Chris came rushing into the hospital, leaving Jimmy and Marco to eat his dust. He didn't have time to waste; he needed to know how she was doing, to see her sweet face, to make it up to her. So many things were going through his head, he could hardly think straight. As he came into the waiting room, he saw Karen, he went straight over to her, and put his arm around her shoulders.
"How…how is she?" he said the great sympathy, looking as if he was going to cry.
"She hasn't woken up yet. The baby is stable so far, but any further stress could change that all. She's lucky that she didn't fall on her stomach, otherwise the baby could have died."
"I'm sorry," he said embracing her in his arms, shedding a tear.
"What for?" baffled by his statement. She didn't know about the meaning of their fight.
"She's here because of me," pointing to himself, "because I let my anger get the best of me," putting all the blame on himself.
"Chris, we could blame this on a lot of different reasons, but what would that accomplish?"
Looking down at her, "I guess you're right. Is she allowed any visitors?" In hopes of getting in to see her.
"Yeah, but Craig's in there right now."
This made his face turn mad with anger, clinching his teeth. He was the last one he wanted here, after the pain he had caused her this weekend. Putting on a fake smile, "I guess I'll go sit down and wait."
Grabbing his arm, making him look into her eyes, "She loves you."
Kelsie slowly opened up her eyes, it took her a few seconds to get her eyes into focus, but when they were, she couldn't figure out where she was. She didn't recognize this place. Then it all of what happened that day came flowing back to her. "My baby, my baby" she cried, putting her hand on her belly, thinking that something might have happened to her because of her fall.
Glad that she had finally a woken, Craig put his hands over hers, smiling at her, "The doctor's says she's fine."
She turned her head slightly to see an unwanted person in her room. "What are you doing here?" she roared, forcing herself to sit up.
Putting his hands on her shoulders, trying to get her to lye back down, "Kelsie you need to calm down, and think of our daughter."
Pushing his arms off her, "I will not take orders from you," glaring at him with eyes that could kill.
Trying to be very calm with her, "That's not what I'm trying to do, but the…"
"I want you to get out NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" she screamed holding her stomach. She was beginning to have pains as she had at Craig's except much more intense and sharp ones.
The monitors on her left began to go off, causing a loud beeping sound. Craig began to panic, with terror in his eyes. What was happening? Why were they going off? He grabbed Kelsie's hand; she gripped it very hard, crushing a couple of bones in his hand. The pain was too much that she passed out.
He tried to wake her up, when her doctor and nurses came rushing in to see what was happening with the baby. They pushed Craig right out of the room, so they could see what was wrong.
Paige rushed over to him, after she noticed the look of fear on his face, and eyes. She put her arms around him, "What's wrong?"
"I don't know…some of the machines started going off." Looking at Paige, "I'm so scared for her and the baby. I mean what if something goes wrong, and they die," a tear ran down his face.
"That's not going to happen. Come on we know that Kelsie's a fighter, your daughter will be too!" smiling up at him.
"I love my daughter so much already, I can't lose her," he cried gripping on to Paige tighter.
Letting him go, looking up at him, "I thought Emma would be here to support you."
"We're not together anymore…so I never phoned her."
Astonished by this, "Why? What happened?"
"I saw her flirting with Jay at The Dot, got mad and punched him. Then I told her about the baby, and she got mad and dumped me."
"I wouldn't ever have thought this would happen. Why didn't you fight to get her back?"
"I don't know I felt I didn't have the energy at the moment."
Then she remembered what Spin had said earlier, "Craig, are you still in love with Kelsie?"
He wanted to avoid this answer, "Before she came back I would've said no, but now I'm not sure anymore. This whole thing with my daughter just makes it all so…so complicated."
I guess Spin was right, she said to herself. "Well…"
Just then, nurses came out of the room; rushing Kelsie's towards the O.R. Chris's heart sank at the sight of Kelsie heading down the hall. Things didn't look good, and this just made the anger bubble up more.
Dr. Abbott came towards them, interrupting her. They didn't like the look on his face. "The baby doesn't seem to want to respond to anything. She's in distress, and having hard time breathing. We're going to have to go ahead and do a C-Section in hopes of not losing the both of them."
Craig's face went blank, and he felt like his legs were going to give in, and they began to shake. Paige could feel him shaking, so she slowly helped him over to a near by chair.
Joey came over, putting his arms around his son. He felt so helpless; he didn't know what he could do to even help him. He knew nothing he said would be comforting. Tears just rolled down both their eyes.
Chris came up closer to the doctor. He hadn't said much about Kelsie's condition yet and that worried him. "What about Kelsie, how's she?"
"She's in a coma right now. The stress on her body has put her in one."
"When is she going to wake up?"
"I can't say, because I don't really know at this point." He felt bad that he was unable to give them much information. He could see the anguish in all of their eyes, as they looked him, wanting answers.
After Dr. Abbott left, Chris grew with rage. He couldn't lose Kelsie again; he had done that already, and wasn't going down that road again. Kelsie was his life, all that he hoped and dreamed for, and he would stop at nothing to make sure he didn't lose it all. From the corner of his eye, he saw Craig heading down the hall, so he decided to follow him.
When they were no longer in anyone's sight, Chris pushed him up against a wall, holding him up by his jacket, ready to punch him. "What did you do to her in her room?"
Scared by the tone he was using, his voice was a little shaky, "Nothing, she started freaking out. I tried to calm her down."
"Yeah right!" he yelled.
"No…no, honest."
Looking around, he realized it wasn't worth it, he decided to let him go, and began to cry, "You had to say those cruel things to her. Do you know how much that hurt her? She began to believe those things about herself."
"I'm sorry, I realize now that I shouldn't have done that. I regret it more than you will ever know. I want to make it right to her and my daughter."
Leaning up against the wall, resting his head upon it, "When we decided to come to Toronto, she was happy that she was going to finally be able to tell you about it. She couldn't wait to see your face, knowing how much this child would mean to you, even though you were so young."
Looking over at him with surprised. He never realized how happy about it she was, "Really!"
"Yeah. Despite numerous amounts of people trying to talk her out of telling you, she still thought that telling you was the best thing."
"How could I be so cruel? I knew she wasn't a cruel person; I just let my hurt take over me. I just wish that she didn't hate me, I mean I wish I could still be apart of my daughters life."
"When she wakes up, I'll talk to her about it. I think I can change her mind. I don't think she wants to deny her daughter that right."
Smiling, "Are you sure you want to do this for me after what I did to her?"
"Yeah, because believe it or not I think everyone deserves a chance to take part in their child's life."
Just then, the nurses came flying past them with an incubator. Chris and Craig's hearts began to race. Was that for his daughter, or was there another baby in trouble? Panic arose inside of them.
