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Also, I have posted a new story, and I would like for all of my lovely readers to let me know what they think. I may or may not continue it. It's called A Night to Forget?
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Dimitri POV
It was about 2 hours before the party when I got the phone call that nearly stopped my heart. I was waiting for Rose to show up with Julia and her friend Lissa, but they were late. It wasn't too unusual, I guess. In the little time that I had gotten to know Rose, she was almost always late, but something felt wrong. When my phone rang, and the caller ID showed Rose's name, I took a premature sigh of relief.
"Rose?" I said as I answered the phone.
A stranger's voice came over the line.
"I'm sorry, no. There was an accident. I witnessed it and I was able to get this phone to call for help. I've already called for an ambulance, but your number was on the 'in case of emergency' contacts, so I thought I'd call you too."
My mind was spinning. Rose was hurt. Where was Julia? Rose's friend Lissa? Were they hurt too? Had he called Abe too?
"Who..who all was in the car?" I forced out.
"There was the woman with long brown hair, whom I am assuming is the Rose that you were asking about, and a little girl, whom I am assuming is her daughter. That's it. They are both alive, but unconscious. Oh, good. Here comes the ambulance."
Julia was in the car. She's hurt too. I can't lose them. I just got them.
Stop it! They are both alive! They will be okay! They have to be okay. I grabbed my keys. I will be at the hospital when they get there.
"Are you going to the hospital? I'm leaving home now to get there. Also, I have to call Rose's father. What's your name?"
"Sydney, and yes, I have to go. My car was clipped by one of the cars in the accident and I'm a bit banged up. I'm going to ride with Rose and her daughter in the ambulance if they let me. I want to make sure they are okay."
I sighed in slight relief. They won't be alone, and I have someone to keep me updated.
"Thank you, Sydney. That means a lot to me. My name is Dimitri, and the little girl's name is Julia. She is mine and Rose's daughter, and Rose, well, Rose is the love of my life. Please, hang on to Rose's phone and use it to call me if anything changes, good or bad. I have to go so I can call Rose's father. I will see you at the hospital."
"Okay, bye Dimitri."
I hung up the phone, and took a deep breath. Now I have to call Abe. I dialed his number, and listened to it ring. I didn't know who else to call, so he had better answer. He didn't. I called again. He didn't answer. I called a third time as I was pulling into the hospital parking lot. He answered on the third ring.
"This had better be important, Belikov. I was in bed with my wife." He threatened.
"Rose and Julia were in an accident. I'm pulling into the hospital now. As far as I know, they were both alive, but unconscious."
That shut up his threatening real quick.
"I'm on my way. Oh, and Belikov, remind me to give you my personal phone number next time."
"Yes, sir." And he hung up.
I was just about to call Sydney back as I walked towards the Emergency Room entrance when an ambulance came into the parking lot. Hopefully, that was my new found family. It was. As soon as the doors opened to the ambulance, an EMT got out and pulled out one of the beds in the ambulance. I heard someone call out.
"She's waking up! Do we know where her father is?"
A small blonde girl piped up. She was covered in small cuts and probably several bruises. "He's on his way if he isn't already here, and I told you that her name was Julia, but that's all I know."
I heard myself speaking before I realized what I was doing. "Julia? Rose? Sydney?"
The small blonde girl looked at me and smiled. "You must be Dimitri. I'm Sydney. It's nice to meet you, although I wish it had been under better circumstances."
"Likewise. Did someone say that Julia was waking up? Can I see her? Is she okay?" That's when I seen her on the bed that had been pulled out of the ambulance. She was covered in as many cuts and scratches as Sydney. Probably bruises too. Other than that, she didn't seem to have any visable injuries.
"Daddy?" Julia says in a weak voice. My heart breaks and leaps for joy at the same time. It breaks because of how weak my little angel sounds, but it leaps for joy that she's awake and okay. It may also have something to do with the fact that she recognized me as her daddy. I rush to the side of her bed.
"I'm here baby girl. Daddy is here with you." I cooed at her. She reached up and latched onto my neck.
"I love you Daddy. I think Momma is hurt." She whispered.
"I know baby. I love you too, my little angel. I have to check on Momma. This lady here," I pointed to Sydney, "is a friend of mine. She is going to go with you for right now. The doctor needs to check you out to make sure that you are going to be okay. Are you okay with that?"
Julia nodded. Sydney walked over and introduced herself as the EMT took them inside the hospital. I watched them go as the rest of the EMTs pulled the other bed out of the ambulance. There she was; the woman that I finally admitted to myself that I was in love with. She was banged up, covered in cuts, scrapes, already forming bruises, and blood. There was a gash on her forehead and it looked as if her leg was broken. A voice broke me out of my thoughts.
"She's stable, and I have every reason to believe that she could pull through this. The doctor will have to check everything over, but I'm almost sure that she isn't hurt as badly as she looks."
"Thank you. I'm going to go with her if you don't mind."
He told that was okay. I followed him into the hospital, and into one of the rooms to wait for a doctor. Time seemed to crawl as I waited. Rose didn't wake up, so I just sat there by the side of the bed, holding her hand. Eventually, a doctor showed up.
"Are you Julia's parents?" He asked. I nodded, and he continued talking. "I'm Dr. Tanner. Julia is going to be fine. Aside from a mild concussion and minor scrapes and bruises, she was not injured at all. She's a wonderful little girl, and she is worried about her Momma. Would you like to go see her while I check over your wife here?"
I chuckled a bit, but quickly composed myself. "I'll do that, but Rose isn't my wife. Not yet, anyway. We've only recently reconnected, so I guess you could say that we are dating. She was supposed to meet my family for the first time tonight. Please take care of her, Doctor, I've only just got her back. I-" I was cut off by my phone ringing. It was Abe.
"I'm sorry, I have to take this. It's her father." He nodded and went to work, checking on Rose.
"Hello, Abe-" he cut me off.
"Dammit Belikov, how did you manage to get in the back with my girls? They won't let me past the front desk!" He screamed at me.
"I got here before the ambulance did. Julia is awake. She will be fine. Rose is still unconscious, and the doctor is with her right now checking for other damage."
Abe huffed angrily on the other side of the phone. "How the hell did you manage to get here BEFORE the ambulance? And how did you find out about the accident, anyway? Were you in the car? And what do you mean 'other damage'? What damage does she have? My little girl better be okay, Belikov!" He exclaimed.
"No, I was not in the accident. Another girl that was hurt in the accident managed to get Rose's phone to call for help. After she did, she called me. Apparently, Rose added me to her emergency contact list or something. I was waiting on Rose, so I was already ready to leave when she called, so I headed out the door before the ambulance ever got to the accident scene. That's when I hung up and attempted to call you. As far as Rose's injuries, I'm not entirely sure. All I really know is that she is stable." I told him. Just then, the doctor motioned for me to talk to him. I told Abe that I'd call him back.
He told me that he was sending Rose down to get x-rays done. I told him that I was going to check on Julia, then I was going to talk to Rose's father. He told me that was fine, so I left the room to go find my daughter.
Julia's POV
Momma and I were on our way to pick up Auntie Lissa so that we could go see my Daddy and meet his family when something bad happened. I was singing along to my favorite song on the radio when there was a loud smash. Everything was spinning, and I could feel the seatbelt holding me in place. I'm glad Momma put it on me. When everything stopped moving, my head started hurting, and it was kind of hard to see. I looked up at Momma. She was covered in red stuff, and I quickly realized it was what Momma had told me was blood. My vision was getting darker, but I kept staring at Momma. I tried to scream at her. The only time that I had ever seen blood was when I scraped up my knee after I fell down. It hurt, a lot, and blood meant that Momma was hurt.
The last thought I had before everything went black was that Momma was hurt, and I wished Daddy was here to help me, help us.
Abe POV
I was laying in bed next to a very naked Janine when my phone started ringing. It was my work phone, so Janine insisted that I ignore it. I happily obliged. Work could wait. I was much too content to deal with anything relating to work right now. My phone finally stopped ringing, and I relaxed. At least, I relaxed until it started ringing again.
This time I was getting irritated. Everyone I work with knows that if I don't answer the first time, I'm busy. If it's an emergency, I have a pager. I let the phone stop ringing again. Maybe they would get the point.
It stopped ringing again, only to start back up a minute later. This time, I got up to answer the phone, perfectly intent on cussing whoever was calling out along with firing them from their job.
I checked the caller ID. It was Belikov. No wonder he kept calling; he wouldn't find out about the rules of calling Ibrahim Mazur until tomorrow. I answered, still pissed.
"This had better be important, Belikov. I was in bed with my wife." I threatened.
"Rose and Julia were in an accident. I'm pulling into the hospital now. As far as I know, they were both alive, but unconscious."
Wait, what? My little girls were hurt. Now I felt bad, guilty even. Here I was, cuddled up to my wife when my daughter and granddaughter were hurt. I quickly regained composure.
"I'm on my way. Oh, and Belikov, remind me to give you my personal phone number next time."
"Yes, sir." I hung up the phone, and went back to Janine, grabbing clothes along the way.
"What happened?" She snapped.
"That was Belikov. Rose and Julia were hurt in an accident. Come on, get dressed. We need to pick up Lissa, and get to the hospital.
She nodded and got ready faster than I'd ever seen her get ready before. I think she might have even been ready before me. We rushed out the door, and made it to Lissa's within a few minutes. She didn't live far from us, so it was easier to pick her up and explain the situation than to call and hope that she could make it to the hospital before she broke down into tears.
It's no secret that Rose and Lissa are as close, if not closer than sisters. Janine and I have treated her as though she was our own child after her parents passed. This will no doubt bring up some bad memories for her.
I got to the door and when she opened it, I explained the situation. I didn't know much, only what Belikov had told me before I hung up on him to get ready to get to the hospital.
I was right about Lissa. She would have never made it to the hospital on her own. She was in the back seat crying harder than I've ever seen anyone cry. Janine got in the back seat with her to attempt to comfort her. It didn't work. Lissa only cried harder, if that was possible. My heart broke for her. Yes, Rose was my daughter, and Julia was my granddaughter, but to Lissa, Rose was her best friend, her sister, the only one that she felt like she had left after her parents past away.
About six months after her parents died, I had found Lissa sitting in my garden, crying softly to herself. Janine had taken Rose to one of her pregnancy appointments (she was about 3 months pregnant at this time), so I was expecting to be home alone. I walked over to her to find out what was wrong, even though I had a feeling that I already knew. She was still grieving over her lost family.
She was startled by my presence, but she welcomed it and told me what was wrong. I was right, but there was so much more. She explained to me that without Rose, she would've committed suicide. She told me that she had tried, but Rose had found her and stopped her.
I comforted her as if she were my own daughter, and told her that she was part of our family; that she wasn't alone. After that, we got closer (like a family), but we never spoke of that day again.
Now I knew she was facing the fact that her sister, in everything but blood, was in a similar situation that had taken her family 6 years ago. What's even worse, is, I believe, today was the six year anniversary of their deaths.
We finally made it to the hospital, but the front desk refused to let anyone go to the back to see Rose or Julia. So, I called Belikov since I knew he was back there with one of them.
I might have yelled at him a bit, but he explained the situation. I'm actually kind of pissed that he had been the one that received the call instead of me, but I'm glad he called me as soon as he found out, even if I had ignored him the first two times. If nothing else, I can say that he is persistent.
I might actually be glad that I found him, despite Rose's help and lack of information. Now, I just have to keep her, and everyone else from finding out exactly how Dimitri Belikov came to become my business partner.
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