Onward With Love…
Chapter Forty-One (Conclusion)
By
28th of
January, 2207
0325 hours
“I’m sorry
Derek; I thought for sure that today would be the day.” Nova said as she
continued to get dressed.
“Hey first
time me . . . first time you” he grinned
as his wife put her clothes back on.
Doctor Fritz
finished writing down in her chart once again. Another false labor pains. “Nova
it will happen, the first one sometimes seems like it will take forever to
come.” He tried to reassure her “It’s common to get false labor pains but just
when you think that it’s another false alarm that’s when it happens.”
“I just feel
bad that Derek is losing so much sleep dragging me down here.”
“Awww…Nova,
it’s alright” he yawned “Doc, what can we do to speed things up?”
“Well you
can try jogging, walking or just continue working until it just happens
naturally. Have plenty of sex that usually does the trick.”
Nova looked
over to Derek and smiled. ‘I think we’ve covered that part’ she thought
and smiled wider knowing that he was thinking the same thing.
“Go home and
try to get some sleep.” He said as he took hold of her chart and left the room.
Wildstar helped her with her things and grab her overnight bag then left the
room. As they drove back to the house Nova sat in silence rubbing her huge
stomach. Derek could see the disappointment in her face and took hold of her
hand while driving with the other.
“You know I
think we’re rushing it. Maybe if we just go on with our day and not think of
it, Alex will show up before we know it.”
“Derek, I feel
like I swallowed a whale. My feet are swollen, my butt feels like there should
be wide load painted on it and on top of everything else every chance he gets
he kicks me in the lungs. I can’t take it anymore. I just want to get this over
with.” She said frustrated. He just knew when not to say more to her. All he
could do was hold her hand and drive home.
Nova went
into their room and lay down while Derek went into his office and noticed the
answering machine blinking. Unlike most days they would return calls before
dinner. He pressed the button and heard Stones voice on the speaker. “What the
hell does he want?” He said out loud.
“Captain
Wildstar this is General Stone, first thing in the morning I will need you to
report to docking bay 6. The Endeavor is under refit there and you need to
oversee some adjustments personally. Please call me when you get to the docking
bay.” He heard him say
then the line went dead. He couldn’t wait until Singleton took control. He was
easing back in as per the doctor’s orders. Just
a few more days until he takes total control, he thought. Then we will be done with him forever.
Derek sat down on his chair and deleted the message when he looked up to see
Nova standing at the door with her hands crossed above her stomach. “Is he kidding?”
she asked annoyed.
“I’ve never
known Stone to be kidding.” He said as he got up and walked over to her. “Relax
baby, I will be there when you go into labor. I’ll have my cell with me and the
minute you call me I’ll be jumping into my car and meeting you at the hospital.
I promise.” he said crossing his heart.
“You better
be or Old Stone face will know what it is to feel pain caused by a woman.”
“Come on
let’s get some sleep.” He took hold of her waist and they went to bed.
Morning
Derek left
early to overseeing the refit of the Endeavor.
Once he commanded this great ship ‘She wasn’t a bad ship. I’m glad that I
had a chance to command her’ he thought and then went right to work.
For the time
being Nova needed to work, she decided to go into work at EDF and finish some
work she left on her desk. “Mrs.
Wildstar, what are you doing here?” her aid asked. “I thought that you were in
labor and you would’ve had the baby by now.”
“False alarm like before. Poor Derek must be
beat…this is the third time this week.” Nova smiled as she told her about the
night at the hospital. “I guess it’s best to take the doctors’ advice and keep
busy. I can’t work at the hospital because Doctor Sane and Fritz will chase me
out of there. Plus I have a few files that I should finish before I give birth,
if it will ever happen” she huffed.
“I
understand my sister was almost 3 weeks late and she started doing jumping
jacks just to hurry up the process. Now she wishes that she stayedpregnant,
because my nephew has so much energy it’s driving her nuts.” She said as they
both laughed.
“Can you get
me the file for the Endeavor?” Nova
said as she walked into her office.
“Ma’am
General Stone has that file.”
“Why,
Captain Wildstar hasn’t even finished with her refit yet?”
“I try to tell
him that, but you know how he is. Would you like for me to retrieve the file
for you?” She asked.
Nova just
stood at her door and shook her head. “No, I’ll get it later. Did he take any
other files?”
“Not that I
know of but you might want to check.”
Nova walked
into her office and sat down. As she went over most of the files she kept
noticing the same invoice over and over again. “That’s strange here is that
same charge on the same item again.” She began to look at all the other files
closer. “Marie, can you come in here for a minute?”
“Yes ma’am.”
“Can you
help me look through these files?”
“Sure what
are we looking for?”
“See here in
the charges, for some reason this particular number keeps coming up. 10,000
credits per hour for an installation of a rotary for a shock cannon.”
“Is that
normal?”
“Only the
fact that their installed by our EDF soldiers and not a contractor. They are
the only ones that know how to install it correctly after the incident back in
2202. It was ordered by Admiral Singleton personally. Plus some of these
charges are like only 2 or 3 hours, when does it take only 2 or 3 hours to
install a rotary when it takes like almost a day and half to remove the old one
and another day to install the new one. I can’t believe I never picked it up
before. No wonder I never balanced it out. Whose signature is on those
reports?”
“It doesn’t
say, just says upper management approval,” Marie read on one of the reports.
“Hmmm, let’s
pull out some of the other files and see if that comes up.” She said and went
to work, pulling files and going through them carefully.
“Here’s
another one for 5 hours this time,” Marie showed Nova the invoice.
“See if you
can find the original invoices for all of those charges?” Nova ordered.
“Yes
Ma’am.” She said and then began to go
through the files searching for them.
Nova picked
up the phone and dialed his extension. “Michelle, is he in?”
“No Ma’am he
stepped out to meet with his wife for an early lunch.”
“Please
inform me when he returns it’s important that I speak with him.” Nova said then
hung up the phone. “Marie, anything?”
“Yes Ma’am I
managed to find one invoice but this is strange it was a requisition made by
General Stone himself. All the charges were made out to a J.A.S Min
Construction.”
“I’ve never
heard of J.A.S Min Construction. Make copies of all those charges and the
original invoices and Marie don’t tell anyone about it.”
“Yes ma’am.”
An hour
later Nova and Marie continued to look through more files when Nova stood up
and stretched her back then said “Keep going through those files. I’m going
over to see if Admiral Singleton is available. Just finish making copies of all
those invoices and set them aside.”
“Yes ma’am.”
She left her
office and walked over to the elevators, as she waited for one to come she kept
going over her head on the charges that made no sense. ‘What the hell is
J.A.S. Min Construction, and what does Stone have to do with it?.’ The bell to
the elevator rang and the doors opened. Who she saw standing inside made her skin
crawl. Stone stood in the middle of the elevator staring at her. “Good morning
sir” she said as she stepped into the elevator.
“Good
morning, I see nothing yet on the birth.” He said making her shy away.
“Nothing yet sir.” She said when her cell rang. “Hello” she said as she answered it and
then smile.
“Hello there
Mrs. Wildstar. . . how do you feel so far?. . . Anything?” She heard her husband’s voice on the other end.
“No nothing
yet”
“I’m going
into the office and was hoping to have lunch with a beautiful woman. Are you
free?” he asked.
“I think I
can make it. I just have to stop into the Admiral’s office and discuss
something with him. Then I am all yours.” Nova said into the phone trying to
speak softly so Stone wouldn’t hear her.
“Good,
should be there in about an hour. Love you.”
“Me too, see you then.” She said then hung up.
“Admiral
Singleton is still out to lunch. Sorry I was ease dropping. Is there anything I
can do to help?” Stone asked curious to know what she wanted to talked to him
about.
“Thank you
sir but I just needed the files for the other ships that are being refitted so
I can finish with the accounts. That way if I go into labor I don’t have
someone calling me about the files while I am on maternity leave.”
“Which files
are you looking for?” he asked more curious.
“Well the Endeavor for one, and the Hiroshi.”
“I believe I
have the Endeavor’s file in my car.”
Stone wasn’t sure why she was looking for that file but he wasn’t going to let
her start looking into its invoices.
“Oh, can you
have someone send them to me?”
“Why don’t
we go down there and get them? My car is right next to the Elevator so it
shouldn’t take too long.”
“I was
really on my way up to the Admiral’s office and I . . . .”
“Nonsense,
it will only take a minute and he is still at lunch.” He said then pushed the
down button. Nova began to feel uneasy about him and stood to one side of the
elevator. “So Mrs. Wildstar it should be any time now?” he smiled as she sense something not right.
“Yes any time,
sir maybe I can get that file from you later.”
“We’re here”
He said as the doors opened and his car was parked where he said it was. He
pressed the elevator stop button and walked over to his car. “Nova would you be
so kind as to help me, I know it’s in here somewhere.”
Nova watched
as he looked in the car and then walked over to the car. “Where should I look?”
she asked.
“Can you
take the back, while I look up front?” He said over his shoulder as he looked
through some papers in the passenger side seat.
Nova opened
the back door and began to search through more papers and files that lay on the
back seat. Ready to reach for another file she felt the blood from her body
drain as she felt someone over her staring down. She turned around and saw
Stone standing over her. “What, what are you doing?”
“Get in the
car Mrs. Wildstar,” Stone said.
“Hi there
Marie…is she in?” Wildstar asked her aide.
“She went to
see the Admiral and hasn’t come back yet.”
“That was
over an hour ago, can you call up to his office and
see if she is still there?”
“Yes sir,”
she said then called up to Singleton’s aide. “I see. Well if she stops in can
you inform her that her husband is here to see her, thank you.”
She said then hung up. “Sir Michelle hasn’t seen her.”
“Strange,
when I talked to her she said she was on her way to see him.” Wildstar said
feeling something nagging him in the pit of his stomach.
“I thought
she would be back by now, she wanted to go through some of these files.”
“Which
files?” Wildstar felt more unease.
“I’m sorry
sir but she told me not to mention anything to anyone.”
“I think it’s okay Marie, now what files are you looking for or at?”
Marie began
to show him the files and invoices, Wildstar looked over each one and realized
too about the charges. “Marie …hat was she going to see Singleton about?”
“I’m
assuming that she was going to go over some of these invoices. It’s not like
her to say she was going somewhere with not letting someone know.”
“She knew I
was coming here if she was running late she would have left a message with you
or me. I’m going up to see the Admiral, call up to Stone’s office and ask his
aide if he has heard from either my wife or Stone himself.”
“Yes sir”
she said as she picked up the phone and Wildstar ran for the stairs. He made
his way to the 33rd floor and walked down to Admiral Singleton’s
office.
“Is he in
Michelle?” Wildstar walked up to Singletons door.
“Yes sir but
he is on the phone you’ll have to . . . .” she said but he walked into the
office before she could stop him.
“Captain
Wildstar what the hell is going on, you know you have to be announced!”
Singleton snapped.
“I think he
has her.” Wildstar began to panic.
“Who has her
and who is she?” Singleton said confused.
“Michelle can
you call down to Stone’s office and tell him to come here.” Wildstar ordered.
Singleton
looked confused “Captain Wildstar I demand to know what is going on.”
Michelle
hung up the phone and turned to both Wildstar and Singleton. “Sir that was his
aide, General Stone was supposed to be back a couple of hours ago but never
came back. He hasn’t seen him since.”
Wildstar
heart started to race. ‘Not again, please not again’ He began to explain
what Marie and Nova were going over. He placed down the invoices on his desk
and showed him what they all found.
“This can’t
be right, Stone would never take money. How could he manage this for this
long?” Singleton questioned as he looked over the files. Marie walked into the
room with all the other files in hand. She placed them on the table and handed
Singleton all the invoices.
“Sir I found
this among one of the files. It was buried in this old file. Dated
back as far as 2200.” She said then looked at the two officers and said.
“I found something else. Mrs. Wildstar found that some of the checks where made
out to J.A.S Min Construction.”
“I never
heard of J.A.S Min Construction.” Wildstar said
“I know
that’s what she said. So I started digging more into it and looked at all the
invoice and I figure what it was. It’s not a construction company it’s a
person. Her name is Jasmin.”
“But his
wife’s name is Teresa.” Singleton said.
“I know so I
called her up and thought maybe she knew who it would be. Sir’s it’s the name
of a hooker in the outskirts of the city.”
“Where are
you taking me?” Nova’s voice trembled. He drove the car looking ahead. “I said…where
are you taking me?” she said louder.
“Shut up” he
snapped. “It doesn’t matter because he’ll never find you.”
Novas felt
herself feel faint ‘I have to stay focus, have to know where he is taking
me’ he drove further out of the city dawning on her where he was taking
her, to the old underground city. “Why are we going here?”
“To finish
what I should have done a long time ago.”
“I don’t
understand finish what?”
“What he
started, it’s his entire fault that she left me. If he didn’t come into her
life she would have returned to me. She was ready to come back to me and then
he showed up.”
“What are
you talking about?”
He stopped
the car and got out, opened the rear door and grabbed Nova’s hand. “Get out.”
Nova wanted to fight but she started to feel sharp pains stretching throughput
her abdomen.
“Please I
think I’m going into labor!” She pleaded.
“Come on.”
He dragged her into the elevator that brought them down into the dead city.
They walked
deeper into the city passing old rundown buildings and deserted playgrounds
that children once played on. Nova thought back to when this was once full of
people trying to survive from the radiation that seeped down into the earth.
She held her stomach feeling pain come and go. She tried to time the
contractions and realized that they were about 20 minutes apart. ‘I have to
keep calm, panicking will only make things worse.’ she thought. They walked
for an hour when they came to the front of what once been a ritzy building. He
took her into the building and dragged her to the second floor and then into an
apartment. She looked around and saw
that it was still furnished with worn out tables and chairs. He dragged her
into a room and she saw a bed in the far corner of the room.
“Get in
there.” he shoved her into the room and close the door. She turned and ran for
the door. But he already closed and locked the door.
“Let me
out.” She screamed as she bang on the door. “Please, General Stone, Please let
me out. I’m going into labor.” But what she heard next made her begin to cry.
The outer door slammed shut.
“I’m sorry
sir no one has heard from either General Stone or Commander Forrester.” Marie
said.
Derek sat down
trying to think of what could have happened to the both of them. “Call down to
security and have them pull all the surveillance videos
NOW!” Singleton yelled at the two Marines standing in the door way.
“Yes sir!”
they said and ran out the door.
“Wildstar we
will find her.” Singleton put his hand on his shoulder trying to get him to
stay focus. They both turned when they heard a knock on the door. Homer and
Captain Lee stood in the door waiting. “Enter, Captains.”
“Sir we have
something to go over with you.” Homer began.
“Homer, now is not the time. Nova is missing and we believe
General Stone has something to do with it.” Singleton said.
Lee and
Homer looked at each other then Homer said. “Sir, I believe we can help.”
“Thank you
Homer, but we are having them pull the surveillance tapes now.” Singleton said
“Sir it’s
about Stone, we just found out that Stone and Tolbert are related. She is his
niece.”
“WHAT!”
Wildstar stood up. “That can’t be, I would’ve known that!”
“Sorry
Wildstar but she managed to keep it hush hush. I’m sure that Stone had a lot to
do with that. He was probably also the one that help her escape.”
Singleton
stood there and began to get flash backs to the night he was attack. Slowly he
sat down on his desk and put his head in his hand. “Sir are
you alright?” Wildstar asked.
“I’m
starting to remember what happened the night I was attacked. When I walked to
my car I noticed that it was dark, but before I could even check out why the
light was out I saw Stone there. I asked him what he wanted and the next thing
I knew everything went black. Then I woke up in the hospital. He was the one
that attacked me. He must have known that we were on to him. We had one of the
men that help him with Julie escape and we almost had him ready to testify.”
“So that
explains what happened, but what does Nova have to do with this?” Wildstar
asked.
“That’s a
question of the day.” Lee said.
Michelle
walked into the room and made her way to the Admiral’s desk. “Michelle what is
it.”
“Sir you
have to see this.” She said and turned on his screen and punch in the video
line. They all gathered around the screen and what they saw sent chills down
their backs. Stone shoving Nova into his car and driving out of the building.
“He’s got
her.” Wildstar gasped.
“Sir there’s
more. I had them searched all the cameras throughout the city and this is what
they caught. First we have them leaving the building” she said then continued
to walk them through all the video frames. “They caught him driving past this
surveillance camera on
“Where is
that camera at?” Lee said.
“Sir that’s
“I know
where that’s at, that road leads to one of the underground bunkers. It’s where
Danielle’s family lived when we were underground.” Lee said.
“Do you know
if Stone lived there?” Wildstar asked worry in his voice.
“I don’t
know Derek. But Julie may know.” Lee could see the worry in his face.
“Michelle,
call the brig and informed them that Captain Wildstar is on his way to speak
with Lieutenant Commander Tolbert.” Singleton ordered and then grabbed his coat
and they all headed out the door to the brig.
Nova tried
everything to open the door, her pains were getting closer. ‘Now they were
coming every 15 minutes’. She sat down on the bed and took some deep
breaths. “Out of all days not today, Alex you can’t come now. Daddy’s not here
and he probably has no clue as to where we are at.
Just wait a little longer, Please.” She said out loud as another wave of pain
went down her back.
EDF
Military prison
Julie sat in
the room looking towards the door. She was pulled from her work week program
and not told of who her visitor would be. When she asked who it could be they
just informed her that it was important. Her time at the prison seemed to be
going quickly and she was determined to get out on time. Growing impatient she
got up and began to pace around the room when she heard someone opening the
door. Wildstar and Singleton walked into the room, she knew something happened.
“Derek
what’s wrong?”
“Julie, I
have to ask you something and I really need you to be honest with me.” He said
with a stern straight face.
“Anything,
what is it?”
“Are you and
Stone related?” Wildstar asked leaving Julie stand still in shock.
“How did you
find out?” she questioned.
Lee stepped
forward and she wasn’t sure where she met him before. “Julie, my name is
Commander Evan Lee. I was engaged to your cousin Danielle.”
“Danielle.
How I miss her. But what does this have to do with the General?”
“Julie, we
know that he is your uncle and we need to find him now. He has . . .” Wildstar
trailed off. “He has Nova.”
“WHAT? . . .
. But why?” Julie was confused.
“All we know
is that he has Nova and he was spotted heading out of the city towards the
underground cities. Julie please you have to help us. If you know where he
could possibly taken her please tell us.” Wildstar
said as tears rolled down his face.
“I can show
you, those cities have been deteriorating and it will be hard to find the right
building. You have to get me out of here. Before it’s too
late!”
Singleton
motion over to the guard, “Get rid of those cuffs! She’s coming with us.”
“But sir,”
“That’s an
order, Sergeant.” He snapped and then turned to the others. “Let’s go we have
no time to waste.”
Quickly they
all headed out of the prison and jumped into cars that waited for them. Julie
jump into Wildstar’s car and they sped off down the road everyone else in
pursuit. At a high pace Wildstar drove his car to the entrance of the
underground city arriving there first. They both jumped out of the car and saw
General Stone’s car near the entrance. For Derek the elevators didn’t run fast
enough, as the doors opened they both stepped in and
it descend down to the cold and eerie place.
“Where to, Julie?”
“This way.”
She began to walk passing the same old buildings and then the playground that
once children played. They walk a long time when she walked up to the ritzy
building that once was her home with Uncle Thomas. “Derek, please know that I
had nothing to do with this. I should have seen the warning signs when I saw
him last. But I was too ashamed of my past to ever let anyone know that we were
related. It’s something in my past that I wish to forget.” She told him as they
walked up the steps to the apartment that she once lived in with her Uncle.
Julie began to open the door when she heard something fall down from behind
her. Without thinking she turned to see Wildstar on the floor and her uncle
standing over his body.
“Uncle
Thomas what have you done?” she yelled.
“Get
inside.” He snapped as he aimed his gun towards Wildstar.
“Uncle
Thomas, NO! Please don’t.” she begged.
“How did you
get out?”
“I’m helping
them find Nova. Please Uncle Thomas, where is she?”
“Get in the
house. I told you never to trust anyone, why did you bring him here?”
“I told you
we are looking for Nova. Please Uncle Thomas don’t.” She stood over Wildstar’s
unconscious body.
“Why do you
still protect him after what he did to you?” He sneered.
“He never
did anything to me but love me! I was the one that destroyed our relationship.
He’s a good man Uncle, he was always there for me and I made his life
miserable. Please it’s me you want just leave him alone.”
“Julie I
have miss you so much, come my child, come inside.” He
motioned her to come into the apartment. Slowly she took his hand and looked at
Wildstar one more time.
“Ahhh damn
what happened.” Wildstar said as he came to consciousness holding his head. He
looked around and then realized that Julie wasn’t there. “Julie, Julie where
are you?” he called out into the dark hallway.
Meanwhile. . . . .
“Uncle
Thomas you have to let her go, she’s in pain.” Julie said as she held Nova.
“That little
punk took you from me now it’s time he feel what I went through.”
“What the
hell are you talking about he never took me from you. I left you and the
abusive way you treated me. Uncle you have to let her go, she’s in labor!” she
snapped at him.
He walked
over to her and slapped her across the face. “Don’t you ever talk to me like
that again ever since you and he got together you have been very disrespectful. What would your mother think?”
“You leave
her out of this. She’s probably turning in her grave for what you did to me and
Aunt Teresa. By the way are you still seeing that tramp?” She said slyly. Once
again he slapped her across the face, harder than before making her mouth
bleed.
Wildstar got
up and stood in front of the apartment door. He could hear voices coming from
inside ‘Sounds like someone arguing’ he thought as he listen
closer to the door. A chill ran down his spine when he heard Julie voice and
then a scream of pain. “NOVA!” with all his might he pushed against the door
forcing it open. Stone stood in front of Julie and
Nova while Julie’s arms were wrapped around his wife. With quick speed Stone
grabbed Nova away from Julie.
“Stay back
or else the last thing you will see is your wife’s body hit the cold floor
which would mean your unborn child will die along with her.”
“Just let
her go,” Wildstar pleaded as he tried to walk closer to them.
“Stand back
or she’s dead,” Stone said holding Nova by the throat with a gun pointed to her
head.
“Sir, we can
talk about this. Just let her go, she has nothing to do with this.” Wildstar
wanted to kill him for holding his pregnant wife hostage.
“There
nothing to say, you little punk, you ruined everything from the day you stepped
into her life.” Stone said as he held Nova tighter.
“Please I’m
begging you just let her go, it’s me that you want not her.”
“Derek!”
Nova cried out from his hold.
“It’s alright baby, I’m not going to let him hurt you.”
“Hahaha, funny that. She is here because of you,” Stone sneerd
at him.
“General, please I don’t understand, why Derek?” Nova cried.
“He hasn’t told you has he?” Stone
looked from her to Wildstar, “Well let me tell you.”
“Daddy, NO!” Julie screamed out.
“What the hell is going on here?” Singleton snapped as he
finally made it up to the building.
“Derek I’m so sorry, I should’ve told you a long time ago.”
Julie lowered her head wondering how she let this go this far. “Derek…Uncle
Thomas is my father.”
“But that would mean….”
“My mother told me what you did Uncle! That is why she killed
herself. It’s not because she mourned a man that she loved …it was you that put
her in her grave. She wanted desperately to marry him after he asked her. But
when she told you that she was leaving and taking me with her you couldn’t take
it. You shipped him out and told him to forget her or else he would be pushing
waste on Pluto for the rest of his life. So many years you raped your own
sister, you disgust me.” Julie grabbed her stomach hoping that she wouldn’t
throw up.
“Then when she took her life you turn your focus on me, I was
only 7 years old. You bastard! You took my innocence away from me, my Uncle, my
Father. How could you live with yourself?” she screamed at him then turned to
Derek “Derek when we dated you never knew about Uncle Thomas. I never wanted
you to know who he was, afraid that the truth would come out. I rather had gone
in a tails spin before telling anyone what he did to me as a child. He became
concerned when you and I were dating seriously and moved in together he thought
that you would take me away from him when he thought that we might get engaged,
but when I broke it off he knew that he didn’t have to confront you. Never once
did I tell anyone of our relationship, but that was also his doing. He never
wanted anyone to know what he did.”
“SHUT UP!” Stone yelled.
“No father! It’s time that the truth came out, it’s time that
people knew why I became the person I was. Because of you! Did you honestly
think that after raping me at 7 over and over until I turned old enough to
leave and join the EDF that I would have a normal life? You’re a monster, and
all this time people thought the Bolars and all our other enemies where
monsters. But it was you, you’re a pig. It’s not Nova you want it’s me so let
her go.” Julie demanded.
Stone turned to Wildstar with hatred “It’s your fault you
took her away and now I’m going to take away the one thing that you love the
most. Isn’t that right Nova?” he said as his breath hit her face making her
stomach turn.
Derek watched as his wife’s face became a little green and
knew that she was going to hurl.
“You took her away from me, now it’s my turn to take
something away from you” Stone said ready to pull the trigger to his Astro-Automatic
when he felt Nova begin to gasp for air and then threw up on his arm and down
her shirt.
“What the hell . . . .”
Stone said as he released his hold on her, giving Nova the opportunity
to hit him in the ribs causing him to bend over and releasing her. Stone regain
his posture quickly and aimed his gun at Nova as she ran into Derek arms. A
shot went off and Stone fell to the ground. Wildstar looked over to where the
shot came from and watched as Singleton held his gun in the direction of Stone.
Derek held her in his arms as she cried from fear of what happened to her.
“Baby, it’s alright. Shhh, I got you now.”
“Oh Derek! she cried harder.
Julie walked over to them and placed her hand on Derek’s
shoulder. “I’m sorry Derek, I am so sorry that he put you both through this.”
“Julie, thank you, if it wasn’t for you we would have never
found her.” Derek said still holding Nova in his arms.
“It’s the least I
could do after what I put the two of you through.” She said ready to turn
herself over to the MPs that stood in the door waiting.
“Ms. Tolbert,” Singleton said with a stern voice.
“Sir.” She snapped to attention.
“Sergeant stand down, Captain Wildstar, Mrs. Wildstar are you
prepare to file suit against Ms. Tolbert?”
Nova turned around, facing Julie and said with a smile “Sir
what charges? All I see is a woman that has been traumatized for so many years.
What she needs is to return to her son that is waiting for her on Planet
Rhima.”
Singleton looked over to Wildstar, “Captain Wildstar?”
“Sir I concur with my wife, she needs to return back to her
son.”
“So be it, I will make arrangements for her safe return to
Rhima. Ms. Tolbert….you’re free to go home.”
Julie stood there a wave of relief past over her and she too
began to cry for the years of abuse and what she done in her past. She was free
to be with the man she loved and her son, she was finally free of it all.
“Nova, thank you.”
“No Julie, thank you, you put a lot on the line for me this
time around and I think you need something good in your life for once. That
would be Namir and your son. Be happy Julie, enjoy
everything that you worked so hard to achieve.” As Nova hugged a new dear
friend she bent over and grabbed her stomach.
“Nova, are you alright?” Julie held her then looked down at
her as she felt something warm come down near her leg. “Oh my
God, Derek!” Julie cried out.
“Derek, my water broke, there’s no turning back now. I’m in
labor.” Nova grabbed hold of Julie again trying to gain her balance.
“Nova, are you sure?”
“Duh, I didn’t pee on myself, I
think that’s something that I would have done already. No Derek this is it,
it’s time for Alex to come.”
“Alright, we have to get her to a hospital” Julie said as she
helped Derek walk her over to the door.
“Julie, we have to get her out of here.” he said then looked
over to where Singleton that now stood over Stone’s body.
“Wildstar, go…I’ll take care of the authorities….” He said.
With one big scoop he took Nova in his arms and ran out of
the apartment. Julie followed him and they both ran as quickly as they could to
the Elevators that brought them to the surface. Julie stood in the elevator
ready to go back down and help with her Uncle’s dead body.
“Aren’t you coming?” Derek asked over his shoulder.
“I think I should . . . .” she began to say.
“Just get in!” Nova screamed. She helped Derek placed Nova
into the car “I’ll drive you sit with her.” he said. They made their way past
military police heading in the direction of the underground city and into the
With quick speed the nurse called into the phone and paged
for Doctor Fritz. She then turned to Julie and called over to the orderly “Grab
a wheel chair” just then Derek walked into the ER with Nova in his arms.
“Here,” she said to him then turned to the orderly and said. “Take the Captain
to get change. We will be in delivery room 3. Nova, how far are the contractions?”
Breathing heavily she said in between breath, “2 minutes
apart.”
“Alright everyone, let’s get the show on the move.” She
yelled out as she wheeled her down the hall and into the elevator. The doors
opened and she burst out running down the hall to the delivery room. Another
orderly helped her help Nova into the bed and stripped her of her clothes. Nova
laid back and began to breathe heavier.
“WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!” she yelled out.
Within seconds Derek walked in wearing full scrubs. “Right
here baby,” he said as he walked over to her and began to rub her back.
“DON’T YOU TOUCH ME!” she snapped.
Derek pulled his hand away and just stared at her. ‘This is
not gonna go good,’ he thought. He was starting to rub her back again when
Doctor Fritz walked in.
“Hello Nova, how’s it going?” Fritz asked.
“How do you think it’s going?” She
snapped. As she felt another contraction hit her, causing her to roll on her
side and scream out.
“Nova, honey, breathe.” Derek looked at her with hurt eyes as
to what she is going through.
Doctor Fritz looked at the monitor and watched as the
contraction subsided. And then place his hand on her hand. “Nova we have to
check you and see how much you’ve dilated. Derek help
her turn on her back.” Derek looked at him and just stared at him then at Nova.
“What are you waiting for, help her turn over!” he snapped at him.
With careful ease he helped Nova turn on her back and then
Fritz helped her opened her legs. He quickly felt and looked up at her with a
kind smile. “Your only 7 centimeters, we need you at 9,” he said as he walked
over to the sink and washed his hands. “Derek, keep her comfortable and coach
her with her breathing.”
“Ah . . . yeah . . . sure Doc.”
“Derek I feel another one coming. Give me your hand.” Nova
said reaching out to him.
“Sure baby. Just breaaaaaaaaaaaaaaathhhhh.
OUCH!” he yelled out as she squeezed hard on his hand.
“ARGHHHHHHH! It hurts so much.” She yelled.
“NOVA PLEASE LET GO!”
“YOU DID THIS TO ME, I HATE YOU. I DON’T EVER WANT YOU TO
TOUCH ME AGAIN!”
“Nova baby, please let go you’re hurting me.”
“I’M HURTING YOU, YOU HAVE NO CLUE
AS TO WHAT I’M GOING THROUGH, YOU BASTRUD. I HATE YOU!” she screamed. Without warning she
turned to face him and punched him straight in the face.
“Nova,” Doctor Fritz walked in and saw what was going on.
“You have to let him go sweetie, he is only trying to help.”
“IT’S ALL HIS FAULT!” she
screamed when another contraction hit her.
Pulling him closer to her she said “I want to go home, Derek, Please.”
“Baby, it’s best to have Alex here. Just try to concentrate.”
Nova turned to him with slit eyes and began to get up from
the bed then yelled into his face. “I’M GOING HOME NOW!”
With all his might he pulled her down on the bed and said “NO
YOUR NOT. Now lay down.”
“Derek please I want to go home. It hurts so much.” Nova
pleaded with him.
Derek looked at his wife and said “Baby just breathe it will
help with the contractions.”
“YOU FUCKING BREATHE! OH MY GOD IT HURTS!!”
Doctor Fritz walked over to them and then place
his hand under the sheet and felt one more time. “You’re fully dilated. It’s
time for you to push.”
“No, no I can’t. I just can’t,” Nova said starting to feel
tired from the pain.
“You have to start pushing, on the next contraction you need
to push.” Fritz instructed her. He watched at the monitor and began to scream
at Nova. “PUSH, NOVA PUSH!”
“Come on baby, you have to push.” Derek said encouraging her.
“Captain, sit her up. Good, now Nova push,
push hard. Come on sweetie give it a nice push.” Fritz cheered. With all her
strengthen Nova began to push. “At a girl you’re doing just great, give it a
nice push.”
“Nova good job baby,” Derek said as he whipped the sweat off
her forehead.
Breathing heavily she looked up to Derek. “I don’t think I
can do anymore.”
“Yes you can baby, you just gotta focus.”
Fritz looked at the monitor and saw another contraction
coming. “Nova here comes another one I want you to give me one big push.
Ready?” he looked at her as Nova nodded her head. “Okay here it comes. Come on
one big push. COME ON!” he cheered.
Derek sat her up and shouted with him. “You can do it, come
on baby. One big one.” With all her might Nova pushed
as hard as she could. She felt a flush as the pressure of the baby came out.
“Oh my God, he’s here baby, he’s here. He’s got jet black hair. Look at all
that hair.”
“Nova your son is here.”Doctor Fritz announced to everyone.
“Captain Wildstar would you like to do the honors.” He said holding out the
scissors to cut the umbilical cord. Derek’s’ hand shook as he listened to his
new born son crying from the cold. Gently he placed the scissors near the cord
and cut it. The nurse took Alex into her arms and brought him over to another
station and cleaned him up before bringing him back to Nova.
“The baby’s full name, Captain.” Doctors Fritz asked.
“Alexander Athrun Wildstar.” Derek said with pride.
“That’s a strong name. It fits him.” Fritz said.
Derek looked down at his tired wife and gave her a kiss on
the head. “You did a great job, I love you baby. He’s the best present you
could give me.” He said as the nurse handed him to Nova placing him on her
chest.
“I think he’s hungry Nova.” The nurse said as she handed him
to her.
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Nova moved him towards her breast and nudged his lips to latch on to her
nipple. It took a few tries but Alexander Athrun Wildstar took his mother’s
breast and began to drink her milk. Derek watched as his wife finished feeding
their son and said, “Nova thank you, thank you so much.”
The
End….. until the next time.