I'd just put my poor husband on a plane.... i didn't want to. Tommy certainly didn't want to go.... something...something I feel like will happen. All I DO know is Tommy hasn't been acting like himself lately, he's hardly talked to me...moody really and he's really been after fruits like figs and Kiwi's, along with salty prosciutto. The way he clung to me before getting on the plane and then the look in his eyes, I could tell he felt bad...but we'd see each other soon, that's what he and I both were trying to tell ourselves. Reluctantly, I leave the airport...Tommy still very much on my mind...
I don't remember how exactly I got to where Def Leppard was meeting, but I did. To this day I can't remember actually...as worried as I was about Tommy....
I arrive to the meeting antsy and on edge, and naturally of course the guy's notice. Well Steve and Phil do first, as they'd quit making out...but I digress.
"Oi mate...Joe you, ok? Seem really upset." Steve then.... i sigh heavily.
"No...I'm not ok. I'm worried about Tommy. He hasn't talked much to me here lately, I can tell he feels guilty at that and then...I-I didn't want to put him on the plane, I just have this feeling...strongly that I needed...no NEED to be with him. He looked like he felt bad, like he could get sick." I hold my head in my hands, also trying to hold back my tears.
"Oh mate...we should cancel this then." Phil says, highly concerned...worried. The guys all love Tommy, as a friend...a brother.
"I'd offered to...but Tommy insisted. I know he knows I didn't want to do this...but he's an amazing partner. I just...let's get this over with." I wipe away my tears, Rick and Sav also weighing in and we get thru our meeting...and to be honest I don't remember a damn thing...afterwards, the guys all INSIST to stay with me at my house, saying they don't want me to be alone until I leave to be reunited with Tommy, my beloved ladybug....
Enough time passes where Tommy has landed and of course I couldn't rest or sleep if I tried, but finally he calls....and my heart drops at how he sounds, so weak and tired, clearly, he does not feel well.
"J-Joe...we've...I've landed...I'm gonna get some rest. I-I love you and miss you, Angel."
"Ladybug, I love you too...get some rest if you can, I just want you to feel better." We chat shortly, and then hang up...my anxiety only increases. When it gets later, after a struggle I manage to fall asleep...and time passes yet drags on...
At some point, I'm not sure when the phone rings and I KNOW, Tommy.... i get news, that he's in the hospital...Peter Criss calls me, tells me Tommy's been getting sick, dizzy and has passed out and then he tells me something that despite my worries about Tommy, makes my heart soar. I would indeed end up joining my husband much sooner than I was going to...he was more important than whatever I had going on with the band...I needed to join my heart...and it is after the call, I immediately get ready to go to my husband...he needed me.
"So, Tommy will I know want to tell you himself...but we thought it was important for you to know why he's so ill. He's pregnant, six weeks." Peter tells me, and I can't help but cry...I am so very happy yes, but still scared about how ill my husband has been.
"I know he's wanted children so badly; he's a perfect partner and I know will be a perfect mother.... I've never been prouder to have him by my side, he makes me feel such every day. Peter I've been and am so bloody scared...at how bad he's been feeling and that I wasn't there." A mixture of emotions colored my tone: happiness, pride, love, and fear at my love suffering and I am not there....
"I know how much you love him...I hear it. He is asleep now, just fell asleep. Poor guy really needs it." Peter tells me.
"I am on my way now! Gotta goes...and thank you." I tell him hurriedly, he understands as I rush and I do mean rush to pack some clothes, get a flight booked and get the fuck out of the house and to my husband....
The flight once I get to it...its long and eternal, me wishing very much that I could FLY the bloody plane myself....no matter....
Which brings us to now, Tommy awakes...looking very pale and so happy despite how he feels to see me...I rush to his side, carefully sitting on the bed with him, my beloved in my arms holding him gently as he sobs into my chest.
"I-I can't believe you're h-here...i. I am SORRY angel...I should have listened to you!!"
"Shh, it's ok love...we, you and I didn't know quite was going on. I've been so scared, at leaving you, at how bad you've been feeling...it will be ok Tom, I promise you." I gently run my fingers thru his hair, as his sobs are reduced to sniffles.
"I LOVE YOU...I love you, Joe." Tommy smiles at me, shakily.
"Love you too ladybug..." My breath ghosting across his lips before I seal them with my own, reveling in the feel of my beloved. Reluctant to part from his sweet lips...
"Joe? I-I know, P-Peter told you..." Tommy stammers at first, "But I have to tell you...we're having a baby angel...I'm pregnant." Tommy says wonderingly. Gently, I bring a hand to his stomach, feeling the hint of roundness and I am in love....
"You don't know how much it means to me for YOU Tommy to carry my child...OUR child. And to make one of your dreams come true and mine too, thank you beloved. Our child will be and IS perfect. I'm love our baby so much already.... our little flower." Tommy's hand joins mine.
"Me too." He whispers, lovingly and I look up to see.... he's starting to look paler.
"Love...are you gonna get sick?" Tommy manages a nod, as I find him something to get sick in...just in time, as he begins to heave and after a few minutes stops and is tears.
"Ow..."Tommy groans.
"Ladybug, it's ok. Our little flower is ok...just like you. This morning sickness wont last forever and I am going to take care of BOTH of you." I speak soothingly, which calms my husband down as I find him so ice water, which he greedily drinks and I resume my spot...., "Ya knows Tom?" I begin, a name for our child coming to me and I think of his dream of our daughter. I have the strongest feeling...this child, our child will be a girl...that the dream was a vision and is coming true.
"Know what Joe?" Tommy is curious; indeed, I gently stroke his cheek.
"I just thought...of a name for our daughter. Since you love our garden so much, and violets and roses...violets especially being your favorite flower. How about naming her, Violet Rose?"
"Violet Rose Elliot.... oh, it sounds beautiful! So perfect.... you thought of the dream I had to, didn't you?" Tommy's voice, soft.
"Yes, I did think of the dream.... Violet Rose Elliot it is...now, I have a boy's name in mind too, just in case or for whenever or if we have a son: Thomas Luke Elliot. I want to name a son after you...we could call him Luke." I muse. We would in fact, have a son...Our Thomas Luke, our son would be our third child. His sisters would precede him.
"Again, sounds perfect. Joe, they are gonna keep me for another day or two. The flight here was terrible.... i didn't sleep, did nothing but puke.... but darling, I'm carrying our baby, this is a very beautiful and amazing thing. Our little flower! "Tommy leans into me, spent.
"I'll stay here with you of course ladybug and it is indeed a beautiful thing.... I was wondering, how would you feel about staying here at our house in Beverly Hills for at least a month or 2? I don't want to strain you with airplane travel so soon and all." MY tone concerned and nervous, as I know how very much, he loves our London home, as do I.... but home is wherever my husband and now...unborn child is.
"No need for nerves angel.... i agree with you. And we'll check with the doctor on airplane travel and all. I'm SO not ready to get on a plane for a wee bit." Tommy shudders at the thought of said airplane, which I cannot blame him for.
"I am gonna take care of you and our little flower and spoil the hell out of you both." I find myself, smiling...so very happy.
"I know you will." Tommy says lovingly.
We'd stay in Beverly Hills until Tommy's fourth month of pregnancy, well the start of.... he'd be cleared to fly home to London, but then our nightmare of Jamie's return would come true....
A/N: Joe's version of events from the previous chapter and two lovers reunited! Next chapter will be another day in the hospital for Tommy and him and Joe will see their baby for the first time!
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A Leppard's Kiss of Fate: A Def Leppard/Kiss Romance
RomanceSummary: Fate has a funny way of playing out.... What if you were in a relationship, a very abusive one with your partner and then they finally and completely abandon you, leaving you BROKEN in all ways? For that is what happens to one Tommy Thayer...
