Chapter thirty

             Richie walked back to the reception area with a smile a mile long.

“Well Grandpa how’s the little Mama and the baby?” Jon asked him as he got up and shook his hand. “Oh sorry no cigars?” Jon laughed.

“That’s ok you can’t smoke them in here anyway. You should see him Jon. He’s beautiful.” He told him still with the tears in his eyes. “We can go in and see him but first I have to make some um rough phone calls.” He told them.

“Well you don’t have to call Ellie we already did.” Jon smiled proudly.

Looking at both of them he asked, “Oh but how did you tell her his name? I haven’t even told you yet? I’ve been walking on cloud nine.” He said jumping out of his skin.

“That’s my cue to leave. I’ll be in Ava’s room.” Stef said and ran.

“What was all that about?” Richie wanted to know.

“You forgot that she was in there helping your daughter too. Ava and Dylan told her the names of the babies of what they were going to be for each sex. So how does it feel Grandpa to have your Grandson named after you?” Jon asked him patting him on the shoulder.

“Jon I’m so proud I could bust! Look why don’t you go in and take a look at him while I make those calls and I’ll meet up with you guys in a few.” He told him as he started to walk down the hall. Then he stopped and turned around and Loudly asked Jon to stop.

“Yeah Rich?”

“By any chance did Stef tell you what would have been the name if it would have been a girl?” he wanted to know.

Smiling, “No she didn’t. If she does know she’ not telling. There’s no reason to now. Plus I didn’t raise a stupid child. So don’t ask her.” He then turned around and headed to see the baby.

Richie knew he had to make this one call so he thought he would get it out of the way first. He dialed Heather’s number and it rang and rang and rang. He thought maybe he misdialed it or something so he tried it again and the same thing happened. Maybe she went out he hoped. He thought he would try later then and made the rest of his calls so he could be with his daughter and the rest of his family.  

Richie finally got to Ava’s room and what he saw was Jon holding his Grandson in his arms. He stood quietly at the door so as to not let anyone hear him because for him this was just too precious to watch. He was remembering back when they all had their children and how they were all there for each other when they could be. He just screwed things up and wasn’t there when Jon had his Grandchildren but he was lucky enough to have him here for this. Walking in all the way now Jon saw him and smiled that golden smile of his as Richie had tears in his eyes again. Ava and Stef tried hard themselves not to cry but couldn’t hold them back. The only one that could was Dylan who had the feels but otherwise was ok. He was in the bed next to his wife holding her as she was the real emotional one that he care about.

Speaking for the first time since he entered the room, “Ok for all of us crybabies, Thank You Ava and Dylan for this beautiful miracle. Now I made all the phone calls and everyone is just thrilled and will probably be start coming out in the next few weeks. Ava baby I tried calling Mom but she never picked up.” He said shrugging his shoulders.

“Really? That’s odd she can’t leave New York without getting a written order by her P.O. and they’ll never give her one. She’s a flight risk. Oh maybe she is out shopping for the baby.” She said optimistically.

“Yeah when pigs fly.” Jon said under his breathe.

“What was that Daddy?” Stef asked him annoyed.

“Me? Nothing.”

Dylan and Richie wanted to laugh.

“Ok let’s get real.” Ava started to say as she had the baby in her arms. “We all know she is on her way here. Dylan and I took a page out of Bon Jovi’s handbook and we didn’t use our real name’s when we signed into our hotel room. So before she even tries to figure it out we can be moved into another one.” She told them all.

“No You’ll move into my house Ava. Adam and I have already talked about it and Daddy said he’ll set up security. Besides the first place she’ll look for you guys is at Mom and Dad’s. Dylan can get everything moved with Adam over to our house before you leave here.” Stef told her.

“And by morning security will be set up at the door. I’ve already called Matty. He still owes me for a lot things so don’t worry and when I told him why he told me to tell you family comes first.” Jon moves close and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

“Thanks Kidd. Thanks for keeping an eye on my kids.” Richie told him.

“Hey that’s what Blood brothers do remember?” as Jon pulled him into a hug.

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“MOM!! MOM!! Where are you!” screamed Rachel.

“Oh Lord I’m right here Dear. Why are you yelling?” Ellie wanted to know.

“Because of this???” Rachel pointed to her Mother’s robe and night clothes.

“What’s your point?” she asked again.

“You’re kidding right?” Rachel was at her wit’s end with her.

Laughing now, “Oh calm down you’ll give yourself wrinkles. I was looking for my clothes but I can’t seem to fine my favorite jeans and t-shirt.” She told her as she turned around and went back in her bedroom. Rachel followed her.

“Mom now don’t get mad ok?” she told her not getting that close to her.

Annoyed Ellie turned around and looked at her and counted to ten. “Now you kids have been treating me with kid gloves. Trying not to get me upset. One of the ways to not get me upset is to NOT get rid of my clothes that I find comfortable. I’ve told you NOT to do it to your Father but you still do. Now get this and listen good. WE are not your children. WE try very hard to keep OUR noses out of your business. WE ask that you do the same for us. Is that clear. Now you have two days to get them back. Not new but the same ones got that. Now I love you but GET OUT NOW.” She told her daughter who flew out of there to call her sister to tell her that her plan didn’t work and to never leave her alone again to take the rap.

Well Ellie knew who’s plan it was to get rid of certain things seeing that Stef would complain about them and Rach would just go along with her when needed. She’d always try and toughen up Rach more but she had a loving heart that would always break when someone used her. But they had to let her make her own decisions about her own life. She wanted to know when did she become the child and they become the parents. She knew very well that she was the one that gave birth to them and not the other way around seeing that those damn labor pains she had them, early morning feedings, she was the one that got up to do it, change diapers again she did it. Yeah she had to bribe Jon into changing his own daughters pants. The little shit! Play dumb with me, but I got him back never mess with the Master Kidd. She started laughing when Rachel walked back in.

“Mom what are you laughing about?”

“Oh nothing just something that I remembered when you guys were kids.” She smiled.

“Well I brought you these I hope this will do for now.” Rachel asked her Mom as she felt really bad but she was going to go right out and see if the box of clothes were still available.

Looking at the jeans and shirt Rachel had brought to her, “Yeah these are fine Sweetheart. Where did you get these?” she asked curiously.

“I don’t know. I wasn’t with Stef when she bought them but you know her she doesn’t shop where I do so you can only imagine.” Rachel rolled her eyes

“Oh come on she’s not that bad.” Ellie told her middle child.

“Well I told her you would be mad.” She expressed her concern to her Mother.

“I’m sure you did. I’ll talk to her when I see her. This is a face to face talk. But if your brothers start to do this cut them off at the knees and if they still don’t then have them come to me Please." She told her as she gave her a kiss on her forehead.

“I will Mom. I need to go and do some errands I’ll call or stop by later ok?” she turned to the bedroom door stopped and looked back at her Mom. “I’m really sorry again, I love you.”

“I know, I love you too. Now go and be careful Please.” She smiled.

Once she was gone Ellie had gotten herself dressed and hoped Jon would be home soon. She did feel good that she was dressed and cleaned up. She also knew that she still had to take it easy or all of them would have heart attacks on her. She walked over to her bed and she had to take one more look and her cape. It was just gorgeous. She understood why Jon got so Bull Shit over it. It really wasn’t a gift for a good friend to get her. It was definitely a gift for a husband to wife, his wife. But what was she supposed to do? Not accept it? HELL NO! Daddy had explained to Jon where he stood on the totem pole of my life and it started way before I met Mr. Jon Francis Bongiovi. And for my Daddy to have to tell you that well ha there you go.

As Ellie was sitting daydreaming she didn’t hear anyone come into the house. She was sitting in her chair in the den reading but she got sidetrack as he was standing in the doorway just looking at her. He was actually mesmerized by her as she sat there with her eyes half closed and he could see the wheels moving. He knew she was thinking about something because he had made the mistake of telling her about Heather. He really didn’t want to disturb her but he wanted to know if by any chance she had called the house.

He walked over and gently put his hand on hers. Luckily she just jumped a little. “What!?”

Opening her eyes Jon quickly said, “It’s ok Babe it’s only me.” He smiled then placing a kiss on top of her head. He then went to pull up a chair next to her.

“Oh Thank God you startled me Honey. How did things go at the hospital?” she asked him sitting up a little straighter.

“Ava and the Baby are doing fine and Richie is floating on cloud nine.” He told her as he took her hand in his. “So what were you thinking about when I came in?” he smiled.

“Oh I dozed off a little. Just little dreams. You know I still dream of Mom and Dad. It’s nice.” She told him smiling back at him.

“Yeah I know you do, you still talk in your sleep. I’m just glad that the nightmares stopped. It took you a long time for those to stop. I’ll tell you something those used to scare the hell out of me because you would shake so hard and your breathing was so fast and you were crying hard sometimes. Then sometimes you would just blow them off like nothing happened. I never knew what to do at times.” He told her sadly.

Looking at him she knew she loved him more and more, “I know you did Sweetheart. I wouldn’t have been able to have gotten thru those nights without you. It was worse when you weren’t here. But I got thru them knowing that I could have called you if I had too. And look what we have a beautiful family that I never thought would happen. Then you pushed yourself back into my life and boy am I glad you did.” She told him as he bent over to her and started to kiss her when the gate buzzer went off.

“God who the hell is that?” Jon asked annoyed.

Laughing, “Maybe it’s Richie?” she said to him still giggling.

“No he has the keycode and so do the kids.” He said looking at her grumbling.

Jon got up with Ellie in tow and went to the foyer to see who was at the gate. “Hello?” Jon said.

“Yes I have a Ms. Locklear for a Mrs. Bon Jovi.” the driver said.

“Oh my God Jon why is she here!” Ellie yelled.

“How the hell do I know Babe. I’ll handle it.” He told her pissed. Pushing the button, “I’m sorry but you can tell Ms. Locklear that if she wants to see her ex or her daughter she can go to The Baptist Memorial Hospital on the maternity ward and go from there but she is not welcomed here.” Jon told them plain and simple.

Next thing they heard was a very angry woman screaming thru the intercom system. “Look Bongiovi I know Richie is staying here with you and your skank of a wife so you tell him to come out right now!!!” she yelled thru the intercom while Ellie was trying to get thru Jon and the door to go down to the gate and beat her ass.

“Please just calm down Babe and let me take care of this.” He told her as he didn’t want her blood pressure to rise and to have to get her to the hospital then kill Heather in the process if anything happened to Ellie.

“Look Heather, Richie isn’t here. He’s still at the hospital and if you act like this they are going to throw your ass out. So smarten up and act your age. Oh and if you ever call my wife a skank again it will be the last thing you ever do got that.” Jon told her angrily as he held on to Ellie so she wouldn’t run out to kill her herself.

Heather was pissed off about everything and everyone. “Fine but when he gets here tell him I’m looking for him!” she demanded. And they drove off.

Jon took Ellie back in the den and made sure she was alright. “Jon I’m fine. I wish that everyone would stop hoovering over me! The doctor said I was doing fine. I just have to rest and avoid stress.” She said angrily.

“Well this isn’t avoiding stress now is it.” He said back to her unhappily.

Making a face back at him then sticking out her tongue she sat down in a huff.

“You do know you can throw your little tantrum all you want but I’ll just figure out another way to reprimand you.” He told her waggily his eyes.

“Don’t start Jon. Being cute is not the time.” She told him pissy.

“Fine but Richie will probably be there when she gets there. I’m going to make a call so he knows she’s coming to give him the heads up."

Jon made the phone call  and warned Richie who was very grateful because he didn’t want to get his daughter all upset when she walked into her room screaming. Hanging up he quickly went to tell Ava and Dylan and what they wanted to do.

“Daddy she’s going to make a scene.” Ava said getting all upset now.

“Honey it’s ok we are not registered under either of our names. And the baby is in here with us. Dad if you could go out to the nurses station and tell them when she comes in to make sure they don’t tell her anything so she just goes away, maybe she will.” Dylan asked.

Smiling, “I’ll see what I can do. Or I can wait downstairs and catch her when she gets here.” He told them cringing.

“Oh Daddy you don’t have to do that. We can try and hide in here.” Ava said worried.

“No she’s going to come in here with guns blazing. No I’m going to stop her before she even sets a foot in here. Dylan if you hear any yelling I want you to lock this door and don’t let anyone in until you hear my voice got it?” Richie asked him.

“Got it Dad.”

“Good I’ll be back Sweetheart.” He kiss Ava on the cheek and nodded at Dylan and left. He was worried that Heather was going to make trouble and he wasn’t going to let her upset their daughter. He waited in the lobby for what seemed like forever only because his nerves were shot. It was only about thirty minutes since talking with Jon when he saw her walk in and stomp over to the information desk.

“Excuse Me! I said Excuse Me! I’m looking for my daughter.” She shouted.

Richie walked up behind her and said, “Can’t you see she’s busy on the phone Heather? You’re being rude.” He told her as she quickly turned around and saw her ex.

“Richie! Where is my daughter!” she demanded to know.

“Nope. She doesn’t want to see you right now especially if you are going to act like this. You need to calm the hell down Heather and once you do maybe just maybe she’ll let you come see her and maybe the baby.” He told her as calmly as could.

“You can’t keep me from my daughter or my Grandchild Richard.” She told him furious.

“Well actually I can because your daughter doesn’t want to see you right now. What don’t you understand? You need to calm down. Now if you want to see them I need to tell you something but you have to know it was their idea and it’s their child and I had no idea that they were going to do this.” He tried to lighten the blow.

“Fine it can’t be any worse then what?” she asked shuffling her feet.

“Why don’t we go sit here.” Holding out a chair she sat down then he did. “When you see them, Ava wanted me to tell you they named the baby Richard Stephen Walsh.” He just looked at her and waited for her reaction.

She sat there staring into space then put her head down. “Heather are you alright?” he wanted to know.

Lifting her head back up, “No I’m fine.” She then ran hers hands on her face up and down, “I really fucked up didn’t I?” she asked him feeling defeated.

“Have you taken your meds today?” he asked her concerned.

“Yeah on the way here. My P.A. is doing some errands for me while I was here.” She explained.

“Jon told me you stopped at their house and it wasn’t pleasant. You called Ellie a name.” Richie mentioned.

“Oh yeah I did. Well am I wrong? You’re staying there right? You could have gone to a hotel you didn’t have to stay with your girlfriend.” She snapped.

“Heather you damn well know nothing happened between me and Ellie. I would never ever do that to Jon and neither would Ellie. I know people would love a scandal and that I stole Jon’s wife right out from under him. But nothing like that ever happen. I was just a good friend to her as was all the guys were. But they are so madly in love with each other to be honest I’ve never seen anything like it and my parents were happily married but God nothing like this..” Richie told her shaking his head.

“I think there is something you should know then Richie. It’s about that time we were on the road in the mid ninety’s and Ellie stayed home to take care of the kids as usual and Jon was upset because he thought that she should have come with us.” She told him smiling.

“He wasn’t upset that she couldn’t come he was fine with it.” He said to her wondering why she is bringing this up now.

“Didn’t you wonder why? You remember that blonde from the record company what was her name? Tara no Sara um,” Heather was trying to remember the woman’s name when it dawn on Rich.

“Sam, Samantha. Yeah I remember her and about three and half months into the tour you couldn’t wait to call Ellie and tell her you were sending her pictures.” Richie glared at her.

“Oh right she asked me to send her pictures every month so the kids could see what was going on. Then the ones with Jon fooling around on her she kept for herself and when I believe her Dad was on vacation she flew to confront him. The best part was when she had divorce papers in hand. That was awesome. Or was it the pregnancy stick I don’t know which I like the best.” Heather laughed as Richie just sat there with his hands on his head.

“Tell you what why don’t I take you back to your hotel and you can get cleaned up and we’ll go out for a bite to eat then we’ll come back and see the kids how’s that?” he asked her a little frazzled.

“You see you don’t want to accept that she set up your boy, or that he fooled around on your girlfriend. Plus with me there you couldn’t even comfort her oh boohoo.” She threw it in his face.