Chapter 9
Setting outside of Lulu's room
Dante is staring at Lulu threw the window. She looked a little better then she did the last time. Her face and skin still looked awfully pale but some color back in her cheeks. Dante still feeling completely helpless looking at Lulu. Thinking if it weren't for him Lulu wouldn't be in that bed right now. Maxie and Matt walked up to him.
Maxie- How is she?
Dante- Hanging in there.
Maxie- May I go in?
Dante- Yeah I'm sure she would like that.
Maxie and Matt walked into Lulu's room. Dante watched from the doorway. Maxie sat down in the chair next to her bed and took her hand.
Maxie- Hey Lulu well you look awful by the way. You know I'm awfully mad at you. Going and trying to be hero what were you thinking. I know what you were thinking about someone other than yourself. I don't think I would be the same way. You have got to get better and soon. I don't think I can handle Kate on my own. I never got to say what you mean to me. You are more than my best friend and co-worker. You are more like a sister to me. You have filled up a hole in my heart that Georgie left. Who am I going to confide in with all my guys problems. I love you Lulu and I don't know what I'll do without you. I don't know what I'll do if anything happens to you. No I am not going to go there. You are going to be fine. You have a while bunch of people here that love and need you. Most of all you babies need you. They are the luckiest kids around already they have a lot of people that love them. So you get better and when you are. We are going to go shopping and we will go all out. Please just pull threw this.
Maxie couldn't help but breakdown. She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to se Matt.
Maxie- Matt she can't die. Too many people love and need her.
Matt- Maxie she will pull threw this you just have to believe she will.
Maxie- I hope you are right I can't lose her. Matt pulled Maxie into his arms.
Dante was still in the doorway. Looking at the scene unfold when Spinelli and Johnny walked up.
Johnny- We just heard how is she.
Dante- She is holding her own but in a coma.
Spinelli- She will pull threw this.
Dante- She has to Spinelli I need her and those babies need her.
Johnny- What babies.
Dante Lulu is pregnant with my babies.
Spinelli- Oh my god Lulu is going to be a mom.
Dante- Yeah she is. She will be the best mom those babies will ask for.
Johnny- The doctor said nothing is wrong with them.
Dante- Yeah thank god for that. Most of the injuries Lulu had didn't effect the babies. According to Dr. Lee the babies are just fine but the rest of her pregnancy will be a high-risk one.
Spinelli- Thank god for that.
Dante- I hear you to that one. Lulu loves those babies so much already. She even told me is it came down to her life or the babies lives. She wanted the twins to be saved and not her.
Spinelli- Lulu will pull threw this.
Dante- I hope you are right Spinelli cause I don't know what I'll do without her.
Johnny- You are not going to have to find out. Lulu is the strongest woman I know.
Dante- Why don't you two go in and see her. I'm sure she would like that.
Johnny and Spinelli walked into Lulu's room to see Matt and Maxie. Maxie wiped the tears from her eyes.
Spinelli We just came to se how the original blonde one was doing. Everyone chuckled at Spinelli's nickname for Lulu. Spinelli walked over to the bed and sat down.
Spinelli- Her Lulu you are just full of surprises aren't you. From what I hear you were a hero out there. Taking care of Morgan and making sure her was ok but that is who you are. Someone with a good heart that only thinks of others before herself. You are going to get threw this. Then you are going to go on and raise your children. Lulu those babies need their mother. If not for anyone else you pull threw for them. You are going to make a wonderful mother. The best anyone could ask for. You have so man people that love you. So you get better you hear. Spinelli couldn't hold back the tears anymore and then they just came.
Johnny walked up to the other side of the bed.
Johnny- Spinelli is right you will get threw this. You may have had some hard times but that is all over. You are going to grow old and have a good life. One with those precious babies of yours. Lulu you are a good person with a good heart. You have overcome so many things in your life. So many that would have brought down a lesser person. We have shared a lot. We had some good times and bad. I screwed up with us. I knew even then you were better off without me. You have a great life ahead of you so you get better you hear. Nothing can bring you down for long Lulu Spencer. So you fight for all that it's worth and fight this one last fight.
A little while later Sonny, Brenda, Jason, and Carly came to Lulu's room.
Sonny- How is she?
Dante- The same Maxie Matt, Spinelli and Johnny just left. I was hoping she would have some kind of reaction to them but nothing.
Sonny- Have you been in to see her. She's probably waiting for you.
Dante- No and It's best that I don't. I'm the reason she's in that bed in the first place.
Sonny- Stop that right now Dante Angelo Falconeri. So you made a mistake you are only human. You and Lulu will get threw this together.
Dante- I think she would be better off without me. I've done nothing but hurt and bring her down.
Sonny- Why don't you let Lulu decide what is right for her. She will hate you more if you take the decision away from her.
Dante- I want to thank you.
Sonny- For what?
Dante- For talking me down before and now. If this horrible nightmare taught me anything. It is that time is to precious. To waste on being hateful that family is everything. I want my children surrounded by a family that loves them. It included their Grandpas, Grandmas, Aunts, Uncles and cousins and I do mean everyone. I know I wasn't to thrilled when I found out you were my father. I now know what it's like to have a family and I want that for them as well. So what I'm trying to say is. I would like to start over with you. That is if you want to that is.
Sonny was shocked but couldn't help but be grateful that he was going to get a second chance. At a relationship with his son.
Sonny- I would like that ever much. We are family we will get threw this at one. You are going to be a dad.
Dante- Yeah I can't help but love them already. Already I would lay down my life for them.
Sonny- That is what it's like to be a parent. To put your children above anything else.
They were all going to go in when Dante stopped Carly in her tracks.
Dante- Don't upset her.
Carly- I'm not going to upset her I just want to know that my cousin and her babies are alright.
Dante- Like you care what happens to them. People warned me about you. That you never forget about anything. You just get even. You want to come after me that is fine but you leave Lulu and those babies alone. They are my number one priority right now I see things clearly now. I will protect my family even if it's from you.
Carly- Dante I am not here for revenge or get even.
Dante- It's hard to tell with you Carly but I am warning you right now. Don't do anything that will upset her. You heard Dr. Lee about her pregnancy. She shouldn't be upset or anything that would cause her to miscarry. I shouldn't have to tell you Carly what it's like to have a high-risk pregnancy.
Carly- I don't have to stand here and listen to this.
Jason stepped forward.
Jason- Why don't we all just calm down. It's been a stressful right and emotions are running high. Right now our main concern is for Lulu and the twins. They don't need this right now.
Brenda- Jason is right.
Dante- Jason all I am thinking about is them. They are my whole life. All of you know what Carly it like when someone crosses her. I should have seen it months ago. I just didn't want to see it is all. Pointing at Carly.
Dante- I will believe you just this once. That you have Lulu's best interests in mind but make no mistake. If I find out you have done something to Lulu I will make you pay. Carly you have done more things than Lulu has ever done and people have given you a second chance. So why don't you think about that then taking revenge on her. So come at me all you want bring in on I can take it but Lulu and my children are off limits to you. I will let you see her and I want you to look at her in that bed. I want you to think about what she did for Morgan out there. Maybe you will thank her for what she did. She made sure Morgan was ok first. Lulu thought about someone other than herself.
Dante stepped aside to let them walk in. Everyone saw a young woman hanging onto life. Sonny walked over to the bed.
Sonny- Hey sweetheart you pull through this. So many people want you around. I know we have has our differences lately and I don't blame you for that. You were just protective of Dante. I've known you since you were a baby. So little and even then you had to fight to live. You have gone threw what most people haven't. You can get threw this as well. You pull threw this cause my son needs you and my grandchildren need their mother. Wow my grandchildren I like the sound of that. I can hear their tiny heartbeats ever now. It's a perfect sound to anyone's ears.
Sonny wiped his tears from his eyes and Brenda walked over to him.
Brenda- She will make it threw this. She has too much to live for. Brenda walked over to the bed.
Brenda- Wow you are all grown up. The last time I checked you were just a little girl. Now look at you all grown up and about to become a mother yourself. I know we hade our differences since I got here. I didn't want to cause trouble for you and Dante he loves you so much and would do anything for you. His eyes light up every time he talks about you. I didn't want to cause problems for anybody here but it just seems like I have. I want to tell you and everyone else. I just can't keep this to myself anymore.
Sonny- Honey what are you talking about?
Brenda- When I tell you this I just hope you can forgive me.
Sonny- I could never hate you Brenda not even if I tried.
Brenda- It all started four years ago when I started seeing Alexander. After I found out about him and his father's business and left him. Well you all know what happened after that. What I didn't tell you is was shortly after I got to New York I found out I was pregnant.
Sonny- What?
Brenda- I got pregnant and the baby was Alexander's I was so confused at what to do. I knew for one thing for sure. That Alexander's father could never know about the baby. I wanted to protect my baby. So. Dante made it look like the baby was his. When he actually wasn't. He went to a lawyer's office to sign over custody. So if Alexander's father ever found out about the baby. It would look like the baby was Dante's.
Everyone including Dante was shocked.
Sonny- Honey where is the baby. Did you give him or her up for adoption.
Brenda- No I didn't I wanted to raise my baby. After I left New York I went to Rome where I met Suzanne and got involved with ASAC. I told Suzanne I was pregnant right away. When we were planning on a trip to Africa. I went to the doctor to see if it was ok if I went. The doctor said the baby and I were fine. That she didn't see any problems with either of us. After out trip to Africa I got back and started running a fever. I must have fainted. When I woke up in the hospital Suzanne was there. One look on her face said it all that the baby was gone. I didn't even get to hold him he was a boy. He was inside me one minute and gone the next. After that I just focused on my work. So I didn't have to live with the pain. Every now and again I think about him. Right now see Lulu in that bed. Hoping she doesn't wake up and feel like I did. Like there is a piece of your heart and soul gone. An innocent life is gone or in her case two. I would never wish that on anyone. The pain just swallowing you up and you just trying to survive. I shouldn't have to tell any of you what it's like to lose a child. I loved my son and always will. I just can't think about him much. Otherwise I feel all that pain again. Like right now all I want is my baby.
For the first time in four years Brenda grieved for the loss of her son. Everyone was shocked and not knowing what to do. Jason now knowing what to do and now realizing that Brenda was living in so much pain. He walked over to her and pulled her into his arms. Brenda struggled for a little bit and then fell into his arms.
Jason- Let it out it's ok.
Brenda- I want my son.
Jason- I know you do but he would want you to go on.
Brenda- My baby was innocent he shouldn't have been taking from this world.
Jason- Brenda we don't always agree with what god has planned for us. We just have to deal with the life we are dealt. Come on let's get you home.
Brenda- No it's ok I'm fine I want to be here for Lulu.
Jason- You aren't going to do her any good if you are a mess.
Brenda- Well thanks Jason I can always count on you for a complement.
Jason- Come on let's go. Brenda walked over to Sonny.
Brenda- Are you going to be alright. I can stay if you need me too.
Sonny- No you go home with Jason I will see you tomorrow. I'm sorry you had to do threw this much pain but just know you aren't alone anymore you have me.
Brenda- Thanks you don't know how grateful I am that you don't hate me for not telling you.
Sonny- Like I said I could never hate you it makes me love you even more.
Brenda- I love you too. Brenda kissed him and left with Jason. (A.N I know Brenda just relieved this recently but I wanted to throw it in here. Just so Carly couldn't give it to Sonny and ruin things for them.)
After watching Jason and Brenda leave it just left Carly and Sonny. Carly looking at her cousin and thinking.
Sonny- What are you thinking.
Carly- I'm thinking Dante is right about one thing. I have done a lot more worse things since I've come to town and people were willing to give me a second chance. Lulu hasn't done anything like I have done. All she did was stick by Dante and I hated that Sonny. Lulu in some ways is just like me and not at all. She would never go after someone like I have just to get back at them. She did just what I have done when I stuck by you and Jason for everything. I have turned into a hypocrite hating Lulu for what she did. When I've already done it as well.
Sonny- Maybe this is a chance to make things right for everybody.
Carly- You are probably right. I hate that she stuck by Dante and not her family. I see her now in that bed and I think it should have been me on that bus not her or Olivia. She was with our son throughout this ordeal. Never once did she think about herself just making sure he was ok. I can't thank her enough. She risked her life and those babies to be with him. I saw them when Jason and I got there. Morgan bonded with her and he only seemed to come around when she was around. Carly walked over to the bed.
Carly- I can't thank you enough Lulu for being there for my son. Words can't describe what that means to me. You shouldn't be in that bed it should be me. I'm sorry for all that I have done to you and Dante. I just wanted someone to pay for what happened to Michael. I blamed everyone else but myself for what happened to him. I was the person that put Michael on that path not you. I should have come forward when things went down with Claudia but I just wanted to protect him. All I did was make it worse if Sonny, Jason and I came forward that night. Michael wouldn't have gone to prison. You need to get better you hear. We Spencer's don't give up we come out stronger than ever. You pull threw this for your babies you hear. I want to make things right with you so please I am asking you to pull threw this. Your family needs you and I do mean all of your family.
Sonny- Come on let's go and let Lulu rest. Sonny and Carly left. Sonny put a hand to Dante's shoulder and squeezed. Dante smiled and squeezed back.
After a little while after Sonny and Carly left Michael, Abby, Morgan, Kristina, and Molly walked up.
Michael- Dante how is she?
Dante- The same as she has been.
Morgan- Can we go in and see her.
Dante- I am sure she would love to hear from you. Michael, Abby, Morgan, Kristina and Molly walked into Lulu's room. Well Morgan rolled into her room.
Morgan- Hey Lulu how you doing. Well you look a little better than the last time I saw you. I want to thank you for saving my life. If it hadn't been for you I would have been lost and scared. You are a hero to me when you protected me and confided in my about everything. You get better you here I want a better relationship with you and Dante. You get better for your babies you hear. My nephews or nieces need their mother. So you pull threw this. Michael walked over to the bed.
Michael- You were really brave out there. You helped Morgan when no one else could. You protected him from knowing your injuries were worse than they were. You kept him calm, safe and protected. I can't thank you enough. You are just full of surprises sometime. Who knew you were going to be a mother at that point. What I do know is that we are going to need a bigger place. I will help you and Dante all I can when they come. You need a babysitter uncle Michael will be there. Dante smiled at what Michael said.
Kristina walked over to stand by Michael.
Kristina- I don't know you really well Lulu but I would like to change that. I'm so excited to know I'm going to be an auntie and just like Michael. If you guys ever need a babysitter I'm available. I also can't thank you enough for what you did for Morgan. You are a true hero. You risked your own life to save my brother's and for that thank you's aren't enough to express what I feel. You get better and I promise I would like a better relationship with Dante. I know he and I haven't been close in a while but I want to change that. You have made my brother so unbelievably happy. He lights up whenever he talks about you. He needs you I don't know what will happen to him if you don't pull threw this. I don't even want to know because I know he will be a mess.
It was Morgan's turn to say something.
Morgan- Hey Lulu well you look better. I want to say thank you again. Or if I know you at all from our time together. You would tell me I don't have to thank you cause you would have done it for anybody. That is just who you are you think about other people besides yourself. No one will know what we went threw out there but we will and that no one can take away from us. I saw you for the first time as someone that only wants to be there for others and I once said. That when I got threw the accident I was going to be a better brother to my family and I want that to start now. Morgan turned his wheelchair to face Dante.
Morgan- I told Lulu when we were out there that I was going to start and be a better brother to you and that is what I am going to do. I am sorry I pushed you away. We were close once and I would like that again.
Dante- Morgan it's alright I understand why you were angry. I betrayed you and the rest of my family. With what I did with Michael I don't blame you. I would like another chance with you but only if that is what you really want. You don't have to keep anything you said out there I won't hold it against you at all.
Morgan- But I want to Michael isn't just my only older brother you are as well. I also will never forget what you've did for me. You also saved my life in more ways than one and you didn't have to.
Dante- Even before I knew you were my brother I had this connection with you I couldn't explain. We are more alike than I think you care to admit.
Morgan- I knew that back then as well. We will get our second chance but right now. You have to focus on Lulu and those babies. They need you right now more than anyone. You have to tell her that. Otherwise she will never know what you truly feel. So don't be a chicken any longer and go in there and talk to her. She probably is waiting for you her prince charming.
Dante- I am no prince Charming Morgan but thanks for telling me that.
Morgan- To Lulu you are her prince charming. Someone who would walk threw fire just to get to her. I also know you would go to the ends of the earth just to save her if she was is trouble. So quite being so hardheaded and go in there and tell her how you feel. We will go and let you be with her. Come on guys Dante really needs sometime alone with her.
Michael- We will come by again tomorrow to see how she is holding up.
Dante- Thanks she will like that. With that they all left.
Dante still hasn't been able to go into her room. When the Spencer clan showed up.
Nickolas- How is she.
Dante- She looks better but the same.
Brookelynn- How are you holding up?
Dante- As well as can be expected I guess.
Brooklynn- Lulu will pull threw this she is a strong girl.
Dante- She has to Brookelynn she has babies she has to take care of.
Brookelynn- Both you and her are going to make great parents.
Dante- Thank you Brookelynn that means a lot. Everyone walked in. Luke walked over to the bed,
Luke- Hey baby girl you get better you hear. I want to see the Spencer side of you come out and fight like hell. I am so proud of you I always am. You helped out someone other than yourself and that is just like your mother. Always thinking of other people and that was what she is like. You are just like her you have her heart but you got my drive. I love you baby girl more than you know or show you. You are a precious gift to me and always will be. The first time I held you it scared me. Because all of a sudden I was in charge of this innocent little thing and the first time you ever really looked at me. I can't describe how much love I felt for you. You have overcome a lot just to be here. So don't give up when you have so much to live for. From what I hear you are going to be a mother yourself and you will be a wonderful mother. I just know you will be. You are already thinking about them and putting them above yourself. I love you baby girl so much I would be lost without you. So get well soon you hear. Luke couldn't take it anymore and got up and left Tracy went after him.
Tracy- I'll go after him but before I go. Lulu you get better you have a whole lot of people that need you here. That is including me I know I didn't like you that much at the beginning. You didn't like me very much at first either but somewhere along the way it changed and I'm so proud to call you my stepdaughter. You get well and I'll come and talk to you some other time. With that Tracy went to find Luke.
Both Lucky and Nickolas stood on either side of her bed each holding onto one of her hands and not really knowing what to sat or think.
Lucky- Lulu don't ever do this to me again. When I found out that you were on that bus along with Cameron. So many emotions going on inside my head. You were a major hero tonight and don't roll your eyes at that it's because you were. You were there for Morgan keeping him calm and safe until help arrived. I can just imagine you were thinking more about him and your babies than yourself. That is what makes you a remarkable person. Dad is right you are more like mom in more ways than one. She is going to be so thrilled when she finds out you are pregnant. I just can't believe you are going to be a mom. I still think of you as my baby sister the one mom and dad brought home from the hospital. So little without a care in the world. You are the only one I let give me grief about everything. I just don't so that for anyone you know. So you get well and I promise we will get back to having that brother/sister relationship like that again.
Nickolas swallowed the lump that was in his throat.
Nickolas- Hey Lulu you are giving everyone quite a scare here but I know you. You are going to get threw this. You just have to have time to heal is all. When I first found out I had siblings all those years ago. I was so angry back then at everyone but never at you. I was so glad I was a match for you back then. So much has changed since then as well. For one you grew up to be a wonderful woman. Someone who is sweet and caring and has a great heart that is just like mom. I know we haven't been close lately and I know why. I don't blame you at all for that. That is my fault I screwed up and I just hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. So many people need you I need you. All your nephews need you. Right now they are all making get well cards for you and Spencer asked me to give this to you. Nickolas leaned down and kissed her head.
Ethan stood there looking at his little sister that he hasn't known for that long and thinking god can't be this cruel and take her from everyone that loves her.
Ethan- Nickolas and Lucky are right little sister. You have too many that need you expectully those two kids you are carrying. Don't make them to grow up without their mother. You fight and the right you need to just for them. They are worth it. I can't wait to see you be a mother to them and I promise. I will be the fun uncle to them. One that will teach them everything I know about being a con and how to win on gambling. I can see you now not wanting me to do that but guess what. You can't stop me. I love you Lulu I just met you I can't lose you now. And with that all three of Lulu's brothers broke down. Brookelynn, Maya, and Siobhan all walked over to them and hugged them. Three strong men not wanting to know what it's like to not have their sister around.
A half hour after Lucky, Siobhan, Nickolas, Brookelynn, Ethan and Maya left. Dante still hadn't been able to go in but with the strength that he did have. He finally walked into Lulu's room took her hand and sat down.
Dante- Hey baby I can't believe this is happening right now. I am so sorry for what happened earlier. I don't blame you for walking out on me. You were only thinking about the babies. I am so sorry I didn't give you the chance to tell me. Maybe if I did you wouldn't have been on that bus but than again. If you weren't on that bus who knows what would have happened to Morgan. Baby I am so proud of you. Lulu you have got to know that I love you so much it hurts sometimes I know I have lied and kept things from you but loving you is not one of them. When you walked into my world something changed in me. I knew I had to do everything in my power to get you to go out with me. I tried ever pick up line known to man but you never fell for that. Even know you think of them as cheesy ones. Baby I can't being to tell you how happy I am right now. You are giving me the one gift I've always wanted and that is being a father. I don't want to think about what could have happened to them. Just so you know they are fine but how can they not be. They have you for their mother. I love them so much I can't even being to tell you what that means to mean. I should have been there when you went to the doctor but I wasn't. I will be kicking myself for the rest of my life not being there with you. You had to go threw that alone. I didn't get to see them for the first time but you did. I can hear them now but it's not the same as hearing them with you. Lulu I promise you I'm going to do everything in my power to make this up to you and the babies. That is only if you let me please baby give me another chance. Or maybe I have lost that you have given me so many chances. You gave me plenty of time to tell you about my past but I didn't. Lulu I am sorry Brenda is in the past. Nothing happened back then. I may have had a crush on her and I might have thought I loved her. That was infatuation not love. What I have with you is love the truest of it's kind. I've never felt about anyone like I do you. I see a future with you and those babies. So please I'm begging please don't leave me I can't live without you.
Dante put his head down and cried and suddenly felt something squeeze his hand. He looked up to see Lulu once again squeeze his hand. Then he looked to her face.
Dante- Lulu if you can hear me squeeze my hand. Which she did Dante couldn't help but be relieved.
Dante- Ok baby if you can hear me do me another favor and open those beautiful blue eyes of yours. It took Lulu a little while to open her eyes to adjust to the light.
Dante- God baby I love you so much. Dante put his head back down on her chest. Feeling for this first time since this horrible nightmare started. That everything was going to be alright.
End of Chapter 9
Next Chapter
Lulu wakes up fully
Everyone hears that Lulu has woken up and overjoyed But will it be the outcome everyone want. Keep reading and you will find out.
A/N I hope everyone liked it so please keep the replies coming. I will start the next chapter tonight. And hopefully have it out tomorrow if not it probably won't be until Thursday or Friday.
Thanks again for reading
Kari
