Chapter 17

Nathan walked into Randy's apartment kind of on a mission. Randy had called him while he was grabbing a burger at Burger King and told him to go pick up Jessie and bring her to the gym so they could go grab a bite to eat and Randy could find out when her flight was. He called out her name and when she didn't answer he got a bit worried. He also found it odd that Mollie hadn't greeted him as he came in.

Nathan walked to the kitchen area and almost fell over in shock. He saw Jessie laid out on the floor and

Mollie was sitting beside her nudging her with her face. Nathan raced over to her and checked that she was

breathing, once he saw she was he picked her up and raced to his car with her.

On the way to the hospital he called Randy. It rang 4 times before Randy picked up "what dude? you know its annoying when you call in the middle of a set". Nathan cut Randy off not in the mood for his teasing.

"Randy shut up. I went to pick up Jessie and found her passed out on the floor I'm on my way to the hospital with her right now. Get a cab and meet me there" and with that he shut the phone off and sped to the hospital.

Randy stared at his phone in shock. He couldn't believe that Nathan had found Jessie unconscious. Snapping out of his daze he raced to the dressing room to quickly shower and dress. Once he did that he called for a cab. Randy sat outside the gym impatiently waiting on the cab. Finally after what seemed like hours but was only 10 minutes the cab got there. He got in and told the cabbie where to go and that if he got him there as fast as he could Randy would give him $100.

Nathan sat in the waiting room of the Emergency room racked with worry. He had been waiting on any news they had about Jessie for about 20 minutes now. All of a sudden he heard his name called. He looked up and saw Randy racing down the hall. Randy came up and gave him a big hug. "Have you heard anything?" he asked pulling back. Nathan shook his head and sat back down. Randy sighed loudly and sat beside him.

"Have you called John and told him what was up?" Nathan said quietly, looking at Randy. Randy cursed
quietly knowing that he hadn't and that the call wouldn't be fun to make. He walked outside to call.

"Hello" John said after Randy had called.

"Dude" Randy started "I uh...Jessie's in the hospital" Randy said not being able to do it any other way. He was almost in tears as it was and a long explaination would have sent him over the edge.

"WHAT!" John screamed on the other side of the phone "what do you fucking mean she's in the hospital? Orton what's wrong with my little girl?"

"I dunno dude all I know is Nathan went to pick her up from my house cause I was at the gym and when he got there he found her on the floor unconscious" Randy got tears in his eyes imagining it all in his head. He hoped that it wasn't anything serious.

"Ok ok. Well I'mma get a flight out. Have Nathan come pick me up. I'll call you back in 10 minutes with the details" and with that John hung up. Randy sat down on a bench to wait on John to call back. If he had smoked he would have done so then. As it was he was almost tempted to start. After a few minutes John called back and told him the flight information. John was lucky and caught an early flight, he would be in St. Louis in 4 hours.

Randy sat in the cold hard chair of the ER lost in his thoughts. Nathan had left to go get John about an hour ago. They still hadn't heard anything about Jessie. Randy had asked the nurses 3 times but they didn't have anything to tell him.

Finally a doctor came out and asked for the persons who were there with Jessie. Randy stood up and shook the doctors hand.

"Well" the doctor started "it seems that Jessie had a miscarriage. It was probably due to all the stress she's been under. She's ok but we had to do a transfusion because she lost quite a bit of blood but she pulled through. She's in her room and you can see her but beware she's kinda weak. Oh and here" the doctor pulled a small card from his pocket and handed it to Randy "this is the name of a good psychologist that Jessie can see" and with that he walked off.

Randy got the number for Jessie's room from the nurse and made his way to it. He stood outside the door for a bit, trying to gather his courage to go in. He took a deep breath and opened the door. Jessie was laying on the bed staring out the window seemingly watching the world passing her by. Randy slowly walked in and sat on the edge of her bed.

"Hey" she said turning to look at him. She looked really pale and her eyes were lifeless. It broke Randy's heart to see her like that.

"Hey babydoll" Randy said kissing her forehead "how ya feeling?"

"I'm ok I guess. I'm a little sore and tired" Jessie scooted over and laid her head on Randy's leg. He smiled faintly and stroked her hair "is my daddy here?" Jessie asked tiredly.

"He's on his way babydoll he should be here shortly" Randy was almost worried about how well it seemed Jessie was taking things. If it had been him that had had a miscarriage he would have been a wreck. All of a sudden the door opened and John rushed in. Jessie sat up quickly and before Randy knew it she was in John's arms.

"Babygirl I'm so sorry for this I'm sorry for everything I'm sorry" John started sobbing on Jessie's shoulder and she didn't know what to do so she just whispered its ok over and over. Finally John got himself under control he muttered something about going to see when Jessie could be released and left the room. Jessie looked at Randy weirdly and he just shrugged his shoulders.

John came back in and said "I signed the release papers we can get out of here now". Jessie looked a bit awkward "what is it babygirl?" John asked noticing her expression.

"It's just that...I'm really sore...and I may need a bit of help getting dressed" Jessie said looking at the bed spread. John walked up to her and kissed her cheek.

"Would you mind if I helped?" he said looking her in the eyes. Jessie saw all the love and compassion in the world reflected in his eyes.

"I guess not" Jessie said knowing that John helping her was probably the only option. Randy got up and left the room to give them privacy.

John helped Jessie dress and when he saw that she was having a bit of trouble moving around he picked her up and started carrying her to where Nathan and Randy were waiting in the waiting room. Then the 4 of them made their way out to the car and to Randy's apartment. Nathan dropped them off and headed out to spend some time with his friends.