Unbelievable Pt. 08

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.

"Okay."

"Are you a hundred percent sure she's carrying your baby?" Brandan asked, looking over at his son.

"Yes, her ex-husband put her off on men, given what he did to her, well most men," Johnny answered in a matter-of-fact tone.

"I see, and you trust her enough to take her word for it?" Brandan asked, with a pointed look. "I'm only asking these questions son, so you aren't taken advantage of. The moment you sign your name on that birth certificate you are on the hook for that child even if it isn't yours. I don't want you working yourself to the bone because you put your trust in the wrong person, in case the child doesn't turn out to be yours," he said, seeing the anger in his son's eyes rising.

"So, you don't trust my judgement?"

"Son, you're judgement isn't in question here. It's whether or not Janus is being truthful to you and us," Brandan said, walking on thin ice. "A child is a lot of responsibility, especially if this child inherits what you have, then it's a hundred times harder. I'm not saying this to discourage you, Johnny," he uttered, "all I'm doing or trying to do is prepare you for what's to come in eight months. Trust me those months will sneak up on you and before you know it you'll be holding a baby in your arms. Then you and Janus will be responsible for his or her welfare for eighteen years."

"Did grandpa give you this talk?" Johnny asked, after a few moments of silence.

"My father? God no, that man is a drunken lout," Brandan sneered, "I wouldn't ask him for a thing if my life depended on it. It's why you kids weren't around him much before he drank himself to death. However, your mother's father did, he gave me some great advice, which I'm trying, I hope, to pass on to you. There's no rule book at being a parent, it's pretty much trial and error. Yet we had a great support system in lieu of grandparents," he said, smiling warmly at Johnny.

"Uh-huh, if they're so great then why is it they hate it when I'm there?" Johnny asked, arching an eyebrow.

"What? They don't hate you," Brandan said, coming to Katherine's parents' defense.

"Sure could have fooled me," Johnny muttered looking away.

"Hey," reaching over, taking his son by the arm, "tell me, what happened?" Brandan said, in a protective fatherly voice. "They said what to you?!" he roared, surging from his seat after Johnny detailed his limited encounters with his grandparents.

"You never wondered why you all got invited to their place only when I'm not around or am indisposed?"

"Not at first," pacing his living room, "now that I think back on the trips, it did happen when either me or your mother took you somewhere. I just never thought..." Getting to a knee before his son, "I'm so sorry for not seeing it. If I had known..."

"Doesn't matter," Johnny waved it off only to have his father take hold of his hand.

"It matters to me!" Brandan said, his green eyes darkened at the thought of the people he looked up to would say such things to his son. It wasn't Johnny's fault he was like this; his son didn't asked to be like this. To treat his son in a manner that made him feel unwelcomed due to his illness irked him to no end. "You are my son! If they don't want you around then I won't see them either," Brandan stated with a very stern nod.

"What's going on in here?" Katherine asked, holding the baby photo album of John's early years in her arms feeling Janus at her back.

"I'll be back," Brandan said softly, seeing the perplexed look in his son's eyes as he rose.

"Honey..."

"Why don't the two of you look through them while I have a chat with my wife," Brandan said, in a polite manner, handing Janus the photo album before leading his wife out of the room.

"What was that about?" Janus asked, sitting down next to him. "Oh... oh! Oh my, yes, I can see why he would be upset," she nodded once John had whispered in her ear about what his grandparents would say to him.

"They said what to Johnny!" Katherine screeched. "Of course, I didn't know! How can you ask me that?!"

"Let's have a look shall we?" Janus mused cracking open the album to distract him from what was happening in the other room. "Oh, look at you!" she squealed at the sight of John just minutes after he was born. Keeping him distracted as she heard Katherine stomped towards their kitchen. "You think our baby will be as cute as you were?"

"Yeah, you are his or her mother. How could the baby not be cute when... well, just look at you," Johnny said truthfully, watching Janus' face rapidly reddening.

"Johnny," Janus whispered bashfully. So very glad that she had made this choice, it could easily have gone the other way, she knew they wouldn't return back to the lake until the end of summer. To get the last bit they could out of the warm air and water before it dropped in temperature. "You don't have to be sweet but thank you for the compliment."

"Sweet? I'm just saying the truth."

"Mom, did you say..." Katherine's voice filled the air as Janus leaned in, her tongue rolled within his mouth, tasting its warmth on her tongue.

"Hey, now, don't you go leaving me out," Annie pouted when she appeared in the doorway to the living room.

"Wouldn't dream of it," Janus said, smirking at Annie when she peered back at her. Annie yelped in surprise when Janus' hand latched onto her right wrist, pulling her down. She caught Ray gawking as she kissed Annie passionately, just like she did with her brother. Her green eyes held mischievousness in them when Annie couldn't utter a word, yet her shock spoke volumes. "See I'm not leaving you out."

"Bill!" Ray shouted racing back up the stairs.

"I meant..." Annie's blushing cheeks grew prouder at Janus' giggle.

"I know what you meant, yet I had to give a show to my man," Janus said, smiling sweetly at John, the tips of her nails tickling the underside of his chin as his eyes darted between the two of them. "Did you like that baby?" she purred, running her hand along his thigh. Biting her lip when she felt that hot member in her hand once she cupped his manhood. "Would you like to see it again?" Bringing Annie once again down and to her lips at John's very vehement nod.

"You two know John has no control over that! He was born like this, it's not his fault! No I am not making a big deal out of it! I'm defending my son from people who are supposed to love him!" Katherine paused, listening to her mother's response, then, "Fine! Don't come to Bill and Ruth's wedding!" she listened again, "Why?! Because Johnny will be there! And I don't want him to have to hear you're hurtful words!" The slamming of the phone resounded throughout the house, her breath seething in her anger. John peered over his sister's head when he heard his mother crying in the kitchen. Looking over to Janus who nodded in support, winking at him as he rose.

"Now why don't you and I have a chat while your brother goes and sees what that's about, hmm?" Janus uttered in a sinful tone.

John stood in the doorway, watching how his father held his mother as he comforted her. Unsure what he should do in that situation. His body moved before his mind could utter the command. The moment he reached their side their arms reached out, moving on that parental instinct, pulling him into their embrace.