Chapter 52:
After the many pictures that were taken of Luka Angelo and Lauren Lesley their families retreated back to the waiting room to give the new parents some time alone with their kids.
"I thought that they would never leave," Lulu said.
Dante was sitting at the foot of Lulu's bed, holding both sleeping babies in his arms. "Me too. I am surprised that Ma gave the babies back to us. I thought that she was going to make off with them."
"We should have gotten a guest room made too," Lulu said, gazing at her babies. "You know she is going to try and move in with us so she could help us take care of them."
Dante laughed. "She will try but at the end of the day she will be going back to her apartment."
"She is going to be back bright and early the next morning," Lulu said. "With a casserole and some baby formula under her arm."
Dr. Lee came back into Lulu's curtain area. "We have your room ready. It's a private room per Tracy's and Nikolas' wishes. I need to take the babies for a little bit and take them to the nursery to get settled in. Take their footprints on the birth certificate. "
Dante looked down at his sleeping kids. "I don't want to miss a minute of their lives."
"They will be gone for a short period of time, Daddy," Dr. Lee assured him.
"Daddy," Dante beamed. "That word sounds different now with these little ones in my arms."
"Are you going to let Lulu hold them?" Dr. Lee asked. "I mean she did right after they were born…"
"She had eight and a half months of holding them. Feeling them move around and grow inside her. It's my turn now."
He kissed Luka Angelo's forehead then he kissed Lauren Lesley's. "Okay guys the doctors want to make sure you have ten finger and ten toes. We will see you soon. We are going to be in a different room so don't be scared."
A nurse came in with one bassinette. There were two different name cards on it. One was pink with Lauren Lesley Spencer-Falconari written on it. The other one was blue with Luka Angelo Spencer-Falconari "We are going to put them in the same one."
Lulu nodded. "That is fine."
Dante got up from the bed. The nurse took Lauren Lesley from Dante and carefully placed her in the bassinet. Dr. Lee took Luka Angelo from Dante and did the same thing. The nurse took the bassinette and wheeled it out of the room
"We will see you soon," Dr. Lee said.
"Ready for your room, Lulu?" Elizabeth asked as she came into the room. "Don't worry about the babies; Jane is being followed by a really handsome and muscular Greek bodyguard."
"Sebastian is with them?" Lulu asked. "Hey maybe we should ask him to be one of the babies' godfather. I mean I have three brothers and only two kids. One of the brothers might feel left out if I don't choose one of them."
"I think you are right, Lulu," Elizabeth said.
"I know! You could have them do some tasks to prove themselves!" Dante cried as an orderly came in to move Lulu's bed into the hospital room. "I can come up with some doozies for them to do! Come one turn about is fair play! If they want to be the godfather they have to do it!"
"Down boy," Lulu laughed. "Don't get so worked up."
"Come on!" Dante whined. "I got poison oak; I had to jump out of a plane, and had to wrestle a she-beast. I need to get my revenge."
"Suck it up, Dante." Lulu ordered as the orderly wheeled her in the elevator. "You got what you wanted. You got my family's respect and permission to remarry me. You need to let it go."
Dante looked down at his kitty scrubs and pink shoes. "I am never going to live this down am I?"
"Nope." Lulu smiled.
"You'd think that Ma would have brought me some clothes to change into."
"Quit your whining. I am the one should be whining not you. I was the one that gave birth. I think the drugs are beginning to wear off."
The elevator doors opened, the orderly wheeled Lulu down the hallway. For once Dante didn't care about the strange looks he was getting by the hospital staff.
Once they got to Lulu's hospital room, it was one of the finest ones in the hospital. It had a great view of the Port Charles' skyline.
"I'll leave you guys alone for awhile. You'll thank me later when the 3 am feedings are coming." Elizabeth winked at them. "Get sleep when you can."
She left them alone in the room together.
Lulu looked down at her hospital bracelets for the babies on her wrist. Dante sat down next to her on the bed. He fingered the bracelets as well. "You did it, baby. The babies came a little early but you did it."
"They must have known something was wrong. They wanted to make their grand entrance."
"I am glad they waited until they were in the hospital to get born. If you had them in the rose garden, Tracy would never let me forget it," Dante said. "And thank you for faking going into labor before your water really broke."
"You think I liked seeing Alice kicking your butt?" Lulu asked. "I had to do something."
"I had her!" Dante protested. "It didn't look like it but I had her!"
Lulu patted his hand. "Sure you did, honey. You need to keep telling yourself that."
Dante pouted. "You don't think I could have beaten Alice?"
"I don't think you teamed up with your brothers could have beaten Alice."
"I can't win with my wife either?" Dante muttered. "They should have told me that when we got married the first time."
Lulu's stomach sudden growled. "Dante, I am starving. Can you get me something to eat?"
"You want me to go to the cafeteria wearing this?" Dante asked.
"No, I want you to go to Kelly's and get me a double cheeseburger, large fries, and a strawberry milkshake, and some apple pie. You can get something for yourself if you want. Tell Mike to put it on my tab."
"You want me to leave the hospital and go out in public dressed in something that has pink kitty-cats on it? Are you serious?"
"I just gave birth to your children, you owe me something. I want a Kelly's burger."
Dante handed Lulu his cell phone. "Call Mike and place a delivery order. He would want to be here to see his great-grandchildren for the first time."
"Are you chicken? I mean there is a viral video of you in a tutu wrestling a lady. Are you afraid of someone seeing you in pink kitties?" Lulu handed him his phone back.
"You better make it up to me later," Dante grumbled.
"Not for twelve weeks, Dante," Lulu winked at him.
"I forgot about that," Dante groaned. "Well good thing that I bought some extra calamine and some naughty lotion so you can attend to Thor in another way."
Lulu pressed a kiss to his cheek. "I love you, Dante."
Dante kissed her back, deeply. "You owe me, Lulu."
Dante got up from the bed. "If I am not back when the babies get back give them a big kiss for me."
"I will."
Dante slipped out of the Lulu's hospital room unaware that there was someone dressed in scrubs pretending to read a chart. Once he saw that Dante was leaving the room. He picked up his cell phone. "She's alone. I will. I will call you when it's finished."
Sebastian watched as the babies were placed back in the same bassinet. They looked exactly like Lulu and Dante. He was glad that Lulu was finally happy. It sure took her family a long time to accept Dante back in Lulu's life. All that was left was the ceremony where the two love birds renewed their vows.
Suddenly his Spidy Senses began tingling. It felt that he was being watched. Correction someone was watching him watching the babies. He didn't like this. Sebastian caught a glance of the person out of the corner of his eye. He had memorized the faces of every single person that worked in the hospital. This person did not look familiar to him. The person was wearing scrubs and a white doctor's coat.
Feeling that Luka Angelo and Lauren Lesley were in danger, Sebastian stealthily made his way over to the mystery person without letting him know that he had moved from his present location.
The mystery person made a sudden move to take something out of his coat pocket. Sebastian had the guy down on his back on the floor with a death grip on his trachea. "Who are you and who sent you?"
Lulu must have fallen asleep waiting for Dante to return. She didn't hear the door open and close nor did the light from the hallway wake her up. The person crept in deeper in Lulu's room. He reached into his pocket, pulling out a syringe, and made his way to a sleeping Lulu.
What he didn't see was the stool in the darkness, he kicked it sending careening against the wall.
The sound instantly woke Lulu up. "Who are you?" she demanded, turning on the lights, trying to reach for the call button.
The man held up the syringe. "Don't even think about it, Mrs. Spencer-Falconari. That is unless you want something to happen to your children before they are even a day old."
Lulu held both hand in the air. "If you hurt my kids, I will kill you."
The man laughed. "Then kill me."
The man the writhed in pain as Sebastian increased the pressure on his neck. The man was beginning to turn blue before Sebastian loosened his grip. "Want to answer me now? Did Santos send you?"
The man nodded.
"He sent you to harm some helpless newborn babies? What is the hell is wrong with you?" Sebastian demanded.
When the man didn't answer, Sebastian increased the pressure on the man's throat. "You better tell me something or you are going to die when you are lay. Think about it. Is your life worth what is Santos paying you?"
Sebastian relaxed his grip on the man's neck giving him a chance to respond. The man coughed. "Do you really think that the babies are Santos' only target tonight?"
"Get up!" the man demanded to Lulu. "Get up now!"
Lulu threw back the covers on her bed. "Give me a minute. I just gave birth a few hours ago."
"I don't care! Get up!" the man shrieked. "I am getting paid to get a job done.
Lulu slowly got up. She noticed something on the cadenza beside the bed by the window she could use to defend herself. She got out the bed on that side. "Did Santos send you?" Lulu demanded.
"Don't talk to me!" the man snarled. "Why did you get out of bed that way? Get your ass over here."
"Does it matter?" Lulu asked. "I am out of bed aren't I?"
She eyed the item as she made her way over to the man with the syringe. She knew she had to make her move now before she was close enough for him to inject her with that needle.
She stumbled into the credenza.
"For the love of God!" The man exclaimed as he went around the bed to help her.
That was the last thing that he remembered as Lulu crashed a steel bedpan on the back of his skull.
When the man crashed to the ground, the door burst open, Sebastian and Dante holding the bag of take out stood in the doorway. Lulu dropped the bedpan to the floor; it bounced and fell on the man.
"A little help, please?" she asked.
"The babies are fine," Sebastian reassured her. "The guy that was lurking in the hallway was subdued."
Sebastian went over to the fallen guy. He kicked him to make sure he was out cold. He looked at what Lulu used to knock the man out. "Lulu you used a portable toilet to subdue him?"
Lulu shrugged. "It's all I had."
Ronnie and Lucky came in the room. "The other guy is on his way to the PCPD. He kept on saying: 'Keep the Greek away from me'. Do you have any idea what that means?"
Lulu bit her lip from laughing and shook her head no. "Can you get this lug out of here? I want to enjoy my double cheeseburger in peace."
Ronnie rolled the guy on his stomach to handcuff him. "You have the right to remain unconscious."
Ronnie then placed the syringe in a plastic evidence bag. "This must have some kind of poison in it. I will have the lab test it."
"Santos sent them," Sebastian stated.
"We know. The guy with the hickey is singing like a canary. He is trying to cut a deal. He failed in his mission so he knows that Santos is going to have him taken out," Lucky said.
Ronnie roughly brought the guy to his feet. "You know, we are in the hospital we should have him looked at."
"He looks fine to me," Lucky said. "That punk went after my sister who just gave birth. He can live with the headache that Lulu gave him."
"Can you take my statement later? I want to have dinner with my hubby," Lulu sat down on her bed. "It's not like I am going anywhere."
"We will be back in the morning. Get some sleep because for the next year or three you aren't going to get any," Lucky said.
Dante came into the room. "I can't leave for ten minutes for you to get in some trouble?"
"Did you get me the pie?" Lulu asked instead. "He asked for it!"
"A whole apple pie. You seriously knocked out one of Santos' hitmen with a freaking bedpan?" Dante set the bag on the table and began to unpack it. "He is never going to live that down when he is in prison."
"I am glad to humiliate a would be assassin in his process to kill me," Lulu said. "Can we eat in peace and quiet? That is something that is not going to happen for awhile so I have been told."
"Anything for you, baby." Dante kissed her cheek.
Dante took a bite of his burger. "A freaking bedpan…"
"It should have been worse; it could have been a used bedpan." Lulu winked at him.
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