"What??? Is that true? OMG… That's why she lost consciousness? I mean, is that really true?" Jim was stunned. Melinda couldn't say anything. Her throat was dry. She was shocked and couldn't believe it. She as a mom? AND her dream was true…
"Melinda?" David asked.
"Erm… Yes?"
"You look like… Dunno… Usually women are happy to hear news like that… But you…"
"What's wrong, honey? Aren't you happy or don't you feel good?"
"Nothing's wrong. Except that this was the dream I had… I was right!"
"I don't understand… What are you talking about?" David was confused.
"When I was in the coma I dreamt this situation."
"Really that's strange."
"You would be surprised at our strange threshold!" Jim threw in.
"Well, okay. I'll forget about it! Melinda we need to make an appointment for an examination."
"Sure," she searched her planner. "What about Wednesday? I'm free…"
"Perfect. 4 pm?"
"Yeah I'll be here."
"Okay then… I gotta go. My patients are waiting for me. Bye." He turned around in order to leave.
"Wait," Jim held him back. "Could the baby get any damage because of her coma?"
"We don't know yet but we'll see it if there's anything soon enough… So bye guys." He left.
"Bye, David." Melinda and Jim said together.
"Oh my gosh… Why didn't you tell me that you thought you were pregnant?" Jim asked with tears of happiness in his eyes.
"Because you'd have been too sad if I was wrong. I didn't want to burden you with some strange dream."
"Honey that's nonsense, okay? I love you so much… That wouldn't have been any burden for me!!! Sure I would have been sad but I know that dreams aren't the real world. Mel, you're my wife… Why were you afraid to share this dream with me? Is it because you still aren't ready to have a child although you said that you want one?"
"Dunno… I'm still afraid that I won't be able to help him or her enough with that ghost stuff… I just feel as helpless as I was as a little girl. What if I'm a bad mom? You know how hard the relationship between me and my mother was and still is… I don't want to make the same mistakes, Jim."
"Mel… I know you… You are great. I saw how you helped Becca. So why shouldn't you be able to do the same with our kids? And you have such a big heart. You won't be like your mom and I'm here, too, to help you. You aren't alone like your mom, okay?"
"Yeah, okay… I know you don't want to hear this but what if this baby has any damage because of my coma?"
"Hey, we'll handle that. Come on. Let's go home."
"Okay. But can we have lunch first? I'm starving…"
"I'm gonna make you a nice lasagne okay?" he smiled and gave Melinda a passionate and very long kiss. Then he lifted her up and carried her, as the grooms do on the wedding day, towards the car.
"Jim, I'm pregnant and not sick… My feet can carry me very well!!!"
"Your sweet feet will have enough to carry when I won't be strong enough to do this…" the laughed.
"You're funny. That's so male."
"Come on…"
"No, Jim. I really love you and this will never change. You are the love of my life." A tear was rolling down her cheek.
"I love you, too. Honey, why are you crying??" he let her down in order to hug her.
"I don't know. Maybe just because I'm so happy with you. Or maybe because of the hormones. You are the paramedic not me. You should know stuff like that…" they arrived at their car and drove home. Melinda immediately went upstairs in order to change her clothes. She wanted to wear something special today. She looked for her dark blue vintage dress but she didn't find it. She turned around because she wanted to look if it was somewhere in her room and shocked when she saw Jim behind her with the dress.
"JIM!" she jumped back. "Gosh… You scared me."
"Sorry but I wanted to look after you because I didn't hear anything and I thought you might have lost consciousness again and on my way up I found you favourite dress on the stairs."
"Oh, thanks. That is the dress I was looking for. You're sweet… But what do you want to do? Do you want to follow me everywhere till I'll bear our baby? You can't do that. You have to work and me, too."
"Well, I'm just worried. You know, the days you were in that coma were the longest days of my life and I don't want to go through that again. And, well, you can stop working for this time…"
"Oh no… I'll go to work. As I told you before… I'm not sick and I see no reason to stay at home."
"C'mon, please do it for me. When you're here I know you two are save. Delia can cover for you. She'll understand it."
"I'm save at the store, too. And as far as it goes with Delia… She has a son she has to take care of. I can't leave her alone with the store for 9 months."
"Who is talking about 9 months?? What is with the time after our kid is born?"
"You want me to stay here for years? Jim I need the store, the costumers and Delia. You could stay here, too."
"What shall I do here the hole day??"
"That's my point. Well, I could go to work and take our kid with me cause the fire house isn't really a place for a baby but I won't stay here. Are you okay with that?"
"No, not really but we have 9 months time to discuss this out. Then could you please work half days for now? I don't want you to overstrain yourself."
"I don't like this idea but okay. I'll work half days. When will we have dinner I'm dead of hunger."
"The lasagne is ready in half an hour."
"Well, I'm gonna go change my clothes and tell Delia the news. She still doesn't know that I'm at home…"
"And she doesn't know that we're pregnant…"
"I think I'm gonna tell her that tomorrow at work." she smiled, gave him a kiss and headed to the bathroom. After she changed her clothes she went into the living-room and called Delia.
"Banks?" she heard from the phone.
"Hey Dee, it's Melinda."
"Hey Mel, how are you? Wait a minute, that's not the number of Mercy Hospital." she noticed.
"Right, I'm home."
"What? Why? You just woke up of that damn coma. You can't be at home…"
"Well, actually I can."
"Do the doctors finally know what's wrong with you?"
"Yeah, I'm gonna tell you tomorrow at work. We're gonna have dinner in like 2 minutes and I'm starving. I just wanted you to know that everything is fine."
"Okay. See you tomorrow, bye."
"Bye!" the hung up.
Melinda went to the dining room. The table was decorated with candles and roses. Suddenly she heard the song 'Something Stupid' by Frank Sinatra and his daughter from the radio station.
"Wow…" she said impressed.
"What? You're acting like you've never seen me doing something romantic like that before?!"
"Well, I didn't expect it" she said and cried. "Damn hormones… I'll be like that for the next nine months…" she pointed on her tears.
"That comes with it. Here, take a seat."
"Thank you. You're cute." Jim brought the lasagne gave first Melinda a piece of it and put a bigger piece on his plate."
"Hey, that's not fair."
"What?"
"You're having a bigger piece than I have and I'm dead of hunger."
"I thought your eating habbit hasn't changed yet?! But you can take my plate if you want…"
"You thought wrong but, thanks, I can take a second or a third plate…" she smiled at his wide opened eyes.
"Why don't you eat a whole pig?" he asked sarcastically.
"Hahaha… Very funny. Do you know how hungry I am? I didn't eat all day because I had no time…"
"See? That's what I mean. You have so much stress that you can't even spend 30 minutes for breakfast or lunch. Mel that's not healthy, neither for you nor for the baby."
"You're overprotective…"
"And you're under protective. You have to eat for two now and if you won't do it I'll always get you to Lento's every time I'm free."
"I don't need much to eat. I never did."
"Sure. That's why you're eating so much right now… You need to!"
"Hmmm…"
"How's the lasagne?"
"It tastes delicious but it would taste better with a glass of wine" she responded.
"Oh no. No alcohol, coffee and cigarettes during pregnancy you know that!"
"Yeah I know."
They finished dinner, cleaned up and went to the living room in order to watch a movie. Melinda was lying with Jim on the couch. He was holding her from behind. Suddenly she started to breathe heavily.
"Melinda?" but she didn't respond. He tried to wake her up but he couldn't. When he tried to lift her up she woke up.
"Hey, I wanna watch the movie" she suddenly said sleepy.
"The movie's over for like 20 minutes, Mel. You slept in and missed it."
"Damn. Well, let's go to bed I'm exhausted."
"That's why I think you shouldn't go to work tomorrow" he said on their way up.
"Don't even try it. I'll go to work. I can sit down if I need a break and Delia's there, too."
"Yeah, sure" they went to bed and Melinda immediately slept in. Jim smiled to himself and slept in, too.
I decided to make this one like a "daily"… So you don't have to wait on updates that long ;)