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As the room flickered to life from the movie on the television, Isabella was being held by her wife as they were cuddling. Watching one of Isabella's favorite movies one about beings known as minions. It was a very old movie but she didn't care because it was so adorable. Leah, her wife, was giggling just as much as Isabella was during the movie. Mostly laughing with how much fun Isabella was having rather than the movie itself. Her arms wrapped tighter around Isabella's waist and Isabella sank against her lovely wife. "Having fun?" Leah asked as Isabella looked up with a goofy grin on her face. "Always with you." She said as she leaned up to kiss her partner. Leah took it a step further and made it more passionate. A small moan escaped Isabella's lips as she pulled away blushing.

"Oh, I got the lustful Isabella to blush? This is a rare day indeed!" She jested with her wife as Isabella getting her to blush even more. Leah was giggling as she held her even tighter. They had been together for a little over eight years now. Seven of those years they have been married rather happily. Sure they've had their fights every once in a while but Leah knew when to back out of them. As her partner was the dominant one mentally where as Leah was the physically dominant one. As the movie ended Leah was absent mindedly rubbing Isabella's arm as she changed the input on the tv back to cable. An video of a family playing outside lit the screen of the television. Isabella tensed up as she knew what was about to come and she wasn't ready for it.

Not if Leah wanted to go down this route yet again. It always made her feel like crap when Leah did this to her and she had to do what she did every time. It was a dance she was so familiar with she might as well speak for the both of them. Sure enough Leah's arm tightened around her waist a bit more and this cause Isabella to sigh. She had been with her wife long enough to know the signs to look for. This was about to happen yet again. She closed her eyes and readied herself to hear her wife start this discussion up. One that would most definitely turn into an ugly argument between the two of them. “When do you think you’ll be ready? To have a family with me?” She asked and Isabella practically growled trying to get up. Leah held onto the smaller woman keeping her in place. “Well?” She asked yet again earning the same response while Isabella managed to get out of her grip.

Shooting up like a bullet Isabella put distance between herself and Leah so she could think. She didn’t want to do this… not tonight at least. It was their anniversary for All Father’s sake. “We’ve talked about this before.” Isabella was quick to attempt to shove this conversation to the side. “Baby we’ve never talked about this. You always get upset and just start yelling every time. I want to actually talk about this.” Leah was practically pleading with her lover giving her such a hurt look. Isabella frowned at her partner as she crossed her arms under her chest. “I’m not doing this right now.” She declared with as much of a dominant look as she could muster. She looked up into Leah’s eyes as her partner towered over her by half a head. Leah right in front of her looking down into Isabella’s bright eyes. Leah’s resolve held as she pressed Isabella against the wall holding her hands above her head with one hand around her wrists. As Isabella was pinned her resolve was beginning to dissolve. ”Please can we talk about this?” Leah asked once more as Isabella shoved Leah off of her.

“No!” Isabella shouted at the top of her lungs. “I don’t want to do this dance tonight! I want to just have a nice night and maybe have some fun with you! I don’t want to talk about having a damned family!” She was practically shaking by the end of her shouting. Isabella balled her hands into fists as she was ready to cry. She hated when Leah pulled this s**t. They were just fine without a family and she always had to ruin it by trying to talk about starting one. She simply couldn’t understand why Leah couldn’t be happy with it just being them. The need for her to have a child was nothing short of almost vomit inducing to Isabella as she had never wanted kids. Leah knew this all too well as Isabella made no effort in hiding this. “Baby please stop. Please can we just talk about it? I took a safer position at the precinct so we could talk about this. Please, please, please?” She begged of Isabella and she growled once more at Leah. “You want a family? Start one yourself! I’m not having children and that’s ******** final!” Isabella snapped at her partner. Leah’s eyes began to tear up at the thought. “You know I can’t….” Her tears began to stream down her face as Isabella marched out the door after grabbing her jacket and slipping her shoes on. “Maybe there’s a ******** reason for that!” She yelled while quickly slamming the door behind her on her way out before she heard her partner cry.

She needed to be alone for a while so she could think about everything. To cool off and maybe then Leah would come to her senses. “Baby crazy woman.” She muttered as she had mounted her bike and revved the engine to life. Not caring about a helmet she sped off through the town speeding. Not even caring about getting a ticket as it was so late at night. She didn’t believe anyone would stop her either as she just needed speed. The one lover of hers that never questioned her desires or what she wanted. Only gave her what she needed. The feeling of being weightless as if nothing could ever touch her. A smile crossed her face as she had finally calmed down after twenty minutes of her reckless driving through town and around the country roads on the outskirts. Her phone began to vibrate within her pocket and she sighed as she figured it would be Leah wanting to try and talk more about this. She wasn’t about to have anymore about her baby nonsense and as she tore the phone from her pocket she looked at the caller I.D. It was there old friend and doctor Mrs. Santos.

She was an old sweetheart of a doctor that wanted nothing more than to help everyone in any way she could. She answered the phone and sighed. “Hello Dr. Santos. What can,” She began to say but then in return got an earful from the wonderful old lady. “You march your hind to this office right now! I will tan your hide if you don’t! Do you understand missy!?” Dr. Santos gave her such a tongue lashing she winced slightly. “Yes Ma’am.” She answered as if Dr. Santos was her own mother. She hung up her phone after checking the time seeing it was a little after ten. She knew Leah had called her for advice and to cry her heart out. She locked away her emotions for now as she was doing as she was told. It didn’t take her long before she arrived at the homely office and was greeted by Dr. Santos steel gaze upon her. She was waiting outside with two cups of coffee. One of them presumably Isabella’s which meant she was going to pry everything out of her.

Isabella cut her bike off and began to walk over to the office. Sheepishly waiting for another tongue lashing that would whip her right into her place. “How could you say such horrible things to Leah!?” Dr. Santos demanded of me as she was like a mother to the both of us. “I don’t know. I was just frustrated with the topic. We’ve fought about it so much.” Isabella said almost pathetically. “No you’ve fought about the topic. From what I understand she’s always pleaded with you just to hear her out!” Dr. Santos shouted yet again and once more Isabella winced at the reality that was laid out before her. “Or is she lying?” She said somewhat more calmly to Isabella. “No, you’re right.” She admitted as she was handed a cup of coffee which was a peace offering. “So tell me child. What is so wrong with having a family with her?” She asked and Isabella was all too quick to defend her wife. “Nothing’s wrong with her! I, I’m just,” She began and Dr. Santos shot in another remark. “What do you think you’re going to be like your parents? Or hers?” She asked and it stung Isabella horribly to hear it.

“Look, the two of you haven’t had an easy life. Both going through the orphanage system and dropped because no one wanted you. Then when you two turned eighteen you found each other and made it work. Two of you have been inseparable. You ever stop to think about the fact that maybe they weren’t apart of your life because they didn’t deserve to be apart of it? The fact is you two turned out terrifically without them. Leah a police officer and you a paramedic. You two are truly beautiful souls. You need to go talk to her about this. Really talk to her and not argue with her about it. Just hear what she has to say because I know without a doubt you would make a wonderful mother and Leah a wonderful father. You need to stop worrying about your past and look towards the future child.” Dr. Santos words hit Isabella hard and this caused her to cry.

Dr. Santos began to gently rub her back knowing Isabella snapped because she had been holding everything in for years. “Come on little one. Let it all out.” She said encouraging the woman to cry her heart out. So that she might finally see the error of her ways and talk with Leah about their future. Or rather to start working on their future rather than against it. “Can we talk about the process?” Isabella asked and Dr. Santos took another sip of her coffee. “Are you sure?” She asked and Bella nodded to her. Dr. Santos took a moment to study Isabella to see if she was serious or not. When she found her answer she smiled only slightly. “It’s called Artificial Insemination.It’s the cheaper method and often the first used one. If it doesn’t work there’s another method that would be used but is slightly more expensive.” She said and Isabella asked her. “Will it hurt?” She asked as she was slightly frightened by the thought of the possibility of needles getting anywhere near her.

“Heavens no child. Do you want some pamphlets to take to Leah and talk to her about all of this?” She asked and Isabella felt like crying again. She had been so horrible to Leah and there was no excuse for it. So she felt the only way to make it up to Leah was to actually talk to her about having children. Isabella took as many pamphlets on artificial insemination as she could shove into her pockets before hopping back onto her bike. She hesitated before starting her bike when Dr. Santos approached for one bit of advice. “Just go to her. I’m assured she’ll forgive you.” She said with a smile plastered upon her face. Isabella nodded a few times as she started her bike and took off in the middle of the night. Headed back to her place she began to think of how to talk about this with Leah. Or even if Leah was going to forgive her for how she acted or even what she said. She was such a b***h and this time she was so horrible to her. Her heart sank even more with the realization that Leah just might not forgive her. She prayed that wouldn’t be the case as she needed her little officer in her life. She was all she had and all she would ever want in life. When she pulled up to her house a thought crossed her mind that took her off guard. If Leah wanted to start a family with Isabella then they would start one. Isabella had decided that she would do whatever it took to keep Leah within her life.

She steadied herself and sighed as she was so nervous about how this was going to go down. She grabbed out her keys to put into the door until the door opened just from her pressing on it. “Leah?” She called out confused through the house. She could barely see anything until she hit the light switch and saw their living room and most of their house destroyed. Everything thrown from where it belongs and broken. “Leah!” She shouted through her home as she rushed through searching room by room for her lover. She grabbed out her phone and quickly dialed the precinct. “Hello, this is Officer Hensley speaking. How,” He began but Isabella cut him off. He knew her and Leah as he was one of Leah’s best friends. “Hensley, It’s Izzy! Send someone to the house! I think someone broke into my home, everything is destroyed, and Leah isn’t answering to my shouts!” She said as she was crying. Her heart in pure panic as to what could have possibly happened to Leah.

“Get out of the house! The boys and myself are on our way right now! Do not go through that home!” He shouted with a sense of urgency and hung up. She could hear the sirens shortly after he had hung up but she had to find her Leah! She was everything to her and she couldn’t lose her! She rushed through the house calling frantically to Leah. Repeating her name over and over as she began to cry harder and harder. She rushed upstairs to their room only to have someone grab her wrist in the darkness and throw her down hard on the floor. Her head hit the floor hard and she felt something wet and sticky cover her face. She blinked a couple of times to see Leah staring at her with a blank look behind her eyes. Isabella’s eyes shot open and adrenaline shot through her body as she scrambled over to Leah’s lifeless body upon the ground. Blood surrounded her as it appeared Leah had been bled dry.

Tears streamed freely down her face as she began to sob loudly lifting her Leah’s head into her lap. Wiping the hair out of her wife’s face as she looked down into her lifeless eyes. She saw a photo album on the ground with pictures everywhere in the blood and she leaned down to hold her Leah even closer. “Boss what should we do?” A voice said in the room as Isabella had ignored them. She couldn’t comprehend anything at the moment as the love of her life had perished. “Kill her too then we need to run before the cops get here.” Another man said grunting as she heard the shuffling of numerous feet. Probably nine or ten pairs to be exact. But that didn’t matter to her as she just wanted her sweet Leah back. “Sorry b***h, Wrong place, Wrong time.” She heard as a metallic clicking sounded through the room. Isabella kissed Leah’s forehead and spoke softly. “I’m so sorry baby.” Leah had died after their fight and the last thing she had heard was Isabella’s horrible remarks to her. She was such a terrible person for putting Leah through something like that in the first place when she just wanted to talk.

“I’m so ******** sorry honey.” She said realizing she never deserved someone as loving and caring as Leah. She was perfect compared to Isabella who was nothing but selfish. She was about to start crying more until she wanted to face the men who killed her wonderful Leah. She looked up to her soon to be murderer with tear filled eyes. She felt his gun pressed to her forehead as she remembered her wedding vow to her departed wife. Her tears ended as she gave the man a frightening look. Then uttered the words she said to Leah upon their wedding day as the man pulled the trigger. “For you, I will endure.”