jacket; I really am glad Gerard made me take it. After Josh was pushed forward by one of the guards I let go of a breath I didn't know I was holding in. I felt Gerard hand tighten over mine and I squeezed his back.

"He can't hurt you anymore baby." He whispered into my ear then kissed my temple.

It took a couple of minutes for everyone to get situated in their seats before the trail began. The jury consisted of twelve vampires, half male Dom and the other half a mixture of male and female fertiles. Josh was sitting at a table in the front facing the judges so he wasn't able to see me but I was able to see him. The judge came in not long after and we did the whole "all rise" thing where we all rose from our seats and waited for the judge to say we can sit, right after we all sat the prosecutor stood up and walked to the jury and started to make the case.

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury I would like you to take a look at this picture right here." He said then on a projected appeared a picture of me that my mom took on my sixteenth birthday, I had one of those smile where my face was all scrunched up and I had a bit of blood red frosting on my face so it added to the cuteness that was already me.

"This young man," the prosecutor continued, "Is Franklin Iero."

"Frank." I muttered under my breath, I heard Gerard let out a small laugh which caused me to smile.

"He is a sixteen year old fertile who was romantically involved with Josh Patterson," he said then pointed to Josh, "from what I gathered the two were a couple for many months, both knowing they were not each other's mates. Now this picture of young Franklin was taken about three months ago." He said then the picture of me looking all cute and innocent changed to three pictures two of which my eyes were closed looking like utter shit. The first one was my eye was swollen and purple and there were cuts all over my face, I had a busted lip and a few cuts over my face. The next one was zoomed out so my chest and face was showing, I also had bruises covering my chest and my arms had some cuts and gashes on them. Finally the last one was the first ultrasound Dr. Mara had taken of my baby.

"Now if you look here," he said and pointed to the ultrasound, "young Franklin was about nine weeks pregnant when he received this attack leaning him in this state when he arrived at the hospital later that afternoon. DNA taken from Franklins attack when he was first admitted and unconscious, also when these photos were taken, belongs to Mr. Patterson. So one can assume that it was Mr. Patterson who attacked young Frank. Also if look back to the photo of young Franklin there are bruises that are a couple days maybe even weeks old." He concluded then sat back down. Right after he sat down, Josh's defendant stood up.

"Yes Mr. Iero took quite a harsh beating and Josh's DNA was found on him but there is no way of knowing it was from Josh. The two were a couple and most couple engage in sexual actives and he's DNA most likely was left on Mr. Iero. Another point to be made is at this date in time it is unknown if Josh is the father to the young vampire inside his womb." He concluded.

Unknown if it was him?! Unknown if he was the father of my baby?! What the hell was this defendant smoking?!

"We anticipated your arguments and have a witness, at this time we would like to call Gerard Way to the stand." The prosecutor said.

What the hell? I turned to Gerard who gave my head a quick kiss then let go of my hand before making his way up to the stand and taking a seat. Not long after Gerard left his seat Pete occupied it and held my hand.

"Mr. Way would please tell the jury the events that happened on Thursday January sixteenth in explicit detail?" He asked.

"It started at lunch," he began, I saw Frank run to the bathroom and not more than a few seconds later blood spilled on my first so I went into the same bathroom as Frank, I heard him throw up a bit and hold his stomach so I assumed he was pregnant. When I brought it up he told me not to tell anyone and that his boyfriend wouldn't be so happy. I decided to let it go and carry on throughout my day. Later that day after school I was so caught up in my art project that my brother and his mate had to drag me out of school about half an hour after school and hardly anyone was there, as he three of us headed down the halls we saw Josh pinning Frank to a locker and punching him, he was about to punch him in the stomach when I stopped him, he then revealed to me that he was franks boyfriend which was enough to blow me over the edge and Pete and I landed a few punches before the police arrive." Gerard explained.

"Thank you Gerard. Now if you don't mind me asking how's the child?" The prosecutor asked.

"Perfectly fine, twenty weeks today." Gerard answered with a smile.

"Your honor this is irrelevant." The defendant said standing up.

"I'm just wondering how the child is after hearing that your client almost landed a blow where he or she was devolving." The prosecutor said with a smirk.

"Allowed." The judge said, "Do you have any further questions?"

"No I do not." The prosecutor said.

"If the defendant has any questions for Mr. Way now is the time." The judge said.

"I do." The defendant said standing, "Mr. Way, are you romantically involved with Mr. Iero?"

"Yes."

"Are you sexually involved with Mr. Iero?"

"Is there a point to this?" The judge injected.

"Yes your honor there is."

"Continue then, but don't take too long.

"Mr. Way are you sexually involved with Mr. Iero?"

"Yes." He answered and I felt a blush crawl up my face.

"And is it true that you went to where Josh was detained and have him sign abandonment forms so you may begin the process of adopting the child?"

"Yes." Gerard answered again.

"Now ladies and gentlemen of the jury, why would someone instantly jump into a relationship with someone who claims to come from an abused relationship? Then try to adopt the child? I would understand that if they were mates but," He said then turned back to Gerard "Mr. Way are you and Mr. Iero mates?" He asked.

"We don't know." Gerard answered.

"Another motive of this would be to adopt the child that he has conceived with Mr. Iero, and because Mr. Iero wanted to have a good name he claimed that the child belonged to Josh." He defendant tried.

Are you kidding me? This is his argument. Josh can go to jail and all they are arguing is if he is the father of my baby. The defendant isn't even touching the fact that I was beaten by Josh.

"Is the defendant hinting that he would like a paternity test on Mr. Ieros child?" The judge asked in a bored manner, I guess he also thought their argument was crap.

"Yes."

"Alright, I'm requiring a paternity Mr. Iero to have a paternity between Mr. Way and Mr. Patterson. Until the results are in we have no further business here. And by the way I suggest that Mr. Patterson's lawyer have a better argument by then. I'll see you all when the results are in." He said then everyone started getting up and leaving.

Pete and I stood up and were about to make our way over to Gerard when the police officers took Josh back out if the court. Josh looked over to me but instead of looking at me he kept his eyes locket with the jacket that was covering my stomach the entire way out of the court. After he left I made my way over to Gerard.

"How mad are you?" Gerard asked when Pete and I got to him.

"Mad? Why would I be mad?" I wondered.

“Because I didn’t tell you I was going to be questioned.”

“It’s fine.” I told him then hugged him. “You did really well so I’m not mad, I still can’t believe they’re making me get a paternity test.”

“Everything will be fine.” He told me then kissed my temple.

Notes

Its a bit longer then normal, so enjoy!

Till next we meet my killjoys