(Chapter 3 to this not so happy tale, enjoy. Read and review please!)
NOT MINE! NOT MAKING ANY MONEY! IT'S JUST FOR FUNNN!
Chapter 3 Real Emotion
They had been at Jeanne and Lester's house for four days, before Carlos came in the guest room that Heidi was staying in and told her news she didn't want to hear. Carlos walked over to the big bed, sat down beside Heidi and grabbed her hand.
"Heidi, querida, we have to go down to DC, to the Organization department." Carlos said softly to the woman, "You to-claim Diesel's body."
Heidi covered her mouth with the flannel shirt, tears pouring down her cheek. She didn't want to see Diesel's body, she didn't want to claim him, as if his body was a package, waiting to be picked up at the post office.
"When do we go?" Heidi croaked softly, rubbing her tiny baby bump.
"When you say the words, we'll get on the jet and go down to Washington D.C." Carlos said softly, gathering Heidi in his arms, as she began to sob out loud, "It'll be a quick trip, in and out, okay?"
"I want to go now, I want to get this over with," Heidi sobbed softly, gripping the flannel shirt to her chest, "I just want this over."
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"You sure you don't want us to go with you two?" Lester asked Carlos as he and Jeanne dropped Heidi and Carlos off at Newark International, "You two don't have to go alone and do this."
"I just want this over," Heidi said softly to Carlos, "I just want this over."
"No, I'll call you when we're an hour out from Newark on the flight back to New Jersey." Carlos said, wrapping an arm around Heidi's shoulder, "We'll be fine."
Jeanne kissed Heidi's forehead and said, "When you come back, we'll pig out on junk food, okay?"
Heidi smiled softly and said, "Okay, Jeanne, I'll see you soon."
Jeanne and lester watched the two walk through the airport, to Rangeman's private jet. Jeanne grabbed Lester's arm and said, "I don't know if she'll ever be okay, I hope she will, Les."
"Don't worry, Gina," Lester said hugging Jeanne, "She's in capable hands; my cousin will take good care of her."
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It was a quick hour and a half to Dulles airport, most of the time, Heidi slept the whole trip, while Carlos made arrangements for the funeral. Heidi had told him that Diesel wanted to be cremated; she would keep the ashes in an urn. Heidi had told him the day before that she wanted to move out of England, to sell the home her and Diesel made together. It wasn't a home without Diesel. Jeanne said she was welcomed to live with them until she found a different place to live. Carlos was concerned for the woman. Where would Heidi go, she would be alone and pregnant, but her pregnancy was a high risk one. He didn't like the idea of her being alone. He would raise his concern later on.
A black car was waiting for them, and a man in a black suit walked over to Carlos and Heidi. He shook Carlos's hand and then hugged Heidi, who wrapped her arms around him.
"I'm sorry for your loss, Heidi, everyone down in the Organization loved him." The man said softly, leading the two to the car, "We're here for you, everyone is."
Heidi nodded her head and then got in the back of the car beside Carlos, while the man got into the driver seat and drove off into downtown Washington D.C .
"Thanks for getting us, Eugene," Carlos said to the man who was driving, the black car, "It won't be a long visit."
Eugene nodded his head and said looking at the two in the back of the car, "I hope it wouldn't be a long visit, once you're done with this situation, get her home."
It was a 20 minute drive to the large 4 story white building that lay in the heart of downtown D.C. there were windows, but they were pitch black, so no one could see in them. There was no front door to the building. The entrance and exit were underground in a park and ride lot that was two blocks away from the building. Eugene led the two through the park and ride lot, to the little building in the middle of the lot. It looked like a security building, but inside was nothing but a stairway that led underground to a series of tunnels.
Eugene, Heidi and Carlos walked the two blocks underground to the entrance of the white building. They walked through a set of black sliding doors and into a lavish lobby. The floors were white, the furniture chic and black, rare paintings covered the walls and there was a real 15th century Italian fountain in the middle of the lobby. The group walked past the lavish lobby and into the elevator area. Eugene pressed a button and the group walked into an elevator. Carlos held Heidi as she began to cry again. They were going to the first floor, the floor where the bodies of those who died during missions were kept. Neither Heidi or Carlos wanted to be going there, but they had to.
The elevator doors dinged and the three walked out into a busy area, which quieted when the people spotted Heidi beside Carlos. They kept their distance, respecting the silent plea Heidi had sent them; no sympathy. it didn't stop the looks that were sent to her, full of sadness and pity.
Eugene opened the metal doors and they entered a sterile white room, where a medical examiner stood, waiting for them, standing close to a covered figure on a metal table. Heidi gripped Carlos's hand tightly and then let go of it, to walk over to the medical examiner. The examiner gave Heidi a look and then she hugged her tightly. She let go of the woman and then pulled the covering off the figure. Heidi let out a sob as she looked down at the body. This was her husband, this really was Diesel.
"Diesel…Diesel…Diesel," Heidi sobbed running a hand over the blond locks that remained, "Oh Diesel, Diesel, Diesel why Diesel? Why did you have to die?!"
Heidi gripped the metal table, crying loudly, her body sliding to the floor. Carlos walked over to the woman and hugged her, letting the woman cry in his shirt, her wails filling the room. Carlos ran a hand through her hair muttering softly in Spanish. Eugene shook his head sadly and then walked out the room. The medical examiner left also, to give them privacy. Heidi looked up at Carlos and sobbed, "He was going to be a father! He was going to be a father! Why did have to die and leave me alone!"
Carlos had to find the medical examiner so she could administer a weak sedative to Heidi, when she had become hysterical. Fearing for her health and for the baby health, they had to get Heidi calm. Carlos carried her out the sterile room, and into a little room, so she could sleep off the drug. Eugene entered the room holding a box full of Diesel's things.
"She'll be done cremating the body soon; everyone had chipped in and bought the urn for Diesel, so Heidi wouldn't have to worry about it." Eugene said softly, giving Carlos the box, "Everything that Diesel kept at his desk, is in this box."
Carlos turned to Heidi, who sobbed softly in her sleep, even in a drug induced sleep, she couldn't escape what was occurring around her. Eugene leaned forward and said softly, "Please, take care of Heidi, we know she's not coming back, please take care of her."
Carlos nodded his head and said, "Eugene, I'll watch over her, and see to It that she's taken care of."
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Heidi leaned against Carlos, holding the blue urn that held the ashes of Diesel. They walked through a now dead silent second floor, all eyes on Heidi and the urn. Once they were in the elevator did Heidi break down again, sobbing softly, holding the urn. Carlos held her as she sobbed softly. Eugene had given him the keys to the car, so that they could drive to the airport and head back to New Jersey.
"It's okay, you can cry, Heidi, let it all out," Carlos said softly, rocking the woman, "It's okay."
"It's never going to be okay, Carlos, it won't," Heidi sobbed softly, leaning against the man, "How can I live without him?"
Carlos wondered about what would happen to them both, Diesel had been like a brother to him. Life wouldn't be the same without the goofy man.
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Jeanne took Heidi upstairs to the room she was sleeping in. Carlos took the box that was full of Diesel's mementos into his guest room. He looked through the box taking out all the silly things and the small things Diesel and Heidi had gotten on their trips around the world. Carlos paused, taking out a white envelope with his name written on it in Diesel's neat hand writing. Carlos opened the envelope and then took out the letter that was in it.
Carlos,
I guess since you're reading this, that means I'm dead. I write a letter each month, just in case I don't make out of a mission alive. well, I have some news for you, just in case you don't know by now, Heidi's pregnant! Of course I'm ecstatic! We've been trying so hard too. Well, now that I'm dead, it might noe matter to me anymore, but it does matter to Heidi. She's going to be devastated that I'm dead. I must ask you to do something for me. Please, watch over her. She's all that I have; of course I have you too. You're my younger 'brother' we've been together for a damn long time, since you were a little tadpole, training at the age of 15. Carlos I never do like writing these letters, because I have put emotions that I don't like to show in them. I'm going to miss you, and I'm glad to have met you. I never had any real family only one real family member is still alive, and I hardly know them. you and Heidi were my family, and I was grateful for every day I had with the both of you. If you can do this last thing for me, I would be eternally happy. Watch over my wife, and my unborn child. I want you to be there when the baby kicks, I want you to be there when Heidi finds out if the baby is a girl or a boy. I want you to be there for every tear that's shed and for every painful contraction she goes through. I wouldn't want anyone but you to watch over them both. Take care of yourself Carlos, because if Heidi loses you, she has no one else. Thank you for taking my last request, because I know you will take it.
Take Care,
Diesel Vashmem.
Carlos folded the letter up and then wiped the lone tear that slid down his cheek. Fuck Diesel, why did you have to go and die on them both? Carlos got up and went into the room Heidi was staying in. he found the woman laying on her side, with Diesel's pillow underneath her stomach. She was staring at the blue urn on the window still. Heidi turned to Carlos and said in a rough voice, "Yes?" wiping her red eyes.
"What are you going to do now, since you said you were selling the house in England," Carlos asked Heidi, who sat up, rubbing her stomach.
"I don't know, I need to never go back to that house, that was mine and Diesel's house, without him, it's nothing." Heidi croaked softly looking down, "Maybe stay with Jeanne-"
"Stay with me," Carlos said softly, making Heidi look up at him, "I have a penthouse at a building I own in Trenton, we can get out of Jeanne and Lester's hair but still be close. I don't want you alone, Heidi."
Heidi lay back down and said, "I don't want to be in your hair Carlos," making Carlos shake his head and sit beside the woman.
"You're not a bother, I want you to stay with me, please." Carlos said, making Heidi blink and smile softly.
"Okay, Carlos I'll go, since you did say please," Heidi said nodding her head, "when do we go to this penthouse?"
"Tonight if you want, I called Ella, she aired it out, it's just waiting for us now." Carlos said to Heidi, who rubbed her stomach.
"Tonight, we can leave tonight." Heidi said getting up, "I guess I have to pack my bags."
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Ranger was back in Trenton, Stephanie couldn't believe it. She hadn't seen him in two years. Was he still as handsome with that bone melting smile? Maybe he was ten times better now.
Stephanie was sitting on the toilet seat of the master bedroom , holding a white stick. Even before the talk of babies and children, Stephanie had been feeling off. Could she be pregnant? With Joe's child? she looked over to the timer on the sink. She would find out in a few seconds.
Stephanie looked down at the white stick and bit her lip, tears welling in her eyes. She was pregnant. Pregnant with Joe's child. shouldn't she be happy about this? This is what they wanted, babies. Stephanie leaned back against the toilet, thinking about Ranger. Would she be happy if she found out that she was pregnant with Ranger's child? She didn't know, she would never find out now.
Stephanie got up and placed the pregnancy stick on the sink. She had to get the pasta cooked for the scampi, and she had to tell Joe the good news.
Stephanie was putting the final touches on the shrimp scampi, when Joe walked into the kitchen with flowers and chocolates.
"Hey Cupcake, I was thinking about you, so I got you some flowers and candy," Joe said, kissing Stephanie, "Smells good cupcake."
"Joe, I'm pregnant." Stephanie said softly, making Joe's eyes light up with delight.
"Cupcake!" joe said hugging the woman and kissing her again, "Carrying my child…I'm so happy!"
Stephanie smiled and said, "I can't wait to tell my parents!"
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Joe ate his pasta with a smile. Finally, he had gotten his Cupcake knocked up, and with perfect timing. Ranger was back in town, and he wanted to make sure that Stephanie remained his wife. He had been messing around with her birth control and with the condoms they had. Stephanie's mother even helped him out with the sabotage. she wanted Stephanie pregnant with his child more than he did! Soon Stephanie will be busy with the baby, and then he can go on with his affairs. A man had needs, and Stephanie wouldn't do everything.
Joe smiled at his wife, and tucked back into his pasta, life was good for Joe Morelli. Soon he would have a child, the cherry on top of his perfect cupcake.
TBC….
