" Rick, whatever is bothering you or has you this upset don't turn away from me. I want to know what it is so I can help you if I can." Lesley reached to turn Rick around to face her.
" I got a frantic call from Alice at the house... Genesis and Jesslyn, they're okay..." Rick paused
" Okay the girls are okay, what about Riley? The baby is okay isn't he?" Lesley said, trying not to freak out.
Rick sat beside Lesley while trying to figure out the best way to tell her about the kidnapping. " Lesley someone has taken the baby... From what Alice said when I got to the house to meet Bert, whoever it was broke in through the nursery's window and took him out the same way."
"Are you telling me somebody has our son and nobody has seen them... Rick! We can't lose him... I can't lose another child not again" Lesley started freaking out
" Lesley I need you to pull yourself together right now we will get our son back I promise you that... we will not lose him like we lost Laura... What I need to do now is take you home so you could be with the girls while I handle the police and Ramsey" Rick pleaded but said firmly
" Rick, this is our son we're talking about here... I can't just sit and do nothing." Lesley got out
" Lesley I promise you I will get our son back. I will not stop until I bring him back to you..."
Rick took Lesley home so she could be with the twins while he went to pentonville to settle something once and for all to get his son back granted he knew right then and there it wasn't gonna be straightforward as it was Smith that he had to deal with.
" Hello Smith, remember me!" Rick snarled
" So the rumors are true about you... You are alive... Tell me how's it feel to not have your child with you..." Smith said with a hidden grin.
" Where is my son, what have you done with him!." Rick called out
" I had nothing to do with that Webber, I've got an alibi."
" Funny how you mention that seeing is how you are equipped to hire a helping hand to do your dirty work for you... You hired somebody the night my daughter was killed and my wife was nearly crushed. Lucky for you she was only temporarily paralyzed from the waist down; now my son who is a newborn baby he's not even 4 months old, now you hired somebody to kidnap him... I want my son and I want him back now Smith or so help me I will make sure you lose everything you ever had of Jennifer." Rick bit out
" You have no power over me nor anything else Webber... But trust me even if I had your son you would never see him again." Frank snickered and left the visitation room
" I absolutely have the means on the waterfront and if you don't surrender my son so help me God you will pay for it." Rick declared.
After Rick had dropped Lesley off at the house, she went to be in the baby's room instead of just going to take an easy. Normally around the time she would get home from work, she would be getting ready to feed the baby and just relax until Rick was to join them but with Riley missing, Lesley's fear of losing another child again threatened to badger her mind over and over until she slightly got herself worked up and started to feel like she had extreme pressure on her chest where she passed out and had hit her head along the side of the baby's rocking chair just 5 minutes before Rick had gotten to the house.
" Yes I want captain Ramsey immediately over here to my home please... Thank you Lesley and I will be waiting." Rick said over the phone and got off..
" Alice is Lesley asleep?" Rick asked
" Dr. Webber went up to the baby's room... I tried to tell her to get some rest but she didn't want to do that..." Alice replied
" I don't blame her... I don't think I could get some sleep either with Riley missing...he's still a newborn at only 3 months. How's the girls?" Rick stated and asked
" They're with Ms. Brewer, she thought maybe she should take them and you and Dr Webber might want tonight to be alone with everything going on and wanted to let you know that if you needed something to call her at any time." Alice replied
" Thank you Alice Lesley and I appreciate your help with the kids... Especially with the situation and the baby's disappearance which, let me make clear, it was not your fault Alice... We will find and bring him home.." Rick said before heading up to the baby's room
Rick waited a few minutes to make sure his temper and his frustrations were in check before stepping in because he knew that Lesley seeing him angry wasn't gonna help bring their son home any faster only when he went to see if Lesley was okay he walked in to find her on the floor
" Lesley... Les?!" Rick got down beside where Lesley had taken the fall and was unconscious from the blood loss after hitting the side of her head on the arm to the baby's rocking chair.
" Alice!! Call for an ambulance and call the hospital tell them Lesley is gonna be coming in as a patient!" Rick shouted as loud as he could when he started CPR after losing a pulse and Lesley had stopped breathing on him. " Lesley, don't you give up on me. Not like this… come back to me" Rick continued until the EMT's had gotten to the house to take over and had then moved to get her to General.
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Jessie had checked on the girls before going to answer the phone only for it to be a frantic call from Rick
" Rick... Rick, I want you to calm down and tell me what happened..." Jessie said firmly
" It's Lesley Jessie. I think she's had a heart episode, a possible heart attack. I found her in the baby's room... She was unresponsive and I barely got a pulse on her and later lost it. She's got a bad gash on the side of her head. She must have hit her head when she collapsed...I need you to come up to the hospital if you could." Rick got out
" Rick I will be right there I'm gonna take the girls over to Steve and Audrey's and I'll be right there... Rick, you keep that head up, we'll talk when I get there." Jessie replied and hung up.
Riding in the ambulance with Lesley Rick couldn't help but think back to how he could've lost her while he had left for a medical convention in Denver just 2 weeks earlier and to think that back from earlier in the day he started to think it was his fault now because he knew that her medical condition has always been fragile in spite of the transplant just 8 years earlier.
" I shouldn't have told her Jessie I knew this was gonna happen and now her life could be on the line." Rick stated
" Rick, you are not to blame here... And Lesley is gonna be fine she's gonna make it through this but you have to keep yourself together."
Monica determined by the way Lesley came in and what her blood work and what her stats were that Lesley had to go straight to the O.R if she was to make it.
" Rick...?" Monica said when stepping out of Lesley's cubicle
" Monica... Tell me Lesley's okay?" Rick stood up quick
" I wish I could Rick... Lesley's condition is serious. I have to operate... if I don't operate she will die..." Monica said straightforward
" Monica do what you have to... Please don't let her die."
" Rick you've done this procedure many times as a surgeon yourself so you know just how dangerous it is and how risky for Lesley it will become with her case. I promise you I will do everything I can." Monica stated
Rick signed the consent forms and told Lesley he'll be right there when she was back in CICU
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" Is the child with his right family?" Frank Smith asked
" No sir, there was another problem... The family saw the news bulletin and reported they found the missing child. I was arrested on the scene of a suspected kidnapping. The authorities are returning the child as we speak.
" Nice to know you couldn't do a simple job. Just get out of my sight" Smith snarled
Pacing back and forth waiting for Lesley to be out of the O.R Rick tried his best to keep his mind on the positive side of the track meanwhile Bert had just gotten to the PCPD when he got a call
that a child matching Riley's description had been found and was on the way back to Port Charles.
" Jessie I don't know what I will do if I lose her... She's worked so hard to get her life back after everything she's gone through."
" Stop thinking that way... Don't start thinking that Lesley is not gonna make it because she will and you both will get Riley back I believe that." Jessie pointed out
" I just wish she didn't have to suffer like this and have to fight like hell just to stay alive..." Rick replied and stood up
Monica operated for about 3 hours before closing and notifying CICU... " Thanks for your help Noah, I'll go and talk with Rick."
Rick stood up as soon as he saw Monica coming out with Lesley's chart to be taken to CICU. " Monica, is Lesley okay?!"
" Lesley is in serious condition, but she's gonna be fine. I expect that she'll make a full recovery... She threw a few dangerous blood clots. I suspect it was from everything that's going on but I was lucky enough to be able to remove them and she will be in CICU shortly and if she stays stable as I expect after a few hours I'll have her moved to ICU..." Monica replied
" I shouldn't have told her about Riley's kidnapping... But she kept pushing and pushing for an answer after we were finished with her appointment with you and obviously I couldn't keep it from her indefinitely..."
" Rick, stop blaming yourself, everything is fine and you're both gonna find your son... I believe that." Monica replied
" I'm trying not to blame myself Monica but it's not easy especially with everything she's had to go through her whole life... Starting with what we put her through and... after that we had that accident and lost Laura... I think the only bright spots she had since all of that were when the kids were born..."
" Rick Lesley is gonna be okay I promise you that..." Monica tried again to assure Rick
Not long after Lesley was taken into recovery and Rick was with her, Captain Ramsey managed to stop by with the one prayer that Rick continued to believe in for Lesley.
" I need to see Dr. Rick Webber immediately... And I want to have this little one checked out incase of anything.." Captain Ramsey asked
" Where was he found... If you don't mind me asking?" The nurse in charge asked
