"Wouldn’t you want to know, Sonny? I know I couldn’t have been there…but I would have at least liked to have known. I wouldn’t have taken this job with Trapp if I’d known she was going to go into labor…I wouldn’t have left. I wanted to be there, I was /supposed/ to be there.." She stopped and let out a breath, pinching the bridge of her nose. "Just..what’s her room number or whatever, so I can visit her?"
"No one’s noticed him so far and the beard and hair help," Rose mused, looking over at teh once Nikoli and now newly transformed Anatoly. "and like I said, it’s not my call. Trapp wants him here and she outranks me,"
"Sonny…do you really think I’m going to say no? Of course I will, look I’ll even pay for it, just…save your money for this little guy’s future, okay? Especially if there’s going to be hospital bills involved,"
"You and Jo were already gone by the time she went into labor…" he muttered, he didn’t have the energy to get into another fight with the bar owner. "Sorry. Alright? I didn’t know what the fuck to do…Dmitri was supposed to be here, He was supposed to take care of this…I don’t have any idea what i’m doing alright? Is that what you want me to say?! I’m sorry….4th floor, 435."Â
Sonny took another look at Niki, shaking his head. The disguise wasn’t that great. Anyone who knew Niki would definitely recognize him, he just hoped Jo had something set up to prevent anything too tragic happening. “I’ll talk to Jo…”
"Thanks…" he felt bad asking and accepting help from the woman after their history, but he knew she would do it for Kira and the baby, not for him. "No, that’s not necessary, here" he glanced around the bar before pulling a large stack of cash from his jacket pocket and sliding it across the bar. It was the cash he’d told his brother to take the day Charles had threatened Dmitri’s life. Technically, it was Sonny’s money, but the moment he’d sent the text, he hadn’t expected to get it back and considered it Dmitri’s. Everything Dmitri had went to Kira, so, if he wanted to make the case, he could say it was Kira’s money. Which was exactly what he had planned to explain to the girl but she’d gone into labor instead. "If you want to buy stuff yourself, that’s fine, but, money’s not that tight. He pretty much needs everything, a crib, a carseat, changing table, clothes, bottles. We literally have nothing…" Sonny glanced down the bar to the neon sign with a clock. He’d been away from the hospital for 40 minutes already and it was starting to make him anxious. He had this horrible feeling that he’d go back there and they’d both be gone. He started to bring his eyes back to Rose, but a shadow caught his eyes and his heart lurched. But it was just another illusion, a dark corner shadowed to give his imagination an excuse to produce the image of his long gone brother. He rubbed his tired eyes, leaning a little harder on the bar, "Can I get a whiskey for the road?"
