Escape Artist

Benjamin Kavanagh

Kristen
I am awakened by a sharp pain in the abdomen and I feel my water break. I call 911 and security to tell them my water has broken and I can't move because it hurts too much. The ghosts are trying their best to help me, but it's not helping matters sheets and towels  are flying around and they are checking under the sheet I have covering me. I slap them away and suddenly my bedroom door opens and Enid and staff are here and she sends the ghosts out of the room. She pulls up the sheet and asks to pull my panties off. I need to push and she sees this and grabs one of the many towels and gets ready to deliver my son,
Enid
I can't believe I am delivering my ex husbands son. But here I am getting the baby's head out as gently as I can. The EMTS finally show up and they take over for me. I wash my hands and come back and hold Kristen's hand. Soon a very loud boy screams to the top of his small lungs and they are cleaning him up and cutting the cord. They deliver the placenta and place it in the hazmat bag. I tell Kristen that I will follow the ambulance up and bring her whatever she needed and she gives me a list. I start packing her case and they get her ready for transport. I have my staff clean up the mess and if needed buy a new mattress. I hand them my credit card. I finally get the bag packed, but the ghosts have found something I never thought about. Kristen's phone and iPad. I get these every and her chargers.
I finally arrive and they won't let me in to see Kristen because we aren't related. Dr Greene sent someone down to greet me and she escorts me to Kristen's room. She is sitting up holding her son and she is very happy. She is smarter than I was or maybe just a different time and a different idea of what women can and will do if necessary. I think the fact that Kristen needs help is why I have sort of adopted her as another daughter. I don't hold any animosity towards her because she was never the other woman in my marriage. Only fell prey to my ex husbands charms. She is smarter for it though. The baby was named Benjamin Arthur Kavanagh. Kate is very pregnant and doesn't feel up to visiting her new brother. Ethan arrives and picks up his brother.
Ethan
I still have a crush on Kristen but she is my father's ex wife and the mother of my half brother well one of them. I pick up my brother and promise him I will be a good brother to him. I change his diaper and they take him for his circumcision. I wince and think that's going to hurt. Mom is still here and I say goodbye to Kristen and kiss mom and Benji goodbye and I will return. I think they both know that I am attracted to Kristen but I am trying to figure out how to not be. I need to get hold of my feelings for Kristen and think of her as my brother's mother.
Enid
I take it you realize my son has a crush on you?
Kristen
It is very obvious that he does, but I think it would beyond bizarre to act on anything between him and I at any time. If that makes you feel better about the situation.
Enid
It definitely would be a strange idea to get involved with your sons half brother. But hey look at our family this us Eamon's ninth child that we know about that is. I tell her that she can't help who she falls for and neither can Ethan. I leave it at that. Both are good people and they both deserve the best. So I won't stand in their way if they choose each other. I head home to get some needed rest. I hug her and tell her to let me know if she needs anything. I go and check her bedroom and the nursery to see if everything is ready for her return. They replaced the mattress and they have bought things for the baby when he arrives home and a few things for Kristen. The ghosts are moving things about to assure Kristen is comfortable and I chuckle at their moving things around after the staff took special care to place them carefully around the house. I can hear it now, them talking about how things got moved. I am not sure if they believe in ghosts or not, I think they thought they were seeing things and just never asked the question about what they are witnessing. One day they might actually see the ghosts like I have. They look like a young Santa and Mrs Clause to me. I can see why people like them, well some people who aren't bad or evil and trying to hurt others. The Leila Williams death is memorable to me and they assured me that it was necessary because she planned on killing Anastasia and they couldn't allow that. They can't help the cast iron pan hit her in the fit of rage about her thoughts of murdering a nice young lady.
Kristen
Ethan drives us home from the hospital and helps us into the house. Enid is waiting for us with lunch ready and waiting. Ethan and I talked things out and Enid gave us the space to do just that. We decided to be friends and he wants to be assured Ben gets some make bonding with his half brother. He didn't have that with his other half brothers and half sisters. They are past the age of that kind of bonding. Plus their mothers aren't really the type that would allow them to be around me or any if our family, the legitimate ones.
Ethan
I carry the baby inside and help Kristen inside as well. I feel like I'm his father rather than his half brother. Mom grins as we are seated st the dinner table to eat lunch. Ben is sound asleep and we talk away. The ghosts are making themselves known.