Bring Him Here

"Oh christ, Lina. Lina my water just broke."

"Lol what?"

"Lina...Lina, Lina, Lina, I'm not playing! My water just broke!"

"Oh fuck! Okay um let's get you to the room!"

I put my arm under her and we slowly start walking towards the spare bedroom. I sit her down on the bed and start fiddling around with my phone, frantically typing the doctors number.

"Hey, um she- Her water just broke! Oh god Kaz is having her babies!"

I yell into the phone with sweat running down my neck.

"Lina? Calm down, keep her company and make sure she's doing the breathing exercises we discussed. I'll be there shortly."

"Right okay. I'm calm."

I walk to Kaz and hold her hand.

"Hey Kazzie, I just called the doctor and he should be here any moment. Until then just squeeze my hand as hard as you need and keep breathing."

"Oh God! Lina I can't do this!"

She starts panting and her eyes are already tearing up.

"Only one of us is allowed to freak out right now and it's me! You can do this Kaz! You're such a strong woman and if anyone can pull through it's you!"

"Right. I'm strong- Gah! Oh sweet lord in heaven! Where the hell is that doctor?!"

Her death grip on my hand increases and we both scream. If this were from anyone else's point of view I'm sure this would look like a mess. I jump at the sudden knock on the door.

"Lina, Kazmaria, it's Dr. Lee". He nods and smiles before him and all his nurses make their way to the bed. He props up her legs and they begin to start putting on gloves and their coats. "Alright you've already dilated pretty far. And we're having twins correct?"

"Yes!"

She screams and pulls on me.

"I want Ricky here! Where is he?! Get him here!"

I wince, not from the pain from my hand but from the pain she's going through.

"Kaz I don't know if-"

"Lina please! I can't...I just need him here."

Oh god. Oh fuck. What am supposed to do? I can't say no but saying yes would be worse!

"Go ahead miss, I'll stay here with her while you call the father."

One of the three nurses that came in smiles at me and takes Kaz's hand. I scramble looking for my phone then step out into the hallway.

"Ah, Lina. Bad timing as always, what's up?"

"SHE'S HAVING THE BABIES! SHE SAYS SHE WANTS RICKY HERE!"

"¡Cristo mujer deja de gritar!"

(Christ woman stop screaming!)

"Now's not this time Carlos! I need you to bring him here! She's asking for him."

"¡Llévame con ella! ¡Déjame ir a verla, hijo de puta!"

(Take me to her! Let me go see her, you son of a bitch!)

Was that him? Why was he so mad? And why was everything so echoey?

"Tch. I won't make any promises but I'll see what I can do."

"This isn't up for debate. You bring him here or so help me God, I'll rip your balls out through your mouth. Do you understand me? You better be here in twenty or you'll fucking deal with me and we both know that's a battle you'll lose."

I hang up and shove my phone into my pocket. The audacity of that fucker! To tell me that he'll 'see what he can do'? Bull-fucking-shit!

"I'll go get that bastard myself if I have to."

"Aaahh! Lina! Get back in here!"

"Oh fuck! I'm coming Kaz just hold on!"

[Carlos' POV:]

"Boss, you're finished with him already? Shall we clean up the mess?"

"Huh? Oh not necessary. He's just refusing to talk; Thought I'd give em some space to cool down."

A lie. I knew I had to go back down there eventually but I'll be damned if I have to go alone.

"Would you like for us to down there?"

"Yeah I'm sure we could get em to talk."

I sigh. Guess I'm cutting this little break short.

"Very well. Let's go."

I walk in front and lead the trio down to the basement door. When I open it a gust a cold air rushes past and smell of something horrid fills my nose. I hate this place. I hate coming down here. When we near his cell, one of the men opens it and lets me step inside first.

"You all wait out there." I sit in the chair from earlier and watch him slowly lift his head up.

"Back so soon?" He peers over my shoulder and laughs. "Heh, and brought back up too. What? 'fraid I might getcha?"

"You-"

My phone cuts off my sentence. Who the hell was calling me in the middle of this?

"Ah, Lina. Bad timing as always, what's up?"

"SHE'S HAVING THE BABIES! SHE SAYS SHE WANTS RICKY HERE!"

I hold the phone away from my ear. Why the hell was she always so loud?

"¡Cristo mujer deja de gritar!"

(Christ woman stop screaming!)

"Now's not this time Carlos! I need you to bring him here! She's asking for him."

"¡Llévame con ella! ¡Déjame ir a verla, hijo de puta!"

(Take me to her! Let me go see her, you son of a bitch!)

I look up at Ricky. All the hate and evil that he had so clearly shown before had vanished. He now looked worried and concerned. Interesting...

"Tch. I won't make any promises but I'll see what I can do."

"This isn't up for debate. You bring him here or so help me God, I'll rip your balls out through your mouth. Do you understand me? You better be here in twenty or you'll fucking deal with me and we both know that's a battle you'll lose."

She ends the call before I can respond but I don't too much care.

"Sheesh, what a scary woman."

I finally had something to use against him. Call me an ass for doing so but this is what it's come to.

"Well you heard the woman; Kaz is in labor and she's insisting that you be there."

"Let me down. I've got to get to her! Let me down now!"

"Oh but we're far from done. I haven't even begun asking questions yet."

"Man fuck you and your goddamn questions! Kaz is having my kids and I need to be there!"

"Oh well of course. You can go to her...Just as soon as you-"

"Get fucked. I'm not doing a damn thing until you take me to her!"

"And I'm saying you will get to her! But there's a price for everything, Ricky. But something tells me that you knew that already. Didn't you?"

"This is low, using her to your advantage like this? What the fuck's wrong with you? Are you that scared of me that you have to stoop so low?"

"Scared of you? Please. All of this shit is your fault. We're here because of you. She's out there giving birth to twins because of you! Your mother, who I searched endlessly for is in the hospital again because of you!"

I stand up from the chair and pace around the small room in anger. How dare he see right through me? I'm doing what I have to for her sake! Yeah it was shitty of me but what other options do I possibly have?!

"You...You must be insane to think that this is the right approach. You think that as soon as I'm out that I won't rip out your throat? I don't care that you're pretending to be the boss now, but you're holding my wife over my head as leverage? That's just begging me to make your life absolutely miserable."

I turn away from him. I can't face him. He's fucking right. I'm no boss. I shouldn't be in this position and I sure as hell have no right to use Kaz as some kinda influence over him.

"You, go get the van. And you two, blindfold him and tie him up. We have five minutes to get there." I peer at him from over my shoulder as I walk through the cell door. "And Ricky, you try anything and I'll rip out your throat."