Roman woke up early the next morning. Dan and Scott were there to greet him. "Hey Roman. How are you feeling?" Dan asked.
Groaning, Roman answered "Like shit. What did you do to me? Where is Seth?"
"Before we answer you, we need to know where you are." Scott asked.
"Answer me!" Roman demanded.
"Stop. You are in no position to be demanding anything, Roman. Where are you right now?" Dan said back to his patient.
"I told Seth you both wanted to take me away from my family." Roman said. "Let me out of these handcuffs." Roman said to his doctors.
"It's just one wrist. You are still able to move about." Scott answered back.
"Why can't you just let me be? I was fine with my husband and my kids." Roman was seething.
"Because Roman, you are not in your right frame of mind. You are stuck in your head, and we are here to help you come out." Scott said.
"I'm not in my head." Roman answered. He was trying to break himself out.
"You are, and the scary thing is, you don't even realize it." Dan said back. "Stop trying to break the cuffs. You are going to hurt yourself." Dan added back.
"Where am I, and where is my family?" Roman said, looking around. He needed to know where he was.
Scott turned to his brother. "Can I talk to you for a minute?" Scott asked Dan.
Dan nodded. "We will be right back Roman." Dan said to his patient.
Going out the door, Scott said "Go along with me. I am going to lie to Roman, but I want you to go along with it. I'm hoping this will help get him back to us and out of his damn head."
"How hopeful are you that this is going to work?" Dan asked his brother.
"Fifty percent." Scott said back.
"I don't like those odds." Dan said back.
"What do we have to lose? It either works or he stays where he is and we try something else." Scott said back.
Dan sighed. "Okay. I trust you." Dan said to his older brother.
Going back into the room, both brothers rush over to Roman. "Roman? Roman, are you okay?" Dan asked the young Samoan.
"Yeah. Just please let me out of these." Roman said back.
"Where is your brace for your hip and pelvis?" Dan asked back, helping Roman backup and placing him on the bed.
"I took it off. It was too restricting for me to move." Roman said.
Scott went and picked it up, "you broke it." He said.
"Yeah, about that." Roman said. When Dan put him back on the bed, Roman groaned. "Ouch!" Roman all but yelled.
"Hold on. Let me have a look." Dan said back. "May I lower the waist of your pants so I can have a look at your hip and pelvis please?" Dan asked. He knew that was touchy for Roman.
"Sure." Roman said through gritted teeth. The pain was bad.
Dan looked at Roman's hip and pelvis area. "Does this hurt?" Dan pushed on his hip.
"Please don't hurt me." Roman moved away from the doctor.
"Roman, I'm not trying to hurt you. I need to know where your pain is." Dan said back to the scared young man.
"It hurts all over." Roman said back, still moving away.
"Okay. I am going to give you a pill for inflammation. Also a pain pill. I just need you to take them." Dan said back.
"No, you are going to drug me." Roman said back.
"Roman, I don't want to do that. I want you to get better." Dan said. Dan went to his medical bag that he has with him and got what he was looking for. "Please just take these two pills. I promise they will help you." Dan told Roman.
Roman took the pills from Dan. He took them reluctantly. "Please, can you leave me out of these?" Roman wiggled his wrist.
"Where are you right now?" Scott asked.
"I just want to go back to my family. Please, let me go." Roman begged.
"Roman, you are in no shape to go back to them just yet. We need to get you out of your head first. Then, you can go back to them." Scott said back.
Roman cried. He just wanted Seth and his girls. He misses them so much.
"Get some sleep Roman. We will go at it more tomorrow." Scott said to the Samoan.
"Don't leave me. Please, I don't want to be locked away again. I didn't mean to do it. I want to be better, please I know I can be. I didn't mean it." Roman was still crying.
Dan and Scott looked at each other. "We're scrapping my plan. I can't torcher him to try and bring him out of this. He is doing that himself. He is back in that space he was in when we first met him. We need to get through to him tonight. It looks like this is going to be a long night. No sleep." Scott said to Dan.
"I'm used to it. Let's go help him." Dan said back.
Going back into the room, they see Roman still crying, and trying to get the cuff off of him. "Hey, if you promise to not run out, I will take this off for a bit." Scott said to Roman.
"I promise." Roman looked at the two men with pleading eyes.
"You have your wrist bruised and bleeding." Dan said to him. He went over and started to clean the young man's wrist. He then bandaged it. "There you go." Dan said back.
"Thank you." Roman said back. He cradled his wrist.
"Now, we are all going to sit here and talk. Can you talk to us, Roman?" Dan asked.
"Yeah." Roman answered.
"Why do you think we were going to leave you locked up in here?" Scott asked.
"I was cuffed and you were going to shut the door with no light on and I was going to stay in here like this forever." Roman said back. "I don't like to be locked up. My dad did that to me." Roman then said.
"We aren't Sika, Roman. We don't want to scare you. We just didn't want you to run off and go out and hurt yourself. We were going to shut the door so you could sleep. Nothing more." Scott said back.
"I'll be good. I promise to never leave this room. I can make do with what is here. I don't need anything else. Just please don't lock me up in here." Roman said back in a small voice.
"Roman, listen, we are just going to talk, okay? We are going to try and pull you out tonight." Dan said back.
"I'm okay. Just go ahead and leave. I'm sure you both want to get back to your families. I've been on my own before. Just leave some food and water. I'll manage to make it last for days, and I can use anything as a bathroom. I'll be okay." Roman said, looking around at what was in the room.
"See, this is what we need to clear up. No one is going to leave you. We are not leaving food and water for you to fend for yourself for days, and if you have to use the bathroom, you will use a toilet, like a normal human being." Dan said back.
"Why do you feel like you are worth nothing, Roman?" Scott asked.
"Because the last time I was taken away from my family, I was locked away and told I was worthless. I wasn't good enough to have anything." Roman replied.
"We aren't Sika. You are worth so much, and Seth thinks so, that is why you are here with Dan and I. We want to help you so we can get you back to your family." Scott said to the young man.
"I miss them." Roman said.
"I know. We just need to work through some things." Dan said back. "I promise you, you will be back with your family soon." Dan added.
Roman nodded his head.
That night the three men talked and talked. Roman eventually fell asleep due to the pills that he was given. Dan and Scott left him to sleep. They kept the door open and a light on so Roman wasn't in the dark, but they did cuff his other wrist to the bed, just in case.
The next morning, Roman woke up. 'What the fuck?' Roman thought to himself. He looked around. 'Why am I in my old room in my parent's house? And why am I fucking handcuffed to the bed?' Roman listened to the voices downstairs and knew who was down there. "Dan, Scott! Get me out of these cuffs!" Roman yelled.
Downstairs, Dan and Scott were hoping that the discussion that they had with Roman helped to pull him out of the headspace that he was stuck in. It had been a long time since they had to work so hard to pull him out like that. Just as they were talking about their next move, they heard Roman yelling from upstairs. "Well, it sure sounds like our favorite patient is back." Dan said to his brother.
"We should really go up and see him." Scott said back, getting up off the couch and headed for the stairs. When the two brothers got to the room, they couldn't help but to laugh at their patient. "Well good morning sunshine." Scott said, walking into the room.
"Don't sunshine me. Why am I cuffed to the bed by you two? If you wanted to see me, all you had to do was come to my house. The only person I let cuff me to the bed is Seth, and neither one of you is Seth." Roman said to the two men.
"Kinky, but that isn't the reason you are cuffed to the bed. Do you remember anything about the last twenty four hours?" Dan asked as he went over to remove the handcuff.
"Doc, I am not discussing kinks with you. Not ever going to happen. And to answer your question, no I don't remember anything. I knew I was at Raw, but I don't know why I would be in my old room in my parent's house. I feel like I should be next door with my pregnant husband and three girls." Roman said, sitting up in bed. "Why does my hip hurt so bad? What happened?" Roman winced in pain.
"When you were at Raw, you had a massive panic attack, and didn't come out of it until this morning." Scott said to Roman.
"What? I haven't had one like that in a long time. Are you sure?" Roman asked his two doctors.
"Oh, we're sure." Dan said back.
Roman looked down. "I'm sorry. I've been taking my meds like I am supposed to. I don't know why I would have had an attack so bad." Roman said. "Is there something wrong with me?" Roman asked.
"No, there is nothing wrong with you. You are under a ton of stress, Roman. It was going to happen, we just weren't ready for the magnitude of your attack is all." Dan said back. "Your dose of medicine wasn't enough for that size of anxiety attack, but we know that now." Dan added.
"Have you ever heard of soulmates, Roman?" Scott asked his patient.
"I have, but that stuff doesn't exist. It's just what people say." Roman said back.
"That's not exactly true. People die of a broken heart. They are soulmates. I think that is what you and Seth are." Scott said back to Roman.
"Wait, you think Seth and I are soulmates?" Roman asked his doctor.
"I do. If you two are apart for any length of time, one of you has an anxiety attack. When you went to leave the other night, Seth went into a panic attack, and when you couldn't reach him, you went into a massive panic attack. You two cannot be away from each other for a long time. You need each other, like you need air. It's the purest form of love." Scott explained.
"Is that why my heart is breaking, because I'm not with him?" Roman asked.
"Indeed it is. I think you are well enough to go back to him." Scott said back, "but we need to get you a new brace for your hips and pelvis since you went all hulk on us and broke it last night." Scott added.
"I'm sorry I did that. I don't remember doing that." Roman replied.
"It's okay. We have your measurements and we will have a new one made here quickly for you, but for now, we need you to wear your old one." Dan said.
Roman nodded. They helped him strap the brace on. "I forgot how much more uncomfortable this one is, and heavier too." Roman said.
"You won't have to wear it for long. Maybe two days at most. We already sent your measurements in for your brace earlier this morning." Dan said with a smile.
"Always looking out for me." Roman said back.
"That's our job." Scott replied.
"Ya know, if one good thing came out of me being forced to be with Sika a few years ago, it was finding the two best doctors in the world." Roman said to the brothers.
"Aww, I knew you liked me." Scott said with a smile.
"Ugh, that's it, I retract my statement." Roman said.
"Nope, no can do big man. I heard it and so did Dan." Scott said back to his patient.
"See what you did Roman. I have to work with him." Dan said back.
Roman laughed. "Sorry doc, but just think, that's payback for handcuffing me to the bed." Roman said.
"Gee, thanks." Dan smiled.
Back at their house across the yard, Seth was still in bed with his girls in bed with him. He missed Roman so much, but he knows that Roman needs the help that he can't give him, especially in his current condition. He watched his girls playing on his bed.
"Daddy, baby." Lizzy said to her daddy.
"Oh, you want me to play?" Seth asked.
"Uh huh. This is yours." Lizzy handed her daddy a doll.
"What am I to do with her?" Seth asked.
"Hold her daddy. Her hungry. Here." Lizzy handed him a toy baby bottle.
"Okay. I'll feed her." Seth said to his daughter. He held the doll and fed her.
"Who knew you were so good at playing with dolls?" Roman said to his husband from the doorway.
"Ro, are you really back?" Seth asked. He couldn't believe that his perfect husband was standing in the doorway.
"Yeah baby boy, I'm back." Roman said, walking over to Seth. He bent down and kissed the other man. The kiss grew heated and they had to break apart for air. "How are you feeling baby?" Roman asked.
"Like I could go into labor at any moment." Seth said back, rubbing his swollen belly. "I really need to walk. I am sick of laying down." Seth then said.
"Are you allowed?" Roman asked his husband.
"I don't care if I am. I am going to do it anyway." Seth said back, trying to get up from the bed.
"Seth, let me go down and ask doc if I can help you walk around." Roman said back to Seth.
"Fine." Seth said from the side of the bed.
Roman left the room. He went down to talk to Dan. "Doc, can I help Seth walk around? He says he needs to walk, he is uncomfortable." Roman asked Dan when he saw him sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee.
"Yes, but he cannot do stairs. He is almost at his due date and I want to keep him close by the bed if he goes into labor." Dan said back to Roman.
"I promise we will walk upsta…." Roman was interrupted when his oldest daughter yelled from upstairs.
"Uh-oh Papa! Daddy pee-peed!" Addie yelled from his room.
Roman, Dan and Scott all ran up the stairs. When they got to Seth, sitting on the side of the bed, clutching his stomach, they saw that his water had broken.
"Ro? My water broke, and I am having terrible pain." Seth said before clutching at his stomach again when another contraction hit.
Roman rushed to Seth's side and helped his husband back onto the bed. He then got behind Seth to help him prop up so he was somewhat comfortable during labor.
"Oh FUCK!" Seth yelled as another contraction hit him. "It hurts, it hurts." Seth kept repeating.
"Seth, I am going to take a look and see what is going on." Dan said to the young man.
"I just want this baby out. I never had this much pain before." Seth said back.
Dan took a look to see where Seth was. "Scott, I need a towel, stat." Dan said to his brother. Scott handed Dan a towel.
"What is going on?" Roman asked.
"Scott, I need a scalpel. I need to cut him a bit before he tears. Then I need you to get me things ready so I can stitch him up." Dan said to his brother.
"Doc, what is going on?" Roman asked again.
"We need to get this baby out, now. Seth has been in labor for a while, and has been dilated fully when his water broke. Now the baby is stuck, and Seth is bleeding more than he should be." Dan said to Roman.
"Tell me that they are going to be okay?" Roman said back.
"They are going to be just fine. I just don't want Seth to tear." Dan said back.
Roman nodded his head. He continued to sit there and hold his husband in his arms, and kept telling him that it was going to be okay, and that their baby was going to be here any moment.
"Okay Seth, I need one hard push from you, and your baby will be here." Dan said back.
Seth did what was asked of him. He pushed with everything that he had. Just then, he heard an ear piercing wail. He tried to see his baby, but Dan gave his baby to Scott. He was being stitched up, he could feel it, but he was more worried about his baby than himself at this point.
"Alright Seth, all cleaned up, here is your sweet baby boy." Scott said, handing the tired man his little boy.
"Ro, it's a boy. We have a son. He is so sweet, he is looking at us." Seth said to his husband, never taking his eyes off his newest baby, his first born son.
"You did such an amazing job, baby boy. He is perfect, just like our other three children." Roman said, kissing his husband's head.
"He looks just like you, Ro." Seth said with a smile.
"He has your sweetness, and loudness. He let the world know he was here, just like you." Roman said with a smile.
"Hm. Well, what do you think we should name him?" Seth asked.
"I know you have a name in mind." Roman said back to his husband.
"Aleki. Aleki Joseph Reigns." Seth said matter of factly.
"You want to go with another Samoan name?" Roman asked Seth.
"I do. I don't have any family ancestry like you do, and plus, I like Samoan names. They suit our children. They come from a great lineage, and I want them to know that." Seth said to his husband.
"Aleki Joseph it is. I like it." Roman kissed his husband. He loved him so much. "I was worried about you though. If something would have happened to you during delivery, I wouldn't know what I would do." Roman said to Seth, holding him close.
"You don't need to be worried about me, Ro. I'm not going anywhere. I'm stronger than you think." Seth said back to Roman.
"I know you are." Roman said back. Getting out from behind Seth, Roman said " I think you should lay down, love. Here, since our little boy is asleep, I will put him in the crib, and you can get some sleep. I will be here when you wake up." Roman took his newborn son and put the sleeping child in his crib, and then covered up Seth, and left his family sleep. It had been a long few days, they all needed sleep. So he went downstairs to see Dan and Scott. "I thought you both would have gone home." Roman said as he sat on the couch.
"We are, but we wanted to make sure that everything was okay before we headed out." Dan said back. "How are Seth and Aleki?" Dan asked.
"They are both fine. Seth fed him and then Aleki fell asleep and Seth was going in and out. So I told him to get some sleep. I put Aleki in his crib." Roman said back to the doctor.
"We will be back tomorrow. If you need us, we are only a phone call away. Your brothers and parents are right next door. If you need anything, call." Dan said back.
"I will. Now go home. Go be with your families." Roman said as he walked the two men to the door.
"Roman, we aren't just worried about Seth and the baby, we are also worried about you too. Just last night, we were pulling you from a bad headspace you were stuck in. We don't want something to trigger that, and Seth is in no shape to help you if that happens." Scott said to Roman.
"I thank you for worrying about me, but I'm fine. I have to take care of Seth and my girls and my new baby boy. I have priorities that will keep me busy, but if I need you both, I will call or have my family do it. I promise." Roman said back to his doctors.
"Okay. Be safe, get some sleep, and we will see you tomorrow." Scott said back. With that, both men left the house to head home.
That night, Roman was up once when his son, Aleki, cried. He was up the stairs fast, even though his hip was bothering him. "Go back to sleep baby. I got him." Roman said to Seth, and then went over to his crying son. Picking him up, Roman cradled the little boy. "Hey sweet boy, what's all the fuss for?" Roman asked the little boy. "Oh, I see what you need." Roman said when he looked and saw a full diaper. Once Roman changed his son, Aleki was still a little fussy. "Seth, baby, I think he is hungry." Roman said, running his fingers through Seth's hair.
Seth woke back up, and sat up the best he could after giving birth a few hours ago, and took his son into his arms. Seth then pulled down his top enough for his son to feed. Roman looked on, he could see that Seth was very tired, and very pale. "Baby, are you okay?" Roman asked.
"Mmm, I'm just tired." Seth answered.
Roman could see Seth's arms drop a little. "Seth, baby." Roman was worried. Seth didn't respond. Aleki started crying again. Roman couldn't get Seth to wake up. He quickly took his son in his arms and called Dan.
A tired "Hello?" came over the line from Dan.
"Doc, I need you. It's Seth, he won't wake up. He was pale, but he said he was just tired, and then he went limp while feeding Aleki. Please, you have to come help him." Roman was panicking. He didn't know what to do.
"Roman, I am on my way. Just stay with him." Dan said as he was running out of his house.
Roman sat there, Aleki finally falling asleep. He called his parents and they were over at the house. Roman was in tears as he sat with his husband. He was growing weaker as the time went on.
"Roman." Dan said as he rushed into the room. "Now, I need you to get me towels, and lots of them." Dan had rushed into the room and went right to Seth and looked between his legs, and it was just as he thought, Seth was hemorrhaging. Roman came back in with every towel he could find. "Thank you Roman. Now I need you to call 911. We need to get him to the office where I can treat him. He is hemorrhaging. If we don't get him to the office, he could bleed to death." Dan said back to his patient.
Roman did what he was told. Within ten minutes, the EMTs were there loading Seth into an ambulance, and taking him to Dan's office. Roman didn't know what to do. He was panicking, but he wasn't trying to show it.
Roman's mom knew what her son was going through, she could see it. "Go be with Seth. I will watch the kids." Stephanie told her son.
"Mom, I can't ask you to watch them, plus your own." Roman said back.
"I'm telling you to go. Plus your uncle is coming over. He is on his way. Now, I want you to keep me updated. Your father is going with you." Steph said to Roman.
"Thank you mom. I think there is formula in the kitchen if Aleki gets hungry." Roman said to his mom, giving her a hug.
"We'll be fine." She said back, hugging her son. "He is going to be okay, Roman. He is a strong boy. He needs you there with him though." She said to him.
"I know. I just don't know what to do. I want to help him, but I'm just afraid that something will happen to him." Roman said to his mom.
"He's going to be fine." Steph reassured her oldest child.
Hunter came in and took Roman and led him out of the house. He drove them to Dan's office. When they got there, he was met by Scott in the office. "How is he?" Hunter asked Scott.
"Dan is in there with him along with nurses. They are giving him a transfusion. I think they stopped the bleeding. We will just wait until we hear something." Scott said to Hunter. Scott then looked over at Roman, and saw him sitting in a chair with his head in his hands. Going over to him, Scott bent down to the younger man's level. "Roman, look at me." Scott said.
Roman looked up at his doctor. He had tears in his eyes. "This is all my fault." Roman said.
"No it's not. Seth hemorrhaging isn't anything you did. It happened when he gave birth." Scott said back to his younger patient.
"But he was pregnant because of me. So him having to go through this is my fault." Roman said.
"It could have happened anytime, Roman. It wasn't because of you. His body went through two years of being pregnant. It just took its toll. He will be fine, and as soon as you are allowed to go in and see him, then you will see for yourself. Dan is very good at what he does, and so he will make sure that Seth is safe." Scott explained to Roman.
Hunter then came over and sat with his son. He wanted to give Scott space to work with his son in case Roman went into a panic attack. "Hey, why don't you rest. I know you are exhausted, I can see it in your eyes. Lay your head on my shoulder and I will wake you when we hear something." Hunter told his son. Roman just did it and instantly fell asleep.
An hour later, he was woken up by his dad. "Roman, Seth is out of surgery. You can go see him." Hunter said to his son.
"Surgery? Doc, Seth needed surgery?" Roman asked when he saw Dan.
"He did. It was minor. Nothing too bad, but we had to make sure we got all the bleeding stopped. He is going to be fine. He needs his rest and to allow his body to heal, but you are allowed to go in and sit with him." Dan said back.
Roman went into the room that Seth was in. He looked at his husband. He looked weak and pale. Roman went over and sat beside Seth. He held Seth's hand, and just talked to him. He loved him so much, and he wanted Seth to know that he was there with him, and that he wasn't alone.
Out in the waiting room, Dan sat down. He was exhausted. He had a long three days with very little sleep. "I could sleep and not think twice about it." Dan said to his brother and Hunter.
"Why don't you go in the back and get some sleep. The nurse is here and she can look in on Seth while you get some sleep." Scott said to his brother.
"You come get me if something happens." Dan said to Scott.
"Of course I will." Scott said back.
"I believe Seth will be asleep all the rest of the night and most of tomorrow. I will set an alarm, but sleep is something I am in need of. If anyone needs me, I will be in my office sleeping." Dan said, getting up and heading to his office to get much needed sleep.
"I can't thank you both enough for what you are doing for my family. Is there anything I can do for either of you?" Hunter asked the other doctor?
"It's our job. Roman would not allow anyone else to treat Seth except for Dan or I. Plus, we wouldn't want anyone else to do it. We know what we are doing, and what they are going through. Dan just needs some rest and then tomorrow he will be good as new. He is used to working late nights without sleep from when he worked in the OR. So this is nothing. He will be fine, like I said." Scott answered.
"Well if you think of anything, please tell me." Hunter said. Scott nodded.
The next day, Dan went in to check on Seth, only to see Roman asleep with his head resting on his arms on Seth's bed. He went over and quietly checked Seth's vitals. As he was doing that, Seth started to mumble. Just then, he slowly opened his eyes.