Chapter 3

Only a few hours later and David and Erica were at home. She took his coat off and rearranged the pillows on the couch for him. She had also called their staff before they left the hospital make sure they knew to be making sure David had everything he needed.

"Thanks for taking care of me. I should be taking care of you."

"You were shot and had surgery last night. I'm pretty sure that contitutes you as the person that needs taking care of."

"True, but I've been riding shotgun this whole pregnancy. There's no reason you should have to take care of me. Damn Jake Martin."

"If it makes you feel any better, I'm done taking care of you as of tomorrow." She smiled.

"That's very good. There is one good thing about this whole thing."

"What's that?" She asked. He was shot, had surgery and was wearing a sling for weeks and he probably wouldn't be any help with a newborn. What could possibly be good about this?

"I'm on sabbatical for the next 10 weeks. That means it's just you, me, and Dylan."

"Wow. That's so amazing. Only I think I might get sick of you."

"I don't think that's possible."

"You're right. It's not."

"Hey Dad, do you think you could get me Erica's medical records for me?"

"Jeff, you know that's not allowed."

"She asked me for a favor. If you need to call her for her permission, you can."

"What does Erica want you to do with her medical records?"

"She wants me to compare her's and David's blood types. She's worried her son might have the same rare blood type as his father."

"I see. If she said it's alright then I'll get them for you. I just hope you're not lying. David would kill you if he found out you lied."

"Thanks dad. I appreciate it."

"I'll be right back."

After Erica had fallen asleep, he made a call to his lawyer. He wanted to know what was going on with the charges he was pressing against Jake.

"So is there any news on the case?"

"Well Jake made bail after he was formerly arrested. Ten thousands was posted by a Tad Martin."

"I'm not surprised he was the one to bail that jerk out. What are the charges that the D.A. is going with?"

"Attempted murder is the biggest. Aggrevated battery with a firearm, Reckless endangerment and unlawful discharge of a firearm. I can easily said that Mr. Martin will get at least 5 years behind bars, probably more."

"That's good Jack, very good. My previous lawyer told me to go with Jack Turner and I'm glad I did."

"Well thank you Dr. Hayward, although any attorney could have handled this."

"The DA hates me enough that I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to lock me up for just being in that parking garage."

"I don't think that would have been possible, given you ended up in the ER with the shooters father, who happens to be a very truthful guy."

"Yep. That's Joe alright. He's a saint. Won't even lie to protect his own son. Okay Jack, thank you for keeping me aprised. Let me know of any changes."

"Will do Dr. Hayward."

"Here are the files you asked for Jeff."

"Thanks dad." He said accepting the files and opening them up. He paged through both files, but first checking for Erica's blood type. It took a few minutes to find what he was looking for because Erica's file had been fairly thick. He was fairly surprised what all he found in the file, afterall he hadn't set foot in this town in nearly 10 years. "Erica had open heart surgery? And reconstructive facial surgery after that?"

"It's quite a surprise, isn't it? She and David were in a car accident last year. He performed life-saving medical treatment in the car and then in the OR. That's actually how they got together."

"So she married her doctor? She looks good for someone who's been through all of this in the past year."

"Why don't you get back to the task at hand son."

"Erica will be happy to know that with a O negative blood type, it's impossible for her son to have AB."

"Well that's great news. I can take the files back now."

"Wait a minute." Jeff said, his eye catching on some of the labwork in David's file. "Since when do you test donor blood in the hospital lab?"

"It's actually only been a few months. Plus all donor blood that isn't pre-screened gets screened here. It's just precautionary for the patient."

"Okay, that answers the question as to why there is blood work from me and David. But why do they almost look identical? Almost all of the markers match."

"They do?"

"I'd be a good enough match for an organ donation, probably even bone marrow. That's just almost, impossible. Especially between strangers. It's almost as if we were relaties." he siad, now realizing his father hadn't said a word for as big of a shock this was to him, his father seemed less phased. "Dad, do you know something about this?"

"I think I do. That's where I knew her from."

"What are you talking about dad. Who do you know?" His father was making even less sense than the test results in front of him.

"David's mother was in town for a while. I recognized her from somewhere, but it was so long ago." The older man said, his hand on his forehead trying to remember..

"What does this have to with these results?"

"It's the only explanation for why the blood work matches so closely."

"What dad?"

"David is my son, and your brother."