Chapter 25

Max sat staring at Kimberly's unconscious form and feeling a little anxious. She was starting to believe that there was someone there, watching her, waiting for her. She looked up and stared at the open door with an anxious feeling in the pit of her stomach. As annoyed as she was by Kenny's constant badgering she knew that he was only looking out for her best interest. She touched her stomach and smiled as she thought of the little life that was growing there, inside of her. She was going to be a mom and that scared her more than anything in the world, but knowing that Kenny was going to be there usually helped. Well, at least it did until he started being way overprotective. Sighing she leaned into the chair she sitting in and watched the door, waiting for Jimmy to come back and get Kim.

Kenny was pacing back and forth in front of the nurses station. He was getting angry at everyone and then he took a deep breath. He decided that pacing wasn't going to help the situation any and he started to help with the evacuation. He found Jimmy giving orders to some new arrivals and walked up to him.

"Pull Max off Kim, get her to help evacuate." Kenny said seriously.

"I would rather have her in one place." Jimmy said shaking his head. "Then I know where she is."

"So does this guy. She is a sitting duck." Kenny pointed out evenly. "Look if you want, I will sit with Kim, but put Max somewhere else."

"Did you talk this over with Max?" Jimmy asked him with an arched brow.

"Do you really think Max knows what's good for her right now? She is thinking like a cop and not like an expectant mother." Kenny snapped.

"You do know that I am your boss don't you?" Jimmy said arching his brow a little more.

"Look, Jimmy, my main concern has got to be Maxine right now. She is not only my wife but she is carrying my child." Kenny said changing his tone. "I can't think about how she is going to react to what's going on or what I am doing. I think after the baby is born she'll be grateful to me."

"I think you're delusional." Jimmy said shaking his head. "I am going to do this for your own good. Max will stay at her post but I am ordering you to stay with her. Tell her I want two guards on Kim because one of you will need to stay with Kim if this guy attacks and one of you will chase him."

"All right." Kenny nodded slowly. He figured this was better than nothing at all.

Max looked up as Kenny walked into the room and watched as he walked over to sit next to her. She smiled slightly when he didn't say anything and then sighed when he opened his mouth.

"Jimmy says we're both on guard duty. If this guy comes in here you're to stay with Kim while I try and take him down, deal?" Kenny asked, surprising her.

"Deal." Max said nodding her head. "I sure as heck wouldn't try and chase him."

"You wouldn't?" Kenny asked with a doubtful look on his face.

"Kenny, for whatever reason you think I am purposefully trying to put myself in harms way, you need to get over it. I am only trying to do my job. I am not going to let anything happen to this baby, all right?" Max asked blowing out a frustrated breath.

"Max…" Kenny started only to be interrupted by a noise coming from the doorway. He looked up and saw a man standing there, one he didn't recognize. "Can I help you?"

"Maybe. I was looking for Lana. You're Kenny aren't you? I saw a picture of you in Lana's room." The man said moving from one foot to the other.

"Are you the baby's father?" Kenny asked arching a brow.

"That still has to be determined." The man said with a sigh.

"Excuse me?" Kenny asked starting to get upset. He jumped up from his chair and then looked over when he saw Lana walk up behind the man.

"I saw you walk into the hospital. I don't know how you got yourself past the cops downstairs but you shouldn't be in here." Lana said with a hand on the man's shoulder.

"Lana I am busy trying to talk to this guy here." Kenny said interrupting her.

"Relax Kenny. The reason he doesn't know he is the father is because…" Lana said trailing off.

He was waiting patiently for a chance to get in the room. He could hear every word that was being said and had to laugh and smile. Kenny was certainly an overprotective person. Maxine seemed to be getting annoyed with him very quickly and if that's true than it was possible that she might take an unnecessary risk to get away from all his nagging. It seemed like his luck was finally looking up and he had a chance to finally win at something.

Jimmy looked over when he saw Jill running towards him. He sighed when he saw the concerned look on her face and had to grin. She was always worried about other people and putting herself in danger when she thought the people she cared about might be in danger themselves. He laughed when he saw her frowning when she finally reached him.

"Where's Kim? She wasn't outside." Jill said taking deep breaths.

"Max and Kenny are guarding her. I have arranged for her room to be the last one evacuated so that I can personally be by her side when it's done." Jimmy said as he watched more of the evacuations.

"Jimmy, Max shouldn't be in here." Jill said with an arched brow.

"We're talking about Max here. If you tell her that she is only going to get angry." Jimmy reminded her with a chuckle.

"True." Jill said nodding her head slowly.

Max watched Kenny's face, she already knew what he was about to hear.