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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Randy looked at his watch, Dani called him from the cab awhile ago, she should have been there by now. He set his cell phone down on a chair and headed to guerilla position. He was going to go and cut a promo to psyche up the crowd for his match later that night.
Just as he was about to go through the curtain, he heard Kurt Angle calling him. "You're phone's ringing."
"It's probably Dani, just tell her to come backstage." Randy replied just as his name was announced.
Kurt grabbed Randy's phone, "Hello?"
"Is this Randy K. Orton?" A friendly, female voice asked.
"No, Randy's out in the ring right now. Is this Dani?" Kurt asked.
"No it's not. This is County General Hospital." The voice replied.
"What's going on, I can take a message. Is this about Dani?" Kurt asked.
"I can only speak to Randy." She insisted.
"Um, hold on, he's on his way back here right now." Kurt said looking around the backstage area. He found John Cena rapping with a few of the other wrestlers.
Kurt grabbed him and covered the phone, "I need you to say that you're Randy and take this call."
"Why, what's going on?" John asked puzzled.
"It's a hospital on the phone for Randy but he's in the ring. I think it's about Dani and they'll only talk to him." Kurt replied frantically. "Just take it."
John grabbed the phone quickly, "This is Randy. What's going on?"
Kurt watched as John took in the information. He could tell that it must not be too serious, but serious enough.
"Ok, so her and the baby are ok? There's no concussion or anything like that? What about the baby?" John asked nervously. As he was listening to the woman's answers, he could see that Randy was on his way backstage. He grabbed Kurt and had him look to see him.
John grabbed a piece of paper and a pen, "Ok, where can I find her when I get there?"
Kurt walked up and met Randy at the entrance. "Was it Dani? Where is she, I was getting a little worried." Randy asked.
Kurt took a deep breath, "Randy, it wasn't Dani. It was County General Hospital calling about Dani."
Randy's eyes grew wide. "Is she ok? What happened?"
"I had John take the phone and pretend to be you so we could get as many details as possible for you. He's getting as much as he can."
Randy began to pace. Finally John hung up the phone. "Dude, what's going on, is she ok?" Randy asked frantically.
John replied calmly, "Dani was in a minor car accident. She has a few bruises, a few cuts from the broken glass, but no serious injuries. She'll be pretty sore tomorrow though."
"What about the baby? Is the baby ok?" Randy asked nervously.
"All the nurse could tell me about the baby is that they checked the heartbeat, and they had Dani hooked up to a contraction monitor to make sure she didn't have any contractions. They want to do an ultrasound just to make sure everything is ok and then they'll discharge her. But the nurse did say that Dani was asking for you."
Randy turned and grabbed his fanny pack. "Thanks guys." He looked at his watch, he had about an hour before his match. "Alright, I'm going to run, I should be back in time for the match, ultrasounds don't usually take that long." Randy quickly left the arena.
Randy sped the whole way to the hospital. It was a good thing he was familiar with the city. He walked in the ER just as they were wheeling Dani in a wheelchair towards the elevators. "Dani." He called.
The nurse turned her so she could see, "Randy." She called back.
He ran to her. He could see that she had a large bruise on the side of her face. He kissed her softly, "Are you guys ok?"
She smiled, patted her stomach and nodded, "Yeah, we're ok. They're going to do an ultrasound to make sure that the baby is ok and then they'll discharge me. Can you stay for it?"
He picked up her hand, "Of course I can."
The nurse smiled and introduced herself and let Randy push Dani. Along the way, Dani explained her cab ride from hell.
Once they got there, the nurse helped Dani onto the bed and explained that as soon as the ultrasound was done, the doctor would come and discharge her.
Randy and Dani nodded and the nurse left the room. Randy held Dani's hand and stroked her hair gently. He had a million thoughts racing through his head. He leaned down and held her close, "Baby, I know that I'm not perfect. I know that I haven't been as here for you as I should have been not only for us, but for this baby too. I've let my own fears stand in the way of being the man you deserve. But I want you to know that I love you and I love our baby more than anything. I don't know what I would do if I lost either of you." And he kissed her on the top of her head.
Dani had tears in her eyes. Randy wasn't a man who communicated well, and this was straight from the heart. She reached up and held him and cried on his shoulder. "I love you too Randy. I know that this wasn't planned, and I don't show it, but it scares me a little too. But I know that we love each other and I know that we'll both love this baby no matter what. No matter where our careers take us, no matter where life takes us, we just have to know that our love will be the road home."
Randy held her close. She had always been so understanding, but yet something within him held him back from totally opening up to her. He knew how lucky he was. He glanced at his watch, and he only had 35 minutes till he had to be back at the arena.
Just then there was a tap on the door and in walked the ultrasound technician. She smiled, "Hi, I'm Nancy, I'll be your ultrasound tech today."
Dani wiped her eyes and smiled, "Hi, I'm Danielle and this is my fiancé Randy."
Nancy shook both their hands. "So I hear you were in a little fender-bender."
Dani nodded, "Yeah in the back of a cab."
Nancy made a face, "Ooh, not fun. So you'll get to go home after this, huh?"
Dani nodded, "As long as the baby's ok."
"I'm sure the baby is just fine, but we'll take a look." She grabbed her chart, "I see in here it sounded like there was a possibility of a heart murmur. And it also looks like you've been measuring on the bigger side."
Dani nodded, "Yeah, this is the first I've heard of it. The doctor said that it sounded like after the heartbeat, there was a faint sound following, so they wanted you to check it out."
Randy squeezed Dani's hand, he knew from his mom that most heart murmurs were nothing, so he tried to not let it bother him too much.
"So is this your first ultrasound?" The nurse asked as she got the gel warmed up under warm water.
Dani nodded, "Yeah, the official ultrasound is schedule for next week."
She looked at Randy, "You must be pretty excited."
Randy nodded, "Yeah I am."
Dani smiled, she knew that scared was more like it, but she didn't say anything.
Nancy lifted Dani's gown and warned her that the gel still may be cold. She smeared the gel around. "So, have you gained a lot of weight yet?"
"I didn't in the beginning, but lately I have been. And I'm measuring farther along then I am, but I know when my last period was because I got pregnant on the pill, so my period was like clockwork." Dani replied.
The nurse brought up the baby, and gasped with a chuckle. Dani had never even seen an ultrasound before, so she was amazed with how much the baby was developed.
"Well, well. This all makes sense." Nancy said with a smile.
"I've never seen one of these before, what do you see?" Dani asked.
Nancy focused in closer, "Here's the baby's head, arms, legs, and feet." Then she moved to the other side of Dani's abdomen, "And here's the other baby's head, arms, legs and feet."
At first Dani just nodded then she looked up quickly. At the same time, Randy looked at Nancy, "I'm sorry did you say other baby?"
Nancy nodded, "Congratulations kids, you're having twins!"
Dani and Randy looked at each other in complete shock. They couldn't believe what they were hearing. As the nurse went through and made sure that they both had all 10 fingers and all 10 toes, and she checked their hearts, their spines, and checked the fluid levels, Nancy looked at them with a big smile. "Do you guys want to know their genders?"
Dani looked at Randy, "I would like to, what about you?"
"Sure, if it doesn't work then it doesn't work. But if it does, that would be great." Randy replied. He looked at his watch, and he could see that he only had 17 minutes to get to the arena.
Nancy looked at the baby on the right side and showed them, "What do you guys think?"
Dani looked carefully at the screen then looked at Randy, "What do you think?"
Randy smiled, "I think it's a girl."
Nancy smiled, "Of course we can't tell you 100 but it definitely looks like a girl."
Dani smiled and squeezed Randy's hand, "Aww…look it's daddy's girl."
Then Nancy moved over to the second baby and smiled "You kids sure did get lucky, if the genders stay the way they appear, then you got one of each, here's your boy."
They both looked on excitedly. Randy didn't know what it was, but seeing the babies right there on the screen, watching them move and seeing how big they were really helped to make it sink in that yes, in just a few months, they were going to be parents.
He looked at his watch, he was going to be cutting it very close. While Nancy printed off the pictures, Dani cleaned the gel off her tummy. She looked at him, "If you have to go, then go. I'll find a way to the arena, or I'll wait here until you're done."
"There's no way in hell you're getting in another cab. And I don't want you sitting here all night." Randy replied.
Just as Dani was getting off of the bed, Nancy walked in with the resident doctor. He smiled and introduced himself as Dr. Anderson. He advised that the babies were fine and healthy-looking but he still wanted her to keep her appointment next week so that way her personal doctor could make his own decisions. He gave her an envelope with the ultrasound pictures in it, and let her know that she could take regular Tylenol for aches and pains. And that if she signed the discharge form, she could leave.
Randy thanked God as she signed the form. As soon as the doctor left, they quickly left the hospital and headed straight for the arena.
Dani shook her head, she couldn't believe the craziness she had encountered already on this trip….and it was only Tuesday night!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What will the rest of her week be like? Can you believe there'll be a wedding in 3.5 weeks? Dani hasn't told Randy anything that she had figured out yet about her job and what Daniel from Capitol Records had to say….what did she decide? How will Randy be towards Dani now that he's almost lost her a second time? And there are two babies! Please read and review!