ON THIS PEDASTAL
Misha leaned against the wall breathing hard and covered in Jensen's blood, ten minutes after any other doctor would have called time of death he had brought Jensen back barely there but back.
The knife had missed his heart by a mere breath and he was now clinging to life after being rushed to surgery.
"Don't ever make the mistake of trying to die when I'm around." Misha rasped but with adrenalin sapped out of him he began to cry, Jensen had been dead and he could still have suffered brain damage for being without oxygen so long.
The hospital was in an uproar as police cleared the scene taking Lisa's body away.
Jared came rushing in with Jade and paled when he saw all the blood on Misha and the floor, all he had been told was that Jensen had been stabbed.
"Misha oh my god please…." Jared pleaded looking around desperately for his best friend, his unrelated brother.
"He's in surgery and the fucker better not ever think of dying again or I'll summon angels and have his ass dragged back here." Misha hitched and Jared took him into a huge hug.
"Where is my sister?" Jade asked anxiously.
"I had to have her sedated she was hysterical, she's down the hall."
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Arandi made her way to Jensen, she needed to see him to touch him, he had come to save her life even though had already bled out more blood than should have been possible for him to even stand.
He loved her and he had died, she had felt it to her very core of being when he had taken his last breath. It was literally as if she was dying with him and she probably would have.
She looked at her hands half expecting to see his blood still on them.
She slipped into his hospital room gently sitting on one side of his bed and lifted his pale hand.
Jensen was never weak so seeing him like this was hard.
"I need you baby, we need you." She murmured.
Jensen's eyes opened to a slit a bare curl of his lips. "I love you." He mouthed.
For Arandi it was the most beautiful sight in the world.
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"Jensen you're supposed to be in bed." Arandi scolded.
Jensen laid out the puppy dog eyes of doom. "Baby I'm tired of lying down I've been home over two weeks."
"You died and Misha can be scary when he thinks you're in danger." Arandi shuddered. "Jared is ten times worse."
Jensen sighed. "I'm loved." He pulled Arandi closer with a wince. "I miss you."
"I'm right here." She whispered.
"Not close enough." He whispered back.
"Get your ass back in bed."
"Yes ma'am." Jensen grinned slyly.
"You wish lover boy." Arandi grinned back.
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"So do I have the all clear?" Jensen sighed in Misha's face.
"You're doing great." Misha grinned.
"Thanks to you." Jensen offered softly. "For once your stubbornness paid off."
Misha squirmed uncomfortably. "I'm supposed to save lives and look who's calling who stubborn. Beside I couldn't let you miss out on the wonderful world of pregnancy."
"It can't be that bad." Jensen raised an eyebrow.
Misha laughed wholeheartedly. "Oh the uninitiated my boy, there is the awesome mood swings, the never ending weird cravings, and best of all the pregnancy heat."
"Pregnancy heat?"
"The one point in your life where you may actually hate sex." Misha grinned.
"That's impossible especially when Arandi is in heat." Jensen said in a very sure tone.
"Yeah get back to me with that one brother."
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Jensen had found out quite by accident what Misha meant by mood swings and the weird cravings all wrapped up in one.
He walked into the kitchen to find Arandi sitting at the breakfast bar eating a bowl of vanilla ice cream sprinkled with Apple Jacks.
"Are we out of milk?" He asked innocently. "I thought I saw a gallon in the fridge this morning."
He stepped back in wide eyed shock as Arandi burst into tears. "Baby you ok?"
"I drank all the milk I'm sorry I'm such a pig, I just can't stop eating." She sniffed.
"Arandi baby you're pregnant and it's normal especially since you spent the last month throwing your guts up a dozen times a day." He tried to comfort her.
"It's normal for me to be a pig." She began to cry harder.
Jensen wanted no more than to walk away before he choked on his foot. "You're not a pig baby, you're a beautiful pregnant lady."
He didn't even want to know what she was going to be like when she actually started showing.
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"Jensen calm down." Arandi pleaded against him as he pulled her out of the store.
He was trying, he really was after what had happened with his jealousy before but it was in his blood.
"He touched you Arandi." He said as calmly as he could. "He could have nodded at you, fuck even shaken your hand, but he didn't have to put his hand on the small of your back like that."
"I know Jensen." She said softly.
Jensen punched the side of his truck hard cursing trying to calm himself. He heard Arandi gasp and turned to see her scared and trembling, her eyes bright with tears.
"Arandi I'm not mad at you." He said quickly reaching for her. "I'm never going to hurt you again." He pulled her into his arms as she tried to control her crying.
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Jensen stared at the concoction that Arandi was presently happily preparing and was afraid to ask. He felt his stomach flip. Why in the hell did pregnancy make women crave crap that was just well crap.
"Is that tripe?" He asked carefully.
"They're great when they're fried." She said as she spread avocado and tabasco over the tripe on a tortilla.
Jensen nearly gagged out loud when she topped it all off with French onion dip and chopped up pickled boiled eggs.
He watched her take the first bite and hurried away having lost his appetite for a week.
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"Arandi you need to eat baby ok?" Jensen said as he hugged Arandi from behind where she stood looking into the baby's nursery.
"I'm not hungry." She replied tiredly.
"What's wrong baby?" He kissed her neck.
"I've been having bad dreams." She admitted.
"You're not eating because of a dream?"
Arandi began to cry and Jensen sighed holding her closer. It was very hard to get used to this crying at the drop of hat and fuck they weren't even half way there.
"I want you to go lie down while I go make you some soup and tea ok?"
"Don't let me go." She said.
"I'm never going to let you go." He said lifting her head to look in her eyes.
"Just please promise me Jensen that if anything happens to me that you won't let my baby forget me." She pleaded hitching.
Jensen felt a complete sense of dread go through him. "Where is this coming from Arandi?"
"Just please….." Arandi sobbed.
"Arandi don't ask that." Jensen felt his own tears welling up. "Don't ever say that."
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"If you're going to leave me just fucking get it over with stop playing these fucking games with me!" Arandi screamed at Jensen who stood staring at her as if she was possessed.
"Arandi I'm making us lunch." He said pointing at the sandwiches where he had been for the last twenty minutes since leaving her in the bedroom relaxing.
"I heard you on the phone." She accused.
"I was talking to Pamela." Jensen said trying to leave out the duh undertone and push away the frustration he was feeling a lot lately. Misha had never mentioned this shit was going to happen every fucking day. "I was telling her that we needed to get rid of the new hire she's not working out barely there two weeks and she's leaving an hour early for lunch and not clocking out."
"You're tired of me I can see it in your eyes." She said with a lot less heat as she rubbed her belly.
"It's not you I'm tired of baby." He caressed her face. "That demon that possesses you every couple hours I want to exorcise."
Arandi smiled weakly. "I'm sorry baby, I just feel the war my body is raging on me and I'm taking it out on you."
"Yeah you are, so now get the fine ass up to the room and I will be up with lunch in ten."
"So you think a beached whale is sexy?"
"Arandi you're not even big yet." Jensen sighed.
"Don't remind me." She whined.
Jensen smacked her on the ass as she walked by and she squealed. She made it to the door and stopped.
"Jensen something doesn't feel right." She hugged herself.
He rushed to her. "What is it baby, what's wrong? Are you in pain?"
"I just…."
Jensen caught her as she fell and went to the floor with her. "Arandi!"
Arandi's breathing was hard even out cold and Jensen held her close panicking. He reached for his phone and called Misha.
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"I'm really fucking tired of hospitals." Jensen bitched to Jared. His hands were shaking as he waited for news on Arandi.
"So what are you going to do when Arandi goes into labor, home birth?"
Jensen didn't answer afraid that they might never make it to that point.
Misha walked out then. "She's ok and I gave her something to help her rest. The problem is she's severely anemic which is going to cause problems."
"What do I do for her?"
"Make sure she eats iron rich foods and takes an iron supplement but if worse comes to worse she will have to have a blood transfusion."
Jensen paled. "That's sounds serious and the baby?"
Misha smiled then. "That would be babies."
Jensen looked at Misha slack jawed. "What?"
"Congratulations Jenny boy, twins."
Jensen felt Jared holding him up as Misha coaxed him to breathe.
TBC
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I don't know about any of you ladies out there but when I was pregnant I had some strange ass cravings through each of my four pregnancies.
Thinking of them now makes me turn green.
My medical expertise is nonexistent so forgive me for all errors on that and any other parts.
Thanks for reading!