The hospital was dead silent, like expected at 5am. AJ was sound asleep, little Jessie sleeping in her bassinet beside her bedside, closest to the door unfortunately. AJ was a rather heavy sleeper, she normally didn't hear anything like Punk. Punk could hear from miles away whilst sleeping, but she couldn't, although… she was woke up by the creak of her door opening. She knew it couldn't have been morning already, she swore she only felt asleep an hour ago. She opened her eyes fully without moving, seeing the hooded figure in the dark room as it crept towards her daughter. It gave her all sorts of scary flashbacks from when their home was broken into and her sons were taken. She was not about to let her newborn daughter be taken.
"Put… her… down." AJ said in a quiet voice, sitting up in bed as the hooded figure turned around, Jessie fast asleep in his thief stealing arms, "I'll scream." AJ threatened.
She watched as the man took down his hood with one hand and turned to look at her.
In a funny way, AJ was expecting it to be Tim. Who else would want to cause her this hurt and stress of snatching her newborn, who had only been in the world for less than two hours.
"Don't scream." Tim warned AJ. He had barely made it through the hospital, having to dodge nurses and doctors on his way up to the maternity ward. He wasn't leaving empty handed now, he wouldn't disappoint Jenny.
"Put her down." AJ begged, starting to panic the more time Tim held Jessie, "You'll go to jail for kidnap." AJ said, trying to scare Tim, trying to do anything for him to put her sweet baby girl down.
"We need her." Tim said, "You… you have your kids, she's mine and Jenny's now." Tim explained to AJ who shook her head.
"No… no, she is not yours. She is mine, and she is Phil's. Now, put… her… down." AJ said with a deep breath.
"Please… I'm begging you." Tim said, beginning to break down. He knew that if he went back to Jenny empty handed, she would leave him for good and he would be left with nothing. He wanted to make his girlfriend happy and by doing that he had to take little Jessie, it was the only way him and Jenny could be happy, and he wanted to be happy.
AJ unnoticeably clicked the buzzer at the side of her bed for nurse attendance, slowly swinging her legs around the edge of the bed.
"Give her to me." AJ put her hands out, "You don't have to do this." AJ tried to encourage Tim, to from her point view, looked like he couldn't take the little girl anyway, but regardless, he was still intending to, and hadn't she woke up, she may have never seen her baby girl again, the thought of that made her feel sick.
"Please… just let us have her." Tim begged, not even knowing why he was asking such a question that he already knew the answer to. He really was going insane, truly and undeniably insane.
AJ waited until a nurse walked in the door, watching Tim turn around with fear as AJ let out a scream to let the nurse know she and Jessie were in danger. The young nurse immediately called for security as Tim began to cry with Jessie in his arms in the middle of the room.
"Sir… any minute, police will be on their way… please, put down the baby." The nurse coaxed the best she could as AJ held back her tears, getting more and more impatient as she looked upon her baby daughter sleeping through all the commotion.
"She's mine." Tim said, "She… she belongs to me now." Tim explained as security officers came through the door, one taking the baby from Tim slowly as they suspected Tim was very unstable and unpredictable, the other officer handcuffed Tim's hands behind his back immediately.
The nurse stood in the corner of the room with her hand over her mouth, in all her years of working in the maternity department, she had never seen such a sight.
AJ took Jessie into her arms quickly, tears rolling down her cheeks as she held her close into her chest, watching as Tim was guided out of the room, handcuffed, on his way to prison, or maybe even a mental institution. She was just ever so glad Jessie wasn't harmed.
"Miss… would you like me to call your husband?" The nurse asked, her hands shaking just as much as AJ's.
"Yes, please." AJ nodded, biting her lip to stop her from crying, wondering why on earth someone would want to take a newborn baby girl from her home and family. It was such a despicable thing to even think of, never mind try. Her whole body was shaking. She never wanted Jessie out of her sight. She was terrified.
Later on…
Punk hadn't even got a chance to shower before he was called to the hospital because of a quote on quote, incident that had happened. He was ever so worried that something had happened to little Jessie or his wife, but he didn't have to worry at all when he burst into the hospital room, just little under an hour after he'd left, spotting AJ sitting up with Jessie in her arms, her cheeks tear stained and her eyes alert at every noise being made in the room.
"Hey… the nurse called me, said I had to get here quick… is everything ok?" Punk asked with slight confusion. Everything seemed fine to him.
"He tried to take her." AJ cried, stroking her daughter's cheek, "He was going to take our daughter."
Punk shook his head, "What are you talking about, AJ?" Punk asked with confusion, walking closer towards his wife and sitting down on the armchair beside her bedside.
"Tim." AJ swallowed loudly, "He came in and he… he…" Her voice hiccuped, "He tried to take her." She said, everything sinking in to her now that her daughter had nearly been taken from her. Not even being able to imagine the hurt and pain she would feel when she woke up and seen the bassinet empty.
"When?" Punk shook his head, still confused as a nurse walked in the room.
"About half an hour ago." AJ gasped, "Please… please, don't leave me." AJ begged her husband with fear in her eyes, having only had one hours sleep in the past twenty four hours, forcing herself to stay awake to protect herself.
"April…" The nurse walked further into the room, "Do you mind if I talk to your husband for a moment?" She asked politely as AJ nodded but nodding as if it was painful.
Punk stood up, running his hands through his hair and walking out of the room with the nurse who closed the door behind her.
"What is she talking about in there?" Punk asked the nurse.
"Sir, I'm afraid a man came in about half an hour ago and tried to take your daughter. Luckily enough your wife woke up and… well, the main thing is they're both ok. I thought I would call you because… April is refusing to put Jessie down, she is refusing to sleep. I thought maybe with you here she could rest easy." The nurse said.
"Where… where did he go? The man who tried to take her?" Punk asked, not believing his ears, the thought of Tim even having his hands on Jessie was making his stomach turn.
"It's ok. We called for security. The police took him straight away." The nurse reassured Punk, "I am extremely worried about April. She needs to rest." The nurse insisted as Punk took a moment to let all of this horror sink in. He'd only left the hospital for an hour, which made him think that this was planned all along.
"I'll get her to sleep, don't worry." Punk promised the nurse, watching her smile and head away down the corridor, leaving Punk to go back into the room where a worried AJ sat with Jessie sleeping her arms.
He was so thankful that AJ had woken up and caught Tim in the midst of trying to steal their baby girl. He wouldn't be able to sleep after being told his daughter was missing, his few hour old daughter. Who in their right mind would want to take such a small and fragile thing from it's parents. It was sick and twisted, he could never get his head around it, even if he tried.
"AJ…" Punk said in a hushed voice, "Why don't you, pass her to me." Punk asked, watching AJ hold Jessie back from him, not allowing him to touch her which saddened him. She couldn't behave this way, she had to get it together.
"AJ, sweetheart. It's me, I'm not going to hurt her, just let me… let me hold her." Punk asked as AJ gave in, slowly and surely letting Punk scoop Jessie into his arms, taking a seat on the armchair at her bedside, seeing AJ's eyes not leave Jessie.
"Don't… don't put her down." AJ warned her husband who stared at her sympathetically.
"April… I'm going to have to put her down sometime, I know… I know what has just happened is horrible, it's disgusting and… you shouldn't have had to go through that on your own, but… he's gone, ok. The police took him, he can't touch us anymore, he can't take her." Punk tried to make his wife see the light.
"But what if I hadn't woke up…" AJ cried, tears rolling down her cheek.
"You did. That's all that matters." Punk said, "She's safe. You both are." Punk said, "You need to get some sleep." Punk said, watching as AJ shook her head repeatedly.
"No… no, I'm not sleeping. She, she can't be left alone." AJ whimpered softly.
"Hey, I'm here. I'm not going to leave you both, I'm going to stay here and watch both of you. I promise." Punk nodded as AJ bit her lip, fighting with herself on wether to be stubborn and stare at her daughter all the way through until sunrise, or sleep with the word of her husband.
"O-Ok." AJ nodded, sinking down into bed, her muscles aching from lack of sleep, her body still sore and exhausted from giving birth not that long ago. She really did need to sleep, and she did feel better with Punk watching over her and Jessie.
It didn't take AJ long until she fell asleep, giving Punk an opportunity to place Jessie back in her bassinet, letting him sit back on the arm chair, so much anger coursing through his veins. The thought, the image of anyone touching his daughter made him want to tear that person limb from limb. He didn't want to say that he felt more anger for someone touching his daughter than what he felt if someone were to hurt his sons, it was a different type of anger. This was his baby girl and only one hour out of leaving her she was already in danger to the big bad world. He couldn't let her down, not this quick.
In the morning…
Punk managed to nap on and off on the arm chair, wakening up every now and then to peep over to Jessie who was still sleeping. She such a little angel, and a far better sleeper than what Tate or Thomas was on their first nights sleeping. A nurse kept coming in to check on them after what had happened, so he didn't need to keep wakening up, but he did automatically since it was just at the back of his mind.
He text Seth asking to bring the boys to the hospital where he would get them in the parking lott. He didn't want to risk leaving AJ to go get them incase she had some sort of mental breakdown, so he thanked Seth for his trouble of driving the boys to the hospital, and picked them up in the parking lott, leading the way back into the hospital with their excited little frames tagging behind.
"Is she here? Is she here?" Tate jumped up and down with excitement. He really couldn't wait to meet his sister, nor could Thomas.
"She's here." Punk smiled, getting in the elevator to take them up to the maternity department where AJ was, "You both have to be careful with her, she's really small." Punk told his sons as they understood.
They ran ahead as the elevator doors opened, following Punks directions to the room their baby sister and mother was in, opening the door up and walking in as they looked around for the baby.
"Hey guys…" AJ smiled, having woke up when Punk departed the room. She tried not to, but she had to lift Jessie up and hold her in her arms. She did feel much better for the few hours sleep she had gotten there with the help of Punk.
"Is that her? Is that Jessie?" Tate asked, climbing onto the side of AJ's bed, Thomas climbing up at the other side as they leaned over their mothers shoulders, looking down at their awoken baby sister.
"Woah, she's small." Thomas touched the baby's hand and pulled it back, as if scared she would bite. Punk just chuckled at the door as the boys interacted with their sister. Little Jessie really was lucky to have such great and protective big brothers.
Even though the mood was dampened and AJ wasn't feeling as excited and good as she should have, he wasn't going to let Tim and his delusional, insane ways get in the way of celebrating the birth of his daughter. He was gone now, locked away, for at least a few years. His family were safe and that was all that mattered.
Thank goodness AJ woke up!
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