Final chapter – but there will be an epilogue so don't stop reading after this one. Also, this is going to be very short. I didn't want to ruin it at the last minute. Enjoy! xxxNTxxx
Day 555 – The Janitor
He had been unblocking some rather stench-filled rusty toilets on the third floor of Sacred Heart when Scooter had rushed in with that stupid grin on his face. Of course, this good mood was contagious on a day like this, because today they were going to find out the sex of the baby. Blonde Doctor would be sat at home enjoying her day off and waiting for the two most important people in her life to pick her up and take her to the hospital. Today was the most exciting day of the Janitor's life (so far, the birth may come at the top later on depending on who the father was, which was still a mystery). By now, neither male could care less. They had teamed up to make Blonde Doctor's maternity the best it could be.
There had been a scare earlier on when they thought she may have miscarried; this is common among first timers and she had been in a state. Fortunately, it was just her body adjusting to changes for the baby's sake, and everyone could learn from that.
Back in the present, Scooter had rushed into the bathroom and was currently grinning. The Janitor tossed his plunger into the mop bucket beside him and gave one nod. "It's time?"
"Yup, time it is." Scooter giggled like a child and then clapped his hands together. "Can you get off work? Mickhead is covering my shift this afternoon."
"Course I can, I come as I please." The Janitor shrugged and began to push his tray out of the toilets.
They marched to the janitorial closet, stowed the tray and then made their way to the car park. At times like these, they had both agreed that using Scooter's brand new four door saloon would be best (he'd bought it especially for the future). So, whilst cruising down the long road to their apartment, the Janitor decided to strike up a question.
"How is she doing?"
"Without you, you mean?" Scooter laughed. "She's fine. Nothing out of the ordinary."
For some reason, this hurt the Janitor. Seeing her able to move on like that was painful. Okay, so maybe he was the one acting hostile recently, but she had been the one to blame. However his capacity to hold incredibly long grudges was wearing off due to her beauty, kindness and total control over his heart. He wanted to forgive her, no matter how hard that was, and to sweep her back into his open arms. He wanted that marriage they had planned for. For the both of them to start a family with the unborn child. But if she was moving on so quickly as Scooter was promising inadvertently, then why she he screw with that? No, he would stay quiet and let her live her new life without him.
"Figures," The Janitor managed a mumbled reply. "Later, can you tell her that Buddy learnt a trick last night?"
"Oh yeah?" Scooter raised his brow.
"Hmm. He can fetch now. Dumb mutt."
"I tried to learn Rowdy that trick. It didn't work."
It was the weirdest thing to be able to have a normal conversation with Scooter, and as it turned out, he wasn't such a bad person after all. So he made one mistake a few years ago – big deal. If the Janitor was able to forgive him for sleeping with his fiancée at the time, then surely he could forgive him for blocking a stupid door with a stupid penny, right?"
"You know, JD?" He began, addressing his nemesis by his name. "You're alright."
"Well thanks, buddy!" JD nodded happily. "I was thinking that if it turns out to be my kid, I'd still love you to be a big part of their life."
"Same here." The Janitor decided, through all of his instincts, to agree. He clenched his teeth; getting over his hatred for someone wasn't going to be just that easy, now, was it?
They pulled up outside JD's apartment and he disappeared in to grab Blonde Doctor and take her all the ride back to the hospital. The Janitor waited in the passenger seat of the care, unaware that he was actually staring at the door in his eagerness to see her. When she finally did emerge, he blinked a couple of times and shook it off, smiling in their direction before looking to the ground in thought. He was in thought the whole time it took to get back to Sacred Heart, all the way down the hallways in into their room.
After gearing Blonde Doctor up for her second scan, the female doctor said she needed to leave for a couple of minutes. That was when Blonde Doctor reached out and held the hands of both men, who stood either side of her.
"So, what do you think?" She asked.
"I want it to be a boy." JD smiled. "I don't know why, but I would love it to be a boy. I've got a ton of names."
"Well that all depends on if we like the names or not." Blonde Doctor pointed out. "I don't want my son to be called Luke Skywalker or Optimus Prime."
"Don't be silly, Elliot... he'd be called Optimus Reid."
"Still a no." She narrowed her eyes sketchily.
"I want it to be a girl." The Janitor suddenly piped up, after his long thoughts on the matter.
"Really?" Both JD and Elliot said at the same time, only one of them sounded more sceptical than the other.
"Yeah, sure." He continued. "I mean, my family were known for boys. You kinda get sick of it after the third generation or so. My dad had two sons, my brother had three sons... gets annoying."
"I didn't know you had a brother." JD sniped.
"You don't know a lot of things," The Janitor shrugged. "I don't really have any names I'd prefer if it were a girl, though."
"So we're betting?" JD jumped up and down happily. "If it's a boy, me and Elliot get to choose the name. If it's a girl, you and Elliot get to choose the name. Deal?"
"... err, okay, deal."
The doctor came in shortly after that and began her duties. The sonogram appeared on the screen and they all cooed, most of the noise coming from JD has he hadn't been there the first time. The Janitor was astonished at how much the little sucker had grown in so many months. The Doctor pointed to the screen for them. "You see that? That means I can tell you the gender."
"I don't see anything," Blonde Doctor moaned.
"Do you all want to know the sex of the baby?" The doctor asked them.
"Well, I do, you? Yeah. Yes please, please tell us."
The doctor tilted her head and gave a little laugh. "It's a boy."
"YES!" JD punched the air. "Welcome to your dysfunctional family, Optimus!"
"JD, just no!" Blonde Doctor complained, but then she turned to face the image of her baby boy again and melted. "He's so... well, squidgy and small! Hello, I'm your mommy. And one of these goons is your daddy."
"I don't care that he's a boy." The Janitor felt his eyes welling up. "He's beautiful."
-MDWY-
JD had gone back to work, and the Janitor was accompanying Blonde Doctor home in his van. They were holding hands down the parking lot, even though they didn't notice until Dr Kelso stopped them and nodded at the notion.
"You two at it again?" He commented, smoking his pipe.
"Oh, no, sir." The Janitor dropped Blonde Doctor's hand almost immediately and heard her sigh as Kelso walked on. He opened his van door for her, but stopped her from getting in by placing his arm across her chest. "Wait a minute."
"What is it?" She looked concerned, cupping her baby bump in her arms.
"This doesn't seem right." He began. "I mean us. You've obviously moved on, but I haven't and I don't know how to get closure. How did you get closure?"
"I didn't," She frowned. "I'm still not over you, how could you think that?"
"Whenever I asked Scooter how you were he always said you were fine."
She laughed. "Yeah, I'm fine, on the outside! Come on, I loved you, remember! And I still do. I'm only acting so strong and independent for the baby's sake, and because if I didn't I know I would end up breaking down all the time like I used to. I can't be that person anymore, don't you understand that?"
"No, hey, no, I understand." He helped her into the van and found his own seat but did not start the car just yet. "So, err, does that mean you still want me?"
"That depends." She smirked in the corner of his eye. "Does this mean you forgive me?"
He sighed and looked down, then up and then straight into her eyes. "I can't... I need to know that you won't ever do that to me again. I might be the crazy janitor man but I still have feelings. How can you promise me that you won't do it all over again?"
"Because... what it was with JD was nothing more than my own version of closure. One last goodbye, I guess, after we'd ended so abruptly. It will never happen again, those feelings I had for him are gone. I only lust for you." She lifted her hand to how him that she had never taken the engagement ring off. "Maybe we rushed into things."
He laughed. "Yeah, maybe." And as she signalled, he took the ring off her hand and put in on the dashboard. He then took her hand and squeezed it tight, and she responded with a kiss on the cheek. "If we take it slower, and you promise, can we make another go at this?"
"Nothing in the world would ever stop me."