AN: Italicized means they are speaking in German. I listened to “ich bin dien gummibear” while writing this chapter it just seamed to fit, look it up on You-tube, also thank you to my Beta kuhlaire, and GodSentAnAngel ( who will be co authoring this whith me when she gets back)for their help.
Once Tom, David and Fillip, one of the senior body guards landed in Nanaimo they had had very little trouble finding the tiny hospital that was more of a medical clinic, and locating Dani’s room. Jost and Fillip has stayed in the waiting room as Tom went ahead, claiming he wanted to yell at his brother first.
He burst through the hospital room’s door, and quickly scanned the room until he spotted the lanky form of his brother. Bill was standing by the window staring out at the quite town, playing with a piece of jewellery.
Tom ignored the girl in the bed as he made a beeline for his brother. “You absolute idiot, what were you thinking coming here all by yourself, and not even telling me!”
Bill spun around quickly, placed his hands on his hips and glared at his brother. “I knew you would stop me if I told you, and someone had to confirm that it’s your kid. I knew you wouldn’t be man enough to come here yourself, so I did it for you,” Bill spoke sassily and pursed his lips.
Tom fumed. He started shouting obscenities at his twin, calling him every kind of fool, in every degrading way. He paced and flung his arms as if to punctuate every expletive. Bill rolled his eyes and did his best to ignore his twin; he played with his tongue ring and his mind wandered aimlessly until he heard grumbled words from the hospital bed.
“Will someone, please shut that fucking thing up?”
Tom froze.
Bill mentally giggled at the image Tom made; mouth agape and arms still flung wide, face frozen in an expression of surprise, but he decided Dani was more important than making fun of his twin and rushed to her side. “Dani, you awake Hun?” he questioned his face contorted in worry.
There was a grunt, followed by Dani’s fingers grabbing Bill’s shirt collar. She pulled him so close that their noses almost touched, he stared into her bleary eyes and watched as she blinked a few times.
“Did you finally kill that fucking parrot?” There was an indignant-(and decidedly parrot-like)-squawk from Tom, following that question, and Bill smirked.
*~~~Baby~~~Kaulitz~~~*
Bill hadn’t seen this side of Dani; mind you he had only known her for a little over twelve hours, six of which were spent with her unconscious, but he was a little surprised at her ferocity. She had sworn almost as much as Tom in the last ten minuets, complaining about just about everything.
Dani kept poking at the IV-to quote her- ‘jabbed’ into her arm, until Bill finally convinced the nurse down the hall to take it out, a twenty helped speed the process along.
Tom spent most of the time dumb-struck; she kept insulting him, whether on purpose or not. It was rather obvious that she didn’t like him much, and Tom wondered how, and why, she had ever charmed him into her bed. Compared to many of his conquests she was rather plain, but that was like comparing a poppy to a rose (or roses, in this case) when they were surrounded by dandelions.
After a while her mood changed, and instead of insulting Tom, she began complaining that she was craving food and the strangest foods too.
“Bill? I’m hungry,” she pouted, and oddly enough Bill felt his aggravation melt at the look. Tom though felt even grumpier, not only had Bill ignored him the whole time, on top of being insulted almost constantly by the room’s only female occupant, now he had to deal with miss needy.
“What do you want?” Bill asked.
“Gummy-bears,” Bill smiled at this; he loved gummy-bears, “with ketchup.” She finished, and Bill frowned. “You can’t have ketchup with Gummy-bears,” Tom shot, and Bill nodded in agreement, it would be a crime.
“Why not?” She retorted, “I think it would taste great.”
“That’s just gross,” Bill intoned and received a surprised look from Dani.
“Not you too!” She wailed.
*~~~Baby~~~Kaulitz~~~*
After Dani was released from the hospital, they went out for lunch. Tom had remained quiet up until the point when Bill and Dani had started talking about their tastes in music.
“I really dislike Rap music, I mean sometimes you can’t even hear what is being said, what kind of music is that?” Dani giggled over a plateful of food, to which Bill clapped his hands and pointed to Tom.
“Don’t let Tom hear you say that,” Bill laughed and Tom felt like strangling him.
“Don’t talk like I’m not here, I might not be able to read English, but that doesn’t mean I don’t understand or speak it,” Tom interjected angrily, “I think your choir can just suck mine, who wants to listen to a bunch of stuck up preppies screech their vocal chords, and your eardrums, into oblivion?” Bill choked on his mouthful and turned startled eyes to his brother.
“Tom that is so rude! What has gotten into you? You’ve been cranky since you got here,” Bill asked his brother. Dani’s face was priceless in Tom’s opinion; she looked absolutely gob-smacked.
“It’s rude to speak in a language that Dani doesn’t understand, Bill.” Tom smartly retorted as he folded his hands across his chest.
“Have you ever even listened to choir music, you egotistical prick?” Dani shouted and unknowingly mirrored Tom’s pose as Bill just sat there watching the two most headstrong people her had ever known bicker about music taste of all things.
It lasted a good twenty minutes interspersed with angry eating from Dani and a series of scoffs from Tom. Finally David decided it was time to interrupt. “I’m sorry boys, but we should be going back soon, Dani it was a pleasure.” He stretched his hand out for Dani to shake. She took it with a look of bewilderment on her face.
“Nonsense David, we have to at least give Dani a ride home, right Tom?” Bill protested. Tom’s scowl darkened for a moment.
“Whatever.”
Bill insisted that David pay for everyone’s food, to which David grumbled but conceded, figuring that it was probably better to humour the Diva until they were in a more private setting, Bill would be getting an earful on the flight home.
As everyone filed out of the restaurant David pulled Dani to the side, he held out a stack of one hundred dollar bills to her. “This is for your trouble, now we at Universal™ would greatly appreciate it if you would keep quiet about this whole matter, we don’t need the press involved. This should be enough to deal with your problem.” He then helped her out the door and into the car.
*~~~Baby~~~Kaulitz~~~*
One week later:
David stared at the legal sized envelope on his hand, it was addressed to Bill and had come through the private postal address, but David knew what was inside. That little Whore had refused to abort the blob, and had instead gone ahead with her plans to test the baby’s DNA. He now held the information that could prove or disprove her claim.
But Tom would never have his blood taken and his DNA would never be tested against that of the whore's kid. It would be best if the boys simply forgot about this whole fiasco, so with his decision made, the envelope joined the stack of mail he had already confiscated.
*~~~*
Dani sat in her soon to be empty bedroom absolutely shocked, Kyle had wigged out on her stating that she was now a responsible adult and should be living on her own, and not to expect any charity just because she had gone and got herself knocked up, Clair hadn't spoken a word but she refused to look her daughter in the eye.
Dani paused to think of all the things that had happened to her in the few short weeks since Bill and Tom had left.
She had received the results on her baby's DNA test, of course with no sample of the father's blood it was impossible to prove that Tom was the father, but Dani had sent a copy of the file to the address Bill had given her. She had tried phoning but the number was unavailable every time she called.
Kaisha had become very jealous after Dani told her of her one night stand with Tom, and had totally flown off the deep end when she had explained that she was pregnant. Kaisha came from a very upper class Catholic family, and although sex out of wedlock was not unheard of, staying pregnant was.
Slowly, bit by bit, her life was falling apart. The semester at Ashton had just finished, and without a place to live Dani felt sure that it would be her last one there.
Kyle and Clair had just left for the weekend saying that they expected her and all of her stuff to be gone when they got back on Monday. She stared at her phone, what were the chances that if she called him now she would actually get through? Probably very slim, with a heavy heart she closed her phone and went to pack up her things.
She would make it through on her own, she had to.
*~~~*
Bill couldn't forget Dani; she was almost constantly in the back of his head, the things she had said, her funny mannerisms and most of all her smile. He was having a hard time concentrating; his mind would keep wandering, visiting every scarce memory he had of her, again and again, and repeating it like a day long mantra.
Tom noticed the absentmindedness of his usually boisterous and hyper brother, at first he would zone out for minutes on end, he would lick his lips and his eyes would shine but over the weeks the shine died and was replaced by worry and the lip licking was replaced by lip biting.
As opposed to Bill, Tom had nearly forgotten the unfortunate meeting with the girl, but not the reasons for it, one thought constantly nagged at him, that he might be a father. He didn't want to be a father, he was too young, but something told him it was true, that the kid was his. Every time he saw his face in the mirror he caught himself wondering if his kid would look like him, whether it would be a boy or a girl, but most of all he found himself wondering if he could have tried a little harder, if he could have made it work.
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Housing was scarce, but Dani managed to find a job as a live-in housekeeper for a well to do family in Victoria. The house was large but well suited to the size of family that lived there. The Epp's were a large family of twelve, Dani found it hard to believe that one woman could have so many children, they owned and ran the Epp Architectural Engineering firm, and were extremely proper in all that they did, Dani felt like she had been hired to clean toilets for the queen, everyone but the father treated her as their personal servant, but she was thankful for the pay and somewhere to live.
After settling into her new routine, Dani scheduled an appointment with a maternity Dr. in the city. When Dr. Schultz saw her file she immediately sent Dani for an ultrasound.
Dani disliked the cool gel that was smeared on her still mostly flat stomach and the prodding of the ultrasound machine's equally cold 'eye' thingy, she didn't know what they were called but whatever it was, it was uncomfortable.
The Ultrasound technician conversed quietly with the Dr. who, every now and then, pointed at the indiscernible images on the screen. After what seemed like twenty minuets the Dr. turned to Dani, "congratulations Miss Milton, you're going to have twins!"
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P.S. this little chapter banner is by GodSentAnAngel, sorry i have trouble with html, so here is just a link.
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Dr. Schultz explained that the prenatal paternity test, if done early enough in the pregnancy, was know to be the cause of embryonic cell splitting, resulting as often as not in the occurrence of identical twins.
She went on to explain that carrying twins could be much more difficult than carrying just one, and that Dani should expect to begin to show within the next month or so. She prescribed prenatal vitamins and a regular workout schedule consisting of walks and light swimming.
Dani was still a little shocked when she left the Dr. office, but she was calm enough to remember to fill her prescriptions and get herself lunch, she was eating for three now.
She sat at an outdoor coffee shop, staring at the menu before her. “What should we eat, hmm? Does a hot dog sound yummy to you two?” she spoke to herself, but imagined that her little babies could hear her. The thought of having twins had never crossed her mind; she knew that identical twins were not hereditary so the option hadn’t been open to her as far as she had known. With a secret smile she ordered herself a hotdog with whipping cream, and when it arrived she eagerly gobbled it down before heading back to work.
*~~~*
Bill flipped open his phone, he had three missed calls, he eagerly searched through them hopping to see one from Dani, they were all from Andreas. He sighed, had she forgotten about them? Had she decided to keep them away from the baby? Maybe she had simply lost his number, and mailing address?
He had heard absolutely nothing from Dani in the three weeks since he had left. He was eager to see the results of the paternity test, he could hardly wait, but she hadn’t called or sent anything.
He dialled Andreas’ number, “hey Andi, sorry I missed your call, I was in an interview,” Bill spoke into the phone, his tone more than a little subdued.
“Naw, that’s okay. How are you doing? You sound a little down, what’s wrong Billa?” Andi always worried about the twins when they were on tour, but something in Bill’s tone let him know that it was more than just stress and lack of sleep that was bothering his friend.
“Nothing, I’m fine,” Bill lied; he had never been very good at it.
“I know you’re lying Bill. You don’t sound fine, what’s bothering you?” Andi knew there was something that Bill wasn’t telling him, “you know you can tell me anything, right?”
“Yeah I know, it’s just…” Bill sighed, he then told Andreas everything about Dani and Tom, ending with how it was worrying him how she hadn’t phoned or mailed him.
“Maybe she lost your number?” Andreas tried to sooth his worried friend. “And the mailing address?” Bill grumbled. “Were they on the same piece of paper?”
“Yeah…”
“She probably just lost it, you should phone her.”
“I didn’t get her number.”
“Do you still have the envelope from when she sent you the letter?”
“Yeah, it’s in my jewe..erm, accessories box.” Bill didn’t want to say jewellery box, it sounded so...gay. “Was there a return address on it?”
“Yeah, that’s how I found her.” Bill supplied. “Well then you should just send her a letter, you can give her your number again.” Bill thought about that for a moment. “I hadn’t thought of that,” he replied bashfully. “I kind of figured that, but if your so worried about it just send her a letter, I’m sure she just lost your info.”
“Thanks Andi, you’re a good friend.”
“I know.”
*~~~*
“Dani, can I see you in my study?” Dani turned to Gerald Sr. the only person at her new employment that was even slightly civil to her.
“Yes sir,” she answered, a little surprised that he wished to talk to her, he had never said more than a few words in passing to her. She walked into the room and he shut the door behind her. He motioned for her to take a seat in the old Victorian style lounge in front of his large desk. He made his way to his desk and opened a drawer, withdrawing an envelope from it, he handed it to her. “This came for you this morning,” he offered.
The envelope had been opened, but it was what was inside that drew her attention. Inside was a letter from Bill, in it he asked how she and the baby were doing, if she had the results back from the test yet, it also spoke of how the tour was going and how Tom had actually said something about being a father the other day. It would have been very clear to anyone who had read it that Dani was pregnant with a rock star’s baby.
Dani gulped nervously and looked up at her employer. “Y-you read this?” She asked, scared that he actually had.
“Yes,” he answered, “and I’m willing to keep it's contents a secret for a small favour,” he finished as he leered at her, a look she had never seen on his face before, it made her shiver in repulsion, he was not an ugly man but well on his way to fifty, not to mention married.
“I don’t think I could do what your asking of me sir,” she spoke quickly, “what would you wife think?”
“She wouldn’t know,” he offered.
“No, I can’t do that sir,” she replied stubbornly, as she stood, what kind of man would ask such a thing from his employee, let alone a pregnant one?
“Oh well then, that’s it for now, you may leave,” his tone scared her, but she obeyed and quickly left the room.
Once she was gone, Gerald Sr. picked up his phone and dialled. “Hello? My name is Gerald Epp; I have in my employ a girl who is pregnant with the child of a German rock star.”
*~~~*
Dani opened the front door expecting one of Mr Epps associates to be standing there, instead, there was a man holding a microphone and another man behind him with a video camera balanced on his shoulder.
“Yes, can I help you?” Dani felt a weird fluttering in her stomach, something she had come to recognize as a warning that something bad was about to happen.
“Yes you can, I’m looking for Dani Milton, are you her?” He smiled, and Dani couldn’t shake the impression she got of a shark smiling at its prey. “Y-yes,” she stuttered unsure if she should have answered. The man beamed even harder and pressed the microphone to her face.
“Is it true that you are pregnant with the child of German rock star Tom Kaulitz?”
well not yet, but soon, very soon, he'l be getting what is coing to him, *evil laugh*
AN just a note to you all, the letter was forwarded by Dani’s mom to her new residence, k? Just thought I’d clear it all up, it didn’t really work into the scene so I though I’d put it here.
Thank you to kuh-lair my beta! and GodSentAnAngel for helping me with story ideas.
And thank you to tokiokiss for the favourite! *happy Bill dance*
it's a short one, but just so the next one can be longer.
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"I-I’m sorry, but I’m on duty right now,” Dani almost shouted and attempted to close the door, but Mr. Epp appeared beside her and held the door open.
“Yes it is true, I have proof right here.” Gerald Sr. held up a copy of Bill's letter to Dani, all hand written in his distinctive handwriting. Dani gasped and made to grab the sheet of paper form the man, but he was expecting it and handed the letter to the reporter. “This is a copy, you can keep it,” Gerald offered, a grin spreading across his face.
Dani felt like screaming, that man had sold her out to the press, and how the heck did the press even know who Tom Kaulitz was, Tokio hotel wasn’t very well known in Canada.
*~~~*
It had been three weeks since the news had gotten out of a girl in Canada claiming to be pregnant with Tom Kaulitz baby, and David was having a very hard time keeping the news away from the twins, there had been a flood of interview invites to talk about the rumours and David had turned them all down, the boys would not hear about it.
There had also been a rush of fan mail from other girls claiming to be pregnant with Tom’s, Bill’s, and some even Georg’s babies, among them another letter from Dani asking for help with dealing with the press, that letter joined the ones already in David’s drawer.
*~~~*
“Now we have the boys from Tokio Hotel joining us,” The Viva Musik interviewer shouted happily at the crowd. The crowd, which mostly consisted of girls, screamed and cried as the band members made their way onstage.
“Welcome, welcome, so how is the new tour going?”
The interview started off normal, but halfway through the interviewer, who’s name was Kris, asked a question none of the boys had expected. “So, what about these rumours of a Kaulitz baby, what do you have to say about that?” The boys were stunned into silence, Tom was the first to recover.
“I haven’t heard anything of the sort, when was this?” He smiled his playboy smile at the camera, and Bill nudged him with his elbow.
“We have a clip; can we play the clip now?” Kris laughed as she asked for the clip to be played. Bill’s eyes nearly fell out of his head, the clip started with a reporter knocking at the door of some big mansion like house. When the door opened Bill barely recognized Dani, her hair was longer and she was wearing some ridiculous maid’s uniform. The clip was in English but with German subtitles, the reporter asked if she was Dani Milton, and when Dani tried to close the door only to be pushed to the side by another man, Bill got a good look at her growing belly.
The man held out a piece of paper, which the camera zoomed in on, and Bill recognized the letter he had sent to Dani, his distinctive writing was easy to read, Bill was thankful that it was in English and most of the viewers wouldn’t be able to read it. The clip was paused and Kris began to speak. “We actually have a translation of the letter and it reads as such…”
Bill actually wished that he wore baggy clothes like his brother so that something could just swallow him up; he knew he was in for it when the band returned to the hotel. Tom began to fidget next to him, and Bill wondered if it was because he wanted to hit him, or if he was just as uncomfortable and nervous as Bill felt.
There was some booing in the crowd, and shouts of ‘lying skank’ and other such derogatory insults.
“Now with the girl’s reluctance to co-operate with the press I’m rather inclined to believe that it might be true.”
Bill swallowed hard and prepared his answer, he may as well tell, he was already in for the lecture of a lifetime. “We actually became aware of Dani’s claim in June, and I went to go visit her to see if she could prove it, we have yet to receive the results from the paternity test.” He felt Tom shift in his seat again, and when Bill turned to look at him he saw how scared and nervous his twin was. Bill turned his gaze to David who was just behind the wall separating the set form backstage, he was white as a ghost but nodded for Bill to continue.
“So it’s been two and a half months since you found out, and she still hasn’t sent the results, that sounds suspicious. But why did you go and see her isn’t the baby rumoured to be Tom’s?” Bill had no idea what to say to that.
“Yeah, she says it’s mine, but Bill was the only one who had free time so we sent him down. I actually flew down to meet her the next day, she seemed sweet enough, but I can honestly say I can’t remember if I ever, you know, spent time with her before then. We’ll just have to wait and see what the paternity test says.”
“Alright that’s fair enough I suppose, we actually have the results from the babies DNA sampling, but of course there are no DNA samples from Tom to test them against, we also have photos from the most recent ultrasound, can we see those please,” Kris seemed to be greatly enjoying the twin’s discomfort.
*~~~*
David was going to have an aneurism, all his careful planning thrown out by an overeager interviewer, he was backstage right now looking over all the evidence that the press had collected on Dani Milton. It was defiantly incriminating, they would have to either disprove it all, or bring Dani in.
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"bring Dani in, bring Dani in" yup, GodSentAnAngel made sure that i heard (well read really) that.
