Chapter 10 He Saved Your Life Dr. AJ Reynolds walked down the corridor of the fourth floor of the hospital as he made his rounds. He was a trauma surgeon mainly stationed in the Emergency Room, but he still made it a point to check on the patients he had helped save. As he rounded a corner of the fourth floor, a bright red ball came bouncing across the floor from an opened room on his left. A little blonde haired boy about 5 years old came running out of the room chasing after the ball. AJ stooped down to pick the ball up and handed the ball back to him. "Thanks doc!" the little boy exclaimed happily and ran back into the room. "Nathan who are you talking to?" a voice asked from inside the room causing AJ to jump in shock as he recognized the voice as being Annabelle's. "Just me." AJ replied with a smile as he stepped into the room. "What are you doing here?!" Annabelle demanded realizing who it was. "Annabelle calm down before you hurt yourself even more!" Sam scolded her pushing her sister back down on the bed. "What is he doing here?!" Annabelle demanded again glaring at AJ from where she lay on the bed. "She doesn't know?" AJ said looking at Sam in surprise. "Gee! That's obvious dontcha think?!" Sam replied with heavy sarcasm as she adjusted the pillow under Annabelle's head. "Never mind." AJ sighed and shook his head. "You're welcome by the way." he added as he turned to go. "For what?" Annabelle asked confused. "Wait." Sam said as she reached over to put her hand on Annabelle's arm. "Anna, he saved your life." she added as Annabelle turned to look at her. "He what?" she asked looking even more confused than she had before. "AJ saved your life. He is one of the trauma surgeons who worked on you when you were brought to the ER that night. It's thanks to him you're still alive." Sam explained as AJ stood in the door way looking at them. "Really?" Annabelle murmured turning her head to look at AJ. "Yes." AJ nodded and stepped further into the room. "How about I take Nathan to get something to eat while ya'll talk." Sam offered reaching out to the little boy sitting on the floor who had been listening to the adults talking and not moving at all. Once they had left the room, AJ shut the door and sat in the chair Sam had just vacated. He looked at Annabelle with a confused look on his face trying to figure out who the little boy was. "He's my son." Annabelle said before AJ could ask. "Son? I thought you were gay!" AJ laughed but he was confused as well. "I was raped. By the time I found out I was pregnant, it was too late to get an abortion and once I saw his tiny face I fell in love and decided to keep him. It wasn't his fault he was conceived in a violent way, and we have made sure he has been raised in a loving home with plenty of attention and affection. He will be the first one to tell you he is spoiled rotten. I named him Nathan after my dad and Samuel after my sister. Nobody knew about him except for Sam, Kara and her family, and me. I did not want my mother to find out about him and get her hands on him somehow or other and ruin him. Nobody knows better than I do how wretched Olivia Tillman will make somebody's life and I refused to allow that to happen to him." Annabelle explained as AJ sat there and listened. "I think I have a good idea. She came to the ER and tried to throw her weight around but Sam and Candace stopped her. Sam said she was your health care proxy and had papers to prove it, Olivia didn't like that very much and stormed out with her entourage behind her." AJ said with a chuckle. "Good for Sam. My mother isn't used to people standing up to her." Annabelle grinned with pride at knowing her sister had protected her like that. "Annabelle," AJ started to say but stopped as she held her hand up. "Don't please. Whatever you have to say, just don't ok? I know things between us were left in a bad way, but if I'm really honest with myself it never would have worked out for us. I've been in love with Simone since I met her at St. Theresa's. It's why things with me and Kara never picked up again, my heart belonged to someone else and now I'm so afraid everything is fucked up for good just because I never told her about Nathan. The look on her face when she found out he was my son, she looked like someone had slapped her and told her to go to hell. I need this to work out I can't handle anything else right now. I'm sorry." Annabelle said as tears wailed up in her eyes and started to slowly drop down her cheek. "It's ok. I was just going to say everything between us is fine. I'm glad you're ok." AJ smiled and put his hand over Annabelle's. Annabelle smiled back at him as the door opened again and Simone stepped inside. AJ cleared his throat and stood up to excuse himself. As he walked past Simone to leave the room he looked at her and winked. "She's a fighter, that one!" AJ said and closed the door behind him. "So, I guess we need to talk huh?" Simone said as she sat in the chair AJ had just left.