HI Folks! Just wanted to let you know that I could not leave William and Eliza in that situation. So I wrote a new chapter. This was has a hot memory for William and some banter. Much happier chapter. Please let me know what you think!
Frightened
Chapter 2
William sat next to his wife as she lay in their bed upstairs sleeping. She had been very close to death by the time the doctor had called at their house.
"Mr. Wellington, your wife is too weak to get her to the hospital. Carry her into the bedroom and let me examine her," Dr. Bradley had stated.
Dr. Bradley was a middle-aged man, stout, and wore small spectacles that made one wonder how with his large round face he could see anything out of them. He had first been employed as Wellington's doctor after Eliza and William had been involved in a slight carriage accident during one of their cases. William had sprained his hand, but Eliza had broken her foot. Needless to say, she was rather discouraged when she had to do most of the paperwork and little of the action during the investigation.
As Dr. Bradley approached his patient on the other side of the bed, William said, "Dr. Bradley. Today Eliza mentioned she was pregnant. Did you know that?"
Dr. Bradley nodded. "Yes, she did tell me before this happened. I can assure you that nothing is wrong in that area. The bullet was lodged in her side and, yes, she was getting weak, but she was not deprived of oxygen, so therefore the fetus would not be either."
William sighed heavily. He was somewhat relieved that if and when Eliza awoke she would know their child was safe.
"She seems to be breathing better. The fluids coming from this drip will help strengthen her and this one will give her some of the blood she needs back. It was amazing we were able to do this here and not have to take her to the hospital. I fear she would not be alive now."
Sitting back for a moment wiping a hand over his face, William thanked the doctor tiredly for his efforts in saving his wife. He then rose and accompanied Dr. Bradley to the front door.
"Now she is going to need supervision night and day until she comes out of her coma. She may need another transfusion, but I will know better when I come back in the morning."
"Thank you, doctor. I was afraid I might have lost her."
"I know you love your wife, so please take these next words as a precaution and not a criticism."
William's eyes became narrowed. This was a seemingly huge problem he was constantly bashing his head into.
"When she is out of her coma, by any means, do not let her out of your sight in her condition. You were fortunate tonight. Next time you may not be."
William smiled at the words. 'I understand Doctor and I will try my best because as you say I love my wife. But you don't know Eliza very well."
Dr. Bradley simply smiled and shook William's hand.
"Well, nevertheless, good night. Do not hesitate to contact me if her fever rises or she starts to profusely bleed again or if she turns very pale in color. Do you have anyone to help you so you can get some rest?"
"Yes, it so happens, we have Eliza's former housekeeper coming with her husband to stay with us for a little while. They were on their honeymoon from England."
"Well, good then. Remember…goodnight."
"Goodnight."
William closed the door and then leaned his head against it. He knew that it would be a fight for Eliza's life and the child she carried. Eliza must have known for some time that she was pregnant because she had finally told him. He would have prevented her from accompanying him tonight into a potentially deadly situation where gunfire could come into play if he had known. It would have been a tremendous argument, but he was sure Eliza would have understood in her condition.
He should have known she had been hiding something from him. At one point, he noticed that she had put her hand to her mouth. Concerned, William asked her directly if she felt fine, and she gave him one of those nonchalant headshakes and curt 'of course'. William knew he would not win an argument especially if they were in a hurry to catch their culprit and bring him to justice. Eliza wanted to be there when they caught him, and the police carted him away.
After all, William recalled as he smiled it was she who had deduced the identity of their suspect.
He walked slowly toward their bedroom and stood in the doorway watching his wife sleep. Father. I am going to be a dad, God willing, William thought. He was trying to remember which night the child could have been conceived. He was sure Eliza knew.
About two months ago….
"Well, there's another crime solved by Scarlet & Wellington!" Eliza had exclaimed as they had arrived back at their house.
William unlocked the door and after quickly shutting the door behind him he eagerly dropped his keys and shed his jacket. Eliza hurriedly removed her gloves, her hat and hatpin and then almost ripped the hooks from her cloak and the buttons from her jacket. The air between them was charged. Eliza slipped into William's arms. They kissed breathlessly as they began the ritual of undressing each other. Eliza unbuttoning William's vest with practiced hands and pulling his shirt from his trousers. William quickly turning Eliza around and undoing the high button collar of Eliza's blouse shile she undid the hooks of her skirt.
"You would wear a high collar tonight, my love," William said breathlessly alternating between kissing her neck and trying to undo the buttons not knowing whether to devour her as they stood there or to carry her to their bedroom where he was just tempted to rip the blouse off her body.
"Well, I don't think…you want your wife…to not look professional when doing her duty," Eliza retorted as she hungrily kissed her husband.
He decided to carry her to their bed. "Depends on the duty," William responded continuing to nibble and kiss her all over.
"William!" Eliza laughed as he swept her up in his arms. She took a tender moment to stroke his face and then she kissed him deeply. He carried a scantily clad Eliza dressed in only her slip and corset. Eliza rained kisses on William's neck and sucked on his ear lobe sending shivers down his spine.
"Eliza, ooh, you know what that does to me!" William said twisting his neck as she laughed and did it some more. He unceremoniously deposited his wife on the bed in a lump.
Laughing when he dumped her on her rump on the bed, she now lay silently on the bed waiting for her husband to finish undressing and liking the view. She undid the pins in her hair shaking out her blonde curls as they cascaded down her back and onto their pillows.
William's body was magnificent. Broad shoulders with large, contoured arms. His stomach was flat as a washboard. His back strong and also muscled culminating in a perfectly round buttocks which was Eliza's favorite place for her hands when he thrust into her during the hottest part of their lovemaking. Eliza considered herself the luckiest woman in the world to be married and loved by such a beautiful man on the outside as well as on the inside. William assets carried all the way down his body. Eliza was a wife who was sexually satisfied as her William was well endowed. He knew how to use his assets very well. She enjoyed having his body surround hers and having him inside her.
She lay on the bed still in her corset. William totally nude came to the bed and indulged in one of his favorite fancies that of unlacing Eliza's corset until removing it revealed his wife's small but lithe body. He climbed on top of the bed and took Eliza into his arms from behind. She had removed her skirt but allowed William his little fancy.
Time seemed to stop as he trailed kisses down her back as he carefully and lovingly unlaced her corset. The more Eliza's beautiful skin was revealed to William the more he sighed and kissed her back. His hands finally casting away the garment and cupping her small but ample breasts in his hands. "Oh my God, I am blessed with a beautiful wife…" he murmured in Eliza's ear. Shivers ran down her spine as turned in his arms and jumping off the bed got to her knees. She gave William a kiss on the lips on the way down and with that playful gleam in her eyes knelt before him and took him into her mouth. She wrapped her lips around his member and licked him there as she massaged him up and down.
With hands that began to shake William gasped for air and spread his legs a little wider to give her better access to his testicles which she massaged with the other hand. She then took those gently into her mouth as she knew how sensitive that part of his anatomy was. William audibly sucked in a breath as she resumed sucking his cock. He gently thrust it into her mouth.
"Oooh." William moaned as he had never experienced such sexual pleasure as he had with Eliza. She was perfect for him and he for her as she let him know on more than one occasion. He motioned for her to stop loving on him for a minute. He kissed her as he brought her up to a standing position. He coaxed her to straddle his lap as he continued to sit on the edge of the bed. As she kissed him, Eliza opened her legs wide and moved on top of him letting him thrust into her.
"Oh," her breath caught in her voice for just a moment and as she sank down, a deep breathy "Ooh William" escaped her lips, and she closed her eyes savoring every stroke inside her body.
"No…yes…no," Eliza cried as she knew she was rising to her peak. She suddenly wanted him on top of her and inside her. She rose with shaking legs from him and lay on the bed. Her legs spread wide open to accommodate him. William's hair had become curly and loose with the efforts of loving her. As he lay on top of her not quite inside, Eliza ran a finger through one of his curls and smiled.
"Love me, William," Eliza begged.
"I'm here darling," William said as he made his presence known. He suckled at her breast and plied her nipple with his tongue as his fingers found her sweet spot and played her. He heard her gasp and moan and writhe beneath him. She cried for him to be on top of her.
His first thrust into her body came when he saw Eliza's eyes already glazed with passion close in pure ecstasy. Her swift intake of breath increased her breast size and William took full advantage. He cupped them and teased her. He slid into her easily as she was wet, and she accepted his girth with a deep sigh of pleasure. He let her hands come around him and cup his buttocks. He could almost feel her driving the rhythm and strength of his thrusts inside her body until faster and harder. Their rhythm was so swift and passionate that his body almost drove them off the corner of the bed. They both laughed and William shifted Eliza back down. He continued with swift and pushing thrusts as Eliza's lips met his. He pushed harder and swifter until he called his wife's name and Eliza reaching an orgasm once again cried William's name….
"William?"
William still in the living room thought he heard Eliza's voice. Could it be? Nah, the doctor said she would be in a coma for a few days.
"William?"
"Eliza?" William responded softly. Then he heard his name being called very distinctively.
"Eliza!" William hurried into their bedroom and found his wife awake with glassy eyes but aware.
She tried to rise at his footfall, but she quickly lay back down as the pain in her side was too much.
"Eliza, love, you're awake!" He came near the bed and kissed her forehead, and she took his hand and squeezed it.
"Water?" Eliza asked through dry lips.
"Of course, my love," he kissed her forehead yet again and hurried to their kitchen to get her a glass of water. He hurried so much on the way back to their bedroom that he almost spilled the entire contents. He held the glass as Eliza drank. He saw a thankful smile through her pain.
"Thank you, love," she said in strained whisper. She winced as a moan escaped her lips as she experienced pain where the bullet had entered and was dug out by the doctor.
Her face took on a sudden panicked look. She ran her hand down to her belly which only showed a little bump. A tear escaped her eye. She looked at her husband and haltingly asked, "The baby?"
William reached out and took her small hand in both of his. When Eliza looked at him with tears in her eyes, he quietly and with great comfort said, "Oh no, the wee bairn is fine. Everything is fine now that you've come back to me." He moved and kissed her hands never taking his eyes from her.
Then with tears coming to the backs of his eyes, Eliza watched as he placed his large hand on her belly. It was his left hand where he wore his wedding ring. She slid her own left hand with her wedding rings over his fingers. She saw the grateful look in his eyes. Eliza reached out and brushed his tears away like he had done so many times for her.
After remaining quietly together where no words were needed, Eliza finally spoke slowly and painfully but with a fair amount of sarcasm to hide how scared she really had been.
"I thought I was a goner this time for sure. I really felt like I had left you alone."
"Thank God you haven't. As soon as you're better we are gunning for this lunatic who did this to you."
There is silence between them again as William's hand remained on Eliza's belly and he just watched her doze.
Suddenly he remembered what he had wanted to tell her earlier before the evening began.
"Eliza, I've got good news for you."
"Yes, William, what is it?" She asked not opening her eyes and stroking his fingers as they lay on her belly.
"Ivy and Barnabas will be here soon. It was supposed to be a surprise. They got married and they want to spend their honeymoon with us.
Eliza smiled brightly and opened her eyes.
"You know all the times when we were apart I missed your smile most of all. I was afraid I would never see it again. You scared me Eliza!"
"I scared myself this time. It wasn't for me so much, but for our child that I'm carrying. If something untoward had happened to me you would have lost two people."
"Ivy will take care of you when I can't," William stated matter-of-factly. "I expect you to do what she says."
Eliza smiled her seductive, deceptive smile. The one with all innocent baby blue eyes looking up at him but underneath her brain was already working three days in advance."
"Maybe she will take care of both of us."
Eliza began to doze again. When she felt William move to leave, Eliza clasped his hand laying over her belly more tightly.
"Don't leave me yet. Please William," Eliza pleaded urgently and softly. She saw him smile.
"I wasn't leaving you, love. I was going to make myself more comfortable." He kissed her before he went on the other side of the bed, his side of the bed, and crawled in beside her.
He carefully laid next to her and attempted to encompass her in his arms. With Eliza hooked up to a bottle of healing medicinal fluids hanging from the other side of the bed, William could not achieve a comfortable position for himself or his pregnant wife. He brushed the side of her body where the bandage covering her wound. The bandage was wet, and his fingers came away moist, but the liquid was clear.
"That's not going to work. I don't want to pull the line out of your arm. You need those fluids. Let's try this," William said.
He scooted down the bed, turned on his side, and laid his head on top of Eliza's chest. He placed his hand back on top of hers where it lay on her belly.
Eliza sighed and turned her head to kiss the top of William's head. She slipped her hand from beneath his leaving his directly on the area where their baby was located safe inside its mother.
"Are you comfortable?" Eliza asked her husband.
"I'm fine. I'm not too heavy for you, am I?" William asked concerned now that she was carrying their baby.
"If you were too heavy for me, my love, I wouldn't be with child right now," Eliza chuckled.
"Do you know, Eliza, sometimes you can be very blunt? I shouldn't be surprised by now. After all, you do a man's job," William joked back.
"Better than most men, you forgot to add," Eliza said smiling.
William laughed. "Oh yes, I forgot." It felt good to be laughing with her.
After quiet resumed between them, Eliza said quietly to William as if she just found out herself, "We are going to have a baby, William. Are you happy?"
"Yes, very. Just promise me something," William stated.
"What do you wish me to promise?" Eliza asked innocently. She was perplexed as to what William was about to ask.
"Well, promise me that you will be as good a mother as a detective? I would not ask that except I remember what an appalling nurse you were," William joked and looked up at her. She turned her head so he could look into her eyes.
"Of course, darling. I will not put the baby in a papoose and chase suspects. I will be sure to leave the baby home with Mrs. Carruthers or Ivy if she is still around."
William smiled. "I expected no less. Now get some sleep."
