Blainsville

29) A Couple Days Later...

Jimmy

Well I was allowed to leave thank god once the staples were removed which I'll admit nearly made me cry now there's a gnarly scar of what used to be my stomach. As for the babies they're doing fine Alaina still has some problems with breathing so shes kept on oxygen until she can breath on her own properly and AJ he's already a fairly chubby happy baby. He's always wanting to be coddled by Diana which I find endearing and absolutely adorable but Alaina... We still are in the yellow with her condition. I was told to go home and get some down time for a couple weeks then I could resume my normal activities but then again what was normal now? I mean I was cut open like a stuffed pig; two humans were removed from my body and I lost my job at this point normalcy went out the window a long time ago. Diana she quit with John and now we played the who's going back to work first game which will more likely be me because I'm the man of the house and as the father I need to put bread on the table. I told Diana that her parents could stay as long as they wanted as long as they didn't overrule how we raise our children as for Shanna and Hailey they went home once I was released. I was laying in bed that evening worn out from the long drive home and having to stop every other mile to feed or change the twins altogether the trip was 3 hours. We had Alaina in a bassinet for now in front of our bed so if she had problems at night we could be right there but AJ being the brave boy he was got his very own nursery and in a few months hopefully Alaina would be joining him. We had decorated the room with a soft baby blue paint and little safari animals on a wallpaper print; they had a changing table a single dresser, a closet for the toys and strollers and a single rocking chair that her mom bought us as a housewarming gift. "What are you doing, Ana?" I ask down the hall waiting for her to step out of the bathroom. She had been in there about thirty minutes now what she was doing I don't know but now I was getting sort of anxious, "I'm ok... Just worried is all." She answers back. I get out of bed ever so slightly and try to tip toe past Alaina's bassinet to head to Diana's side, "What's wrong, baby? Are you feeling ok? Do you feel sick?" I ask putting a hand to her forehead no fever but I could tell that wasn't the issue. "I haven't felt her move. Like you felt them move around the same time as me... Just I don't know isn't it kind of alarming?" She asks concern evident on her face. I put my hands on her bump and try talking softly, "Hey there you, its your daddy I cant wait to meet you. I need you to do something for me, can you kick my hand? That's all we want is just for you to kick my hand." We wait standing still as statues but nothing ever happens. "I think something is wrong, Jimmy. Like really wrong. This isn't normal; I'm almost five months and no movement... What if something happened?" Diana says getting teary eyed, "Babe, babe, calm down ok? Its ok. I'm sure its just she's a late bloomer you know? Sometimes they don't all move right away. Give it time just talk to her. Besides what makes you think its a girl anyway? What if its another son?" She shrugs turning the light off to the bathroom walking past me, "I don't know I guess cause I secretly want a little girl. I would love a boy just the same but every woman wants a princess you know? I don't know I just... I have a horrible feeling about this..." Diana heads to the bed and lays down on her side I climb in beside her, "Ana, don't do this to yourself. Please don't torture yourself over this I'm sure she's fine if you want it to be a girl or feel its a girl then its a girl. You're just letting the hormones take over and you're scared I get that. I was too you know that... But you cant torture yourself with this. How about this tomorrow we will see John make an appointment and have a check on her. Will that clear your mind? To know shes happy and safe?" Diana shrugs. AJ suddenly starts to cry startling the both of us, "I'm on it don't worry alright? Why don't you go to bed I'm sure everything is fine shes just behind is all." I kiss Diana on the head as she lays there. Everything better be ok or I just lied to her face straight off.

Diana

I'm walking but where am I going? Its a forest dark and cloudy; I can hear a baby crying and I have to get to her she's loud and throwing a fit it almost sounds like a cry of hurt. As I try to run through the dark trees I'm passing them by and passing them by but the further I run the longer the trail in front of me gets and she keeps crying louder and harder and I have to get to her. I finally make it to a small cottage; everything is so dark and dreary and I can hear the baby perfectly I put my hand on the knob but a part of me is scared for some reason was it because I was afraid of what I would walk into? When I walk inside the cottage its empty and again dark almost as night I walk around trying to search for the screaming baby that's when I find a room with only a crib and above it were little crosses on a mobile. As I walk to the crib I'm terrified of what I'm going to encounter it was as if I knew what I would find I make it to the edge of the crib and there's something in it but its covered with a light yellow blanket, please be ok, please be ok I keep saying to myself. When I take the blanket off the crib there's nothing in there, just an empty bed that's when I feel a sharp pain in my stomach it was as if I was going to throw up but I was stopping myself. Just as I'm about to walk out of the room and continue to search for the baby that obviously isn't in the crib I feel something warm fall down my leg, I glance down next thing I know my shorts and my hands are covered in blood. I shoot up drenched in sweat and tears. What the fuck kind of a dream was that? What the hell did it mean? I glance over to see James snoring out cold I must have passed out once my head hit the pillow. I get out of bed carefully and quietly to get a drink of water and that's when the pain becomes real. I can feel the same warm sensation but the pain is unbearable its as if I was having the worst cramps in the world. I run to the bathroom and try to understand what the fuck was happening as I'm trying to clean the blood off my legs I'm slammed with nausea and immediately bend over the bathtub and start to hurl. It must have been loud and violent because Jimmy throws the bathroom door open and I'm leaned over the edge of the tub; he takes one look at me covered in sweat and tears and he goes still. "Oh my god, what the hell happened?! You're bleeding, Diana! Holy shit you're bleeding a lot... You're so pale do you feel ok does anything hurt?" He's asking too many questions and causing me to panic and I'm very aware of the pain when I get a sharp shooting sensation in my pelvis. "I... I don't know... Oh my god it hurts... It hurts so much..." I say gritting my teeth together trying not to be too loud cause the twins were asleep simultaneously for once. "What hurts, babe?! What's wrong, why are you bleeding so bad? You're burning up... Here come on I'll get you to bed and call John." He says trying to help me up but I have this strange sensation if I move something awful will happen. "I don't want to move... Don't move me something is wrong. I don't know what but I feel something wrong." I throw up again but this time on his lap as he's trying to help me up to bed suddenly I'm slammed with this overwhelming feeling, "This baby is coming. This baby is coming now, James." I say another pain ripping through me, "I cant walk... I cant get up. Honey, put me in the tub." I'm begging at this point because I have the urge to push and its overwhelming. "Diana, something is messed up here are you going into labor?" He asks lifting me covered in blood from the waist down into the tub. "I cant wait you're gonna have to help me... God it fucking hurts so much... James, call 911. Please!" I'm trying not to scare him but I'm scaring myself when my body goes against me and I'm being forced so push against my will. "Give me a moment honey ok?! Just I have to grab the phone I'm calling Johnny ok?! I'm gonna need to take your shorts off just relax ok?!" I'm screaming at this point at him, "Relax?! Relax! I'm having a fucking baby, James how the fuck do you relax?! You have to do this! You have to help me. I know you don't know how but I have to push ok?! Just please..." I beg and im crying because I know what's going to happen I don't know how I know but I do. "Oh my fucking God, ok diana I see um... I see our kids head here I think you're doing it right just one big push." Jimmy says i cant hear him completely because I hear my heart whooshing in my head and against my ears. I push with all my might and fall back against the tub, "Alright you're halfway through, Ana your doing so good just one more push should do it." Again I go against my body and give with what I had left I finally feel something slip between my legs and I'm leaned up against the tub, drenched in sweat and shivering. "You did it, Diana! You fucking did it, baby! I'm so proud of you!" He exclaims picking up the tiniest goop covered baby I had ever seen it was twice as small as Alaina only this one wasn't alive... She wasn't crying or moving or anything... James finally understands what I mean when he glances down at it and its just what it is, "Honey, shes not breathing. She's cold as ice." He's still holding the still born meanwhile I'm curled in on myself shivering and heartbroken. "I'm going to get a blanket for you ok? Just stay right here don't move." He demands handing me the tiny newborn who's obviously been gone for a little while by the feel of it. As I look at was once a life and now a tiny sad wasted little thing out of my body I cant help but scream. I feel like I want to get up and run; I want to scream and run but the more I try to scream nothing comes out nothing ever escapes my mouth except a heartbroken sob. Jimmy comes back with a towel for the newborn and a blanket for me he wraps it around my torso I cant move, I cant think I can only hold the tiny baby and sob uncontrollably. "Diana, I called John he said he would be here in an hour but for now I need to take her ok? Give her to me ok?" He says calmly as im curled in a tight fetal position tears falling rapidly down my face. I watch as he takes the baby from me and wraps her in the towel and just holds her close to his chest, "I'm so sorry, Ana. I'm so, so fucking sorry." He mumbles as he starts to cry too. My entire life just flashed before my eyes and what's so sad is it wasn't even my life... It was the baby's... What did I do wrong to deserve this? What did I do Why me? As I'm laying there drained and crushed in so many ways I cant talk all I can do is silently cry on the inside because I didnt have any tears to spare.

John

I had received a panicked message on voicemail from Jimmy who was crying but yelling at me over the line. I was actually in the office at the time and was giving Howard an ultrasound, "Alright I need to see you back here in a week. The baby is doing great thankfully do you want to know the gender yet?" Howard puts his shirt down, "I mean you can tell me but I'd rather let my wife guess I think its funny to let her assume one or the other. But sure tell me." He gets excited for a moment, "Its a boy." Howard nearly jumps in excitement, "That's fucking awesome! Yes! Another son! Im gonna have a fucking son!" I tell him to quiet down at the shouting in joy. "My bad, thanks John I'll be back next week to check on this little guy. Man she is going to be pissed though." He chuckles. I rush out of the room and to my office, I grab my black medical bag and prepare to head out the door when I'm met with Agent Aires and Agent Jacobs waiting in the lobby. "Hello, John we came here on some unfortunate agenda." Aires says taking a step toward me while Jacobs locks the door from the inside, "Um... Alright... What is this about? Cause I have a patient I need to tend to it's an emergency." Aires glances over at her partner who nods in approval. Suddenly I feel a sting to my arm it felt like a bee sting when I glances down though it's a needle sticking out of my arm, "I'm sorry, Mr. Cromwell but this had to be done. You gave us your word and now we had to take drastic measures." As my eyes are getting heavy I can't move I can only fall forward when Aires catches me, "We got him. Yeah he's almost out, I know I didn't think we needed to do this either but evidently we can't trust him. A couple of other agents went to grab the girl. We'll see you in thirty, thank you sir." She hangs up my phone. I don't know who she was talking to but I had a hunch this was bad and this involved my family.