It was hard sitting in the hospital waiting room with Red, Eric, Laurie, Donna, and Fez knowing that Jackie was in pain and I couldn't do anything. "Will you calm down? Women are built for this shit." Red said as he looked at me. "Focus on listening to dumbass here tell me how he managed to get his head stuck in a toilet." Red said with a laugh.
"It was by the toilet." Fez snapped as he looked at us.
"Still who the hell does that?" Red asked.
"Daddy can I have money for something to eat?" Laurie asked as she looked over at her father from across the room.
"Don't you have your own money?" He asked her. "What have you been doing in Chicago?"
"Stripper." Eric coughed out.
"Oh come on she is more of the hooker type." I said as I looked at him.
"Yeah you are right." He said with a laugh.
"Here is five dollars, but take the foreign one with you." Red said as he handed his daughter some money.
"But… fine." Laurie said before she stormed away with Fez following behind her.
"I am about to go home. Donna you want to go with me?" Eric asked as he got up.
"Eric this is our godchild." Donna said as she looked at him.
"And?" He asked.
"Sit your ass down because we aren't going anywhere." She said coldly.
"And Donna a trillion Forman zero." I said with a laugh as he sat down.
"Whatever at least I am not about to have a baby." Eric said as he looked at me.
"Is this a bad time to break the news?" Donna said with a laugh.
"I am going for a walk." Red said as he got up. "Dumbasses." He muttered as he walked away.
"And here we wait." Eric complained as he placed his head on the side of the chair. It was about two hours later that Red returned with a bit of a surprise.
"Steven someone is here to see you." He said as he moved out of my way so I could see Pam Burkhart.
"What the hell are you doing here?" I asked her.
"I stopped by the house and Bob told me you all were here. Here I brought the baby I gift." She said as she handed me a box.
"You don't get to do this." I said as I looked at her. "You don't get to leave her and run off to Mexico. Her father went to jail she needed you to tell her everything was alright." I said as I got up. "Take your stupid box and get the hell out of here." I said as I threw the box at her and walked away.
"Hyde." Donna called after me. "I am proud of you." She said as I turned to look at her.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because Jackie would be. Eric would never stand up and talk to her like that." She said as she looked at me. "That just proves that you and Jackie have something special."
"I love her Donna." I said as I looked at her. "And she is in so much pain right now. I can't help her. Hell I can't even be there for her. And now that bitch comes marching in here." I said as I looked at her.
"Why don't we go get you a coffee?" Donna said as she looked at me. "We need you happy. You are about to be a daddy." She led me down the hallway. When we got back to the waiting room with coffee in hand I noticed that Pam was still sitting there.
"Any news?" I asked Red as I sat down next to him.
"Not yet." He said as he looked at me. "But, the foreign kid is eating off the floor again." He said as he looked at me.
"That's just Fez." I said with a smile. More hours passed, but finally a doctor came out and looked at us.
"Mr. Hyde your wife wants you." He said with a smile. I just got up and followed him to her room. I walked in to see her sitting up holding our baby. She was smiling so bright she could light up this whole town.
"She is so small." Jackie whispered as I sat down on her bed next to her.
"It's a girl?" I asked as I looked at her.
"Yeah, Katherine Ann Hyde meet your daddy." She said sweetly to the child in her arms. "Here hold her." She said as she offered the child to me. I took the child from her and got up. As I stood there looking at my little girl something seemed so right.
"I love you, Katy." I said as I looked at the beautiful little girl. I promised myself in that moment that I never would hurt her. I would spend my life protecting her from everything bad in the world. She was going to be my little girl for the rest of time. I looked up at Jackie and smiled. "She looks just like you." I said softly.
"I love you." She said with a smile.
"I love you too, doll." I said as I moved back over to her.
"She is going to give us hell." She said as she looked at me.
"But, we will love her no matter what." I said as I looked at my little girl.
"Yes we will." She said as she smiled up at me. "I can't believe that we did this."
"I can." I said as I carefully kissed her head. "We are a real family now."
"It's something isn't it?" Jackie asked me.
"It sure is." I said as I looked at the love of my life and then at our perfect little baby. It was a moment that I knew I was never going to forget no matter what happened after this.
