Riddles
By Kary G.
Chapter 10
A/N: Sorry it took all this time to update the last chapter, I was running out of ideas and again I leave you all with suspense, I love to do that!, well you´ll be happy to know that I am working on the next story, It´ll take time because I am in college in some summer program that is almost finish but don´t worry the good thing is that I finished this cahpter, here it is...Enjoy!.
"Remember a few days ago before we went to the ranch to discuss the plan about those drug dealers"
"Yes"
"Do you remember that you saw me a little bit tired leaning on the bathroom door"
"Yes" he answered once again.
"remember when you hang up talking with Trivette?"
"Yes, where are you going with this Syd"
"Remember what we did in those few minutes" she asked once again.
"You mean when you.."
"Yes" she said.
"and when I..."
"Exactly honey, this baby might be ours after all"
She opened her eyes, her mind was still on that little talk that she had with her partner last night,but was she sure that that baby inside of her was Gage´s after all the doctor had told them after Sienna that it was going to be really hard to conceive, they tried and now after years of trying she was expecting, she felt happy but at the same time scared, she tried to closed her eyes but that talk was bothering her so much that made her stood up from bed.
After getting up, Sydney went to the kitchen, her stomach was growling, she took the bread and placed it in the toaster until it was crunchy and add butter, as soon as her breakfast was ready she started to eat, but stopped tasting the bread and it felt rancid, she stood up from her seat and ran to the bathroom to throw her breakfast. Gage hearing Syd hurried to where she was and helped her giving her a towel she cleaned her mouth and moved to the sink where she throw some cold water to her face and washed her mouth.
"You ok?" Gage asked, Sydney shook her head but still Gage knew she was not ok, he carried her to the bed. "Well Syd I guess the baby was not ok with breakfast, What happen?" he chuckled looking at the funny face that Syd was doing.
"I was eating this delicious bread with butter and suddenly what I thoguht was something delicious turned into something rancid"
"I see, don´t worry I´ll eat that piece of bread for you"
"Very funny Francis"
"What are you doing?" he asked looking at Syd trying to stand up from bed.
"I need to find the Doctor´s number and then I need to call and check if they dont have any appointments if not then we´ll go"
"You are not going anywhere stay here, rest and I´ll find that number, ok" he kissed her forehead.
"Thanks" Syd whispered closing her eyes for a few minutes. Gage closed the door of their room, walked to the kitchen, took the phone and called to the doctor´s office. "At 11 O´clock, ok we´ll be there, bye" he hung up the phone and went to check what Sienna and Matthew were doing. Gage opened the door of Sienna´s room and found his two children on the floor watching cartoons, Matthew was drawing and as soon as he saw Gage the little boy picked up his sketch and show it to his daddy. "Dadda!" Matthew said proud of his work, Gage picked him up. "Let´s show mommy and after that, we´ll take your sister to auntie Alex, ok?"
Matthew laughed again. Sydney woke up at the sound of Matthew, Gage sat next to Syd. "mommy!" his sketch was covered with lines of different colors. "That´s a nice drawing!" Syd said to her son. "Come on, is time to eat, let´s go for your sister" Gage said to the little boy and placed him on the floor. "Syd, I called the doctor and we have an appointment in 2 hours."
"Thanks Gage" she went to the bathroom to take a quick shower.
"Sienna, time to eat!" Gage told his daugther from the hallway, Sienna walked to the kitchen with her father and brother. "Ok, What are going to eat?" she asked.
"Cereal?" Gage asked pointing to the box of cereal both kids shook their heads. "Well maybe eggs" again both kids shook their heads. "Cinnamon toast?".
"Yes, cinnamon toast" Sienna said looking at Matthew, he started to jump letting Gage know that he was starving. After a few minutes both kids were eating their breakfast,
Sydney looked in the mirror, her hair was shiny and was like a cascade falling from her shoulders to her waist, she didn´t need any make-up on her face, her skin was clear she was perfect, she took the lipstick and add some color to her lips, she looked beautiful, her lips matched perfectly with the red dress that was wering at that moment, the dress was with stripes that exposed her toned arms and shoulders, the dress kept going down below her knees and instead of wearing heels she wore gold sandals, her ears had small red stones and was wearing the necklace that Gage gave her for christmas.
"Syd, Are you ready to...?" Gage was speechless looking at his wife. "Wow! Syd you look beautiful"
"Thanks" she said feeling Gage´s eyes all over her, head to toes. "Are you ready to go, Gage?" she asked feeling her face hot and trying to change the subject.
"Yes I am shorty, let´s go" her partner said. "Matthew, Sienna!"
When Gage and Sydney arrived to the doctor´s office they were greeted by a nurse, after filling out some papers they sat waiting to be called, the room was starting to fill with people and Sydney was getting nervous but at the same time frustrated that was noticed by Gage, another nurse looked at some papers. "Sydney Gage" she called, Sydney, Gage and Matthew walked to the doctor´s office. They waited for her doctor to arrived, the doctor knocked and opened the door both Gage and Sydney smiled at Dr. Marshall but Matthew hugged Gage tightly, the doctor just chuckled looking at the little boy´s reaction.
"Don´t worry sweetie, you are not the one that I am going to check" the doctor touched his little head.
"The doctor is going to check mommy" Gage told his son who still had his little arms around Gage´s neck. The doctor asked some questions about her condition, she then told Sydney to lay down, Sydney did as she was told, the doctor put some gel in her stomach. Sydney shivered just as the gel touched her skin.
"Forgot to tell you the gel is cold" the doctor patted her shoulder and started to look at the monitor, Gage too was looking as well as Matthew. "How far along you think I am?" the raiven-haired asked.
"Well Mrs. Gage by the picture that we see in the monitor, you have two months, you are lucky you are not showing yet, a lot of women by this month are starting to show their little one" Gage´s cellphone rang interrupting that quiet moment.
"Ranger Gage, ok I´ll see you in a few minutes" Sydney looked at him. "Who called?" his wife asked.
"It was Walker he wants me to go to Headquarters to check some information and I´ll be going after we finish here."
"I can go, Can I?" Gage shook his head understanding what Sydney was saying. "Come on Gage, is not like I am gonna go out there and fight, I am going to wait for you while you finish with wahtever you have to do and don´t give me that look, is not that bad, right doctor?" she then turned to see her doctor.
"You´re right Mrs.Gage is not that bad" Sydney was starting to smile to Gage. "But you need rest and is something that you are not doing, I read in your chart that last month you had a few problems so it´ll be better if your husband takes you home" Sydney did not like that answer, she didn´t fought with the doctor, after all the doctor was right, when she knew that she was pregnant she didn´t do anything but cry and somehow that caused some stress to the baby which make her pregnancy a little risky, after finishing the sonogram, both rangers went home.
Inside the car
"I know you are not happy about this, but honey is for your own good and the baby´s" Sydney was quiet, she was mad, Gage placed his hand on her tummy, she put her hands on top of his falling asleep in the car. Once they arrived home, Gage saw Alex and Angela along with his daughter there, he got out of the car and went to help Sydney, he was going to carry her but she let him know that she was not asleep anymore. Gage took Matthew out of his seat and placed him in the sofa. Alex helped Sydney inside, Gage was going to go straight to the car but came back to say bye to his wife, he was going to kiss her but she moved, her face said it all.
"Shorty I..."
"Go before I changed my mind, we´ll talk about this later" She saw Gage disspeared in the distance.
"What´s the matter?" The D.A. asked.
"After Walker called, Gage said that he needed to go to headquarters to check some information, I told him that I was going with him and he said no and he was not the only one, my doctor said the same thing to me that I needed to rest"
"Is for your own good"
"Alex, everybody has been treating me the same damn way, when I go for a walk with Gage is like I have a big sign in me that says: "Be careful she´s pregnant" is not like I am going to have this baby tomorrow" The doorbell rang and Sydney looked at her friend. "And I swear if that´s Gage I am going to kick him in the..." but both women were interrupted by the doorbell once again. Alex laughed "In the shins?" Sydney smiled back to her friend. "Not exactly" Alex laughed again and went to open the door.
"Hi!" Alex greeted the person who was in front of her, Sydney was in the kitchen drinking some juice, "Who could that be?" she thought until she heard Sienna yelled at the top of her lungs. "Aunt Julie!".
"Hello sweetie" she hugged her niece and kissed her, Julie Gage smiled looking down at Matthew who was asleep. "Julie, Hi!, What a surprise not that I am not happy to see you but uh, what are you doing here?" Sydney greeted his sister-in-law.
"Hi, Syd, sorry I should´ve let you and Francis know but I just wanted to let you kow that I moved back to Dallas to be with my wonderful and beautiful niece and nephew" she said once again smiling at Sienna.
"That´s great!" the petite ranger said. "Maybe you could help me with your brother"
"Francis? What´s the matter?" she sat in another sofa trying not to disturbe Matthew. "Well as you can see I am pregnant and your brother is being overprtected with me and I understand my condition but gosh he´s driving me nuts!"
"Sorry about that Syd but you know how Francis is about you and the kids, so How ya doing?" Sydney looked at Julie a little suspicious, she was hiding something. "Ok, Jules spill it out" Alex looked at Julie and then at the ranger.
"Nothing really is just that with all that happened with you and you know..." she couldn´t finished her sentence.
"I know, but I am glad that Gage was there you know...but wait a minute, how do you know about this?, Did Francis tell you about it?"
"No, but the newspaper and the T.V. did" Sydney didn´t say a word, her hands took the newspaper that was in a cabinet, after she opened the cabinet she stared at the newspaper, again her mind went back to that house, Michael´s face, his hands were touching her all over her body...
"Sydney, are you ok?" Alex looked at Sydney, the color drained from her face once again, her head was spinning, her body was trembling and her breathing was heavy. She stood up from the sofa, everything around her was black and she fell to the ground, Julie and Alex took her before she hit the floor and took her to a hospital, they put Matthew in his seat and Sienna and Angela next to him, Julie took her phone and dialed Gage´s number, while Alex was driving.
Ranger Headquarters
"Hello" Gage said through the mouthpiece of his cellphone, Julie started to tell him everything. "Whoa, first of all, What are you doing in Dallas? You should´ve told me that you were coming"
"Francis, we´ll talk later about that, Is your wife I´m worried about"
"Sydney, What happened?" Walker and Trivette looked at Gage at the mention of their friend. "What?!, we´ll be there in a few minutes" he hung up the phone and told Walker and Trivette what was happening, the three men were walking out of headquarters, Erika and Max stopped them with food in hand. "Dinner will have to wait, Syd´s in the hospital, let´s go" Trivette told his wife, the cars sped up through the lonely and dark streets to the hospital.
St. Matthew´s Hospital
After a few minutes, everybody was in the room with Syd, she opened her eyes slowly inmediatley asking for her husband. "Gage?" her voice was almost a whisper.
"I´m here honey, just rest" he told her just as a doctor walked in the room and introduce to everybody. "Hello, I am Dr. Benson, How are you feeling?" The doctor asked.
"Uh, tired and weak" Sydney answered.
"I´ve got your test results back, but I couldn´t find your chart, When are you due?"
"Well this is almost my first trimester, so I have two more to go"
"And who is your regular doctor?"
"Is uh, Dr.Marshall"
"Did he took blood test the last time you went to visit him?"
"No he said that, in the next visit he was going to do that, why?" by the look of the doctor in the room, Syd knew something was not right.
"Well, he should´ve take blood tests, he could´ve caught you condition eariler" Sydney looked at Gage and then at the doctor. "My condition?"
"Toxemia, it´s a form of high blood pressure in pregnant woman, Do you deal with stress in your life?"
"A lot of stress" Gage said, Sydney let the cup of water that was in her hands and placed it on the table. "Is it serious?"
"Toxemia restrict blood flow and food and oxygen to the placenta, it can result in a small baby,premature delivery or can lead to other complications none of which you need to worry about now, most women respond quickly to the treatment"
"Ok then give me the treatment" Sydney said knowing that it was going to be easy.
"The treatment involves a no-salt diet, no stress and lots of bed rest, do that and the symptoms should reverse, I´ll be back later to check on you" well the treatment was not going to be easy, the doctor walked out of the room leaving all the rangers with their wives and kids.
"No stress and bed rest, you think you can handle that?" now was Alex´s opportunity to talk.
"I guess"
Months later
The months flew by and Sydney was getting bigger but anxious at the same time, she needed to know who was the father of her future son, her daughter and son were growing up too, everything was doing ok, somehow she felt comfortable with this pregnancy that the one with Sienna. She kept watching the cartoons Gage next to her, Sienna next to her mom and Matthew in Gage´s lap. The silence was broken by a noise outside, Gage and Sydney knew that it probably was Julie but it was dark, she didn´t like to be out of her house at night so Gage went to check up, Sydney told their children to go upstairs and so they did. A shadow approached Sydney.
"You are not going to scare me Francis, so don´t even try, What was that noise?" she asked and turned around to see her husband but that wasn´t Gage, it was a man in a ski-mask, she froze she was going to kick him but she was worried about her baby, the man took a knife and asked her for her necklace and wedding ring, he figured it was the only thing of value that he saw in the house, she put her hand in her necklace the one that Gage gave her for christmas, she was not going to give it to him, as soon as the man knew that Sydney was not going to let go, he was going to hurt her but Gage fired missing Sydney by only a few inches, Gage kneeled down and checked the intruder´s pulse..he was dead. Without wasting any time he called the cops, he then turned to see Sydney.
"Sydney, are you ok?, Did he hurt you" She shook her head. "Everything´s ok shorty, he is dead and the kids are fine" the tears fell down her cheeks. She looked at her husband the fear was evident in her brown eyes. "Gage...my water just broke".
THE END.