A/N: This one shot is a little different. This one comes from ROGAN 2. It's how Mitchum came to the decision to have the Emergency Room staff call Rory instead of Logan or Honor.
Chest Pains
I couldn't believe it. I had been healthy as a horse my entire life and now here I was laying in a hospital bed at Hartford Memorial. I had woken up early this morning with chest pains. The doctors had been running tests on me since I arrived and yet they hadn't been in to tell me anything. The nurses kept coming in and asking me if I needed anything. I think that at one point I even through a cup of ice at the nurses.
"Mr. Huntzberger is there anyone that you would like for me to call?" A nurse came in and asked.
"Let me think about it." I said. The nurse turned around and walked out. I thought for a minute. Who could I call to come down here that wouldn't give me a hard time about it? I couldn't call Shira, we were in the middle of a divorce. And besides she would leave me here to die. I couldn't call Honor, she and Josh were in the Bahamas at the moment celebrating a late anniversary trip. I couldn't call my brother, he was about as bad as Shira. If I called Logan, he would tell the board of directors and then that would be it. My career would be over. The board would push for retirement. Logan would come but I don't know if it's the best choice. There was only one person that I thought would be the right choice. It was the only choice.
I paged the nurse. A few minutes later, she came in. "Yes, Mr. Huntzberger?"
"I decided about who I would like for you to call." I said and the nurse nodded. "I want you to call my daughter in law, Rory Huntzberger." I said. I wrote Rory's number down on a piece of paper and handed it to her.
"Sure thing, Mr. Huntzberger." The nurse said before walking out.
When she walked out, she closed the door behind her. I leaned back and laid my head against the pillow. I wasn't a 100% sure if Rory would even come. It was no secret that we hadn't always gotten along. Then there was the fact that I tried to get her out of the newspaper business. Which of course, later on when I found out that she was the double heiress of Hartford I felt guilty about the way that I had treated her.
Of course that didn't stop Shira from trying to create problems between Rory and Logan. Shira continuously tried to create problems all the way up till rehearsal dinner. Logan ended up walking out of the rehearsal dinner that night.
I sat there and waited. I waited to see if Rory would actually come. I didn't have to wait to long. And there she was. "Mitchum?"
