Chapter 9: Happy AHHH!

It's Halloween Night. Dorian is a week overdue. She and David are in the Study talking. Adriana is upstairs in her room.

Dorian: (pacing) I wish they would come out already.

David: Relax Gorgeous, they'll come when they're ready.

Dorian: (sitting down slowly) I know, I just want them to be in our arms, and I want to know for a fact that they are yours.

David: That's a non-issue. No matter what the paternity tests say they are my babies (he rubs her belly). Right.

Dorian: (placing her hand on his) Right.

David: (putting his head near he belly) Do you hear that guys? Everything's fine. You can come out now.

Dorian: (laughing) David…

David: (sitting up) What?

Dorian: Nothing. (sighs) Now if only I could help Adriana.

David: Yeah, she's been really down lately. I thought for sure she'd go out tonight.

Dorian: Me too, I'm going to go talk to her.

Dorian goes up to Adriana's room and knocks on the door. Adriana doesn't hear over her loud music. Dorian knocks again before entering. She stops cold in the doorway when she spots Adriana in an almost non-existent mini skirt, a tiny halter top, spiked heels, and wearing a boa a round her neck. Adriana spins around and is mortified to she her mother staring at her. She shuts off her music.

Adriana: Mom, I can explain.

Dorian: I…you..what? Adriana what are you doing!

Adriana: It's a Halloween costume. Ginger and I picked them out a couple of months ago when we were still friends.

Dorian: Yeah right, do you really think I would you out of the house in that, that monstrosity.

Adriana: (plopping on the bed) I guess not, but I wasn't even sure if I was gonna go out.

Dorian: (sitting down next to her daughter an putting an arm around her) You should go out, have some fun, dance, just not in that.

Adriana: I really would like to go to Antonio's Halloween Party at Capricorn.

Dorian: There you go. Now, do you think your brother would want to see you in this?

Adriana: No. Well, I do have another costume, but I'm not sure you'll approve of it either.

Dorian: (nervously) What is it?

Adriana walks over to her closet and pulls out a slutty fireman costume with: tiny shorts; a tight, long sleeve, low cut shirt; red stilettos, and a hat. Dorian eyes it uncomfortably for a moment.

Dorian: (sighs) I suppose that is a little better than what you have on…oh, alright. You can wear it.

Adriana: (giving her mom a big hug) Thanks.

Dorian: Yeah, yeah. I just want you to get out of this house for a change.

Adriana: I love you.

Dorian: I love you to. Don't stay out to late.

Adriana: I won't.

Dorian leaves and heads back down stairs. The doorbell rings.

Dorian: (from the stairs) I'll get it!

The next thing David and Adriana hear is Dorian scream followed by a loud thud. David races in to the foyer and sees Dorian unconscious on the floor.

David: (knelling next to her) Dorian, Dorian, wake up, baby wake up.

Adriana comes running down the stairs and gasps in horror when she sees her mother. David is shocked to see Adriana's Halloween costume.

Adriana: What happened.

David: I'm not sure. What the hell are you wearing?

Adriana: My costume.

David: I don't think Dorian would've let you out in that.

Adriana: She said it was okay.

David: Really?

Adriana: Yeah, you should've seen my other costume. (the doorbell rings again) I'll get it. (she grabs the candy bowl and opens the door) Oh, how cute. A little ballerina, a mummy, and a cow girl. Here you go. (puts some candy in each of their bags)

Kids: Thank you.

Ballerina: (peering around Adriana) Who's that on the floor?

Adriana: That's my mom.

Cowgirl: (peering around the other side of Adriana) What's wrong with her?

Adriana: (trying to stay calm) She fell.

Mummy: (trying to get a peak) Let me see, let me see!

Adriana: (looking at the adult that is with them) If you'll excuse me I need to get back to my mother.

Adult: Okay kids, let's go.

Kids: Ohh.

Adriana: Bye. (She shuts the door, throws the candy bowl back on the table, and kneels down next to David).

David: She's breathing.

Adrianna: That's good. What about the twins.

David: I'm not sure. I pretty sure I only feel one moving.

Adriana: Oh no. Go call a ambulance.

David: Okay. (as he gets up he notices that the steps and the floor are wet) What's that?

Adriana: (looking up) What? (David points at the steps) I think her water broke (she looks up at him worriedly). Ambulance.

David: Right. (he calls 911) Hello operator, I need an ambulance at 202 Lincoln Avenue. My fiancée fell down the stairs. She's nine months pregnant, and I think her water broke. Uh-huh. Thank you. Bye. (hangs up the phone and goes back to Dorian and Adriana) They're on the way.

Adriana: Good. I feel both of the babies, but one's weak.

David: (kneeling down again) Come on Dorian, wake up.

Dorian starts to come to. A few minutes later the paramedics arrive and examine her. Then they put her in the ambulance. A crowd of trick-or-treaters has gathered outside. David grabs the candy bowl as he follows the ambulance out.

David: (to Adriana) Are you coming?

Adriana: I'll drive down after I change.

David: Okay. (he hands the bowl to an adult in the crowd) Happy Halloween.

A little later at the hospital Paige is examining Dorian. David is pacing the hallway waiting for word from Paige. Adriana comes running up.

Adriana: What's going on?

David: I don't know. Paige is still in there.

Adriana: Did anyone call the rest of the family?

David: No, not yet. Will you?

Adriana: Yeah, keep me posted.

David: Got it.

In the room.

Paige: Dorian, you really should get the C section. One of the twins is having problems with it's lungs.

Dorian: Can't we just wait a little while? You said yourself that I'm already three centimeters dilated.

Paige: Fine, we'll wait an hour, two tops.

Dorian: Thank you.

Paige goes out to talk to David.

David: How is she, and the twins?

Paige: Dorian is fine. She just got a little bump on the head. She's been given an epidural. Generally speaking the twins are fine. One of the babies is having a little trouble breathing, but that's noting a couple of weeks in a incubator won't fix.

David: Really?

Paige: Really. Now go see her, she keeps asking for you.

David: Thank you.

He goes in her room.

David: Hey, how are you?

Dorian: I'm okay. Did Paige tell you…

David: …About the baby? Yeah, but don't worry. (sits down next to her and holds her hand) Everything will be fine (She nods in agreement).

Adriana: (entering) Mom, how are you feeling?

Dorian: I'm fine sweetie.

Adriana: (walking up beside David) I called Kelly and Blair. They're on their way. I called Cassie too, she sends her love.

Dorian: Thank you. Ahh.

David: (squeezing her hand) What?

Dorian: A contraction.

David: I thought you got an epidural?

Dorian: It hasn't kicked in yet.

Paige comes in and checks on Dorian periodically. Within the hour she is dilated to five centimeters.

Paige: Dorian, you're not dilating fast enough. I think a C section is our best bet.

Dorian: You said two hours.

Paige: Fine (she leaves).

David: Why are you so against the C-section?

Dorian: I had both of my daughters naturally, and I'm determined to have our children naturally too.

David: Ok.

Paige continues to check on Dorian. The twins are stable. An hour later she is fully dilated.

Paige: Okay Dorian, get ready to push on the next contraction.

Dorian: See Paige, I told you I wouldn't need the C-section. Here it comes. (she screams)

Paige: Come on Dorian, push.

David: You can do it.

The contraction stops.

Paige: Okay Dorian, you're almost there.

David: (he brushes the hair out of her face) Here that, almost there.

Dorian: Here comes another one. (she screams again and digs her nails into David's arm.

David: Ow!

Paige: Dorian keep pushing, keep pushing.

Ten minutes and several contractions later…

Paige: The heads out. Come on Dorian, just a little more. The shoulders are out. That's it (baby cries). The first one is out. Congratulations, it's a boy.

David: A boy. I'm a dad. It's a boy.

Dorian: Uh-huh. A boy, we have a son (he kisses her).

Paige: Okay, get ready for the second baby. (she looks for the baby's head but sees nothing) Let's do an ultrasound real quick.

Dorian: What's wrong?

Paige: I'm sure it's nothing. (does the ultrasound) Uh-oh.

Dorian and David: What?

Paige: The umbilical cord is tangled around it's legs preventing it from going anywhere. I'm sorry Dorian, but I have to do the C-section.

Dorian: Okay.

Paige does the C-section and successfully removes the umbilical cord from around the baby's legs. When Paige takes the baby out of Dorian's stomach it doesn't cry because of her breathing problems.

Paige: It's a girl.

Dorian: Another Cramer girl.

David: Why isn't she crying?

Paige: (After Paige stitches Dorian up) Get Miss Lord to recovery. I'll be down in a minute.

Dorian: Paige what's going on?

Once in recovery Dorian, David and the rest of the Cramer's anxiously await word from Paige.