Chapter 10:
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Neysa had been discharged from the hospital and Colby had started his rehab in Iowa, Paul had arranged for one of the top physical therapist to come to Iowa to help with Colby's rehab since he couldn't go back to Alabama. Colby would go the hospital in the morning, go to see Aubrey then go rehab for two hours then go back to the hospital to visit with Aubrey some more. Neysa would spend each morning with Neysa take a break for lunch with Colby then go back to the hospital for the afternoon while Colby finished up rehab. They would go home for dinner and go back to the hospital to say good night to Aubrey. It had been two weeks since Neysa had given birth to Aubrey and Neysa had been faithfully pumping milk for Aubrey to use in the feeding tube. Neysa had on yoga pants and her favorite Seth Rollins sweatshirt and had her hair up in a pony tail as she walked into the NICU.
"Good morning baby girl" Neysa said as she pulled the pretty pink and white butterfly quilt up from the incubator. Aubrey had one a white onsie with some pretty pink flowers on it and a pink and white lace headband on her head. She had the clear pacifier in her mouth that she loved and sucked on when she was awake. She had a purple receiving blanket with a butterfly at the end that she was covered up with that her daddy had picked out. He said he had to neutralize all of the pink. Neysa picked up Aubrey carefully not to tangle the wires from the apnea monitor and the IV that was attached to her foot. She had developed slight infection but it was being controlled by antibiotics. Colby had to leave the room when they were placing the IV into her tiny foot because she was screaming and the nurses were having to hold her little legs down , she thought he was going to throttle the nurses if he didn't leave. She was most definitely a daddy's girl, her little eyes would light up and she would coo and kick her feet anytime she would hear her daddy's voice or see him. Colby was the one that could calm her down the fastest when she was upset or didn't feel good. Neysa was the one that could get her to sleep the fastest.
"It's mommy" Neysa said as she walked over to the rocking chair and sat down with Neysa in her arms. "Did my baby have a good night sleep?" Neysa asked as she took the blanket and pulled it over Aubrey's legs. Aubrey sucked on her pacifier and grunted up at Neysa. "I get the grunts and daddy gets the smile how is that?" Neysa smiled as she leaned down to kiss Aubrey's little head. "I know your daddy's baby girl" Neysa laughed. "He loves you so much and so does mommy" Neysa replied as she rocked gently as Aubrey slowly closed her eyes.
Colby had put a few pictures of Aubrey on Instagram with the hastag of daddy's baby girl. Today he was doing an interview at the local radio station about his progress in rehab and of course his new obsession his daughter. This was going to be his first interview about Aubrey since she was born. He had on some black Adidas Workout pants, a crossfit tshirt and a black nylon adidias zip up windbreaker. His hair was in a knot in the back with a black toboggan on. He still wore Aubrey's hospital band on is left hand so he could get into the NICU.
Welcome to Hot Rock 91 and we have as our guest in the studio the former WWE Champion, Davenports on Seth Rollins.
"It's good to be here but just to clarify I am technically still the WWE Champion because I never lost the Championship" Seth said with a smirk.
"Let's talk about that for a second, you have been rehabbing a pretty nasty leg injury" DJ asked
"Yes, it was the first night of our tour in Dublin and I went to do a sunset flip that I have done a million times I landed wrong and tore the MCL/ACL in my leg. I went the next day to the Andrews Sports Surgery Center in Alabama and had surgery. I have been rehabbing 4 to 5 hours a day since the surgery. I am going to redesign, rebuild and reclaim in 2016. "Seth said.
"How long do they expect you to be out of action?" the DJ asked
"Dr. Andrews and Kevin Wilke my therapist say usually 6 to 9 months but I'm way ahead in my rehab" Seth said as he took a drink of his water.
"Are you still rehabbing in Alabama?" the DJ asked
"No, I have been rehabbing here in Davenport the past couple of weeks, the WWE has arranged for a therapist to work with me here" Seth replied with a smile. "One of the perks of being a WWE Champion"
"I believe another one of those perks is your fiancé's family" the DJ said with a laugh
"I was the WWE Champion before I met my fiancé, she was just the icing on the cake" Seth laughed.
"Your fiancé happens to be Paul "Triple "Levesque niece isn't she?" the DJ asked
"Yes, she is Triple H's niece she was doing an internship with the WWE when I met her during WrestleMania last year. " Seth replied with a huge smile.
"Wow I bet those are some fun family dinners" The DJ laughed.
"Honestly, we don't discuss business at family dinners, they are just a typical family like mine" Seth said.
"Speaking of family, I saw on Instagram that you are a brand new dad" the DJ said
"Yes, I am my beautiful baby girl was born 2 weeks ago" Seth said as his whole face lit up when he talked about Aubrey.
"How are the mother and baby doing?" the DJ asked
Neysa is doing well as can be expected, our daughter was born 7 weeks premature and Is still in the hospital, she is expected to make a full recovery though" Seth replied.
"Wow that has to be hard on you with the rehab and everything" the DJ said.
"It has been challenging but as a parent you do what you have to do in order to be there for your family" Seth replied.
"We wish you and your family the best and we hope you make a full recovery and come back and reclaim your title and kick some ass" the DJ said.
"That's my plan, redesign, rebuild and reclaim" Seth replied.
Colby met Neysa for lunch in the NICU waiting room he had brought lunch in from their favorite deli.
"Hey babe" Colby said as he kissed Neysa as he pulled her in for a hug. Neysa laid her head his chest rand wrapped her arms around his waist.
"Thanks I needed that" Neysa said as she closed her eyes for a moment
"Is something wrong with Aubrey?" Colby asked as he looked down at Neysa.
"She has been fussy this morning when I went to change her diaper it looks like she has a little rash and they said that was normal with the antibiotics she has been on." Neysa said as she still hugged Colby.
"What are they doing for it?" Colby asked as he rubbed her back and rocked her in his arms.
"They have put this medicated cream on it "Neysa replied "We listened to your interview and she kicked her feet when she heard your voice, then she got mad when she didn't see you anywhere"
"That's my baby girl" Colby said with a smile
"Let's eat so we can go in and see her" Neysa said with a yawn
"Baby, you need some rest" Colby whispered into her hair
"I will take a nap after we see her I promise" Neysa replied.
"I want you to eat something and we are going to that couch over there and you baby are going to take a nap" Colby said as he kissed her on the lips softly.
"Colby, you have rehab" Neysa said softly
"I can go later" He whispered as he took her by the hand and led her over to the table where the food was sitting.
"I love you" she said as she started to unwrap her sandwich
"I love you more" Colby winked at her.
When they were finished eating he threw their garbage away and took Neysa by the hand and led her to the couch. He sat down on the couch and rested his leg on the table and had Neysa lay down and put her head in his lap. He covered her up with a blanket and ran put his arm around her waist and she clasped his hands with hers and she drifted off to sleep. Colby had his head resting on the back of the couch and his eyes closed when he felt someone gently shaking his shoulder. He opened his eyes to see one of Aubrey's nurses. "Mr. Lopez, it seems that Aubrey is very cranky and is running a low grade fever would you mind come and seeing of you can settle her down" the young nurse asked.
"Is she ok?" Colby asked as he rubbed his eyes.
"I think she just needs some of her daddy's magic touch" the nurse smiled
Colby smiled leaned down and kissed Neysa on the temple and laid her head on the couch gently as to not wake her up. He got up and walked with the nurse into the NICU and used the sterilizer and then walked over to Aubrey's Incubator and saw that she was not happy and was letting them know about it. Her face was blood red and he could hear her cries "Aubrey, don't cry daddy's here" he said as he picked her up from the incubator and placed her on his chest and rubbed her little back and rocked her back and forth. Soon the cries started to soften and she grabbed onto Colby's jacket with her little fist and Colby looked down and his heart melted. 'I love you baby girl" he whispered as he continued to rock her side to side softly. He leaned down and kissed the top of her head and it did feel warm to his touch. He sat down in the rocker with her and just rocked and rubbed her back until there were no more cries. He looked down and saw that she was asleep and he smiled as he leaned his head back on the rocker and just rocked and held his daughter close to his chest. Neysa walked in and saw the two loves of her life and had to take a picture. This was the first picture she had posted on twitter and it said "My heart and soul"