Chapter 19 - Unstoppable

30 days...

It had been the longest damn 30 days of Roman's entire life.

Actually it was the longest 28 days of his life. Two days before his 30 days were up Roman and Ayana got the call that Odyn's new heart had arrived at the hospital and they were prepping him for the transplant. Roman and Ayana hauled ass to the hospital with Odyn, Braden, Max and Samaria; meeting Sika, Lisa and over half of Roman's immediate family, plus Dean and Nala.

It had been five days since the transplant and Odyn came through it with flying colors. His body wasn't rejecting the heart and his body was already reacting and healing extremely well with the new organ in his chest. The blue hue that had tinted his lips had moved to his skin once he'd been in home for a couple of days, which was an even bigger sign he needed a new heart and fast; was now gone. The caramel colored skin he inherited from his father had come back.

Roman knew his 30 days was up and it was really time for that talk he had all but promised Ayana, but he also knew with Odyn's transplant just recently behind them her mind was on their son more so than anything else. The first 10 days the hospital wasn't allowing anyone to stay with Odyn after visiting hours, they wanted him to get PLENTY of rest and as difficult as it was for Ayana and Roman to leave at 7 pm every night, they were smart about following the doctor's orders. Odyn was looking better and better every day.

Braden, Max and Samaria had been passed back and forth between Roman's parents and family to Dean and Nala the last five days. They had been nice enough to try to alleviate some the stress that the two parents were experiencing while trying to take care of their three healthy kids and Odyn who would be hospital bound for at least a month; maybe longer depending on how fast he was healing.

Roman was currently standing in the ICU waiting room as he leaned over and kissed Braden and Max on the crowns of their heads. "You guys make sure you keep an eye on your sister; she's having a hard time with all of this right now. I know we all are but she seems to be taking everything harder." He watched as Braden and Max both nodded and replied with a 'yes sir'. He was extremely proud of his boys for stepping up during this crazy time. His eyes looked over at Ayana who had Samaria sitting on her lap facing her.

Ayana smiled softly as she cupped her youngest child's face in her hands and rained feather kisses all over her face; as she tried to get her to stop crying. "It's okay baby girl. You guys are going with Uncle Dean and Aunt Nala tonight you guys have to go to school tomorrow; we have to be here with Odyn early in the morning he has a bunch of tests they are doing to make sure his new heart is working the way it's supposed to."

"Momma, when can Odyn come home?" Samaria asked through her tears and hiccups.

Ayana brushed her daughters tears away with her thumbs. "Sweetie he has to fully heal first. We want his new heart to be nice and strong for him don't we?" Ayana watched as her bottom lip poked out and couldn't help the frown that marred her face as well.

Samaria nodded. "But I want him to come home."

"I know baby; I know."

Roman could tell Samaria was having a hard time of it and Ayana was trying to explain it the best she could, but explaining to a five year old that it takes longer than a couple of days to heal after a heart transplant was like trying to talk a tiger out of eating a small animal. The information was sinking in but it wasn't registering.

Roman walked over and squatted down in front of Ayana; watching as his youngest gave him her attention. "Baby girl, You know Odyn has to stay here until he's fully healed. If he goes home before he is healed and gets an infection it could cause his new heart to stop working. We don't want that. It won't be forever and you know you can come and see him as much as you want to. All you have to do is ask." Roman had to break it down. He watched as Ayana smiled softly at him.

Samaria slid from her mother's lap as she stood in front of Roman. "Do you promise?" Her small voice asked as she sniffled yet again.

Roman would've given her anything to stop crying. "I promise baby girl."

"Pinkie promise?" The five year old held out her right pinkie finger.

Roman's furrowed his brow really unsure of what that meant. Braden walked over and laughed. "Dad you have to hook your pinkie with hers and say you pinkie promise." His oldest informed him.

Roman chuckled as he hooked his right pinkie with Samaria's and watched as she leaned forward and kissed her little hand. Roman copied her. "Okay baby girl, I pinkie promise." Clearly Braden had made several of these 'pinkie promises' to his little sister; obviously they were a big deal to his youngest.

Dean walked over. "Hey little bit, are you ready to get going?" Dean asked as he squatted down next to Roman; while addressing Samaria. He watched as she smiled sadly before she walked over and threw her arms around his neck. Dean stood to his 6'4" height with the little girl in his arms. "What do you think Sami? Pizza?"

Samaria pulled back a little from her uncle as she nodded. Bottom lip popped out. "Okay Uncle Dean."

Dean chuckled as he and Nala said their goodbyes and herded the Reigns brood out of the hospital.

Roman chuckled as he stood up with Ayana. "You know she has him wrapped around her finger right?"

"Oh yea indubitably." Ayana stated with a chuckle.

Roman looked down at his watch. "We have just enough time to say goodnight to Odyn before they try to kick us out. Then we can grab some dinner on the way home and maybe get some talking done. If you're up for it." Roman suggested.

"I'd like that." Ayana nodded as she fell in step next to her husband as they headed to Odyn's room.

Dean and Nala stopped for pizza on the way home and between the two adults and three kids they killed three large pizzas. The kids definitely inherited their father's Samoan appetite. Dean was glad it put Samaria in a better mood as well. She was all smiles by the time they left the pizza joint.

Dean and Nala unloaded their SUV full of kids and got them across the front yard and up to the front door. Dean watched as Nala led Max and Braden into the house before he looked behind him and noticed Samaria had stayed at the SUV. Dean turned and went back to his vehicle. "What's wrong little bit?" He asked as he squatted down to be at her level.

"I can't find my bear Uncle Dean." Samaria frowned.

"Let me guess he's one of the very best bears in the entire world and you can't sleep without him?" Dean stated as he watched her poke her bottom lip out and nod. "What makes him so special?"

"Odyn got him for me for my birthday." The little girl stated as she continued to try and look for her beloved stuffed animal.

"She has been sleeping with it since Odyn got sick."

Dean looked up and saw Braden stand behind him. Dean nodded. "Okay I get it; let's see where he's hiding." Dean opened the front door to turn the front compartment light on for the extra help.

Braden walked around to the driver side of the SUV and got in the back seat with Samaria as Dean shoved the back hatch open and climbed in on his hands and knees. Not an easy feat for someone who was 6'4"; his body was not an accordion. But apparently it would make an exception for the sweet girl who called him uncle.

"Why the hell did we buy an Expedition with three rows of seats. It's only me and your Aunt. We MUST be out of our minds." Dean grumbled as he listened to Braden and Samaria laugh at his sudden epiphany.

Dean could hear footsteps as he looked over and saw a couple probably in their mid-fifties walking down the sidewalk. He backed up out of the Expedition and got his body vertical as he looked at them when they stopped in front of him. "Is there something I can help you all with?" He questioned. He heard a clicking sound as the woman suddenly lurched forward and pressed her flashlight to his ribs and hit a button.

Dean cringed as an insurmountable amount of voltage made its way through his body. His body jerked and shook violently as he fell back into the Expedition as he continued to shake uncontrollably.

Braden's eyes widened as he watched some older lady taser his uncle as the older guy she was with ran around to the side his sister was sitting on and a split second of thinking Braden wrapped his arms around Samaria as the man leaned into the vehicle and was trying to pull his sister out of his arms. Samaria was screaming at the top of her lungs as she clutched onto her brothers arms and started flailing her legs.

Dean stopped jerking around as his head popped up. "The bitch tased me! What the actual fuck is going on?" His ears felt like they were ringing as he could hear someone screaming over the sound of the ringing. He finally sat up long enough to look over the back seat and could see someone struggling in the middle row seating.

Dean grabbed the side of the vehicle as he pulled himself to a standing position before he closed the back hatch and took off around the side he could see the bottom half of the guy sticking out of his vehicle as he grabbed the guy by the back of the shirt and yanked him away as hard as he could. He watched as he spun around and landed on his grass in the middle of his yard. "Braden, close and lock the doors do NOT get out for any reason."

Braden reached across the back seat and closed the door before closing his own and locking the doors.

Nala was standing in the door way of the house blocking Max's only way out as she dialed 9-1-1. She watched as Dean stalked across the grass to the guy trying to stand up. He jerked his head left to right popping his neck. "Honey...Don't kill him." Nala shouted for good measure.

Dean growled. "Just what in the fuck did you think you were going to accomplish tonight?" He rubbed his ribs where the lady had tased him. "You and your dumb broad have officially fucked with the wrong Uncle."

"5 o'clock babe!"

Dean's head snapped back as his icy blue eyes locked on the lady who tased him before he grabbed her hand with the taser and the back of her head. "Lady I have NEVER hit woman in my life, but if you tase me again I'm going to throw you so far into space the aliens will think you are a new planet."

"Please...Just let us have the little girl." The woman begged. "Ayana has enough to worry about with Odyn being sick she will NEVER be able to be the mother she needs to be to her."

The woman was genuinely concerned. Dean could tell by the way she knew what she was talking about with Odyn. But he didn't even know who the fuck these crazy people were. "Are you nuts? Ayana is the best mother I've ever seen in my entire life...coming from me that's saying something. I don't know who you people are but there's no way I'm letting you touch a hair on ANY of Roman and Ayana's kids. You are both out of your ever loving minds if you think I will even let you get within sniffing distance of them."

"Please Samaria should be ours. We can only help our daughter with her sins if we take Samaria and raise her right." The lady begged once again.

The guy went to move around to help his wife when Dean's long leg kicked out and nailed the stranger in the gut. "Let me make myself perfectly clear." Dean shoved the lady down on the ground next to her husband. "You are not touching those kids." The guy started to move off the ground again and Dean rammed his kneeing the guys face as hard as he could; not only breaking the strangers nose but knocking him out as well. His fired up blue eyes turned toward the lady. "If you move another muscle lady I'm going to let my wife come down here and beat the piss out of you."

About that time the police department pulled up. As Dean was explaining everything the partner cuffed the couple and put them in the back of his cruiser. Once that was done the officers asked that Dean and Nala come down to the station to make a formal complaint and to also call the children's parents for them to come down as well.

Ayana And Roman walked through the front doors at the Pensacola Police Station and could already see Dean, Nala and their three children. Ayana stopped once she was standing next to everyone. "What happened?" She asked as Samaria ran over and jumped in her mother's arms. She tried consoling her youngest as best she could but she needed answers.

All eyes went to her and Roman. All was too quiet as Roman's eyebrows went to his hair line. "Well...What's going on?" He too asked.

Dean shook his head. "Man, I swear I don't know how it happened. Some old bitch and her man came out of nowhere and tased me! Well the old lady tased me and the dude tried to climb into the SUV and tried swiping Samaria. "

"And then Dean got back up and got the guy away and locked the kids in the car. And I swear I thought he was going to kill that dude and then the lady was going to try and tase him and I thought he was going to kill her next." Nala stated.

Clearly the couple had some over excitement in their night once they had left the hospital with the three kids. Ayana held up her hands. "Whoa! Time out what is going on exactly? Who tased Dean and who tried to kidnap my baby?"

Roman's eyebrows were already to the bridge of his nose indicating his Samoan temper was about to flare on whoever tried to kidnap his daughter!

"I want to see them. I want to see who tried to take my baby girl." Ayana demanded from the officer who was standing with everyone making sure the charges would get filed and statements were clearly written and signed.

The officer summoned another free officer over. "The lady and sir would like to see the perpetrators." The other officer nodded and advised them to follow him. Ayana handed Samaria over to Nala as she and Roman followed the officer.

When they walked back to where the jail cells were located Ayana suddenly felt 18 years old again as she came face to face with the two most familiar people who were in her life until she removed them.

Her mother and father.

"You've got to be kidding me. 15 years together, 4 kids, a handful of lies and a visit from CPS and you people still can't just leave me and my husband alone?" Ayana stated. She snorted. "I should've known. I cut you out of my life and after all the bullshit shenanigans you've pulled; I should've known you weren't done."

"Ayana honey if you would've just given up this ridiculous game of house and came back to us we would've forgotten everything and helped you get rid of that bastard child." Ayana's father stated.

"You're father is right honey. We offered to help you more times than we can really count. So now your daughter has to help reap your sins. She has to be raised by us so we can re-do the way we raised you. We will take good care of her, but when we get out of here she needs to come with us." Her mother stated.

"You're never getting out of here. Because as of right now; you two are some pathetic married couple who tried to kidnap some poor child. Roman and I haven't always been able to see eye to eye because no marriage is perfect. We've had fights and make ups and we've had our ups and downs, but he's my husband and he is still their father and I still love him and no matter what you two do you will never stop. Well guess what? You raised an independent daughter who fell in love and started her role in life early. And I couldn't be happier. The more you two do to us the strong you make our bond." Ayana stated with a tone of finality as she stepped back from the cell and took Roman's hand in hers.

"We're unstoppable."

Ayana looked at the officer. "And I want to press charges."