A Face of True Love
Here is something for original TNT fans.
No copy infringements. These character belong to their owners
My first fan fiction all reviews welcome.
Quick note all memories will be in italic.
CHAPTER FIVE: BLOOD NEVER LIES
Tea ran into the nurse's station at the E.R.
"Where's my daughter Daniella Tea Delgado Manning? My Step-daughter Starr Manning brought her in. Please tell me."
"Tea."
Tea turned and saw Blair. The front of her blouse was full of blood. Tea's eyes widen and tears fell out. Tea put her hands on her mouth to prevent her from yelling out. Tea saw her brother not far from where she was at.
"She's in here. She lost a lot of blood." Blair said pointing at the door.
Both Tea and Blair ran into the room. Tea sees the Doctor working on her daughter. Starr is standing in the corner watching the doctors working on her little sister. She see her mother and her stepmother and runs to both of them.
"What's happening to my daughter?" Tea demanded.
"Nurse get them out of here." One of doctors said.
"Don't you touch me. Tell me." Tea demanded.
"Please we are doing the best we can. I need to know if your daughter in allergic to any kind medication."
Tea shook her head.
"I'm not leaving." Tea said with determination.
Daniella looked so pale. Tea was so afraid she was about to lose her daughter.
"We need all of you to leave the room." The Doctors said not looking up. He continued to work on Daniella.
The E.R. nurse ushered Tea, Blair and Starr out of the room. What they didn't know was Todd was standing just feet from them. He saw Blair's bloody blouse and worried. He saw his oldest daughter Starr crying. All he wanted to do was go to his family. He wasn't going to move from here because he could listen to what they were saying.
"What happened?" Tea asked.
"She was playing on the swings and she jumped off. She tripped and then she hit her head on the corner of fountain stand. I screamed when I saw her fall and mom came out running. We couldn't wake her up. Mom tried to stop the bleeding. Then mom decided to bring her here." Starr explained tears falling.
"It's not your fault." Tea said trying to console her step-daughter.
"She is like her father indestructible." Blair said.
"Thank you Blair."
"Come on Tea sit over here. I have to call Justin to let him know what's going on. I had Starr call Todd." Blair said getting her cell phone out.
"Yeah I know. He called me and told me to get my ambulance chasing ass over here." Tea said with an angry look on her face.
Starr looked at her stepmother and was about to ask her something when the doctor came out.
"Mrs. Manning your daughter has lost a lot of blood. She will need a blood transfusion. It looks like she has a rare blood type which can only be provided by a sibling or parent. We would like to get you and your husband tested."
"I'm her step-sister can I do it too?" Starr asked.
"Yes." The Doctor answered, "We want to do the blood transfusion first before we do the CAT scan for the head injury. She is comfortable right now. The nurse will show you where you need to go." The doctor said going back into the room.
Tea looked through the small window. She saw her baby girl. Tomas came from behind and whispered.
"This could be the proof we need. I'm going to tell Todd". Tomas whisper and walked away seeing Todd standing around the corner.
Tea only nodded she heard her husband yelling at the nurses.
"Todd be quiet for god sakes you're in the hospital. Where's Jack?" Blair said getting up from the chair she was sitting.
The imposter ignores his ex-wife and walks up to Tea and grabs her arms and forcibly turns Tea to look at him.
"What the fuck happen to my daughter? Why weren't you with her?" He said.
"Dad!" Starr exclaimed.
"Todd." Blair said in disgusted.
Tea looked into the imposter eyes with anger and disgusted written all over her face. She spoke quietly and calmly.
"Get your hands off me. Don't touch me."
The imposter is surprised by the way his wife was looking at him. He released his hold.
"I'm sorry. I'm just scared. How's Dani?" He asked.
"She is still unconscious. She has a head injury. The Doctors are more worried about the lost of blood. She needs a blood transfusion. They say she has a rare blood type that only siblings and parent can give. They would like us to get test right now." Tea said turning away from the imposter. She went back to looking at her daughter. She was unclenching and clenching her hands as she said this.
"What do mean she has a rare type?" The imposter asked confused to Tea reaction.
"Dad, do you think Dani has your blood type." Starr said walking over to stand next to the imposter.
"I don't know Starr. I just don't understand this." He replied.
Tea continued looking at her beautiful daughter and said, "What didn't you understand? She has a rare blood type that either you or I passed down to her. I need to get tested and so do you."
Tea turned to walk away, only to be stopped by the imposter's hand on her shoulder.
"What the hell is wrong with you? I'm worried for our daughter." He said.
Starr was watching this unfold and was little confused. She's never seen her step-mother ever reject her father in this manner. She looked at her mom and saw a look of confusion too.
Off down the hall Tomas was watching his sister looking at her husband with so much anger. He turned to look at Todd who was doing everything in his power to control himself.
"I knew Tea would blow up at him. You need to get her away from him now before she goes off like a dynamite stick. I'm going to go get tested. She has my rare blood type." Todd said leaning against the wall.
"Agreed. Do it under a different name though. I will make sure the imposter get his blood tested." Tomas said and continued watch his sister. He also noticed that the imposter moved away from his sister and grabbed his cell phone.
"Go now." Tomas said to Todd.
"Hey Tea are you ok?" Tomas said walking up to his sister and notice his brother in law stopped to look at him.
The imposter snickered at his brother in law. Forgetting to make the phone call he was about to make. He knew Tomas was looking into his business. Tea was fine until her older brother showed up. He had so much control over his foolish wife. I wonder what he's been whispering in my wife's ear. Not that it matters, I took the one thing left to take away from that rapist bastard. I got his Delgado. Hopefully that little brat will finally die and he will never know she even existed. Then Tea can have my child. His revenge was almost complete. He thought trying not to grin.
Tomas was blocking Tea's view of the imposter.
"You need to wait a few moments Todd went to get his blood test. He says he must have passed his blood type to Daniella." Tomas whispers.
"Aye Dios Mio, I forgot about that. I don't want to leave her alone, Tomas." Tea said through her tears.
The imposter seeing Tea wrapped in her brother's arms. He moved to console his wife only to be stopped by his daughter.
"Dad, are we going to go?" Starr asked.
"Yeah just a second I need to make sure Tea's is okay. Then I have to make a phone call." He answered his daughter.
"What phone call dad? What could be so important than Dani?" Starr asked.
"Don't worry, Starr I will take care of everything. Hey I'm your dad right." He said pulling into a hug.
Blair walked up to both her ex-husband and her daughter.
"I just finished talking to Justin. I'm going to be heading back to get Jack so that he can get tested too. I'll be back in a while." She said.
Tea heard Blair and said, "Thank you again, Blair."
"I'll be back later with Justin and the kids." Blair said walking up to the elevator.
"Mrs. Manning, are you and your husband ready for the blood testing." The nurse said coming out of Dani's room.
"How is she?" Tea asked.
"She is doing much better. The bleeding has definitely stopped. The doctor's tell me that she needs the blood transfusion right away so if you can please follow me."
"I'll stay with Dani Tea." Tomas said.
Tea nodded and followed the nurse. She sent a silent payer hoping Todd wasn't in the same place. Right now her only concern was her baby. She noticed the imposter hesitation and looked at him.
"Todd aren't you coming?" Tea asked walking off.
The imposter looked down at Starr and motion for her to follow him.
"Dad why is Tea mad at you?"
"I have no clue. Don't worry about it." The imposter said grabbing his cell phone and texting to his counterparts with the news of Todd Manning's youngest daughter.
"Mrs. Manning right in here, Mr. Manning the room right next to Mrs. Manning, and you Miss Manning the room next to your fathers. Miss Manning are you eighteen years old? If not we will need your father's consent for the procedure. I will be bringing some forms for all of you to fill out." The nurse stated as she nodded to the other nurse that enter with the forms.
"Yes." Starr answered and entered the room.
The nursed gave Tea, the imposter, and Starr the necessary forms to fill out.
Meanwhile Todd made his way back to see if it was clear. He closes his eyes in relief. He sees Tomas and walks right behind him. Tomas is blocking his view from his daughter.
"Where's Tea?"
Tomas turns around and answers, "She went to give her blood, so did the imposter and Starr."
Todd moved a little away and slowly walks up to the small window.
"Go in there Todd, I will be your look out. Go see your daughter. No one is in there right now." Tomas suggested.
"Why are you helping me?" Todd asked.
"Because my sister loves you, and that little girl needs her father." Tomas answered.
"Thanks." Todd said.
Todd slowly pushed the door to his daughter's room. He walks up to her bed. He sees the cut on her head.
"Hey I'm your dad, kid." He said quietly grabbing her hand and caresses her head.
"Oh you are so beautiful. You are going to be a little firecracker aren't you? If you are anything like your mom I'm gonna make you a deal. You just get better, and I'll be a good father to you. I just found out about you and I would really like to get to know you. I'll even come up with a cool nickname. I can call you Sparky. Just like Starr is Shorty to me. You have to wake up soon, okay. I gave the blood you needed. Just wake up and be okay." Todd said with tears falling and he looked down at his daughter.
At that moment Daniella squeezed his hand lightly and slowly opened her eyes and smiled.
"I know you. You're my daddy. Where's mommy?" She whispered and then she said "My head hurts."
Todd looked at his youngest daughter wide eyed and smiled.
"You know what makes headaches go away. You need to sleep a little more. I'm going to go get your mommy okay."
Daniella closed her and smiled in her sleep. Her face was still pale. Which worried Todd, and he bent down and lightly kissed her cheek.
"I promise you that I'll get everything back. You dream about air ponies, Sparky." Todd whispers into her ear and then leaves her room.
"She's beautiful isn't she?" Tomas asked.
"Yes, Delgado did a good job. Tomas I want this to end tonight. My kid is in there. This needs to end now." Todd said rubbing his hands over his face.
"I agreed. Something is up. You are right Tea won't be able to handle this much longer. She is ready to explode especially with Daniella in here. Let's wait until Del we might need the back up. You need to hide for a little while longer." Tomas said.
Todd looked away.
"Daniella saw me. She smiled at me and said 'I know you you're my daddy.' I've missed so much. I missed seeing all my kids growing up. I've only seen Jack being born, and at the time I didn't think he was my kid. I'm really sorry for what I've done to your sister. You have no idea how I regret leaving her there. It's just that I had to come back and repair all the damage I did when Jack was born. I miss seeing Daniella being born and you have no idea just how bad I feel. If I would have known of her existence then maybe none of this would have happened. You know what I mean." Todd said.
Tomas sees the regrets on Todd's face.
"You amigo need to go hide. They'll be back soon. Go I'll take care of my sister." Tomas said looking at the direction Tea had gone in earlier.
"Ok, let me know I'll be on the next floor in the waiting room."
"I'll come find you in a bit. Go now." Tomas said as the both heard heels clicking on the floor.
Todd nods and takes one last look through the small window.
"Be safe Sparky."
Todd hears Starr's voice through the corridor of the hospital. He pauses for a moment because he knows if he turns around he will not want to leave her side anymore. He continues to the elevator and doesn't turn around until the last second of the elevator's door closes. At that moment Starr stops walking and stares at the elevator doors.
Aww Todd gave Daniella a nickname. Oh did Starr see her Daddy? Get ready the Fraud will be revealed next chapter..Please leave comments.