June 6th, 2008 It was so nice having Dave back although Randi could see how much in pain he was still in. It wasn't his legs that were giving him the trouble, but it was more his mind and his soul that hurt. He tried putting up a nice front for his girls, but it was still hard for him. He always looked behind his shoulder afraid that Charles would be getting one of his children or him again. Charles did get put ito jail so he really didn't have to worry. Charles wasn't going to be put away for a very long time. "Let's go." Randi kissed Dave's head and pushed his wheel chair out to the back yard. "Do you really want to find out?" Dave asked. Randi nodded. "Hannah is waiting for us at the clinic. I want to find out." She said. Dave smiled softly crossing his arm. Cheerful Dave, he thought, You need to be cheerful. This is going to be fun. "Haven't seen her in a long time." Dave said. Randi smiled softly. "She was here a couple of weeks ago." She said, "just checking up on me." Dave sighed softly. At least someone was checking up on her when he was getting golf clubs to his legs. "That's good." He said. Hannah was standing in front of the clinic waving. Dave waved back. There it was. The clinic. He could go back in there. Charles wasn't there and would never be there. "Good afternoon, guys." Hannah smiled. "Afternoon." Randi returned her smile, "We're so excited." "I can see." Hannah glanced at Dave as Randi unlocked the clinic, "How are you feeling, Dr. Malucci?" Dave shrugged. "Okay, I guess. I get my casts off in a few weeks and then I start my physical therapy, so that'll be fun." He smiled. "Good luck with that." She said as Randi pushed Dave into the waiting room. He tensed up, slightly; "Who is running the clinic?" "Dr Corday and Dr. Kovac from county are helping out here." He said looking around him as Randi turned the lights on. "Sounds good." Hannah smiled softly. Randi pushed Dave towards the exam room. The baby was kicking her hard. "The baby is just as excited as I am." Randi laughed slightly. "Good. Get up on the table." Dave smiled slightly trying to move his wheelchair to where he could work the ultrasound. "Sure thing, Dr. Malucci." Randi smiled getting up on the table. "How have you been feeling?" Hannah asked as she checked Randi's heart rate. Randi shrugged. "A lot better now that Dave is home." She smiled. "Good." Hannah said, "Your heart rate is normal this week." "Good." Randi said as she lay back on the table. "Are you going to have another water birth?" Hannah asked. "No water birth. I just want to do a regular home birth this time I think." Randi smiled. Dave squirted the gel onto her belly. She squealed slightly, "Warn me next time you do that." "Sorry." Dave smiled weakly. "Okay, let's see what we're having." Randi bit her lip with excitement. This was a great welcome home gift for Dave Randi hoped. "You hoping for a boy this time?" Hannah asked. "Oh yes." Randi grinned watching the screen, "Ooooh." "That's our baby." Dave smiled, "It looks very healthy. Strong spine. Nice heart beat. Very healthy." Randi smiled. "Is it a boy or a girl?" Randi asked. "Well, let me see." Dave moved it slightly and stared at the screen. He smiled and looked back at Randi, "It's a girl." "A girl?" Randi frowned, "Are you sure, Dave?" "It looks like a girl." Hannah smiled looking at the screen. "Oh Dave.I'm so sorry." Randi whispered. Dave looked at her. "Sorry? Sorry for what, Randi?" He asked wiping her belly off. "For giving you another girl." She said. "Why are you sorry for that? I could care less about having another girl. She's healthy and that's all that matters." "But you said you wanted a boy." She said. "That was before." He said wheeling close to her head, "Being away for so long really put things in perspective. She's healthy." "At least we don't have to buy new clothes." Randi smiled. "Dave is right, Randi." Hannah said, "Your daughter is healthy and now the two of you can just focus on getting things ready for her arrival and healing." Dave smiled slightly and kissed Randi's knuckles. A boy or girl, he didn't care. He was alive and he would be able to see her birth. June 20th, 2008 Week 24 Dave sat on the back porch staring at his casts. He was dying to get these off. In a couple of weeks he would be able to. He looked up at his wife and daughters. They were picking daisies from the garden. He smiled slightly. Sailor stood up with a ring of daisies on her head and waved to Dave. He waved back at her. "See? Pretty huh?" She called out. Dave nodded. "Very pretty, Sammi." He said. She climbed up the stairs and handed him a fist full of daisies. "Aaron wants to give'ya these." She said. Dave bit his lip. "He asked you to give me these?" He asked. Sailor nodded. "Ah huh." She said pointing to the bush of Black Eyed Susan's, "He was dear and said you were sad. Why you sad Daddy?" "I'm not sad anymore." He said, "I have these flowers." Sailor grinned brightly and proudly. "Go finish helping your sisters." "Okay, Daddy." She said running off. Randi walked up the stairs and eased herself into a chair next to her husband. "How you feeling?" She asked him. "Antsy to get these off." Dave smiled. Randi patted his hand. "Soon." Randi said, "I know what I want to name the baby." "Oh really? What is it?" Dave said. Randi looked over at the girls giggling in the rows of daisies. "The girls claim they can see Aaron in those daisies." Randi said. "Did you know that?" Dave nodded with a smile. "Yeah. Sammi just gave me these flowers saying Aaron told her to give me them, but what does that have to do with the baby?" "Those flowers are the girls connection to Aaron." Randi said, "I would like.if you want, to name this baby, Daisy. I know we were considering it for Sailor, but now it has a better meaning." "And we agreed she would have your middle name right?" he asked her. Randi nodded, biting her lip. "If you don't like the suggestion, then say it." Randi said. "Daisy Christine Malucci. I absolutely love it, Randi." Dave said. "You love it?" A smile came across Randi's face. "I love it. It's a fun name that will go with the girls' names well, but yet it honours Aaron in a way." Dave said. He placed his daisies on Randi's stomach, "Some daisies for Daisy." "Did you feel that?" Randi giggled. "She kicked." "She did?" Dave grinned. She pressed Dave's hand to her belly. "It's right here." Dave sat there, holding his breath. The baby kicked against his hand. Dave's eyes widened. "Daisy." He whispered. Randi smiled watching the joy dancing in Dave's eyes. It had been a very long time since she had seen that. She thought she would never see that sparkle again. "We should start getting her room ready." Randi said. "When my legs are ready, I'll move Lyric's things into Irelands room and Daisy can have Lyric's room." He said. "Sounds good to me. We'll need to run it past the girls." Randi said. Dave nodded and kissed Randi's belly softly. "We can paint her room in a daisy theme." Dave said. Randi chuckled. "I was planning on it if you agreed to the name thing." She said leaning back in the chair watching the girls play in the daisies. "Another reason why I chosen Daisy was it has the same beginning as David. Dais and Dave." Dave looked at her and smiled, "I was so afraid that you weren't coming back to me, so I wanted to honour you if.you.um." Dave took Randi's hand. "I'm here." He kissed her knuckles, "I'm here and I'm going to bug the hell out of you until we're a hundred years old. "Oh great." Randi chuckled, "I don't think I could handle that." "I will have grey hair and long nose hairs." He said. "Oh you have grey hair and a lot of it." Randi chuckled running her hand of the speckled grey hair; "You've greyed a lot more the past couple of months." Dave nodded slowly. "They say fright and fear helps it along." Dave said sacking her hand away, "I plan on colouring it when I get my casts off." Randi smiled and rested her head on Dave's shoulder. She sighed slightly. There were always reminders of Dave's kidnapping. She couldn't imagine how Dave felt. Every time he looked at his legs and every time he looked in the mirror, he had a reminder. Hopefully when Daisy was born, he would be able to forget it all. Note: This is my last chapter here. I am making a new Book for True Feeligns because I have too Many chapters and my computer dosent like that. The new series will be called True Feelings 2. I hope you guys go over there to finish this series. Email me with any questions