Karen was sitting in the kitchen with her husband, Nick reading a paper. “Nick, do you think that the fight with Kelsie and Chris was serious?” They didn't really know what the fight was actually about, but they sure heard it from downstairs, not to mention saw them both leave in a huff.

Looking at his wife, “No, they’re probably just real stressed with the baby being so near, and having to deal with Craig.”

“I hope you’re right, the last thing she needs right now is to have to raise a baby in Victoria all by herself.” She didn’t like the thought of her daughter being in a new city by herself with a newborn, nobody there to help her. She really hoped that things would work themselves out.

“Kelsie….” he began.

The phone began to ring; Karen answered it hoping that it was Kelsie, maybe then they could get some answers. “Hello.”

“Hi, this is Craig.”

“If you’re wanting to yell at my daughter more, than you can forget it,” not wanting anything to disturb her. He had already put enough stress on her when she was already in a very fragile state.

“No…no…it’s not that. Kelsie is right here. We’re on our way…to the hospital.”

Karen’s legs began to shake; she had to hold on to the counter top to keep her from falling. “What…did she go in labor?”

“No, when she began having pains she fell backwards down my porch stairs. But I have to go; meet us at the hospital,” he pressed end before she was able to say anything more.

Nick saw the distressed look on his wife’s face, “Karen, what’s wrong, you don’t look so well.” He began to worry what she may tell him. That wasn’t a face of good news.

“Kelsie…she’s been rushed to the hospital,” she cried.

His face went blank, quickly getting off his seat, grabbing his keys. He had to be the strong one through this, be there for his wife and Chris. “Let’s get going then.”

“We need to tell the boys to go look for Chris, he needs to be told.” Can’t she have anything go right when she’s pregnant, she thought; recalling her last pregnancy, being rushed off to the hospital, then to Vancouver. She remembered how scared her daughter had been, not knowing what was wrong or what may happen.

“Why don’t you do that; I’ll get the car started,” he suggested rushing towards the garage door.

******

Craig rode in the back of the ambulance with Kelsie; he began to wishing that he had just understood why she didn’t tell him instead of saying all those cruel, nasty things to her. He felt like this was his entire fault, that he was the cause of it.

A tear rolled down his cheek, dropping upon her face. If anything happened to his daughter, or even her he would never forgive himself. He knew that stress was the cause of her early labor last time; he should have been more understanding. He hit himself in the forehead, “I’m so stupid. Why do always cause pain to the ones that I love?”

Looking at the paramedic, he noticed the look of dread on his face, “What’s wrong? Are they going to be okay?”

“I’m not sure; you’ll just have to wait until the doctors have checked her.” He prayed that they would be, he needed them to be. He grabbed her hand and kissed the tip of it, as he gazed at her unconscious body that lay before him.

******

Just as Jimmy and Marco were heading down the stairs, Chris walked through the front door, slamming the door right behind him. He really hoped that she wasn’t here so he didn’t have to bump into her.

“We were just headed out to find you,” Jimmy said as he noticed Chris.

“Well I’m just here to pick up my stuff. I’m going to go catch a plane back to Vancouver,” he said brushing past them. He didn’t want to be here any longer than he had to be. He couldn’t be around her or her family knowing that his world had been changed in a matter of minutes, that she was that reason.

Grabbing his arm, “You can’t go…something’s happened,” Marco replied.

“Whatever it is, I don’t really care. I just can’t be around Kelsie,” began walking up the stairs, thinking how this place only seemed to bring pain.

“What are you going to do when you get back…you share a house,” Jimmy reminded him. He couldn’t run away from his problems.

“I’m moving out. I’m going to move in with a friend of mine for the time being, until I can get a place on campus.” He had talked to Blake while he went out on his walk. He had wanted to find somewhere as soon as possible; he knew that Blake would help him out in a heartache.

“Chris,” taking a deep breath, “Kelsie’s been rushed to the hospital,” Marco finally blurted out; since it seemed like Jimmy had been taking his sweet time.

Chris stopped right in his tracks, slowly turning around. “What are you talking about?” in shock at what he had just told him. All he thought was ‘this couldn’t be happening to her again’. It seemed like him anger for her was melting away. What she did didn’t seem to matter when he knew that she was in trouble and he couldn’t ignore that deep down inside that he still loved her deeply.

“Kelsie thought that Craig told Spinner about the kiss, so she went to go after him. While she was there she began to have pains, and fell backwards down the stairs.”

His face dropped, he began to feel responsible for this. He had yelled at her, then walking out on her. She would have never gone there is he hadn’t left. “Are they going to be alright,” he asked as a tear fell from his eye.

Jimmy shook his head, “I don’t know, we haven’t heard anything from the hospital since her parents left.”

“Tell me that Spinner’s not here any more,” he pleaded, not really wanting to see his face right now, otherwise he might do something stupid. He now wished that Spinner hadn’t ever told him, and then maybe, just maybe, she wouldn’t be in trouble.

“Don’t worry he left a long while ago…gloating.”

“I wish he never came along, and then I would have never yelled at Kelsie…”

 Jimmy put his hand on his arm, “Chris it isn’t your fault, no one could have predicted this.”

“I can’t help it, I feel so responsible for this. I mean I’m supposed to take care of her, not hurt her.” This wasn’t how you’re supposed to treat the person you say you love, he thought. He had promised her that he would be there for her always, and never hurt her but he hadn’t kept that promise.

Putting his arm around his shoulder, “Why don’t we get you to the hospital?”

“Good idea,” he said walking back down the stairs, rushing out the door with them.

******

Paige stomped into The Dot, as Spinner was on the other side of the counter working. She had a look on a face that could kill. If she could right now, she would strangle him with her bare hands, but she knew that wouldn’t solve anything.

“Gavin Mason, we need to talk…NOW!!!” she bellowed, her eyes shot daggers at him as she waited for him to come over.

“What’s your problem now!” annoyed by her presence while he was working. He wasn’t into have a fight with her right in the middle of work. He knew her too well and by that look, she was ready to kill someone.

“Did you know that Kelsie’s in the hospital because of YOU?” pointing at him. It was taking all her might not to hit him.

“What are you talking about? I didn’t do anything to her,” wondering how he could be to blame. He hadn’t seen her since she left her house in a rage. What could he possibly have done to her?

“If you hadn’t decided to get back at her, she wouldn’t have gone to Craig’s and fallen backwards off his porch stairs.”

“Well that’s not good, but how’s that my problem.” How does he get blamed when he wasn’t the one to make her fall?

“What happened to the Gavin I use to know? The one that was caring,” surprised by his attitude.

“Nothing happened to him, I’m still the same guy,” he tried to assure her.

“No you’re not; my Gavin would never have acted this way. Can’t you give her a break; it’s not as if she purposely went out to hurt Craig. She had to follow her heart.”

“Well Craig was crushed by it.”

“He seemed to get over that, he ended up with Emma. And they’re happy together.” She began to realize that this had to do with something more, “I’ve finally got why this bugs you so much.”

“And what was your conclusion?”

“You’re just mad that she never was yours. She’s the one girl you wanted so badly and couldn’t get.”

Not looking at her straight in the eyes, “That’s not true.”

“Then why can’t you look into my eyes when you say that. Messing up her life isn’t going to make you feel better. You need to move on from it. Maybe one day she’ll even forgive you for opening a can of worms.”

He hated how Paige still could read him like a book. “Fine you’re right. I tried to get over it, but I just couldn’t. Just like Craig hasn’t totally gotten over her; he likes to admit he has, but there’s just something about her that you can’t seem to forget. She’s like a drug.”

Chris came rushing into the hospital, leaving Jimmy and Marco to eat his dust. He didn’t have time to waste; he needed to know how she was doing, to see her sweet face, to make it up to her. So many things were going through his head, he could hardly think straight. As he came into the waiting room, he saw Karen, he went straight over to her, and embraced her.

“How…how is she?” he said the great sympathy, looking as if he was going to cry.

“She hasn’t woken up yet. The baby is stable so far, but any further stress could change that all. She’s lucky that she didn’t fall on her stomach, otherwise the baby probably would have died.”

“I’m sorry,” he said embracing her in his arms, shedding tears.

“What for?” baffled by his statement. She didn’t know about the meaning of their fight.

“She’s here because of me,” pointing to himself, “because I let my anger get the best of me,” putting all the blame on himself.

“Chris, we could blame this on a lot of different reasons, but what would that accomplish?”

Looking down at her, “I guess you’re right. Has she allowed any visitors?” In hopes of getting in to see her.

“Yeah, but Craig’s in there right now.”

This made his face turn mad with anger, clinching his teeth. He was the last person he wanted here, after the pain he had caused her this weekend. Putting on a fake smile, “I guess I’ll go sit down and wait.” Why would her parents even want him here for, they knew all that he had said about her since she’s been here.

Grabbing his arm, making him look into her eyes, “She loves you.”

******

Kelsie slowly opened up her eyes, it took her a few seconds to get her eyes into focus, but when they were, she couldn’t figure out where she was. She didn’t recognize this place. Then all of what happened that day came flowing back to her. “My baby…my baby” she cried, putting her hand on her belly, thinking that something might have happened to her because of her fall.

Glad that she had finally a woken, Craig put his hands over hers, smiling at her, “The doctor’s says she’s fine.”

She turned her head slightly to see an unwanted person in her room. “What are you doing here?” she roared, forcing herself to sit up.

Putting his hands on her shoulders, trying to get her to lye back down, “Kelsie you need to calm down, and think of our daughter.”

Pushing his arms off her, “I will not take orders from you,” glaring at him with eyes that could kill.

Trying to be very calm with her, “That’s not what I’m trying to do, but the…”

“I want you to get out NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!” she screamed holding her stomach. She was beginning to have pains as she had at Craig’s except much more intense and sharp ones.

The monitors on her left began to go off, causing a loud beeping sound. Craig began to panic, with terror in his eyes. What was happening? Why were they going off? He grabbed Kelsie’s hand; she gripped it very hard, crushing a couple of bones in his hand. The pain was too much it caused her to pass out.

He tried to wake her up, when her doctor and nurses came rushing in to see what was happening with the baby. They pushed Craig right out of the room, so they could see what was wrong.

Paige rushed over to him, after she noticed the look of fear on his face, and eyes. She put her arms around him, “What’s wrong?”

“I don’t know…some of the machines started going off.” Looking at Paige, “I’m so scared for her and the baby. I mean what if something goes wrong, and they die,” a tear ran down his face. The anxiety over this was starting to get to him.

“That’s not going to happen. Come on we know that Kelsie’s a fighter, your daughter will be too!” smiling up at him. She was trying so hard to find the right words to comfort him. He couldn’t imagine what he was going through; thinking that he may lose his child.

“I love my daughter so much already, I can’t lose her,” he cried gripping on to Paige tighter.

Letting him go, looking up at him, “I thought Emma would have shown up to support you.”

“We’re not together anymore…so I never phoned her.” It hurt to say that, he didn’t want to lose her, he really loved her.

Astonished by this, “Why? What happened?”

“I saw her flirting with Jay at The Dot today, went nuts and punched him. Then I told her about the baby, and she got mad and dumped me.”

“I wouldn’t ever have thought this would happen. Why didn’t you fight to get her back?”

“I don’t know I felt I didn’t have the energy at the moment, with everything that had happened this weekend. I just needed time to let us cool down.”

Then she remembered what Spin had said earlier, “Craig, are you still in love with Kelsie?”

He wanted to avoid this answer, “Before she came back I would’ve said no, but now I’m not sure anymore. This whole thing with my daughter just makes it all so…so complicated.”

I guess Spin was right, she said to herself. “Well…”

Just then, nurses came out of the room; rushing Kelsie towards the O.R. Chris’s heart sank at the sight of Kelsie being rushed down the hall. Things didn’t look good, and this just made the rage bubble up more.

Dr. Abbott came towards them, interrupting her. They didn’t like the look on his face. “The baby doesn’t seem to want to respond to anything. She’s in distress, and having hard time breathing. We’re going to have to go ahead and do a C-Section in hopes of not losing the both of them.”

Craig’s face went blank, and he felt like his legs were going to give in as they began to shake. Paige could feel him shaking, so she slowly helped him over to a nearby chair before his knees gave in.

Joey came over, putting his arms around his son. He felt so helpless; he didn’t know what he could do to even help him. He knew nothing he said would be comfort him or ease the pain that he was feeling. Tears just rolled down both their eyes.

Chris walked closer to the doctor. He hadn’t said much about Kelsie’s condition yet, and that worried him. “What about Kelsie, how’s she?”

“The stress on her body has put her in a coma.”

“When is she going to wake up?” hoping that they knew the answer. He hated to think about her not waking up. What if she was in a coma as long as he had been? He couldn’t possibly imagine not being able to talk to her for days on, or even months.

“I can’t say, because I don’t really know at this point.” He felt horrible that he was unable to give them much information. He could see the anguish in all of their eyes, as they stared at him, wanting answers.

After Dr. Abbott left, Chris grew with rage. He couldn’t lose Kelsie again; he had done that already, and wasn’t going down that road again. Kelsie was his life, all that he hoped and dreamed for, and he would stop at nothing to make sure he didn’t lose it all. From the corner of his eye, he saw Craig heading down the hall, so he felt the need to follow him.

When they were no longer in anyone’s sight, Chris pushed him up against a wall, holding him up by his jacket, ready to thump him. “What did you do to her in her room?”

Scared by the tone Chris was using, his voice was a little shaky, “Nothing, she started freaking out. I…I tried to calm her down.”

“Yeah right!” he yelled, not wanting to believe him because he wanted to have someone to blame for this.

“No…honest,” he said trying to plead with him to let him go. He understood why he was acting this way, but he needed to know he never meant for this to happen.

Looking around, he realized it wasn’t worth it, decided to let him go, and began to cry, to brake down right in front of him, “You had to say those cruel things to her. Do you know how much that hurt her? She began to believe those things about herself.”

“I’m sorry, I grasp now that I shouldn’t have done that. I regret it more than you will ever know. I want try to make it right to her and my daughter.”

Leaning up against the wall, resting his head upon it, “When we decided to come to Toronto, she was happy that she was going to finally be able to tell you about it. She couldn’t wait to see your face, knowing how much this child would mean to you, even though you were so young.”

Looking over at him with surprised, he never realized how happy she was about it, “Really!”

“Yeah. Despite numerous amounts of people trying to talk her out of telling you, she still believed that telling you was the best thing.”

“How could I be so cruel? I knew she wasn’t a cruel person; I just let my hurt take over me. I just wish that she didn’t hate me, I mean I wish I could still be a part of my daughters life.”

“When she wakes up, I’ll talk to her about it. I think I can change her mind. I don’t think she wants to deny her daughter that right.”

Smiling, “Are you sure you want to do this for me after what I did to her?”

“Yeah, because believe it or not I think everyone deserves a chance to take part in their child’s life.”

Just then, the nurses came flying past them with an incubator. Chris and Craig’s hearts began to race. Was that for his daughter, or was there another baby in trouble? Panic arose inside of them.