"Stay there, just stay in your car, I'm coming." He told her assumingly.
"Can you bring a blanket or something? I mean I have him in my jacket he's just so cold, he doesn't have any clothes on…Tommy I almost hit him. I could have killed him, he's just so little. How could someone do this to him?" she said as she started to cry harder.
"Don't cry Jude, you'll make him upset, just calm down. I'll be there as soon as I can."
Jude hung up the phone and cradled the baby, holding him a little tighter against her. She could feel him shivering, so she cranked up the heater in the car. It wasn't to cold out side, but it was freezing for a baby with no clothes on. The baby started to get fussy again, and Jude figured he was sick, she didn't have anything at all to feed him, and she just didn't know what to do. So she did the one thing she knew how to do best, sing.
When you smile
With those eyes
Baby it's like
You place a finger on my heart
And your lips next to mine
Make me think that maybe heavens where you are
God don't send to me your angels
I just wanna hear you say again
Tommy pulled into the parking lot and saw her car a few spaces down from where he parked. He grabbed the blanket he had brought and walked over to her car. As he got close, he could hear her voice softly.
Forever love
Say it love
Digame, Digame
Tell me so
I can hold you in my soul
And if I go
I'll know
He sighed and watched her as she finished the song. He could see the baby a little bit, resting up against her. He was still, and Tommy assumed she had finally been able to get him to go to sleep. He tapped on the window slightly and she jumped a little. When she saw him she unlocked the car and he opened the door.
"You ok?"
"Shhh I think hes asleep, finally" she whispered to him.
"Jude we should at least wrap him in the blanket and see if he belongs to anyone in the restaurant or bar." Tom told her.
"Tommy, look at him," Jude pulled the jacket off him somewhat so Tommy could see how dirty he was, and how little he looked, "There is no way in hell I'm giving him back to whoever had him."
"I know Jude, I know. But it's only the right thing to do." He handed her the chenille blanket he had taken from Darius's office. She took her jacket off of him and wrapped him up in the blanket. She started to cry when she got out of the car, and she held the baby boy close to her. Tom put his arm around her, encouraging her. She had been through a lot already, and he knew it was hard for her to see a baby so small and helpless, so miss treated.
They walked into the restaurant and he told Jude to wait by the door. He spoke some words to the manager very quickly. After a minute two, Tommy returned and told her to go ahead and walkout.
"What did you say?"
"I just asked him if anyone had told him about a lost baby, he said no, so we left."
Jude smiled. Tommy wasn't looking very hard. As they walked the little bit towards the club, Jude shifted her arms and held the baby differently.
"Here let me" Tommy took the boy from her and held him gently in the crook of his arm. He opened his eyes for just a moment then snuggled up against Tommy's chest.
"Look at him Tommy, he acts like nobodies ever loved him, or held him at all."
A lady passed them as they walked closer to the bar, and she starred at them until she passed them, then she turned to watch them walk away. Jude felt her eyes on her back and she stopped. The lady was obviously drunk, and had mean black eye.
"Tom" Jude said. He stopped and turned around to where she was. Jude took the baby from Tommy and walked closer toward the lady. Jude could see she was crying, obviously upset.
"Ma'am, is…is he yours?" Jude asked her carefully. The lady started to shake her head yes, then she quickly shook her head no, then yes again. Jude looked down at the baby and started to cry again. She started to hand him over to the lady, his mother, but she reached out and put a hand on Jude's arm.
"His name is Nickolas" she said, then she walked away, wiping the tears from her face carefully.
"I'll take good care of him," Jude called out to her, as Tommy put his arm around her. The lady stopped and looked at them, they already looked like a little family. She smiled a strained smiled, "I know you will Jude."
The got in Tommy's car, after deciding to leave Jude's car there and go back for it tomorrow. Jude got in and Tommy helped her buckle her seatbelt across her and the baby. He started to laugh slightly.
"What?"
"I just…I just cant believe all of this…Looks like we're going to have to start taking the hummer from now on."
"We need to go to the store before we go back to the studio, he needs diapers and food at least, then tomorrow I can get him everything else he needs."
"Jude you're going to have to report this to the police…" Tommy told her.
"Why? No I don't want to do that! They'll take him away from me; they'll give him back to his poor mother! Did you not see how someone had hit her? I don't think she could take care of him, I think maybe she wanted to, but whatever man she was with didn't let that happen. He probably keeps her drugged up and drunk for all we know!" Tommy didn't say anything but kept driving. What was going to be open at this time of night where they could get what they need? He thought about for a few minutes, and then realized the Wal-Mart a few miles away was probably open.
"She knew who you were Jude."
"Anyone not living under a rock knows who I am."
"What if she tries to get money from you, or take him back after you're really attached to him?"
"I won't let that happen" she told him firmly.
"You got to go to the police Jude." She sat silent for a moment then thought of something.
"Fine I'll go to the police…through Darius."
Tommy thought about it for a second, and then wondered why he didn't think of it himself. Darius had just about anyone you could imagine in his pocket, he surly had someone from the police tucked in there too.
They pulled into the Wal-mart, and Tommy helped her get out of the sports car while still holding the baby. They wondered over to the baby section and started looking at the massive amounts of things that where there. All the different foods, diapers, formulas, pacifiers, toys, clothes…
"I think maybe you should go get a cart, I didn't realize babies needed so much…" Jude told him.
"Neither did I," he said looking at her and Nickolas, "I think we're in over our heads."
