Sam didn't need the verbal verification. Ruby popped that letter open with a wary, somewhat hopeful look in her eyes that she couldn't have hid from him even if she wanted to and, as she silently skimmed the paper held out in front of her, Sam could see that hopeful expression fall away, crumbling into a brief state of sadness, which Ruby quickly buried as she shrugged off the news and began to spout out a list of activities and chores that had absolutely nothing to do with the important information that they had just received. Sam caught her arm, preventing Ruby from sliding off the bed, and pulled her back. She wasn't going anywhere. "Sit down," Sam told her, brow creasing with concern. "You're upset. You're avoiding discussion, you're trying to run off on me, and you're hiding your emotions from me, even though you and I both know I can see on your face bright as day that you're not happy." Even though his entire body protested him moving by much, Sam pushed his back away from the pillow he had been leaning against and swung his legs over the side of the bed, doing all he could to keep himself from looking too pathetic by suppressing the wince that followed the movement. His jaw went tight for a second as he steadied himself, then Sam turned so that he was sitting opposite Ruby, his good arm beckoning her closer so that he could pull her to his chest.
"The eggs and coffee can wait," Sam promised, "stay here with me. Talk to me. I know you're trying to act tough 'cause that's what you do sometimes when something is bothering you, but you don't have to pretend in front of me."
Sam didn't know how he felt about any of it yet. He was nowhere near ready to have a kid and the talk that he and Ruby had before was all just talk, so he hadn't thought too much about it. Then there was the whole thing where their child wouldn't be normal, which would lead into more hunters trying to take them out of the picture, which would mean that even if they did manage to put this apocalypse down, they'd still have to constantly worry about someone trying to hunt them down. And that was only if they didn't need to worry about their child being the one that they needed to be afraid of.
All that didn't mean that Sam protested the idea of he and Ruby potentially having a child together someday, but right now he just wasn't so certain if the parent thing was right for them. The news wasn't great, but it wasn't bad enough to upset him the way it was Ruby. Truth be told, it was Ruby's reaction to all of this that drilled into his own personal reaction, which was worrying about Ruby. He had followed through on these tests because of her, because she had been so concerned about whether or not they would be able to create life on their own one day, should they ever decide that they want to. It seemed like maybe Ruby did want to, or at least she was leaning toward it more than she used to be, because the news was hitting her a lot harder than she wanted to let on.
She wanted to make him happy. She wanted to submit to the rules of society by fulfilling their expectations in regards to what 'normal' wives were supposed to do, no matter how many times Sam told her he didn't care about normal, because being with her was more than enough for him, and knowing that she would never be able to carry a child for him, no matter how hard she tried, was more than enough news to bring her down. Sam could tell her that he didn't care. He could make her all kinds of promises that this didn't bother him, that they'd be okay at the end because all that didn't matter to him, but she'd still take it personally and that bothered him.
"This doesn't change anything," Sam reminded her, "C'mere. I'm right here."