Glen Gordon Caron created the characters. They are not mine. This is for entertainment purposes only, not for profit.

Sweet Baby
Part V

Maddie's BMW comes to a screeching halt in front of the Emergency Room doors. David gets out of the car and grabs a
wheelchair. Maddie has her door open and is trying to get out when David comes to help her get in the wheelchair.

Maddie looks over and sees an orderly. "Let him wheel me in."

David: "What?"

Maddie: "Addison, the last time you had me in a wheel chair you pushed me down a flight of stairs."

David: "Yeah, but Maddie that was a chase scene. Stuff like that always happens in a chase scene."

Maddie starts to say something.

David: "No time to argue."

David pushes Maddie into the Emergency Room and runs up to the desk to find the same nurse he had talked to when he had
brought Terry in.

The nurse remembers him. (After the fiasco Maddie and David had created last time, who wouldn't remember them?) "Let me
guess. She's having a baby."

David: "Her water broke!"

The nurse motions to David with her hand. "Bring her back here."

Maddie is screaming in pain.David is coaching Maddie much like he did for Terry. "Short, short, long. Short, short, long."

Maddie: "Addison, shut the hell up!"

David: "Maddie, this will make it easier." David takes Maddie's hand. "Come on short, short, long."

Maddie: "What do you know?"

David: "Come on Maddie just like we did in class."

Maddie: "Get out of my face! I don't want to see you or hear your voice."

David starts to walk off when Maddie clasps a death grip onto David's hand.Maddie: "Just where the hell do you think you're
going?"

David: "You just said…"

Maddie: "Addison, you leave and I'll kill you! You did this to me. You're going to feel pain with me."

Nurse: "The doctor is washing up. He'll be here in just a second."

The doctor comes in. "So, we're about there?"

David: "I hope so, she's about to take my head off and we haven't even had a good banter."

Maddie growls and looks at David and the doctor. "Men."

Doctor: "I believe that's my cue."The doctor bends down to see how Maddie is doing.

Doctor: "Okay, look like we're ready."

Maddie: "We?"

Doctor: "When I count to three push."

Maddie: "I can't do this."

David: "Maddie you have to do this."

Doctor: "One, two, three, push."

Maddie puts a death grip on David's hand bringing him to his knees.

Doctor: "Very good. Again. One, two, three push."
Maddie squeezes David's hand again. David is in serious pain.

Doctor: "Okay, one more time should do it. One, two, three push."

Maddie squeezes David's hand and suddenly lets go.David hears a baby cry and looks up to see the doctor holding a baby up.

David: "It's a boy!"

The nurse takes to baby to clean him up and check him out.David walks over to where the nurse and his son are.

David: "Maddie, he's beautiful."

David looks at the bed and sees doctors and nurses running around frantically. "Maddie?"

The doctor is shouting out orders.

David: "What is going on?" The doctor doesn't respond to David.

Finally after several minutes the doctors and nurses relax and Maddie slowly opens her eyes.

David grabs the doctor. "What the hell is going on?"

Doctor: "It appears that she may have had a very light stroke. We will need to do some tests to be sure."

David: "Is she going to be alright?"

Doctor: "I believe so. Like I said we will need to do some tests to be sure."

David: "You believe? Let me tell you something Doc. You take the 'be' and 've' out of believe and you're left with a lie.
Tell me the truth."

Doctor: "The truth is that there may be some damage, but we do not know yet."

David walks over to Maddie. "Maddie, Maddie, can you hear me?"

Maddie: "David. What…?"

David: "We have a baby boy!"

Maddie: "David, have them do a paternity test."

The nurse comes in to take Maddie.David says to the nurse. "Where are you going?"

Nurse: "The doctor has ordered a series of tests. The Neurologist will be here shortly."

Maddie: "David, stay with the baby."

David does as Maddie asks and goes to ask for a paternity test. One is quickly ordered.

David thinks to himself. "Why do things always have to be so hard for us? It's like we just go from one crisis to another."
David looks at the camera. "I guess you would get board if everything was always hunky-dory."

Commercial

Two hours later Maddie is brought back to her room where David is sitting in a chair holding their new son.

David goes over to Maddie and hugs her as he is handing her their son.

David: "How do you feel?"

Maddie: "They said I may have had a light stroke, but I feel fine. I can move everything alright and my speech is okay."

The Neurologist comes in. "Well I have some good news. It seems that the stroke was so light that there was no damage
temporary or permanent. We will want to keep you here a few days just to make sure."

David stands up and shakes the doctors hand. "Thank you."

The doctor leaves and David looks as though he has had a thousand pounds lifted off him.

Maddie: "Did you have the doctor order the test?"

David: "Yeah. The results should be back in an hour or so."

The nurse comes in she is young and pretty. "I've come to take him back to the nursery. There are some routine tests we still
have to do on him."

David: "Tests?"

The nurse coyly smiles at David almost flirting. "They're routine, nothing to worry about. You know count his fingers and toes."

Maddie expects David to flirt back to the nurse with some snide remark, but there is none.

Instead, David looks at the baby. "You haven't been here two hours and already they have you taking tests. You're a smart
boy I'm sure you'll ace them."

With that the nurse leaves the room with the baby.

Maddie is a little surprised that David did not flirt with that beautiful nurse. Then she starts to think.

Maddie looks at David. "David, if the results don't come back as we hope…"

David: "Maddie, if that happens we'll deal with it."

Maddie: "I'll understand if you want out. I'll let you out of this."

David: "You want me out of this?"

Maddie: "No, I didn't say that. Don't put words in my mouth. I just want you to know that I don't expect you to be
responsible for a child that's not yours."

David looks at Maddie and shakes his head. "You really are a piece of work."

Maddie: "What does that mean?"

David: "Do you really think so little of me? I knew good and well that there was a chance that this baby would not be mine
when I married you." David stands up. "You knew I knew that. Yet, you're here telling me I can leave if I want and you'll
understand."

Maddie: "David, I don't feel like arguing right now."

David: "Then why did you start? You can't just start an argument and then turn around and say you don't feel like finishing it."

Maddie: "I didn't know I was starting one."

David: "Earth to Maddie. Do you ever bother to watch the show? You insulted me. We have to fight."

Maddie: "I didn't mean to insult you David."

David: "Okay, rewind, forget the last five minutes of your life."

Maddie nods her head in agreement.

David: "I called the office and told Agnes about the baby. I didn't tell her about the stroke because I wasn't sure what to tell
her. I asked her not to tell anyone just yet." David looks at his watch. "If I know Agnes the Space Man should have heard
about by now and he should be landing anytime now."

Maddie: "I don't want to see him."

David: "Me neither. If he does turn out to be the father, we'll have no choice."

Maddie: "He thinks he can bribe me into marring him using my child to do it. I don't want a man like that anywhere near my
child."

Maddie starts to cry. "I've known him since I was six. We were best friends, how could he do that to me? How could he
threaten to take my baby from me? I thought I knew him."

David sits on Maddie's bed and holds her in his arms.

David whispers, "We're not going to let that happen."

There is a knock on the door and Sam enters without being invited in.

Commercial

Sam walks in and sees David comforting Maddie. Immediately he thinks the worse.

Sam: "Where is the baby? Is it okay?"

David talks so that Maddie wouldn't have to. "The baby is fine."

Sam: "So where is my…?"

David: "It's a boy. As far as it being yours, we'll see."

Sam smiles. "A boy! Where is he?"

David: "The nurse took him for some routine tests. He should be back soon."

Sam: "David, if you don't mind I would like to talk to Maddie alone."

David: "Maddie has had a rough day I think we should let her rest."

Sam: "I'm sure Maddie can speak for herself."

Maddie: "Sam, please."

There is a knock on the door and the doctor walks in.

Doctor: "Well, how is our patient feeling?"

Maddie: "Tired."

Doctor: "With the day you've had, anybody would be."

Maddie: "Tell me about it."

Doctor: "Well I hope you're up to this. We got the paternity test results."

Sam: "Paternity test? I never submitted to a paternity test."

Doctor: "Well with the kind of results we have in this test we don't need a sample from the third party."

David: "Well, what's the verdict?"

The doctor looks at David. "I can say that without a doubt you are the father of the baby in question."

David and Maddie both smile a big smile and David gives Maddie a big kiss.

Sam looks at them. "Well Maddie, like I told you before I still want to marry you." Sam looks at David. "You and I both
know that I would make a better father for that little boy."

Maddie: "No Sam. I will not marry you. Besides I'm already married."

Sam: "What?" Sam looks at David. "No. No way." Sam looks at Maddie. "How could you do that? How could you
marry him not knowing if baby was mine or not."

Maddie: "How could you blackmail me with my own child?"

Sam: "Maddie, I…"

Maddie: "Good bye Sam."

Sam looks at Maddie. "Good bye."

Sam leaves and the camera focuses in on Maddie and David.

Fade to Black