Moonlight

19

 Outside the operating theater. Pooh is pacing anxiously. Jeff and Spy are nearby, comforting baby El. The doctor exits the theater with a tired expression.

Pooh: (rushing to the doctor) "Doctor, please, tell me how my Pavel  is. I need to know!"

Doctor: (sighing) "His condition is critical. We are doing everything we can. But I need to tell you something else, and it's really important''

Pooh: (desperate) "What is it? Please, just tell me."

Doctor: ( eyeing Pooh) ''um..i assume that you guys are sexually active.''

Pooh:(confused)'' oh well ..yeah what's wrong with that?''

Doctor: "We found a small fetus during the surgery. He is pregnant. We detected two heartbeats, and it's quite problematic because of that baby fetus we- we can't do a major surgery to your husband because if we do that there's a high tendency of loosing that baby''.

Pooh: (stunned, almost freezing) "Pregnant? Two heartbeats? Oh my God..."

Jeff and Spy, holding baby El , look over in shock. El squirms but remains calm, sensing the tension.

Jeff:(wide eyed) dammit!

Spy: ( shocked) Shit, why is he pregnant now !

Pooh: W-what do you mean that my baby's life is in danger ?

Doctor: well , we try our best , if we've done that surgery your husband would recover quickly , i mean he will regain his consiusness within 3 days but cause of the baby fetus we can't 

Pooh: (wiping tears, determind) D-do the surgery ! 

Doctor: I'm sorry what?

Pooh:( Grabbing the collars of the doctor and pushing him to the nearest wall) I - said , Do the fucking surgery and save my husband

Doctor: ( gulps) w-what about your baby?

Pooh:(with cold eyes) Kill it ! kill that stupid fetus and save my Pavel ! Save him or i'll rip you into 10 pieces and sell your meat in chinese market !

Doctor:(nervously) O-okay... y-you have to sign those papers to legalise the a-abortion

Pooh: ( leaving the doctor , and tapping on Doctor's shoulders with an eerie smile) I will and thank you.

Pooh : ( turning around to face both Spy and Jeff) You two are not allowed to utter  a single word about this to Pavel okay ? If i got to know , I'll kill you two with my own hands.

Jeff:( overwhelmed) b-but how can you kill your own baby? 

Spy:( holding Jeff) Shh.. Jeff please be calm

Jeff:(glaring at Spy) Don't shh me ! he almost kills his own baby ! how can you be so heartless huh ? We- ( Jeff is tearing up) Me and Spy had been trying since 5 years to have one baby and all i did was ending up with miscarriages and y-you just kill.. i-

Spy made El sleep on the nearest chair and took Jeff outside in order to calm him down.

Pooh looked at his sleeping daughter, and carried her to the front door , in order to sign the abortion of Pavel because he knew he could have many kids with Pavel but if something happened to Pavel , he would never be able to see him . He didn't want to loose Pavel.

Pooh: (lighting a cigarette, walking aimlessly, while holding the sleepy daughter on his back) "This can't be happening. It can't end like this.. everything needs to be perfect''

Pooh finds himself on the edge of a bridge near the hospital, staring into the water below, smoking to calm his nerves. Spy approaches cautiously, seeing the distress in his friend's posture and holding the sleeping EL , carefully.

Spy: "Hey, man, come away from the edge. Let's talk."

Pooh: (voice trembling) "What if I loose Pavel, Spy ? How can I go on?"

Spy: (moving closer) "You won't lose him. The doctors are doing everything they can.''

Pooh :( taking a shaky breath) I'm a terrible dad , aren't I ? Jeff is right , I'm heartless ... but i have to kill that baby in order to save Pavel

SPy: (gently placing a hand on his friend's shoulder) "You have to hold on, for Pavel, and don't mind Jeff , he would never be able to understand Enigma's thoughts . But you have to be strong now , specially for EL. They need you to be strong right now. Come on, let's go back inside."

Pooh drops the cigarette, nodding slowly. Spy guides him away from the edge, supporting him as they walk back towards the hospital entrance. As they approach, Spy hand over EL to Jeff, who takes the baby and get inside his car.

Spy: I asked Jeff to take care of EL and bring her tomorrow here

Pooh:(nodding) thanks man!

Pooh taps on Jeff's car screen , then he sees the sleeping baby , he softly takes her with him. 

Spy: w-what are you doing ?

Pooh takes El in his arms, tears flowing freely as he holds her close.

Pooh: (whispering to the baby) "Daddy's here. Daddy's not going anywhere. We're going to get through this. All of us.''

Then he slowly placed him on the Jeff's car seat again , kissing on his forehead .

He heard Jeff is sniffing , but he avoids Jeff's gaze and heads to the hospital , following Spy.

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Pooh keeps staring at the white wall . He laughs to himself , remebering his own words ''Let's have another baby''. He reminds how Pavel asked to make him pregnant with ''another baby'' only to abort him in the second.

The smily face of Pavel , when Pooh was teasing of seeing him being pregnant and Pavel  is secretly checking on the baby bump started to haunt in Pooh's memories.

Spy came and hand him over the Pavel's bag which was fell inside the mall. Pooh slowly checks on the bag ... blue pair of socks ...and two blue Rampers along with a small blue beanie. Tears started to falling from Pooh's face. He couldn't believe that Pavel was almost getting ready for his pregnancy and ..he just forced the doctor to abort the baby, almost crushing his lover's dreams within a second. He felt like a shit. The more he saw the baby clothes , the more he started to hate himself.

Pooh slowly took out the baby blue socks and clutched them to his heart .

Spy(gently holding Pooh, sniffing) : y- you are still not late , you still have the time to decide

Pooh wanted to talk but the words didn't come out from his mouth . He stood up slowly and started punching on the nearest wall, screaming ,and crying.

Spy couldn't bear seeing Pooh being weak like this, he also couldn't control his tears after seeing Pooh was breaking down in-front of the operation theater.

The doctor came running , with few male nurses . He slowly inject him the sedative , waiting for Pooh to be unconsious.

Pooh slowly fell down , unconsiously , holding the baby socks on his hands , tightly.

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