Life's Full of Little Surprises
Disclaimer: I own absolutely none of the 'Mighty Duck' characters or the rights to the "Mighty Duck" franchise, that honor belongs to Disney. So I would appreciate that I wouldn't get sued over something I don't own.
Summary: Dani's life couldn't be going better. She has finally made it to the Olympics, doing the sport she loves the most. But... after arriving in Minneapolis, Minnesota things change. First she is constantly badgered by her brother, then she falls for one of his friends, and, of course, there is always a stalker!
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AznIntegra- I'm glad that you enjoyed the last part of the last chapter and thought that it was funny as hell. What did Dean do? He popped and massaged her back at the same time and if felt good because she had been stressing about finding Charlie. She got Dean to do it because, like you said, she can twist his arm and make him do anything that she wants him to... Well, at least she can most of the time. Thank you!
PrincessH- I'm ecstatic that you liked the last chapter. Gordon and Casey and one big happy family? You never know. It's possible that I was thinking in that general direction, or I could have been thinking something completely different. Who knows? Perhaps you even changed my mind... Wouldn't that be something? We will just have to see what happens and I hope that you like how everything ends!
Thank you to Mrs. St. John Allerdyce!
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Charlie finally reached the hospital and he was completely out of breath, which is understandable considering he had just run all the way from Eden Hall. He entered the building and leaned against the wall to take a moment and catch his breath. As he did so, Charlie saw his mother's OB/GYN talking merrily with women at the front desk. What? Wasn't she suppose to be helping his mother give birth to his little brother or sister?
"Hello, Charlie." Dr. O'Neill said cheerfully.
Charlie sighed, "Wait a second, aren't you suppose to be, you know, helping my mother give birth or something?"
Dr. O'Neill sighed. She had figured that Charlie would be very worried about his mother's pregnancy, "Charlie, take a second to breathe and calm down. You have nothing to worry about. Your mother has plenty of time before she will give birth and if something happens before hand to make the labor go faster, then I will be there. Okay?"
"Okay." Charlie replied, taking another deep breath.
"Your mother is in room 426." Dr. O'Neill replied, "Go see her." Charlie nodded and walked towards the elevator, "Kids. They're always so antsy when their mother's are giving birth." She shook her head and walked back towards her office to get Casey's file.
While she did that, Charlie nervously made his way up to his mother's room, hoping that she was fine. He sighed deeply as he exited the elevator and walked to his mother's room, "Mom?" He asked.
"Hi, honey." Casey replied, somewhat strained. She jerked quickly, showing Charlie that she must have had a contraction, but then she returned to normal, "Where have you been."
"My phone kinda died." Charlie admitted.
"Again?" Casey asked. Charlie shrugged innocently, causing Casey to laugh, "What am I going to do with you?"
"Strap me on a rocket and send me to Pluto?" Charlie suggested. Casey placed her finger to her chin, as if she was actually thinking about the suggestion, "Mom!" Charlie exclaimed.
"I'm kidding." Casey replied, "I'm kidding."
"Sure you are." Charlie replied. He panicked momentarily as his mother experienced another contraction, "I can't wait until the baby is born."
Casey sighed, "Do you want my job?" She asked, "Because I would be more then happy to give it to you." Charlie shook his head. He most definitely would not want to give birth, "I didn't think so."
"I love you, mom." Charlie said.
"I love you too, honey." Casey replied as she rubbed her swollen stomach. Charlie wasn't sure what came over him, knowing perfectly well that his mother hated beyond belief having her stomach touched, and he placed his hand gently on her belly. He was surprised when he felt movement.
"Hey, I felt something." He said happily.
"Yeah, that was an elbow against my liver." Casey replied, taking a deep breath, "The baby has been quite fond of those lately." Charlie laughed, "And just think, when you are married, you get to go through this again."
Charlie laughed nervously, "That's not going to happen for a while."
"Oh thank God." Casey said, sighing, "That makes my day."
"I'm glad that I could help mom." Charlie replied. However, to Charlie's shock, Casey did nothing, "Mom?" She stared blankly at the ceiling behind Charlie's head, "Mom? Mom? Mom!" He gently shook Casey and she blinked, "You okay?"
"What happened?" Casey asked.
"You kind of blanked on me." Charlie said, catching his breath, "Are you okay?"
"Hunky dory." Casey replied as she sighed and sunk down into her bed. Charlie knew that she was worried. It had been 16 years since she had given birth and on top of that she had 'tiny' problem of a fairly large custody battle after the birth actually happened because anyone with a brain knew that Jake was the baby's father... Poor thing. Hopefully it would be screwed over because of that fact, "I'm fine, sweetie, really. I guess I'm just a little nervous. My body doesn't..."
"Mom?" Charlie asked, wondering why Casey had stopped.
"Oh... the baby's coming." Casey whispered, "My water just broke..."
"It what?" Charlie asked, not really believing what he was hearing.
"Repeat that for me, too." Dr. O'Neill said as she entered, "Your water broke?" Casey nodded, "Wow, my timing has not been failing me. I love it." Charlie sighed... This was really happening, wasn't it?
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It had been 4 hours since his mother's water had broken and Charlie felt that now everything was going much slower then it had been before... Not to mention his mother was about to break his hand, "You'll have to deal with this when you have children, Charlie." Casey reminded him.
"Just so you know, mom, I plan on never having sex in my life." Charlie replied, twisting his hand under his mothers so that she didn't break it clean off.
"Hallelujah." Casey said as she took another deep breath and pushed. Charlie counted internally as Dr. O'Neill counted to 10. Casey released her breath once Dr. O'Neill made it down to 1 and Charlie sighed as well. She was giving birth, so what was a broken hand among mother and son? Okay, that sounded really weird, but there was a small point to it, right? Of course there was.
"Okay, Casey." Dr. O'Neill said, "A few more good pushes and we will have baby." Casey smiled and took a deep breath, "Okay, ready. 1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10. Okay, relax." Casey sighed, "Sure your not having any kids, Charlie?"
"Yeah... that's not going to happen."
"Sure it's not." Casey retorted, "He'll say that till the cows come home and then he will meet a pretty girl. It's the common cycle."
"Thanks for the faith, mom." Charlie replied.
"You're welcome honey." Casey said before taking another deep breath and pushing. Dr. O'Neill counted to 10 again and said that she saw a head. On top of that, she had said 'a head of beautiful blonde hair'... At least one of the babies attributes was his mothers as she had had blonde hair to begin with and it turned red when she was about a year old. Casey pushed once again and the room was soon filled with cries.
"Oh my god." Charlie whispered to himself.
"It's a girl!" Dr. O'Neill said, causing Casey to cry even more then she was. Charlie watched as the nurses cleaned off the tiny baby girl and and weighed her before handing her off to Dr. O'Neill, who had to take blood for the paternity test, "I know, I know, baby. I'm so sorry, the mean men are making me do it." She then wrapped the baby in a pink blanket
"She's perfect." Casey said, kissing the baby on the head, "Isn't she Charlie."
"She looks just like you, mom." Charlie noted as he ran his thumb along her forehead. The baby's crying subsided as she took her first glances at her mother and brother, "Hi baby."
"Does she have a name, yet?" Dr. O'Neill asked, "Or have you been waiting to find out what she was?"
Casey shook her head, "I always said that my first born son was going to be Charles Lucas, which it is..." Charlie nodded, "And my first born daughter was going to be Avalon Lee."
"Oh yeah." Charlie said, "After your best friend from high school, Avalon Woods, and grandpa Lee." Casey nodded, kissing her daughter on the head. Her tears soon changed from happy to full of grief and Charlie noticed how she held the baby close to her, "It's okay, mom."
"No. It's not." Casey replied, "I can't lose her. She's my baby."
"I know, mom." Charlie said, trying to comfort her, "I know."
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Not that long ago, Charlie and his mother had been joined in the hospital by Philip Banks, M. August Munroe, Jake, and Duncan Haywood. Charlie was very close to snapping Jake in half, particularly after Dr. O'Neill brought Avalon into the room and Jake said, "That baby doesn't look a thing like me. There is no way it's mine."
"Let's take this moment to thank God that she doesn't look like you." Charlie said. Casey tried to get her son to quite up, but all of his emotions got the best of him, "I mean, there is always a 50-50 chance that kids look more like their mothers then their fathers and vise versa... I mean, people always say that kids can't be theirs because it doesn't look like them, but there is another parent to think about..."
Casey sighed, "Are you finished, Charlie?"
"Yes, mom." Charlie said, realizing that he had just acted the very opposite of how his mother wanted him to act, "Sorry."
"If I could break in for a moment." Dr. O'Neill said, "Congratulations, Mr. Talbot. It's a beautiful 5 pound, 8 ounce baby girl. And, yes, she is definitely your daughter."
"Good, then I can raise her and name her." Jake said.
"She already has a name." Charlie said.
"We can change that." Jake said, staring holes into Charlie's body, "I've always been partial to the name Peggy Mae." Charlie shook his head and pretended like he was going to puke.
"Jakob Miles Talbot." An angry and very Southern voice said, "I did not raise you this way." Jake turned to see none other then his mother, a very strict Southern women who believed that every child needed a mother and the lord, "That baby girl needs her mother... And I hate the name Peggy! Peggy Ann Baeker was the women that dared to seduce your father."
"Mother please..." Jake said in a whisper.
"And do you remember what happened to them?" Mrs. Talbot, better known as Daisy Lee, asked.
"They got shot?" Charlie asked, causing Daisy to laugh.
"Well, no." She replied, "Actually, I threw them out of my house for the whole town to see buck-naked... But me bein' who I was back then... I probably woulda shot 'em if I had had my gun." Charlie shrugged, "What'd you name her, Casey?"
"Avalon Lee." Casey replied.
Daisy smiled, "Now, I know you didn't know that my middle name is Lee, so this is quite the coincidence."
"Is it?" Casey asked, "It's my father's first name. By the way, how are you?"
"What do you mean?" Daisy asked.
"Jake went to see you a while ago, back in September, because you were sick." Charlie clarified.
"He did what?" Daisy asked, "You did no such thing."
"Really?" Casey asked, "That's interesting."
"Jakob... what is the matter with you?" Daisy asked, "Making up stories about me so that you can lie to a lovely women like Casey, attempting to take her daughter from her, what's next? I did not raise you like this."
A throat cleared in the doorway and everyone was shocked to see a police officer, "Jakob Talbot?"
"Who wants to know?" Jake asked.
"Minnesota State Police." A second officer said, "Could you put your hands behind your back." He asked as the man pulled handcuffs out of his pocket
"What for?" Jake asked.
The man with the handcuffs walked up behind Jake and handcuffed him as his partner said, "Jakob Talbot, you are under arrest for assault, assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, assaulting a police officer, and sexual harassment." Daisy gapped, "You are to be extradited to Mississippi, where you will be held until your trial date. You have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." They herded Jake out the door as they continued to read him his rights.
"I'm gonna beat that boy's butt with my paddle." Daisy said as she headed out the door, "Casey... Would you mind if I sent Avalon some things from time to time?"
"Of course not." Casey said. Daisy smiled and turned out of the room.
Philip and M. August Munroe managed to only chuckle because it was obvious that they wanted to just burst out laughing, "Enjoy getting your client out of this one, Duncan." Philip said. Duncan walked out of the room, completely confused about what had happened, "Congratulations, Casey."
"Thank you, Philip." Casey replied.
Charlie smiled and looked down at his baby sister. He couldn't believe that that had actually just happened. However when he looked up, Charlie was surprised to see someone who looked exactly like Myrka Bombay walk passed. Now that couldn't be a coincidence.