Unknown To You: Picture Perfect
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Life carried on as normal in the household. Well, as normal as it could be...Gar and Vic continued arguing over their food tastes, Rachel went back to being independant and rather unsociable and Richard and Kori were back together. They had all learnt to deal with Kori's unexpected morning sickness and she was becoming healthier and healthier. The mood in the tower had changed back to one of happiness and the shine in Kori's eyes was slowly returning. Richard had become more and more calm and relaxed and he wasn't as uptight as he had been before. Both Richard and Kori had become very close to each other and around a month and a half later, Kori was due to have her first ultrasound done.
Hand in hand, the two stepped out of Vic's car. With a look of pure excitement on Kori's face, Richard couldn't help, but smile at his love.
"I'll pick you up in about 40 minutes, yeah?" asked Vic. He was so happy for Kori and Richard. He knew that Richard would treat this kid just like it was his own, even if it wasn't. Kori nodded her head and said a quick goodbye to him. She walked along the pavement and entered the huge building. Sitting in the waiting room at her local family clinic, Kori couldn't help noticing that she was probably the youngest there. Most of the room was filled with women in their late twenties or their early thirties. Kori was only 19. Richerd could tell something was bugging Kori.
"You OK?" he said, looking down at her. He placed his hand around her waist and the other hand on her stomach.
"Richard..." She was interrupted by the nurse calling her name. She picked up her bag and followed the nurse into a room. Sitting in a chair, filling out notes was a doctor. She must only be in her early thirties, smiled Kori.
"You must be Kori Anders? I'm Dr Stone," replied the doctor, stretching out her hand. Kori shook her hand politely and took a seat. The doctor looked over at Richard and flashed a smile towards him.
"And you are..." she began.
"Richard Grayson," responded Richard, shaking Dr Stone's hand. She gestured for him to take a seat and she began talking about what to expect in a pregnancy. Kori listened intently to everything the doctor had to say. She had her heart set on looking after this baby with her life and bringing him or her up with Richard.
"I'm probably right in guessing that you're suffering from morning sickness?" Dr Stone asked Kori. Kori nodded in agreement. It had been getting a lot worse and it was happenening more often.
"OK, if you just want to change into that, then we can start with the ultrasound!" Dr Stone handed a gown to Kori and indicated to a private changing screen. A few moments later, Kori came out from behind the screen and walked over to the bed. Dr Stone rummaged around in her drawer for the gel and squeezed a bit out. Lifting a bit of Kori's gown up, she massaged the gel into Kori's skin. Kori shivered as the gel hit her stomach; it was like a cold wind blowing onto her skin. Richard sat next to Kori and held her hand, cuddling her at times to warm her up. Dr Stone turned on the machine and put the transducer onto her abdomen. She moved it around for a while, a stern, concentrated look on her face. Suddenly, a smile warmed onto her face and Kori looked at the screen.
"Well, it looks like this is about your eighth week in pregnancy. Can you see it?" asked Dr Stone. Richard and Kori both squinted their eyes and Dr Stone chuckled light heartedly before showing them what she was indictaing to. Soon enough, they could pick out a very small shape on the screen which was indeed, the baby. Kori smiled a huge grin and so did Richard. Dr Stone smiled at the couple. Young love...she thought to herself.
"Would you like a picture?" she asked the two and both of them readily agreed. After changing back into her normal clothes, Dr Stone handed Kori a prescription for her morning sickness and told her to come back around a month's time. The two left the same way in which they had arrived, hand in hand, and waited in the crisp autumn afternoon for Vic's car. Kori shivered slightly and Richard brought her closer to him.
"Our baby?" she whispered to him, clinging onto the picture with all her might. She hoped so much that he would say it was there's.
"Our baby," reassured Richard, kissing the top of her head. They stood there until Vic came; Richard, Kori and the baby.