Chapter Thirty-One:
Spinelli sat in the hospital bed he had occupied for the last several weeks. It had been two weeks since the transplant. Two weeks of miserable waiting to find out if he would actually live and it wasn't even over yet. Of course, a large portion of the town had seen fit to try and keep his mind off of that fact by visiting him every chance they got. It baffled him that so many people seemed to actually care about him. He had never had so many people care for him.
But even with the endless flow of people, the one person he wanted to see the most - besides Maxie - never came. He knew he shouldn't be upset. Sonny hated him, he knew that. The man had made that all to clear. He'd always had a desperate need to please the man he now knew was his father, but he had never been able too. Still, when he found out that he had never known of his existence... it gave him hope. Surely, surely this man who prided himself on his love for his children would give his oldest child a chance.
However, it didn't seem like his hopes were well founded. He mentally scolded himself for being upset, after all he now had far more then he ever had. He had a grandfather and siblings who had already more then accepted him not to mention his ... girlfriend. He didn't need a loving father. It wasn't as if he had ever known one to miss it. He had just thought that surely even he couldn't have the bad luck to have two fathers that hated him.
"Spinelli, what's wrong?" Maxie asked, snapping the young man out of his thoughts. "Nothing, Maximista." he answered far to quickly. "Spinelli! Don't lie to me. What. Is. Wrong." she demanded. "It's a trivial matter that I should not be wasting my thoughts on." he replied, determined not to let her know how childish he was being. "Damian ..." she paused only a brief second on his last name. "Spinelli!" she finished. However his reaction to her obvious accidental reference to his biological father told her all she needed to know.
"It's about Sonny isn't it?" she gently asked as she took his hand in hers in an attempt to comfort him. "The Jackal just - I know Mr. Sir has a severe dislike for me ... but he loves his children so much ... I has hoped he might at least ..." he trailed off. "Oh, Spinelli!" Maxie said and she hugged him. Rage however quickly showed up in her eyes and as soon as she was sure Spinelli was ok she stood up. "That big idiot of a man!" Spinelli heard her exclaim under her breath as she marched out of his hospital room. "This isn't good." he thought as he fell back onto his pillows.
"SONNY CORINTHOS!" was the rage-filled scream that alerted said man to the woman about to barge into his office. He sighed as she flung the door open "Maxie, I don't have time for -", she cut him off. "You idiot!" she screamed "How could you do this to him?!". "Do what to who?" he asked although he had an idea of where she was going with this. "Abandon your son! Again!!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. Before he had a chance to speak she continued. "You know how he had to grow up - well at least you should know enough - because of your unintentional abandonment the first time. You of all people should know what that does to a kid if I've heard correctly! How could you leave him again when he could be dying!?" she screamed he rage combining with tears at the reality of her last statement.
That was all it took to set Sonny off. "How dare you talk to me like that!" he screamed. "How dare you hurt Spinelli like this!" she screamed right back "Don't you even have enough of something resembling human qualities in you to visit your dying son?!". "I can't!" he bellowed. "Spinelli can't get his childhood back. Spinelli can't get his mother back. Spinelli can't even leave the hospital. You are perfectly capable of driving ten minutes to visit your son!" she said in an extremely loud and extremal determined voice. "I can't visit him! I can't let myself care about him! I can't lose another son!" the man yelled. At that Maxie hauled off and slapped him harder then she'd ever slapped someone in her entire life - and that said a lot. "You ..." she could even find a good enough insult "Can you not even think about someone other then yourself for once!?".
Author's Note: I'm so sorry! I've been extreamly busy as some moments and well ... lazy at others. I'll try my best to never go this long between updates again!
I know that early on in this story I didn't reply to the reviews quite right if at all. There's a reason for that. I was pathetically confused. I posted this story here because I was told too and I did it before ever even reading a story here. I can promise that all reviews will be correctly replied to now. So ... please review!