Kelly stood and all of a sudden his face turned an extreme shade of white.
Jay stood in the same spot looking between the test and Kelly.
"Oh my god bro you're having another baby."
"Jay you heard what Stella said I need to stay with you tonight."
"Nah bro ain't going to happen you're going home to your little girl and your pregnant wife you aren't copping no z's on my couch and I've already got you in enough trouble with you knowing about Henry Mills. I think Isaac may be having great fun watching all of our family unfold. He's sat there with a massive smile on his face. I can't believe he's only two weeks old and all this has happened in his short life."
"I am glad you were discussing that Jay I wanted to talk to you about your troublesome wife."
"Mary what the fuck you scared the shit out of me."
"A cop that scares easily, wow never thought that would happen."
"He doesn't but you really shouldn't be eavesdropping."
"Well your brother in law here needn't worry" Mary P whispers in Jays ear. Jay looks suspiciously at Mary P.
"Who was on shift this afternoon?"
"Oh my god mom is pregnant. Wait until that gets round the district. What do we do about Kelly?"
"Let him suffer a bit and find out on his own. He deserves it for what he did to Stella" Mary P says and beckons to Jay to follow her in to the parents room situated opposite Isaac's room.
BACK IN THE ER
Shouts of "OFF WITH HER HEAD" and "DON'T CHASE ME ANY MORE MAD HATTER I'M NOT THE WHITE RABBIT" could be heard echoing down the corridor. As Naomi arrived back in to her cubicle she noticed Ritter still sitting in the chair in the corner although this time she noticed what he was wearing. Ritter was wearing his favourite lucky green shirt, a waistcoat and brown trousers, in essence looking like Shrek. He was wearing the lucky shirt as he had a date in the coffee shop of the ER later.
His thoughts of his forthcoming date were disturbed by Naomi returning.
"Shrek where is Fiona today and donkey?"
"Sorry were you talking to me Naomi?"
"Well there isn't another over grown green ogre in the room is there?"
"No I guess not."
Ritter remembering what Jay had said realised he needed to get Will's attention and fast but how to do it?
Ritter pulled out his phone. On speed dial for the last two weeks has been Will's number. He rings. Will picks up on the third ring.
"Ritter? Everything ok?"
"No you need to get in here. OH FUCK NAOMI NO."
The phone clatters to the floor and Will is heard shouting then heavy footsteps are heard as Will runs in to the room.
"What happened?"
"We were talking then all of a sudden she started fitting so I laid her flat and rolled her on to her side to maintain her airway."
"Well done Ritter. I was checking the scan when you rang and we need to get Jay back here now. He needs to sign a consent form I need to get Naomi to emergency theatre."
"Fuck I'll go and get him."
Ritter sprinted as fast as he could using the emergency swipe card for the NICU that all of 51 had been given when Isaac was born and literally ran in to Jay leaving the parents room. Unfortunately Ritter failed to stay on his feet when he entered the corridor and literally slipped over and slid in to Jay. "You're needed in the ER. Go Jay I have eyes on Isaac."
Jay ran the military mile or however far it was to the ER in record time. If Will had sent Ritter to get him he knew it was serious. The hallways seemed endless when he was trying to get in to the ER in record time to his critically ill wife.
"Jay you're here. Sign this we need to go."
"Go where? She's only come back not ten minutes ago."
"Sign the form bro this is time critical."
"Ok. Done. Now someone tell me what the hell is going on here."
"Maggie will fill you in I have to go bro she's in good hands."
Jay stands watching his beautiful strong wife being whisked away looking vulnerable in a way he had never seen before. As Will turns the corner Jay then crumples to the floor. Maggie stoops beside him placing a consolatory hand on his shoulder and asks if he needs some help. Close by there was a bench and she was keen to get him sat on there. Jay had shut down probably through exhaustion or even shock but she wasn't sure which just yet. She made a note to herself that while Naomi was in theatre that she would keep a close eye on Jay. She fired off a text to Herrmann to get them to send the family to the hospital as support for Jay as Maggie wanted Jay to go and rest but to be close by but told Herrmann not to mention anything until Jay made the call as it had to seem like it had come from him. A helping hand wasn't going to hurt in this situation.
"Jay we needed to operate on Naomi she has a bleed on her brain but I think you need to get the family to the hospital. Just in case they're needed and they are your support. You need them Jay. Lean on them. Just as they've needed you all these years. They would just never admit to themselves that you are needed but you are part of them now Jay and they've welcomed you in and the squaddies. Embrace that and stop being so hard headed. One thing Naomi was going to tell you but couldn't is that she had a rare blood group and finding blood to give her should she need it is going to be difficult so I'm going to have to ask the family to be tested when they get here. We can start with you if you like Jay? She's a fighter and she will pull through."
"Lets get sorted then. Get the needles and bottles and we will get everyone tested."
Jay pulls his phone from his pocket and sees his screen saver of his wife and son and remembers what he is there for.
"YOU ARE ALL NEEDED AT THE HOSPITAL AS WE NEED TO FIND A MATCH FOR NAOMI'S BLOOD AS THEY DO NOT STORE IT AT THE LOCAL BLOOD BANK DUE TO IT BEING RARE. NAOMI HAS BEEN RUSHED IN TO THE OR AND SHES NOT GREAT."
Herrmann knew by this text that Jay was beginning to crumble. He knew he had to be prepared for the worst.
Universal texts came in to his phone saying they were all going to be there.
As the family started piling in to the emergency waiting room Jay was collecting them. Tom offered to wait in the emergency room to direct everyone to the blood testing labs and then Chris offered to wait at the blood testing lab in order for him to direct everyone to the operating room where the family were waiting anxiously to wait for news.
Maggie who was over seeing the process realised that only a person with a B Rhesus Negative blood group could have fathered Naomi. This ruled Benny out as he was an A Rhesus Positive blood group which meant Benny wasn't her father. He only assumed he was as he had been told so years ago. As they were going through the tests Mouch sat nervously knowing what this result was going to show. He already knew that he was a B Rhesus Negative blood group. He'd had to be tested all those years ago before he donated his sperm. Trudy saw Mouch sweating and sauntered over casually so she didn't spook the deer in headlines. Trudy had already given blood and her results showed that she was an A Rhesus Negative blood group. She knew that only meant a B Rhesus Negative blood group would have made Naomi's blood group. She left silently although not missed by Jay.
"Where you going Mom?"
"To see my grandson."
"Ok mom I'll text if we know anything, take care of you and my little brother or sister."
"Thanks Chuckles. You fucking what?"
"Oh shit. I know mom but your secret is safe with me. It's not my place to divulge the information until you are ready but you can talk to me."
Jess and Kelly were sat talking in hushed tones. Stella kept glancing over to the corner where they were looking more and more suspicious. Stella got up and walked over leaving Sylvie to hold Linea.
"This is not the right time or place to sit there plotting behind my back so if you have anything to say Jessica Mitchell then say it."
"Ok I'm going to." Jess stands and pulls herself to her full height. She had been allowed leave to go downstairs as long as she was careful and remained in the chair they had provided for her. Kelly tries to pull her back and get her to sit down. "I know you are pregnant but there is no need to let my brother suffer because you are too pig headed and stubborn to just tell him and put him out of his misery."
"PREGNANT? What the hell Jess, think about it. I had Linea two weeks ago. Kelly and I haven't been intimate in that time. Also you cant have a positive pregnancy test until at least four weeks pregnant or thereabouts. It's unlikely anyway. Oh my fucking god. It's Mom!"
"Mom? At her age?"
"Well she was the only one on shift that afternoon and I found the test in the bin albeit not hidden very well when I changed Isaac and Linea."
Jay shrinks to miniature size and off to a shaded corner to text Trudy and tell her of the news. She wasn't going to like it. She hated her secrets being outed. And if this came out Trudy knew all too well the rest of her secrets were going to be revealed and she may very well lose her family. Either that or it was going to bring them closer.
"You are telling me that its not you who got knocked up by my imbecile of a brother who obviously doesn't know how to put something on the end of it but our mom. At the age of fifty-one who is pregnant with our little brother or sister?"
"Yes sis that's what I'm saying."
"Only one way to find out where is she? Where's dad? Oh shit."
"ISAAC….."
Kelly gets Jess back in to her chair. Stella follows leaving Linea with Sylvie. All heading towards the NICU.
"They're heading your way along with Dad. Get ready."
36 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS AGO
Randall stood outside the sperm bank knowing he needed the cash. He had to feed himself somehow especially after being kicked out of his parents house because he didn't fit in with their plans of a quiet retirement. Randall had found himself in trouble with the law a few times recently. Luckily because the police officers in his neighbourhood of Chicago knew who he was and what he was going through at home that they let him get away with it with some strict words of warning. His parents weren't the ideal role models and the force staff knew that. He stood staring debating whether to go in or not. He decided it was the only way if he wanted to feed himself for the next week. He shrugged his shoulders with a deep exhalation breath resigning himself to the bottom of the heap. Ah well no looking back now he was through the door. The room he entered smelt of disinfectant and was grey literally everywhere. The walls, the chairs, the décor, it was depressing. A supply of adult reading material was sat on the desk and Randall smiled causing dimples to form at his cheeks as he knew the girl that was hovering outside but who she thought he hadn't seen was going to be more exciting than the material supplied.
The nurse came over and supplied Randall with his sample pot and his questionnaire that he had to fill in with as much detail as possible. He did so.
Occupation? TRAINEE FIREFIGHTER FOR CFD.
Ok that was a lie but he could do it if he really wanted to in actual fact they had a recruitment drive nearby at Firehouse 51. He thought he would go along and check it out once he was done here. It would be a regular income and they supplied accommodation whilst in the assessment phase so it was a win win situation.
He never thought when he left that day he would be a father in nine months time. Or even that it would be with the woman who plagued his thoughts since that day.
PRESENT DAY
He made his way as quickly as he could to the NICU. He couldn't wait to hold his grandson in his arms as he wasn't able to do all those years ago when he was eighteen and found out that his child would be born soon. As he thought about it he thought he had recognised the young girl waiting outside the sperm bank to go in and choose her winning pot. He had no idea that he would have married her. Now he remembered why she was so familiar. She was the girl he had approached outside the building who was scared and crying and had a determined face. As soon as she said she was fine he left. She had been haunting his face for years and also throughout the time in the sample room. He wondered why she had been the way she was. Now was his time to find out. He stood for a moment trying to collect his thoughts and he over heard Trudy talking to their grandson.
"Well little Isaac this family is going to be getting bigger soon although I am not sure I should tell them that they are going to be big brother and sisters to this little miracle baby growing inside me. You are going to be a cousin at just nine months old. Shall I tell them or leave it until your mom is on the mend. I'm hoping Randall doesn't kill me. I had no idea that this would even be possible little dude. But I am glad it has. I just wish I'd found your granddad a lot sooner or even ran after him the day he left the clinic."
TTTTHHHHHUUUUMMMMPPPPPP
"MAN DOWN GRAB THE EMERGENCY BAG" Mary P shouts along at the nurses standing around in clumps.
"ARREST! ARREST! ARREST! COMING THROUGH! MOVE!"
Ed arrived first with the bag. Mary P was literally sat on Mouch bouncing up and down on his stomach. "Come on you old goat come round please. Trudy needs you."
Trudy stood with Isaac in her arms and glanced at Mary P.
Mary P whispers two words that sent shivers and goose bumps down Trudy's arms "I KNOW!"
Trudy smiles and asks Mary if he had come round yet. Mary responds that he is beginning to come round. Trudy places Isaac on top of Mouch and as Mouch opens his eyes Isaac being held by Trudy was sat on him just staring at him and smiling.
"Trudy is it true?"
"Define that statement please Randall."
"Is it true that you are pregnant and I am going to be a dad?"
"No you're going to be a dad again."
"You're confusing me."
"Doesn't take a lot. Randall come in here and sit with me a moment."
"But…"
"No buts and you're going to listen to what I have to say. I am pregnant but thirty-six years and nine months and two days ago I bumped in to this outrageously ginger but handsome looking man I had ever met. I saw him outside of a Chicago sperm bank local to Firehouse 51. He came over to check if I was ok given he saw me crying and tearful. I responded to him that I was fine as I didn't want the staff at the bank to know what I was doing. I applied but did it under a false age. I wrote eighteen on the form and told them I was a Chicago PD recruit. I wasn't eighteen I was just fifteen and I had been told by the doctors that morning that I had polycystic ovary syndrome and it would be difficult to conceive. Well I went in and sometime later I came out after being inseminated. I waited for four weeks but the ginger man haunted my dreams. I did my test and it was positive and the whole time my ginger man that I had only met once has brightened my day and caused moonlight at night. I went for my routine antenatal appointment at twelve weeks for the scan and I found out I was having identical twins. Everything went well even though the hospital had referred me to children's services because of my age. They were worried I wouldn't cope with the girls and so it was taken out of my hands and when I gave birth the girls would be separated and adopted."
"Naomi and Jess?"
"No Naomi and Sylvie."
"How did you find out Naomi was yours?"
"It was the blood test I knew she couldn't be Benny's as she had a rare blood group and it took me back to the way I saw you in the car park that day. Why didn't you find me?"
"Wasn't allowed to and after the girls were born I enlisted with Chicago PD."
"The thing is Sylvie isn't 31 she's 36 and Naomi is her identical twin sister. So there was an option of either you me or Sylvie giving blood."
"Of course she has same blood group as Naomi."
"SO I'VE BEEN LIED TO MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE. WHEN DID YOU BOTH FIND OUT YOU WERE MY MOM AND DAD AND NAOMI WAS MY FULL BIOLOGICAL SISTER?"
"Wow Sylvie check the tone in your voice when you speak to your mother."
"Ok DAD"
"I only found out today darling. It's not your mothers fault. Sylvie how much did you hear?"
"All of it. In fact all of us did. Jess Kelly and Stella are outside with Linea."
"Ok so how do you feel?"
"I'm annoyed but I'm so freaking happy although don't really want to be thirty-six but hey ho. Naomi is my twin and I've finally found my mom and dad. We need to go tell everyone and even about our little brother or sister."
"Ok little dude nanny be back later I am going to check on your mom."
The group walk off back to the OR room to find chaos breaking out. Jay was trying to bang down the door to the OR as no one was watching him. Jess and Stella were going toe to toe having left after hearing the news and arguing over Stella's treatment of Kelly. Kelly was trying to separate his sister and wife. The squaddies were nowhere to be found and the security guards were beginning to descend. Karlos was about to put his hands on Jay when he found Trudy facing him square in the face.
"You don't want to agitate him in this mood Karlos let me talk to him."
"Ok Trudy you got it."
"DETECTIVE JAY HALSTEAD, JESSICA MITCHELL, KELLY SEVERIDE, STELLA SEVERIDE, MAVERICK MITCHELL WILL YOU COMPOSE YOURSELVES NOOOOOOWWWWW"
Silence prevailed and all returned to silence and sat down knowing the order had come from the alpha matriarch of the family and the mood she was in wasn't one where anyone wanted to mess with her.
They all looked towards where she stood.
They knew she meant business.
No one dared speak just sat in silence looking.
Trudy sucked in a huge breath about to expect chaos. Mouch placed his arm around her and gave her the "I know you can do it" smile.
Everyone knew something big was coming they just hoped it wasn't going to rip the family even further apart.
Little did they know it was going to reunite them in a way that they never expected. Kelly, Stella and Jess sat down sharing a smirk. They knew not to piss of a pregnant hormonal woman who was going through a stressful time right now.
