Chapter 41
Alex was woken by the nurse who stood next to the bed checking her blood pressure, sometime in the early hours of the morning. The nurse smiled at her friendly when she saw she was awake and mouthed to her that she should go back to sleep
She woke up around 06:30AM again to find Ryan staring at her. "Good morning, sunshine. " He greeted friendly. She smiled up at him kissing his cheek lightly. "Morning. How'd you sleep?" She asked knowing how uncomfortable it must've been on the small bed. "Not too bad. I could do with some uninterrupted sleep I my own bed though." He said standing up and stretching. "I know right." Alex replied sitting up against the bunch of pillows behind her back. On cue, their breakfast was served for the two of them before the doctors started doing their rounds. "How are we doing this morning?" Dr Leary asked friendly as he entered the room checking her file to see how her vitals have been throughout the night. "Doing good thank, doc." Alex answered smiling. He checked her wound once again and changed the dressing , making small talk with her and Ryan as he went along. "All right, you'll be discharged later today, after the gynecologist comes around to talk to you and check on the little one." Dr Leary said as he left the room. After he left Alex and Ryan took turns to use the bathroom and take a quick shower before the gynecologist would come to check up on her.
"I still can't believe you're pregnant." Ryan said looking at the words that's written on her file. "I know right, imagine how I'm feeling. And I didn't have any symptoms that might have led me to believe that I could be." Alex said trying to think back on how she must've missed it. "Hey, hand me my phone quickly please." She asked as the phone was out of her reach at the moment. She opened the calendar counted back and added up the dates. "What?" Ryan asks looking at his wife's slightly red face as she still had the phone in her hand going over her calculations again for a second time. "Ryan, 6 and a half weeks ago we were on honeymoon." She said letting her head fall back into the bunch of pillows. "A honeymoon baby, you say?" He said amused laughing slightly and she punched him in the arm playfully, when a knock on the door caused them both to look up. A tall, fair of complexion women. In her mid-30s with long brown hair hanging on her shoulders stood in the doorway. Dressed in her white coat with a stethoscope around her neck. "Good morning, Alexandra Booth?" She asked friendly as she walked into the room. "Morning, yes I'm Alex." She answered taking the doctors hand as Ryan did the same introducing himself. "Nice to meet you, I'm Doctor Allison Roberts, and as of today forward I'll be your gynecologist." She said friendly. "And since this is your first pregnancy I'm going to have to ask you some really annoying questions." Dr Roberts said adding another page to Alex's file.
She was asked when her last menstrual cycle was, how long it lasted and if it was normal or if she noticed anything irregular about it. Whether she showed any signs of pregnancy to which she of course said no since she really didn't and Dr Roberts continued making notes. After all he questions she was asked for a urine sample and the Dr did another ultrasound, this time they heard something they've never heard before. Their baby's heartbeat. "Wow, good strong heartbeat the little one has going there." Dr Roberts commented as Alex and Ryan stared at the monitor and the sound waves moving to indicate their baby's heartbeat. Only now, reality hit them that they're gonna have a baby. "It seems as if you're a little over 6 weeks more like 7 weeks along. I'll give you a prescription for prenatal vitamins you can start taking in the morning, and then we'll meet back here in 4 weeks." The doctor said, printing them four photos before giving them some privacy. "This makes it official." Alex said looking at the pictures the doctor gave them, before leaving the room to go sign the discharged papers so the three of them can go home.
When they stopped in the driveway Alex was surprised to find her car standing there. One of the guys probably brought it over yesterday. "Wait, how did they get into the house when you had they key?" Alex asked as she got out of the car. "They're FBI agents, they know how to pick locks." Ryan said unlocking the door letting Alex walk inside. He had a point there, she thought. Walking inside she didn't know what to expect, since their friends arranged their furniture, but she has to admit she really liked it. They were really grateful for what they did. "We should thank them, I just don't know how yet." Alex said sincerely. "We could always tell them they're allowed for dinner whenever they feel like coming over. That should be thank you enough." Ryan laughed walking over to the kitchen. "Yeah right, a night of your cooking and they certainly won't come back again." Alex commented still looking around the house. "Hey, come check this out." He said pointing at the fridge when Alex came over. A bunch of colorful post it notes were stuck to the door of the fridge where all of them wrote her little get well soon notes. She took out her phone and snapped a picture, sending it to the girls in their group chat. Thank you so much for everything! She wrote putting her phone back when she saw the message was delivered.
"So, what now?" Alex asks taking a seat next to Ryan on the L shaped couch. "Do we tell our parents? I don't want to tell the just yet. I'm kind of scared to tell them and I don't know why." She said honestly watching the blank TV screen while fumbling with her hands in her lap. "What do toy mean?" Ryan asked looking at her. "It's like my stomach would start showing when I'm what three or four months along and everyone would stare at me, and they'll know what we did that made me get knocked up." Alex whined looking at her husband who was really amused by this conversation. He looked at her and couldn't help but laugh. "Okay, first of all, when and a woman share a special hug and some of their body parts touches, people usually end up where we're at right now." Ryan said laughing rubbing her abdomen and Alex hit him on the shoulder playfully, smiling at the way he just said it. "What are we doing for the rest of the day?" Ryan asked checking the time, seeing that it's 2PM. "Take a nap before starting dinner?" Alex prompted as they walked up the 8 steps towards their bedroom.
They were woken up by Alex's phone ringing. Shelby's name flashing on the screen. "Hello." Alex answered voice still thick with sleep. "Sorry did I wake you?" Shelby said apologetically. "No, no it's fine. Thank you so much for everything." Alex said sitting up against the headboard, looking up to see Penguins of Madagascar on the TV and Ryan laying on his side with his back towards her watching it. "What did the doctor say, are you okay? When are you allowed to get back to work?" Shelby asked a million questions at once. "I'm fine, nothing to worry about, I just need to take it easy for a few days, and I'll probably be back at work next week." Alex said missing her desk and the craziness that always went down in the office. They spoke a little more before hanging up.
"You going back to work next week?" Ryan asked sitting up facing her. "Yeah, Dr Leary said it's fine so why not?" she asked not understanding his sudden change of mood. "Okay." He said nodding his head, getting if the bed walking across the bedroom towards the door. "Ryan, what is going on?" Alex asked not sure why is acting this way. He turned around at in the doorway looking at her where she sat with her legs crossed on the bed. "Alex, you got shot yesterday. Not to mention the fact that you're pregnant and now you want to go back to work next week, just so you can put our baby's life in danger once again." He said trying to keep his voice down. "Are you being serious right now, Ryan? Yeah, I still feel bad about what happened and I know things could've gone south but it didn't." She said standing up as anger and frustration ran through her. "And just because I'm pregnant doesn't mean I'm incapacitated!" She said raising her voice. "You went back to work the next day after your arm got stitched up and I didn't tell you you're not allowed to go." She stated trying to make a point. "That's not even remotely the same. I'm not the one growing a life inside of me." Ryan answered his tone matching hers. "Look, why don't you work in the office briefing cases or filing reports for the time being?" He asked hoping she'd understand where he's coming from. "No! I will not do that." She answered. "And don't try to abuse your position as my superior by making me do that, Ryan. Because I'm gonna be really pissed if you do." Alex said walking closer to him where he stood in the doorway. "I'm not gonna do that." He said shaking his head. "But go ahead, suit yourself Alexandra Booth." He said, turning around making his way down to the kitchen leaving Alex standing in the middle of the bedroom.
Some drama here. Not all marriages are always rainbows and unicorns, right? Hope you all like this chapter. Enjoy the read and drop me a review on what you guys think. Lovies-S
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