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What's in a name?; Joint effort
Topic Started: Feb 24 2008, 07:21 PM (167 Views)
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The maternity ward was slightly more cheerful than any other, barring the children's ward of course. Balloons and cards decorate the communal wards filled with happy families, sometimes women on their own and empty beds awaiting their next story. The cries of newborns can be heard echoing throughout the floor, whether they are ready for their next feed, due a nappy change, wanting a hug or taking the first breaths of life.

The delighted new parents can be seen in a private room. It is hours after the safe delivery of their baby daughter. Everyone is so tired but so excited at the same time. Kaylee's eyes feel permanently heavy and are at that stage where it stings to keep them open. Her body feels spent, broken almost, but she couldn't be happier. Dan hasn't left her side since rushing to be with her in the locker room. Not for the same reasons he also feels like his body has been broken, battered and bruised...but at the moment Jonathan Night is the last man in the world Dan could even care about.


Dan: I'm proud of you

Kaylee: Thanks. I'm glad you made it.

Dan: Did you really mean what you said about me staying away from you?

Kaylee: Yup.

Dan: Fine, I'll go to the pub then...see you.

Kaylee: Noooo, I was kidding.

Dan knowingly smiles. He knew all along that his wife didn't mean it but would play along. He gently kisses her weary forehead.

Dan: Bet you're glad all that's over.

Kaylee: According to one of the other moms, that was the easy part. She has 4 children now and she said the hard part is just beginning. The waking up in the middle of the night, the getting poo under your finger nails from dirty diapers...the spitting back up on your shoulder after a feed...we got all that to look forward to.

Dan: Sounds like a particularly bad drunken night out with Tris.

Kaylee: But this is every night, and you won't be drunk to compensate for it!

Dan: Won't I?

Kaylee glares at him. A devilish grin spreads across her face.

Kaylee: No. I haven't been able to drink. It's your turn to go sober for 9 months.

A nurse brings in a small crying baby wrapped in a white hospital issue blanket. The little one in her arms is crying loudly.

Kaylee: Hey!

Nurse: Hey, I've got Baby Girl Sorbello to see you.

Kaylee: Is she ok?

Nurse: Sure...she's just hungry. Are you ready to try breastfeeding?

Kaylee: Yeh, ok if you think I'm ready.

Dan's eyes light up and he smirks as Kaylee scoops out a swollen breast from her gown. The nurse stands in front of the camera ensuring Kaylee's modesty is intact. She places the infant in her mother's arms and positions her head helping her latch on. She steps away towards Dan, who is watching intently.

Kaylee: Stop being a perv, you. She's gonna have her supper.

Dan: I'm not being a perv, it's natural. I find it strangely beautiful like in a David Attenborough Documentary.

Kaylee: Are you implying I'm an ape?

Dan: Aren't we all really, aren't we all...?

Kaylee: Just shut up.

Something's wrong. Kaylee looks at her daughter with concern. Nothing's happening.

Kaylee: She's not sucking! Why is she not sucking?

Nurse: Try angling her head a different way..

Dan: Maybe smear chocolate on your nipple....works for me.

Kaylee: Can you be any less helpful?

Dan: Yes. Yes I can. Would you like me to be?

Kaylee: Are my nipples wrong? Dan, are they abnormally large? Dan do you think that my nipples are too big for her mouth?

Nurse: This is both of your first times. The first step is getting baby to open wide!Brush her lips with your nipple to encourage her to open wide, as if she's yawning. Ok, now quickly pull her onto your nipple. Make sure her lips aren't inverted...there you go.

Kaylee: She's feeding!!!! This feels so weird!!! You jealous Dan?

Nurse: I'll leave you three alone.

Smiling, and satisfied the nurse leaves the room. Dan gazes at Kaylee who is staring at their daughter feeding for the first time.

Dan: She's hungry.

Kaylee: Well I guess you would be if you'd spent 9 months without anything to eat.

Dan: She's lovely...reminds me of her mummy.

Kaylee: Still couldn't believe my ears when Kate said it was a girl. I thought I was delirious, or she'd got it wrong.

Dan: I'm glad she was there. She knows what she's doing.

Kaylee: Me too. I honestly didn't think it was labour. Kate said it sounded like I'd been in labour all day, but ignored it...but I knew I was carrying a boy. My mom said the signs were there.

Dan: What signs?

Kaylee: My bump being low down. Not kicking so much. Sleeping at night. She said girls are harder to carry. They're more painful and active. Boys aren't.

Dan: With respect, your mum comes out with a lot of shit.

Kaylee: (shocked) Daniel! Don't swear in front of our child! She's listenin' to everythin' you say! Even now!

Dan: She looks busy to me.

Kaylee: Well she's a girl, she can multi-task!

Dan: Fair point.

Kaylee: I'm not good with girls though...I can't raise one. I've never grown up around them! I have 3 brothers, remember? And you'll have to get rid of all those boys' toys you bought.

Dan: She'll learn to play cricket and/or rugby.

Kaylee: You have no idea how weird, but nice this feels.

Dan:She still needs a name. She can't always be called “Baby Girl Sorbello”.

Kaylee: Yeh, it sounds like a porn star name or a stripper name...

Dan: Like Harmony.

Kaylee: But I had so many boys names ready for when I met my son. A few, ready to choose one to fit his personality. Now I got nothin'.

Dan: Well how about we think of one now?

Kaylee: What about using one of the boys names? James?

Dan: No.

Kaylee: I had George too.....so George-a...Georgia?

Dan: NO!

Kaylee: William...Willemina?

Dan:Noooooooooooooo..... Let's just think of one?

Kaylee: How about Pepper?

Dan: That's what I have on my steak

Kaylee: Persephone

Dan: I want to be able to spell it.

Kaylee: Danielle? That's easy enough!

Dan: That's my name but feminised!

Kaylee: So? She'll be named after her daddy!

Dan: I don't think she'd appreciate that when she hits her teens.

Kaylee: I'm sure she'll be proud of you no matter what.

Dan: Well, Kate delivered her....what about Katherine?

Kaylee: That's my name!!!

Dan: Oh yeh...damn...ok, but a middle name?

Kaylee: Ok, so we have a middle name and a surname...now we need a first name. Oooh we could go down the celebrity route of naming your child after food....like “Apple” or “Honey” but those are taken of course...that's clearly how Meatloaf got his name.

Dan: Ummm....

Kaylee: Raisin?

Dan: So our second child would be called Rum?

Kaylee: Caper?

Dan: Just stop it now.

Kaylee: Olive?

Dan: I'm not sure...reminds me of Popeye.

Kaylee: How about Olivia?

Dan: Hmmm....Olivia...

He repeats the name in the direction of the suckling child. Her eyes open, she pushes away from Kaylee's breast and looks up at the two figures above her.

Kaylee: Dan, can you pass me a breast pad? Just cos she's stopped feeding doesn't mean it doesn't stop leaking out.

Dan: Look, she's looking. I've finally got her attention.

Daniel hands his wife a breast pad and cleans his daughter's mouth with a baby wipe. Kaylee beams seeing him playing the doting father.

Kaylee: So you like Olivia?

Dan: Yeh I do. I think she does too.

Kaylee: She's like 4 hours old...I don't think her emotions are much beyond hungry and sleepy.

Dan: Olivia Kate Sorbello.

Kaylee: Yeh...Baby Olly. She's lovely isn't she?

Dan: She is. When do we take her home?

Kaylee: I think it's tomorrow morning. They want to observe my blood pressure. She will be alright with us on the road, won't she?

Dan: She will, I'll make sure of it. I'm not going to let anything bad happen to her.

Kaylee: Do you want to hold her?

Kaylee passes Olivia to her daddy, who holds her protectively. He takes a good look at her face, into her tiny blue eyes.

Dan: Olivia, you are so precious, so innocent and so fragile. I promise to look after you, to keep you from harm, but to not hide you from life. I will do my best to teach you what you need to know, and to be there to support you as a father should. I'm going to give you the best start in life I can, I'm going to try and do it all right. I'll put you first, I'll give you whatever I can. I'll show you how wonderful the world is, but none of it is as wonderful as you.

The cameras focuses in on Dan and his daughter, and slowly fade out.
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Tara Shannon
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Awwwww...Olivia Kate!!! :blush:

Very good, Dan. Sweet, endearing interaction.
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Harmony
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Awwwww!

I resent the name comment :acro:

Lovely RP you 2.
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