When We First Met

Chapter 49

Penelope woke up a few hours later and looked around the room only seeing her family left, she looked at each of her family members but when she saw Derek with their daughter cradled in his arms feeding her a bottle and she couldn't help but smile she laid there quietly as she watched him interact with their daughter and it made her heart swell with so much love, Derek looked up and noticed that Penelope was now awake and said "hey Baby Girl, did you have a good nap" Penelope smiled and said "yes I did Handsome" Derek stood up with Dakota as she continued to drink from her bottle and made his way over to Penelope he sat down on the edge of the bed and Penelope leaned forward and placed a kiss to the top of Dakota's head.

After Dakota was finished with her bottle and had burped Derek handed her over to Penelope, Fran walked over to Penelope and Derek and said "we are going to go and get something to eat and drink, would you like anything" Derek looked at Penelope before looking to his Mamma and said "Mamma can I get a bottle of juice and a packet of chips please" Fran smiled and said "sure Baby Boy, Penelope would you like something" Penelope shook her head and said "I will share what Derek is getting" and with that everyone left the room, Penelope shuffled over on the bed so that Derek could sit on the bed properly Derek toed off his shoes and climbed on to the bed he settled down and wrapped his arm around his Baby Girl.

Penelope settled in against Derek and rested her head on his chest as they stared down at their tiny baby watching as she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep Derek placed a kiss to the top of Penelope's head and said "I can wait to have a house filled with little angels like her" Penelope laughed and said "Handsome let's get used to having one little angel first and then we can talk about having more" Derek moved slightly and lowered his head and pressed his lips to Penelope's giving her a soft and gentle kiss, just then he heard someone clear their throat and he broke the kiss only to turn and see an older nurse standing there with a look of disgust on her face.

The nurse enters the room and says "young man those hospital beds are for patients only so can you get off" Derek looked at the nurse and was going to say something to her when she said "I told you to get off the bed, now do it" in a raised tone of voice which startled Dakota who began to cry Derek quickly got off the bed as Penelope tried to settle the now screaming baby, he walked over to the nurse and said "see what you have done, you have upset my daughter" the nurse looked at him and then over at Penelope and the baby and said "well that is because you are too young to know how to take care for a child properly and if you had of stuck to your own kind then that poor young girl wouldn't be here right now,would she" Derek was about to answer when he heard Luis say "how dare you speak about my son in law like you bitch."

As their family entered the room Derek made his way back to Penelope who was now just as upset as her daughter the nurse looked at them and said "how can you condone this" as she pointed at Penelope and Derek before she continued "how can you stand by and watch as that poor girls life is destroyed by becoming an unwed young mother" Maggie made her way over to stand by Penelope on the other side of the bed to try and comfort her daughter while Derek tried to comfort Dakota as Luis said "how can such a cold heartless bitch be a nurse and help women to bring new life into the world, just because you don't agree with my 17 year old daughter being a teen mother doesn't mean you can go around abusing her and be racist to her husband to be" Fran stepped forward and said "you have no right to speak to my son like the way You just spoke to him and I will make sure that he and my daughter in law make a complaint against you as I will be and I am sure that Penelope's parents will be too" the nurse pushed past everyone and left the room.

Everyone finally was calmed down and Derek said "I will be back in a minute I am just going to go to the nurses station" without waiting for an answer he walked out of the room and down the hall towards the nurses station when he reached the nurses station there was one nurse sitting there doing some paperwork and he said "excuse me Ma'am" the nurse looked up and said "yes, how can I help you" Derek replied "I was wondering if there is someone that I can talk to as I would like to report a nurse for being abusive" the nurse dropped her pen and said "I am the nursing unit manager (NUM) so I can help you" Derek gave the nurse a half smile and said "that would be greatly appreciated, thank you" the nurse stood up grabbed her pen and a notepad and said "we can talk in my office or we can talk in the room" Derek replied "can we talk in my fiancées room please" the nurse nodded as Derek turned and began heading back to Penelope's room with the nurse right behind him.

When Derek and the nurse reached Penelope's room they entered the room and the nurse closed the door behind them she watched as Derek sat down on the bed next to Penelope as she sat on the end of the bed and looked at Derek before saying "can you tell me what happened for you to want to make a complaint" Derek sighed and said "well my fiancée and I were sitting just like we are now when an older nurse came in and told me to get off the bed as they are only for patients and when I didn't move as quickly as she would have liked me to she raised her voice at me which startled our baby and she began to cry and when I said something to her she said well that is because you are too young to know how to take care for a child properly and if you had of stuck to your own kind then that poor young girl wouldn't be here right now, would she just as our families were returning to the room and the she said to my soon to be father in law how can you stand by and watch as that poor girls life is destroyed by becoming an unwed young mother."

Fran said "the way she spoke to my son was completely out of line and I will be filing a complaint against her for verbal abuse and racism" the nurse looked around the room and when she saw everyone nodding in agreement she knew that they were now one pissed off family and she was going to do everything in her power to make what had happened right she looked at Derek once again and said "can you tell the name of the nurse or what she looks like" Derek wasn't sure of her name but he said "I am not sure of her name but I can tell you what she looks like, she is about your height, a little stocky with short blonde hair" the nurse thought about it for a moment as there was only one person fitting that description and that this was not the first complaint against her, the nurse said "thank you for that I will deal with this issue and I can guarantee that she will not will not trouble you again."

The nurse left the room and headed to the break room which is where she saw nurse Stella Frankston go, when she got to the break room she was glad that there as no one else in there except for Stella and she said "Stella can I see you in my office please" Stella stood up and grabbed her coffee and followed the NUM to her office as she took her seat, the NUM closed the door she then walked over and sat down in her chair and began "Stella I have called you in here because I have just had several complaints from a family about you verbally abusing a teen patient who had just had a baby and for being racist towards the baby's father, now as you know this is not the first complaint to made against you but this complaint is a lot more serious, as this hospital will not tolerate any sort of abuse or racism whether it be against a patient or staff member so I need you to collect your belongings and leave as you are no longer and employee of this hospital and I will be talking with the hospital administrator and then you will be called in for a meeting with him" Stella stood with her coffee mug in hand and threw the mug across the room narrowly missing the NUM's head before storming out of the office.