Six days after she had slipped into a state of unconsciousness, Lea finally began to wake up. At first, it was just slight twitches of her fingers. Then her foot began to jerk.
Her vital signs became stronger. By the middle of the afternoon, her eyes finally opened. Although, she was not aware of her surroundings at first. Her eyes dull and glossy.
The doctors had called in a neurologist. Fearing that she had indeed suffered some type of brain damage either in the fall, due to her being non-responsive for days, or even the trauma from the C-section.
After a battery of tests were performed, the neurologist could find no clear sign of brain damage.
Lea finally seemed to come completely awake and spoke that night.
"Where am I?"
Dean had almost jumped out of his skin when he heard her voice. He had began to lose hope. The doctors had told him that although she was awake, she appeared to be in a catatonic state. Aware but unaware.
"Hey Kitten. You're in the hospital. You passed out"
As Lea began to move around, working out the stiffness in her muscles, she noticed something was missing. Something significantly big.
Dean noticed Lea's hands pause on her flattened stomach. Saw the moment she realized she was no longer pregnant. Before she could panic, he quickly explained.
"When you passed out, you began to convulse. The doctors couldn't stabilize you, so they had to do an emergency C-section."
"Where's my baby? I need to see my baby."
Lea's voice had grown loud and almost shrill in her paniced state.
Dean pressed the call button on the side of her bed. He was worried that she might have another seizure. Blackout again before he could have the nurse bring their daughter in from the nursery.
Once the nurses had given Lea some medicine to calm her down, the baby was wheeled into the room.
She was doing very well. Though she still had to be given oxygen. Her lungs were developing very well. Even if she was still tiny and underweight.
She had gained three ounces already. She was close to five pounds. Both the doctors and nurses had assured Dean that this was a good sign.
Dean pulled out his phone and recorded Lea holding her daughter for the first time. He choked back tears at the tender expression on her face.
"Have you decided on a name yet?"
Lea shook her head no. Even though they had discussed several names, Lea had never decided on one. She wanted to meet her daughter before picking the name.
Suddenly a name popped into her head. It was unusual and almost incorporated both Dean and Drew's name.
"What about Alexandrina?"
Dean almost instinctively said no. The name seemed longer than his daughter's tiny body. But he repeated it a few times in his head.
Slowly, he smiled. Somehow the name seemed perfect.
"I love it. But what about a middle name?"
"Well, I picked her first name. Seems fair you pick her middle name."
Dean thought about it for a minute.
"Alexandrina Lea Ambrose."
Or should we just stick with Scott until we get the results?"
Lea wasn't sure what to do to be honest. All along she had been calling the baby, Baby Ambrose. However, Dean was right. If Drew was the father, then he would want his daughter to have his last name.
"I don't know. Is there someone we could talk to about this? Should we wait for the results to come back?"
Dean stepped out into the hallway and flagged down a nurse. He didn't want to leave Lea alone with Alexandrina just yet. The risk of another seizure was too high.
"Dean, could you call Drew? He should be here. This decision affects him too."
Lea was stunned by Dean's quick agreement. She was unaware of just how much had changed recently. In reality, she wasn't sure what day it was. Just how old her daughter was.
Alexandrina began to wake up. Her beautiful blue eyes staring up at her mother. She began to cry. She needed a diaper change and a bottle.
The nurse offered to take her back to the nursery. Lea declined. She never wanted to let go of baby Alexa.
Having been around babies all her life, Lea quickly changed the diaper. Then she fed her daughter her evening meal. She would ask the doctor tomorrow about breast feeding.
Roman and Seth stopped by for their evening visit. Dean had called them earlier and told them not to come by until tonight.
Seth refused to look at Lea. He spoke with Dean and played with Alexa. Lea noticed Seth's hostility towards her. She was still piecing together everything that had happened recently.
She remembered leaving. Getting the call about Dean, and rushing back. Everything after that was blurry. So she couldn't understand why Seth seemed to hate her.
She handed Alexa over to Dean. Politely, she asked Dean and Roman to step out for a minute. She wanted to speak with Seth alone.
Dean glared at Seth. Assuring him that if anything happened to Lea, he was holding him responsible.
Once the door closed, Lea turned to Seth.
"What's going on Seth? Why won't you even look at me?"
Seth snorted. With his lip curled up and his eyes glaring, he looked more like Seth Rollins wrestler than Seth Rollins the man.
"You know it's funny how you seem to act so innocent. Your big blue eyes staring up at me. Trying to look blameless. Eight days ago, my best friend was laying in a hospital bed after trying to kill himself all because of you."
Lea winced against the force of Seth's anger.
"You rush back to Tampa. Acting like you were so worried. Acting like you were in love with Dean. Yet, you ran out on him while he was gone."
"I had my reasons for leaving and it had nothing to do with rather or not I love Dean. I will go to my grave loving Dean."
Seth laughed. "If this is love, than I feel sorry for him. It's pretty convenient that you had to have emergency surgery. Because I know for a fact that Dean wanted nothing to do with you. He was sick of being manipulated by your fucking games. Leading him around by the balls."
Lea grew angry at Seth's accusations.
"Shut your fucking mouth. I don't know who the fuck you think you are talking to, but I have never led any man, much less Dean, around by the balls. You know I understand why Dean would be angry. What I don't understand is why you're so fucking pissed at me?"
Seth's face had contorted with rage. His skin was blood red, his eyes were huge and the veins in his forehead were bulging.
"I hate you. I hate the fact that you walked into Dean's life and changed everything. He became a different person. Instead of focusing on his career, he was always worrying about you. You have brought nothing but trouble and drama into our lives. First it was Drew, then it was this fucking pregnancy. Then you leave and he tried to kill himself. Then the grand finale, you fall into a coma and have to have emergency surgery."
As Seth's words washed over her, Lea realized he was right about a lot of things. Her life, and their lives by consequence, had been pretty dramatic this past year. She had brought a lot of unwanted trouble into their lives.
Seth hadn't meant to say any of the things he had said to Lea. He had never intended anyone to know that he had always harbored this dislike and mistrust of Lea.
Seeing her tears and knowing she had had a rough week, he felt like a piece of shit. He wanted to apologize but he wasn't truly sorry. These were his true feelings. He was only sorry he had actually said them.
Lea cleared her throat.
"Please leave. And don't come back."
Seth nodded his head and started to open the door.
"I'm not going to say anything to Dean or Roman about what was said. But as far as I'm concerned, you are no longer welcome in my life. I don't want you around my daughter either."
Seth felt like he had been lowblowed. How was he going to explain everything to Dean? How was this going to affect their friendship? What about his friendship with Roman? He knew Roman considered Lea to be a little sister. Samoans were all about family and loyalty to family came first.
As he stepped out into the hallway, Dean walked up to him. Dean wasn't sure what was said, but whatever had happened had left Seth shaken.
He was as pale as a ghost and his eyes were bloodshoot.
Dean rushed into Lea's room. He needed to reassure himself that she was fine.
Roman stared at Seth. He leaned closer to hear what the younger man was saying.
"She kicked me out of her life. Barred me from being around Alexa."
Roman was shocked. Something major must have happened for Lea to have done something this drastic.
"What happened in there?"
Seth ran his shaking hand through his hair.
"I told her that ever since she came into our lives, she's been nothing but trouble and drama. Dean almost died because of her."
Roman was disgusted by Seth's confession. He couldn't believe Seth had been that cruel to Lea. Roman wanted to punch Seth in the face for his cruelty. Instead, he turned his back on his friend and went to check on Lea.
Seth had dug his own grave. Let him dig his way out.