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Nick finally finds out that he is going to be a Daddy

He knew. 

As soon as he felt her kiss him back he knew she still loved him, he knew that Rachel had been right in what she had told him, now all he had to do was prove to her he was worth being with.

That was where it got tricky.

If they hadn’t of been interrupted he was sure he would have been able to make her see, to convince her that all they needed was one more chance to make it work. That was all he needed, just one more chance to prove to her he could change, to make her understand why he had become so closed off. Telling her he could change wasn’t enough though, he needed to show her that he was already in the process of changing, that he loved her with all his heart and had done since they had been together, that he was ready to trust her. He just didn’t know what he could do to prove that to her, it was going to take some thinking and it was going to be difficult. All that didn’t matter though, because that kiss had proved everything to him, it had filled him with hope and even though there was still a long road in front of him, still a difficult battle to win her back, Nick left the hospital smiling.

***

When you work in medicine your trained to know that the first sense to come back as you regain consciousness is your hearing. That’s exactly what happened to Adie, she could hear others around her, talking about her but she just couldn’t quite muster up the energy to open her eyes, to let her colleagues know she was now conscious, her throbbing head making her just want to drift back to sleep. She planned on doing that, but she quickly realised that nobody apart from Chelle knew about her pregnancy and Chelle was at home sleeping before her nightshift would begin.

She attempted to open her eyes but they just remained so heavy, her painful head also not making matters any easier. She obviously moaned slightly from the pain and frustration because the next thing she heard was someone calling her name softly as she felt a hand snake into hers and give it a squeeze.

“Adie? Can you open your eyes for me?”

She took a deep breath in and tried again and this time was successful but the light above her head was so bright so closed them again quickly.

“Too bright,” she mumbled.

“Kill the lights Jess,” she heard someone say and when she opened her eyes again the decrease in light meant she could keep them open. “Well hi,” Mike said to her with a smile.

“Hi,” she mumbled as she tried to sit, she soon realised that it was going to be a difficult task what with the neck collar in place.

“You need to keep still,” Mike told her.

“Is this really necessary?” She whined reaching up to try and take the collar off but the male nurse was quicker, restraining her from doing so.

“Yes, until you’ve been x-rayed to rule out any neck injury it stays on,” he told her firmly.

“It’s gona have to stay on for a while then,” she mumbled sarcastically, making him frown at her in confusion. She sighed to herself as she closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose before she just blurted out, “I’m pregnant.”

“Well you kept that quiet, congratulations,” Mike smiled before it dawned on him that firstly it was probably Nick’s baby, a fact that Adie would be finding difficult to cope with considering they had just parted company, and more worryingly secondly, any abdominal trauma Adie had suffered could have put the whole pregnancy at risk. “Do you have any cramping?” he asked. He could see the tears in her eyes as she slowly nodded her head in affirmation. “It’s okay, I’ll call OBGYN and we’ll get a sonogram right away.”

“Nobody knows Mike, I’d kind of like to keep it that way if I can,” she told him.

“No problem sweetie.”

She watched as he disappeared out of her eye line and after a few seconds she heard the door open and then shut as he walked through it and it was there, all alone, where she began to cry. How had her life come to this? This time a year ago she had been happy, this time a year ago she had been with an amazing man whom she loved with all her heart and now? Here she was on a cold gurney, in a generic hospital room, waiting to find out whether her own stupidity had caused her to loose her unborn child and yet all she could think about was the kiss she had just shared with it’s Father.

A small simple peck, not passionate, not lust fuelled, but perfect none the less and it had shown her how much she did still love him. Her leaving had never been about a lack of love though because she knew she still loved him, she knew that it would take forever and day for her to stop loving him, she had left because he did not trust her. That fact was still present, she didn’t know how he could ever prove to her that he did trust her enough, that he was committed enough to her.

Then again she supposed it didn’t really matter much because once he found out about this pregnancy he would flee, this after all had not been what he had wanted and she didn’t expect him to stick around.

That was if she was even still pregnant.

How could she have been so stupid? Why hadn’t she paid more attention to what was going on around her? This could have all been avoided, if only she had gotten that job she had gone for earlier in the year, then she would not have been lying where she currently was. That thought alone made her think back to all the fights over her choice of work environment she had had with Nick and now she realised why he had gotten so uptight about it, he had been worried about seeing her get really hurt. Well it had happened now and all she could do was pray that the ramifications were not too harsh.

***

It had hit him like a tonne of bricks on the way home from the hospital, like a flash bulb had suddenly lit up and he could finally see clearly. The one way to make her understand, to start opening that door to her in a easy way, a way in which he wouldn’t have to talk right away, was to give her his diary’s. It was in there that he had pretty much divulged into everything, documented in those books were his frustrations about his life, his fears, his hopes, his love for her and he was sure that it would at least make her realise that he was just scared of being hurt and used again, that it wasn’t about her, it was all about him.

His cell phone ringing pulled him from his thoughts and he quickly answered as he slowed to a stop at a red light.

“Hello?”

“Hi is that Nick?” He heard a familiar sounding voice ask.

“Speaking,” he replied.

“Hi it’s Marissa, I work with Adie…” she hesitated for a minute, “Er,…you’re on her contact sheet as next of kin…there’s been a bit of an incident, she’s absolutely fine,” she quickly corrected.

“What happened?” he asked concerned as he started to signal left so he could be able to turn once the lights changed.

“She hit her head and knocked herself out, obviously we’re going to send her home but we don’t want to send her home alone.”

“I’m on my way,” he told her as he hung up, and quickly turned the car around, speeding back to the hospital, knowing that this moment had been inevitable, god how many times had he warned her?

***

Twenty minutes after Adie had first regained consciousness and the neck brace had been removed after a thourough clinical examination, and the first thing she had done was make her way to bathroom. Her mind had been slightly put at ease when there had been no signs of bleeding, maybe the stomach pain was just going to end up being bruising, that was what she was hoping anyway. All she needed now was the sonogram to confirm her hopes and so she patiently waited for her OBGYN to turn up.

Dr Macmillan arrived promptly with a warm smile to greet her anxious patient and Adie was slightly put at ease by her kind demeanour as she wheeled in the sonogram.

“Hi Adie, how are you feeling?” She asked as she switched on the machine before squirting the cool gel on her midriff.

“Okay, I just need to see she’s okay.”

“Of course you do but you’ve had no spotting which is good, has the cramping eased?” She asked as she slowly moved the wand over her stomach.

“Yeah, I think it might just be bruising,” she said as she eagerly trained her eyes to the screen in front of her, trying to make out the image of her child, her stomach feeling uneasy when she didn’t hear a heartbeat right away.

“That’s possible,” the Doctor replied but she was suddenly drowned out by the strong and steady whooshing coming from the machine and Adie let go of the breath she had been holding, a small smile spreading across her previously concerned face when she could make out the small image on the screen. “There we go, a nice strong heartbeat, no signs of placental abruption, things look good.”

“Thank god,” Adie sighed in relief.

“Now I’m going to suggest that you stay off work for the rest of the week, no strenuous activity, any signs of bleeding abdominal discomfort or if you just don’t feel happy then come straight back okay? I’d also suggest that you avoid trauma’s or any situations that are going to put you at further risk when you’re at work,” Dr Macmillan advised but Adie had totally zoned out when the door opened, the colour completely draining from her face, the feelings of complete panic and uneasiness returning full force when she caught sight of who was standing in the doorway.

She would never forget the look of complete shock on his face, as he looked to her then to the monitor which held their child’s image before he slowly he looked back to her with questioning eyes, the only sound audible being the strong heartbeat of their daughter currently resting inside her.

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