Shattered, Forgotten and Treasured
Chapter 10: Judgments and Rebirths
Keith
I decided that I needed to make a visit with Aaron before things got anymore out of control. I knew that Logan was already stressing out about Aaron getting anywhere near Veronica or their baby. I got up early made a pot of coffee as well as some pancakes with bacon. I left everything in the warmer for the kids for when they got up.
"Are you heading out?" Leo asks as he enters the kitchen area.
"Yeah, I'll probably be gone most of the day. Try to keep them all close to home today," I say as I pour some coffee in a travel mug. "I don't want Duncan Kane here either. I would like to talk with him before he hangs out here," I say motioning to him as he sits down at the counter.
I get into the Range Rover when I get into the garage. After backing out and heading down the drive way I waved at the guard in the little gate house. He waved back as he opened the gate for me and I headed toward the highway. I had a long drive ahead of me to pay Aaron Echolls a visit. The sick bastard was going to be hurting after my visit if he doesn't leave my family alone. I would let him know exactly what I thought about him.
"Hey, Mars," one of my old buddies say as I open the door to the prison.
"I was wondering when we would be seeing you here, Joe and I have been taking bets about when you would show your face," Jorge says as he elbows Joe in the side.
"I was hoping I wouldn't have to come down here," I say as they both laugh.
"He's waiting for you in interrogation room 3. We will have a security guard posted in the room and outside of the room just in case," Jorge says as I smirk. Yeah, they both knew me a little too well.
"He might need a body bag if he pisses me off," I snap as the guys both nod.
"The letters on our end have been stopped. We had a guy who double checks his mail each day to limit what he sends out. I saved the letters and mail pertaining to Veronica," Joe says as he opens a cell door for me. I walk down the hall as I go through a metal detector and then get motioned through to the interrogation rooms.
"Keith Mars, I should have known you would be the one to get me up at this godly hour," Aaron says smugly as I walk into the room with my coffee and one of the guards Joe insists that Aaron will need in case he ticks me off.
"I just have a few questions for you," I snap as he leans back in his chair.
"You should know any questions you have for me should be vexed by my lawyer," the bastards sneers at me as he laughs.
"Well I doubt your lawyer would question you about the things I need answers to," I say as I slam his head into the table.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?" Aaron snaps at me as he looks back at the guard in the room who was looking anywhere but in his direction.
"I am the father of the girl you are sending harassing phots to. I am the father of the boy who only wants to protect her. I am the ticked off parents that see you for the trash you are," I yell at him as he just chuckles.
"My son will never be yours," he says spitting out some blood out of his mouth.
"Blood isn't the only thing that binds families, love and marriage does as well," I say as he lurches in his chair.
"He is my son, as soon as my lawyers find a loop hole he will be back under my thumb," he sneers at me smirking once again.
"I don't think you have any loop holes to find. Lynn was very through when she asked for my help. We had every 'I' dotted, and every 'T' crossed. I hate to tell you this but Logan is now my son, and I will do anything and everything in my power to protect him from the likes of you," I sneer into his face. I watched as the vain above his eye looked like it was about to burst.
"I will not be doing any such thing. Logan is my son and he will be as long as I decide to keep him. Once I no longer need him I'll let you know," he sneers toward me once more. I get up and punch him in the face.
"I hope you know just how easy it was for me to get in here to you. I have a lot of friends in here, I would watch my back or you might find yourself sharing community soap with a thug who doesn't like you. Stay the hell away from my children!" I say as I walk out of the room. I headed to Mars Investigation to cool off. Joe was right I could have easily killed him, but I didn't.
***LoVe***
Dick
"You need to stop peeing in my shoes," I tell the little puppy that was squirming in my hands.
"Whatcha doing with Rosa," Veronica asks as she sticks her head into my room.
"I'm trying to teach her, my shoes are not her peeing spot," I say as she just bursts out laughing. "Veronica this isn't funny, my shoes cost a lot of money," I groan as she takes the wiggling puppy out of my hands.
"I know, but the best way to break a puppy or dog from peeing or pooping isn't talking to them. It's rubbing their nose in the stuff," she says as I motion to where the offending shoes were. She bends down to the shoes with the puppy in her hands.
"I hate to do this, but Rosa this is not good," she says as she rubs the puppy's nose in the wet pee. The puppy squirms even more and tries to wrangle free, but Veronica holds her firmly as she rubs her nose once more.
"That should do it, but maybe you should keep your door closed in case it doesn't," Logan smirks from the doorway.
"Nice," I mutter as he comes into the room to help Veronica up. I watched as the two of them walked out holding the puppy in between them as I barely heard Logan whispering to it, "Good Girl!" I wanted to make a comment, but decided to let it go once I saw the way Veronica winked at me.
***LoVe***
Logan
"How are you feeling?" I questioned as Veronica got settled into a comfortable position on the sofa next to me.
"I am totally hating you right now," she mutters as I see her tense up as a picture of Aaron flashes on the TV screen. I give her a soft kiss to her forehead as she snuggles into me.
"What are you two fine lovebirds doing this afternoon?" Keith says as he walks into the room.
"We are waiting for Meg and the others to come in to watch a movie and eat junk food," Veronica says as I hear yelling outside.
"What the heck?" I say as I stand up to see Dick and Wallace making a commotion as Mac is holding Meg's hand while she seems to be muttering under her breath.
"Go grab her bag while we get her in the SUV," Mac snaps at Dick and Wallace who look like they are about to get sick.
"Mac, it's too early I have another month or so," Meg is crying as I see Veronica glaring at me.
"Oh, Meg," she says softly as I help her get up as it dawns on me why they were all getting frantic.
"Meg's in labor," I yell as Keith rushes back into the room followed closely by Leo who looked like he was eating something. I was in utter surprise as we all rushed around gathering things. I was thankful Veronica and I got to be in the car with Meg because Veronica was able to keep her calm during the ride to the hospital.
"You are doing fine," I say as I feel Meg squeeze my hand as she slightly began to cry a little more.
"I want Duncan, but I don't think I could handle him in the room," Meg half says as she clenches my hand harder.
"Veronica and I will both be here for you as will the rest of our motley crew," I say as she manages a small smile before gripping down once more. The rest of the ride was done in a flash as Leo helped her out as I helped Veronica out. The four of us made our way into the ER before the rest of our friends joined us. Meg was filling out papers to get checked in when the rest showed up.
"Are one of you the father?" a nurse asks as Meg looks up from her papers.
"No, nut both Veronica and her husband are going in with me," Meg states as she hands the filled out papers to the nurse.
"Then they'll both need to scrub down and change clothes," another one says as she begins to lead us away from the group. Wallace passed me Meg's things as we went by him. I helped Veronica change into some scrubs and then changed myself as we joined Meg in the Labor room.
"How are you feeling?" Veronica asks as soon as she was beside Meg.
"I want to kill Duncan," she mutters as I rub the damp cloth over her forehead. She wasn't alone I wanted to hurt him as well for being a jackass to her.
"Let's not think about him, but the little baby you're going to be having shortly," Veronica whispers to Meg as I take Meg's other hand. The doctor came in every half hour for 3 hours checking on Meg. It wasn't until the third hour did the doctor mumble something to the nurses did things get hectic.
"You have a beautiful little girl," the doctor says twenty minutes later. I was still holding her hand as one nurse took the baby to clean her up before passing her back to Meg.
"Don't worry, Logan made sure to hire someone to watch her when they take her out if needed," Veronica reassures Meg as she watches the nurses with her baby. Veronica had told me about the switch with Madison and Mac. I was just as concern for our baby as Meg's. There was no way anyone was going to be taking this child from our sight.
"She's so pretty," Meg whispers to her little girl. I had moved to join Veronica on her side of the bed while I took a photo of Meg with her baby.
"Have you thought of what you're going to name her?" a nurse asks with a paper in hand.
"Her name will be Lillian Faith Manning, Lilly for short," Meg says smiling at her little baby.
"Lilly would have spoiled her," Veronica says as the nurses begin to clear the room.
"Yes, she would have just to spend money," I mutter as Veronica nudges me in the ribs. "What? I was being honest," I say as I give her a kiss on the head.
"I think she is hungry," the only nurse left says as Lillian begins to get fussy.
"I'll go give the motley crew the news and then wait till your moved to bring them in," I snicker as Veronica aims to hit be as Meg chuckles.
"I'll text you when we move," Veronica says as I exit the door. I walk slowly down the hallway where the new babies were and found Leo.
"Keith asked me to stay close," Leo says as I approach him.
"Yeah, I would like you to keep tabs on Lillian, Meg's baby. I don't want her out of your sight if she leaves the room," I say as he nods his head.
"So how is she," Dick says as I see him nudge Mac.
"Is she alright?" Mac questions as I just shake my head.
"Don't make me beat it out of you?" Wallace mutters as I see him get worried.
"I just have to say you all better be this concerned when Ronnie goes into labor or she'll kill your asses," I mutter as Keith chuckles. I give them all the details about Lillian. She weighed 5lbs. 3 oz. and was 11 inches long. Lillian was a small baby for her age, but she was healthy. We were all laughing and joking when I heard the commotion outside the waiting room.
"I want to see my child," I heard the distinct voice of Duncan Kane as I made my way out of the room.
"What the hell are you doing here?" I question as I see him turn around to face me.
"I am her for my child. I heard she went into labor. I am the father so I have a right to be here," he snaps at me as it takes all my will power not to deck him.
"I am not going to ask you a second time to get out of here before I have to throw you out of here," I snap at him as he shoves me into the wall.
"What the hell is your issue? You have Veronica and now you what another girlfriend of mine. What is your issue you like to play house with our people's families? God, you just like your dad. He ruined lives because he played house with underage girls and…" Duncan didn't get to finish his sentence as I watched Dick slam him into the wall opposite of me.
"You don't know one thing about Logan or Veronica! Just leave like Logan asked," Dick mutters as I see Wallace behind him.
"I'm not leaving until I see my child," Duncan snaps once more.
"I think you will be leaving and not coming back anytime soon," Keith says as I turn to see him standing next to Jake Kane.
"Duncan lets go. This isn't the way to handle things like this," Jake says as I see him nod to Keith before I saw Duncan shove Dick away from him. He sputtered by his father mutter as I saw Jake shake his head and say something low to Keith before following his son. The moment Duncan was gone Veronica sent me a text to let me know where they had been moved. I told the others as we began to make our way up to Meg the lights in her room started to flash and a nurse pushed Veronica out of the room as the sirens began saying 'CODE BLUE'. Veronica was holding Lillian close to her as I wrapped my arms around her watching as the nurses and doctor worked on Meg.