10,000 Saints Page #5

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Listen, I got somebody else

on the other line, all right?

Just hold on, hold on

one second, yeah.

That's good.

Should we tell your mom?

She'll just make

me get an abortion.

What makes you say that?

Because she said to me,

Eliza, darling,

if you ever get pregnant,

you're getting an abortion.

You know, it's like Teddy

died that night

to be born again inside you.

Yeah, that's kind of

how I feel.

Like it happened for a reason.

But sometimes I don't

know how I feel.

"For the soul, there's

neither birth nor death

at any given time."

What is that,

the Old Testament?

The Bhagavad Gita.

Maybe we should tell my dad.

He'll just tell my mom, Jude.

We shouldn't tell anybody.

That way we can control it.

Well, I obviously can't

keep it a secret forever.

Yeah, but after a

certain point,

they can't take it

away from you.

And where is the baby

going to live?

I mean, are you planning

on staying in school?

You cross one bridge at a time.

At the very least,

you should see a doctor.

I'm sure he'll ask to

see an adult.

Well, Johnny is an adult.

From here on out,

I'm going to be anybody

Eliza needs me to be.

We're in this together now,

we're a little family.

Right, Jude?

Jude!

- Jude!

- Sh*t!

Okay, okay, okay.

Jude, we need to discuss

this whole curfew again.

I thought we had kind

of a working arrangement.

You know?

Huh?

So you're just going

to play father now

and lay a whole

new set of rules on me?

No, no.

I am going to revisit all this

after I have digested

my vegan breakfast, eh?

You know what I'd

like to know is

what my girlfriend's

daughter and my son,

and some weird Hare Krishna

dude are all doing together.

We're just friends, okay?

No, I'm not judging.

I mean, I met your mom

at an orgy.

So tell me, what did you think

of the show, last night?

That was last night? Feels

like 100 years ago.

I thought you guys

were really good.

It's a very weird scene though.

In what way?

Well, I mean...

First of all, I might as

well have been invisible

to most of the guys there.

Do I look that disgustingly

pregnant already?

No. Don't take that personally,

Straight Edge guys

are different.

They're not just about

meeting girls.

Well, what about you?

What about me?

Well, are you gonna...

Are you gonna wait till

you're married, or what?

I mean, that's what the whole

thing's about, right?

Not that there is anything

wrong with it, I'm obviously

a walking advertisement

for abstinence.

What the whole thing is

all about is community.

A hardcore family that's

free from all the bullshit

that was spoon-fed to

us by a generation

that would rather fry their

brains than purify them.

But I was,

I was asking specifically

about you.

Oh, well, you know,

I'm committed to

the Straight Edge life

but I'm also just as

red-blooded as the next guy.

Well, that's a very

vague answer.

It's none of my business.

I don't even know

why I'm asking.

Hey, listen...

I happen to think

you look really great.

Thank you.

And I meant what I said before,

about being anybody that

you need me to be.

I know you did.

Hey, I thought I'd never

get away from him.

You didn't tell him

anything, did you?

Of course not. I promised

Eliza I wouldn't.

So when Eliza's mom finally

finds out about our secret,

I think we should tell

her I'm the father.

Why you?

Well, I'm Teddy's

brother, so it's blood.

And I'm also not a minor,

which you know,

could help us out in a lot

of legal situations.

And, and then what?

And then we tell her, Eliza

and I are a committed couple.

Why would we do that?

'Cause maybe we should be.

Except for the fact that you

barely know each other.

We're already getting to know

each other, right, Eliza?

We did have a nice brunch.

Yeah.

Anyway, look, nothing

should get in the way

of what is in the best

interest for Teddy's child.

You know.

This is about love.

Plus, there's nothing

not to like about me.

I got to go.

- I'll call you.

- All right.

Spare change?

She's something, isn't

she, Uncle Jude?

Gross!

Mademoiselle Eliza?

Okay, we're here.

I agreed, we're on the train.

You want to tell me

what's going on?

Eliza's bleeding.

Bleeding? What kind

of bleeding?

You know, like a,

like a woman bleeding.

Okay. So what makes you think

I'm more qualified to deal

with that situation

than her mom?

She's pregnant.

Are you shitting me?

Jude, what are you

thinking about?

You know I got a buttload

of condoms in my pad.

It's not mine, Dad.

And even if it was, you're

in no position to preach.

Okay, okay, well who...

Who's done the deed then?

Johnny.

Johnny?

Why is Johnny not on the

train going to meet her?

He doesn't have a phone.

Perfect.

You can't tell Diane yet, Dad.

You have to promise.

In downtown

Manhattan's Alphabet City,

tensions continued

to rise today,

when a stand-off occurred

between squatters,

their supporters and the police

over a building deemed unsafe.

If she loses the baby, okay...

I mean, you hate to say this,

but it's probably for the best.

You know, she's not

ready to be a mom.

It's nature's way of

taking care of things.

How does it happen?

I mean, is it just

like blood or...

I do not know.

I'll tell you this though.

It's a relief to me that

you're not the dad, okay?

You don't want to get

tied up in that.

You know, the lady's

grieving, she's distraught,

she feels guilty,

you feel guilty.

Babies.

You know you were born here?

It's true.

The night we adopted you,

your mom and I we were

up in the nursery in

these rocking chairs,

they gave us scrubs

with these little

shower caps for our heads

and for our feet,

like they thought we were

going to give you the plague.

We just waited and waited

and waited

for you.

Seemed like we'd wait forever.

Rocking back and forth,

you know,

your mom was so uptight.

She was so worried your

birth mother changed her mind.

She had this king size

bag of M&M's right,

and she just

ate the whole thing

while she was waiting for you.

And then they, uh...

They let us hold you.

And you were so little,

like a rabbit or something,

you know, with this

shock of black hair.

And you looked at me

and I was like, Holy sh*t!

This kid is mine,

and the world's a f***ing

mess and I just wanna...

I want to protect him

from everything, you know.

I mean, I have to protect

him from everything.

Oh, I walked out of here

a different person.

Yeah, well... So I thought.

And then Prudence

miraculously shows up.

Right, first they tell you,

it's impossible.

Next thing, you're swimming

in babies, two in one year.

You know women,

they make their

decisions and men,

we just do our best

not to be men.

The whole system needs

a looking over.

Les.

Oh, Jesus...

Hey, sweetheart.

Bacterial vaginosis.

Sounds exotic.

It's just an infection, Les.

Yeah, still, it sounds

scary, you know?

He saw her on the monitor,

you know?

She was jumping around

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